Every generation of the super-rich has remade philanthropy in their own image, writes Avartica Tulkati. Bill Gates' new approach to giving is data-driven and technocratic, she says. "All that bureaucracy feels unbearably slow... It feels really, really stodgy"
Charitable giving is being disrupted by the same youthful tech folk who got rich disrupting other sectors: these days it is fast, data-driven and bureaucracy-light. We meet a new class of investors who trade shares from behind bars. And reflecting on the life of Maya Widmaier-Picasso, who spent her childhood painting alongside her father, becoming an expert on his work.
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