Sunday Pick: How Bill Gates spends $9 billion a year
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🗓️ 14 April 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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To get a free copy of the Infectious Generosity book, visit ted.com/generosity
Each Sunday, TED shares an episode of another podcast we think you'll love, handpicked for you… by us. Today: an episode from The TED Interview. Back for a new season, Head of TED Chris Anderson interviews amazing thinkers about the ultimate idea worth spreading: infectious generosity.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is one of the top ten 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 | Hey TED Talk's daily listeners, I'm Elise Hugh. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we have a special treat, an episode of another podcast from the Ted |
| 0:14.9 | audio collective hand-picked for you by us. The Ted interview is back for a |
| 0:19.8 | special season on an idea that can truly change the world. |
| 0:23.1 | Infectious generosity. |
| 0:25.6 | Inspired by his new book of the same name, |
| 0:27.4 | head of Ted, Chris Anderson returns as host |
| 0:30.0 | to chat with inspiring guests |
| 0:31.9 | about how small acts of thoughtfulness and kindness can |
| 0:34.4 | spread to change lives at a scale never experienced before. |
| 0:38.6 | You're listening to the first episode of the season where Chris talks with Bill Gates |
| 0:41.7 | about his philanthropy philosophy. |
| 0:44.7 | You can find the rest of the TED interview wherever you get your podcasts and if you want a free copy |
| 0:48.9 | of the book that inspired the podcast, check out Ted.com slash generosity. |
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