Bill Gates Speaking Fee: $1,000,000 and Above
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LAX - Los Angeles (All Airports)
Primary Topic Category:
Technology
Secondary Topic Category:
Philanthropy
Bill Gates Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Bill Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1975, he founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen, and together the pair established the company as a worldwide leader in business and personal software and services. In 2008, he transitioned from his day-to-day role with Microsoft to focus full-time on his foundation's work to expand opportunity around the world. In Gates’s upcoming book How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, he outlines the lessons we must learn from COVID-19, the innovations we need to save lives and the new tools we need to stop pathogens early and equitably.
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