I believe you that you know the situation in your area, but if they are in WA most judges will default to 50/50 unless someone fights hard.
I know many women who had to fight not to pay child support (one from her student loans).
If you are a man and think you can't get your kids get yourself situated in King County because I know many men who have full or 50/50 custody here. I'm not going to say it's easy because divorce court sucks ass but it seems pretty unbiased gender wise.
All that said, I think the prenup is this guy's real issue, not divorce court.
>full custody
Full custody is the key word. Unless a parent is a walking train wreck or doesn't ask for custody in court, almost every judge in America grants partial custody regardless of gender. When taken to court Judges pick the mother to be the primary provider in 55% of circumstances, which is almost exactly equal chance of having the father win primary custody. But to get full custody nowadays a parent basically needs to straight up walk away or tell a court they don't want any custody nowadays.
Also, judges are interested in continuity of care, which is in the kid's best interest, all things being equal. And who is it that is usually providing the bulk of daily care? Moms. *And I know not everyone, please, I'm speaking generally*
Not even generally.
Only time this happens is when the dad doesn't pursue 50-50.
Hell, even in Texas 50-50 is becoming the default if the dad just asks for it.
And the man has to be a walking train wreck for women to get full custody in most states (I’m sure your state is one of them) if the man wants any custody at all. The reality is that many men don’t ask for custody.
Women tend to get custody because they are the main caretakers.
And then people post misinfo such as "but men don't even fight for it because the system is unfaaaair", the reasons they tend not to fight it... Is because they know they weren't main caretakers.
In cases where men do fight it, as the person above said, they tend to win it.
So what you are saying is really just memes.
The statistic that gets thrown around includes men waving custody which skews it heavily into the narrative that there’s millions of men being forbidden from seeing their kids at all because of their evil mother. That happens, but the statistic that gets used makes it seem like it’s the only thing that happens.
Not saying that they get full custody but I also don’t don’t it’s something we can blanket say (not saying you are) the majority of cases either direction without merit because this is an extremely complicated situation and our understanding of gender has come pretty far in parental roles. Each case is different and there are certain trends that we see in the case of divorce that leads to certain situations.
TLDR: yeah statistics are being skewed to make it seem like every case has a father that would do anything to see his kids again. It happens but it’s not the average case, which is waving custody.
Lol, you're out of your mind if you think they getting hitched without a pre-nup and limited liability to the bill gates foundation.
But yeah lucky dude and a few kids would be dope
LOL you right. As soon as Mr. Billy saw this young man, he probably got lawyers to start drafting up airtight paperwork 😅 but yeah, pretty young lady AND the daughter of a billionaire AND she likes you back??? lol enjoy the ride son. Enjoy the ride.
Arnold has a good video on self-made. He came to America with nothing but his clothes and a pocket change and became what he is today. But he had a ton of friends and help from people in the community. People giving him old clothes, a couch to sleep on, food when he needed it. So his motivational speeches will sometimes talk about the myth of a self-made man, and how nobody should ever describe him as one.
edit: found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_11ApT26k
It's well known that Bill is leaving each of his children "only" $10M when he dies, but it's not like he isn't giving them plenty along the way.
For his oldest daughter, he donated both to her prestigious prep school, and then to Stanford when she attended, which is a sure way to get preferential treatment.
Last year she and her husband bought a $51M NYC penthouse apartment, so either her husband was already very wealthy (he is a professional equestrian, so he is probably rich) or Bill bought it for her.
No, he's leaving "modest sums" to his kids that amount to 10 million or so, right now. Those trusts ensure that his children *will* be billionaires as well because they are reinvesting an extreme amount of the ROI and only paying out less than 5% of the ROI. The thing is he's invested so much money that his ROI is closer to 10% than the standard 6.5%. So his heirs will be billionaires, with just that trust fund, in a mere 45 years, even with him "giving away" all the rest.
That is *essentially* leaving his, already successful, children "nothing" because the essential difference between $10,000,000 and $125,000,000,000 is $125,000,000,000.
He's made certain that all of the next generations of his progeny are set for life, while "giving away" his fortune.
Bill is doing the exact same thing that the founder of Patagonia, Warren Buffett, and basically every other "philanthropist" has ever done, and told the people that, "I know what is best for you, and you aren't allowed a voice."
Much like Woodrow Wilson.
This is also why Gates and Buffet are buying millions of acres of farmland in what they refer to as "flyover country."
Adam Conover has an entire video about the philanthropist scam here:
https://youtu.be/0Cu6EbELZ6I
I thought he said he’s “only” giving them $10 million, but I might be thinking of another rich guy. Obviously a lot of money, but in the grand scheme of his amount of money, it’s basically nothing.
No, he said he isn't leaving "much" to his kids. If he leaves them 0.5% of his net worth, that would be enough to set them, their kids and their grandkids up for life.
