Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, said in a podcast how much wealth will leave his children. The billionaire has three children, Phoebe Adele Gates (22), Jennifer Katharine Gates (28), Rory John Gates (25).
Phoebe Adele Gates, Jennifer Katharine Gates and Rory John Gates/Photo: Instagram
“In my case, my children have received a very good growth and education but (they will receive) below 1% of the total wealth because I decided that I would not do them a favor. It’s not a dynasty. I do not ask them to lead Microsoft ”the billionaire said at the podcast hosted by Raj Shamani, writes Fox News.
According to Forbes, he has a total fortune of $ 106.4 billion, which makes him the 13th richest man in the world. His children, although they inherit only a small part of Gates’s wealth, will receive more than $ 1 billion each.
In 2021, Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda French Gates divorced after 27 years of marriage. A document submitted to the King County Court in Washington formalized the separation, three months after the couple announced that it intends to break up, CNBC reports.
Melinda French Gates was disturbed by her husband’s connection with billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein and, after the press published details about the friendship between the two men, hired lawyers for divorce.
The two spouses met in 1987 and married in 1994, and their foundation was established in 2000.
Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Seattle, Washington. After abandoning Harvard in 1975, Gates together with his friend, Paul Allen, wanted to lay the foundations for a new operating system.
Make the first business with IBM in 1980, on whose computers they start running the MS-DOS operating system.
In 1985, he launched the first Windows version, and in 1989 he launched Microsoft Office, the most used app by those working in the office. In 2017, he becomes the richest man in the field of technology, with a fortune of $ 86 billion, writes Forbes. Currently, it has a fortune of over $ 100 billion.
