40 Years Ago, Drexel Made Computer -- and Apple -- History

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2. IIRC, at $5/share PRE countless splits and gains.

Bill made beaucoup bucks, of which VERY FORTUNATELY, Half went to Melinda French Gates, philanthropist.

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/melinda-gates-interview-politics

But this spring French Gates made her first-ever presidential endorsement, for Joe Biden. The time was right, she tells me, because she believes a second term with Donald Trump “would be dangerous” to reproductive rights and gender parity. (In response to her endorsement, Musk tweeted, “Might be the downfall of Western civilization.” French Gates saw the post: “I think it was silly.”)

In July, when Biden announced he wouldn’t seek reelection, French Gates waited only two days before publicly endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris—with whom she’s worked several times, including on an agriculture initiative leading up to Harris’s 2023 visit to Africa. They were seated together at a state dinner this year. “We are like-minded on many issues,” French Gates tells me when we speak the week of Harris’s historic step-up—and they are, from paid family leave to reproductive rights. “I’m not specific about any candidate—how much money I put behind her campaign,” she says, though she characterizes her Harris-Walz donations as “substantial.” And true to her vision of giving, she has offered more than just money to the campaign as well, including the opportunity for French Gates to host an event. “We’re in touch regularly about that—and more to come.”

“I could not have been more proud of the current president, Joe Biden,” she adds, “what he did, the courage and the humility to say, ‘Okay, I need to pass the baton. The time has come.’ He has worked so hard for this country over so many years, but it takes courage to step aside. He did the right thing for the country.”

After years of keeping quiet on partisan issues, “It feels right to use my voice in this way because we have places in society that we need to get; quite honestly, we’re behind other high-income countries. And so now in particular to have a candidate like Kamala in the race…” she says, pausing. “She sees the issues society faces today. She’s not an old-school ‘Let’s have all males at the table.’ She sees what working couples are going through, male and female.”