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.”

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.

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

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.”

The billionaire spoke with The Wall Street Journal ahead of his coming book, “Source Code.”

Many influential business leaders have been attempting to catch Trump’s ear before he returns to office. It was revealed earlier Friday that Musk is set to speak at Trump’s pre-inauguration rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, alongside Hulk Hogan and Dana White.

Donald Trump and Bill Gates' conversation touched on various topics, including HIV, polio, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

The tech billionaire and global health innovator says Trump "showed a lot of interest in the issues that I brought up."

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.

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