Bill Gates on global health initiatives, technology, innovation
By Bloomberg
23 January 2019 |
11:49 am
Bill Gates, co-founder at Microsoft, discusses funding for global health initiatives, dealing with workers who lose jobs to technology, and privacy and the protection of data.
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