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Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Melinda Gates (Gates Foundation) - Pursue Passions with a Vengeance

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Journey, Startups, Education, Stanford, Culture, Strategy, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship, Business, Life Lessons, Thought Leadership, Creativity, Etl, Challenges, Leadership, Innovation, Founders

4.4739 Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2012

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Through stories of creating meaningful impact around the world, Melinda Gates explains how the Gates Foundation seeks to solve global challenges through innovation in the areas of health and education. Gates also shares life experiences and insights gained on working with others, pursuing life passions, and being committed to volunteerism.

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0:00.0

You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

0:10.0

You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.

0:16.0

Melinda received a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke University

0:22.6

in 1986 and a master's in business administration from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in

0:28.6

1987. After joining Microsoft in 1987, she distinguished herself in business as a leader in the development of many of Microsoft's multimedia products. In 1996, Melinda retired from her position as Microsoft's general manager of information products.

0:44.3

Since then, she has directed her energy toward the nonprofit world.

0:48.3

Please give a great Stanford welcome for Melinda Gates.

0:53.3

Thank you. A great Stanford welcome for Melinda Gates. So, as how you said, first of all, it's great to be here today.

1:07.0

Great to see so many of you here.

1:09.0

I've never seen such an attentive group three minutes before a class starts. So I certainly wasn't quite like that in college.

1:14.6

You know, as Heidi said, and you probably know, that the mission of our foundation, a belief,

1:21.6

a deep-seated belief that Bill and I share in common, is that all lives have equal value. And when we say

1:30.3

all lives, we mean all lives. That doesn't matter whether they lived in Boston or Bangladesh

1:36.3

or Burundi. We think that all lives have value. But we don't think that everybody has the same

1:43.3

chance to grow up and live a healthy life. And yet we think they ought to have that. And we think But we don't think that everybody has the same chance

1:44.1

to grow up and live a healthy life.

1:46.0

And yet we think they ought to have that.

1:47.8

And we think there's something that our foundation

1:50.6

can do about that in partnership with a whole host

1:54.4

of partners around the world.

1:56.7

So when I talk today about the foundation,

1:59.6

I want you to know that there's not a single

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