Bill Gates Cozies Up with Girlfriend Paula Hurd at Book Tour Stop Featuring Dax Shepard (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

(L-R) Bill Gates and Paula Hurd.Photo:Gates Notes/ Brian Friedman

Gates Notes/ Brian Friedman

Bill GatesandPaula Hurdare spending some quality time together on his book tour.

As Gates wrapped up promotion for his newmemoir,Source Code,on Tuesday, Feb. 11, he enjoyed a sweet moment with his girlfriend.

In an image exclusively shared with PEOPLE, the Microsoft co-founder, 69, smiles while cuddling up with Hurd outside the Curran Theatre in San Francisco.

Their conversation was also recorded for an episode of the actor’sArmchair Expertpodcast, although an air date has yet to be announced.

(L-R) Bill Gates and Paula Hurd.Gates Notes/ Brian Friedman

In a post on his Instagram Stories, Shepard called Gates one of his “favorite armchair experts” and also shared a behind-the-scenes snap of the pair.

He continued to pack on the praise, writing in s separate post that he “willcontinue to cherishevery single moment I get to spend with a man who has saved tens of millions of children around the world.”

In another post, Gates thanked Shepard for helping him “close out an incredible book tour” and take a “great ‘trip’ down memory lane.”

Bill Gates, Source Code memoir.The Gates Notes / Knopf

The Gates Notes / Knopf

In his memoir, the first of a planned trilogy, Gates tells the story of early years, from childhood to co-founding the company that eventually made him a billionaire.

Ahead of the memoir’s release, the philanthropisttold PEOPLEthat splitting his book into three parts seemed like the best way to tell his story after his first drafts had parts that were “way too detailed” and others that weren’t “detailed enough.”

Gates' girlfriend also got aSource Codeshoutout, with Gates thanking Hurd for being one of the “early readers of the manuscript.”

Bill Gates and Paula Hurd, April 2024.Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

In February 2023, news of their relationship began circulating roughly two years after Gates and ex-wifeMelinda French Gatesended their marriage and around four years after the death of Hurd’s husband, former Oracle CEOMark Hurd,

Gates and French Gates have three children: sonRory, 25, and daughtersPhoebe, 22, andJennifer, 28, as well as two grandchildren, Jennifer’s daughtersLeilaandMia.

Hurd is also a mother of two to daughters Kathryn and Kelly, whom she shares with her late husband.

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Earlier this month, Gates opened up briefly about their relationship for the first time during anappearance on theTodayshow.

“I’m lucky tohave a serious girlfriendnamed Paula,” he said. “We’re having fun. Going to the Olympics and lots of great things.”

source: people.com