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據新聞晨報4月1日消息，近日，微軟聯合創始人比爾・蓋茨在一檔播客節目中表示，他的三個孩子將不會繼承其巨額財富的大部分，The resulting estate will be less than 1% of its total assets。

儘管如此，按照彭博億萬富翁指數的估算，蓋茨的凈資產高達1620億美元，即使是1%也意味著16.2億美元。

In an interview with Indian host Raj Shamani's podcast, Gates talked about the personal choices of wealthy families when it comes to wealth inheritance. "Everyone has the right to make their own decisions," he said. He added: "As far as I am concerned, my children are well upgrown and educated, but they will inherit less than 1% of my total wealth,Because I don't think it's good for them to give them too much wealth.”

According to the Securities Times,Gates also emphasized the importance of parental love and supportand shared his philosophy of treating children equally and providing them with incredible opportunities. "I'm not asking them to run Microsoft. I want to give them a chance to own their income and success. Gates said.

Gates also stressed thatThe greatest use of his resources is to support those most in need through his foundation. In the interview, Gates also talked about some of the mistakes he had made, such as Microsoft's mobile phone system failure. In addition to Microsoft, he said that HIV vaccines or polio eradication are challenges he has been facing. Bill Gates and Melinda have two daughters and a son. The eldest daughter, Jennifer, graduated from Stanford University with a degree in biology, her son Lori graduated from the University of Chicago, and the youngest daughter, Phoebe, also graduated from Stanford.

此前，蓋茨和梅琳達曾表示，他們的三個孩子每個人只能繼承1000萬美元，他們認為這樣可以實現孩子們的人生價值，不會顯得無所事事。

Bill Gates at the scene of the 2023 Big Challenge Annual Meeting Image source: Photo by reporter Li Menglin (unrelated to the picture and text)

According to Jiupai News, Bill Gates, born on 1995/0/0 in Seattle, USA, is an American entrepreneur, software engineer, philanthropist, and co-founder of Microsoft. In 0, Bill Gates became the richest man on the Forbes list of the world's richest people for the first time, and since then, he has been ranked at the top of the Forbes list of the world's richest people and the Forbes list of the richest people in the United States.

Compared with Gates's "slamming the door" of his children, Gates's good friend and long-term donor of the Gates Foundation, "Stock God" Buffett is relatively generous to his three children.

當地時間2024年11月25日，美股伯克希爾哈撒韋公司宣佈，公司董事長沃倫·巴菲特再次進行“感恩節捐款”，將1600股伯克希爾A類股轉換成240萬股B類股，捐給由3個子女蘇珊、霍華德和彼得負責的4個家族基金會，總金額約11.43億美元。

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In the latest arrangement, Buffett decided to donate all of his remaining wealth to a newly established charitable trust after his death, which will be overseen by his daughter Susie Buffett and his two sons, Howard Buffett and Peter Buffett. 3 people must unanimously decide how to spend the money in this trust fund.

In his letter to shareholders in 2024, Buffett once again spoke about death and legacy.

"Death always comes, and it makes life unpredictable and cruel. Sometimes it visits the baby, sometimes it comes to you after a century. Warren Buffett said.

Warren Buffett says he has no intention of building a family-inherited business empire — a sentiment shared by his first and current wives. He admits that he has given Howard, Peter, and Susie millions of dollars over the years, but he has always believed that "very wealthy parents should leave their children enough money so that they can do anything, but not so much that they don't have to do anything." "As a family, we have everything we need or what we like, but we don't seek enjoyment because others covet what we have," he said. ”

In his letter to shareholders, Buffett also reiterated his advice to every parent to have their families read their wills while they were alive — as he did — to ensure they had the opportunity to explain decisions about how to distribute property and to answer children's questions. Buffett said he and his longtime investment partner, Charlie Munger, who died a year ago, "saw many families fall apart because of the confusion and sometimes anger that the wills left beneficiaries."

Daily Economic News, Comprehensive Securities Times, News Morning Post, Jiupai News

Cover picture source: Photo by reporter Li Menglin