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Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

Dr. Priscilla Chan's Ambitious Plan to Change the World

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6538 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

*EXCLUSIVE* Dr. Priscilla Chan co-founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with her husband Mark Zuckerberg. Their goal is to advance human potential and promote equal opportunity while curing, preventing or managing all diseases by the end of the century. She opens up about her organization's mission, how she has lived the American Dream as a child of immigrants from Vietnam and calls it a "miracle" that she is here today. She also explains why she wants to take luck out of the equation for all children. Produced by Julian Cummings and Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

In this episode of Boss Files, you don't love the spotlight.

0:03.0

I don't love the spotlight.

0:05.0

I'm here because people told me it'd be good for CZI.

0:09.0

No, I've ever been that candid to be in an interview.

0:14.0

Dr. Priscilla Chan, you may not know her name, but we think you should.

0:19.0

At just 33 years old, she's leading what may just turn out

0:22.8

to be the biggest change agent in Silicon Valley, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. CZI's goals

0:29.8

are anything but modest, advancing human potential and promoting equal opportunity, while curing,

0:36.5

preventing or managing all disease by the end of the century.

0:40.3

We are about building an aspirational future that everyone's excited about.

0:45.3

Everyone ranging from the most fortunate kid to the kids that I try to serve and continue to try to serve and the clinic are at the school.

0:57.0

We want that to be a future that is incredible.

1:00.0

So we're building that.

1:02.0

But we have to be cognizant about how we make sure that the opportunity to access that is equal.

1:07.0

Chan is the wife of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, but her profile is rising

1:11.7

and not because of whom she's married to. And the fact that she's sitting here today, a Palo Alto

1:18.0

valedictorian, pediatrician, entrepreneur, billionaire, and mother of two is in her words a miracle.

1:26.5

She was born to refugee parents in low-income housing in Quincy, Massachusetts.

1:31.5

She landed at Harvard on a full scholarship.

1:33.9

And the rest, as they say, is history.

1:36.5

Here's my conversation with Dr. Priscilla Chan.

1:39.8

So let's begin with this.

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