AllThingsD » facelessness http://allthingsd.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:49:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The Entire D6 Interview With the Gates Foundation's Melinda Gates (4 of 4) http://allthingsd.com/20080731/the-entire-d6-interview-with-the-gates-foundations-melinda-gates-4-of-4/ http://allthingsd.com/20080731/the-entire-d6-interview-with-the-gates-foundations-melinda-gates-4-of-4/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:00:16 +0000 Kara Swisher http://kara.allthingsd.com/?p=2460 We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know).

But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety over the next weeks in this column.

Here’s Part 4 of 4 of an interview Walt Mossberg did with the Gates Foundation’s Melinda Gates.

(I posted one video part of the discussion with Melinda Gates every day this week, starting Monday and concluding today.)

As you will see, Melinda Gates is articulate in ways that are critical to the task that she and her husband–that would be Microsoft (MSFT) Founder Bill Gates–have put before themselves: Big league philanthropy with deeply effective results, specifically in health and learning.

In this video, Melinda Gates answers questions from the audience about the time frame for the foundation, models of philanthropy, how businesses can become more philanthropic, how to improve troubled schools by eliminating “facelessness,” entrepreneurs and how to get better teachers.


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