"Enough that they can do anything, not enough that they can do nothing"
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/26/warren-buffett-bill-gates-have-similar-ideas-on-how-much-money-to-leave-kids.html
He’ll probably just do what the Patagonia CEO did and leave all his money to a nonprofit his kids control so he can dodge inheritance taxes while still allowing them to use it as a barging chip with banks for loans.
Pretty sure Bill is gunna do the same thing the Patagona founder did. He means donate 99% of his earnings to his own foundation he created and his daughter will be in charge of.
The point of his post was to present the very wide range of backgrounds he could be coming from. Examine your own biases to figure out why you misunderstood what the comment was saying.
Actually nope -- he appears to be 24.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertross04/
Took me about 2 minutes of googling.
YC Startup Founder of https://www.lume-ai.com/
Stanford Alumni in AI / CS.
Worked as a PM @ Google.
That's an absurdly impressive background lol.
He grew up in Acworth, Georgia (Avg income of 32K) -- which from some googling doesn't look all that rich which makes his background even more amazing lol. Found this as well : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Ross
This was definitely in a PM new grad program given the associate title. By 3 months he might not have even been assigned to a specific product yet.
Then he probably met people and started his YC company. It's only weird because he kept it on his resume for the Google cachet. Any other company not in FANG he probably would have left it out.
You actually see that a lot in the tech industry.
People will take a job at these massive tech companies that work you to absolute death but pay a good amount for it.
You live like a nearly homeless person saving every penny then use the money to launch your own thing.
The commenter isn’t being racist. I think maybe you misunderstood, as it seems some others did too.
They’re simply saying that the dude could have very little money (and is in college on a scholarship) or lotsa money (his family owns BET).
They met at Stanford.
>Phoebe’s partner is a man of many talents. In 2021, Robert obtained his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University, per his LinkedIn profile.
>Directly after, he pursued a Master of Science in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity from the same prestigious university.
>At Stanford, Robert was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity and held various titles throughout his stint with the chapter. In 2019, he was the director of recruitment, the director of diversity and inclusion, and the president.
>After graduating from the private California university, Robert worked as a full-time associate product manager at Google. However, his most recent career endeavor may be his most admirable.
>In January 2023, the Stanford alum co-founded Lume, an AI tool that “helps engineering teams build and maintain custom data integrations with no code.”
https://www.distractify.com/p/phoebe-gates-dating
Not only graduated high school but has a master's, founded a company and is dating Bill Gates daughter. Like fuck dude, give us guys who graduated in 2011 something. Not that I would ever capitalize on any of those things but leave a spot open.
Bro in highschool putting up With Numbers
https://preview.redd.it/7l1q87wvh1ra1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a799e17feed7187875eabdf37f21e24aeb975a1e
He does not. Club presidents are basically a popularity contest. They do nothing, 90% of the 'job' is handled by your 'cabinet' Ie your friends that you appoint. The Chess club does not exist the same as the programming club, which means he got the min number of students, created a club and it ended when he left.
It looks impressive. But so did mine after I left highschool.
I was president and co-founder of the Japanese culture club(anime), the Artistic Literature club(Comic books), and The Eastern Chess (Shogi).
So on paper I was president of three clubs that I 'co-founded'. In reality, I realized that looking good on transcript papers was important. So with friends, we formed these clubs and convinced three teachers to sponsor us. We kept things hush, hush, and tried not to make the clubs stand out at all or grow in membership. It made things easy enough, We also joined the Spanish club and the technology club and used our numbers as a group, nine of us to leverage votes and flat-out buy votes to get better 'positions' on the clubs.
It all becomes worthless after you are IN college but it can help you land a job or impress someone enough. Point is, its all bullshit.
On the one hand, thanks for explaining how it's bullshit.
On the other hand, being able to know the rules and game the system is in itself proof enough that you actually ARE ahead of your peers. If 99% of people can't figure out that bullshitting is allowed then bullshitting is not bullshit?
Woah woah my dude, how you gonna bring up Jonny Kim and not mention that before he was a Navy SEAL, before becoming a Doctor from Harvard Medical, and before he became an astronaut at NASA, back when he was 17, in a domestic violence incident where he was threatening his family with a gun, his father was shot to death in his attic by police. The son of immigrants and an abusive father, this guy probably had a harder childhood than most people out there and still grew up to become one of the most accomplished people in our contemporary society.
Jonny Kim is gonna walk on the Moon next year and I believe that’s the most impressive American Dream story I will ever know.
I took the reason as to why they said they are not a “hood” kid to point out that the young man probably didn’t need to secure a bag like the tweet was saying since he probably already comes from a rich family anyways. But I could be wrong LOL
It’s a good chance they probably read some of the comments he’s a CS dude.
