Bill Gates was ousted from Microsoft board over staff relationship
Microsoft founder Bill Gates' departure from the company board may have been due to pressure from other board members, prompted by allegations he had an inappropriate relationship with a female employee.
In 2020, it was announced that Bill Gates was leaving the Microsoft board to concentrate on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. However, in a Sunday report, it is alleged that Gates may have been pushed out by the other board members over an engineer's claim.
Gates was accused of having pursued a relationship with a Microsoft employee in 2000, in a letter sent to the board by a Microsoft engineer, according to the Wall Street Journal. The board hired a law firm to investigate the accusation in 2019, and some members also decided it was unsuitable for Gates to remain a director while the probe was being conducted.
A spokeswoman for Gates said "There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably." Gates' decision to leave 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."
The revelations follow just over two weeks after Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce, ending their marriage after 27 years.
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In 2020, it was announced that Bill Gates was leaving the Microsoft board to concentrate on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. However, in a Sunday report, it is alleged that Gates may have been pushed out by the other board members over an engineer's claim.
Gates was accused of having pursued a relationship with a Microsoft employee in 2000, in a letter sent to the board by a Microsoft engineer, according to the Wall Street Journal. The board hired a law firm to investigate the accusation in 2019, and some members also decided it was unsuitable for Gates to remain a director while the probe was being conducted.
A spokeswoman for Gates said "There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably." Gates' decision to leave 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."
The revelations follow just over two weeks after Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce, ending their marriage after 27 years.
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and that is likely just the top of the iceberg.
Sellout? Who thinks he was at some point a wonderful person, motivated by the will to do good? He was known to be an aggressive money-seeking dick from day one. He was also a spoiled & privileged teenager, and has a famous smarmy-ass mug shot from an arrest. Then there’s his jerky performance in front of the senate... The personality has always been there.
On the side of “devil’s advocate”, let’s address the so-called nude parties and relationship stuff:
Are you so afraid of human sexuality & the human body that nudity in someone’s own private space bothers you? You’ve heard that there are entire swaths of people who join nudist groups, right? How many of you guys are usually worshipping wealthy tech bros for “winning” and being able to throw pool parties with “hot chicks” & strippers?
Then there’s a thing called ethical non-monogamy, and things called open marriages. Yes, people consent to these types of arrangements. Such a thing might be relevant to the current marriage issues, or might NOT be. Where’s the info and why is it our business?
I see zero citations of source here on anything. All I see is gossip, which Apple fanatics are happy to engage because Bill Gates is “the original enemy” (well, IBM was THE original enemy, but Gates was the smarmy face of the longer-standing, and more obnoxious rival corporation for decades).
I do not care about the sex lives of consenting adults (assuming it’s informed consent, and that distinction matters). I only care that people engage with the world ethically, and are ALLOWED the agency to live their lives as they wish to, so long as they’re not actively or passively harming others.
If Gates had a relationship with an employee, then there’s a question of conflict of interest in the workplace, and potentially worse things like the employee feeling pressured to engage in said relationship because of the imbalanced power dynamic. That stuff matters. That should be analyzed & discussed, because workplaces should be safe from bullying, sexual abuse, etc., and it’s long past the time for workplaces to ACTUALLY BE safe and for corporations to be held accountable for being anything BUT.
But the other crap brought up here... Is just weird.
You may hear more weird things in coming months. He is trying to disappear slowly from public life. Divorce and now this... I would not be surpriced if we see in some months news he or Bezos died on heart attack, this or that or in car crash or do not hear about him at all.
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/03/billionaires-wealth-tax-wilkinson-new-york-times
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