# Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done...

In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates—then engaged—took a walk on a beach in Zanzibar, and made a bold decision on how they would make sure that their wealth from Microsoft went back into society. In a conversation with Chris Anderson, the couple talks about their work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as about their marriage, their children, their failures and the satisfaction of giving most of their wealth away.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 25 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/BillGates_2014)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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