[kayhi]

"Employees at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, will be able to enjoy up to one year of paid time with their newborns during the child's first year after birth or adoption starting next year." - Business Insider

[tptacek]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation can promise a lot of things that a 50 person competitive startup can't reasonably promise.

[zip1234]

Also, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does not make a profit...

[scurvy]

I'd hardly call Basecamp a startup. It's rather long-lived and has a proven business model at this point.

[huac]

As of 2015 they had 1382 employees, a far cry from 50. They also had Bill Gates.

[ryanwaggoner]

Wow! For some reason, this blows my mind. I guess I had my mind a dozen people sitting in an office writing checks and compiling reports. I had no idea it was a huge global organization with 1420 employees and 8 locations around the world.

In retrospect, it makes such perfect sense that I feel foolish :)

[run4yourlives2]

So basically a "super generous" company in the US is basically the average of the rest of the western world.

That's pretty amazing in and of itself.