Melinda Gates is happy to be separated from her ex-husband, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates. After nearly 30 years of marriage, the two officially split in May 2021 and the divorce was finalized three months later. The relationship simply had no future for her, the 58-year-old now explains in an interview.
“I had a few reasons why I just couldn’t stay in this marriage anymore,” the computer scientist reveals in an interview with US business magazine “Fortune”, but does not elaborate on the reasons.
The corona pandemic mainly helped her escape from her marriage and gave her “the privacy to do what I had to do”. In addition, Gates emphasizes: “It was incredibly painful in many ways, but I had the necessary privacy to deal with it.”
But she also took something from the difficult time of the divorce. In 2000, they founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which they continued to run together after their divorce. That’s exactly what helped her, Gates explains.
Like this: “Even if I have to cry at 9 a.m. and video conference at 10 a.m. with the person I left, I have to be there and show my best side.” This showed her that “as a leader” she could do anything.
Melinda Gates studied computer science and economics, later she obtained a management degree. In the first decade of her career, she worked at Microsoft developing multimedia products. In 1994 she married Bill Gates. The ex-couple have three children together: daughters Jennifer and Phoebe, who are now 25 and 19, and son Rory, 23.
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Source: Blick
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