In March 2020, Bill Gates, the co founder of Microsoft and its CEO for a long period, officially left the company when he departed as one of the members of its board of directors . In 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported that Gates left the board because of an investigation into an alleged personal relationship he had with a Microsoft employee in 2000 . A spokesperson for Gates denied at the time that the investigation was the cause of his resignation from Microsoft board. However, even tho
