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Sep 15, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Exclusive: The billionaire who wanted to die broke…is now officially broke on.forbes.com/6014GQKys Image
It took decades, but Chuck Feeney, the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers has finally given all his money away to charity. He has nothing left now—and he couldn’t be happier
As a philanthropist, he pioneered the idea of Giving While Living—spending most of your fortune on big, hands-on charity bets instead of funding a foundation upon death
Forbes spoke to influential philanthropists on how Chuck Feeney changed charity and inspired giving Image
Here's what Warren Buffett, the chairman & CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, The Gates Foundation and The Giving Pledge said of Chuck Feeney Image
Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder and President of Emerson Collective on the former billionaire cofounder of retail giant Duty Free Shoppers Image
“We learned a lot. We would do some things differently, but I am very satisfied. I feel very good about completing this on my watch,” Feeney tells Forbes forbes.com/sites/stevenbe…

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