Benzinga
Bill Gates Could Be The World’s First Trillionaire If He Had ‘Diamond Handed’ His Microsoft Shares — He’d Be Sitting On $1.47 Trillion Today
In the late ‘90s, amidst the frenzy of the dot-com boom, Wired magazine made a bold prediction that Bill Gates, the tech titan behind Microsoft, could soar to trillionaire status by 2005. The math seemed sound: Gates’ stake in Microsoft, which had ballooned from $233.9 million at its IPO in 1986 to a staggering $72.2 billion by June 1999, was growing at a blistering rate of 58.2% annually. But reality took a different turn. Rather than holding onto every Microsoft share, Gates opted for a differ
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