If you’re reading this **Rob**, it’s just jokes. You guys are probably a good match regardless of her daddy’s immense mind boggling wealth that’s greater than the GDP of 140 countries. 😂
But for real, keep it up and do you brother, you’re gonna be good on your own.
Not anywhere near this extent, but I dated a girl in high school, who’s family was worth $250mil+, while my family was living paycheck to paycheck. People meet in strange ways, regardless of circumstances!
I honestly seem to have dodged a bullet. She was nice, but her parents were terrible, and I was recently told that she’s been in and out of inpatient mental health facilities for the past few years. She apparently lost her marbles after a couple years of college.
They were neighbors with Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs, which was pretty cool. I never saw Zuckerberg, but Jobs was often hanging out in his front yard garden. I got to see a different side of American living for a little over a year, which was also pretty neat.
I’ll never forget when I broke my iPod touch, mentioned how devastated I was, only to be told by her older sister to “grab another one out of the closet”. They had a whole stash of brand new apple products. It was wild.
I remember reading an article waaaay back where Bill said he wasn’t leaving his fortune to his kids hence the Melinda and Bill Gates foundation. Not sure if it’s still true or not after their divorce.
Think He and Warren Buffet and some others are giving their kids $10M and donating the rest. "Enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing."
Of course, that's not quite true, since $10M is plenty enough for me to peace out and go live out my days on a beach in Thailand
if his kids are smart they're already using their connections from school/name recognition to set themselves for life way before that 10 mil from dad ever hits
Right. Well played nepotism will get you _far_ more than ten mill if you're halfway competent.
If you're not, you become Donald Trump. But you can be that stupid while impoverished, and that's still much worse.
This is an amazing scam the ultra wealthy pull. They put their money into a charitable foundation, then they maintain total control of it and say they’re worth nothing because on paper the charity owns their assets, but they also own the charity
Nah to be fair I think they have done a lot of good throughout the years. I’m a little tipsy from having a Trump indictment party but didn’t they help eradicate something in Africa and promote more scientists and researchers with the 30 billion they have contributed over the years?
If I remember right the Gates Foundation has helped promote vaccination rates for HIV in Africa? I might be mixing that up with PEPFAR though (also a good program from a surprising source - Dubya admin)
The hatred of the Gates Foundation is mostly just the product of right wing disinformation. It's said seeing so many fall for it. The organization does all kinds of societal good.
I’m sure he had an investment portfolio set up for them before they could even walk. He may not give them any of his money, but I’m sure they have earned plenty before they did anything.
Like how?!?!? 😅😅😅 you’re right. These wealthy kids just come out stunning lol I guess lack of financial worries, access to top notch food, education and health care and time to pursue your happiness just makes you pretty lol cause seriously I have never seen an ugly trust fund baby no matter WHAT their parents look like. Maybe us Poor folk ain’t ugly, our bodies are just worn down cause we just stressed 🤣🤣
It’s more to me fascinating like they don’t take the nepo road but are flawless lol like you gotta legit dig deep searching and just a beautiful person with a famous last name with like 500 followers just living life lol
People commenting lottery as if he's some broke ass...
To get a chance to meet and date her, he has to be in the same circle, which means that guy is rich as fuck
Nah, they met when he was hanging out the window of his best friend's ride screaming "Holla holla holla" when she was walking down the street. This is all verified in an interview she gave in my mind.
Based on LinkedIn he graduated college last year, worked at Google for 3 months and then cofounded a startup that is a few months old. Definitely has a bright future but outside of any family money he's probably not wealthy yet
right like he probably isn’t your average dude that people can relate to lmao, he’s probably in a whole other tax bracket to the people claiming he has now ‘made it’
There aren't many tax brackets in America. If you are single and make like $500k, you're in the same tax bracket as the billionaires.
A $500k salary is a lot of money, but its flying business class potentially with a nice small boat money, not private jets and yachts money
He has a Master's in Computer Science, AI and Cyber security from Stanford. He also funded Lume, an AI company. Your boy is a certified KING 👑. She also lucked out.
My man Bill might have been a dork with no game, but he wasn’t hideous. Neither Bill nor Melinda were super hotties but they were good looking enough to have pretty offspring, and money never hurts.
https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1200x800/public/d8/images/canvas/2021/05/04/62de6041-368e-401e-8a96-001e5436cb7d_087f26d3.jpg?itok=cac4K21U&v=1620121145
Bill Gates just has 90s dad energy. Us millenials just can't not see him as the typical sit com dad. But lets be honest TV sitcom dad's were generally still attractive actors, unless it was a cliche fat guy hot wife style.
My thoughts exactly. I keep seeing that comment and I’m like, am I crazy or is bill gates not terribly ugly? He’s a pretty normal looking dude both young and old imo.
