Palotta is just providing cover for the parasitic fundraising class.
He has zero connection to actual work in the field of charity accountability and measuring effectiveness. Contrast against GiveDirectly, Against Malaria Foundation, GiveWell, and J-PAL.
And it could be greater if we allow genome patenting and license fees.
Someone spent that $1trillion too.
Moving money is not the same as creating value. What is the end-user market price of stuff we simply didn't have before HGP? The QALY increase for the human population?
Google compiles your Java and Go, I guess it is just a matter of hooking uo their two workflow components, the ingest and serve, and the compile plugin. I would guess that Google doesn't do a special precompile of your py/php before letting the regular py runtime compile on first access, so those langs were easier to launch. Yay for agile dev in dynamic languages.