Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.5 • 11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Melinda Gates is the co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the United States. With more than $40 billion in assets, the Gates Foundation works on a dizzying array of issues, from eradicating polio to feeding the world to treating HIV to stopping climate change to reforming the US education system. Gates has also been working, in recent years, on increasing diversity in the technology industry. “If you [only] have products created by white guys in their 20s, you’re gonna miss the mark,” she says. I sat down with Gates at South by Southwest for an interview that covered a lot of ground. We talked, among other things, about bioterrorism, comic sans, climate change, the culture of Silicon Valley, the Damore memo about gender and technology, the future of food, the problems money can and can’t solve, what makes America culturally distinct, and more. Books: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Nechets, the global private aviation leader, is known for personalizing every detail of your travels.
0:06.6	Because Nechets standard, it's not just to meet their definition of perfection.
0:10.6	It's to exceed yours.
0:12.4	Discover more at netchets.com
0:15.4	First, sweet tarts dare to combine sweet and tart.
0:19.4	But they didn't stop there.
0:21.1	Now they've combined soft and bouncy to bring you new sweet tarts, gummies, fruity splits.
0:27.5	A uniquely delicious dual-sided gummy with one side that's sweet,
0:32.0	and the other side that's tart, but entirely smooth and squishy.
0:37.0	A powerfully perfect combo.
0:39.5	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:43.4	Villadoi often have this kind of fun debate like,
0:46.0	if you were entering any field now and you had your choice of going into any field,
0:49.5	what field would you go in?
0:51.0	And he and I both would go into the cross between biology and computer science.
0:57.5	Hello, welcome to Asher Klein show on the box media podcast network.
1:03.0	This is an episode recorded live at South by Southwest in Austin.
1:07.0	My guest is Melinda Gates.
1:08.6	You have probably heard of her from such foundations as the Gates Foundation,
1:13.0	which is the largest foundation in the United States.
1:15.0	I have more than 40 billion in assets.
1:17.0	They've done work on the Internet.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.