American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.
Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.
The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.
Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints.
Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.
When I was in my 40s, Microsoft was my primary activity.