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– Open book. Anyone who has survived the divorce knows that it is not just destroyed for two people who unravel their lives apart, but for anyone they are connected with. But a few album women, in this matter, to consider the consequences of the Beauty Melinda French gate, when separated from their ex-husband, co-founder Microsoft Bill Gates.
In a new book published this week called The next dayThe French gate talks about their divorce, other transitions that change the life she has experienced over the past few years. “I loved Bill,” the French Gates writes in one of the book sections. “Not only that, but I appreciated our family life deeply – and I felt a great responsibility before the foundation we started together. Did I intend to break it all off? Are I going to give up the future that we would imagine for so long?”
The French gates and gates began their eponymous foundation back in 2000, with the aim of “creating a world where everyone has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life.” But the duo divorced in 2021, and last year, the French Gates departed from the organization they created with $ 75 billion. Her new focus? Giving 100% of its time the main, investment and propaganda firm, which it launched in 2015.
In a recent interview with Wealth In his new book, the French Gates told how these tectonic shifts changed it as a person and as a leader. For starters, she says she became much more convenient to be “vulnerable”. It is clear that she also became much more comfortable when she was open not only about her work but also about herself.
Given this, the French Gates says it is sensitive to the pulsation effect that can have a divorce, including the base. So, before announcing the split, the former couple called Warren Buffett, their friend and benefactor – a billionaire for many years gave more than $ 39 billion.
“I mean, he made this huge investment to the fund,” said the French Gates Fortune, “and therefore everything he eventually needed to accept or not. We both felt strongly that he was one of the first people we had to say.”
While Buffet’s notice is certainly not on the list of most divorced women, the French gate shares many other, more relative anecdotes about her divorce in the book. One example: pulling up to crying in the car, listening to the song of Will Nelson, Always in my headImmediately after she told Gates that she wanted to divorce.
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