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Reason Bill Gates' children will inherit less than 1% of his $107,000,000,000 net worth

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Updated 13:22 7 Apr 2025 GMT+1Published 12:55 7 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Reason Bill Gates' children will inherit less than 1% of his $107,000,000,000 net worth

Bill Gates may be one of the wealthiest people in the world, but that doesn't mean his children will be

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

Featured Image Credit: Getty Images/Jean Catuffe

Topics: Bill Gates, Technology

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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Bill Gates has opened up about how he raised his children and how he had to be wary of his immense wealth and still is.

Billionaire Bill Gates has explained that his children won’t inherent his massive empire or money when he dies.

In fact, speaking on a podcast, Gates explained that his children will only inherit a small fraction of his estimated $107 billion net worth.

Speaking on the Figuring Out With Raj Shamani podcast, he said his children would be getting less than one percent of his wealth.

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Now, if your math is any good at all, you’ll realize that less than one percent of more than 100 billion still puts them in pretty good places money-wise.

Gates insisted he wanted his children to have their own success(Raj Shamani/YouTube)
Gates insisted he wanted his children to have their own success(Raj Shamani/YouTube)

On the podcast, Gates was asked what his view was on whether parents, rich or not, should save their money simply to give to their children or should they find another purpose for it.

He said: “Everybody gets to decide on that, in my case my kids got a great upbringing and education but less than one percent of the total wealth because I decided it wouldn’t be a favor to them.

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“It’s not a dynasty, I’m not asking them to run Microsoft. I want to give them a chance to have their own earnings and success.”

Gates added that he wanted his children to create something for themselves rather than being ‘overshadowed by the incredible luck and good fortune [their father] had’.

Gates continued: “You don’t want your kids to ever be confused about your support for them and your love for them.

“So I do think explaining early on your philosophy: that you’re going to treat them all equally and that you’re gonna give them incredible opportunities, but that the highest calling for these resources is to go back to the neediest through the [Gates] foundation.”

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The billionaire noted that his foundation had been successful and he was ultimately hopeful that his children were proud of the good it had done.

Gates also said that he has seen instances where the children of wealthy individuals call for their parents to be more charitable.

He added: “I’ve seen cases where kids actually tell their parents to be more philanthropic. I think the younger generation sometimes actually is pushing against this idea of the wealth just being passed down.”

Speaking to Forbes last year, Gates said that most of his fortune would be going to charity - including the Gates Foundation.

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