An Interview with Bill Gates

“For me, the idea of innovation for those most in need is what I saw as such an opportunity as I shifted away from my full-time work at Microsoft.” -Bill Gates

Bill Gates is the cofounder of the Microsoft Corporation and the cofounder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private foundation with a mission of decreasing inequities in education and healthcare and promoting responsible global development and growth. Each year, Bill and Melinda Gates release an Annual Letter reflecting on their humanitarian work of the past year and offering insight into where they’ll be directing their energy and efforts for the year to come. The 2019 Annual Letter, titled “We didn’t see this coming,” is available in full on www.gatesletter.com and describes 9 things that most surprised Bill and Melinda this year. Here now is a two-part series of Henna and Bill's conversation about these surprises and the contents of the 2019 Annual Letter.