Why did Bill Gates leave Microsoft?
The founder of the information technology giant left his position as CEO of the group in March 2020.
The definitive departure of Bill Gates from the Microsoft group, in March 2020, would be linked to a relationship considered "inappropriate" with an employee of the company in the early 2000s, according to information published by the Wall Street Journal exclusively, which then it has been expanded by the New York Times.
Bill Gates, founder of the information technology giant, left his position as CEO of the group in March 2020: "The Microsoft board members had decided that Bill Gates should resign from their board in 2020 while they investigated the relationship. of the billionaire with a Microsoft employee who was deemed inappropriate, "according to the business daily, citing sources familiar with the matter.
It is "an adventure dating back 20 years and ended amicably," according to a spokeswoman for Bill Gates, cited by the Wall Street Journal.
Gates and his wife Melinda created Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to fight poverty and diseases like malaria 20 years ago. The two announced their divorce on May 3 after 27 years of marriage.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed that the group was informed in late 2019 that “Bill Gates sought to establish an intimate relationship with a company employee in 2000. A committee of the Board of Directors examined the problem, assisted by a law firm. external. Apparently this woman had claimed, in a letter, to have had a sexual relationship with Bill Gates "for years," details the Wall Street Journal, which states that Gates' resignation had occurred before the end of this investigation.
According to the Wall Street Journal, members of Microsoft's Board of Directors were interested in the links between Bill Gates and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, prosecuted for trafficking in minors. The defense of Bill Gates assured that it was about "philanthropic relationships", of which he had "regretted", underlines the newspaper.
Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 and led the multinational until 2000 when he resigned from the Group's Executive Presidency to dedicate himself more to its foundation. In 2008 he had already left all executive functions in the group.
