Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Aerroon 1826 days ago
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.
1 comments

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

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