Melinda French Gates Opens Up About Marriage, Tech and Trump
On this episode of The Circuit with Emily Chang, she also discuses her work as a philanthropist and where she wants to make her next mark.
Melinda French Gates, right, on The Circuit with Emily Chang
One recent afternoon on the outskirts of Seattle, Melinda French Gates was walking and talking. She was discussing a great many things—including what she feels went wrong with her marriage.
In the neighborhood where she bought her first house—on her own and with her own money—she reflected on starting a job as a tech product manager at a small-but-rapidly-growing company called Microsoft. On this episode of The Circuit with Emily Chang, we walk with French Gates as she explains how a few years before she married Bill Gates she purchased that home, a quiet triumph for a single woman in the early 1990s, and everything that came next.