Bill Gates, has been removed from the first line of Microsoft commanddedicating all his time to distribute his fortune in the form of donations to health projectseducation and fight against climate change. From his current job, the Microsoft founder is doing everything possible to make his main objective a reality: donate 95% of his fortune and that his children only inherit A small percentage her.
OBJECTIVE: Give your fortune. Long before becoming a father and when his heritage was already beginning to grow at a dizzying pace, Gates made it clear that his wealth was not going to go to his children. In An interview granted to Playboy magazine in 1994, Gates explained that in his plans there was already a long -term philanthropic goal, and was aware that donating a good part of his fortune It was not going to be a simple task.
When asked about the amount of his fortune, Gates replied: “It is a ridiculous figure. But remember, 95% will give it to it. Don’t tell people to write to me. Gates’s conviction surprised from the beginning for the firmness with which he resigned to build a multimillionaire dynasty. He considered that money was not the key to a happy life or the ultimate goal of his career. Therefore, he decided early that His heirsalthough they would have a well -off life, they would not inherit virtually anything of their fortune.
Money confuses you. Gates has repeated the same mantra on donar Most of his fortune in many other interviews and media over the years. For the founder of Microsoft, leave a millionaire sum to the children, instead of helping them, could “not do any favor” and “confuse them”, causing them to lose the perspective of what it implies working and striving to carve their own fortune.
According to Gates in that interview, having an estimated fortune of 106,100 million “takes you from normal experiences in a way that probably weakens you. So I control that kind of things intentionally. It is one of those things of discipline. If my discipline failed, I would also confuse me. So I try to avoid it.”
A well -off position. Although the first gastago of the Gates would still take a couple of years of years to be born when his father granted that interview, the millionaire was already clear that none of his children was going to lack anything. “I don’t believe in loading my children with that. They will have enough. They will be comfortable,” said the millionaire, stressing that even 1% of his fortune is already a notable amount of money.
On the other hand, as part of their legacy, the children of Gates have studied in the best schools and universities in the country and have built their own professional careers under the watchful eye of their father, although without intervening significantly with their fortune.
An example is found in his youngest daughter Phoebe, which recently PHIA launcheda purchasing platform with a colleague from the university. In her first foray into the business world, the youngest of the Gates had the Business Councils of his fatherbut as his mother confirmed to Fortunedid not have the financial support of the family.
A difficult fortune to spend. According The published by ForbesMark Suzman, general director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said in 2022 that the foundation he directs had a fiduciary capital of more than 68,000 million dollars. However, all that money does not come only from Bill Gates’ funds. Your friend Warren Buffett has been contributing to thousands of millions every year.
According to published data by the BBCsince its creation, the Foundation has already donated more than $ 100,000 million in programs to fight tuberculosis, malaria or diarrheal fevers, as well as in educational programs or in research and development projects of New technologies and energies To fight against climate change.
Despite the enormous amount of money donated, Bill Gates still treasures 106.1 billion dollars, so he will have to step on the accelerator of donations much more if he wants to comply with one of the statements that he collected the BBC: “They will say many things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘Rico died’ is not one of them.”
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