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That dream of a personal
computer really came true.

Was fun to do that, I worked
night and day doing it.

I met Melinda, another employee
there, and married her.

I now have three wonderful kids.

But also the success
of Microsoft,

I owned part of Microsoft,
that became very valuable.

I know, huge, huge numbers,

and if I had not given that
money to my foundation,

I would today have more money

than anyone else on the planet.

I still have a lot because
I haven't put it all

into the foundation,
but that is the plan.

Bill Gates, the
extraordinarily successful

American business leader
and philanthropist.

One of the best
known entrepreneurs

who started a business
out of a tiny space,

and it grew into one

of the most powerful companies
in the world, Microsoft.

One of the wealthiest
men on the planet

with an estimated net
worth of over $100 billion,

but also one of
the greatest minds.

After spending 13 years as
the world's richest man,

he now spends his
time and energy

on tackling global poverty,

and dedicates his efforts
in philanthropic endeavors

such as climate change,

global health and
development, and education.

After revolutionizing
the tech industry,

Bill Gates has become a
tech billionaire legend.

Talented, driven,
a bold achiever with a long-term vision,

determined to make a
significant positive impact

in the world, by helping
the poorest countries.

Bill Gates is an example.

This man cares
about those in need

and is fighting
for great causes.

Follow the journey of one of
the world's greatest leaders,

from his early days as a
quiet computer programmer

to the multi-billionaire
philanthropist he's become today,

and whose social and political
impact on society is deep.

They are masterminds.

Ambitious, competitive and
ruthless, not afraid of failure,

dedicated to their mission
of bettering the world,

always reaching for excellence,

they lead by example.

Unlike many industries,

the tech billionaires
are mostly self-made.

It is through their genius

that they revolutionize
the industry

and together they
change the world.

Join us in this series,
as we take a look

at some of the wealthiest
entrepreneurs in the modern world,

the tech billionaires.

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark
Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.

Together they're
worth a collective

of more than $900 billion.

They will be
remembered in history

as the most influential
people of the 21st century.

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Bill Gates was born
William Henry Gates Jr,

on October 28th, 1955,
in Seattle, Washington.

He grew up in an
upper middle-class

loving and supportive family,

with his older sister Kristianne

and his younger sister Libby.

Their father, William
Henry Gates Sr.,

was a Seattle attorney,
philanthropist

and co-creator of the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation.

His mother, Mary Gates,
was a school teacher

and devoted her time to
helping raise the children

and working on civic
affairs and with charities.

Gates was a relatively
privileged child.

His parents encouraged
all three children

to be competitive and
strive for excellence.

He excelled in school, showed
early signs of competitiveness

and intellectual achievement,

and quickly gained a fascination
for computer language.

At 13, he wrote his
first software program

while at Lakeside High
School, and met Paul Allen,

an encounter that
would change his life.

Leaving his family at 17,

he moved to Cambridge,
Massachusetts

and enrolled at Harvard
University in 1973,

originally thinking
of a career in law.

But he would change
his plans later on.

There he met Steve Ballmer,

who encouraged him to
have more social life.

Introvert and often
ridiculed as a nerd,

Gates was very much into reading

and declared himself
that he was antisocial.

He only dated on rare occasions

and made sure whoever he was
dating had scored, like him,

a high SAT grade.

His mother was
deeply disappointed,

when two years later he
dropped out of Harvard

to pursue his own mission,

and start his own
computer software business

with his high school
friend Paul Allen,

in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

But little did they know

it would end up changing
the course of history

and the computer industry.

The now multi-billion-dollar
giant tech company

would propel Gates to success,

making him a
millionaire by age 26,

the youngest billionaire at 31,

and one of the richest
men in the world.

With the ambitious goal
of placing together

a computer on every
desk and in every home,

together they founded Microsoft.

Well, we're continually
trying to make

the computers easier to use.

I mean, the idea
is that eventually

everyone will use a computer
as a very important tool.

It was interesting
for me, you know,

I met a lot of other kids
who were good at math.

I hung out and that was fun.

