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Alexa Mikhail, Joey Abrams

Melinda French Gates reflects on Gates Foundation legacy

Melinda French Gates (Credit: MERON MENGHISTAB for Fortune)

Good morning! Bumble makes new hires before a tough earnings, Penny Pritzker gets swept up in Harvard-Trump drama, and Fortune’s Alexa Mikhail talks to Melinda French Gates about gigantic news from the Gates Foundation.

– 20-year plan. For the last several months, I’ve been working alongside Fortune Senior Editor at Large Geoff Colvin on a feature package about the 25th anniversary of the Gates Foundation. We exclusively reported this morning that the foundation, which spent $100 billion in its first 25 years, will double its spending to $200 billion in the next 20 years to fight the world’s deadliest diseases, reduce maternal and child deaths, and ease poverty. After which, the foundation will spend its last dollar and shut its doors in 2045—an unprecedented move in the world of philanthropy.

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