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Billionaire Paul Graham faced criticism online after requesting change for £5 from children at a school bake sale.
Paul Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator company. (Photo Credit: X)
Billionaire Paul Graham has come under fire after sharing a post about his interaction with children at a school charity event. The entrepreneur, one of the tech world’s most influential figures, asked 7-year-olds for change after paying £5 (approximately Rs 538) for baked goods. The children refused to return the change, citing the money in their coin tub was meant for charity.
Graham shared the incident on X (formerly Twitter), where he wrote, “At the school bake sale I bought a baked good of indeterminate type from a pair of 7-year-olds. I asked if they could give me a change for £5. They said they couldn’t. I pointed to their tub of coins, but they said they couldn’t give me any of that, because it was for charity.”
Take a look at the post here:
At the school bake sale I bought a baked good of indeterminate type from a pair of 7 year olds. I asked if they could give me change for £5. They said they couldn’t. I pointed to their tub of coins, but they said they couldn’t give me any of that, because it was for charity.— Paul Graham (@paulg) January 24, 2025
Since being shared online, the post gained significant attention, with many users outraged over Graham’s actions. They questioned why a billionaire would even consider asking for change from children at a charity event.
One user remarked, “If I were a literal billionaire who had haggled with 7-year-olds at a bake sale over a couple bucks, you couldn’t waterboard that information out of me. Do tech guys just not have any shame?”
“Billionaire denied change for £5 at kids’ charity bake sale; whines to the world of the injustice,” another wrote.
A person commented, “If I were a billionaire, I would have bought out the whole bake sale then donated it back to them to sell again.”
Another comment read, “My net worth is roughly one-tenth of one percent of Paul’s and I wouldn’t imagine even considering the audacity of asking for change at a kids charity bake sale,” one said.
An individual criticised, “Man if I was a billionaire I’d probably just tell them to keep the change.”
The outrage continued with a user asking, “Did you think you were at a shop? 7-year-olds raising money for a charity which you obviously knew, that is quite a target.”
“Some kids at my apartment complex knocked on our door selling a candied apple they made. I asked how much and they said “IDK, $6?” And I paid $20 for it,” one said.
Graham, the founder of Y Combinator, has an estimated net worth of $2.5 billion.
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