Clearly if they only gave them $2.2 million they're just taking a flyer.
I've worked with some groups under the Gates umbrella and their levels of competence are quite variable from best and brightest to quite average. So I'm not sure I'd take funding from the Gates Foundation as an unalloyed positive.
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