Melinda French Gates

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932 appearances 10 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 14 Jun

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Wild Card with Rachel Martin · Melinda French Gates · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

You know, there were like 1,800 employees.

It was tiny still.

We knew we were changing the world.

And I loved all of that and that creativity and being around smart people.

So I learned that I like to work in that type of environment.

But I also learned that I didn't like that sort of rough and tumble, elbow each other, be the smartest person in the room, the boys' debate club.

And so...

As I moved up, because there weren't many women there, and I was a good manager.

I had managed people in high school and in college and in business school.

As I moved up the ranks, I realized I no longer wanted to play that game.

I would leave work, and at the end of the day, I'd go to the grocery store, and I just wasn't a very nice person anymore.

And I thought, that's not who I want to be.

And so I thought, I'll leave.

I'll go get another job.

But maybe before I do that,

I'll just try being myself.

I knew I'd fall flat on my face, whatever.

And as I started to be more myself, and because I was managing large teams, people started flocking to my groups around the company.

And others would say to me, how did you get that developer, that hard-charging developer, you know, from out of the project to come work in the consumer division?

And I started to realize it was the culture I was creating.

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