webfact Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Gates reclaims title of richest person in the worldWashington - Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has regained the title of world's richest person with a fortune valued at 72.7 billion dollars on Bloomberg's billionaire index, Bloomberg news service reported Thursday.It is the first time the former Microsoft chief executive has held the title since 2007. He took the title away from Mexican telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim.The 57-year-old Gates’ net worth grew in recent weeks thanks to a rally on Wall Street. His fortune climb about 10 billion dollars this year, hitting a five-year high Thursday when the stock market closed.Slim, 73, owns a fortune valued at 72.1 billion dollars, according to Bloomberg, whose billionaires index is updated every day. It dropped more than 2 billion dollars this year after Mexico’s Congress passed a bill to end the market dominance of his America Movil.The bill would allow regulators to break up phone companies with more than 50 per cent of the market or force them to share their networks. America Movil has 70 per cent of Mexico’s mobile-phone subscribers and 80 per cent of the country’s landlines.Gates has stakes in more than a dozen publicly traded companies, including the Four Seasons hotel chain, and several closely held operations, Bloomberg said. Less than a quarter of Gates’ fortune is held in Microsoft.Gates has donated 28 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity working largely in poor countries to improve health and education. -- The Nation 2013-05-17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astanhope Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I wonder to what extent MySQL affected Larry Ellison's fortune. My guess is that the impact was enormous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chao Lao Beach Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Mind Boggling Numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeleJoe Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Mind Boggling Numbers. Indeed. And yet he's not even the richest ever. John D. Rockefeller's fortune adjusted to what it's current value would be ranges from (depending on calculation)...wait for it... ...US$390 billion to US$660 billion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantastic5 Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 There are richer today, Bill gates isn't interested in accumulating welth, assets or the power, he is simply interested in Microsoft, in making it the most successful and efficient. The people that are interested in the welth and the supper powere that presidents could only dream of go through grate strange to make the actuly welth unknown other ways there power is limited. And know I'm not talking about The Free masons and the imaginary illuminati, but real individuals and families. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dean999 Posted May 17, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2013 "Gates has donated 28 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity working largely in poor countries to improve health and education." I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates due to the above line. Most rich people don't give too sh_t's about the poor. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me313 Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 While Gates appears to be a philanthropist, I personally watched as a privately-owned non-profit organization in Portland, Oregon got taken over by Big Brother Bill & Melinda Gates, where the services that had been provided for free to poor and homeless people instead were gradually phased out, so mostly under-employed white middle class college kids could get free or low cost health care. They did, however, continue funding programs for homeless teenagers and junkies, but this was already a program in the previously private and very open-to-the-public clinic that had been there before it was taken over and turned corporate. In other words, their charity organization took over and controlled an enterprise that had helped certain segments of the population, and once having taken it all over, phased out the programs and turned it into a more profit-generating business. I suspect the developing nations are also great revenue-generating businesses for their charity organizations. Not very impressed, but at least someone is doing something to help poorer people, maybe in Africa they truly help I can't say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I just want to have a Hemi powered ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMHO Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I wonder to what extent MySQL affected Larry Ellison's fortune. My guess is that the impact was enormous. My guess is not much at all - major companies use Oracle and SQL Server editions that are waaayyyy higher up the RDBMS food chain than MySQL. MongoDB, now that's something else - no RDBMS is safe from it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeleJoe Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 "Gates has donated 28 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity working largely in poor countries to improve health and education." I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates due to the above line. Most rich people don't give