“People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but…”: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on “last chapter” of his career

Bill Gates has announced plans to donate virtually all his wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next 20 years, citing Andrew Carnegie’s famous assertion that “the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.”

“People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them,” Gates wrote in a letter posted Thursday outlining his accelerated philanthropy timeline. “There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people.”