" he says — helped push the company to the forefront of the computer age, making him one of the world's wealthiest people in the process. His current net worth is $128 billion,Forbesestimates.
With a $118.5 billion net worth, according to Forbes, Gates is the seventh richest person on the planet. As former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos settles in Miami,a move he announced last month, Gates will become the richest person in Washington. Gates and ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, have do...
THE world’s richest person got even richer this year. Forbes said yesterday that Bill Gates’s net worth rose to US$79.2 billion in 2015 from US$76 billion last year. That put him at the top of the magazine’s list of the world’s billionaires for the second consecutive year. The ...
Most people will have read the recent reports of how Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has had his personal net worth soar over 100 billion dollars and then drop down to 55 billion. He certainly knows how to make (and lose) money. (Note: This article was written in 1998, Bill's Fortunes ...
worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday.Gates, founder of Microsoft, was the richest person in the United States for the 17th year in a row with an estimated worth of $54 billion, up $4 billion from last year.No...
He remains a "technology advisor" for Microsoft, and spends much of his time using his net worth — currently $128 billion, Forbes estimates — to fund potential solutions for the global issues he sees as most pressing, particularly disease, poverty, climate change and access to healthcare ...
That means Gates, whose net worth is estimated at some $134 billion according to Forbes’ annual ranking of the richest people in the country, owns less than one percent of the nation’s total farmland. So while the tech mogul certainly owns a large constellation of farms, it’s nowhere ...
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2. Bill Gates (Microsoft) - Net worth: $67 billionImage Credit: Reuters NEW YORK: Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates kept his spot as the world’s richest man, a rank he has held for 16 of the past 21 years,Forbesmagazine said on Monday. ...
Gates still owned a stake of 103 million stocks, which accounted for 1.34% of the company’s ownership (worth over $23 billion in January 2023). Other individual shareholders comprise Satya Nadella, the company’s CEO, Brad Smith (former president), Jean-Philippe Courtois (EVP), and Amy Hoo...