too sh_t's about the poor. What I find even more remarkable is the "Giving Pledge" that Bill and Melinda Gates organized with Warren Buffett: they have started an effort to get the super rich to commit at least 50% of their wealth to philanthropy and are reportedly working to expand the list of people who have made the pledge to the mega wealthy all over the world. Even if one wants to argue - not unreasonably - that it's easy to be generous when you still have remaining far more money than you'll ever need, it's still a really fine thing to do that they simply didn't have to and it could make a real difference... So far the following folks have signed on: Bill Ackman Paul Allen John D. Arnold Manoj Bhargava Steve Bing Nicolas Berggruen Arthur Blank Michael Bloomberg Richard Branson Eli Broad Charles Bronfman Edgar M. Bronfman Steve Case John Caudwell Leon G. Cooperman Joe Craft Joyce Ray Dalio John Paul DeJoria John Doerr Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg Glenn Dubin Larry Ellison Chuck Feeney Andrew Forrest Ted Forstmann Phillip Frost Dan Gilbert David Green Jeff Greene Harold Hamm Reed Hastings Lyda Hill Barron Hilton Chris Hohn Jon Huntsman, Sr. Mo Ibrahim Carl Icahn Irwin M. Jacobs George Kaiser Vinod Khosla Sidney Kimmel Richard Kinder Kenneth Langone H.F. Lenfest Peter B. Lewis Lorry I. Lokey George Lucas Duncan MacMillan Alfred E. Mann Joe Mansueto Bernie Marcus Red McCombs Michael Milken George P. Mitchell Tom Monaghan Gordon Moore John Morgridge Dustin Moskovitz Patrice Motsepe Elon Musk Jonathan M. Nelson Pierre Omidyar Bernard Osher Ronald Perelman Jorge M. Perez Peter George Peterson T. Boone Pickens Victor Pinchuk Hasso Plattner Vladimir Potanin Azim Premji Julian Robertson David Rockefeller Edward W. Rose David M. Rubenstein David Sainsbury John Sall Henry Samueli Herb Sandler Vicki and Roger Sant Denny Sanford Lynn Schusterman Walter Scott, Jr. Thomas Secunda Harold Simmons Jim and Marilyn Simons Jeff Skoll John A. Sobrato John Michael Sobrato Patrick Soon-Shiong Ted Stanley Tom Steyer James E. Stowers Vincent Tan Claire and Leonard Tow Ted Turner Albert Lee Ueltschi Dr. Romesh Wadhwani Sanford Weill Shelby White, widow of non-signatory Leon Levy Charles Zegar Mark Zuckerberg That's worth a minimum of something like $125 billion if they come through. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Didn't see my name there 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 (edited) "Gates has donated 28 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity working largely in poor countries to improve health and education." I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates due to the above line. Most rich people don't give too sh_t's about the poor. What I find even more remarkable is the "Giving Pledge" that Bill and Melinda Gates organized with Warren Buffett: they have started an effort to get the super rich to commit at least 50% of their wealth to philanthropy and are reportedly working to expand the list of people who have made the pledge to the mega wealthy all over the world. Even if one wants to argue - not unreasonably - that it's easy to be generous when you still have remaining far more money than you'll ever need, it's still a really fine thing to do that they simply didn't have to and it could make a real difference... So far the following folks have signed on: *Snipped* That's worth a minimum of something like $125 billion if they come through. Crikey, that's a lot of letter writing for me. Edited May 17, 2013 by Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeleJoe Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 (edited) "Gates has donated 28 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a charity working largely in poor countries to improve health and education." I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates due to the above line. Most rich people don't give too sh_t's about the poor. What I find even more remarkable is the "Giving Pledge" that Bill and Melinda Gates organized with Warren Buffett: they have started an effort to get the super rich to commit at least 50% of their wealth to philanthropy and are reportedly working to expand the list of people who have made the pledge to the mega wealthy all over the world. Even if one wants to argue - not unreasonably - that it's easy to be generous when you still have remaining far more money than you'll ever need, it's still a really fine thing to do that they simply didn't have to and it could make a real difference...So far the following folks have signed on: *Snipped* That's worth a minimum of something like $125 billion if they come through. Crikey, that's a lot of letter writing for me. Yeah, I figure they could each give me $50,000 grand and it wouldn't make the tiniest bit of difference in their life - they wouldn't even know it if it fell out of their pocket - but I'd never have to work again. And they'd still have plenty left over for somewhat less important stuff like feeding starving children and such. Edited May 17, 2013 by Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoneyboy Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Lucky for Bill he's only 3 quid in front of me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLCrab Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 The heirs of Sam Walton -- founder of Wal-Mart -- have a combined net worth of $155 billion 