What if the next big productivity leap isn't about making already-comfortable people even more efficient, but about handing the same tools to everyone else? The Gates Foundation just put $1 billion behind that idea,…



The Gates Foundation stands as the world's largest private philanthropic organization, operating out of Seattle with an endowment that reached approximately $86 billion in 2025.
What if the next big productivity leap isn't about making already-comfortable people even more efficient, but about handing the same tools to everyone else? The Gates Foundation just put $1 billion behind that idea,…