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And they see the market, which was supposed to serve everyone, become more like the private property of a few powerful
companies.
But no one is going to hand over their medical data or step into a car that's driven by an algorithm unless they trust the
companies
that they are dealing with.
But what if people knew that they could rely on technology
companies
to treat them fairly?
What if they knew that those
companies
respond to competition by trying to do better, by trying to serve consumers better, not by using their power to shut out competitors, say, by pushing their services far, far down the list of search results and promoting themselves?
Earlier, last year, you asked Apple to pay 13 billion in back taxes, and you have also investigated other companies, including European and Russian companies, not only American companies, by far.
Yet the investigations against the American
companies
are the ones that have attracted the most attention and they have also attracted some accusations.
You have been accused, essentially, of protectionism, of jealousy, or using legislation to hit back at American
companies
that have conquered European markets.
Instead, what if we created
companies
that were great places to be from?
And when you spread that kind of excitement throughout the world, then we make all of our
companies
better.
When I look at
companies
that are moving fast, that are really innovative and that are doing amazing things with agility and speed, it's because they're collaborative.
I spend a lot of time with start-ups, and I have a lot of friends that work in larger, more established
companies.
They are always pooh-poohing the
companies
that I work with.
Or, as Nike's head of marketing says, "We're not in the business of keeping media
companies
alive.
And media
companies
realize the audience is important also.
And this is beginning to create
companies
like 23andMe, and
companies
like 23andMe are going to be giving you more and more and more data, not just about your relatives, but about you and your body, and it's going to compare stuff, and it's going to compare stuff across time, and these are going to become very large databases.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, in Nigeria, who took on the giant oil companies, and although people around the world tried their best, was executed.
There's some large
companies
that have seen this vision, that are doing large-scale digitization, but they're locking up the public domain.
Big
companies
spend 20 billion dollars a year marketing non-nutrient foods to kids.
And the one over there, that's bigger than my head, is what McDonald's and Burger King and those big
companies
think we should eat.
I work with private
companies
who are willing to do R & D with me, who are willing to do distribution for me, who are really willing to work to go into schools.
And then you go to these toy
companies
and there's some guy across the table, and he goes, "Pass.
And turning to the other side of the equation, I've personally supervised the investment of tens of millions of dollars into
companies
who have pitched me with PowerPoint presentations.
For example, reference
companies
I've heard of, or basic items in your business.
We have in our culture in our city, an ethos where our business leaders don't just run companies, they run philanthropic institutions and nonprofits, and those folks took notice.
We surveyed 171
companies
in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and as we speak, we're expanding the study to 1,600
companies
in five additional countries around the world.
We asked those
companies
basically two things: how innovative they are and how diverse they are.
The data in our sample showed that more diverse
companies
are simply more innovative, period.
Now, a fair question to ask is the chicken or the egg question, meaning, are
companies
really more innovative because they have a more diverse leadership, or the other way around?
Now, we do not know how much is correlation versus causation, but what we do know is that clearly, in our sample,
companies
that are more diverse are more innovative, and that
companies
that are more innovative have more diverse leadership, too.
The other 70
companies
have an all-male board, and not even one of these hundred largest publicly listed
companies
have, as of today, a female CEO.
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