Bill Gates and Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel discuss the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s ambitious plans to improve health in poor countries, build better toilets, gather better data about women, and rethink taxes on the wealthy.
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Sep 1
What the AI overlords get wrong about being alive
Elizabeth Lopatto recently wrote about Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto in her piece, "Mark Zuckerberg doesn't understand how to live." Today, she joins guest host David Imel and senior wearables reviewer Victoria Song for a freewheeling discussion about what happens whe ... Show More
40m 53s
Aug 31
Can Fairphone survive the US market
Skyrocketing RAM prices put a spotlight on product longevity and repairability, which makes this a particularly apt time for Fairphone to launch its first smartphone sold directly in the United States. Today, David Imel talks to CEO Raymond van Eck about the Fairphone 6+, the com ... Show More
25m 44s
Mar 2023
Bill Gates on Ukraine’s ‘shock to the system’
<p>The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist talks to Gideon about his efforts to keep global development goals alive amid rising geopolitical tensions. They discuss shrinking aid budgets, climate, technology, China-US tensions and whether Gates remains an optimist about the fu ... Show More
27m 51s
May 2019
Mosquitos, malaria and education | Bill Gates
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them. (And see the Q&A on the TED Blog.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr ... Show More
20m 3s
Feb 2016
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read
Bill Gates is one of those people for whom "needs no introduction" is actually true. The polymathic Microsoft founder now leads the world's largest and most important private foundation, and he's predicting that we're on the cusp of the energy breakthrough that's going to save th ... Show More
43m 4s
Nov 2023
Bill Gates Doesn’t Need To Track You
<p>Trevor is joined by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s foremost philanthropists. The two talk about how he and Paul Allen schemed to get computer time as teens, the dangers AI may play in our future, what it’s like to be at the center of so many con ... Show More
44m 28s