Summaries of Bill Gates Videos 📚

Sal Khan & Bill Gates | Austin & Houston | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Book Tour

The lifecycle of massive stars

From high school to college to career, Chaffey College is transforming students’ lives.

Bill Gates & John Green: Ethiopia’s progress in health and development

How to make concrete green

Giving the Mandela Lecture

My conversation with Jared Diamond

5 books to enjoy this winter

Dear polio fighter...

Inside Bill’s Brain deleted scene: Bill’s role model

Indigo

Bill Gates with Steven Pinker: When does honor become dishonorable?

This book helped me better understand Africa

What does it mean to be human?

Reinventing food

Tough questions with Bill & Melinda Gates

Wake up: The Big History of coffee

Better Metal

My message at COP28

How to build a better battery

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: The Truck

The Match for Africa 5 Silicon Valley

Turning the corner on AIDS

Zambia: On the front lines waging war against HIV and malaria

Episode 4: John McWhorter

Grand Challenges - George Shaw

Pickleball is all the rage

Great books, videos, and music from 2023

The best sci-fi novel I read as a kid

Fresh insights into students' progress

Bill's take on technology and teaching

Meeting Malala

Heroes in the Field: Cacilda Fumo

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 2

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 7

Cupcake economics

Nuclear Energy After Fukushima Part 2

I’m hopeful about all the progress to come in 2024.

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Ruth Bishop

Alok Sharma & Bill Gates | London | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Book Tour

Melinda Gates talks with teens about time poverty

A new framework for thinking about the world

Sweet nostalgia with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates

Chris Murray and the Global Burden of Disease

Living in extreme poverty

5 books to read this summer

A conversation with the 2017 Washington State Teacher of the Year

As a math nerd, I was super excited to learn about Nerdle

Mobile phones: The farmer’s new tool (narrated by Melinda Gates)

Meeting the Musahar

ARPA-E: A Good Beginning for U.S. Energy Innovation Part 5

Of all the sci-fi I read as a teenager, this one is still my favorite

How to expand vaccine manufacturing

Solving for sodium: Nu-Tek food science

How to use your tech skills for social impact

Manufacturing opportunity

Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates | Episode 3 Trailer: Questlove

Melinda and Bill Gates: Backstage with President Jimmy Carter

Beyond Meat: Remaking meat

The future of farming

2016 Annual Letter launch highlights

Flush with innovation

Q&A with Students at Stanford University Part 6

Annual Letter: Excellence in teaching

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Mechai Viravaidya

Women in tech: Defying the odds

“I’m going to call you Trey Rock until the day you die” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Annual Letter: End polio now

Salt: A brief big history

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 7

Don Cheadle & Bill Gates | Los Angeles & San Francisco | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Book Tour

A powerful conversation with Nate Bowling

Bill Gates with Steven Pinker: Did the social revolution of the 1960s make people more violent?

Sal Khan on the future of learning

Bill Gates and Rashida Jones ask Compton Mayor Aja Brown and Raj Chetty "Is inequality inevitable?"

Bill Gates and the man who blew up the moon

Janicki Omniprocessor

What polio in New York means

Malaria and climate change are more connected than most people think

Red Nose Day

Gates Cambridge Scholars: 20 years of making a better world

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 3

Bill Gates invites you to “Ask Me Anything”

The world can save 1,000 more mothers and babies each day through the end of the decade

Nathan Myhrvold: How dinosaurs could help us fight malnutrition

Better buildings can help with climate change

Turning the corner on polio in 2012

“It was the most stunning demo I’ve ever seen in my life” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Q&A with Students at Stanford University Part 5

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Drs. Quarraisha and Salim Abdool Karim

Transitions

Inside Bill’s Brain – Part 3

An energy briefing with Daniel Yergin: Understanding energy solutions

A busy but inspiring week in Nigeria and Niger

A better way to fertilize

The best teacher I never had

Ethiopia: Exciting innovations in agriculture and health

Inside Bill’s Brain deleted scene: The college experience

Energy innovation

Wow. I guess this is what I sound like when I’m stuck.

Putting students first

Mosquito wars

Philanthropists in golf carts eating Dilly Bars

Save the planet or save the people?

Educators like Dana Miles make me proud to be a Washingtonian

Dr. Max Roser: Our World in Data

I was arnerg-ized by my recent visit to Arnergy.

This is one more reason why soccer is known as “the beautiful game”

Dax Shepard, Monica Padman & Bill Gates l Chicago l How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Book Tour

Can a better form change a life?

