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Lisner Auditorium View map $51.55, all tickets include a copy of the book Source Code unless otherwise stated

730 21st Street NW, Washington DC 20052

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Join Bill Gates live, in conversation with Savannah Guthrie, for a discussion of Bill’s new memoir, Source Code

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 U.S. education.
  
Source Code is not about Microsoft or 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. Source Code will be released on February 4, 2025; you can read more about the book here.

Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is 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. He has three children.

Gates will be in conversation with Savannah Guthrie. Guthrie is the co-anchor of NBC News’ TODAY.  She also serves as NBC News’ chief legal correspondent and a primary anchor for the network’s election coverage. Guthrie has conducted a wide range of exclusive and headline-making interviews, from presidents and prime ministers to some of the most recognizable figures in the world, including former President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama, and President Donald Trump.

Guthrie’s work has been recognized with the Edward R. Murrow Award, as well as multiple News Emmys.  During her tenure as co-anchor, TODAY has won a Peabody, and twice won Emmys for Outstanding Morning Show. In 2022, Guthrie was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and she received a Gracie Award for On-Air News Talent.

In 2018, Guthrie was appointed ambassador for the Elizabeth Dole Foundation’s Hidden Heroes campaign alongside actor Tom Hanks. She also serves as an ambassador for Best Buddies International, an organization she has been involved with for more than nine years.

Guthrie is a New York Times bestselling author for her books “Mostly What God Does,” “Princesses Wear Pants” and the sequel “Princesses Save the World.” She is the executive producer of the Netflix show, “Princess Power,” based on the book series.

 

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