{"id":187389,"date":"2025-06-15T22:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187389\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T22:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:04:13","slug":"inside-the-glamorous-life-of-bill-gates-daughter-phoebe-who-publicly-mocks-her-dads-tech-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/187389\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the glamorous life of Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe\u2026 who publicly mocks her dad’s tech skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phoebe Gates is just like any other college grad – apart from the fact her dad is a tech billionaire, she founded an app with her best friend, and she regularly attends star-studded events wearing designer outfits.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Stanford University grad has lived a seemingly charmed life – growing up with unimaginable wealth as the daughter of Microsoft<\/a> founder Bill Gates<\/a> and ex-wife Melinda.<\/p>\n

The family grew up in a $131 million mansion in Medina, Washington, that came complete with seven bathrooms, 24 bathrooms, and six kitchens, as well as its own man-made beach, at-home movie theater, gym, and trampoline room.<\/p>\n

The property, worth an estimated $131 million, is nicknamed ‘Xanadu 2.0,’ a reference to the fictional estate in the movie ‘Citizen Kane.’<\/p>\n

Her parents’ wealth has provided a lavish lifestyle – complete with the finest education – and while older siblings Jennifer, 30, and Ryan, 25, have kept their lives more private, Phoebe hasn’t shied away from the spotlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her Instagram regularly shows her attending glamorous events, including summits, talks and exclusive fashion events, often dressed by designer labels and dripping in expensive jewelry.<\/p>\n

But despite her Instagram-influencer persona, Phoebe – who previously interned with British Vogue – has been determined to forge her own path.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Okay, I’m my parents’ daughter, that gives me immense privilege, but it’s not what I’m defined by,’ she previously told WWD.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Phoebe Gates is just like any other college grad – apart from the fact her dad is a tech billionaire, she founded an app with her best friend, and she regularly attends star-studded events\u00a0<\/p>\n

The budding entrepreneur – along with former Stanford roommate Sophia Kianni – launched her own e-commerce startup app called Phia earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

The platform offers shoppers an easy way to compare the prices of new and used items across more than 40,000 selling sites.<\/p>\n

Despite her father’s wealth, Phoebe raised the capital independently – first getting $100,000 from Soma Capital, then $250,000 from the Stanford social entrepreneurship grant, and finally $500,000 in angel investments, bringing the total to $850,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Phoebe is the third child of Bill and Melinda Gates, who divorced after 27 years of marriage in 2001.<\/p>\n

Although her billionaire Microsoft co-founder-father provided her with a very comfortable childhood, she has admitted it has done more harm than good at times.<\/p>\n

Last year, Phoebe appeared on Netflix’s new docuseries What’s Next? The Future With Bill Gates.<\/p>\n

In the series, Bill asked his daughter if she had ever come across conspiracy theories about him – including that the COVID pandemic was a ploy to allow Bill Gates to put microchips in vaccines that would allow him to track people.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘All the time,’ Phoebe responded. ‘I’ve even had friends cut me off because of these vaccine rumors,’ she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Bill is one of the richest people on the planet, ranked seventh in the world by Forbes, Phoebe keeps a close relationship with him.<\/p>\n

She often speaks about their bond and, despite her father’s impressive background, she recently teased him about his lack of tech awareness in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n

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The 22-year-old Stanford University grad has lived a seemingly charmed life – growing up with unimaginable wealth as the daughter of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and ex-wife Melinda\u00a0<\/p>\n

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While Bill is one of the richest people on the planet, ranked seventh in the world by Forbes, Phoebe keeps a close relationship with him\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Phoebe is the third child of Bill and Melinda Gates, who divorced after 27 years of marriage in 2001\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Happy birthday, Dad! @thisisbillgates – my favorite person who now texts me to let me know he’s going to send me an email,’ she jokingly captioned a picture of herself with her dad.<\/p>\n

Bill has spoken previously about what will happen to his billions when he dies.<\/p>\n

In 2024, while speaking with fans on a Reddit Ask Me Anything, the Microsoft founder said that he thinks leaving his vast fortune to his three children would be a mistake.<\/p>\n

Instead, he plans to leave the majority to charity, including his own, The Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n

The tech mogul is shuttering the Gates Foundation by December 31, 2045, effectively ending a lifelong project to give away his multi-billion fortune.<\/p>\n

He announced earlier in the year that he plans to distribute ‘virtually all’ of his wealth, approximately $200 billion, within the next 20 years.<\/p>\n

The billionaire announced he will give away 99 percent of his immense fortune, leaving one percent for himself and his children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Gates Foundation, which Gates founded in 2000 along with his ex-wife who left the organization after their divorce, pours billions of dollars every year into health, foreign aid and other public assistance programs.<\/p>\n

Gates will hold onto just one percent of his wealth – which still equals out to an estimated $1.62 billion.<\/p>\n

As for her personal life, Phoebe is currently dating Arthur Donald, the grandson of Paul McCartney, as per Nylon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoebe Gates is just like any other college grad – apart from the fact her dad is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[1626,4080,92,77,368,459,507,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-187389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bill-gates","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-femail","13":"tag-instagram","14":"tag-microsoft","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114689649309900943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}