Bill Gates
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Bill Gates reads as The Visionary because his entire arc is one long conviction-led bet on futures others could not yet see. He imagined a personal computer on every desk before the industry believed it, then redirected his legacy toward eradicating diseases the world had accepted as permanent. The Gates Foundation's work on polio, malaria, and global health equity carries the same imaginative boldness that built Microsoft. He leads by pointing at the horizon.
“It's a problem that fits where I see my value — looking at something through the lens of innovation, not just the R&D part, but the creation of products and the deployment of products.”
“Breakthrough Energy has gotten a lot of co-investors. Not only have they been able to invest, but we've gotten other investors — and they only invest in companies with a chance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by half a percent each.”
“We have two problems: people who deny climate and people who think it's easy to solve. We need to help educate both of those groups.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Bill Gates”
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