Bill Gates On MTV "The Notorious B.G."

Video: Bill Gates on MTV

"The Notorious B.G." is a special that features the first MTV forum with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and MTV News correspondent Gideon Yago discussing the road ahead with a diverse group of approximately 80 tech-savvy 16- to 24-year-olds.

NEW YORK (May 2005) -- MTV: Music Television and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced a new joint effort aimed at raising young people’s awareness of the importance of graduating from high school ready for college. Also announced today is the first element of this joint effort, a new poll conducted by CBS News on behalf of MTV, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Governors Association (NGA). The poll reveals a disheartening disconnect between the ambitions young people have to go to college, and the reality that most never make it—what is being dubbed “The Ambition Gap.” (Read More)