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Melinda Gates
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Some of these big firms often believe in the white guy in a hoodie disrupting a whole industry.
— mentioned 30 May 2018 by Fortune then 31 May 2018 by Business Insider and 5 June 2018 by The Federalist
Melinda Gates
American philanthropist
- Audience92K
- Fame80.6
- Momentum10.7
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- Audience92K
- Fame80.6
- Momentum10.7
- United States rank#248
- Business Professionals rank#10
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Born 1964 · age 62United States
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She built products at Microsoft, then built the world's largest private foundation — and after 27 years of marriage and two decades co-chairing billions in global health work, she walked away from both to steer her own $12.5 billion toward women and families.
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Melinda Ann French grew up in Dallas, studied computer science and economics at Duke, and joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer. She began dating Bill Gates that same year and married him in 1994. From 2000 to 2024, they co-chaired the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, steering unprecedented sums toward global health, development, and education — work that earned them the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honour. The marriage ended in 2021. As part of the divorce settlement, she received $12.5 billion for independent philanthropy focused on women and fa…
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