Melinda French Gates
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932 appearances
10 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 14 Jun
Melinda French Gates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
The values they put in us and taught us and how they taught us to learn and that's why I first – back in the day when they were hardly anywhere had computers.
We had computers.
It's where I learned I wanted – I could be good in computer science, good in math.
So I knew who I was when I went out in the world.
And I think that I've learned this happens to a lot of women.
We know who we are, but we go into college or we go into the workplace or we go into that environment and people start to chip away at us and say, you can't be that.
You can't do that.
And at least for me, I sort of built up that.
Almost forgetting who I was in my core and my essence.
But as I would see these different groups, I could remember not that, not that, not that.
And so maybe to your point, I was able to chisel my way back to who I am in my essence.
And it was always there and I always held on to it.
I didn't let go of it, but I had to see other things to go, not that.
Yeah.
My freshman advisor, who was also the college counselor for our all-girls school, I won't say her name, when I went in to start talking to her about colleges and where I wanted to go and what my dreams were, and she said,
oh, no, no, no, no.
Those aren't for you.
You know, when I said things like Notre Dame and Stanford or Duke, oh, no.
I mean, maybe we should consider, you know, maybe like a local community college or maybe we should think about Texas Tech.
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