从微软到新冠疫苗!比尔·盖茨如何“拯救”世界?(附视频&解说稿)
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比尔·盖茨在全球富豪榜排名第二,已将全部身家捐给比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会。
盖茨21岁从哈佛辍学,与好友保罗·艾伦联合创立微软,在个人电脑软件市场掀起革命,成为操作系统市场的霸主,为人们工作带来巨大便利。
与此同时,盖茨将微软给他带来的财富用于慈善,用于改变、“拯救”世界。比尔及梅琳达·盖茨基金会目前是全球最大的慈善基金会,为全球发展和公共卫生项目投资超过400亿美元。
基金会最新的使命是研发新冠疫苗,目前已经投入数亿美元,这可能是盖茨需要面对的最重要的任务。
从微软到新冠疫苗 比尔·盖茨如何“拯救”世界?
In this video, you're going to see the future. Not everyone is trying to win
a popularity contest. Case in point, this guy. I don't think that popularity is
something he's interested in. He's interested in effectiveness. I've gotta give
it up.
His air time, so to speak, is only a tool to achieve what his greatest
aspiration is, which is to have a positive impact on the world. You should look
at, you know, what was your goal, how are you trying to uplift nutrition and
survival and literacy.
He is influential, A, because of his vast fortune and the
way he made it, by creating a new segment of the computer market. But also, that
he's since then, chosen to deploy the money he's made to try to completely alter
the landscape of world health.
This year his net worth reached as high as $120
billion. These two have donated more money to charitable causes than anyone
ever. He's a multidimensional individual. He has great depth in so many
different areas, I guess you'd call him a polymath. William Henry Gates the
third was born in Seattle Washington in 1955.
He was a terrible child, Bill
senior gave a whole interview to the Wall Street Journal about just how
difficult he was, how much trouble he gave his mother. You know, yelling,
screaming, tantrums, things like that. At the ripe age of 13, the problem child
wrote his first software program. A Tic Tac Toe game on the Teletype Model 33ASR
teleprinter.
Eight years later, he dropped out of Harvard to start a computer
software company with his best friend Paul Allen, called Microsoft. In
co-founding Microsoft, what Bill Gates and Paul Allen did was, essentially
create the personal computer software market.
That's since then been worth
hundreds of billions of dollars. This is Jeff Raikes, he's known Bill for quite
some time now. I was at Microsoft from 1981 to 2008 and Bill was completely
committed to the vision that we could help put a computer on every desk and in
every home, running great software.
And that's the impact that he wanted to have
and he was completely focused in on that. Now, such determination does require a
strong personality, and it's safe to say that his subordinates could probably
relate to his parents at that point. Well, he was a very tough manager, people
were, had these sort of terrifying Bill Gates reviews of their products and
features.
And if he didn't like what you said he would, you know, he was known
for responding with the words. Well that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
But the good news is, you won't hold the record for long. Seattle's Bill Gates,
with $4.2 billion, is the second richest person in the country.
What is this?
It's Microsoft Excel, now hold still, I'm about to perform a miracle. My
spreadsheet doesn't do that. Microsoft became such a juggernaut that the
following decade they were sued for being a monopoly. If you look at that point
in the year 2000, and Microsoft is in serious anti-trust trouble and the view of
Bill at that time was terrible.
And people viewed him as a sharp elbowed,
monopolist essentially. Not that he cared about what the world thought of him,
but it was around this time that Bill decided to start listening to his parents.
I do remember in the early days of Microsoft, his mother pressing young Bill to
get involved with the united way and philanthropy and Bill's response was you
know, Mom, I'm you know, I'm trying to build this company, I don't really have
time for that.
And I think over time, what he learned is, in the same way that
he could leverage his intellectual energy on behalf of Microsoft, he could do it
on behalf of philanthropy. While in the midst of this anti-trust suit, Bill and
his wife Melinda donated $16 billion worth of stock to charity in 1999.
The
following year he poured $5.1 billion in cash to create the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation. At this point I think people, many people, much more closely
associate him with programs that have saved lives and you know, increased
immunizations in the developing world. That's much more the popular view of Bill
at this point, that sort of philanthropist and not the monopolist so to speak.
So you can avoid lots of diseases if you've been properly vaccinated. Today, the
Foundation is the world's largest charity. It's fingerprint is on almost every
global health initiative of the last 20 years. And has spent over $40 billion on
global development and public health programs.
Yes, they deploy financial
resources but they also use their voice. The networks of influence and support
that they have. So in many ways, it represents one of the key concepts that we
learned on software, it's about leverage. What Bill wants, what Melinda wants,
with the Foundation is to be able to make those financial investments and
leverage them to have the greatest possible impact.
By using this approach to
philanthropy, the Foundation provided seed money to The Global Fund to fight
aids, tuberculosis and malaria. Their implementation of immunizations in the
developing world has contributed to a dramatic drop in the overall child
mortality rate since 1990. Bill also made it his personal mission to eradicate
polio from the planet, something he has come very close to achieving. Then of
course there's Bill's noblest pursuit of all. I wanna talk to you today about
toilets.
Many people would say, well why get involved in toilets and how does
that matter. But that, you know, actually kinda diving into that explains a bit
about how Bill thinks about things. If you want to reduce the disease burden,
you're gonna have to improve sanitation. If you're gonna improve sanitation,
you're gonna have to invent a new way to go about it, one that doesn't require
all of the water that we use today.
So it's a great example of how he thinks in
terms of the broader system and looks for technological innovations that can
really make a difference. This push to improve sanitation worldwide has led to
the invention of the Omniprocessor, a low cost human waste treatment plant with
a beta version currently in use in Dakar, Senegal.
I am very impressed with this
solution we're seeing here. And it generates electricity, it generates clean
water. In the area of climate change, Gates has embraced the often unpopular
solution of nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels. The energy has to
come from somewhere.
You're giving up all coal, all natural gas, all oil. It is
a good example of both, in the fact that he isn't concerned about public opinion
or popularity, but grounded in what he believes to be the data and the facts. A
Gates company called Terrapower was very close to building the world's first
nuclear reactor fueled by actual nuclear waste, in China.
But progress was
stopped in its tracks when Trump launched a trade war against China in 2018. No
sooner was this vision put on hold, than did Gates have a more urgent calling.
This is going to be era defining. And no one was in a better place to say, I
told you so. The most urgent invention in the world right now is a vaccine that
prevents you from getting COVID-19.
The fact that he has such depth across so
many areas makes him unique at being able to take on the current pandemic. He
has now spent 20 years learning about funding programs, talking to leading
researchers on things like viruses, things like vaccines. Some of the programs
in the Seattle area, including the Seattle flu study that caught some of the
first COVID cases here, are things that have been funded out of the Foundation.
So far, Gates has chipped in a total of $300 million and counting in the fight
against coronavirus. They're focused on detection, isolation and treatment of
the virus and finding a vaccine.
This chapter in Bill's life has yet to be
written, and could have the highest stakes he's had to face yet. His
intellectual intensity sometimes carries over to big expectations. But at the
end of the day, the person he's toughest on, is himself.
If he doesn't figure
out something that he thinks he should have figured out, he'll be disappointed
in himself. It drives him, it motivates him, it gives him a sense of urgency to
really make a difference. And I think that's one of his greatest attributes.
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