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☆ Melinda French Gates says CEOs who cut sleep to maximize productivity are 'so dumb': 'Some of us didn't want to be around them'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Melinda French Gates believes it's "so dumb" to try and maximize productivity by getting only a few hours of sleep. French Gates said, referencing CEOs and tech entrepreneurs who promote, in her eyes, a form of performative sleep deprivation. He's since changed his tune, and now aims for at least six hours of sleep per night, he told CNBC last year. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates — French Gates' ex-husband — have shared similar stories. Now, he aims for a minimum of seven hours of sleep each night, he said.

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☆ Melinda French Gates reveals one of the good parts of no longer working with Bill Gates
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates is reclaiming her professional power post-divorce from Bill Gates. French Gates said she experienced sexism when working alongside her ex-husband. She left the Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Foundation to run Pivotal Ventures in May. AdvertisementMelinda French Gates is taking her professional power back. French Gates is continuing her philanthropic efforts months after stepping down from her role at the Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Foundation, which she founded in 2000 with her now ex-husband.

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☆ Melinda French Gates opens up about how it feels to be a billionaire
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-12 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates's net worth is estimated to be between $11 billion and $13.5 billion. French Gates spends much of her time on philanthropy through her company, Pivotal Ventures. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementFor Melinda French Gates, her immense wealth comes with a great responsibility, but it's not one that bogs her down. In an interview with Vanity Fair, the philanthropist said her wealth feels "surreal" and that it comes with a "great responsibility,""But it doesn't feel like a weight," French Gates, 60, added.

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☆ Melinda French Gates says she made a 'substantial' donation to the Harris-Walz campaign
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates said she made a "substantial" donation to Harris' campaign. A philanthropist worth nearly $11 billion, French Gates has also offered to host events. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementAfter making her first-ever presidential endorsement this spring, billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates said she made a "substantial" donation to Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, Vanity Fair reported. When French Gates was still a part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she cofounded with her ex-husband Bill Gates, she generally avoided wading into partisan causes.

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☆ Work Culture at the Gates Foundation: Bill Gates Was Domineering, Inspired Fear
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Anupreeta Das | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Every year, Bill Gates — and, until she left, Melinda French Gates — would hold multiple meetings with executives of the Gates Foundation to approve plans and budgets, and review strategies. For many, the meeting might be the only direct opportunity to interact with, and impress, Gates and French Gates. AdvertisementGates and French Gates followed the presentations closely, usually saving questions for the end. The former couple sought to maintain a professional relationship, giving themselves at least two years to see if they could work together, with the understanding that French Gates would leave if they couldn't. One former senior employee compared the style of discussion to the Socratic method, often used in law schools by professors who push students to reasoning through dialogue.

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☆ Meet Melinda French Gates, one of the world's most influential and richest women
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates ranks 10th on Forbes' The World's 100 Most Powerful Women list. French Gates, worth $13.4 billion, co-founded the Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Foundation. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMelinda French Gates is a renowned philanthropist, which has helped earn her the spot as the 10th most powerful woman in the world, according to Forbes' The World's 100 Most Powerful Women list. French Gates is worth $13.4 billion, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, which ranks her 157th among the world's richest billionaires, as of Friday, August 2.

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☆ Melinda French Gates' weekly walks with 3 close friends help her make difficult decisions: 'They are my truth counsel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Alex Koller | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Whenever billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates contemplates a tough decision, she seeks input from her three closest friends of more than 30 years. "If you're in town, you walk," French Gates said. For example, the trio of friends was the first to know when French Gates began to consider ending her marriage to Bill Gates after 27 years, she said — and they offered her unanimous support. French Gates learned the importance of quality over quantity in friendships early in life, she said. "You might realize that you have plenty of people you have fun with, but no one to confide in," Schulz and Waldinger wrote.

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☆ Melinda French Gates recreated her 'very middle-class' upbringing to raise her 3 kids: 'I thought that was a good principle to have'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Melinda French Gates' three children grew up in one of the world's wealthiest families. Not wanting to raise entitled kids, their parents worked to give them something resembling a "middle-class" upbringing, French Gates says. And I thought that was a good principle to have," French Gates told The New York Times on Sunday. "First of all, they had an allowance, so we absolutely did not just buy them things," French Gates said. French Gates told The New York Times.