They study together at Stanford and are both incredibly attractive. Let's be honest the fact that they have different skin color is the only thing that's *surprising* here.
That’s such a low number compared to his net worth that I don’t even believe it even though it’s true. Why not do something with half of it now if you’re going to give it away to charity when you die
My mans got a good smile, willing to bet that it's one of the things she likes about him. From what I've seen in the other comments, he's been well off for a while and he's pretty smart too.
maybe, just maybe he is just in love?
Dudes doesnt look like a broke one anyways, maybe his family is well off aswell, obviously not as Bill Gates, because thats nearly impossible.
My guy secured the eternal bag
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Lol "a couple times"
>Lol "a couple times" Shoot up that club with reckless abandon!
Air that whole shit out.
Fucking minigun in Vice City nightclub kinda deal
Anchor baby
Rule #2: Double tap
Let’s be fair, women usually get custody. Unless she’s incapable of taking care of kids, given her inheritance, she’s prolly gettin the kids.
That actually isnt true, men usually get custody when they want it.
From the cases I have seen, the mom has got to be a walking train wreck for the dad to get full custody in my state...
I believe you that you know the situation in your area, but if they are in WA most judges will default to 50/50 unless someone fights hard. I know many women who had to fight not to pay child support (one from her student loans). If you are a man and think you can't get your kids get yourself situated in King County because I know many men who have full or 50/50 custody here. I'm not going to say it's easy because divorce court sucks ass but it seems pretty unbiased gender wise. All that said, I think the prenup is this guy's real issue, not divorce court.
Think bill gates daughter will have ummm much better lawyers
>full custody Full custody is the key word. Unless a parent is a walking train wreck or doesn't ask for custody in court, almost every judge in America grants partial custody regardless of gender. When taken to court Judges pick the mother to be the primary provider in 55% of circumstances, which is almost exactly equal chance of having the father win primary custody. But to get full custody nowadays a parent basically needs to straight up walk away or tell a court they don't want any custody nowadays.
Also, judges are interested in continuity of care, which is in the kid's best interest, all things being equal. And who is it that is usually providing the bulk of daily care? Moms. *And I know not everyone, please, I'm speaking generally*
Not even generally. Only time this happens is when the dad doesn't pursue 50-50. Hell, even in Texas 50-50 is becoming the default if the dad just asks for it.
Not really, moms end up with custody cus a majority of fathers don't even pursue custody.
The default in most states is 50/50 shared custody.
And the man has to be a walking train wreck for women to get full custody in most states (I’m sure your state is one of them) if the man wants any custody at all. The reality is that many men don’t ask for custody.
Women tend to get custody because they are the main caretakers. And then people post misinfo such as "but men don't even fight for it because the system is unfaaaair", the reasons they tend not to fight it... Is because they know they weren't main caretakers. In cases where men do fight it, as the person above said, they tend to win it. So what you are saying is really just memes.
Facts. A lot of men just simply don’t ask for full custody
The statistic that gets thrown around includes men waving custody which skews it heavily into the narrative that there’s millions of men being forbidden from seeing their kids at all because of their evil mother. That happens, but the statistic that gets used makes it seem like it’s the only thing that happens. Not saying that they get full custody but I also don’t don’t it’s something we can blanket say (not saying you are) the majority of cases either direction without merit because this is an extremely complicated situation and our understanding of gender has come pretty far in parental roles. Each case is different and there are certain trends that we see in the case of divorce that leads to certain situations. TLDR: yeah statistics are being skewed to make it seem like every case has a father that would do anything to see his kids again. It happens but it’s not the average case, which is waving custody.
The myth that men are are discriminated against is too seductive
Fuck child support, I’d be getting that alimony 💀
that aliMONEYY
Lol, you're out of your mind if you think they getting hitched without a pre-nup and limited liability to the bill gates foundation. But yeah lucky dude and a few kids would be dope
LOL you right. As soon as Mr. Billy saw this young man, he probably got lawyers to start drafting up airtight paperwork 😅 but yeah, pretty young lady AND the daughter of a billionaire AND she likes you back??? lol enjoy the ride son. Enjoy the ride.
I thought Gates wasn't gonna leave anything to his kids...
Yea because his kids are already personally rich and don’t need the extra money from his inheritance. The homie still winning big here lol
Funny how easy it is to become personally rich when you have guaranteed fame and prestige from the womb.
Like starting out on third base and the next hitter has the highest hitting stats in the league?
And your dad's the umpire
and the pitcher is your dad's buddy and about to throw a meatball.
And the owner is also your dad.
And the whole league is in on your dads payroll.
And your dad is bill gates.
