{"id":124191,"date":"2021-06-23T21:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/warren-buffett-gives-away-another-4-1-billion-resigns-as-trustee-at-gates-foundation"},"modified":"2021-06-23T21:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T04:22:39","slug":"warren-buffett-gives-away-another-4-1-billion-resigns-as-trustee-at-gates-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/warren-buffett-gives-away-another-4-1-billion-resigns-as-trustee-at-gates-foundation","title":{"rendered":"Warren Buffett gives away another $4.1 billion, resigns as trustee at Gates Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/warren-buffett-gives-away-another-4-1-billion-resigns-as-trustee-at-gates-foundation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/warren-buffett\/\">Warren Buffett<\/a> said Wednesday he will donate $4.1 billion worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/BRK.A\" target=\"_blank\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a> shares to five foundations, and that he will resign as the trustee at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s donation marked the halfway point for the 90-year-old Oracle of Omaha, who in 2006 pledged to give away all of his Berkshire shares through annual gifts to Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, Sherwood Foundation, Howard G. Buffett Foundation and NoVo Foundation. Back then, Buffett owned 474998 Berkshire A shares. Today, he said he owns 238624 shares, worth about $100 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is a milestone for me,\u201d Buffett said in a statement. \u201cIn 2006, I pledged to distribute all of my Berkshire Hathaway shares \u2014 more than 99% of my net worth \u2014 to philanthropy. With today\u2019s $4.1 billion distribution, I\u2019m halfway there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett said Wednesday he will donate $4.1 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway shares to five foundations, and that he will resign as the trustee at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. This year\u2019s donation marked the halfway point for the 90-year-old Oracle of Omaha, who in 2006 pledged to give away all of his [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}