Melinda French Gates’ advice to new IPO millionaires: ‘Give half your money away’ |
Melinda French Gates’ advice to new IPO millionaires: ‘Give half your money away’
SpaceX just set a record for the largest-ever IPO, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. OpenAI and Anthropic are soon to follow to the public markets. And with these three mega-IPOs will come a generation of brand-new millionaires and even billionaires.
Like the ultra-wealthy who have come before them, they’ll have to figure out what to do with their newfound riches. One of the world’s wealthiest people, Melinda French Gates, has some advice for them.
“Commit now to giving at least half of it away,” she told Fortune when asked what advice she has for this new cohort of IPO millionaires and billionaires. “No matter what it turns out to be, no matter how large, how small it turns out to be. If you even have the ability to invest in these IPOs, believe me, you have the ability to give half away.”
In 2010, French Gates cofounded the Giving Pledge, the........