Melinda French Gates

Bill Gates donated record $8 billion to Melinda French Gates’ foundation as part of their divorce settlement
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Bill Gates donated record $8 billion to Melinda French Gates’ foundation as part of their divorce settlement

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January 9, 2026
Melinda French Gates
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Melinda French Gates got her start at Microsoft because an IBM hiring manager told her to turn down its job offer—’It dumbfounded me’

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December 31, 2025
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg
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Sheryl Sandberg breaks down why it’s a troubling time for women in the workplace right now

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December 12, 2025
Billie Eilish
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While Billie Eilish slams non-philanthropic billionaires, this CEO says telling people what to do with their cash is ‘invasive’ and to ‘butt out’

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December 3, 2025
MacKenzie Scott
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Trump’s new tax policies will cut the wealthy’s philanthropy by over $4 billion—and middle-class donors can’t match the donations of MacKenzie Scott

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December 1, 2025
Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna
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Meet the millennial Meta cofounder and ex-journalist wife giving away their $20 billion fortune

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November 10, 2025
Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett
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Hundreds of billionaires pledged to give away $600 billion to charity—but the Bill Gates and Warren Buffett era of philanthropy may be over

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November 6, 2025
Women are leaving the workforce in droves. Melinda French Gates launched a competition to solve it
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Women are leaving the workforce in droves. Melinda French Gates launched a competition to solve it

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October 27, 2025
Peter Thiel
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Peter Thiel says he warned Elon Musk to ditch donating to The Giving Pledge because Bill Gates will give his wealth away ‘to left-wing nonprofits’

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October 13, 2025
Mackenzie Scott
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MacKenzie Scott is making another huge donation with no strings attached—this time it’s $70 million to historically Black colleges and universities

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September 23, 2025
Phoebe Gates
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Bill and Melinda French Gates gave their Gen Z daughter this piece of business advice before she launched her own $8 million startup

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September 17, 2025
NYU Professor Suzy Welch
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NYU professor says traditional networking is ‘nonsense’ — instead, real friendships are key to success

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September 12, 2025
‘We’ve asked women for far too long to deal with pain and suffering’: Melinda French Gates invests a fresh $100 million in women’s health
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‘We’ve asked women for far too long to deal with pain and suffering’: Melinda French Gates invests a fresh $100 million in women’s health

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September 11, 2025
Zuckerberg, Sanchez, Bezos, Pichai, and Musk at President Trump's inauguration.
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America’s billionaires are worth $5.7 trillion—but they’ve only pledged or donated $185 billion of that in the last decade

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September 4, 2025
Real estate icon Fredrik Eklund
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Luxury real estate star Fredrik Eklund reveals the latest trend for wealthy buyers: at-home ‘biohacking’

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August 31, 2025

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