But I was still kind of dreaming

of the idea of a
personal computer.

So in 1975, I dropped
out of school.

I don't recommend it,
but I left Harvard.

I went on leave from Harvard
and started Microsoft.

Gates
later moved the company

to Bellevue, Washington in 1979,
closer to where he grew up.

Although it started
on shaky grounds,

by this time it was grossing
approximately $2.5 million.

At the age of only 23,
Gates placed himself

as head of the company.

He led with a keen business
sense and personally reviewed

every line of code
the company shipped,

often rewriting code himself
when it was necessary.

In November 1980, the world's
dominant computer maker, IBM,

was looking for software

that would operate
their personal computer,

and approached Microsoft.

Legend has it that at the
first meeting with Gates,

someone at IBM mistook him
for an office assistant

and asked him to serve coffee.

Gates expertly manipulated
the larger company,

so they became permanently
dependent on him

for basic software.

Following the development
of software for IBM,

between 1979 and 1981,
Microsoft's growth exploded.

Staff increased and revenue
shot up from $2.5 million

to $16 million.

As the company grew,
Gates transitioned

from a manager role
to an executive.

In mid '81 he was
appointed president

and chairman of the board.

Allen was named
executive vice president.

By 1983 Microsoft
was going global,

with offices in Great
Britain and Japan.

An estimated 30% of
the world's computers

ran on its software.

The competition was high,

as the computer
industry was growing

with companies like
Apple and Intel,

but he saw it as a good thing

and used it as fuel
to keep improving.

Well, we've had competitors
at every stage of our history.

You know, one of the
big things for us

was IBM saying they'd put us
out of business with OS/2.

OS/2 isn't as well
known today as it was

when that was said.

Ashton-Tate was big in database,

Novell in networking software.

And so when new
competitors come along,

it's great for consumers.

He even values
competitors like Google.

Great to have
Google out there.

It's really pushing us
on the internet search.

We enjoy that.

So fear's not the right word,

but the value of competition
and the enjoyment

and the visibility that
brings, that's great.

Using various
business and marketing tactics,

Gates was working
hard to make sure

the Microsoft software
stayed on top.

The work we're doing is,

it's not like we're doing
the same thing all day long.

We go into our offices
and think up new programs.

We get together in meetings.

We go out and see end users.

We talk to customers.

There's so much variety,

and there's always
new things going on.

And I don't think
there'll ever come a time

when that would be boring.

Despite the
success of Microsoft,

Gates never felt totally secure.

And he had to demonstrate

a strong dedication
to his business.

Always checking on the
competition over his shoulder,

he developed a drive
and competitive spirit

and a confrontational attitude.

He became a solid
business leader.

When we were small,

we couldn't do these
advanced research things.

And so we're stronger
today than ever,

because we have the
research lab in Cambridge.

We've got a research lab
now in China, one in India,

and that's where
the top problems

in computer science
are gonna be solved.

That's why Microsoft
got such a great future,

because we're looking
into how to do

that speech recognition
or visual recognition,

things that people have
talked about for a long time,

we're actually doing it.

And that's because
we're a company

that takes long-term approach.

We've got these
great researchers

and in this next decade,
all of those tough problems

will be solved with software.

His
intelligence allowed him

to see all sides of
the software industry

from product development
to corporate strategy.

I enjoy working
with the people,

talking about what
we're gonna get done,

getting real
excited, making sure

that the structure is there,

that the ideas get
measured properly

and really leading the
company, that's exciting.

Right around
the same time as Microsoft,

another company was built,
the revolutionary Apple.

Its CEO, Steve Jobs.

It was a natural
catalyst for the rivalry,

and it actually
spurred their success.

Though their love-hate
relationship is legend,

Microsoft and Apple shared many
of their early innovations.

And they weren't always enemies.

In 1981 Apple invited Microsoft

to help develop software
for Macintosh computers.

Well, we've always had lots
of competitors, you know.

There are a lot of great
companies in this industry.

It is becoming more
software-centered.

That is if you take, why is
the Xbox 360 doing so well?

