Good morning, MPW Daily readers! You may remember that a few months ago, my Fortune colleagues published a feature package about the future of the Gates Foundation. Geoff Colvin and Alexa Mikhail broke the news of the Gates Foundation’s plans to spend $200 billion—and then close its doors in two decades.
As part of that months-long project, Alexa sat down with Melinda French Gates for an interview. We shared some of that conversation with you back in May—but the full interview is now available to watch on Fortune’s YouTube channel. As a special treat, watch the full thing here!
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Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com
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PARTING WORDS
"They only wanted us to be serious and focused all the time. They didn’t want us to have fun. Now, we want younger girls to see that you can compete on the biggest stage in the world and you can still have fun."
— Olympic gymnast Suni Lee, in an interview with Cosmopolitan
