Hello im david rubinstein, the National Book festival, welcome to the National Book festival, which this year is being done virtually. Our guest this year is melinda gates, for the first part of our program. Im coming to you from washington dc at the library of congress and from another washington, seattle washington, is melinda gates. Thank you very much for doing this. Im so glad we could do it david. Melinda, youve written your first book recently, a book about women its a book about empowering women and i want to talk to you about that and what prompted you to write this book. How long did it take you to write this book and what prompted you to write this book . Melinda i wrote it over most of the year and what prompted me to write it was, ive been so incredibly fortunate with the foundation to travel to so many places in the world. Its the people and particularly the women ive met in these incredibly difficult circumstances and seeing what they are doing to empower their families
Just leave it this way. Alright. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have a new book called the moment of lift. What does the moment of lift refer to . The phrase, lift . Melinda for me. For me, i grew up in a family in dallas, texas and my dad was an apollo engineer on the apollo missions. And it was when we would watch that rocket launching, the earth would be shaking and the rocket was rumbling, and it finally pushed against the forces of gravity and went to the moon. To me, that is the same thing i have seen with 20 years of work with the foundation for women. That if we can help lift up all women, we will change the world, but there are a lot of forces pushing women down. David it is the largest foundation in the world. It has assets of how mu
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have a new book called the moment of lift. What does the moment of lift refer to . The phrase, lift . Melinda for me, i grew up in a family in dallas, texas and my dad was an apollo engineer on the apollo missions. And it was when we would watch that rocket launching, the earth would be shaking and the rocket was rumbling, and it finally pushed against the forces of gravity and went to the moon. To me, that is the same thing i have seen with 20 years of work with the foundation for women. That if we can help lift up all women, we will change the world, but there are a lot of forces pushing women down. David it is the largest foundation in the world. It has assets of how much . Melinda now, we have assets of about
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have a new book called the moment of lift. What does the moment of lift refer to, the phrase, lift . Melinda so for me, i grew up in a family in dallas, texas and my dad was an apollo engineer on the apollo missions, and it was when we would watch that rocket launching, the earth would be shaking and the rocket was rumbling, and it finally pushed against the forces of gravity and went to the moon. To me, thats the same thing i ive been seeing with 20 years of work with the foundation for women. That if we can help lift up all women, we will change the world, but there are a lot of forces pushing women down. David its the largest foundation in the world. It has assets of how much . Melinda now, we have assets of a
I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . You have a new book called the moment of lift. What does the moment of lift refer to . The phrase, lift . Melinda for me, i grew up in a family in dallas, texas, and my dad was an apollo engineer on the apollo missions. And it was when we would watch that rocket launching, the earth would be shaking and the rocket was rumbling, and it finally pushed against the forces of gravity and went to the moon. To me, that is the same thing i have seen with 20 years of work with the foundation for women. That if we can help lift up all women, we will change the world, but there are a lot of forces pushing women down. David it is the largest foundation in the world. It has assets of how much now . Melinda now, we have assets of