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

And again, talk about that oppositional.

So I can also rise up.

Sometimes I have to have something to work against.

And I left

And I was so angry.

I was like, she sees me like that?

Who is she to see me like that?

Are you kidding?

I'm going to show her.

And I went back.

Once she said that, I went back and looked at the transcripts of the girls from our school who had preceded me, and I realized the only ones who ever got into the colleges I wanted to get into were the valedictorians.

And I was like, oh, boy, I've got to be valedictorian.

Is that right?

Mm-hmm.

And so I had to then get A's in all my classes, even the honors.

So I put a lot of pressure on myself.

But ultimately, I went to Duke and I had a time when they had two new brand new computer labs.

I had very good classes.

Yeah, it ended up being fantastic.

She knew where I ended up.

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