Bill Gates Net Worth: Just How Rich He Is
Everyone knows who Bill Gates is. He has been a prominent figure in the computing revolution since the inception of the personal computer. This has helped him become the richest man on the planet.
While you might read from time to time that he has toped the list of the richest people (yet again) and that he has an 11 digit net worth, I am not sure that you understand how much money he actually has.
Bill Gates has a net worth of $83.9 billion. That is a huge sum of money but we can’t really imagine the sheer amount of money that is in our heads.
Therefore, I’m going to present to you, some facts that may help you understand just how rich he is.
1. The home of a person says a lot about his financial standing. Bill Gates has a mansion which would cost you $123 million. And the brow raising thing about is that it has sand imported from the Caribbean!
Also, he pays $1 million in property taxes a year. Majority of people don’t even make a million dollars in a year.
2. Bill Gates’ philanthropic nature is known to everyone. It is estimated that till now, he has donated $28 billion dollars to charities all around the globe.
3. Bill Gates is 61 years old. Assuming that he goes on to live for 30 more years, he would have to spend $7.66 million everyday to use up all his wealth.
4. He would have to give $11.3 to every single person on the planet to run out of money to give.
5. Bill Gates’ foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organisation (WHO).
6. If you changed all the $83.7 billion that he has into US $1 notes, you could make a road from earth to moon 14 times back and forth.
7. His net worth is about 6 times as large as North Korea’s GDP.
8. If he drops a thousand dollars on the street, he wound’t need to even bother to pick that money because in the time he would bend down to pick it up, he would have already earned that much.
Bonus:
Bill Gates has a McDonald’s Gold Card for unlimited free fast food. (Life just isn’t fair sometimes, you know!)
I bet he never even eats mcdonalds lol
haha, me too. He would have world class chefs employed specifically for him!
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Don't tell Bill but most of his wealth are really virtual credits created on a general ledger. LOL
Is that inside information? ;) ;)
How many times can one sell the same product to the same people?
Apparently A LOT of times!
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I'll like to have the McDonald's Gold Card too though I'm not a fast food person
Yeah, it's a nice thought to have that you can eat for free your entire life ;)