Melinda French Gates on Secrets: ‘Live a Truthful Life, Then You Don’t Have Any’ | EUROtoday

Take it from me: Spending an hour with Melinda French Gates will restore at the least an iota of your religion in humanity. The billionaire philanthropist, investor, and longtime advocate for ladies’s and ladies’ rights is the uncommon instance of an über-wealthy American who takes significantly the accountability that their wealth confers.

In Gates’ case, she’s now channeling a lot of that accountability—and billions of her personal {dollars}—into Pivotal Ventures, a collective of organizations targeted on advancing girls’s pursuits within the US and around the globe. Most just lately, Pivotal introduced $250 million in awards to girls’s well being organizations in 22 nations. Given the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on girls’s pursuits, and variety writ giant, in addition to the dystopian cuddle puddle going down between tech business leaders (Gates’ ex-husband, Bill, has been part of that shift) and President Trump, it felt like a very salient second to test in with Gates about, properly, all of it.

From her personal path by means of the masculine “debate club” of Big Tech to the billionaire boys who aren’t giving freely the large bucks, I discovered myself pleasantly stunned, and even a bit bit impressed, by Gates’ candor in discussing the very actual challenges of this specific second. So in case you checked the information and felt even barely infuriated this morning, preserve studying. It helps to be reminded that not all billionaires are created equal—and that a few of them are nonetheless pushing for extra equality total.