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How Bill Gates Combines Optimism and Patience to Change the World
Chapter 60: Patience and Optimism - Bill Gates
Devin: A few years ago, you wrote about superpowers in your annual letter. What is your superpower?
Bill: Well, if I have one, it has something to do with optimism about scientific innovation and being able to gather teams of people. My experience at Microsoft was assembling teams of engineers and understanding what was on track/off track, being patient for things that, in that case, usually took five or six years. In the world of medicine, unfortunately, it's like ten years. The HIV vaccine—between when people started working on it and when…
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