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Within nine years, we had multiplied that 1,982 times, into 108 million dollars after all expenses, for AIDS services.

We launched the breast cancer three-days with an initial investment of 350,000 dollars in risk capital.

Within just five years, we had multiplied that 554 times, into 194 million dollars after all expenses, for breast cancer research.

Now, if you were a philanthropist really interested in breast cancer, what would make more sense: go out and find the most innovative researcher in the world and give her 350,000 dollars for research, or give her fundraising department the 350,000 dollars to multiply it into 194 million dollars for breast cancer research?

We netted for breast cancer alone, that year alone, 71 million dollars after all expenses.

Net income for breast cancer research went down by 84 percent, or 60 million dollars, in one year.

What if the bake sale only netted 71 dollars for charity because it made no investment in its scale and the professional fundraising enterprise netted 71 million dollars because it did?

That's about 300 billion dollars a year.

But only about 20 percent of that, or 60 billion dollars, goes to health and human services causes.

The rest goes to religion and higher education and hospitals, and that 60 billion dollars is not nearly enough to tackle these problems.

But if we could move charitable giving from two percent of GDP, up just one step to three percent of GDP, by investing in that growth, that would be an extra 150 billion dollars a year in contributions, and if that money could go disproportionately to health and human services charities, because those were the ones we encouraged to invest in their growth, that would represent a tripling of contributions to that sector.

And at that time, it was 100 million dollars, it was a fantastic investment, and it was in competition with HBO.

RH: It's about eight billion dollars around the world.

If so, we'll pay you a million dollars."

You paid someone a million dollars, because it was like 10 percent better than yours.

Then we've got the Model S, which starts at around 50,000 dollars.

So the space shuttle ended up costing a billion dollars per flight.

And it will cost you upwards of a billion dollars for that one success.

Well, one way to go faster is to take advantage of technology, and a very important technology that we depend on for all of this is the human genome, the ability to be able to look at a chromosome, to unzip it, to pull out all the DNA, and to be able to then read out the letters in that DNA code, the A's, C's, G's and T's that are our instruction book and the instruction book for all living things, and the cost of doing this, which used to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, has in the course of the last 10 years fallen faster than Moore's Law, down to the point where it is less than 10,000 dollars today to have your genome sequenced, or mine, and we're headed for the $1,000 genome fairly soon.

It's such a rare disease, it would be hard for a company to justify spending hundreds of millions of dollars to generate a drug.

Two players who are being scanned using EEG electrodes are going to bargain over one to six dollars.

In this case, they know there's four dollars.

So the uninformed player's challenge is to say, "Is this guy really being fair or are they giving me a very low offer in order to get me to think that there's only one or two dollars available to split?" in which case they might reject it and not come to a deal.

And the way they bargain is to point on a number line that goes from zero to six dollars, and they're bargaining over how much the uninformed player gets, and the informed player's going to get the rest.

You see on the left, when the amount to divide is one, two or three dollars, they disagree about half the time, and when the amount is four, five, six, they agree quite often.

percent of America gave 200 dollars or more to any federal candidate, .05

And for some people, we gave them Legos and we said, "Hey, would you like to build this Bionicle for three dollars?

We'll pay you three dollars for it."

We asked people, "Would you like to build one Bionicle for three dollars?"

And the crowd was full of IBM V.P.s and programmers cheering on their little darling, having poured millions of dollars into this hoping against hope that the humans screw up, and holding up "Go Watson" signs and just applauding like pageant moms every time their little darling got one right.

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