Or why are other people's
things doing well?

It's that software capability.

And that's a bet that we made

at the beginning of the company,

that software would
be fundamental.

We're the company that does

the most advanced
research in software.

So we think that's gonna
pay off very well for us,

but we love the competition.

Some areas like the
tablet or interactive TV,

we're kind of out on our own.

Other areas like search,

people see that someone
else has done a good job,

and we can surprise
them by showing

that we can match and go beyond.

It was through
this knowledge-sharing

that Microsoft
developed a new system.

On November 20th, 1985,
Microsoft launched Windows,

which looked visually very
similar to the Macintosh system

introduced two years
earlier by Apple.

Windows used a mouse to
drive a graphic interface,

displaying text and
images on the screen.

This differed greatly
from the operating system

developed by Microsoft,

where all text formatting
showed on the screen as code,

and not what actually
would be printed.

In March 1986, Gates
took Microsoft public

with an initial offering
of $21 per share,

making him an instant
millionaire at age 31.

Over time, the company
stock increased in value.

Just a year later in '87,
Gates became a billionaire,

when the stock hit
$90.75 a share.

Since then he's been at the top,

or at least near the top,
of Forbes annual list

of the top 400 wealthiest
people in America.

By the start of the '90s,

he'd become the PC industries
ultimate kingmaker.

In 1999 with stock prices
at an all-time high,

Gates wealth briefly
top $101 billion.

I feel very proud of
the record of our industry

in serving customers.

It's really breathtaking
the power that you get

for very little money.

Any industry where somebody can
start a company from scratch

and in less than four years

sell that company
for $10 billion,

that's an industry
of opportunity.

There are more new startups,

more new jobs being
created in our industry,

more new competitors
to Microsoft

being formed now
than ever before.

It should
not be surprising

that one of the wealthiest
people in the world

has an insanely
extravagant high-tech home.

In 1997, Gates and his family

would move into a
66,000 square foot,

$54 million massive mansion

that he spent seven
years building

on the shore of Lake Washington.

The property is loaded
with high-tech details.

It features screens
showing changeable artwork,

has speakers hidden
behind wallpaper,

allowing music to follow
you from room to room.

It even has a sand beach
and a swimming pool

with its own underwater
sound system.

The estate he dubbed Xanadu
2.0 is so big and famous,

it has its own Wikipedia page.

But all of this didn't
come without ambition,

efforts and perseverance.

Bill Gates always kept a strong
will and kept being smart.

Gates also had overcome his
fears to launch Microsoft

and make it a success.

He had to overcome challenges

by eventually learning
how to delegate.

Before Microsoft
became a success,

he struggled with
self-confidence

and actually feared that his
business would be a bust.

In fact, his first attempt to
build his first ever business,

Traf-O-Data at 17 years old
with Paul Allen, was a fail,

but it would be the early steps

of what would ultimately
become Microsoft.

"Even though Traf-O-Data
wasn't a roaring success,

"it was seminal in preparing us

"to make Microsoft's first
product a couple of years later",

explained Allen
some years later.

His confidence was
also broken many times

as he watched companies
he idolized fail.

Gates' anxiety has persisted,

but his early days taught
him a vital lesson.

Things are risky and you better
not miss a turn in the road.

He realized that feeling
challenged early in his career

helped him be successful.

Later on, Microsoft had to
settle several lawsuits,

after being accused
of becoming a monopoly

and using anti-competitive
practices.

They had to pay a
devastating price.

In 1987, Gates, then 32,

sat next to the young
and bright Melinda French

at a business dinner
party in New York City.

She was a 23-year-old
Microsoft product manager.

The pair was a perfect match.

On January 1st, 1994,
Melinda and Gates

were married in Hawaii.

They had three children.

Following the devastating death

of his mother to breast cancer

just a few months
after their wedding,

they took some time
off in 1995 to travel

and get a new perspective
on life and the world.

Following the
footsteps of his mother

and with Melinda's influence,

Gates started to
gain an interest

in becoming a civic leader
and a philanthropist.

In 1994, the couple established

the William Henry
Gates Foundation.

