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Congratulations, Facebook-You Just Picked A Great New Board Member
As a startup, Facebook had a very small board tightly controlled by Zuckerberg. As a public company…
Owen Thomas
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OpenAI announces 'improvements' to its governance structure nearly 5 months after Sam Altman's ouster
OpenAI announced that CEO Sam Altman would return to its board of directors, as well as three new f…
Erin Snodgrass,Lloyd Lee
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The CEO of Bill and Melinda Gates' multi-billion-dollar nonprofit is stepping down
Desmond-Hellmann was the foundation's third CEO, following former Microsoft executives Jeff Raikes …
Ashley Stewart
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The CEO of the Gates Foundation says a wave of progress rippling through China and India could slash poverty in Africa - if women lead the way
In the years to come, many of the poorest babies (and 86% of the world's extreme poor) are going to…
Hilary Brueck
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Bill and Melinda Gates say the world could get an extra US economy's worth of income by making one important change for women
Those earnings don't just boost those educated women individually. Closing the education gap betwee…
Hilary Brueck
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The CEO of The Gates Foundation says we're approaching a dangerous tipping point in global poverty. We still have time to reverse it.
The Gates Foundation is also highlighting the importance of helping small-scale farmers move from s…
Hilary Brueck
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Gates Foundation says Trump's proposed budget will make the world 'less prosperous and less safe'
When governments cut funding for departments that oversee public-good organizations, such as energy…
Chris Weller
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Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly taking advice on political decisions, including how the company handles political ads, from Trump adviser and Facebook board member Peter Thiel
The Journal reported that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and former White House chief of staff Erskine B…
Kevin Webb
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The head of The Gates Foundation reveals the biggest challenge in the world right now
Desmond-Hellmann, the former chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco and an oncol…
Ariel Schwartz
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CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explains the most important leadership lesson she's ever learned
"The stakes are so high in medicine," she said. "There's a sweet spot in peak performance where you…
Kathleen Elkins
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Here are the behind-the-scenes text messages between Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Andreessen that surfaced in a lawsuit
On March 24, Andreessen wrote Zuckerberg, "We're setting up a group call with you to go through all…
Alex Heath
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Sharing is affecting every element of the communications landscape; ShareThis turns sharing behavio…
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A $1 billion Gates Foundation-backed education initiative failed to help students - here's how the foundation's next $450 million project will look
But the changes also produced some challenges; a few years in, a number of teachers felt demoralize…