#8 – Hasso Plattner, Founder, SAP
Hasso Plattner made a fortune as the founder of SAP Ag and (mostly) retired from the business about a decade ago. But Plattner has made good use of his time since then and is incredibly active in charitable endeavors.
The generous mogul doles out tens of millions of Euros to worthy causes at the drop of a hat. He currently supports everything from scholarship funds to his own design institutes to helping AIDS victims in South Africa.
We’d all like to think we would be so generous if we were that successful.