Claire Stephens
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She used to be Melinda Gates, Bill Gates' former wife.
And they met at work.
She was very high powered at Microsoft when they met.
And she led a huge team of engineers there and was clearly destined for great things within that company.
They met, they got married.
Presumably part of what attracted him to her was that they had this shared interest.
They had this shared field and profession.
But I am thinking about your words, Mia, about how
that can lead to some incompatibility down the line.
Clearly it did for them.
They had a very long marriage and they had two children together and they still co-parent those children, although they're growing now.
But it's become apparent in interviews that he didn't actually want her to keep
pitching in and talking to him as an equal.
Because that's part of why he started running around with Jeffrey Epstein.
And it's part of why the New York Times and others have reported that he was hitting on women in the workplace, because I guess he didn't actually like the fact that he had married someone who he had that shared interest with.
A very strange ad for DoorDash dropped on Monday.
It features Brooklyn Beckham.
He's sitting on a couch in what I think must be his Miami home.
There's a palm tree out the back, could be LA.