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MELINDA-FRENCH-GATES

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When you invest in women, you invest in everyone. The data on this is overwhelming — it's not opinion, it's economics.

The foundation saved millions of lives. But I needed to find my own voice and my own path.

I spent 27 years sharing a vision with someone else. Now I get to define what my $12.5 billion means on my own terms.

Change the systems, not just the symptoms. The most effective dollar is the one that changes how institutions work.

Being a woman in tech in the 1980s meant being the only woman in the room. Every room. For years.