BANGALORE: World is full of billionaires and each one is exemplary of their own. Some billionaire likes to spend their wealth in maintaining extravagant lifestyle and some like to be frugal.  

Some are in the race of building the costliest house while few chose to be generous and donate half of their wealth to charity rather than pass it down to their children. Read on to know 8 such tech billionaires who won’t pass down their wealth to their children.

Bill Gates, Microsoft Co-founder:

The former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, Bill Gates has a net worth of $ 79.2 billion and he has decided that half of his property will go to charity. His three children will get around ten million dollars each.

Gates along with his wife has combined three family foundations to create the charitable "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation," in 1994 and that was identified by the Funds for NGOs Company in 2013 as the world's wealthiest charitable foundation as it has more than 36 billion dollar assets.

Gates with his friend Buffett has started a campaign called ‘The Giving Pledge’ that encourages other billionaires to donate half of their wealth for charity.

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