1.18 比尔盖茨夫妇斯坦福大学2014毕业典礼演讲

比尔盖茨夫妇斯坦福大学2014毕业典礼演讲】

本视频是比尔·盖茨和夫人梅琳达·盖茨在斯坦福大学2014年毕业典礼上的演讲。整个演讲以“乐观”为主线,强调了他们对科技的乐观态度,以及对世界美好未来的乐观态度。盖茨夫妇轮流讲述了自己的亲身经历和故事,告诉学生应该站在他人的立场上,感同身受那些处境不及自己的人。要尽自己所能去帮助那些需要帮助的人,让全世界所有人类同胞都有一样的美好未来。 


【演讲者简介】

比尔·盖茨(Bill Gates),全名威廉·亨利·盖茨三世,简称比尔或盖茨。19551028日出生于美国华盛顿州西雅图,企业家、软件工程师、慈善家、微软公司创始人。曾任微软董事长、CEO和首席软件设计师。比尔·盖茨13岁开始计算机编程设计,18岁考入哈佛大学,一年后从哈佛退学,1975年与好友保罗·艾伦一起创办了微软公司,比尔盖茨担任微软公司董事长、CEO和首席软件设计师。比尔·盖茨1995-2007年连续13年成为《福布斯》全球富翁榜首富,连续20年成为《福布斯》美国富翁榜首富。

2000年,比尔·盖茨成立比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会,2008年比尔盖茨宣布将580亿美元个人财产捐给慈善基金会,2014年比尔·盖茨辞去董事长一职,并击退卡洛斯·斯利姆重回世界首富。2014年美国当地时间929日,《福布斯》发布美国富豪400强榜单显示,微软联合创始人比尔·盖茨以810亿美元的财富,连续第21年蝉联美国首富宝座。

Wikipedia Intro

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor. Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the worlds largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was also the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He has also authored and co-authored several books.

Today he is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2014excluding a few brief periods post-2008. Between 2009 and 2014 his wealth more than doubled from $40 billion to more than $82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014 his wealth increased by $15 billion, or around $1.5 billion more than the entire GDP of Iceland in 2014. Gates is currently the richest man in the world.