In 2000, the couple combined
several family foundations

and made a $28
billion contribution

to form the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation

based in Seattle.

It is reported to be the
largest private foundation

in the world, holding around
$50 billion in assets.

It is dedicated to supporting
education, world health

and reducing extreme
poverty across the globe.

The foundation is controlled
by its three trustees

Bill and Melinda and American
investor Warren Buffett,

one of the most successful
investors in the world today.

I think our view of
the foundation really

is we got started in 1993 when
we started to see the need,

the need was so great.

And it starts, the foundation
starts with the premise

that no life on this
planet is more important

in one place than on the other.

And so when you take
that basic premise

and you say there's
so much going on,

so much need in health
today, we had to start now.

Would've been convenient
to wait till we were 60

to start to
redistribute the wealth,

but disease doesn't wait.

And so we decided
that now really

is the time for us to start.

And I think you could also say

that it has a lot of
dreams for the foundation.

When we look at health,
a dream of an HIV vaccine

is a huge dream
for us as a couple,

something we'd like to see,

or microbicide, which is a gel

that a woman might be
able to use someday

to prevent HIV/AIDS. I think
we have a lot of dreams

in terms of what scientific
tools can do for people

in the developing world.

In 2000 Gates
stepped down from Microsoft CEO,

turning over the job to his
childhood friend, Steve Ballmer.

Though he remained
chairman of the board,

he preferred to concentrate
on what was for him

the more passionate
side of the business.

In 2006 Gates further announced

he was transitioning himself

from full-time work at Microsoft

to devote more quality time
and energy to the foundation.

In the meantime, he
reached milestones

with the launch of Microsoft
Windows Vista in 2007,

whose new software allowed
people to interact in new ways.

This is a special occasion.

We've worked hard to build
a new software platform,

and we're so excited to see

what people are
going to do with it.

In 1983, Microsoft introduced

the very first version of
Windows, that was 24 years ago.

And at the time PCs
were not very powerful.

There was a lot of question
of whether graphics interface

was something that
made sense at all.

People were skeptical about
whether parameters would learn

to be able to build applications
that were very different,

since the user could interact
in a variety of new ways.

And it took a long time for
that to be well accepted.

That same year
Bill and Melinda were ranked

the second most generous
philanthropists in America

after Warren Buffett.

They're working hard together

to give their wealth
back to society,

planning to eventually
donate 95% to charity.

It's my responsibility I feel

to take these
resources of society

that I've gotten
and give them back

in the most impactful way.

And that's what's led to the
creation of the foundation

that my wife and I run.

Kind of amazingly, my
friend Warren Buffett

added a substantial part of
his resources to that as well.

And so just like at Microsoft,

the foundation has taken
on very ambitious goals.

We want a vaccine for
tuberculosis and malaria.

We wanna reduce all
the childhood deaths

that happen in
these poor countries

that really isn't visible
to the rich world,

and the rich world hasn't
put enough energy into that.

And so it'll take
decades to do that.

Very similar to my
work with Microsoft,

working with smart
people, being optimistic,

giving them lots of resources.

And so I'm thrilled
I get that chance.

And that's the
responsibility I have

as somebody who's
gotten the wealth

that Microsoft generated.

But
Gates makes it clear.

Fame is not his goal.

Well, I don't need to
be remembered at all.

My wife and I have decided

that our foundation
will spend all its money

within 20 years, when
neither of us are around.

So we're not trying to
create some perpetual thing.

Well, none of the people
who are at risk of polio

know anything about
me, nor should they.

They are dealing
with day-to-day life

and the fact that their
child might get crippled.

We just need to get rid of that,

and then we won't
have to talk about it.

On June 27th, 2008,

he gave a teary
farewell to Microsoft

on his last full
day at the company.

"There won't be a day in my
life that I'm not thinking

"about Microsoft and the
great things that it's doing

"and wanting to
help", said Gates.

Wiping away tears,
as the employees rose

to give him a standing ovation.

Leaving behind a life's
work developing software

to devote his energy to
fight poverty in the world,

Gates went on to
create greater things.

