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Advice From Bill Gates And Bono On How To Be A Rock Star Philanthropist
Advice From Bill Gates And Bono On How To Be A Rock Star Philanthropist
Part 1 from the Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit 2013: Two of the planet’s most influential people explain how together they’re finding solutions to the world’s biggest problems.
Part 2: Bill Gates and Bono answer questions during their panel at the 2013 Forbes 400 Philanthropy Summit.
A Q&A Audience With Bill Gates
A Q&A Audience With Bill Gates
Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, joins ABC’s Q&A to face questions from the audience. He answers across a range of topics including global health, corporate tax evasion, robot warfare, philanthropy and social media.
Bill Gates Speech at Harvard University
Bill Gates Speech at Harvard University
Be inspired by Bill Gates – the most successful and the richest dropout in the world!
Managing a Family Business in Africa
Managing a Family Business in Africa
Part 1
According to the Small Enterprise Development Agency, family-owned businesses make up close to 50% of the economic growth of South Africa. Though only a few of the country’s iconic family companies have managed to remain in business over the decades. The trend is also relevant to the rest of the continent with the majority of SME’s operating as family-owned entities. How do you make sure that your family business retains its longevity across generations and are they the type of investments you should be looking at?
Part 2
Bloomberg Markets Magazine Interviews Tom Demark
Bloomberg Markets Magazine Interviews Tom Demark
Tom DeMark, founder and chief executive officer of Market Studies LLC, talks with Bloomberg‘s Kevin Thrash about indicators he’s developed to show turning points in financial markets. This story is featured in the December issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bill Gates: GDP growth isn’t everything
Bill Gates says slower growth GDP does not necessarily mean that we aren’t improving people’s lives around the world.
Bill Gates on Expertise: 10,000 Hours and a Lifetime of Fanaticism
Bill Gates responds to Malcolm Gladwell‘s theory that it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to master a skill. Apart from acknowledging luck, timing and an open mind, Gates suggests that a successful person survives many cycles of attrition to make it to 10,000 hours of experience. “You do have to be lucky enough, but also fanatical enough to keep going,” explains Gates.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates leads a conversation with his father Bill Gates Senior, titled “A Conversation with My Father,” in which the pair talk about parenting, philanthropy, commerce and citizenship.
Bill Gates Sr. was an attorney who co-founded his own firm and was on the board of Planned Parenthood. Since retiring from law in 1998, he has served as the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and as director for Costco Wholesale. He’s also the author of Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime as well as Wealth and Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes.
Bill Gates III is chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. In July 2008, Gates transitioned out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates continues to serve as Microsoft’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects.
