Impatient Optimists
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Michael Staton

Title CEO
Organization Inigral

Michael Staton is the CEO and co-founder of Inigral, creators of the Facebook Schools App, working to harness the world’s most popular social network to improve higher education.

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"Starting Smart" With Social Media

August 30, 2011 / Michael Staton

Every year, nearly four million students find out they’ve been admitted to a postsecondary school. Once they know this, they’re full of questions - chiefly “Will I fit in here?” combined with “Is this a place where I can be successful?”

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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