EasyJet founder giving half of â¹17,000cr fortune to charity
EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has pledged to give over half of his nearly Â£2 billion (â¹17,000 crore) fortune to charity, after Microsoft billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates "inspired" him. He has joined Giving Pledge, founded by Gates and billionaire Warren Buffett. Haji-Ioannou founded easyJet in 1995 when he was aged 28, and it has since become Europe's second-largest carrier. 