6 lessons on innovation from Bill and Melinda Gates: number 4 will stun you

I listened to Bill and Melinda Gates’ commencement speech at Stanford University over the weekend and one thing really stood out: the Gates’ are big on innovation. This is, after all, the guy that revolutionised the face of personal computing and his company pretty much schooled everyone on enterprise computing.

The speech was quite thought provoking, on what true innovation really is and what technology is and can be for. Is the role of technology to make people’s lives better? Whose life? Should innovation bridge the digital divide? Who is technology serving right now?

“If rich kids got computers and poor kids didn’t, then technology would make inequality worse,” Bill Gates said early on in the couple’s speech.

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