American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy.
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear.
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.
By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.