He still works on special
technology projects at Microsoft.

In February 2014,
Gates stepped down

as chairman of Microsoft

in order to move into a new
position as technology advisor.

Longtime CEO Steve Ballmer

was replaced by Satya Nadella.

Over the next few years,

Gates' involvement
with the foundation

occupied much more
of his time interest.

When we were engaged, Bill
and I talked about the fact

that this wealth would
go back to society.

And again, because we
both came from families

who were deeply involved in
volunteerism and giving back,

it was just a natural.

So I would say the converse
has been true for us.

One of the most
fun things has been

Bill now getting to spend
full time on the foundation.

We were already, obviously
the last 10 years,

working collaboratively
on the foundation,

but now that we can
do it full time,

we're all the more
excited and passionate

about working together.

With
his foundation,

Gates is committed
to saving lives,

reducing sickness,
to lifting society up

and making it
self-sufficient and stable.

In low-income countries
like Sub-Saharan Africa

and Southeast Asian countries,

Gates knew that people were
still dying at an alarming rate,

mostly from illnesses that
could easily be treated

with basic medicine.

It was common sense for
him that basic needs

in poorest nations like
Ethiopia and Rwanda

have to be taken care of first

for them to reach
a stable state.

It all started in 2000,
when among others,

the foundation decided
to build institutions

that would support a wide
range of public health projects

by leading campaigns
and granting aid

to fight transmittable
and deadly diseases

such as AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria

known as the three biggest
killers in poor countries.

Vaccines, the
miracle technology.

The one project that
makes them the most proud

has been creating widespread
immunization programs.

In his fight against disease,

he states that big
breakthroughs have been made,

and they've shown that
hundreds of millions

of children's lives can be saved

by innovations
like new vaccines.

It saves children's lives.

When you say there are
eight million children

who die every single year,

many from vaccine
preventable diseases,

and we know we can
tackle those diseases,

it makes me excited about getting
those tools out to mothers

so that they know they can
raise healthy children.

The
need to get them out

into the developing world is
greater, more than ever before,

but it is not an easy journey,

and the results don't
come automatically.

It seems that it isn't enough

just to develop
powerful medicines.

They have to reach the
people who need them.

And it often means
getting medicine

to remote villages in war zones.

Over the past decades,
Gates and his wife Melinda

have invested $10 billion
into organizations

that do this challenging work,

including three big ones,
Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance,

The Global Fund and the Global
Polio Eradication Initiative.

He claimed that it was
the best investments

they had ever made.

In 2016 Gates and former UK
Chancellor George Osborne

pledged three billion pounds
to help fight against malaria.

The cost of a path
to a polio free world

has exceeded $10 billion.

But since Gavi was founded,

the number of children
under the age of five dying

in low and middle-income countries
has dropped by about 40%,

and they immunized 100
million children in 2018.

Well, I'm very lucky.

I get to go out and see that now

the all the world's children
are getting these vaccines,

that that's making
such a difference.

Before the UK and our
foundation founded Gavi,

kids didn't get these vaccines
for diarrhea and pneumonia

and the deaths
were twice as high.

And so I wish all
the British taxpayers

could go out into these
countries and see what's gone on

with the different diseases
and see that impact,

see that polio's literally
on the verge of eradication,

so that instead of 400,000
children a year being paralyzed,

now we'll get that
number down to zero,

and we'll save all that
preventative treatment.

That's really quite phenomenal.

And I don't think
people understand

it's their aid generosity

combined with good
delivery systems

that has led to this
phenomenal resource.

Meanwhile, polio
cases have almost disappeared.

More recently, in April
2018, Gates announced

that he was teaming with
Google co-founder Larry Page

to provide $12
million in funding

for a universal flu vaccine.

Although some questioned
whether $12 million

would be enough to spark any
real medical breakthroughs,

others praise the intentions
behind the investment,

while Gates indicated that
there could be more to come.

Gates also supported the
development of drugs and vaccines

for livestock diseases,

so that the growing population
can be fed properly.

