The founder of Microsoft Bill Gates is planning to leave his children less than 1 % From his wealth, believing that it is better for them to find their success rather than inheriting vast wealth. This trend is common among influential technology families, including the founder of Apple Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, who say they give priority to charitable works because of wealth in generations. Like a handful of other billionaires, Bill Gates is open about the fact that his children will not inherit the vast majority of his wealth. In fact, they will get less than 1 % of it. However, when you are the man who founded Microsoft, even a small part of your net wealth still represents more than a billion dollars. According to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index, the Gates value is $ 162 billion - 1 % of that net value is $ 1.62 billion. So, while the three Gates children will not be as much as their father deserves, their assets are likely to put them at the top of 1 % - specified by Knight Frank as a $ 5.8 million or more person. Talk to "Discover with Raj Shamani" Podcast said this week, Gates said that inheritance decisions from wealthy families come to their personal beliefs. "Everyone started deciding this," Gates started, adding: "In my case, my children got a great education and education, but less than 1 % of the total wealth because I decided that it would not be in their favor. "It is a jungle, I am not asking them to run Microsoft. I want to give them a chance to get their profits and success." Gates previously told the Daily Mail that he would offer his children 10 million dollars each, saying that he would not do any preferences to give them more. Whether his preferences have changed since then to reflect 1 % of his wealth unclear. Speaking to Shamani this week, Gates added that he wanted his children to be "important" in itself and not "dominated by amazing luck and good wealth. [their father] king." He added: "You do not want your children to be confused about your support for them and your love for them. So I think that an early explanation in your philosophy: that you will treat them all on an equal footing and that you will give them incredible opportunities, but the highest invitation to these resources is to return to the institution." Gates' children have seen that their parents are working on polio, water sanitation, and vaccines against deadly diseases, to name a few - whose father was hoping to be "proud". He added: "I have seen the cases in which children tell us that their parents are actually more scattered. I think the younger generation sometimes pays this idea about the wealth that is just transferred." Billionaire inheritance Gates is not the only technological Titan who has not planned to pass his tremendous wealth for his children. Lauren Paul Jobs, the wife of the late Apple founder Steve Jobs, said the billions she inherited from her husband would not move to the three children who shared him. His wife said that the jobs, which are estimated at about $ 7 billion when he died in 2011, "was not interested" in building ancient wealth. New York Times In 2020. She said: "I inherited my wealth from my husband, who did not care about the accumulation of wealth." "I do this in honor of his work, and I have been devoted to my life to do a best effort that I can distribute effectively, in ways to raise individuals and societies in a sustainable way. "If I live for enough, this ends with me." Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said that he would donate a vast majority of his wealth to charity instead of leaving it to his four children. Gates added that this approach has become the criterion between the mighty of technology: "I think people who have made wealth of technology less strains. "So they will take their capital and give a lot away. This story was originally shown on Fortune.com 2025-03-31 15:06:00
