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When Bill Gates dropped out of college to co-found Microsoft, he wasn't thinking about becoming a billionaire or running a company that's now valued at more than $3 trillion. Gates, then 20 years old, had a much more "boring" definition of success, he tells CNBC Make It: "Back then, it was just: Is my code really good? Does it work? And can this company show the world that these microcomputers are big?" At the time, in 1976, computer obsessives like Gates and co-founder Paul Allen were considered "hobbyists" — yet they fervently believed that a technological revolution was imminent. "It was the magic of software. And I was willing to focus my life, in my 20s, just on software, just on the one job," says Gates.

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Long Before Divorce, Bill Gates Had Reputation for Questionable Behavior

Melinda French Gates voiced concerns about her husband’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and a harassment claim against his money manager. He also had an affair with an employee.

Microsoft board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate. His spokeswoman said the matter was unrelated to his decision to resign.



BREAKING: Microsoft directors started a probe into Bill Gates's alleged involvement with a female employee that was deemed inappropriate — and decided that the billionaire had to step down from the board last year.


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Microsoft Board Had Gates Investigated for Relationship
The Wall Street Journal reported the news.

Bill and Melinda Gates, committed philanthropists；走出比爾·蓋茲 的陰影：Gates' marital split

微軟聯合創辦人比爾·蓋茨和結婚27年的妻子梅琳達·蓋茨宣布離婚，並且將繼續在兩人共同創辦的慈善基金會中一起工作。

比爾·蓋茨是世界上第四富有的人，據《福布斯》（Forbes）估計，他的淨資產為1,305億美元。梅琳達·蓋茨曾在微軟任職，於1994年與比爾結婚，一直是全球健康與性別平等的倡導者。

Gates' marital split follows Melinda's long journey away from Bill's shadow https://reut.rs/33bOusj


BBC World Service

"This is not some small family foundation that is going to fall apart because a marriage has fallen apart."
David Callahan of the Inside Philanthropy News website says Bill and Melinda Gates built their foundation from the ground up together - and will remain committed to its work.



BBC.CO.UK
BBC World Service - Newsday, Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce after 27 years
So what will their separation mean for the work of their joint charitable foundation?


Bill Gates has gone from face of Microsoft to one of the world’s most committed philanthropists. In an interview with NHK, he spoke about poverty and health problems in Africa, and how the private sector can help.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/…/nhknew…/backstories/interbillgates/


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Interview with Bill Gates: "I am an impatient optimist" - NHK NEWSLINE - News - NHK WORLD

比爾·蓋茲：這是我迄今最好的投資






2013年6月，一名護士在印度一個農村診所準備一支五合一疫苗，它能預防白喉、破傷風、百日咳、乙型肝炎和B型流感嗜血桿菌。 圖片來源：GAVI/2013/MANPREET ROMANA





在科技行業，成功和失敗都是常事，而大多數都是失敗的。我總假定，我在科技領域的投資裡，10%會成功——而且是大獲成功，剩下的90%則會失敗。
當我離開微軟，轉而在慈善領域開啓我的第二段職業生涯時，並不覺得成功率會有多大變化。如今，我投資於減少貧困和疾病的新方法。我發現，發現一種新疫苗就像發現下一個科技行業的獨角獸一樣困難。（事實證明，發現疫苗難得多。）
然而，投資保健領域20年之後，一種投資方式令我大為訝異——因為它不同於投資新疫苗或新科技，成功率居然非常高。這就是全球衛生行業從業者所謂的「籌資與送達」。數十年前，這些投資確定性不高，如今卻總有豐厚的回報。
在人類與疾病的鬥爭中，發現新藥等重大突破是很引人矚目的，這是理所當然的。青黴素和麻疹疫苗等新發明拯救了數億人的生命。
然而，僅僅研發有效的新藥是不夠的。我們必須讓這些藥從實驗室去到醫院、診所和需要它們的家庭。藥並不會自己行走。購買醫療用品，再送去需要它們的地方，聽起來似乎容易，甚至有些無聊，但事實並非如此。在發展中國家，拯救生命往往意味著把藥品運送到偏遠山村和戰區。
20年來，我和妻子梅琳達投入了100億美元，支持從事這項艱巨工作的組織，其中規模較大的三家是：Gavi，即全球疫苗和免疫聯盟，抗艾滋病、結核和瘧疾全球基金以及全球根除脊髓灰質炎行動組。每家機構都非常成功，然而大多數人並不知道它們，也不了解它們的工作。


Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates unveiled a futuristic toilet in Beijing that doesn’t need water or sewers and uses chemicals to turn human waste into fertilizer. https://reut.rs/2QolN3p

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Bill Gates, on China trip, lauds free trade - and futuristic toilets


罐裝糞便上講台比爾蓋茨談馬桶
一個人把排泄物裝罐帶上台演講可能蠻噁心，但是比爾·蓋茨做起來就是成功的行銷話題。他說，希望各國更重視衛生問題，馬桶需要革命。








(德國之聲) 微軟創辦人、億萬富翁暨慈善家比爾·蓋茨(Bill Gates) 拿出一罐深色物體，放在他身旁的講台上。“你可能正在猜這是什麼。沒錯，這是人類的排泄物。”
週二(11月6日)，他在北京出席未來廁所論壇時說：“這小小一罐糞便，就含有200兆個輪狀病毒、200億個志賀氏菌、10萬個寄生蟲卵。 ”他說，每年至少有55個五歲以下的孩童死於這些病毒引發的疾病。“在沒有公共衛生系統的社會，這些都是孩子們出外玩耍的時後，隨時可以接觸得到的。這也是為什麼，馬桶已經不再只是生活品質的問題，而是疾病、營養不良、攸關生死的問題。”


這種馬桶不需要連接下水道，在馬桶內就可以獨立分解排泄物
比爾蓋茨與妻子共同創辦的比爾梅琳達蓋茨基金會從2011年起投資2億美金，刺激衛生設施的相關研究與發展。今年，他們更在北京舉辦為期三日的“未來廁所論壇”，邀請二十多家公司和學術機構與會，展示創新的廁所科技，包括不使用下水道的馬桶、小型可發電污水處理設備(Omni Processor )。
聯合國兒童基金會估計，全世界有45億人沒有安全可靠的公共衛生系統，這也導致每年有48萬名五歲以下的孩童死於痢疾，主要在南亞和薩哈拉非洲。根據劍橋經濟學院與日本馬桶製造商儷住(Lixil) 做的研究報告，光是2015年，人類因為沒有公共衛生系統而付出的成本高達2230億美元。
羅法/李芊(美聯社、法新社)


在中國，習近平曾號召進行「廁所革命」。他曾說，用上衛生的廁所，是「新農村建設」的重要目標之一。
但是中國的廁所革命走過了頭。為了贏得北京的好感，地方官員用各種新奇的公廁彼此較量，有很多廁所配備了平板電視、無線網絡、帶面部識別功能的廁所衛生紙分發器。


IEEE


This week we’re recognizing inventor, philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates. Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft in 1975, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation



This year's Annual Letter from Bill Gates and Melinda Gates is about the stunning gains the poorest people in the world have made over the last 25 years.
It's not a story that gets told very often, but we think it is a story that matters. Investing in the lives of other people pays dividends.




Our 2017 Annual Letter | Bill & Melinda Gates
What has gone well, what we’ve learned, and what we hope for in the future.

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在The Economist p聽Bill Gates受訪
Bill Gates

Over the years, I’ve had the chance to speak with thousands of students at campuses across the country. Their youthful energy, passion, and curiosity are infectious and help fuel my optimism about our world.
Columbia University in the City of New York 和 Bill Gates 都分享了 1 條連結。



A Conversation about Friendship, Failure, and the Future
Bill Gates was in New York with Warren Buffett at Columbia University to…


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