Billion Dollar Computers & Internet

Bill Gates Changing the World Again, One Vaccine Drop at a Time

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How to make GlaxoSmithKline and other pharma giants to produce enough expensive vaccines for children who need them most but can afford them least? The answer, Gates increasingly believed, lay in making Adam Smith’s invisible hand more visible, giving the newly formed market a benevolent shove in the direction of free enterprise.

Thus, in his new avatar (oh well, there are some who say he could make a return to run Microsoft, but that I’m sure, are just rumours), Gates will be changing the world, not one PC at a time, but one vaccine drop at a time.

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How VCs Identify Billion-Dollar Successes

Categories: Computers & Internet, Ideas

In 2011, we’ve seen a variety of billion-dollar-plus companies go public.  Examples include LinkedIn, Pandora, HomeAway  and Groupon.

So what were the factors that made these companies successful?  To get some insight on this, I had a chance to interview Tarang Shah, a former venture capitalist.  His new book, called Venture Capitalists at Work, came out this week.

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