Bill Gates was nudged off the Microsoft board in 2020 as directors pursued an investigation into the company founder’s prior relationship with a female employee, according to news reports.Members of the board had hired a law firm to examine the issue in 2019 after a Microsoft engineer alleged in a letter that she had relationship with Gates over several years, the reports said.
Gates resigned before the probe was completed.A spokeswoman for Mr. Gates told the WSJ: “There was an affair almost 20 years ago which ended amicably.” She said his “decision to transition off the board was in no way related to this matter.
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