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Issangeorge Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 The heirs of Sam Walton -- founder of Wal-Mart -- have a combined net worth of $155 billionAnd not one of them have joined the pledge.Sent from my i-mobile IQ 6 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rotary Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Windows 8 should help him lose a bit of that wealth. It is terrible and nosy. You have to have that Microsoft account for so many things. I bought a new Windows 8 Ultrabook but kept it 3 days then sold it on. It was a good reminder why I changed to Apple 6 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 One hell of a useless status. Money you do not spend and money you do not have is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 There is a whole sub-forum devoted to computers, internet, etc.. There is only this thread about Mr. Gates, the man. Let's stay on topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzasore Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 This is all false they don't even mention the Rothschilds They are said to be worth 10s of Trillions 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeleJoe Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 (edited) Money you do not spend and money you do not have is the same. It's a clever turn of phrase - and has an appealing logic - but it simply isn't so, is it? There's a massive difference between having millions (or billions) in reserve and having none. The ability to buy virtually whatever you want without concern for how much it will deplete those reserves (or what's left for your progeny) - that's quite different from having only enough to buy something you want leaving no remainder. But it's obviously true that after a certain point, it wouldn't make much difference in your life - but it could make a difference for others ( hence the philanthropy). Edited May 17, 2013 by SteeleJoe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteeleJoe Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 This is all false they don't even mention the Rothschilds They are said to be worth 10s of Trillions Said to be? Anyway, the Rothschilds - like the Waltons - are not a "person". Look at the title again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberduck Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I doubt if Mr. Gates this 'claimed', as he is not interested in his wealth and donating billions to charity. His plan is to donate 95% of his wealth, still leaving him more then 3 billion USD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F430murci Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 This is all false they don't even mention the Rothschilds They are said to be worth 10s of Trillions Yeah, it's a conspiracy!!! Actually, Chapo Guzman may be up there on the list, but since he probably does nor use banks for deposits in his name his wealth is difficult to calculate. Bill Gates is a good man. Funny how flashy Paul Allen is compared to Bill and differently they spend their wealth. Is Gates still passing over his children when he dies with most of his wealth? Not sure I agree with that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Gates has stakes in more than a dozen publicly traded companies, including the Four Seasons hotel chain, and several closely held operations, Bloomberg said Monsanto, Monsanto, Monsanto! Watch out! They are taking over the worlds agricultural supplies and it's all GM (and Bill Gates won't eat any of it!) This is all false they don't even mention the Rothschilds They are said to be worth 10s of Trillions Yeah, it's a conspiracy!!! Actually, Chapo Guzman may be up there on the list, but since he probably does nor use banks for deposits in his name his wealth is difficult to calculate. Bill Gates is a good man. Funny how flashy Paul Allen is compared to Bill and differently they spend their wealth. Is Gates still passing over his children when he dies with most of his wealth? Not sure I agree with that one! The Rothschilds own the Federal Reserve, therefore the USA, they own the worlds Central Banks. Comparing their wealth, (which is world controlling), to that of Bill Gates, is like comparing that belonging to Bill Gates to any TV forum member. There can be only estimates but very clever people in the know put their assets not in the tens of trillions, but hundreds of trillions. Some estimates have it as high as 50% of the worlds money, which puts it somewhere in the region of 500 Trillion. They are kept company by some other unbelievably wealthy european families and they control pretty much everything and everybody. I saw an excellent interview with one of the Rothschilds, I think it was the current head of family Evelyn de Rothschild who said that his Grandfather was responsible for starting the suffragette movement (he did this covertly) and getting women the vote and the right to work. he was asked what the motivation was for his Grandfather to do that and he said it was nothing to do with equal opportunities for women, he said that by giving women the vote and the right to work, almost overnight they doubled the amount of people that could be taxed in the countries that implemented it! Check out Monsanto, Bill Gates and also the Rothschilds but be prepared to lose about 3-4 hours before you even know