‘Scariest Person in the World’ Bill Gates ‘Terrified’ His Mega-Charity Employees: New Book
Employees who worked at at Bill Gates’ mega-charity claimed they were terrified by the billionaire’s domineering behavior — with one was likening the tech tycoon to France’s King Louis XIV, according to a new book.
Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft who went on to start one of the world’s largest philanthropic endeavors, is said to have lorded over the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with an intimidating presence that left staffers dreading his “inquisition.”
The charity has been renamed the Gates Foundation following the departure of ex-wife Melinda French Gates, who divorced the software pioneer over his reputed philandering as well as his friendship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
While Bill Gates was perceived by the outside world as a “global statesman,” those who interacted with him professionally saw him as an “absolute monarch,” New York Times journalist Anupreeta Das wrote in her new biography of the billionaire.
“He’s the scariest person in the world to provide a recommendation or briefing to because he scans a page and comes back at you saying something like, ‘what you say in the footnote on page 9 does not match with the footnote on page 28,’” a former employee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told Das. (Read more from “‘Scariest Person in the World’ Bill Gates ‘Terrified’ His Mega-Charity Employees: New Book” HERE)
