Bill Gates reportedly had a tendency to flirt with Microsoft interns — to the point that interns wouldn't be left alone with him, according to an upcoming book.
"Well into his marriage it was not unusual for Gates to flirt with women and pursue them, making unwanted advances such as asking a Microsoft employee out to dinner while he was still the company’s chairman," the book's author, New York Times reporter Anupreeta Das, wrote, per Daily Mail.
In the book, titled Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World, Bill's flirtatious behavior was described as "clumsy."
According to the Daily Mail, the book mentions a time when someone told a colleague that they could not send a young intern into Bill's office by herself.
"In one instance a colleague chastised one person for sending a 22-year-old intern to Gates’ office by herself, saying: 'She’s too young and too pretty,'" the book alleges, according to excerpts shared by the publication.
Some who observed Bill's interactions described them as "clumsy rather than predatory." The book also reportedly chalked some of his flirtatious behavior up to "naïveté in his interactions with women."
He reportedly had a habit of "mistaking engaged conversation for mutual interest," according to excerpts published by Daily Mail.
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"Gates flirted with some of the interns at the Gates Foundation, putting them in the uncomfortable position of having to think about their career prospects while not wanting to be hit on by the boss," Das wrote.
This is not the first time that allegations of Bill's inappropriate workplace have come to light. In 2021, multiple outlets reported that Microsoft's board had previously launched an investigation into an inappropriate, intimate relationship that Bill had with a Microsoft employee in 2000. In 2008, he allegedly sent inappropriate, flirtatious emails to a different employee, per CNN.
