Microsoft founder Bill Gates recapped during an interview this week his recent dinner with President-elect Donald Trump ahead of the inauguration next week.
Gates is just the latest major tech figure to have dined with the president-elect, joining the ranks of others like Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and more.
Gates told The Wall Street Journal that he dined with Trump two weeks ago and had a “long and actually quite intriguing dinner with him.”
Gates said that Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Susie Wiles, was the only other person from Trump’s side to join him during the dinner.
He said that they talked about a “wide-ranging” number of topics, including Gates’ work with vaccines.
“He, in the Covid days, accelerated the vaccine innovation,” Gates said. “So I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got, I…