“People could finally leverage technology to learn at their own pace” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Africa is the youngest continent

New tools help teachers guide learning

Mealtime Conversations – USA

Africa: The Youngest Continent

Bill Gates and Rashida Jones ask Dr. Anthony Fauci "What will the world look like after COVID-19?"

Seeing self-help in action in India

Setting high standards for students

A conversation with Bill Gates: Global Fund

Bill & Melinda Gates: Our big bet

Energy innovation

The surprising key to a clean energy future

The Big History of Ukraine and corn

Q&A with Students at Stanford University Part 1

Mobilizing the power of women to accelerate progress on malaria

Why health care matters for the poorest

Day 1 at the UN: Good friends from around the world

A conversation with Bill Gates and Tara Westover

Summer reading 2017 by Bill Gates

Wrangling cows in the Outback

Bill and Melinda Gates: Our 2016 Annual Letter

America's future: Bill Gates and Thomas Friedman (preview)

India’s push to vaccinate more kids is saving lives.

“It’s taken me 10 years to read Chinese like a 3-year-old” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Holiday books 2016

The best way the start the day. #wordle

The quest for an Alzheimer’s cure

Teachers Deserve

Game changer

Around the world in 100 Little Free Libraries.

The year global health went global | Our 2021 Annual Letter

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett pick up a shift at Dairy Queen

Earlier this week, I had a chance to visit the beautiful country of Niger for the first time

Omni Processor in Senegal

Talking malnutrition with Aliko Dangote

Progress in India

The Year Ahead 2023

Native talents and challenges

Bill Talks About the Future Part 2

Why I made a medicine bag

Remembering Chuck Feeney, a great philanthropist

A student view: Math for daydreamers too

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

Bill and Melinda Gates’s 2019 Annual Letter

College without walls

Simple advances, amazing benefits in Africa (part 2)

A shot to save the world

What do school programs really cost?

Meet the GERM team

Betsy Layne High School teacher Ricky Thacker

Strengths and weaknesses in U.S. education

Neil deGrasse Tyson: What’s possible in 15 years?

Why do some countries excel at saving lives?

Tracking virus variants around the globe

Testing mattresses with Warren Buffett

Bill Gates and Ed Yong talk about microbes

Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates | Podcast Trailer

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 6

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 5

Here’s how India made giving birth safer for moms.

“Let’s go with the amazing performance” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

3 things we can do now to prevent the next pandemic

Beating nature at its own game

Things you never knew about your stove

SOURCE is increasing access to clean water

“This might be the last hard thing I ever do” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Annual Letter: End polio now

The 2022 Breakthrough Energy Summit

Delivering health care in India

Inside Bill’s Brain deleted scene: Tennis with Bill

Bill Gates meets with Katie Brown, Washington State Teacher of the Year

A conversation with Bill Gates: Why focus on global aid

Annual Letter: Good news and a challenge

These 36 young scientists inspired me

Bill Gates learns ASL with the Washington State Teacher of the Year

5 books Bill Gates loved in 2018

Bill's retrospective with Vinod Khosla: Technology opportunities

“If you could master any subject, which would you choose?” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Learning to teach Big History

“Running is a good idea generation tool” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Solving for Zero: The Wind-Powered Oceanbird by Wallenius Marine

Ghana: Mobile technology for global health

This partnership helped prevent 13 million deaths

We can eradicate four diseases by 2030

This is how one middle school teacher is trying to solve America’s math problem.

Bill Talks About the Future Part 7

I had a lot of fun meeting Cheech Marin and experiencing The Cheech Center

In Africa, detecting disease outbreaks to prevent the next pandemic

Solving for Zero: Ramya Swaminathan of Malta

Exclusive Outtake: Wordle Addicts | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Dr. Mohamed Bailor Barrie

Remembering Bill Gates, Sr.

Reasons for optimism after a difficult year

Solving for Zero: The Green Steel of Boston Metal

Bill Gates Explainer: Energy equation

“Snoop Dogg doesn’t eat edibles” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Star Wars & Civil Rights with Bill Gates and Nate Bowling

Why we need more innovation to end malaria

The Avengers of virus hunters

Almost zero: malaria elimination in Swaziland

The Health Impact of Climate Change

Progress on Millennium Development Goal 5

America's future: Innovation

In the kitchen with Modernist Cuisine: Chicken-free tikka masala

Three major shifts in the climate conversation

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: David Moinina Sengeh

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 1

A few thoughts about TEACH

Looking forward to the year ahead in 2024

Nearly 20% of the world's population lives in India

This former bank worker is helping Kenyan women and girls flourish

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Drs. Samir and Senjuti Saha

Q&A with Students at Stanford University Part 2

“Build as much as we can, as fast as we can” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Community pride

Hampton Creek Foods: Egging on an industry

Linguist John McWhorter unconfused me about the complexities of language.

