On January 1, 1994, 39-year-old billionaire Bill Gates held a grand wedding with Melinda on the island of Lanai, Hawaii. In order for the wedding not to be disturbed by outside factors, he contracted all the facilities on this island, including hotels, helicopters, yachts and so on.
Melinda was 28 years old at the time, not a pretty face, she is intelligent, outstanding ability, 7 years ago with their ability to obtain a double bachelor’s degree, successfully applied to do sales at Microsoft, 7 years later she has become the sales manager of Microsoft, and married their boss Bill Gates.
A year later, Bill Gates became the richest man in the world.
After the marriage, Melinda gave birth to three children for Bill Gates, and had a happy family with children and endless money.
The two set up a foundation named after both of them and donated their entire fortune to focus on charity work.
Who would have thought that after 27 years of marriage, the marriage would end on the grounds that they could not keep each other elevated.
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Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle on the west coast of the United States, originally named William Henry Gates 3. His maternal grandfather was the president of the National Bank, his father was a famous lawyer, and his mother was also a director of several companies.
Bill Gates grew up with the golden key, but Bill Gates was not good at socializing as a child. He spent all his time learning to program and didn’t even talk to people for days at a time.
His mother was worried that she would get autism if she didn’t have contact with the outside world, so she enrolled him in various special classes, but the stubborn little Bill only liked computers.
His mother, who wanted her son to be a child, often nagged him about his disobedience, and Bill often talked back to his parents, who were just like many children around us at that time, willful and rebellious.
The parents had no choice but to take him to a psychiatric hospital, where the psychologist gave the following advice.
Don’t be too hard on your child, you should give them more freedom.
After that, at the age of 13, Bill officially began his independent life, he was recruited into the school’s programmer group for his excellent grades, and began to systematically study computers, while his cultural subjects did not regress at all.
In 1973, at the age of 18, Bill Gates was admitted to Harvard Law School with a score of 1590 (out of 1600) on the Academic Ability Assessment, and his father, who was a lawyer, was thinking of his son becoming a lawyer in the future and following in his footsteps.
But Bill Gates once again let his father down, at that time he was not interested in all courses except for computers.
Eventually he chose to drop out of school and start his own business, and his parents were furious, but they knew that their son had grown up and had failed to change his mind as a child, and it was even harder to do so at this time.
In 1977, Bill Gates dropped out of school and founded Microsoft, starting his illustrious entrepreneurial career.
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In the early days of his business, Bill Gates met his confidante, Winblad, who was nine years older than him, mature and stable but not too sexy.
In a product seminar held in Seattle, Winblad spoke eloquently on stage and offered a lot of insights into the development and commercialization of the computer industry, and these ideas made Bill Gates admire her.
After that, Bill often went to Wimbledon to study the problem, the two together always have endless words, he was soon fascinated by Wimbledon, began to live together.
In fact, before this relationship, Bill also liked a girl named Jenny, at that time he often abandoned the work in hand to go on a date with Jenny, but Jenny in front of him always put out a woman for the attitude, the young two often because of some minor conflicts and quarrels, and each time Bill was forced to give in, a long time, he was tired, and wanted to Jenny to break up.
That’s when he met Wimbledon, Wimbledon is a sensible scholarly beauty, in her eyes, Bill Gates is like his own brother, no matter what happens, she will be gentle attitude to soothe his heart those small grumpy.
Her tenderness and thoughtfulness touched Bill Gates, and the two really reached a spiritual match.
During the period, Bill Gates also and rock star Scott rumors, at that time Microsoft has researched the DOS computer system, he was known as the genius can change the world, worth tens of billions of dollars.
After his flirtation with Bill Gates, Scott often made a big deal of his relationship with him as a way to show off, causing the company’s stock price to drop and lose $900 million.
Winblad knew, did not blame him, but as always, comforting enlightenment, told him to self-respect and self-love, because in the future the name of Bill Gates is likely to be in the history books of the characters, reputation is very important to him.
With Winblad’s help, Bill Gates successfully survived the reputation crisis, which also enabled Microsoft to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
After that she also proposed marriage to Bill Gates, wanting to give him a stable and happy family, and no longer suffer from outside criticism, but Bill Gates at this time but hesitated.
By this time the two had been together for 10 years, and for 10 years Wimbledon had always played the role of lover, confidant, sister and assistant.
Bill Gates knew that Wimbledon’s idea of marriage, he was a little hesitant, he loved Wimbledon, also like to get along with her, but at that time he did not do a good job of planning to get married.
Just when he was hesitant, his mother stepped in to meet with Wimbledon without his knowledge and took a clear stance that she would not allow her son to marry a woman nine years older than him.
Wimbledon chose to leave the city alone in order not to put Bill Gates in a difficult position. Bill Gates, after discovering her disappearance, began a frantic search and searched every corner of Seattle, failing to find the one he loved so much, at which point he blamed himself for his hesitation, thinking that it was his failure to agree to marry Wimbledon that led to the result.
