Bill Gates also regularly gives speeches. I checked and Melinda doesn’t have any on youtube since 2013.

So Bill is very much the public face of the foundation, even though Melinda is equally active and her name is in its name.

Not the only reason, but worth pointing out a prominent benign one.

For instance, a parallel example is how ycombinator is often mentioned as being founded by Paul Graham, and Jessica Livingstone is left out. Why? Partly sexism of course. But Paul also was the public face of YC with his essays.

And we have evidence it’s not just sexism, because YC had four founders

> by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Trevor Blackwell, and Robert Tappan Morris.

I think the second two are even less well known than Jessica Livingstone, and this correlates with how much public writing and speaking she’s done as the face of YC and about startups.

(There’s a whole other discussion to be had about whether women are chased out of the public sphere, but this comment is long enough)