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| Subject: Excellent: Emails Reveal Deceased Hedge Fund Manager Refused To Join Bill Gates’ "Worthless" Giving Pledge Mon Nov 24, 2014 8:57 pm | |
| Robert W. Wilson, the hedge fund founder who committed suicide at age 87 over the weekend, was known as one of the most active philanthropists in the country. But his style of giving was radically opposed to that of Bill Gates, who asked Wilson to join his Giving Pledge for the ultra-rich — and was rebuffed in a series of caustic emails.
In emails from 2010 provided to BuzzFeed by a source close to Wilson, the hedge fund manager tells Gates that the pledge is essentially “worthless” and that he wants to “stay far away” from his effort.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/exclusive-emails-reveal-deceased-hedge-fund-manager-refused |
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