How Bill Gates spends $9 billion a year

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🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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To get a free copy of the Infectious Generosity book, visit ted.com/generosity.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is one of the top 10 richest people in the world. But since 2008, he has traded his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus full-time on his foundation's work to expand opportunity around the world. Chris interviews Bill about his philanthropy philosophy and digs into the opportunities and challenges that face one of the largest private charitable foundations in the world. The two also discuss The Giving Pledge, the movement Bill co-founded with Warren Buffet, which encourages wealthy individuals to commit the majority of their wealth to charitable causes within their lifetimes. Chris and Bill examine the importance of solving the world’s most pressing problems efficiently, talk about why meaningful change requires scale and compare notes on how to best encourage collective excitement about giving back.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	Hello,
0:06.0	everyone.
0:08.0	Hello everyone, Chris Anderson here.
0:14.8	Welcome to a brand new season of the TED interview.
0:19.1	This is where we dive into issues in much greater depth and as possible in a TED Talk.
0:25.6	And this whole season we're going to be diving into the idea of infectious generosity, the
0:32.1	ultimate idea we was spreading.
0:34.0	The cast of characters that I have connected with in producing this podcast series
0:39.0	collectively give us the playbook to show that acts of kindness and other forms of goodness can spread
0:46.2	virally across the internet more powerfully than the anger and divide that is currently framing our narrative.
0:54.0	I'm hoping that by now you've read or listened to my book,
1:00.0	Infectious Generosity, if not, the trailer that preceded this episode tells you exactly
1:06.6	how you can claim your free copy.
1:09.5	The podcast series is designed to mesh in with the book in a beautiful way.
1:13.0	But if you haven't read it yet, don't worry, what you're about to hear will still make perfect sense because our first guest is none other than Bill Gates.
1:23.0	Yep, the Bill Gates, the man who for years held the title of the world's richest person
1:28.8	and who would probably still be the world's richest person if he hadn't given away so much money, $60 billion and counting.
1:37.1	The conversation you're about to hear, I think is pretty remarkable.
1:40.9	You've probably heard Bill interviewed before, but this time it felt like we went deeper.
1:46.4	I really tried to push him on some of the issues I've often wondered about with him,
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