3. Manoj Bhargava
Manoj Bhargava is gaining his fortune from the 5-Hour-Energy drink his company produces. The brand became so popular that its value grew rapidly to $1 billion.
Thus, Bhargava started to bag his estimated $4 billion of net worth. However, he is not planning to splurge with all the money he has. He joined other billionaires in The Giving Pledge. But he is not going to give just a half of his wealth. He pledges to give 99% of them!
Bhargava does not want to wait until the day he die to finally change others’ life with his fortune. He is working with his team of inventors in a Billions in Change movement. Through this movement, Bhargava is funding inventors and other professionals to work together with unlimited budget in manufacturing things for the poor.
He emphasizes on the need of electricity. There are more than three billion people in the world who don’t have any access to electricity.
“Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth. The other choices especially personal consumption, seem either useless or harmful.” – Manoj Bhargava.
