Sublime

In 2003, we funded the work of Vishwajeet Kumar, a medical doctor with advanced training from Johns Hopkins who was launching a life-saving program in a village called Shivgarh in Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s poorest states.

BILL GATES Cofounder, Microsoft; Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Killian’s insight helped me realize that a big part of the work I do to support women and girls has to be my inner work—facing my own fears and flaws. She helped me see that I cannot stand for gender equality in the world unless I have it in my marriage.

“O carinho pela equipe é incomum nesse nível”, diz Omid. “Ele tende a ser bastante desumano. Mas não para Bill. A equipe administrativa era seu maior amor.”

MELINDA GATES Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

That’s what it means to be poor. They’re on the margins. They’re not getting the benefit of what human beings know how to do for each other. So we have to invent a way of getting it to them.

Today Gates is better known as a philanthropist than a technologist.