Bill Gates
The founder of Microsoft bill gates has donated to charity the shares of the company in the amount of $ 4.6 billion. On Tuesday, August 15, according to Bloomberg.
As noted, this was the largest donation gates in 2000, when he gave to charity 5,1 billion dollars. A year earlier, gates had invested in charitable activities 16 billion. Since 1994, gates has donated to charity about 35 billion dollars.
Bloomberg does not name the company that received the funds, but notes that most often, the billionaire sponsor of a charity that belongs to him and his wife.