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

#171:Chuck Feeney(捐出所有钱的亿万富翁)

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2021-03-15

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What I learned from reading The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune by Conor O'Clery.

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  • 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 23rd richest american alive, declaring him to be a billionaire with $1.3 billion.

  • But Forbes had got it wrong and would 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 going to talk to you about today, which is the billionaire who wasn't how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune.

  • And it was written by Connor O'Clery.

  • This is another book that I did not, I wasn't aware of.

  • It was actually recommended to me by a listener.

  • Before I read the book, I actually watched a documentary.

  • It's available on YouTube about Chuck Feeney.

  • And there's a few notes that I wrote down that I just want to tell you before we jump into the book because I think watching the documentary helped me understand him.

  • Watching the documentary before reading the book actually helped me understand who he was.

  • He may be the most unique person I've ever studied on founders.

  • He's a very complex and confusing person.