February
4
Bill Gates
in conversation with
Anderson Cooper
Join Bill Gates in conversation with Anderson Cooper, for a discussion on Bill’s new memoir, Source Code.
About the Book: The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.
The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and US education.
Source Code is not about the heyday of Microsoft or the creation of the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits.
It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.
Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.
About the author: Bill Gates
Chair, Gates Foundation, and Founder, Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower.
Bill Gates is chair of the Gates Foundation and founder of Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate- related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies.
At Breakthrough Energy, he’s putting his experience as an innovator and problem-solver to work to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies. Bill uses his experience partnering with global leaders across sectors to help drive the policy, market, and technological changes required for a clean energy transition.
Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he focuses on Alzheimer’s research and other issues such as healthcare. interdisciplinary education, and technology. He has three children.
Tuesday, February 4 |
7:00 pm Eastern
$50 general admission
$125 reserved seating section
All tickets include a copy of the book
$50 general admission
$125 reserved seating section
All tickets include a copy of the book
A Special In-Person & Online Event
Please note that this event will not be recorded for later viewing.
About Anderson Cooper:
Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, and since April 2023, he also hosts The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, airing Sundays on CNN, which showcases character-driven stories and investigative deep dives from CNN anchors and correspondents.
Cooper is also the host of the popular podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper, where Cooper shares his deeply personal journey to understand his own feelings of grief in all its complexities, and in moving and honest discussions, learn from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses.
Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in nearly eighty countries and has covered major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. Cooper has also played a pivotal role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, Cooper was selected by the Committee on Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
In addition to his shows on CNN, Cooper is also a regular correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes. At CNN and 60 Minutes, Cooper has won several major journalism awards, including twenty-six Emmy Awards.
Cooper’s four books – Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss and Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival – all topped the New York Times Best-seller List.
Tuesday, February 4 |
7:00 pm
$50 general admission
$125 reserved seating section
All tickets include a copy of the book
$50 general admission
$125 reserved seating section
All tickets include a copy of the book
Join Bill Gates in conversation with Anderson Cooper, for a discussion on Bill’s new memoir, Source Code.
About the Book: The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age.
The business triumphs of Bill Gates are widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and US education.
Source Code is not about the heyday of Microsoft or the creation of the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits.
It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.
Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.
About the author: Bill Gates
Chair, Gates Foundation, and Founder, Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower.
Bill Gates is chair of the Gates Foundation and founder of Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climate- related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies.
At Breakthrough Energy, he’s putting his experience as an innovator and problem-solver to work to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies. Bill uses his experience partnering with global leaders across sectors to help drive the policy, market, and technological changes required for a clean energy transition.
Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he focuses on Alzheimer’s research and other issues such as healthcare. interdisciplinary education, and technology. He has three children.
A Special In-Person & Online Event
Please note that this event will not be recorded for later viewing.
About Anderson Cooper:
Anderson Cooper is the anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, and since April 2023, he also hosts The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, airing Sundays on CNN, which showcases character-driven stories and investigative deep dives from CNN anchors and correspondents.
Cooper is also the host of the popular podcast All There Is with Anderson Cooper, where Cooper shares his deeply personal journey to understand his own feelings of grief in all its complexities, and in moving and honest discussions, learn from others who’ve experienced life-altering losses.
Since the start of his career in 1992, Cooper has worked in nearly eighty countries and has covered major news events around the world, often reporting from the scene. Cooper has also played a pivotal role in CNN’s political and election coverage. He has anchored from conventions and moderated several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, Cooper was selected by the Committee on Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of the three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
In addition to his shows on CNN, Cooper is also a regular correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes. At CNN and 60 Minutes, Cooper has won several major journalism awards, including twenty-six Emmy Awards.
Cooper’s four books – Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss and Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of Wars, Disaster, and Survival – all topped the New York Times Best-seller List.
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