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questions today. I want to start by very, very briefly discussing your background. I know, of course, you've had a very long and very, very successful career, but can you provide the Committee with a very brief summary of your career up until now? A Yeah. I was born in 1955. I went to high school in Seattle, graduated. I attended Harvard College for a few years, but did not complete a degree. I founded Microsoft in 1975. I stayed as CEO of Microsoft through the year 2000. I stayed as chief technical adviser through 2008. So 2008 ended my full-time work at Microsoft. Overlapping that, I created the Gates Foundation in the year 2000, so I gave a substantial gift of Microsoft stock in the year 2000. And so between 2000 and 2008, I was full-time Microsoft, part-time Gates Foundation. 2008, I ceased my full-time work at Microsoft and began full time as chairman of the Gates Foundation. And since 2008 that's been my primary effort. I still give some advice to Microsoft. I have some energy innovation work under the term Breakthrough Energy, but my full-time work is the work of the Gates Foundation, which involves areas like education, global health, agriculture, financial services, and so that's my primary work today. I turned 70 last year. Q Thank you. And to be clear, do you hold any official positions at any of your other -- do you currently hold any positions at any of your other ventures besides the Gates Foundation? A Yeah. I have some title with Breakthrough Energy. I'm not sure what that is. I have an entity called Gates Ventures that is my private office, and I have a group that manages investments on my behalf and the foundation trust's behalf called Cascade. So I think that that's all of my official roles. Q Thank you. And we'll get more, of course, into your interactions with Mr. Epstein a little bit later. But just to be clear for the record, your opening statement indicated that your relationship with him, your interactions with him occurred between 2011 and 2014 -- late 2014. Is that right? A That's right.