Gates won't leave £34bn fortune to his children
PTI, Sep 21, 2010, 07.01am IST

LONDON: Bill Gates, one of the world's richest men, has said that he is not interested in using his billions to launch a dynasty and would not leave his fortune to his children.

The 54-year-old father of three, worth an estimated £34 billion, has unleashed his planetsized brain and the extraordinary dynamism that made Microsoft the all-conquering global software giant to defeat global poverty.

Gates and his wife Melinda , 44, have three children --Jennifer , 14, Rory, 11, and eight-year-old Phoebe.

"I knew I didn't think it was a good idea to give the money to my kids. That wouldn't be good either for my kids or society. So the question was, 'Can I find something that had incredible impact?' I knew I wanted to do that," Gates was quoted by The Sun as saying.

So far, Gates and his wife, through their foundation, have given away £18 billion which has helped deliver vaccines to more than 250 million children in poor countries.

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