Dallas-born philanthropist with a Duke computer science degree and MBA; joined Microsoft in 1987 as a multimedia product developer and married Bill Gates in 1994, divorcing in 2021.
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Melinda French Gates on Medium
1 book of their own · 10 articles · 25 books they recommend
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Warren Buffett
The Moment of Lift | – | 2019 | Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Warren Buffett |
A novel of a planned Ohio suburb upset by the arrival of an artist and her daughter.
Also recommended by: Reese Witherspoon, Sophie Bakalar and 1 other
A black babysitter is wrongly accused of kidnapping the white child in her care.
Also recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
Also recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Reese Witherspoon and 1 other
Also recommended by: Barack Obama
Research on shame and vulnerability, and why vulnerability comes before connection.
Also recommended by: Tony Hsieh, Brené Brown, Chase Jarvis and 3 others
Also recommended by: Patrick Bet-David, The Rational Walk
Courage, compassion and connection as choices that lead to wholehearted living.
Also recommended by: Brené Brown
Rethinking your beliefs is a skill apart from intelligence, and how to practise it.
Also recommended by: Jim O'Shaughnessy
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Aileen Lee, Andrew Wilkinson and 2 others
A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Morgan Housel and 10 others
Four women venture capitalists and the deals the industry forgot
Also recommended by: Reid Hoffman
How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.
Also recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai and 37 others
Hans Rosling was a global health professor, not an economist, which gives his data-driven case for human progress particular credibility. He shows, in meticulous detail, that almost every quantitative measure of human welfare has improved dramatically over the past century. He attributes this to global trade and economic development without being a polemicist.
Also recommended by: Bill Gates, Alfred Lin, Daniel Petre and 3 others
Reporting on the culture that produced Uber's 2017 crisis.
Also recommended by: Aaron Levie, Aileen Lee, Arianna Huffington and 2 others
| 7 Women Making Who Are History | Medium | 2018-03-30 |
| Holiday Gifts to Encourage Curious Kids | Medium | 2017-12-08 |
| Overcoming “Hidden Hunger” | Medium | 2017-11-03 |
| #GirlsTakeover: Sanita’s Story | Medium | 2017-10-11 |
| Inspiring Athletes Who Paved the Way for Others | Medium | 2017-09-23 |
| 3 Books by Changemakers, For ChangeMakers | Medium | 2017-09-22 |
| The Child Survival Revolution | Medium | 2017-09-13 |
| Resilience, Risk-Taking, and Dreaming Big | Medium | 2017-08-21 |
| Washington State’s Paid Leave Policy Shows the Power of Working Together | Medium | 2017-07-21 |
| Keeping Our Promise to 120 Million Women and Girls | Medium | 2017-07-11 |
| Melinda French Gates Is Ready to Take Sides Paywall | The New York Times Magazine | 2024 |
| Melinda French Gates Is Going It Alone | TIME | 2024 |