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By deploying capital and talent, guided by the vision that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has achieved some incredible successes. Over 500 million children have been…
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In these exclusive interviews, we speak to Jeff Raikes (Founder, Raikes Foundation and former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Eli Broad (Founder of the Broad Foundations), Sir Ratan Tata…
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The roots of resistance to new technologies, why such resistance is not always futile and how 600 years of economic history show how the balance of winners and losers shapes technological controversies
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In these exclusive interviews, we speak to Dr. Julio Frenk (Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, and former Minister of Health of Mexico), Sir Richard Thompson (President of the Royal…
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In this interview, we speak to Sir Richard Feachem, who is Professor of Global Health at both the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of…
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The venture capital industry exists to get capital in the hands of deserving entrepreneurs, but the data tells us that venture capitalists often have only a narrow definition of what 'deserving' means—and it often corresponds to being white and male.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
I don't think there is anything about putting your country first that requires you to turn your back on the rest of the world. If anything, the opposite is true.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
We can't solve problems if we don't understand them.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
We like to think of data as being objective, but the answers we get are often shaped by the questions we ask. When those questions are biased, the data is, too.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
In rich countries, 'innovation' often means finding a better way of doing things. But in developing countries, it can mean finding a way to do things at all.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
If technology is just for the privileged few, then it will concentrate power in the hands of those who already have it.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
I don't think there is anything about putting your country first that requires you to turn your back on the rest of the world. If anything, the opposite is true.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
We like to think of data as being objective, but the answers we get are often shaped by the questions we ask. When those questions are biased, the data is, too.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
It's amazing how little data the world has about women and girls. There are even gender gaps in the data we use to measure gender gaps.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
I believe that if we want technological innovation to live up to its potential, we have to ensure that everyone has access to it. If technology is just for the privileged few, then it will concentrate power in the hands of those who already have it.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
In rich countries, 'innovation' often means finding a better way of doing things. But in developing countries, it can mean finding a way to do things at all.
— Melinda GatesCo-Founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Health Advocate
the most important thing is to commit your resources, whether it's money or time, to a cause that you're passionate about, whether that is a local school, supporting an environmental project, or helping poor kids in Africa
— Jeff RaikesFormer Microsoft executive and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation president