Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was like a “kid within the candy store” when it got here to young interns on the software company — forcing management to ban them from being alone with the billionaire, based on a bombshell recent book.
The upcoming tell-all by Recent York Times journalist Anupreeta Das paints an unflattering portrait of one among the world’s richest men, offering salacious details about his alleged infidelity that left his wife Melinda French Gates “seething for a very long time.”
It was “commonplace for Gates to flirt with women and pursue them, making unwanted advances corresponding to asking a Microsoft worker out to dinner while he was still the corporate’s chairman,” Das wrote in “Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World,” based on excerpts reported by DailyMail.com.
The issues arose almost immediately after the couple got married in 1994, with Gates pining for his former flame Ann Winblad, a tech entrepreneur, based on the the book, which hits stores Aug. 13.
He had an unusual arrangement together with his wife that allowed him to go to Winblad every year at her home in North Carolina, the book said.
In accordance with Das, French Gates personally overhauled her husband’s security team attributable to her concerns that they were “enabling him to be places where [she] didn’t know he was at.”
The book also reported that his wife ordered the couple’s housekeepers not to present out his direct phone number when women called the home.
The nerdy mogul “assumed his behavior would haven’t any consequences,” based on Das, who wrote that the wedding eventually ended due to “different notions concerning the meaning of a marital contract.”
While she “genuinely believed being married would make a difference due to her deep belief in its sanctity,” Bill Gates thought that “love and marriage can often mean two various things,” based on Das.
The tycoon’s wandering eye allegedly prolonged to young women working on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In accordance with Das, Gates “flirted with a number of the interns on the Gates Foundation, putting them within the uncomfortable position of getting to take into consideration their profession prospects while not wanting to be hit on by the boss.”
“In a single instance a colleague chastised one person for sending a 22-year-old intern to Gates’ office by herself, saying: ‘She’s too young and too pretty’,” Das wrote within the book.
Gates’ overtures to women were considered “clumsy quite than predatory,” individuals who witnessed them firsthand told Das.
One former Microsoft executive said Gates didn’t “prey on” women or ask for sexual favors in exchange for advancing their skilled prospects.
“He’s not Harvey Weinstein…I do know of no real situation by which anyone got anything for sleeping with Bill,” the previous executive told Das.
Gates, 68, showed a “certain naivete in his interactions with women, mistaking engaged conversation for mutual interest,” the exec added.
The ultimate straw for French Gates was her husband’s alleged friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who met Bill Gates quite a few times after the disgraced financier pleaded guilty to procuring sex with a minor.
The couple divorced in 2021 and French Gates bolted the inspiration earlier this yr to launch her own philanthropic company.
The Post reached out to French Gates through her Pivotal Ventures for comment.
A spokesperson for Bill Gates blasted Das and her book.
“Relying almost exclusively on second- and third-hand hearsay and anonymous sources, the book includes highly sensationalized allegations and outright falsehoods that ignore the actual documented facts our office provided to the writer on quite a few occasions,” the rep from Gates’ office said in a press release provided to The Post.
“Mr. Gates has previously stated his deep regret for ever meeting with Epstein, who he met with for discussions regarding philanthropy only.”
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was like a “kid within the candy store” when it got here to young interns on the software company — forcing management to ban them from being alone with the billionaire, based on a bombshell recent book.
The upcoming tell-all by Recent York Times journalist Anupreeta Das paints an unflattering portrait of one among the world’s richest men, offering salacious details about his alleged infidelity that left his wife Melinda French Gates “seething for a very long time.”
It was “commonplace for Gates to flirt with women and pursue them, making unwanted advances corresponding to asking a Microsoft worker out to dinner while he was still the corporate’s chairman,” Das wrote in “Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World,” based on excerpts reported by DailyMail.com.
The issues arose almost immediately after the couple got married in 1994, with Gates pining for his former flame Ann Winblad, a tech entrepreneur, based on the the book, which hits stores Aug. 13.
He had an unusual arrangement together with his wife that allowed him to go to Winblad every year at her home in North Carolina, the book said.
In accordance with Das, French Gates personally overhauled her husband’s security team attributable to her concerns that they were “enabling him to be places where [she] didn’t know he was at.”
The book also reported that his wife ordered the couple’s housekeepers not to present out his direct phone number when women called the home.
The nerdy mogul “assumed his behavior would haven’t any consequences,” based on Das, who wrote that the wedding eventually ended due to “different notions concerning the meaning of a marital contract.”
While she “genuinely believed being married would make a difference due to her deep belief in its sanctity,” Bill Gates thought that “love and marriage can often mean two various things,” based on Das.
The tycoon’s wandering eye allegedly prolonged to young women working on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
In accordance with Das, Gates “flirted with a number of the interns on the Gates Foundation, putting them within the uncomfortable position of getting to take into consideration their profession prospects while not wanting to be hit on by the boss.”
“In a single instance a colleague chastised one person for sending a 22-year-old intern to Gates’ office by herself, saying: ‘She’s too young and too pretty’,” Das wrote within the book.
Gates’ overtures to women were considered “clumsy quite than predatory,” individuals who witnessed them firsthand told Das.
One former Microsoft executive said Gates didn’t “prey on” women or ask for sexual favors in exchange for advancing their skilled prospects.
“He’s not Harvey Weinstein…I do know of no real situation by which anyone got anything for sleeping with Bill,” the previous executive told Das.
Gates, 68, showed a “certain naivete in his interactions with women, mistaking engaged conversation for mutual interest,” the exec added.
The ultimate straw for French Gates was her husband’s alleged friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who met Bill Gates quite a few times after the disgraced financier pleaded guilty to procuring sex with a minor.
The couple divorced in 2021 and French Gates bolted the inspiration earlier this yr to launch her own philanthropic company.
The Post reached out to French Gates through her Pivotal Ventures for comment.
A spokesperson for Bill Gates blasted Das and her book.
“Relying almost exclusively on second- and third-hand hearsay and anonymous sources, the book includes highly sensationalized allegations and outright falsehoods that ignore the actual documented facts our office provided to the writer on quite a few occasions,” the rep from Gates’ office said in a press release provided to The Post.
“Mr. Gates has previously stated his deep regret for ever meeting with Epstein, who he met with for discussions regarding philanthropy only.”
