![]() Because the Gateses comanage the world’s largest foundation, a driving force behind the Global Fund, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the pursuit to end polio, malaria and other diseases, the state of their disunion is a matter of international importance, especially since the couple sits in the middle of a two-year window to decide their collaborative future. The stakes are far beyond, say, the split between Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott-a clean financial break that has unleashed Scott to become arguably the most influential philanthropist of this decade. This $20 billion transfer also might be the most telling snapshot of the current situation between Gates and his ex-wife. “Getting all the way off the list, that’s going to take me a while, but my direction of travel is clear.” I would get myself off the top part of the list,” says Gates. (Thanks to this most recent gift, he drops one spot to number five in the world, with a net worth of some $102 billion sitting outside the foundation.) “I'll get myself out of the highly visible part of the list with just, say, two more gifts of this magnitude. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than wait for his death, Gates now says he fully intends to give his way off the Forbes billionaires list while he’s still alive. The spending surge reinforces the “give while you live” principle, epitomized by Chuck Feeney, the 91-year-old Duty Free founder who in the course of giving away more than $8 billion took himself off The Forbes 400 list to something close to broke. ![]()
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