Today in Global Small Business: World's Most Admired Man's Image Is Cracking

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Bill Gates spent years crafting his image.  Now it's cracking.
• What to pay attention to: Trump hits the stalemate phase of his international interventions, and it stings.
• What are frontier markets – and what do they matter for the global economy.
• Quote of the week:  “It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." – Bill Gates
• A good data center by the International Trade Administration – from automotive industry to aluminum to energy.  Check it out. 
• Chief economists' outlook: May, 2026.

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What's the Risk Around Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

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The chorus of big names in tech who have weighed in on the question of risk around artificial intelligence now includes Bill Gates.

Here's a few fresh ideas from Gates in an article by Will Douglas Heaven for MIT Technology Review. 

Today in Global Small Business: Staying Apart to Stay Healthy

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Visit The World Bank website to see what they are doing to treat – sustain economies and protect jobs – during the COVID-19 outbreak.
• Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are working together to fund research for COVID-19 treatments as the pandemic continues to spread.
• Quote of the week relating to the COVID-19 outbreak: “It’s very tough to say to people, ‘Hey keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner, we want you to keep spending because there’s some politician that thinks GDP growth is what counts,’” Gates said. “It’s hard to tell people during an epidemic … that they should go about things knowing their activity is spreading this disease." – Bill Gates
• New OECD outlook on the global economy.
• A national defining moment – what historians will say about COVID-19.
• Staying apart to stay healthy during the COVID-19 crisis.

Today in Global Small Business: Bill Gates's List of Inventions That Will Change the World for the Better

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Bill Gates's list of inventions that will change the world for the better.
• Quote of the week:  “Instructions for living a life: Pay attention.  Be astonished.  Tell about it.” – poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019)
• A White House global economic program for women.
• The Johannesburg Business School (JBS) is looking at the global landscape.
• A family business is taking Welsh cider to a global audience.
• DHL launched an e-commerce app called DHL Africa eShop for global retailers to sell goods to Africa’s consumers markets.