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I'm not sure we should be sending $50million dollars on condoms anywhere… if it went to Mozambique instead of Gaza, I'm like, OK that's not as bad, but still you know why are we doing that?
It's work that saves millions of lives and helps strengthen relationships for the United States.
I cannot take your philanthropy on climate change seriously when you have a massive short position against Tesla, the company doing the most to solve climate change.
It’s really insane that he [Musk] can destabilise the political situations in countries ,
The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,
I hope other wealthy people consider how much they can accelerate progress for the world's poorest if they increased the pace and scale of their giving, because it is such a profoundly impactful way to give back to society,
Gates wrote in the statement The number of deaths will start going up for the first time ... it's going to be millions more deaths because of the resources,
I think governments will come back to caring about children surviving" over the next 20-year period though
There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people,
This is a change from our original plans. When Melinda and I started the Gates Foundation in 2000, we included a clause in the foundation’s very first charter: The organisation would sunset several decades after our deaths. A few years ago, I began to rethink that approach. More recently, with the input from our board, I now believe we can achieve the foundation’s goals on a shorter timeline, especially if we double down on key investments and provide more certainty to our partners,
the tech billionaire explained in Gates Notes USAID is a criminal organisation. Time for it to die.”
At that time, Musk, in an X post, wrote The Gates Foundation’s mission remains rooted in the idea that where you are born should not determine your opportunities,
That is why I have decided to give my money back to society much faster than I had originally planned,
Over the next twenty years, the Gates Foundation will aim to save and improve as many lives as possible,
He could go on to be a great philanthropist. In the meantime, the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children,
We are not going into opposition. We are continuing the partnership we’ve had with every administration.”
After a three-hour dinner with Trump after his reelection, he told The New Yorker I’d love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money,
he told the Financial Times That’s a centre-Left government. And it’s in the UK, where civil society is actually stronger on these issues than anywhere else in the world ... That one was particularly surprising and a bit disappointing.”
I expect the foundation will spend more than $200bn between now and 2045.”
People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that 'he died rich' will not be one of them,
the 69-year-old billionaire Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist wrote in a post on his website
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