And the benefit of that

is that these societies
become stable.

They can take care
of themselves.

So it's an investment
in the future,

whether you care about
terrorism or epidemics

or perhaps most importantly,
the humanitarian benefit.

A lot of countries are
continuing to increase the rate.

And that's a fantastic thing.

There's a few like Italy
that need to be called out,

because they're
cutting the rate,

and that hurts the poorest,

because these dollars
are very, very impactful.

We've gotta have the
health systems everywhere

so that we can see pandemic
diseases getting started

and stop them early.

With Ebola we were lucky.

It didn't spread
as fast as diseases

that we'll face in the future.

And so having those
health systems there

is protecting health of
even the rich countries.

The kind of stability
that we need,

so we don't have civil war,

and we feel like we have
huge migration crises.

We have to send the army in.

If you can do that by improving
cultural productivity,

that's a fantastic thing.

Even though there's a big
drought in Ethiopia right now,

because of the increased
agricultural productivity,

it's largely been able to
feed its own population,

because the
productivity in the West

is now helping out
there in the East.

And so this constant improvement

in food production,
education, health,

that means that
the risks coming in

from all these other places
will be greatly reduced.

He committed
$40 million to GALVmed

to continue its work on
preventing livestock diseases

and improving quality
of food and nutrition.

Gates believes that health
systems need to be everywhere

to prevent diseases
and reduce risk.

Helping poorest countries
benefits the rich countries too.

For him, philanthropists
have a duty to tackle hunger

and better healthcare
in these countries,

as they're totally dependent

on such donations
and generosity.

He raises awareness
about the importance

of raising money
to fix such issues.

Well, I think over time,

we're gonna see
more of those people

giving their money away.

In fact, we've been talking

to a whole host of people
in the United States

just about how much
we've enjoyed the giving,

how much we're seeing
progress around the world,

how much it's been a
journey for us as a couple.

And so I think you're seeing

more and more
people come forward.

We have 40 other couples
signed up in the United States

who have pledged to give away
over 50% of their wealth.

That's huge.

We're talking to couples
in India and in China.

I think that will
come along over time.

But you have to
have show progress.

And I think that's one
of the incredible things.

It's not just
private philanthropy,

it's the pounds that come
from the British government

for us to be able to say,
"Look, these childhood deaths

"are dropping because of
these amazing investments

"that have been made."

And when people see
that progress, they say,

"Oh, I could actually
do something,

"I wanna be a part of that."

Melinda and I are very lucky.

We were born in a
wealthy country.

We got great education.

We got great health things.

And billions of people
do not have that.

And there's no particular reason

why we should and
others shouldn't,

but poverty and the fact
that you're trapped,

when your health is so bad,

and it ironically means your
population growth is very high.

That is unfair.

And so we didn't wanna
burden our children with it.

They'll maybe ask us
several times why,

but we want them to
make their own way.

And so we've picked the things,

and we think it's incredible.

We found things where
the impact per dollar

is way beyond what we expected.

When you're out in a
village and you meet a mother,

and she says, "My gosh,
because of something

"that you all have invested
in, my child is alive.

"My child is alive, and
I can plan on this child

"living till their
fifth birthday.

"And I can now work on my farm
and put my child in school."

That's an incredibly
amazing feeling,

when you're out in the world.

However,
while calling

for continued improvement in
international aid development,

he states that we
need to acknowledge

the progress made so far.

It's good news that you can
actually get rid of a disease,

that you can cut
childhood death in half,

that we can take that malnutrition,
which holds Africa back

and solve it by helping
them grow more food.

Produce aid is achieving
incredible results.

Everyone in the field,
working together,

and we learn, we see
the biggest successes,

we follow on from that.

So it's a very dynamic business,

but when we say how many
children are surviving,

what we've done with
malaria, neglected disease,

the progress has
been phenomenal.

Childhood death has
been cut in half.

Now we wanna cut
it in half again,

but that's quite an achievement.

The progress
on HIV is perhaps,

according to him,
the most astonishing.

