Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
Bill i Melinda Gates: Zašto je dijeljenje našeg bogatstva bila stvar koja nam je pričinila najviše zadovoljstva
Melinda French Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she puts into practice the idea that every life has equal value. Full bioBill Gates - Philanthropist
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation. Full bio
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interview with a difference.
s razlikom.
is worth a thousand words,
tisuću riječi
naočalama, ha?
smo išli vidjeti
toliko dugo
zapravo, bili su ljudi,
i kako bi to mogli učiniti?
(Smijeh)
pričali smo o najsiromašnijima,
da će doći
so many kids around the world,
puno djece diljem svijeta,
kada putujem
i pričati sa ženama,
lots of countries in Africa,
što sam više putovala,
about childhood vaccines,
o cjepivu u djetinjstvu
getting called Depo-Provera,
talk to global health experts,
zdravstvenim stručnjacima
my husband knowing it,
here in the United States,
women in the United States
svake godine.
dva milijuna djece godišnje.
we can perform a miracle.
napravit ćemo čudo.
u našem životnom vijeku.
ja mislim,
raditi sa suprugom.
we're traveling separately,
collaborative relationship.
zasnovanu na suradnji.
prešao iz Microsofta
globalnim problemima,
meni je to bilo uzbudljivo.
months after you were there.
što si bio tamo.
MG: Oh, you mean, the employees didn't go away.
MG: O, ti misliš, ma nisu zaposlenici otišli.
Microsoft rastao,
though? Can you? (Laughter)
(Smijeh)
on these global statistics."
ovih globalnih statistika."
i vidim da li se poklapaju,
da shvati
te kapi za dječju paralizu
i tako dalje,
koji neuspjeh
da dođemo do toga,
kad smo stigli.
o kojima možete pričati?
spreman za fakultet.
ja mislim,
nego smo došli.
ona je apsolutno planirala
and her mother would do,
i njena majka činili,
ali je sramežljiva.
going to pay for her education.
čega će biti uzbuđeni.
privacy carefully for obvious reasons.
temeljeno na odgovornosti,
to give back to the world.
countries around the world —
u svijetu --
da pokažemo ovu sliku,
fondaciji
before we got married,
smo stupili u brak,
and a short version of that.
i kratka verzija te priče.
who is doing something well,
nešto radi dobro,
Ali mi smo bili šokirani.
BG: We had never expected it,
BG: Nismo to nikad očekivali,
može učiniti dramatično.
velikodušnosti.
odličnih ideja.
working on and discovering
change the education system
obrazovni sustav
MG: Thank you.
MG: Hvala.
MG: Thank you very much.
MG: Hvala vam puno.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Melinda Gates - PhilanthropistMelinda French Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she puts into practice the idea that every life has equal value.
Why you should listen
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. As co-chair, Melinda French Gates helps shape and approve strategies, review results, advocate for foundation issues and set the overall direction. In developing countries, the foundation focuses on improving people's health with vaccines and other life-saving tools and giving them a chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to dramatically improve education so that all young people have the opportunity to reach their full potential. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Jeff Raikes and co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill Gates, Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.
In recent years, Melinda French Gates has become a vocal advocate for access to contraception, advancing the idea that empowering women to decide whether and when to have children can have transformational effects on societies. In 2012, Gates spearheaded the London Summit on Family Planning, with the goal of delivering contraceptives to 120 million women in developing countries by 2020. When asked why she got involved in this issue, Gates said, "We knew that 210 million women were saying they wanted access to the contraceptives we have here in the United States and we weren't providing them because of political controversy in our country. To me, that was just a crime. I kept looking around trying to find the person to get this back on the global stage. I realized I just had to do it."
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Bill Gates - Philanthropist
A passionate techie and a shrewd businessman, Bill Gates changed the world while leading Microsoft to dizzying success. Now he's doing it again with his own style of philanthropy and passion for innovation.
Why you should listen
Bill Gates is the founder and former CEO of Microsoft. A geek icon, tech visionary and business trailblazer, Gates' leadership -- fueled by his long-held dream that millions might realize their potential through great software -- made Microsoft a personal computing powerhouse and a trendsetter in the Internet dawn. Whether you're a suit, chef, quant, artist, media maven, nurse or gamer, you've probably used a Microsoft product today.
In summer of 2008, Gates left his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus on philanthropy. Holding that all lives have equal value (no matter where they're being lived), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has now donated staggering sums to HIV/AIDS programs, libraries, agriculture research and disaster relief -- and offered vital guidance and creative funding to programs in global health and education. Gates believes his tech-centric strategy for giving will prove the killer app of planet Earth's next big upgrade.
Read a collection of Bill and Melinda Gates' annual letters, where they take stock of the Gates Foundation and the world. And follow his ongoing thinking on his personal website, The Gates Notes. His new paper, "The Next Epidemic," is published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
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