[perryizgr8]

When MSFT hit $1T I thought there is no way this is sustainable. I thought the stock would definitely stabilize somewhere below that level. How very wrong I was.

[Aerroon]

Give it another 20-40 years and the world will have the first trillionaire person. 4% inflation over 40 years multiplies the money amount by about 4.8x.

[HWR_14]

Bill Gates owned 49% of MSFT in 2007. He could have already hit 1 trillion by doing nothing.

[xref]

Supposedly he owned 49% when they went public in 1986, down to 24% in 1996, down to 1.3% in 2017, for anyone interested.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/15/16148370/bill-gates-micro...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-gates-idUSBREA4...

[HWR_14]

Thank you, I misremembered when he started divesting. I thought he maintained his shares until halfway through he Ballmer CEOship.

[pmcollins]

same. having read through microsoft’s horrifying open source code i thought they were doomed long term (they still might be). but either the market can stay irrational longer than you and i can stay solvent (and it will fail eventually), or it doesn’t matter that an implementation is so awful, software is so profitable in the limit that horrible coding practices are irrelevant.