Interview with Melinda Gates:“Great wealth can be very confusing. It can inflate and distort your sense of self.”
The philanthropist and wife of Bill Gates on what she tells her kids, getting women into tech and the perils of wealth Sun 5 May 2019 13.00 BST Last modified on Sun 5 May 2019 14.35 BST Shares 234 ‘Outrage is a knee-jerk emotional response’: Melinda Gates. Photograph: Jason Bell M elinda Gates is co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which she set up with her husband, Bill Gates. It is the largest private charitable organisation in the world and uses Microsoft’s billions in diverse philanthropic drives: supplying vaccines and birth control to developing countries and working to get the world’s 130 million girls not in formal education into school. Gates was herself educated in an all-girls Catholic high school in Dallas and studied computer science and economics at university before taking a job with “a smallish software company called Microsoft”. Her new book The Moment of Lift...