Bill Gates on solving the world’s problems… and building a better toilet

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From the Archives: Bill Gates - September 21, 2017
The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates discusses the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its initiatives to reduce poverty and disease on a global scale. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn ...  Show more

Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read
The Gray Area with Sean Illing

Bill Gates is one of those people for whom "needs no introduction" is actually true. The polymathic Microsoft founder now leads the world's largest and most important private foundation, and he's predicting that we're on the cusp of the energy breakthrough that's going to save th ...  Show more

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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Trevor is joined by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft and one of the world’s foremost philanthropists. The two talk about how he and Paul Allen schemed to get computer time as teens, the dangers AI may play in our future, what it’s like to be at the center of so many con ...

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Bill Gates Wants to Reinvent the Toilet
The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Why has Bill Gates been carrying around a jar of poop? Ronny Chieng investigates the philanthropist’s Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which funds scientists’ efforts to create toilets that don’t need a sewer system and can create clean water and energy. Learn more about your ad ...  Show more