Since The Global
Fund was created,

deaths have fallen
by more than a half.

It was when I started coming

to Africa regularly
for the foundation,

that I got to know Nelson
Mandela personally.

AIDS was one of the first
issues our foundation worked on,

and Nelson Mandela was both
an advisor and an inspiration,

but Nelson Mandela was
concerned about the future.

He believed people
could make the future

better than the past.

And so that's what
I wanna focus on

for the remainder of my talk,

what can South Africa become?

What can Africa become?

What can the world become,

and what must we do
to make it that way?

Gates saw that
there was a possibility

for improvement in innovation.

And he believes in the
economic potential of countries

with high levels of malnutrition

to do more to
tackle the problem.

By pulling the funding from
donors like the US and the UK,

he's working hard to make sure

that medical aid has a
great continuous impact.

And he keeps making sure
the resources are there

to produce pioneering work.

In 2017, the foundation
launched the first

of its annual
Goalkeepers Report,

which examines the progress made

in important public health areas

including child mortality,
malnutrition, and HIV.

For Gates, it is
important that money goes

where the great scientists are.

The UK is a fantastic
place to back science.

He claimed the US and the UK

are where the best science
can be found today,

which is why he has invested
more than a billion dollars

in their research
and institutions.

He praises the UK
for its commitment,

saying it sends a great message.

And he gives a
sense of engagement

with the world of
optimism and a belief

that their approach can
make a huge difference.

Since I've been involved
in health and development,

the UK has maintained
its commitment

to helping people in
low-income countries.

Not only that, but you
have set the standard

for being strategic
about how you help.

You're innovative and rigorous

about getting the
highest possible return

on your aid investment.

So if you put these
two trends together,

innovation and generosity,

you get world-class Scottish
agricultural science,

helping hundreds of millions

of the poorest people in the
world transform their lives.

In the United States, I
take every opportunity I can

to make the case
that foreign aid

is both the right and
smart thing to do.

I follow the UK
Aid debate closely

and I'm convinced that the
same arguments apply here.

UK Aid is good for Britain
and good for the world.

I wish more people in
your country and mine

could see the results.

There are so many
incredible institutions here

that are both inventing
these drugs and vaccines

and are really gaining
the experience.

You know, this country is
making a huge difference.

His attentions
come from a greater vision

and hope for a better
present and future.

He once declared, "We
have to find a way

"to make the aspects
of capitalism

"that serve wealthier people
serve poor people as well."

British government is
very generous in this.

And I think when taxpayers see
that it's money well-spent,

that it can achieve
a goal like this,

that they are willing to have
a few percent of their taxes

go to these causes.

And Britain is a
great partner in this.

And the UK government
is to be thanked

that as they made trade-offs,

helping the poorest in
the most effective way

was something that they
were able to preserve.

And that set an example
for other governments

on aid generosity.

Certainly the US is gonna be
big on this polio campaign.

It takes actually billions
of dollars to get this done.

My foundation will be
a big giver to this,

but we'll have, I think,
16 different countries

that are backing it.

And the British
voters should be proud

of their participation in
something important like this.

Gates is contributing
to society in a major way

and it doesn't stop here.

He also invested
$50 million in 2017

in Alzheimer's research.

And the foundation also
tackles domestic issues

such as helping students
in the United States

become college-ready
by granting funds

to learning institutions
and libraries

and supporting scholarships
at universities.

He also has plans of building
a smart city in Arizona

with futuristic infrastructures
and cutting edge technology

in which he invested
$80 million.

Gates is also fighting
climate change.

He has urged governments
and the private sector

to invest in research
and development

to make clean, reliable
energy cheaper.

He's invested $2
billion of his own money

in clean energy innovation.

In 2018, Gates was
heartbroken by the passing

of one of his oldest and
dearest childhood friend

and Microsoft
co-founder Paul Allen.

The brilliant technologist
and philanthropist

had left Microsoft in 1983

after a falling out with
Gates and Steve Ballmer.

He died of cancer at age 65.

Without him, Gates believes

the largest software
company in the world

would never have existed.

