Warren Buffett

Buffett changed course more than once. For decades he planned to leave his fortune to his wife's foundation; after her death, in 2006, he pledged most of it to the Gates Foundation in annual gifts. In 2024 he said those gifts would stop at his death, with his estate going to a trust run by his three children, and in 2026 he dropped the Gates Foundation from his annual gifts altogether, pledging to pass his remaining shares to his family's four foundations by 2034.