Heroes in the Field: Polio vaccinators

Can we outsmart the world’s deadliest animal?

Energy storage breakthroughs

25 years ago

Special thanks to Mr. Fernandez for putting up with me in his math class

For mothers and babies, a brighter future (part 1)

Bill Gates talks about Warren Buffett’s annual letter

The Match for Africa Seattle

Bill Gates's favorite business book

Here’s a window into one of climate change’s more obscure challenges.

Oxitec’s innovative approach has the potential to move the world closer to malaria eradication

Why I’m optimistic about the future of Alzheimer’s research

Heroes in the Field: Dr. Adaora Okoli

What is Big History?

A conversation with Bill Gates: Response to Annual Letter

A conversation with Bill Gates: How can I help?

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Mamello Makhele

A conversation with Bill Gates: Global development scorecard

How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

A smooth move to more engaged students

Remembering Gordon Moore

This is one of the coolest things I’ve learned this year

Bill's Retrospective with Vinod Khosla: Innovations in Energy

Anderson Cooper & Bill Gates | Seattle | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Book Tour

Gates Notes Deep Dive: How data can improve education

Bill Gates on the need for climate innovators

Great books, songs, and even a TV show for the summer

We need a battery miracle

Bill and Melinda Gates: 2015 Annual Letter

COVID vaccines in the desert

Family planning is future planning

Episode 2: Sal Khan

5 books I loved reading this year

Progress on Millennium Development Goal 6

Episode 1: Seth Rogen & Lauren Miller Rogen

Increasing African corn yields

2013 Annual Letter: How we measure impact to improve lives

Finding a path to college during the pandemic

Bill Gates's Heroes in the Field: Dr. Mara Lawniczak

Bill Gates's Heroes in the Field: Dr. Shannon Yee

Progress by the numbers

To cut emissions, use this Swiss Army Knife

Better data, better schools

Wordle for math geeks

A big commitment to Big History

Wiping out malaria

How to fight malaria during COVID-19

This book has helped me both on and off the court

In the kitchen with Modernist Cuisine: Grilled chicken-free strips and vegetable salad

These grad students could help stop the next outbreak

For this Ugandan midwife, saving lives is a calling

Bill Gates and Tara Westover play "Guess the Philosopher"

Solving for Zero: Jonah Goldman of Breakthrough Energy

Microsoft CEO Summit: Innovation in Education Part 3

How 3D can build better vaccines

Talking about fortifying Africa’s future with John Green

Why we swing for the fences | Our 2020 annual letter

The Serum Institute of India

“Getting good sleep is super important” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Mandy Manning

Transmission is critical to unleashing the potential of affordable and abundant clean energy.

Bill Gates & Steven Pinker discuss Enlightenment Now

Prosper Chaki

“To be a good scientist, you have to leave a little room for chance” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Our 2016 Annual Letter: A conversation with teens

Beating the odds

Young Africa: Maria Namhindi

Mo Ibrahim on Africa, governance

Betsy Layne High School: Mining a new future

How teachers spend their summer

“It’s controlled chaos, and everyone benefits” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

5 summer book recommendations

This is how we prevent the next pandemic

It’s on us to bring the pieces together

Can science improve cooking?

Solving for Zero, a great series on climate change

How to make BBQ chicken with Bill Gates

Development with impact: Innovation and partnerships

South Africa: virtually there

This statistician is saving lives with math

More data, better farms

Extended Cut: Listening to Vivaldi | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

World Polio Day

India gives me hope for the future

University of Central Florida

Strong coffee, stronger women

America's greatest inventor

On the importance of giving

Surviving tuberculosis

The tragedy and the lessons of COVID-19

Bill Talks About the Future Part 4

New tools for COVID testing

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Dr. Andreas Diacon

Solving for Zero: Dr. Grace Andrews of Project Vesta

A conversation with Bill Gates: Hans Rosling's work

Video highlights from India trip

An energy briefing with Daniel Yergin: Market dynamics & natural gas

I spent a few days in Senegal for this year’s Grand Challenges meeting

Bill Gates talks toilets

Celebrating my father’s 90th birthday

Amazing gift, amazing impact

Happy Moon Festival to all who celebrate.

