Billionaire Bill Gates revealed during an interview with The New York Times that he was surprised by Silicon Valley's shift to the right.
Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, told the New York Times on Thursday that he “always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center.”
President-elect Donald Trump appears to have left a positive impression on former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, after a post-election dinner that spanned more than three hours
The Microsoft cofounder commended his fellow billionaire for “how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”
I felt like he was energized and looking forward to helping to drive innovation. I was frankly impressed with how well he showed a lot of interest in the issues I brought up.”
Bill Gates met with President-elect Donald Trump for more than three hours about and talked about global health issues, including efforts to develop an HIV cure and to fight polio.
"I had a chance to go have a long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him," Gates told The Wall Street Journal.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker, the Microsoft co-founder said he and the president-elect discussed HIV, polio and global health.
Donald Trump and Bill Gates' conversation touched on various topics, including HIV, polio, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes he would have been diagnosed as autistic if he were a child today. Gates made the revelation in an interview to promote his forthcoming book, Source Code: My Beginnings.
As President Donald Trump uses his executive authority to smash and slash ... Just several weeks ago, Trump had a highly anticipated meeting with tech giant Bill Gates. In a “wide-ranging” conversation, they discussed global public health.