Microsoft Directors Decided Bill Gates Needed to Leave Board Due to Prior Relationship With Staffer

souredskittles · 2021-05-16T23:48:52+00:00

Oh man, Bill is next on the chopping block. 👏🏻

penelopesheets · 2021-05-17T02:52:05+00:00

Are we all forgetting this man is a pedo and frequented Epstein's island? How can we discuss anything about him without bringing this up?

randomgirlimok · 2021-05-17T03:17:48+00:00

The one guy everyone thought had the perfect marriage ends up being a cheater. Why am I not surprised? I’ve totally given up on finding a guy.

ShamblingTriangles · 2021-05-17T00:16:51+00:00

I am shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

🙄

Medical_Slide8640 · 2021-05-17T10:20:58+00:00

I can't help but think this is happening because he wants to switch wives.

He is probably already seeing the new one. This is a way to do it while keeping both persons' images still somewhat intact. Pretending Melinda wants a divorce, not that she is being replaced.

Because let's be honest. He has been cheating all along. She knew. But she didn't care as she was a billionaire for it. Why go public about it now? These ppl have so much power that everything you know about them is exactly what they want you to know.

Watch when he starts apearing in public with the "new" younger partner "after the divorce".

I will NEVER be the builder wife unless it means millions in my own pocket. There is no hope for men.

FDS-GFY · 2021-05-17T01:16:05+00:00

I want to be a fly on the wall when Melinda French Gates, Mackenzie Scott, and Laurene Powell Jobs next have dinner.

firestorm717 · 2021-05-16T23:13:22+00:00

Microsoft Corp. board members decided that Bill Gates needed to step down from its board in 2020 as they pursued an investigation into the billionaire’s prior romantic relationship with a female Microsoft employee that was deemed inappropriate, people familiar with the matter said.

Members of the board tasked with the matter hired a law firm to conduct an investigation in late 2019 after a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter that she had a sexual relationship over years with Mr. Gates, the people said.

During the probe, some board members decided it was no longer suitable for Mr. Gates to sit as a director at the software company he started and led for decades, the people said. Mr. Gates resigned before the board’s investigation was completed, another person familiar with the matter said.

“Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” a Microsoft spokesman said. “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.”

A spokeswoman for Mr. Gates said, “There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably.” She said his “decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter. In fact, he had expressed an interest in spending more time on his philanthropy starting several years earlier.”

Mr. Gates resigned from the Microsoft board on March 13, 2020, three months after he had been re-elected to his seat. In a press release filed with regulators and a post on LinkedIn, the billionaire said then he wanted to focus on his philanthropy and would continue to serve as a technical adviser to Chief Executive Satya Nadella. That same day, he also vacated his board seat at Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the conglomerate run by Mr. Gates’s friend Warren Buffett.

Mr. Gates and his wife Melinda French Gates announced earlier this month that they were ending their marriage after 27 years. In a joint statement posted on Twitter, the couple said, “We no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.” In a divorce petition, Ms. French Gates said their marriage was “irretrievably broken.”

Ms. French Gates had been working with lawyers at several firms since at least 2019 to unwind the marriage, The Wall Street Journal reported last week. The couple hasn’t said what prompted the split. One source of concern for Ms. French Gates was her husband’s dealings with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Journal reported. A spokeswoman for Mr. Gates said in 2019 that he met with Mr. Epstein for philanthropic reasons and regretted doing so.

ShieldMaidenLagertha · 2021-05-17T03:59:38+00:00

Don’t date ugly men.

throw_away_oranges · 2021-05-17T11:23:39+00:00

Because everything isn’t enough for these people. The wealthy elite are pretty much ALL wealthy white men. They have infinite resources, power and everyone around them is in a vulnerable position, because everyone else is “below” them. This is just a reminder that your best will never be enough for the greedy, because everything is never enough.

Novemberinthechair · 2021-05-17T10:08:34+00:00

He looks like a snail.

TrixieFriganza · 2021-05-17T08:11:20+00:00

So he lied about the filantropy lol. I'm impressed that the board members went against the founder for being impappropriate with a woman, many would have just thought it's private but maybe he forced ger into something, that would be very serious. As it was an employee she must have been an adult woman att least. But just imagine being fired by the company you started, it must be pretty bad.

AnniaT · 2021-05-17T06:28:44+00:00

Aren't there even rumours that he was close to Epstein?

NotNowJustMeow · 2021-05-17T11:53:18+00:00

Oh Belinda honey, he was king of the soy boys. You'll do so much better!

I can only imagine how fucked up the last few years of their marriage have been...

I hope she gets a decent payout, I hope he gets a pick me who own an iPhone.

Hortensia78 · 2021-05-17T18:11:30+00:00

Um, yeah, he married a staffer. Why are people surprised he repeated this behavior. 😐

melonmagellan · 2021-05-17T17:48:53+00:00

How does he even have time to cheat? He describes himself as the busiest person alive. On top of that, he claims to read more than five books a week 🙄

Jellycat89 · 2021-05-17T16:13:28+00:00

I was wrong. For some reason, I had always put gates on a mantle because I thought he was one of the good guys, one who puts his money and time towards saving the world, side by side with melinda. I will never again have blinders on for any man.

millrice · 2021-05-17T19:29:44+00:00

They are all the same, ugly scummy scrotes

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