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In March 2020, when Bill Gates resigned from Microsoft's board of directors, people were lamenting that a generation of Internet masters had come to hand over the shift.
Unexpectedly, more than a year later, with the divorce of the Gates couple, now pull out the radish to bring out the mud, more insider information has been exposed in front of the public eye -
Bill Gates was asked to step down from Microsoft's board of directors in connection with years of underground love affairs with female employees.
This is also another dose of Bill Gates's "human collapse" after the biographer of Bill Gates exposed the chaos of his private life...
According to the Wall Street Journal, people familiar with the matter revealed that a female Microsoft engineer exposed her long-term underground love affair with Bill Gates in a letter.
Microsoft received the letter in the second half of 2019, when Microsoft executives began to pay attention to the sexual harassment and discrimination that female employees were subjected to at work.
So in late 2019, Microsoft's board hired an outside law firm to investigate the matter.
People familiar with the matter also said that during the investigation, some board members believed that Bill Gates was no longer suitable to serve as a director of Microsoft Corporation because of such an improper relationship.
Another person familiar with the matter revealed that Bill Gates will resign before the board investigation is over and all the members of the board make a formal decision on the matter.
In fact, on March 13, 2020, Bill Gates resigned from Microsoft's board of directors, further withdrawing from the Microsoft empire he founded and announcing that he would henceforth focus on philanthropy. At the same time, he continues to serve as a technical consultant to Satya Nadelia, CEO of Microsoft.
△ Microsoft board member
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen, who himself serves as chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
In 2000, Bill Gates stepped down as CEO and shifted his focus to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which he and his wife co-founded. In 2014, he stepped down as chairman of Microsoft and moved behind the scenes to work as a technical consultant to Nadella. Last year, when he resigned as a director of Microsoft, he also resigned as a director of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment firm owned by buffett.
In response, a spokesman for Bill Gates said:
There was an affair about 20 years ago that ended in a friendly way. Bill Gates' withdrawal from Microsoft's board has nothing to do with the issue. In fact, he wanted to spend more time on philanthropy years ago.
In addition, the Wall Street Journal also quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the Microsoft employees who broke the news had asked Melinda Gates to read the letter. But whether he finally saw the letter is unknown.
Not only that, the New York Times reported that even after marrying Melinda in 1994, Bill Gates did not stop pursuing women employees at Microsoft and even the Gates Foundation.
In 2006, Bill Gates attended a presentation by a female Microsoft employee. Immediately after the meeting, he emailed the female employee asking him out to dinner.
According to people familiar with the matter, the letter read, "If this makes you uncomfortable, just as if it never happened."
According to the Wall Street Journal, Melinda hired a divorce lawyer as early as 2019.
While she did not disclose the specific reason for doing so, it is speculated that it may be related to the media exposure of Bill Gates' relationship with Epstein at that time.
△ Image source: nytimes. Epstein in the center and Bill Gates in the second right
Bill Gates and Epstein first met in 2011, three years after Epstein was convicted of forcing minors to sex.
The 2019 Times report contained some details of Bill Gates' association with Epstein, some of which Melinda had not previously known.
In the face of the board's questions, a Gates spokesman responded that the cooperation between the two was only focused on charity.
Melinda also has a grievance about Bill Gates' handling of sexual harassment allegations against his men.
In 2017, Michael Larson, who spent 30 years as Bill Gates' wealth manager, was accused of harassing the manager of a bike shop he invested in.
△ Michael Larson
The case ended in a confidentiality settlement, but Melinda was not satisfied with the outcome and asked the law firm to continue its independent review.
Larson, who was in charge of Cascade Investments, which Bill Gates founded, was suspended during the investigation but eventually reinstated, and the findings were not made public.
In the early morning of May 4, Beijing time, Gates issued a divorce statement on Twitter, saying that he "does not think that he can grow together in the marriage relationship."
The news came suddenly. For a long time, the gates and his wife have always been affectionate to the outside world, and whenever there is an important anniversary or birthday, they will send each other blessings on social media, and even be called "computer heroes".
The breakdown of this 27-year marriage can be said to have shocked the world.
Since the Gates and his wife issued a divorce statement, the two have not made a follow-up response, but the division of property continues.
Cascade Investment transferred 2.25 million deere & Co shares to Melinda, worth about $851 million, according to regulatory documents.
Together with coca-cola femsa, grupo televisa and other shares that were transferred on the day of the divorce, Melinda has received a total of $3 billion after the divorce.
Cascade Investment, which is still managed by Larsen, has a diversified portfolio of equities, including value stocks, private equity, energy, hospitality and venture capital, totaling $52 billion.
As for Bill Gates himself, it seems that he spends more time with his children after his divorce. The eldest daughter, Jennifer Gates, posted a photo with her dad on Instagram, accompanied by the text: "There's nothing better than being with your family."
Reference Links:
[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html
[2]https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-directors-decided-bill-gates-needed-to-leave-board-due-to-prior-relationship-with-staffer-11621205803?mod=djemalertnews
[3]https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/melinda-gates-tops-3-billion-from-cascade-with-deere-transfer
[4]https://qz.com/1587477/microsoft-investigating-sexual-harassment-claims-overlooked-by-hr/amp/
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