Arts and Letters Live is a literary and performing arts series at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) featuring award-winning authors and performers. I attended was a conversation between two entrepreneurs, Bill Gates was interviewed by Mark Cuban about Gates’ new book Source Code: My Beginnings. Cuban asked Gates about the less well-known aspects of his life, particularly his childhood. Gates revealed that he was entrepreneurial from a young age, earning enough money to buy houses in his youth, around my current age. They both discussed the challenges of growing up with many aspirations and dreams. I found their discussion about their early experiences in entrepreneurship particularly inspirational. Arts and Letters Live is a great series, appropriate for everyone who enjoys reading. I recommend ages 13 and up.

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen and is now chair of the Gates Foundation. He is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialize clean energy and other climates-friendly technologies, and TerraPower: a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies.

Dallas Museum of Arts series Arts & Letters Live is a literary and performing arts series featuring award-winning authors and performers of regional, national and international acclaim. This series is recognized for its creative multidisciplinary programming—combining literature with visual arts, music, and film—and for commissioning new work from musicians, dancers, and poets inspired by works of art in the Museum's collection and special exhibitions. The series is celebrating its 34rd season in 2025. The season runs through May, and this year there is at least one summer event planned. Become a sponsor and buy tickets on the website: shop.dma.org/arts-and-letters-live/.

Arts & Letters Live shows happen at the Dallas Museum of Art, McFarlin Auditorium and the Eisemann Center.

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