For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.
More than he did at any other major tech company, Mr. Epstein found success boring into the inner sanctums of Microsoft. Leveraging one connection into the next, he became privy to the company’s dramas, from its chief executive succession to the philanthropy of top executives. After Mr. Epstein left prison in 2009 for soliciting prostitution from a minor, his connections to Microsoft executives aided his attempt to return to society.
Mr. Epstein’s moves to develop relationships in other large companies via their founders, including L Brands and Apollo Global Management, were less successful. The files from the Justice Department show that he spent more than a decade developing a network of Microsoft executives, including Mr. Gates; Nathan Myhrvold, a former technology chief; Steven Sinofsky, who ran Microsoft’s Windows division; Linda Stone, a former technology research executive; Reid Hoffman, a Microsoft board member; and employees of Mr. Gates’s personal investment and charity funds.
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Mr. Epstein portrayed himself as so close to Microsoft executives that in 2013, he casually solicited the interest of other contacts about leading the company. In an email to the billionaire Tom Pritzker, Mr. Epstein wrote, “Any interest in running microsoft?”
It’s why Ballmer didn’t get the job.
He’s not in the files.
MicroSlop 🤝 Jeffrey Epstein
indifference to consent
It’s crazy but not surprising that the cowardly NYT would have an article this long about this many links to epstein and his island without any acknowledgemwnt that these men almost certainly raped children. Bill gates without a doubt did.
Unless the goal is to help Peter Thiel demolish the remainder of the free press, paying those men millions in libel lawsuit money would be more stupid than brave.
epstein and gates, pretty much obvious, thats why he stopped becoming a ceo , he knew one day he would be associated with him in the news, or prosecution.
Nah. The Federal Government got close to breaking apart his company once for monopolistic behavior and decided that it was too risky to try to compete in new markets like it previously did. That wasn’t in Gates’s style of running Microsoft, so he stepped from day to day operations because he was bored.
Not a fan of the NYT myself, but I appreciate getting better insight into this unperson’s other workings.
Of course the picture only becomes whole when you put it all together: influential men, pedophilia, money, exerting power…