it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F430murci Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Gates has stakes in more than a dozen publicly traded companies, including the Four Seasons hotel chain, and several closely held operations, Bloomberg said Monsanto, Monsanto, Monsanto! Watch out! They are taking over the worlds agricultural supplies and it's all GM (and Bill Gates won't eat any of it!) This is all false they don't even mention the Rothschilds They are said to be worth 10s of Trillions Yeah, it's a conspiracy!!! Actually, Chapo Guzman may be up there on the list, but since he probably does nor use banks for deposits in his name his wealth is difficult to calculate.Bill Gates is a good man. Funny how flashy Paul Allen is compared to Bill and differently they spend their wealth. Is Gates still passing over his children when he dies with most of his wealth? Not sure I agree with that one! The Rothschilds own the Federal Reserve, therefore the USA, they own the worlds Central Banks. Comparing their wealth, (which is world controlling), to that of Bill Gates, is like comparing that belonging to Bill Gates to any TV forum member. There can be only estimates but very clever people in the know put their assets not in the tens of trillions, but hundreds of trillions. Some estimates have it as high as 50% of the worlds money, which puts it somewhere in the region of 500 Trillion. They are kept company by some other unbelievably wealthy european families and they control pretty much everything and everybody. I saw an excellent interview with one of the Rothschilds, I think it was the current head of family Evelyn de Rothschild who said that his Grandfather was responsible for starting the suffragette movement (he did this covertly) and getting women the vote and the right to work. he was asked what the motivation was for his Grandfather to do that and he said it was nothing to do with equal opportunities for women, he said that by giving women the vote and the right to work, almost overnight they doubled the amount of people that could be taxed in the countries that implemented it! Check out Monsanto, Bill Gates and also the Rothschilds but be prepared to lose about 3-4 hours before you even know it Been a while seem I have seen the data, but I recall seeing the richest Rothschild individuals see like 40 or 50 billion for one dude that was or is an investment banker and one dude worth about 20 billion. No doubt family has money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F430murci Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 (edited) Dup! Edited May 17, 2013 by F430murci Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 (edited) Been a while seem I have seen the data, but I recall seeing the richest Rothschild individuals see like 40 or 50 billion for one dude that was or is an investment banker and one dude worth about 20 billion. No doubt family has money. In 1998 a conservative estimate of the real wealthy had the Rockerfellers at 7 Trillion and the Rothschilds at 64 trillion. I know its off thread but these are the people that control your everyday lives. Spend some time and dig your nose in, it's quite fascinating. Some of the super wealthy, and there are lots, simply choose and structure things so that they do not appear in Forbes rich list and the like, so there we have it, something closely in common with the super mega ultra wealthy....non of us are on the rich list. Edited May 17, 2013 by GentlemanJim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F430murci Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 Been a while seem I have seen the data, but I recall seeing the richest Rothschild individuals see like 40 or 50 billion for one dude that was or is an investment banker and one dude worth about 20 billion. No doubt family has money. In 1998 a conservative estimate of the real wealthy had the Rockerfellers at 7 Trillion and the Rothschilds at 64 trillion. I know its off thread but these are the people that control your everyday lives. Spend some time and dig your nose in, it's quite fascinating. Some of the super wealthy, and there are lots, simply choose and structure things so that they do not appear in Forbes rich list and the like, so there we have it, something closely in common with the super mega ultra wealthy....non of us are on the rich list. The Man Who May Become the Richest Rothschild In five short years, the man in line to be the fifth Baron Rothschild is close to becoming a billionaire through a web of private equity investments in Ukraine, Eastern Europe and most significant, his partnership stake in Atticus Capital, the fast-growing $14 billion hedge fund. The ascent of Mr. Rothschild is a vivid illustration of how the still glittering, if somewhat faded, prestige and wealth of Europe’s most storied banking family has been reinvigorated from bold bets in this era’s new-money investment vehicles. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/09/business/09rothschild.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetleythedog Posted May 17, 2013 Share Posted May 17, 2013 I wonder to what extent MySQL affected Larry Ellison's fortune. My guess is that the impact was enormous. I admire Bill Gates, he is one of the few that have really done something to help people. Most just do F... all when they have made it big. Respect to you Bill! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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