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Gates urges Stanford grads not to focus on profit alone |
June 16, 2014
Bill and Melinda Gates told graduating students at Stanford University on Sunday that innovation for profit alone will not solve the most pressing problems facing the planet.Delivering the university’s first joint commencement address, the two spoke of their admiration for Stanford and the “flexibility of mind” and “openness to change” it creates. But they urged students to take on problems like poverty and disease and not be driven by profit alone.It was a good time to remind the university’s roughly 5,000 graduating students of their potential to bring about change. Many will leave Stanford to join start-ups or form their own companies, and this is the time they are formulating plans for what they hope to achieve.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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