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Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show with insights from the people at the top.

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Should we be relying on tech billionaires to lead the way where governments leave a gap?

Are the tech billionaires of Silicon Valley following in the philanthropic footsteps of early 20th-century magnates like Andrew Carnegie or are they today's robber barons?

When you have billions it's impossible to spend it all on yourself and your family.  So what else do you do?  Join the space race like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos or start a foundation like Bill Gates and follow in the footsteps of the massively wealthy industrialists of the Gilded Age, like Andrew Carnegie or John D Rockefeller?  
What do they tell us about our world is changing for better or worse.

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Dr. Katharina Rietzler, Lecturer, American History, University of Sussex

Paul Vallely, Author, 'Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg'

Manfred Kets de Vries,  Distinguished Clinical Professor of Leadership Development and Organizational Change, INSEAD 

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Abigail Disney, Co-founder Fork Films and host of All Ears podcast

Producer: Julie Ball

Editor: Hugh Levinson

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