The soon-to-be ex-couple during a TED conference in 2014.
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While he wasn t her direct boss, Gates ran Microsoft when French Gates joined as a product manager in 1987 straight out of college, and he asked her out in a company parking lot, she said at a 2016 conference.
1987: Bill Gates started dating Melinda French Gates while he was her boss at Microsoft.
While he wasn t her direct boss, Gates ran Microsoft when French Gates joined as a product manager in 1987 straight out of college, and he asked her out in a company parking lot, she said at a 2016 conference.
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Gates in 2000.