Anand Mahindra shares his photo of meeting with Bill Gates in India and reveals getting a free autographed copy of Microsoft co-founder’s book

Anand Mahindra shared his recent photo, where he was standing along with Bill Gates. He said in the post, that there was some profit involved in this meeting and that was receiving an autographed copy of Gates’s book.

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Anand Mahindra shared a photo where he was standing along with Bill Gates on Twitter. Mahindra talked about his meeting with Gates, who arrived in India recently. He began the post by expressing happiness over seeing and meeting Gates again. Mahindra further said that their entire meeting did not have anything to do with the IT sector or any business pursuit.

Rather, it was about working out together to increase the social impact for their philanthropic goals. In the photo, Mahindra is seen holding a book ‘How To Avoid A Climate Disaster’ authored by Bill Gates. In another picture in the post, the autographed page of Bill Gates’s book was shown.

Along with the autograph, Gates referred to Mahindra as his classmate and gave his best wishes. Many netizens reacted seeing the autograph, where Mahindra has been referred to as the classmate of Gates. Netizens commented in amazement in the comments section about Mahindra and Bill Gates being classmates.


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Mahindra had previously revealed in a tweet in December 2019, that he and Bill Gates were classmates at Harvard in 1973, when Gates dropped out of college to work solely on his company, while Mahindra completed his studies from there.

FAQs:

  1. What are the recent books of Bill Gates?
    Bill Gates announced his recent book ‘How To Prevent The Next Pandemic’ in 2022. Before this, Gates had authored ‘How To Avoid A Climate Disaster’ in 2021.
  2. What did Anand Mahindra do from Harvard University?
    Mahindra completed his study in Film Making and Architecture from Harvard University in 1977.
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