SAP’s Plattner to Keep $9.4 Billion Stake in Gates Pledge
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Hasso Plattner, the co-founder and chairman of SAP AG, the world’s largest maker of business management software, said that he would donate all of the assets in his foundation to Bill Gates’s Giving Pledge.
Plattner made the statement yesterday after the German newspapers Bild and Tagesspiegel published reports that denied the 69-year-old had made the pledge. The two publications quoted Plattner as saying that Gates had been trying for years to get him to join the initiative, although he wouldn’t let himself be “pressured.”