Warren Buffett nearly lost 30 billion charity dollars

The second richest man in the world, financier Warren Buffett committed an absurd oversight that could cost him $ 30 billion. The plans of the most successful investor in the world were threatened by the usual distraction. The 75-year-old Buffett, who, together with his new partners in charity by a couple of Gates, took part in a television show, simply forgot in the PBS channel studio, in accordance with which the businessman transmits 85% of his enormous condition to the Bill Gates charitable foundation .

The story was told by TV presenter Charlie Rose, whose program on Monday participated Buffett and a couple of Gates.

“We walked together. I was about to say goodbye to them when Warren turns to me and said:“ I forgot the documents! ”. I ask,“ where are they? ”And he answers me:“ I left them in the studio. ”So I ran to the studio and brought him the documents, and Bill says:“ Check did not change the names of the recipient of the money! ” Tok show Charlie Rose.

As the journalist joked, talking about a curiological incident in a television interview on CBS , so he took part in creating the world's largest charitable foundation. Earlier, Buffete made a sensational decision to transfer most of his condition - $ 30 billion - to the Bill Gates and his wife Melinda.

The union of the two richest people in the world in the fight against the global problems of mankind, according to Rose, is explained not only by common interests, but also by just good relations between two businessmen. According to the American press, Warren just needs the interlocutor as smart as himself.

“They spend vacations together. I saw how they played a bridge together, it is very interesting to observe this. I saw how they played poker together. This is not the relationship of the father and son. Bill has a father. Warren has children. These are just two people who like each other and who admire each other. And now they have a unique opportunity, because Bill knows how to do what Warren does not want to do it. Warren is a condition that could affect the lives of millions of people, ”said Charlie Rose.

Rose also explained why Buffett decided to entrust his money to Gates: “For Warren, the question of philanthropy was always acutely stood. Bill Gates, it was possible to devote himself to charity, but Warren himself could do the best thing to make the money that he was going to leave his wife, which was the manager of the Fund. But in 2004. I died ... So Warren decided to change his plans. "

Buffett himself explained his decision so: “There is not a single other fund of the Bill and Melinda Gates fund level in the world. The matter is not only in size. They really relate to the world, not making differences on the floor, skin, religion, the country. And they asked themselves:“ How can we help people? ”I saw what Bill and Melinda were able to achieve their money, they make magnificent decisions, and they are making magnificent decisions, and they are making magnificent decisions, and they are making magnificent decisions, and they are making magnificent decisions. The goals correspond to my time. "

After Buffett doubles the volume of the Gates charity fund, its size will be almost $ 60 billion - for comparison at the end of May, the volume of the Russian stabilization fund amounted to about 71 billion dollars. Gates plans to let this money to develop AIDS vaccines.