{"id":88730,"date":"2019-03-17T03:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T10:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/an-indian-billionaire-just-gave-shares-worth-7-5-billion-to-charity"},"modified":"2019-03-17T03:02:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T10:02:38","slug":"an-indian-billionaire-just-gave-shares-worth-7-5-billion-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/an-indian-billionaire-just-gave-shares-worth-7-5-billion-to-charity","title":{"rendered":"An Indian Billionaire Just Gave Shares Worth $7.5 Billion to Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-indian-billionaire-just-gave-shares-worth-7-5-billion-to-charity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the latest move, Premji, who turned a small maker of vegetable oil into a software behemoth, has donated $21 billion of his fortune to charity. Premji\u2019s philanthropy may prompt the rich in a nation where ultra-high net worth population is expected to surge 39 percent by 2023 donate more to charity, and help pull millions out of poverty.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Azim Premji, the billionaire chairman of Indian conglomerate Wipro Ltd., will gift an extra $7.5 billion of the company\u2019s shares to support philanthropic activities, making it the most generous donation in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-13\/billionaire-premji-gives-shares-worth-7-5-billion-to-charity\">https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019&#45;03&#45;13\/b...to-charity<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest move, Premji, who turned a small maker of vegetable oil into a software behemoth, has donated $21 billion of his fortune to charity. Premji\u2019s philanthropy may prompt the rich in a nation where ultra-high net worth population is expected to surge 39 percent by 2023 donate more to charity, and help pull [\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-88730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88730","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=88730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}