If you think about it—if your goal is to return the money to society by attacking truly major problems that don’t have a commensurate funding base—what could you find that’s better than turning to a couple of people who are young, who are ungodly bright, whose ideas have been proven, who already have shown an ability to scale it up and do it right? You don’t get an opportunity like that ordinarily. I’m getting two people enormously successful at something, where I’ve had a chance to see what they’ve done, where I know they will keep doing it—where they’ve done it with their own money, so
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