Posts Tagged ‘bill gates’

Any publicity is good publicity?

February 5th, 2009

Bill Gates seems to think so. Source

Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria.

With over 500 diggs (just a day after the incident), the article currently resides as #15 on the home page of reddit. This bizarre act (also know as a “wtf”) could prove to be one of the best marketing moves in non-profit history. I wonder what Seth Godin would think of this as a marketing move.

Edit: The entire talk here titled, “Bill Gates unplugged: How I am trying to change the world now”