And Wimbledon, who had gone to Europe for a few days after being confused, still couldn’t let go of Bill Gates in her heart, so she went back to him.
After learning the news, Bill Gates’ mother once again met Wimbledon closely and talked to her at length about Bill Gates’ future.
This time, instead of running away, Wimbledon chose to compromise and promised to do her best to help Bill Gates, but never marry him.
She then made her attitude clear to Bill Gates, who, faced with his mother’s pressure and fear of marriage, acquiesced, and the two officially ended their relationship as lovers.
After the breakup, he enlarged Winblad’s picture, hung it in his office, and told the crowd that
She will be the best friend of my life!
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Just when Bill Gates was ready to put aside his relationship for a while and devote himself to his work, young Melinda came into her life.
Melinda was born in 1964 in an ordinary family in Dallas, she was very smart since childhood, and obtained several bachelor’s degrees one after another, and after joining Microsoft, she made a great contribution to the development of Microsoft with her ability.
As a result of frequent meetings with Bill Gates at work, the two also grew affectionate.
One fall afternoon, the two met in the parking lot, Bill Gates invited her to go on a business trip with him, Melinda readily agreed, and then the two began a beautiful office romance.
The affair was also approved by Winblad, who could not give Bill Gates the happy and complete family she hoped Melinda could.
In 1993, he formally proposed to Melinda on a private jet, and the two were subsequently married in Hawaii in the wedding of the century.
Bill Gates was 43 years old at the time, and his increasing age combined with his mother’s serious illness made it impossible for him to live his life the way he wanted to.
Before the wedding, he consulted Winblad again and told Melinda.
Wimbledon was his former lover, but not anymore, but we were still best friends, and every year he would spend a week with Wimbledon, and when they lived together, they only talked about work and friendship, a purely “platonic” spiritual exchange.
In the face of her husband’s unreasonable demands, Melinda agreed.
After giving birth to her first daughter, she quit Microsoft and focused on raising her children at home. Although her husband was the richest man in the world, she still wanted to live a quiet life as an ordinary person and rarely appeared in public except for charity activities.
In 2000, the couple established the Bill and Melinda Foundation, which aims to provide help to people around the world who are experiencing difficulties in health and education, and has helped tens of millions of people regain their health and happiness since the foundation was established.
Later on his 50th birthday, Bill Gates also said that he would donate all his wealth to society and would not leave any legacy to his children and grandchildren.
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After his marriage to Melinda, Bill Gates also suffered a cheating fiasco with Stephanie, a female employee of his company.
The 25-year-old Stephanie is sweet looking and has a hot body. Gates attacked her at the office and they met at a bar to talk.
At first Bill Gates was just talking to her seriously about work, but later he couldn’t help but touch her leg with his knee, and then whispered his love to her.
The world’s richest man, has a boyfriend Stephanie still can not refuse, the two together sweet in the bar. The two of them went to bars, restaurants and hotels together, and expressed their love to each other via e-mail.
In the sweetest days of the relationship, Stefania also broke the rules to attend a number of confidential meetings at Microsoft, to learn a lot of Microsoft’s hidden insider knowledge.
After their relationship was exposed, the relationship was forced to end under public pressure and Melinda’s intervention.
Subsequently, the U.S. conducted an antitrust investigation against Microsoft, and Stephanie, as a knowledgeable witness, went toe-to-toe with Bill Gates in court. Her testimony almost brought Microsoft to its knees, and Bill Gates lost $8 billion and resigned as CEO of Microsoft.
At this time, Melinda came forward to fully support her husband and their relationship was elevated.
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After that, there were no more scandals during their 20-year-long marriage, and instead, the family lived a sweet and happy life together.
On their 26th wedding anniversary, January 1, 2020, Melinda shared a photo of the two dancing together to celebrate their happy anniversary.
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, while the two were shopping together at a fruit market, Bill Gates shared a photo of himself holding Melinda with a caption saying.
A better partner could not be found in this life.
This year, on January 1, the two sides did not release any news to celebrate, only Melinda posted a picture of a landscape with a text saying.
Turning over a new leaf doesn’t necessarily mean starting from scratch, it means learning from the good times and the bad times later and using them for a new beginning.
The divorce of the two has revealed some clues at this time.
Still, the divorce statement released by the two on May 3 shocked the world that the two people with huge wealth were really divorced.
After the divorce of the two property division has also become a matter of great concern, but I think since they choose to divorce, and money should not have any relationship, because to them this paragraph, money is just a number.
The official statement of the “can not continue to improve” reason is just an excuse for both sides to give each other decency.
Conclusion
The truth about the divorce is that we cannot speculate, but the fact that Bill Gates, who is 65 years old, was able to end his 27-year marriage really makes people have more views on this humble genius.
Bill Gates and Melinda’s divorce tells us that money is not the only measure of marital happiness, two people together need to care for each other, each other’s protection, in order to do the hand of the son, with the son old.
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