{"id":44039,"date":"2023-10-20T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/why-melinda-and-bill-gates-are-impatient-optimists-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:33:00","slug":"why-melinda-and-bill-gates-are-impatient-optimists-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/why-melinda-and-bill-gates-are-impatient-optimists-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Melinda and Bill Gates are \u201cimpatient optimists\u201d &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure>                             <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Melinda-Gates-story-pic-1-640x332.jpg\" alt=\"Melinda Gates story pic 1\" title=\"Melinda Gates story pic 1\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">                               Image: Brett Power                             <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On a mission to end some of the world\u2019s most grievous problems with cutting-edge technology, Melinda Gates says&nbsp;she and&nbsp;partner in life and business&nbsp;Bill Gates have become \u201cimpatient optimists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/advice\/growth\/innovation\/using-data-to-save-lives-three-important-lessons-from-melinda-gates-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Read more: Using date to save lives: Three important lessons from Melinda Gates\u2019 life<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>Fast Company<\/em>, Gates explains it can sometimes take as long as eight to 10 years to see the results of their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a problem many entrepreneurs and investors in the impact-driven startup space experience, so how do the Gates stay motivated?<\/p>\n<p>They always remember the big picture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re impatient for the science to catch up and go quickly and we\u2019re curious learners,\u201d Melinda Gates says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always want to be on that cutting-edge and knowing who the great scientists are that are working on problems, and combining science with math and data systems to make change on behalf of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remembering the deeper purpose of their mission at hand, whether it\u2019s ending malaria in their lifetime or empowering more women entrepreneurs to fight global poverty, has helped the Gates say focused regardless of the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>And Gates says they\u2019re not the only ones who can do this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone in this room has the ability to change somebody\u2019s life,\u201d she said during a <a href=\"\/advice\/growth\/innovation\/using-data-to-save-lives-three-important-lessons-from-melinda-gates-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">live talk at Dreamforce in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you put your mind, your shoulder and your energy, your heart into those things, you can change the world and you are changing the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow StartupSmart on&nbsp;Facebook,&nbsp;Twitter,&nbsp;LinkedIn&nbsp;and iTunes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Brett Power On a mission to end some of the world\u2019s most grievous problems with cutting-edge technology, Melinda Gates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}