When Bill Gates made a list of the pros and cons of getting married to Melinda Gates on a whiteboard
While the world is still in shock over Bill Gates and Melinda Gates divorce, we take a trip down memory lane when the Microsoft co-founder made a list of the pros and cons of getting married to Melinda. Written By
Pinkvilla Desk 25112 reads Mumbai Updated: May 5, 2021 02:09 pm According to Melinda Gates, Bill Gates had taken the idea of marriage very seriously at the time.
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It s still difficult to digest that after 27 years of marriage, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates are calling it quits and heading for a divorce. .but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives, the ex-couple had penned in a join statement, shared on Instagram. While all eyes are now on the divorce proceedings, we take a trip down memory lane to the way Bill and Melinda were.
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There are friends whose weddings you go to, whose vows you echo and whose joy you toast – all the while wondering how long it will last. Then there are couples like Bill and Melinda Gates, who appear for all the world like nailed-on till-death-do-us-part-ers – too sensible, too devoted to give in to hot-headed disputes which can end a long term marriage.
Perhaps that’s why news of their split is so gloomy. If anyone was going to make a lifetime’s go of it, surely it was them. For run-of-the-mill celebrities, relationship drama is practically in the job description. For other tech billionaires, you can see it coming. Jeff Bezos bulking up in the gym was a giant warning light, and thrice-divorced father of seven Elon Musk doesn’t appear to be a model of marital harmony.
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After Bill and Melinda Gates announced their separation this week, various old rumors and reports that swirled during their relationship have begun to resurface.
Perhaps the most prominent of the bunch first emerged in a 1997 profile in Time magazine, where the Microsoft founder explained that he and ex-girlfriend Ann Winblad would have yearly weekend vacations at her beach cottage in North Carolina during his marriage to Melinda.
Both Gates and his ex, who the
New York Postreports is now married to Alex Kline, would “play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology,” as Gates said. He began taking the yearly trip when the pair first dated in 1984 after meeting at a computer conference.
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Melinda Gates are divorcing, as headlines yelled Monday afternoon. They asked for privacy in their statement, which reads, in part:
“Over the last 27 years, we have raised three incredible children and built a foundation that works all over the world to enable all people to lead healthy, productive lives. We continue to share a belief in that mission and will continue our work together at the foundation, but we no longer believe we can grow together as a couple in this next phase of our lives.”
The Gateses were married in Hawaii in 1994 after Bill made a pro/con list, as legend has it, per the documentary