Bill Gates: Creative Capitalism (2008)

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42 pointsjkkramer3 comments

I found this interesting because, in the HN bubble, we mostly talk about monetizing solutions for the problems of privileged folk. For example, Paul Graham's "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund".

Bill Gates argues that solving the problems of the less-privileged doesn't have to be purely philanthropic -- there's actually profit to be had if you know how to find the right market.

This was written in 2008. Have there been notable examples of creative capitalism since then?

Bill Gates built Microsoft around the vision "of a personal computer on every desk and in every home" into not only a large and profitable company but into the largest personal fortune of all time.

[http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gat0int-1]

People who get pumped up by articles like these: Google 'integrative thinking'. Its a novel way to approach problem solving. A phenomenon uncovered by a prof from University of Toronto.

edit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2748346

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