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Bill and Melinda Gates have poured nearly $5 billion into education. Here’s what they spent it on

Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Laurene Powell Jobs are also donating huge amounts.

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A version of this article appeared in the September 2019 issue of Fast Company magazine.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ainsley Harris is a senior writer at Fast Company. She has written about technology, innovation, and finance for the past 10 years, including four cover stories More

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