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Bill Gates

$105B

Real Time Net Worth

as of 11/14/22

#6 in the world today

$129B

2022 Billionaires Net Worth

as of 4/5/22

• Bill Gates turned his fortune from software firm Microsoft into diversified holdings including investments in zero-carbon energy.

• In May 2021, Bill and Melinda Gates each announced on Twitter they were ending their marriage after 27 years. They still co-chair the charitable Gates Foundation.

• Gates, who cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen (d. 2018) in 1975, transferred at least $6 billion worth of shares in public companies to Melinda as part of the divorce settlement.

• As of March 2020, when Gates stepped down from the Microsoft board, he owned about 1.3% of the software and computing company's shares.

• He has invested in dozens of companies including Republic Services and Deere & Co., and is one of the largest owners of farmland in the U.S.

• To date, Gates has donated more than $59 billion to the Gates Foundation, including a $20 billion gift announced in July 2022. Most of his early donations were gifts of Microsoft stock.

• When Gates was a kid, he spent so much time reading that his parents finally forbade him from bringing books to the dinner table.

• Gates took a break from classes his senior year in high school to do programming with his friend Paul Allen at a power plant in North Bonneville, Washington.

• In Their Own Words

• Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world.

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Warren Buffett

CEO, Berkshire Hathaway

$108.4B

Real Time Net Worth

as of 11/14/22

#5 in the world today

$118B

2022 Billionaires Net Worth

as of 4/5/22

• Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.

• Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns dozens of companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen.

• The son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and first filed taxes at age 13.

• He has promised to donate over 99% of his wealth. So far he has given more than $49 billion, mostly to the Gates Foundation and his kids' foundations.

• In 2010, he and Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge, asking billionaires to commit to donating at least half of their wealth to charitable causes.

• Buffett still lives in the same Omaha, Nebraska, home he purchased in 1958 for $31,500.

• Buffett was rejected from Harvard Business School; he got a master's in economics from Columbia University instead.

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• Rational people don't risk what they have and need for what they don't have and don't need.

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Larry Page

Cofounder And Board Member, Google

$83.6B

Real Time Net Worth

as of 11/14/22

#10 in the world today

$111B

2022 Billionaires Net Worth

as of 4/5/22

• Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent of Google, in December 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.

• He cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin.

• With Brin, Page invented Google's PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine.

• Page was CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took over, and then from 2011 until 2015, when he became CEO of Google's new parent company Alphabet.

• He is a founding investor in space exploration company Planetary Resources and is also funding "flying car" startups Kitty Hawk and Opener.

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• Page has avoided public appearances since Sundar Pichai became Google's CEO, including Alphabet's 2019 shareholders meeting -- much to investors' chagrin.

• Page is a clean energy advocate; his Palo Alto home uses fuel cells and geothermal energy.

• In Their Own Words

• You never lose a dream; it just incubates as a hobby.