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

In a wide-ranging interview, Bill Gates spoke to WSJ about a recent meeting with Donald Trump, Elon Musk’s DOGE, U.S.-China relations and his upcoming book, “Source Code,” in which he reveals new details about his childhood.

Larry Fink was also a member of the management committee and a managing director of The First Boston Corporation.

Elon Musk had sharp words for a private-sector partnership touted this week by the Trump administration to hasten the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk said of two of the participants in the $500 billion initiative, OpenAI and SoftBank, on his social media site X.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, who is worth $160 billion, has revealed the details of his three-hour dinner with President-elect Donald Trump. Gates told The Wall Street Journal that the “wide-ranging” conversation,

The guest list includes some of America’s most influential tech billionaires and politicians as well as some foreign leaders and celebrities who have embraced Trump.

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang have contributed to a staggering combined net worth of $10 trillion.

Among the guests at Donald Trump's second inauguration in Washington, D.C. today were three billionaire tech CEOs: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg. They were also joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

Bill Gates recently met Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss global health issues, expecting Elon Musk to join but he did not attend. The meeting focused on health innovations and Trump's interest in continuing support for health research.

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.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump is ready to bypass Congress with orders on the border, tariffs, and other agenda items. In a meeting with Senate Republicans that lasted two hours, Trump said he had already prepared about 100 executive orders that push the limits of presidential authority.

Kimbal Musk has co-founded Zip2 Corporation, an early inventor of online maps, which was acquired by Compaq and later merged into Yahoo Maps in 1999.