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☆ Melinda French Gates says MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos' ex, helped her with parenting kids that were raised 'down the street' from each other
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-29 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMelinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott have a lot in common besides once having been married to a billionaire tech titan. French Gates revealed in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday that she and Scott share similar parenting styles. French Gates told The Times that she and her then-husband, Bill Gates, didn't want their children to grow up spoilt and entitled. Both French Gates and Scott have gone all in with their activism and philanthropy after divorcing their ex-husbands, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos respectively. AdvertisementRepresentatives for French Gates and Scott did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

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☆ Melinda French Gates weighs in on the generosity of billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel: 'I would not call those men philanthropists'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-28 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewMelinda French Gates says the new generation of billionaires, like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, these days primarily use their "megaphones" instead of their bank accounts to effect change. "Well, the people you just named have not been very philanthropic yet," French Gates replied. French Gates has since endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who became the likely Democratic nominee after Biden left the race earlier this month. In her endorsement of Harris, French Gates emphasized the need for a leader who will advocate for abortion rights. Asked to elaborate, French Gates said she thinks tech CEOs frequently give advice on things with which they are not experts.

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☆ Kamala Harris wants to be America’s first Silicon Valley president. She has tech’s support
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —With Vice President Kamala Harris the front runner to receive the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, America’s most powerful industry is set to have a candidate on the ballot from its home turf. Harris’ failed 2020 presidential bid received support from various tech luminaries, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and legendary venture capitalist Ron Conway. Despite her friendly relationships with the industry’s leaders, Harris has also pushed for tech accountability in key areas. As vice president, Harris has taken a key role in the White House around establishing safety measures for artificial intelligence, which is widely viewed as the most consequential new technology in decades. In an interview with CNN, Hoffman added: “In Silicon Valley, actually there’s many threads that are very excited about her.

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☆ These business leaders and billionaires are backing Kamala Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Vice President has already secured several influential political endorsements, including the support of President Joe Biden. AdvertisementSheryl SandbergFormer Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg endorsed Kamala Harris for president on social media on Monday. AdvertisementReed HastingsNetflix's Reed Hastings is supporting Harris' presidential bid with a $7 million donation. Ron ConwaySilicon Valley "super angel" investor Ron Conway has also backed Harris' presidential run. She said in an X post: "I am proud to support Vice President Harris.

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☆ Melinda French Gates endorses Kamala Harris, emphasizing her defense of abortion rights
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Alice Tecotzky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates endorsed Harris in a post on X, celebrating the VP's support for abortion. In May, French Gates committed $1 billion to groups supporting women and abortion. AdvertisementMelinda French Gates took to X, formerly known as Twitter, this morning to announce her support for Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, largely because of the vice president's support for abortion rights. French Gates opened her statement by emphasizing that the country needs a leader who advocates for reproductive freedom and supports families. "I am supporting Vice President Kamala Harris because she is that leader," French Gates wrote.

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☆ Melinda French Gates shares the best lesson she got from Charlie Munger: ‘What a thing to aspire to’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Charlie Munger wasn't just an acclaimed investor, one of the masterminds behind Berkshire Hathaway's decades of financial success. He also gave great life advice, according to billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates. French Gates, 59, shared her favorite lesson of Munger's during a recent commencement speech at Stanford University. "As a society, we aren't always set up to feel responsibility for the person who's next to us or the person who's on the other side of a divide or a debate," French Gates added. Similarly, French Gates urged her audience to make "strong, reciprocal bonds with other people, even if they disagree on issues big or small."

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☆ Meet Bill and Melinda Gates' Gen Z daughter Phoebe, a Stanford graduate and activist who's dating Paul McCartney's grandson
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Phoebe Gates is the youngest daughter of Bill and Melinda Gates. Bill and Melinda Gates. Getty/Scott OlsonBill Gates and Melinda French Gates, who married in 1994 and divorced in 2021, have three children: Jennifer, 28, Rory, 25, and Phoebe, 21. The three Gates children will inherit at least some of their parents' wealth: Bill Gates has said he plans to leave them "only" $10 million each. Today, nearly five decades after cofounding Microsoft, Bill Gates has a fortune of about $134 billion, according to Forbes.

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☆ Opinion: Destined to be a lame duck
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. When Biden and Trump meet in a debate on CNN Thursday, expect part of the audience to be wondering exactly who and what will come next. Biden, who’s battling low approval ratings, is sticking with Vice President Kamala Harris, whose polls are also bleak. There were 28, and we’ve had 11 so far this year, Bridget Johnson noted in the first of a CNN Opinion series about America’s preparedness. “It’s a measure of his hold on American society that he’s still revered a half-century later,” wrote Frederic J. Frommer.

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☆ Looks like Elon Musk just added Melinda French Gates to his list of billionaires' ex-wives who 'might be the downfall of Western civilization'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates endorsed President Joe Biden on Thursday and Elon Musk isn't happy about it. "Might be the downfall of Western civilization," the mercurial billionaire said in response. AdvertisementMelinda French Gates has given her first-ever presidential endorsement, and Elon Musk isn't too happy about it. "Might be the downfall of western civilization," Musk said in response to an X post by The Babylon Bee staffer Ashley St. Clair on Gates' endorsement of Biden. Gates formally endorsed Biden in an X post published Thursday.

