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Melinda French Gates is investing $215 million in women’s health, and says other billionaires should be "giving back to society," too.

Across two hourlong interviews, French Gates talked to Fortune's Emma Hinchliffe about why this work matters to her and to the world—and how she hopes it might influence others with power.

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00:00Anybody who is a billionaire in the United States right now benefited from growing up in the United States or
00:08coming to the United States, right?
00:11We have, by and large, good roads. By and large, you can get some quality of an education. By and
00:18large, you can get some quality of health care.
00:20Like, we benefit from this country. My belief is and my value is to whom much is given, much is
00:28expected. We should be giving back to society, right?
00:32Some of these businesses that have turned into be gigantic businesses, you couldn't start those businesses in Sudan for all
00:40the reasons you and I can name, right?
00:42You know, there's conflict. There's not. I mean, there's a million things, you know, and so many other countries in
00:47the world.
00:47Like, I think back to Warren Buffett, and he often said there was just no way he could have started
00:52what he did at Berkshire Hathaway in most countries around the world, most countries particularly, let's say, in Africa.
00:59And he said, he says, I'm lucky to have been born in the United States, and that's why I feel
01:04this great belief and desire to give back to the country I was lucky enough to be born in.
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