Bill and Melinda Gates
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Microsoft co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates said in a tweet on Monday that he and his wife Melinda Gates will split after 27 years.
Financial details are not yet clear. Bill Fact owns 1.37% of Microsoft’s outstanding shares, which FactSet says are valued at more than $ 26 billion. The couple co-created the Giving Pledge with Warren Buffett, in which more than half of their fortune is given away.
Last year, Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft’s board of directors as coronavirus became a global force. He spent more time with the nonprofit Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation alongside Melinda Gates. The two are co-chairs and trustees of the foundation, which was established in 2000.
Bill and Melinda Gates met at Microsoft. She was a marketing manager at the software company. The two married in Hawaii in 1994 after Bill Gates weighed the pros and cons on a blackboard.
The announcement comes two years after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said he and his wife MacKenzie were getting a divorce. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are some of the richest people in the world, and Amazon and Microsoft compete in the cloud computing business.
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