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Stepping into the spotlight with Melinda Gates

Stepping into the spotlight with Melinda Gates

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Stepping into the spotlight with Melinda Gates

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and how that work is changing us. When you become a public figure, your identity is swiftly suddenly compressed into one immutable image. You must somehow control it or else it will control you. I really wanted to be an executive in the computer industry. I was good at math luckily in high school. And as my teacher brought computers into the school, I fell in love with them. And so I knew I wanted to be some sort of executive in computer field. - And Melinda this was in Texas, and this was in the seventies and eighties that you were going to school. What did you learn during that time that made you think that computers were the path forward for you? - So this teacher, this female teacher I had, I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in Dallas Texas, and she was my math teacher and she went off to a small conference and she saw these Apple II computers and came back and advocated to the head nun that she should get,…

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