Who is Jennifer Gates, daughter of Melinda and Bill Gates – and does having a mega rich dad make life easy for her?
The eldest child of Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill and wife Melinda Gates is expected to ‘make her own way’ and will get only a ‘minuscule portion’ of father’s wealth
Jennifer Gates, the eldest daughter of billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates, recently gave an interview in Sidelines Magazine where she discussed her upbringing.
“I was born into a huge situation of privilege,” she told the publication, “and I think it's about using those opportunities and learning from them to find things that I'm passionate about and hopefully make the world a little bit of a better place.”
Here's what the life of the Microsoft co-founder's oldest daughter is like.
Jennifer Gates, now 24, has two younger siblings, Rory and Phoebe.
While their father famously founded Microsoft, Entrepreneur reported that the Gates kids had a “cap on screen time” growing up. Gates also wasn't allowed to own a phone until she was 14.
Gates and her siblings attended her father's alma mater, Seattle's private Lakeside High School.
Gates graduated from Stanford University in 2018 with a degree in human biology and took a year off to focus on her equestrian passion before going to Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, where she just finished her first year. She told Sidelines that it was her own childhood paediatrician who inspired her to pursue medicine.
She's an accomplished equestrian and has been riding since she was six. One of her favourite horses is named Alex. “He is super sweet, down-to-earth, easy-going, but you can also go fast and have a lot of confidence, so I am really excited about him,” she told US Equestrian in November 2017.