Bill Gates is going to be a grandpa!
His daughter Jennifer Gates has announced that she’s pregnant with her first child.
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Bill Gates is known to be the richest man in the world.
But recently, the business tycoon admitted something which we didn’t expect to hear.
In a new interview with Forbes, Gates said he intends to follow the “give while he lives” principle.
Which he certainly has lived by, but now according to reports, he has vowed to give up his rich spot.
People do get sick of money, after all.
The American businessman has donated a whopping $20 billion to the Gates Foundation, as per LADbible.
And if you thought that’s pretty epic, it only gets better…
As Forbes has already noted his most recent donation.
And has taken away his title of being the top billionaire in the world.
And it’s made him “drop” from his number one spot to…
Fifth position, as per reports.
But that’s not all, his net worth of $102 billion is sitting outside the foundation.
Gates even spoke about the future of his billionaire-ness.
“I’ll get myself out of the highly visible part of the list with just say two more gifts of this magnitude. I would get myself off the top part of the list,” he said.
Can you believe it?
And he carried on revealing more secrets…
“Getting all the way off the list, that’s going to take me a while, but my direction of travel is clear,” Gates said.
But what does he mean by all this?
Is he really giving up his billionaire position that easily?
Well…
According to Forbes, the $20bn donation brings Bill and Melinda Gates’ lifetime giving amount to $55 billion.
And that still makes them the “biggest philanthropists of all time.”
But moving forward, Gates’ intentions are clear…
He wants to give away his top spot!
The pair plan to up the foundation spending by 50 percent, to $9bn a year, by 2026…
With a project spend between now and then of $41.4bn.
And looks like Gates is sticking to his words…
As he’s donated a huge amount of money.
The Microsoft founder donated “close to $5.2 billion worth of stocks” in Canadian National Railway Co…
Reports suggested that Gates “gave away $995 million worth of shares” in Deere & Co. to the foundation.
Now, this means he is worth approximately $112 billion…
According to LADbible, he is behind Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault and India’s Gautam Adani.
Talking about the big step, Gates said his plans to step off the World’s Richest list was going to “supercharge” all the work he does…
“This is going to supercharge or accelerate, charge, turbocharge basically all the work that we do,” Gates said.
And something else pretty special has happened to the billionaire this week…
It looks like he’s going to be a grandpa!
His daughter Jennifer announced the incredible news this…
She is expecting her first child with her husband Nayel Nassar.
She made the announcement on Thanksgiving…
Sharing a photo of her baby bump on Instagram.
She captioned the sweet post: “Thankful.”
The pic was inundated with messages of support from fans and friends…
“Couldn’t be more excited to meet this little one and watch you two become parents,” her mom, Melinda wrote.
While designer Vera Wang penned, “WOW. Congratulations to a wonderful couple and your new addition !!!!”
“I am overjoyed for you, we need wonderful people to make more wonderful people sending so much love,” another wrote.
While a fourth commented: “You’re going to be the best parents, congratulations.”
The exciting news comes a year after Jennifer and Nayel got hitched.
You can see the post here.
Congratulations to the happy couple!