Money and Finance
- Walter Isaacson On Bill Gates At Harvard
Walter Isaacson ’74, a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Apple’s Steve Jobs and others, is writing a book about the great inventors of the digital era. He shared this section on the Harvard undergraduate years of Bill Gates ’77,...
- Bill Gates Quote From Charlie Rose Interview (or, How The World's Best Companies Are Built By Fanatics)
My shortened transcription of a part of their conversation as I watched the interview. Any errors are mine. Charlie Rose: Did you have what you now have (this fascination and love for science)...for a while? Was this something that was in you? As a kid,...
- Melinda Gates And Nick Kristof Answer Questions
Ms. Gates, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently returned from a three-day trip to Bangladesh. She, along with Nick, agreed to answer readers’ questions about development issues focusing on that part of the world. Here is the first installment...
- Wsj Interviews Bill Gates: Was The $5 Billion Worth It?
Thanks to Will for passing this along. A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—and regrets. 'It's hard to improve public education—that's clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if you're...
- Bill Gates And Warren Buffett Discuss "creative Capitalism"
This is the transcript of a discussion between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett about Bill’s concept of “creative capitalism.” The discussion, over lunch at the Gates residence in Medina, Washington, took place on May 15, 2008. Also at the table were...
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Bill Gates, Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
Link to TED video: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates—then engaged—took a walk on a beach in Zanzibar, and made a bold decision on how they would make sure that their wealth from Microsoft went back into society. In a conversation with Chris Anderson, the couple talks about their work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as about their marriage, their children, their failures and the satisfaction of giving most of their wealth away.
- Walter Isaacson On Bill Gates At Harvard
Walter Isaacson ’74, a member of the Board of Overseers and biographer of Apple’s Steve Jobs and others, is writing a book about the great inventors of the digital era. He shared this section on the Harvard undergraduate years of Bill Gates ’77,...
- Bill Gates Quote From Charlie Rose Interview (or, How The World's Best Companies Are Built By Fanatics)
My shortened transcription of a part of their conversation as I watched the interview. Any errors are mine. Charlie Rose: Did you have what you now have (this fascination and love for science)...for a while? Was this something that was in you? As a kid,...
- Melinda Gates And Nick Kristof Answer Questions
Ms. Gates, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently returned from a three-day trip to Bangladesh. She, along with Nick, agreed to answer readers’ questions about development issues focusing on that part of the world. Here is the first installment...
- Wsj Interviews Bill Gates: Was The $5 Billion Worth It?
Thanks to Will for passing this along. A decade into his record-breaking education philanthropy, Bill Gates talks teachers, charters—and regrets. 'It's hard to improve public education—that's clear. As Warren Buffett would say, if you're...
- Bill Gates And Warren Buffett Discuss "creative Capitalism"
This is the transcript of a discussion between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett about Bill’s concept of “creative capitalism.” The discussion, over lunch at the Gates residence in Medina, Washington, took place on May 15, 2008. Also at the table were...