{"id":142824,"date":"2022-07-25T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/bill-gates-gave-away-shares-worth-6-billion-this-week-but-is-still-the-worlds-fifth-richest-person"},"modified":"2022-07-25T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:43:55","slug":"bill-gates-gave-away-shares-worth-6-billion-this-week-but-is-still-the-worlds-fifth-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/bill-gates-gave-away-shares-worth-6-billion-this-week-but-is-still-the-worlds-fifth-richest-person","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates gave away shares worth $6 billion this week but is still the world\u2019s fifth-richest person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-gave-away-shares-worth-6-billion-this-week-but-is-still-the-worlds-fifth-richest-person.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He still has $112 billion. Bill Gates took the first steps toward donating $20 billion of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (B&amp;MGF), giving away shares worth $6 billion this week, Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Bill Gates is still the world\u2019s fifth-richest person, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bloomberg<\/a> and Forbes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/#240199163d78\" rel=\"nofollow\">rankings<\/a>, despite giving away shares worth more than $6 billion this week to his charitable foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Gates donated close to $5.2 billion worth of stock in Canadian National Railway Co to the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, SEC <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sec.report\/Document\/0001104659-22-082051\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">filings<\/a> show.<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft co-founder also gave away $995 million worth of shares in Deere &amp; Co. to the foundation on Thursday, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0000315189\/6f48365c-2712-4191-a20e-2bc074eb8316.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">filings<\/a> from Friday show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He still has $112 billion. Bill Gates took the first steps toward donating $20 billion of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (B&amp;MGF), giving away shares worth $6 billion this week, Business Insider reported. Bill Gates is still the world\u2019s fifth-richest person, according to Bloomberg and Forbes rankings, despite giving away shares [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142824","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}