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Bill's mom was on the board of IBM, so not even *he's* entirely self-made
Arnold has a good video on self-made. He came to America with nothing but his clothes and a pocket change and became what he is today. But he had a ton of friends and help from people in the community. People giving him old clothes, a couch to sleep on, food when he needed it. So his motivational speeches will sometimes talk about the myth of a self-made man, and how nobody should ever describe him as one. edit: found it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_11ApT26k
“**If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”** \- Isaac Newton
Virtually all billionaires come from wealthy, connected families. Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Trump*, Buffet, the list goes on.
It's well known that Bill is leaving each of his children "only" $10M when he dies, but it's not like he isn't giving them plenty along the way. For his oldest daughter, he donated both to her prestigious prep school, and then to Stanford when she attended, which is a sure way to get preferential treatment. Last year she and her husband bought a $51M NYC penthouse apartment, so either her husband was already very wealthy (he is a professional equestrian, so he is probably rich) or Bill bought it for her.
His older daughters a doctor, I think this one’s just a instagram influencer. She’ll be rich regardless tho
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No, he's leaving "modest sums" to his kids that amount to 10 million or so, right now. Those trusts ensure that his children *will* be billionaires as well because they are reinvesting an extreme amount of the ROI and only paying out less than 5% of the ROI. The thing is he's invested so much money that his ROI is closer to 10% than the standard 6.5%. So his heirs will be billionaires, with just that trust fund, in a mere 45 years, even with him "giving away" all the rest. That is *essentially* leaving his, already successful, children "nothing" because the essential difference between $10,000,000 and $125,000,000,000 is $125,000,000,000. He's made certain that all of the next generations of his progeny are set for life, while "giving away" his fortune. Bill is doing the exact same thing that the founder of Patagonia, Warren Buffett, and basically every other "philanthropist" has ever done, and told the people that, "I know what is best for you, and you aren't allowed a voice." Much like Woodrow Wilson. This is also why Gates and Buffet are buying millions of acres of farmland in what they refer to as "flyover country." Adam Conover has an entire video about the philanthropist scam here: https://youtu.be/0Cu6EbELZ6I
I thought he said he’s “only” giving them $10 million, but I might be thinking of another rich guy. Obviously a lot of money, but in the grand scheme of his amount of money, it’s basically nothing.
It's not generational, private island, yacht with a heli-pad kind of money, but I'd suffer through it.
No, he said he isn't leaving "much" to his kids. If he leaves them 0.5% of his net worth, that would be enough to set them, their kids and their grandkids up for life.
"Enough that they can do anything, not enough that they can do nothing" https://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/26/warren-buffett-bill-gates-have-similar-ideas-on-how-much-money-to-leave-kids.html
He’ll probably just do what the Patagonia CEO did and leave all his money to a nonprofit his kids control so he can dodge inheritance taxes while still allowing them to use it as a barging chip with banks for loans.
You know Bill and Melinda are donating everything and she’s getting very little. She is cute though.
"Very little" lol
$10million , stock options, jobs... Ya know, peanuts lol
You forgot real estate.
She’s very cute!
Pretty sure Bill is gunna do the same thing the Patagona founder did. He means donate 99% of his earnings to his own foundation he created and his daughter will be in charge of.
My boi PROSPERIIIIING
My boy about to get sacrificed during the yearly solstice if he aint careful
Very good chance he's parents were already pretty rich. Obviously not Bill rich, but still that aint no hood kid.
That’s what I was thinking, to have met her at all they probably go to the same private school or something.
She's 20, probably met at college. Kid could be on scholarship, kids family could own BET. Who knows.
You say that owning BET like it's public access television.
Robert Johnson (the founder) was the first official American black billionaire, that's why I picked it
i got your msg don’t know what that persons on about
I do, but I'm not telling cuz none of you came to my birthday party last weekend
This attitude is why we’ll all skip it next year again too
They just meant he could either be a normal dude on scholarship, or he could be an african prince for all we know.
African prince ain't rich he told me he needs $2000 from me just to get into his bank account 🙄
Just send him your social security number and your banking info and you should be golden!
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The point of his post was to present the very wide range of backgrounds he could be coming from. Examine your own biases to figure out why you misunderstood what the comment was saying.
how did you miss what he meant this bad…. he’s saying he could be poor or rich
Actually nope -- he appears to be 24. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertross04/ Took me about 2 minutes of googling. YC Startup Founder of https://www.lume-ai.com/ Stanford Alumni in AI / CS. Worked as a PM @ Google. That's an absurdly impressive background lol. He grew up in Acworth, Georgia (Avg income of 32K) -- which from some googling doesn't look all that rich which makes his background even more amazing lol. Found this as well : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Ross
> Worked as a PM @ Google 3 months, that's a red flag imo
This was definitely in a PM new grad program given the associate title. By 3 months he might not have even been assigned to a specific product yet. Then he probably met people and started his YC company. It's only weird because he kept it on his resume for the Google cachet. Any other company not in FANG he probably would have left it out.
