{"id":1011249,"date":"2026-06-01T10:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011249"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T04:42:53","slug":"bill-gates-was-once-worlds-most-admired-man-now-even-microsoft-doesnt-want-him-at-its-ceo-summit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/01\/bill-gates-was-once-worlds-most-admired-man-now-even-microsoft-doesnt-want-him-at-its-ceo-summit-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates was once world&#8217;s most admired man. Now even Microsoft doesn&#8217;t want him at its CEO summit: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has spent years transforming his public image from Microsoft&#8217;s combative co-founder to one of the world&#8217;s most prominent philanthropists. At one point, the billionaire was ranked as the world&#8217;s most admired man in a YouGov survey, ahead of figures such as the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis.<\/p>\n<p>However, a report by The Wall Street Journal reveals that Gates&#8217; carefully crafted public image has begun to shatter following the release of documents related to his ties with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has spent years transforming his public image from Microsoft&#8217;s combative co-founder to one of the world&#8217;s most prominent philanthropists. At one point, the billionaire was ranked as the world&#8217;s most admired man in a YouGov survey, ahead of figures such as the Dalai Lama and Pope Francis. However, a report by The Wall Street Journal reveals that Gates&#8217; carefully crafted public image has begun to shatter following the release of documents related to his ties with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011272,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011249\/revisions\/1011272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}