Even though Gates led Microsoft
to where it stands today,

Allen played a crucial role
in creating the company.

Their relationship throughout
the years was tumultuous.

Allen recalled one
day overhearing Gates

trying to reduce his
stake in Microsoft,

but the plan failed
as he hanged on to it.

However, their
relationship mended.

Gates stood beside him
during his cancer treatment.

"He was everything you'd
want from a friend",

Allen wrote in his memoir.

Surround yourself
with the right people,

and you can accomplish
great things

is the lesson Gates has
learned from their friendship.

A more difficult
pathogen could come along,

a form of flu, a form of SARS

or some type of virus that
we haven't seen before.

And so asking ourselves,
are we as prepared for that?

We don't know it will happen,
but it's high enough chance

that one of the lessons
of it all should be

to ask ourselves, are we as
ready for that as we should be?

In a TED Talk from
2015, he foresaw the future,

when he urged the world
to prepare for war

against a global pandemic.

After years of warning,
the world was not ready.

He saw his ominous
words come true

with the outbreak of
the coronavirus in 2020.

In March 2020, the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation

teamed with the Wellcome
Trust and Mastercard

to pledge $125 million toward
efforts to curb the outbreak.

And Gates revealed that
his foundation was prepared

to invest billions of dollars
into building factories

for the development
of a vaccine.

On March 13th, 2020,
Microsoft announced Gates

definitely left his board
positions at Microsoft

to dedicate his efforts in
philanthropic endeavors.

In September 2020,
his father passed away

leaving Gates with a
painful feeling of grief,

but also gratitude.

He said that his generosity,
wisdom, empathy and humility

has had huge influence on
people around the world,

but mostly on him.

Gates looked up to
him and wrote a note,

remembering his father.

"He was everything I try to be.

"I will miss him every day."

And you know, so
that's exacting.

And so, in fact, in
the latest drought

where Ethiopia had less
rains than those two,

was
actually very small.

Bill Gates has
received numerous awards

for his philanthropic work.

Time Magazine named him one
of the most influential people

of the 20th century.

It also named Gates
and his wife Melinda,

along with rock band
U2 lead singer Bono

as the 2005 persons of the year.

He was knighted as an
Honorary Knight Commander

of the Order of
the British Empire,

bestowed by queen
Elizabeth II in 2005.

In 2016, the couple
were again recognized

for their philanthropic work,

when they were named recipients

of the presidential
Medal of Freedom

by President Barack Obama.

Bill Gates has a vast fortune,

but he's fighting to make
the world a better place

by making good use of his money,

investing in the right places

and into organizations
he believes in.

He and Melinda are now renowned

for their outstanding
charitable work.

They have succeeded
beyond his wildest dreams.

The impact Bill Gates has had

on the tech society
is undeniable.

The impact of his
foundation is phenomenal.

Aid has made a huge difference.

From a loner schoolboy dropout

to multibillionaire tech giant,

Bill Gates has had a long
journey, and it is not over.

At 65 years old and with a hope

of making a positive
impact in the world,

he continues to use all
the resources in his power

to end poverty and suffering.

Our foundation
wants to do its part.

And so I'm pleased
to announce to you

that we're pledging an
additional billion dollars to-

Thank you.

From him we
learn that time is valuable

and is necessary to move fast.

He strives for
continuous innovation

with ambition, persistence,
and perseverance.

He shows us that we can
achieve great things.

Success didn't make
him arrogant, but wise.

He remained humble,
claiming from a young age

that he is not a genius.

His optimistic and
confrontational attitude,

his determination and patience
makes him a great example.

Bill Gates has made an
impact on millions of lives

and his accomplishments are
meaningful and significant.

If his goal was to place
a computer in every home,

we can probably say
that he has reached it.

In 2015 there were more than
one billion PCs worldwide.

If his other goal was to
push others to be ambassadors

for a better world
and save lives,

we can say that he
has reached it too.

So we can salute Bill Gates

for his contribution
to the world

and his remarkable journey,

as he will probably go down
as one of the most successful

and influential people
of the 21st century.