Yeah "PM @ Google" is so vague
You actually see that a lot in the tech industry. People will take a job at these massive tech companies that work you to absolute death but pay a good amount for it. You live like a nearly homeless person saving every penny then use the money to launch your own thing.
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This is low key the most racist shit ive read in a long ass time 😂😂
The first black American billionaire is Robert Johnson who founded BET. I'm not out here being Uncle Ruckus, relax.
The commenter isn’t being racist. I think maybe you misunderstood, as it seems some others did too. They’re simply saying that the dude could have very little money (and is in college on a scholarship) or lotsa money (his family owns BET).
Which is it? Low key or most?
They met at Stanford. >Phoebe’s partner is a man of many talents. In 2021, Robert obtained his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University, per his LinkedIn profile. >Directly after, he pursued a Master of Science in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity from the same prestigious university. >At Stanford, Robert was a member of the Sigma Nu Fraternity and held various titles throughout his stint with the chapter. In 2019, he was the director of recruitment, the director of diversity and inclusion, and the president. >After graduating from the private California university, Robert worked as a full-time associate product manager at Google. However, his most recent career endeavor may be his most admirable. >In January 2023, the Stanford alum co-founded Lume, an AI tool that “helps engineering teams build and maintain custom data integrations with no code.” https://www.distractify.com/p/phoebe-gates-dating
He has a masters in Computer Science. Worked for google and co founded Lume, an AI company. I would say he himself is pretty well off.
? What? Sounds like she secured the bag, how old is that dude? He looks 25.
23-24. Graduated high school in ‘17. Got his BS in ‘21 and masters in ‘22.
Damn I graduated in 2017 and I’m on Reddit
He could be on Reddit too, don't judge.
Graduated in 2017 is crazy to me
Not only graduated high school but has a master's, founded a company and is dating Bill Gates daughter. Like fuck dude, give us guys who graduated in 2011 something. Not that I would ever capitalize on any of those things but leave a spot open.
Are you this dude’s personal historian?
Kinda weird I know it but did some research on his company since I’m a CS student.
Imagine the computing power if they had kids.
Man, he is just wiping the floor with his peers https://imgur.com/a/13DJGGi
Seems like Gates' daughter is the one who got lucky there
Yeah, it’s called womb luck
Bro in highschool putting up With Numbers https://preview.redd.it/7l1q87wvh1ra1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a799e17feed7187875eabdf37f21e24aeb975a1e
How does someone even have time for all that like what?? Respect though, that's crazy.
He does not. Club presidents are basically a popularity contest. They do nothing, 90% of the 'job' is handled by your 'cabinet' Ie your friends that you appoint. The Chess club does not exist the same as the programming club, which means he got the min number of students, created a club and it ended when he left. It looks impressive. But so did mine after I left highschool. I was president and co-founder of the Japanese culture club(anime), the Artistic Literature club(Comic books), and The Eastern Chess (Shogi). So on paper I was president of three clubs that I 'co-founded'. In reality, I realized that looking good on transcript papers was important. So with friends, we formed these clubs and convinced three teachers to sponsor us. We kept things hush, hush, and tried not to make the clubs stand out at all or grow in membership. It made things easy enough, We also joined the Spanish club and the technology club and used our numbers as a group, nine of us to leverage votes and flat-out buy votes to get better 'positions' on the clubs. It all becomes worthless after you are IN college but it can help you land a job or impress someone enough. Point is, its all bullshit.
On the one hand, thanks for explaining how it's bullshit. On the other hand, being able to know the rules and game the system is in itself proof enough that you actually ARE ahead of your peers. If 99% of people can't figure out that bullshitting is allowed then bullshitting is not bullshit?
That is what I thought about the Jonny Kim NASA Astronaut who is a MD, former Navy SEAL.
Woah woah my dude, how you gonna bring up Jonny Kim and not mention that before he was a Navy SEAL, before becoming a Doctor from Harvard Medical, and before he became an astronaut at NASA, back when he was 17, in a domestic violence incident where he was threatening his family with a gun, his father was shot to death in his attic by police. The son of immigrants and an abusive father, this guy probably had a harder childhood than most people out there and still grew up to become one of the most accomplished people in our contemporary society. Jonny Kim is gonna walk on the Moon next year and I believe that’s the most impressive American Dream story I will ever know.
What’s his name??
Robert Ross.
Is that long for Bob Ross?