An energy briefing with Daniel Yergin: Nuclear energy

Imagine Cup

Melinda's new book

Tom Ellman: Leaving no one behind

There’s something really special about listening to music on vinyl

India by the numbers

Why we must stay committed to alleviating poverty

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Kakenya Ntaiya

Sal Khan's amazing global academy

What does the data say?

Best books of 2015

Mass drug administration in Tanzania

The world has a lot to learn from India on how to do this.

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field – Dr. Bernard Olayo

The vital question with Nick Lane

Heroes in the Field: Pashu Sakhis

Who will suffer most from climate change

Poulet Bicyclette

Grand Challenges - Laurence Zwiebel

A conversation with Bill Gates: Aid delivery

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Dr. Agnes Binagwaho

Become a Global Citizen

Why governments should invest in innovation

“We fail to recognize the amount of human progress made” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

“It’s easy to think that language is a basket of words” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

When your closest colleague is also your husband

The Farmer (360 video)

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Dr. Peter Piot

Wendo Aszed is a true hero. She is building a community of champions for women’s rights.

Holiday reading 2017

Episode 3: Questlove

Vibrant, hardworking: Amina's Nigeria

America's future: Politics

The Road Ahead, 25 years later

Neil deGrasse Tyson replies to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

The puzzle of progress

Bill Gates & Warren Buffett

dsm-firmenich is on a mission to make repelling mosquitoes as easy as washing up in the morning

Get unconfused about the ins and outs of artificial intelligence with me and Dr. Yejin Choi.

CGIAR: Feeding our future

The true story of how a cow changed everything

Bill Gates's Heroes in the Field: Dr. Kopano Matlwa Mabaso

30 seconds about my book on pandemics

Young Africa: Yvette Ishimwe

Lauren Miller Rogen unconfused me about brain healthy habits

America's future: Education

Reinventing toilets means improving millions of lives #WorldWaterWeek

Annual Letter: A health emergency

Next time you play Wordle, let Spotify pick your first word

Americas Future: A conversation with Bill Gates and Thomas Friedman

Melinda Gates talks with teens about time poverty

Heroes in the Field: Mathew Varghese

Bill Nye dispels poverty myths

A breakthrough in fighting dengue takes flight

Ewan McGregor's cold chain mission

Going the last mile in India

“Almost everyone has some sort of personal connection to Alzheimer’s” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Fulfilling Technology's Promise to Education Part 4

A conversation with Bill Gates: Progress against polio

I’ve always been a car guy, and I recently had the opportunity to test drive an autonomous vehicle

Why I love fertilizer

Why go 30 feet under Brussels? To learn how sewers shape our world, especially on #WorldToiletDay!

Podcast Outtake | The great apple debate

Innovations in polio mapping

Melinda Gates talks with teens about time poverty

Meet Vaclav Smil

Bill Gates: The end game against polio

America's future: Competitiveness

My trip to India

I always learn a lot from Vaclav Smil. His book Invention and Innovation is another must-read.

Bill's Retrospective with Vinod Khosla: Improving Lives with Innovation

Kangaroo mother care

Solving for Zero: Concrete Innovators of Ecocem

Q&A with Students at Stanford University Part 8

Good news about global development and aid

Ariel Bissett & Bill Gates l Toronto l How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Book Tour

“People are weird about their brains” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

5 books to read this summer

“People have truly outrageous stories about caregiving”| Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

An energy briefing with Daniel Yergin: Opportunities for developing countries

Eradicating Smallpox

“Early on in math, I was kind of lazy” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Meeting students where they are

How to make a pandemic prevention system

Bill Gates with Steven Pinker: Was World War II the deadliest war?

City Colleges of Chicago Chancellor Cheryl Hyman

Hi Reddit. I answered three questions about myths ahead of my AMA.

“The ultimate challenge might be a steak” | Unconfuse Me with Bill Gates

Progress on Millennium Development Goal 4

Limbitless Solutions

How CRISPR could save lives and end diseases

Microsoft CEO Summit: Innovation in Education Part 4

The grand challenges of climate change

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates discuss the economic crisis

Looking for a scare today?

Bill Gates’s Heroes in the Field: Dr. Raj Panjabi

A conversation with Bill Gates: GMOs

Young Africa: Tenaw Muluye

ARPA-E: A Good Beginning for U.S. Energy Innovation Part 4

Dispelling vaccine hesitancy in rural India

Solving for Zero: Paul Edwards of Stanford

The deadliest animal in the world

What happens when you turn on a light?

Bill Gates ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Climate and the developing world

5 of my all-time favorite books

Thoughts on capitalism and philanthropy

Defeating Dengue