#171: Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away)

Chuck Feeney felt a profound sense of relief. He had flown into the Bahamas that morning an extremely rich man. Now he was flying out with little more to his name than when he had started out on his various business ventures three decades earlier. He celebrated having divested himself personally of the vast wealth with which fate and his genius for making money had burdened him. It was all done with the utmost secrecy.

Few outside the small group that gathered that day in the Bahamas. would know what had taken place for a long time to come. Four years later, Forbes magazine listed Feeney as the twenty third richest American alive. Declaring him to be a billionaire. with one point three billion dollars.

But Forbes had got it wrong. And we continue to repeat this mistake for many years afterward. Chuck Feeney had gotten rid of it all. He was the billionaire who wasn't. That was an excerpt from the book that I'm gonna talk to you about today, which is The Billionaire Who Wasn't How Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune

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