INVESTING In Futures
If money is no object, what becomes your objective for that money? Perhaps you take the Elon Musk route and conquer space travel. Or you follow Mark Cuban’s lead and offer prescription drugs at significantly reduced prices. Maybe you tackle world hunger, make efforts to reduce crime, or attempt to remove “incurable” from a disease.
For some ultra-wealthy Americans, that objective is education. In recent years, two schools backed by local billionaires have opened in West Palm Beach: Jeff Greene’s The Greene School and Bill Koch’s Oxbridge Academy. Their work, trying to solve the problems facing education today, is not far off from what other billionaires are doing elsewhere in the country.
Among them is Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whose Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has a stated educational objective to“significantly increase the number of Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty who graduate from high school, enroll in a postsecondary institution, and are on track in their first year to obtain a
