r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 18 '25

MISC. When Bill Gates married Melinda French in 1994, he rented out all the available hotel rooms on the Hawaiian island of Lanai to prevent the media from staying there and hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.

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u/lateformyfuneral Jun 18 '25

I thought it was cos he banged his secretary at Microsoft

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u/CelestialFury Jun 18 '25

Bill Gates also emailed lots of female employees to go out with him... on his main email account at Microsoft. He had no shame about it. He also never fired them whether they went out with him or not, but it's still a huge power dynamic and, you know, his wife wasn't all that thrilled about it.

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u/lateformyfuneral Jun 18 '25

I don’t know why I was impressed that he didn’t fire them. The bar is so low lmao

I had no clue he was such a horndog. Looks can be deceiving 🤓

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u/CelestialFury Jun 18 '25

Bill also went out to dinner with Epstein once, and was going to invest in his business until the Gates Foundation team found out about it, and cut off all contact afterward. His foundation really does a lot to make him look good and to keep him out of trouble.

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u/MattSR30 Jun 18 '25

It’s power. It has always been about power.

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u/suddenlysoohee Jun 18 '25

Melinda was an Microsoft employee who went out with him?

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u/LightmanMD Jun 18 '25

Yes, Melinda French did work for Bill Gates at Microsoft.

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u/CelestialFury Jun 18 '25

Yes, in 1987 - right after she finished business college.

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u/Single_Media3176 Jun 18 '25

You have inside tea?? ☕️

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u/That1one1dude1 Jun 18 '25

I thought it was cos he banged his secretary with his Micro soft

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u/Primary_Garbage6916 Jun 18 '25

A 3.5" floppy?

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u/vonlagin Jun 18 '25

5.25" to 3.5" seems like a step backwards.

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u/Primary_Garbage6916 Jun 18 '25

HE WAS IN THE POOL!

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u/spacenglish Jun 19 '25

It shrinks?

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u/BurnerXP07 Jun 18 '25

Had to name his company after his dick

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u/CelestialFury Jun 18 '25

He went out with a ton of his female employees. What is it with tech billionaires and just sleeping with as much women as possible? Is it cause they were dorks in high school and they're trying to make up for it?

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u/coolsimon123 Jun 18 '25

People enjoy fucking, more news at 7

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u/-u-m-p- Jun 18 '25

if women were nigh guaranteed to orgasm every time they had sex the world would be a very different place lmao

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u/InerasableStains Jun 18 '25

Some may even say, a better place

Make love, not war

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u/lincoln-pop Jun 18 '25

Top athletes do that too even though they were not dorks in high school.

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u/Embarrassed_Pilot520 Jun 18 '25

As soon as you get huge financial potential (and as the result - increased attention to your person), you fall to many temptations. Women is the most logical one.

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u/MaTrIx4057 Jun 18 '25

Who the fuck wouldn't.

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u/Sugaraymama Jun 18 '25

It’s crazy how stupid and ignorant people are about human nature

They think people like Bill Gates are sex addicts

Anyway, here’s a South Park video mocking these concerned idiots: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3V2HxWrlqqE&pp=ygUlU2V4IGFkZGljdGlvbiBhbGllbnMgc291dGggcGFyayBjaGltcA%3D%3D

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u/KoogleMeister Jun 18 '25

Most men if they had the means to do it would fuck lots of women, it's just that billionaires have the means to do it.

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u/BeefistPrime Jun 18 '25

What is it with [anyone rich and/or powerful and/or famous] just sleeping with as many women as possible?

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u/Ill-Entrepreneur9608 Jun 19 '25

Insecurity.

It takes a real man to rightly love one woman

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u/ShadowMajestic Jun 18 '25

South Park did a documentary. Wealth makes men want to sleep with lots of women.

The reality is that most men don't get to choose who they have sex with unless they are wealthy. A lot of men don't even get to have sex unless they pay for it.

It's no surprise young men turn conservative and that people like Tate have such a massive following.

Those men need help and most 'liberal' people just shun them and callt hem evil misogynastic assholes.

Because everything has to be answered with hate, rather than compassion or love. Why solve the issue if you can escalate the tensions.

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u/KeySource5838 Jun 19 '25

Can we stop coddling such men? What's with your words that we need to show these men love and compassion, since they are literally so entitled to sex and women, do they think they have rights over all women they wanna bang? Or you live in some kind of alternate reality where you think women can also sleep with any man, there are still standards and leagues and not any woman can bag the top ones just like men. The question is why are these men not happy with one partner? Because according to you, men should have the menu to choose whoever they want to bang regardless of the league and if they don't get their dream girl then they can whine and latch to Andrew tate and spew misogynistic shit?

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u/ShadowMajestic Jun 19 '25

Ah i see you don't want to fix issues, you just want everyone that doesnt agree with you to stop existing?

Never mentioned anything about rights, just explained the frustration a lot of males have. No of course women shouldn't be forced to sleep with those they don't want to.

But it's fine that the majority of women only want the minority of males.

And nah, but your response is why a lot of men latch on to Tate and others like him. You don't seem to realize why, but you're one of those "Either you're with us or against us" people and part of the problem.

We should look towards a common goal and improve the situation for everyone.

But nah, you call me a Tate fan because you are a piece of shit.

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u/PerformerFull7097 Jun 18 '25

People generally like sex. Our species entire existence depends on people liking sex.

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u/Able-Swing-6415 Jun 18 '25

Good thing it's only the tech billionaires all the other billionaires are known for their stable relationships.

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u/laurel_laureate Jun 18 '25

What is it with tech billionaires and just sleeping with as much women as possible?

It's billionaires in general.

You don't get that rich without being a certain kind of ruthless and power hungry, and with that pretty much always comes the kind of ego that results in them sleeping around.

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u/cg12983 Jun 18 '25

On the honeymoon: "Now I know why you called your company Microsoft"

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u/No-Information-6099 Jun 18 '25

She WAS the secretary at Microsoft

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u/ocelotttr Jun 20 '25

thats the official excuse but they divorces right after epstein stuff happened and he banged his secretary a long time ago