“If you could change the price of one thing to lift up the lives of the world’s poorest people, it would be the price of energy.” – Bill Gates [youtube]https://youtu.be/MzDE8rTRqY4[/youtube] As the Climate Conference gets underway in Paris, Bill Gates publishes this video to explain the rationale for the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, formed with other […]
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Bill Gates & Jeff Bezos Take ALS Ice Bucket Challenge To New Levels
Over the past few days leaders in technology and celebrities have been pouring buckets of ice water over themselves to raise awareness for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). So Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg did it a couple of days ago: and threw down the gauntlet to Bill Gates. Gates really took the challenge seriously and designed a […]
Bill and Melinda Gates on Why Philanthropy Works [Video]
Earlier this year Bill Gates posted his annual letter from the Gates Foundation, with some very encouraging data on the impact of philanthropy and development aid on poverty and quality of life. Last month, he and his wife Melinda took part in an interview with Chris Anderson on stage at TED. They talked about the […]
Bill Gates and the Father of Invention
Bill Gates blogs the foreword he has written to a new book on Thomas Edison. He argues that Edison’s legacy is not his inventions, but his contribution to the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. He sets out the ways in which Edison industrialised invention: building on the work of others; “inventing things that people wanted”; […]