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☆ Melinda French Gates: How Joe Biden earned my first-ever presidential endorsement
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Opinion Melinda French Gates | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Editor’s Note: Melinda French Gates is a philanthropist, business leader and global advocate for women and girls. CNN —As President Joe Biden faces former President Donald Trump in another contest for the White House, the stakes for women and families couldn’t be higher. Obstetricians have fled states with strict bans, which could leave women without access to basic services like contraceptives. And he continues to fight for more affordable child care, home care for older Americans and people with disabilities and a long-overdue paid family and medical leave policy. While Trump has boasted about rolling back the rights of women, Biden understands that the future of our country depends on them.

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☆ Melinda French Gates endorses Joe Biden for president
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Josephine Rozzelle | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Melinda French Gates arrives at Elysee Palace for the Generation Equality Forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on July 01, 2021 in Paris, France. Melinda French Gates, a philanthropist and the former wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, announced Thursday that she will vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, writing in an op-ed that "the stakes for women and families couldn't be higher." In her explanation of her endorsement, French Gates focused on the two candidates' track records when it comes to women's issues — the subject of much of French Gates' philanthropic work. French Gates announced in May that she would be resigning as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, almost three years after she and her ex-husband announced their separation. French Gates did not say in her endorsement on Thursday whether she plans to donate to Biden's campaign.

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☆ 3 ways successful people navigate changes in life, from Melinda French Gates: Learn 'the value of embracing uncertainty'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The only constant in life is change — even for a billionaire like Melinda French Gates. "I think a lot lately about transitions," French Gates, 59, said during a commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday. Practice 'radical open-heartedness'Embrace moments of change — whether they're exciting, frustrating or tragic — with an open heart, French Gates advised. Many people prefer to keep their head down and power through the uncertainty, French Gates noted — including herself, when she was younger. And like the big wave, I thought things were coming to an end for me," French Gates continued.

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☆ Melinda French Gates said she loves her new neighborhood, having moved from ex-husband Bill Gates' $183 million compound
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates is excited about her new lifestyle post-divorce from Bill Gates. French Gates told Time that she loves walking to local spots in her neighborhood. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementMelinda French Gates is loving her new neighborhood. French Gates reportedly found just that in the house she's been living in as a divorcée.

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☆ Today is Melinda French Gates’ last day at the Gates Foundation. Here’s what she told her staff
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Jordan Valinsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —Friday marks the last day of Melinda French Gates’ more than two-decade run as the co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation she ran with her ex-husband. Bill Gates and French Gates announced their divorce in May 2021. As part of her separation agreement from former husband Bill, French Gates said she will receive an additional $12.5 billion for her charitable work. French Gates said she will donate $1 billion through 2026 to advance women’s rights around the world through her organization, Pivotal Ventures. That will include $200 million in grants to organizations that are fighting for women’s reproductive rights.

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☆ MacKenzie Scott upended philanthropy as we know it. Melinda French Gates is catching on
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

And it’s a style that Melinda French Gates appears to be emulating, at least partly, in her newly solo philanthropic venture. Now independent of that organization, French Gates is free to take bets on organizations and communities regardless of their size or ability to demonstrate their impact. Scott and French Gates’ ex husbands, meanwhile, aren’t getting as many kudos for their charitable work as they might like. Gates, with a net worth of $154 billion, has also faced criticism for the Gates Foundation’s methods. “That can’t happen through the Gates Foundation’s father-knows-best, look-at-me brand of bureaucratic philanthropy.”

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☆ Opinion: It’s hard to applaud billionaires – but these few deserve recognition
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Opinion Jill Filipovic | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

But this is the global system we do have and, within it, some billionaires are behaving much more generously and ethically than others. Melinda French Gates is one of the good ones. French Gates has long been an advocate for family planning and women’s rights abroad, and now she’s dedicating $1 billion through 2026 to those issues. Female billionaires, in other words, are far more likely than male ones to give away substantial portions of their wealth. So yes, we can applaud the good billionaires who give their wealth away, even if we think that they are representative of a bigger inequality problem.

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☆ Melinda French Gates explains why she's leaving the foundation she started with Bill Gates 3 years after their divorce
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Melinda French Gates further explained her decision to leave the foundation she started with Bill Gates. In an op-ed in The New York Times, she said she's leaving to focus her philanthropy on women and girls. AdvertisementMelinda French Gates is speaking out about her upcoming departure from the philanthropic foundation she cofounded with her now ex-husband Bill Gates. She explained her decision in an op-ed in The New York Times published Tuesday. "That's why, next week, I will leave the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, of which I was a co-founder almost 25 years ago, to open a new chapter in my philanthropy."

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