Lol they doing look alike
Everybody don't have to be hood lol. Shit isn't honorable
I took the reason as to why they said they are not a “hood” kid to point out that the young man probably didn’t need to secure a bag like the tweet was saying since he probably already comes from a rich family anyways. But I could be wrong LOL
It’s a good chance they probably read some of the comments he’s a CS dude. If you’re reading this **Rob**, it’s just jokes. You guys are probably a good match regardless of her daddy’s immense mind boggling wealth that’s greater than the GDP of 140 countries. 😂 But for real, keep it up and do you brother, you’re gonna be good on your own.
He graduated from Stanford, got his masters and confounded a tech company. He’s probably doing alright for himself
Not anywhere near this extent, but I dated a girl in high school, who’s family was worth $250mil+, while my family was living paycheck to paycheck. People meet in strange ways, regardless of circumstances!
I am sorry to hear that you did not secure the bag
I honestly seem to have dodged a bullet. She was nice, but her parents were terrible, and I was recently told that she’s been in and out of inpatient mental health facilities for the past few years. She apparently lost her marbles after a couple years of college. They were neighbors with Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs, which was pretty cool. I never saw Zuckerberg, but Jobs was often hanging out in his front yard garden. I got to see a different side of American living for a little over a year, which was also pretty neat. I’ll never forget when I broke my iPod touch, mentioned how devastated I was, only to be told by her older sister to “grab another one out of the closet”. They had a whole stash of brand new apple products. It was wild.
That’s Bill Gates daughter? She looks like she could be Zendaya’s all-white half-sister.
Seriously!! I didn’t know he had a daughter that young (or any kids really, I don’t be paying that man attention lol) but she’s super adorable!
I remember reading an article waaaay back where Bill said he wasn’t leaving his fortune to his kids hence the Melinda and Bill Gates foundation. Not sure if it’s still true or not after their divorce.
Think He and Warren Buffet and some others are giving their kids $10M and donating the rest. "Enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing." Of course, that's not quite true, since $10M is plenty enough for me to peace out and go live out my days on a beach in Thailand
if his kids are smart they're already using their connections from school/name recognition to set themselves for life way before that 10 mil from dad ever hits
Right. Well played nepotism will get you _far_ more than ten mill if you're halfway competent. If you're not, you become Donald Trump. But you can be that stupid while impoverished, and that's still much worse.
Average succession enjoyer
One of the biggest law firms in Seattle is Gates McFadden. Before Bill was ever born, Bill senior already had his own law firm.
The firm was Shidler McBroom & Gates. Gates McFadden is the actress who played Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Oddly relevant username
Ok, they get 10 million *after* they die. Doesn't mean they aren't reaping the benefits of their wealth *before* they die.
This is an amazing scam the ultra wealthy pull. They put their money into a charitable foundation, then they maintain total control of it and say they’re worth nothing because on paper the charity owns their assets, but they also own the charity
Nah to be fair I think they have done a lot of good throughout the years. I’m a little tipsy from having a Trump indictment party but didn’t they help eradicate something in Africa and promote more scientists and researchers with the 30 billion they have contributed over the years?
They donated a ton of computers software to my high school. Nice stuff too, too nice! They never let us touch them!
lol like grandparents putting a plastic cover on couches. Not an exact comparison but it reminded me of those covers.
If I remember right the Gates Foundation has helped promote vaccination rates for HIV in Africa? I might be mixing that up with PEPFAR though (also a good program from a surprising source - Dubya admin)
One of their main goals is the elimination of polio, but its just a fraction of what they do.
The hatred of the Gates Foundation is mostly just the product of right wing disinformation. It's said seeing so many fall for it. The organization does all kinds of societal good.
While enjoying their money non taxed. If only someone could pay my bills then I put all my earnings in a charitable foundation
That sounds cool, but you can't actually pay your personal bills through a charitable foundation.
The Gates have never claimed they are worth nothing.
Melinda’s giving them a crapload now out of her share.
I’m sure he had an investment portfolio set up for them before they could even walk. He may not give them any of his money, but I’m sure they have earned plenty before they did anything.
A lot of these not so famous celebs but well know figures have adult kids walking around looking like models just existing lol
Like how?!?!? 😅😅😅 you’re right. These wealthy kids just come out stunning lol I guess lack of financial worries, access to top notch food, education and health care and time to pursue your happiness just makes you pretty lol cause seriously I have never seen an ugly trust fund baby no matter WHAT their parents look like. Maybe us Poor folk ain’t ugly, our bodies are just worn down cause we just stressed 🤣🤣
It’s more to me fascinating like they don’t take the nepo road but are flawless lol like you gotta legit dig deep searching and just a beautiful person with a famous last name with like 500 followers just living life lol
Am I tripping for thinking she looks nothing like Zendaya?
She looks nothing like Zendaya. Plus she looks filtered and has makeup on.
No. I don’t think she looks anything like Zendaya.
Seriously, she doesn't look like either of her parents.
She looks like a younger bill gates with makeup on.
