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Melinda French Gates [2] (born Melinda Ann French; August 15, 1964) is an American philanthropist and a former multimedia product developer and manager at Microsoft. Born and raised in Dallas , Texas, she graduated from Duke University and started working at Microsoft in 1987.
Gates was also its largest individual shareholder until May 2014. [a] He was a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. In June 2008, Gates transitioned into a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the private charitable foundation he and his then-wife Melinda had ...
Melinda French Gates attends the 2024 Albie Awards presented by the Clooney Foundation for Justice at the New York Public Library on Sept. 26, 2024, in New York City.
The Gates Foundation [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, [6] [7] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
Melinda and Bill Gates Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images “[The divorce] was the hardest thing I had ever been through in my life,” Melinda said on a May 2024 episode of Jay Shetty ’s podcast .
Bill and Melinda married in 1994, the same year they launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The two welcomed daughter Jennifer in 1996, son Rory in 1999 and daughter Phoebe in 2002.
In January 2020, Nayel Nassar became engaged to Jennifer Gates, the eldest daughter of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and philanthropist Melinda French Gates. [8] The couple married on October 16, 2021, in Westchester County, New York. [9] In March 2023, the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter. [10]
Bill and Melinda French Gates have another grandchild on the way! On June 27, Jennifer "Jenn" Gates Nassar announced that she and her husband, Nayel Nassar, are expecting their second child. The ...