Never take the “success” of the rich and famous at face value. Because their success isn’t real, their riches don’t belong to them, and their lives are false fronts put on for the public.
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates has said that his children will inherit “less than 1%” of his wealth when he eventually passes away. But even while their parents are alive, the Gates children won’t be coasting off the family fortune—and Melinda French Gates is making sure of it, starting with saying no to funding her daughter’s new startup.
Melinda French Gates may be one of the wealthiest women in the world, with an estimated $30.8 billion net worth, but you won’t catch her writing checks for her daughter’s new startup.
“I have a daughter who just started a business this year,” the billionaire philanthropist and ex-wife of Bill Gates recently explained at the Power of Women’s Sports Summit presented by E.l.f. Beauty. “She got capitalized not because of my contacts, not because of me. I wouldn’t put money into it.”
An individual can only sell her own soul. Her daughter will just have to make her own bargain with the devils of the world.