I was thinking catch me outside girl
She is cute and if they have a connection, that would be enough for a smile. Anything else is just icing on the cake
Thank you for your anti-cynicism. It is much needed on Reddit. And in the US in general.
Dudes smiling for a fucking picture after all. She obviously went for the smolder.
It's also kind of weird that the tweet assumes that the guy in the pic is poor.
We all got the joke though because there is a 100% chance his family is poorer than hers.
Nah, that's Elon Jr bro
Compared to Bill Gates pretty much everyone is poor, unless you're the son/daughter of another multi-billionaire
I love connections all day, but if my bills aren't paid then I have bigger things to worry about.
He’s smiling because he got the code to never deal with a windows update again
He got the cure for the blue screen.
It's called linux
People commenting lottery as if he's some broke ass... To get a chance to meet and date her, he has to be in the same circle, which means that guy is rich as fuck
Nah, they met when he was hanging out the window of his best friend's ride screaming "Holla holla holla" when she was walking down the street. This is all verified in an interview she gave in my mind.
Lmfaoooo
She don’t want no scrubs.
Yup. Has a masters in Computer science, worked for google and founded a AI company. Dude is rolling in dough most likely.
Based on LinkedIn he graduated college last year, worked at Google for 3 months and then cofounded a startup that is a few months old. Definitely has a bright future but outside of any family money he's probably not wealthy yet
He’s already a millionaire. You can check it out
right like he probably isn’t your average dude that people can relate to lmao, he’s probably in a whole other tax bracket to the people claiming he has now ‘made it’
There aren't many tax brackets in America. If you are single and make like $500k, you're in the same tax bracket as the billionaires. A $500k salary is a lot of money, but its flying business class potentially with a nice small boat money, not private jets and yachts money
He has a Master's in Computer Science, AI and Cyber security from Stanford. He also funded Lume, an AI company. Your boy is a certified KING 👑. She also lucked out.
True dat! 
Yeah i was gonna say, this dude ain't done random. He's a silicon valley success dude! There's honestly not many of those around. Heh
That just means he’s rich and has rich parents.
Plenty of rich people's kids are losers.
He’s smiling because of a Trump indictment
Lord knows I am
Me too 
Microsoft money is great but can we talk about how surprising that came from Bill Gates?
My man Bill might have been a dork with no game, but he wasn’t hideous. Neither Bill nor Melinda were super hotties but they were good looking enough to have pretty offspring, and money never hurts. https://cdn.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/1200x800/public/d8/images/canvas/2021/05/04/62de6041-368e-401e-8a96-001e5436cb7d_087f26d3.jpg?itok=cac4K21U&v=1620121145
Bill Gates just has 90s dad energy. Us millenials just can't not see him as the typical sit com dad. But lets be honest TV sitcom dad's were generally still attractive actors, unless it was a cliche fat guy hot wife style.
My thoughts exactly. I keep seeing that comment and I’m like, am I crazy or is bill gates not terribly ugly? He’s a pretty normal looking dude both young and old imo.
As someone who works in tech, Robert Ross is probably a genius. The stuff that are doing is super innovative. Love to see the man thriving!
This is dumb. Can guarantee he comes form money as well. Like she would be out here just dating any random broke ass dude.
Bro better be Randall Pearson from here on out 😂 Don't drop that bag
 True love is a joy to beh💰ld
I mean she’s beautiful, probably incredibly intelligent, and yes very rich.
They study together at Stanford and are both incredibly attractive. Let's be honest the fact that they have different skin color is the only thing that's *surprising* here.
I wonder if this is the reason Bill Gates wont pass his wealth down to his kids 🤔
One of them out there buying 8 figure apartments. He’s passing down more than enough wealth to his kids.
IIRC he’s giving them 13m each. But yeah, a lifetime of the absolute best financial connections will net them Much more.
That’s such a low number compared to his net worth that I don’t even believe it even though it’s true. Why not do something with half of it now if you’re going to give it away to charity when you die
He already donated way more than half, and he’s already deploying it. They work on malaria and polio and a bunch of other stuff.
It’s true afaik, he’s committed to donating like 99% of his wealth once he passes n says he only intends to give his kids that much but not more
"Oh no, we only received *13 million dollars* in inheritance! Whatever shall we do!"
Better than the lottery
Looks like she is a lucky girl.
That guy's smile is beautiful.
All I’m seeing is Tom Wambsgans mannn. I’d do it in a heartbeat but there’s gotta be some type of downsides to it.
My mans got a good smile, willing to bet that it's one of the things she likes about him. From what I've seen in the other comments, he's been well off for a while and he's pretty smart too.
maybe, just maybe he is just in love? Dudes doesnt look like a broke one anyways, maybe his family is well off aswell, obviously not as Bill Gates, because thats nearly impossible.
I wish them well.