An inspiring send-off from the tech world's royal tag-team
Bill and Melinda Gates deliver a stirring address on optimism to Stanford University’s 2014 graduating class. Bill and Melinda Gates share the podium as the 2014 commencement speakers during the graduation ceremony at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., on Sunday, June 15, 2014. How do you inspire a group of unusually smart, hard working, optimistic, and largely privileged youngsters who are already destined for success? Encourage them to learn from those most in need; urge them confront inequity; exhort them channel their optimism with empathy; oh, and remind them that for all their accomplishments, they wouldn’t be where they are without a heavy dose of luck. That was the message that philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates delivered to Stanford’s 2014 graduating class in a poignant commencement address . At a time when inequality is becoming one of the central issues of our time, the Gates', whose foundation has becom...