Bill Gates says his mentor was a 6-foot-7 'giant' also named Bill

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October 11, 2017 4:20 PM

If there's anyone billionaire Bill Gates looks up to, it's Dr. Bill Foege, a titan in the world of epidemiology.

If there's anyone billionaire Bill Gates looks up to, it's Dr. Bill Foege.

Gates has little choice in the matter, as he noted in a recent Gates Notes blog post. Foege is 6 feet 7 inches tall. He towers over pretty much anyone in his vicinity.

But Gates also looks up to Foege because he considers the doctor one of his greatest mentors. Foege helped Gates and his wife Melinda learn the ropes of the public health world when they were starting the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 1999.

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