Gates Foundation

“And by fall of 2010, both the Google and the Gates Foundation each gave about two million dollars. So we had a four million dollar initial funding for that first two years to hire up a team, internationalize, and start scaling Khan Academy.”

“Ratan Tata was humble, soft-spoken, Really sort of self-effacing, and none of which are the words that come to mind when you think of Bill Gates. He's intense. He's focused. He's, you know, he's a driver. But having said that, both were very much driven by the…”

“And the program officer said to me, you know, Kim, what you basically proposed is putting up a pretty good website to change education. And we've funded put up a pretty good website. Many times, and it has that effect zero percent of the time. Never works.”

“It's not our 10 year vision, but it's our 15 year vision, is Fortune 500 impact number one. The Fortune 500 is right now is eight billion in revenue to be on that list. Impact number one means the number one source of charitable funds in the world outside of g…”

“The one thing that really pissed me off about the Peter Thiel, Joe Rogan interview was a long section where he Sort of claims in that Peter Thiel way that the only reason Bill Gates started the Gates Foundation was to pay off Melinda Gates instead of giving he…”

“If you take direct and indirect it'd be close to a billion a year.”

“Our foundation is about nine billion a year, and our health is our biggest. Agriculture is our second biggest.”

“Novo Holdings, which is the vehicle by which the foundation holds their stakes in Novo Nordisk and Novozymes, they're sort of assets under management and thus the endowment of the foundation. Is worth a hundred and twenty billion dollars, which makes it the si…”

“I will say the Gates Foundation has done a lot of work in this area, and they actually, to their credit, they actually came out with a public report about four years ago where they did this retrospective of, they did a retrospective of the last 50 years of edu…”

“And by fall of 2010, both the Google and the Gates Foundation each gave about two million dollars. So we had a four million dollar initial funding for that first two years to hire up a team, internationalize, and start scaling Khan Academy.”

“You look at, like, Gates Foundation, right? Historically very focused on infectious disease. They're realizing that preventable chronic is killing more people than infectious now and are really dialing up efforts to help.”

“The Gates Foundation did invest with them, and they were the ones who figured out that something was wrong.”

“There's a lot of people today who don't have access to the financial system, 2.5 billion people actually, according to the Gates Foundation, I think digital currency will bring financial services to them.”