Melinda French Gates said that she was not embarrassed by the unpleasant things that Tech Bros has to say about her philanthropic work.
French Gates was asked about the criticisms that billionaires like her and Mackenzie Scott received for their philanthropy during an interview with Scott Galloway on his podcast, broadcast on Thursday.
“I don’t know,” said French Gates. “I know who I am and I know what I do and I know what my values are and why I give back.”
“I am not sitting on the sidelines. For me, it is so easy to sit on the sidelines and, as Roosevelt said, criticize the touch. I am in the arena by doing the work,” continued the French gates.
French Gates has received criticism for his charity work. In June, Tesla and the CEO of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that “could be the fall of Western civilization” after the French Gates approved the re -election campaign of President Joe Biden. Musk responded to an X post by Babylon Bee staff, Ashley St. Clair, on the approval of French Gates.
“Many super bad arches are prosecuted under the guise of philanthropy,” wrote St. Clair in a post.
“Yeah,” replied Musk.
Earlier, in March 2024, Musk criticized the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, Scott, for his charitable gifts.
“” Super rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse “should be deposited are listed among” reasons that Western civilization died “,” wrote Musk in an article now deleted on X on March 6, 2024.
The French gates told Galloway that attacks and criticism will not prevent him from continuing with his philanthropy.
“I think that when you are not doing the job and you are not in the arena, it is easier to criticize others and to project on others or to make them look because you do not want to go do this work,” she said.
“Is that up to them. If that’s how they want to act?
French Gates announced his divorce from the co -founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, in 2021. The couple had been married for 27 years.
In May, French Gates said that she had left Gates Foundation, a philanthropic foundation that she had started with her ex-husband in 2000. Her donation efforts are now mainly led by Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company she launched in 2015.
French Gates wrote on his decision to leave the Gates Foundation in an editorial for the New York Times published in May. In this editorial, she said that she would give $ 1 billion over the next two years to causes relating to reproductive rights, women and families.
“Many years ago, I received this advice:” Define your own agenda, or someone else will define it for you. “Since then, I have been carrying these words with me,” wrote French Gates.
The representatives of French Gates did not respond to a request for comments from Business Insider.
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