ILLUSTRATION. Billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates
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KONTAN.CO.ID – The world’s billionaires who are known to be diligent in giving to hundreds of trillions, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, have secret heroes of their own.
Even the figure they considered their role model or hero was worthy of being everyone’s hero.
Although, these two figures, Buffett and Gates are also the heroes of many people.
So who are the heroes of these two billionaires and the biggest donors? He is Chuck Feeney. Who is he?
Of course the name Chuck Feeney is not very familiar to many people, especially when compared to the legendary names of Buffett and Gates.
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But the question is how great this figure is that the two legendary figures make him their hero and role model?
Quoting Inc, Monday (28/9), Feeney is a multi billionaire. But because of his generosity, he is now a former multi-billionaire. Feeney is the founder of a line of duty-free shops found in airports around the world and his life’s mission is to donate every penny he ever earns to charity.
This means that after making billions of dollars, they, along with their wives, want to die bankrupt. And even more amazing, they donated all of their possessions secretly over the years.
Feeney donated his fortune without naming him. The aim is that the donation does not attract public attention to the figure of himself and his wife.
However, their clandestine efforts were finally exposed. At that time, Feeney donated a total of US $ 8 billion or almost all of the remaining wealth, when he was 89 years old, or a year younger than Buffett.
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So Feeney finally opened his voice why he did that. He said, donating all the wealth he owned while still alive was very fun and anyone who tried it would love it.
Now that Feeney’s heroic action was exposed, Buffett and Gates expressed their admiration and respect for Feeney. They met on May 5, 2009 for dinner together.
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