In just 26 years, why did Bill Gates' worth change from 5 billion to 77.2 billion?

The value of Bill Gates, the former richest man in the world, is only behind Amazon founder Bezos, Tesla founder Musk, LVMH boss Bernard Arnault and his family. He now holds 3% of the shares of Microsoft, with a market value of less than 3 billion.

if the 45% of Microsoft shares held by bill gates at that time had not changed, these shares would have been converted into a full $5 billion now. In other words, this investment consultant changed Bill Gates' net worth from 5 billion to 77.2 billion.

first, the contribution to global computer science and technology.

Microsoft was founded by him. The initial purpose of Microsoft was to improve productivity and speed up information dissemination. The value of information created was immeasurable. By providing a more advanced working platform for thousands of users around the world, Microsoft has created countless opportunities and wealth opportunities for tens of thousands of enterprises.

second, make great efforts to donate to the cause of poverty.

The Gates Foundation was established in 2, and has funded 5 states in the United States (including the District of Columbia) and more than 1 other countries in the world. In the past 2 years, the Bill Gates Foundation has donated a total of $53.1 billion to the world. Since its establishment, it has benefited nearly 1 million people, making it the highest donation foundation in the world.

third, the influence on the spread of ideas.

For many years, Bill Gates has been holding lectures, knowledge forums and ideas exchange activities all over the world, which has made great contributions to the progress and enlightenment of young people's thoughts.

He warned young people that society is full of injustice, so they should adapt to this cruel society first, instead of blaming society at the beginning.

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In 1994, Bill Gates hired investor Larsson to set up Cascade Investment Company. It's hard to say whether Larson's investment is successful or not. To some extent, he has successfully earned tens of billions of dollars for Bill Gates in recent years.

But the diversification strategy he adopted reduced Gates' wealth to 84.5 billion yuan instead of the original 5.4 trillion yuan. So, how does Larsson invest?

Michael Larson, born in North Dakota in 1959, received degrees from Claremont McKenna College and University of Chicago at the age of 21.

After graduation, he first acquired in Arco Oil Company, and then managed the bond fund business in Baineng Investment Company. Two years later, he started his own business. Larson, he probably didn't expect to be the helm of Gates Asset Management.

Larson was considering buying a wealth management company in Boston. After taking over the assets of Gates, he did what many investment advisers would do: cut the shares held by Bill Gates in Microsoft and allocate the shares held by other different companies in order to take lower risks and gain more stable asset income.

under Larson's series of operations, Gates' stake in Microsoft has been diluted from 45% to only 3% today, resulting in a significant reduction in Bill Gates' assets.

In terms of shareholding ratio, Bill Gates is no longer the largest shareholder of Microsoft, and his voice in Microsoft is much lower than before.

According to Bloomberg and other media reports, Bill Gates has invested in real estate, manufacturing, service industry, hotels and other industries through waterfalls, and even invested in some national enterprises such as Canadian Railways.

Last May, Bill Gates publicly announced that he would end his 27-year marriage with his wife, Melinda Gates, and they would start a new life. Because the two sides did not sign a prenuptial agreement, and the woman's divorce application did not require the payment of spousal support.

The Gates live in Washington State, which is located in the northwest of the United States. Under normal circumstances, the judges in this state will require the husband and wife to share their property equally. However, the husband and wife can also reach an agreement on the distribution of property. According to the agreement, they will continue to serve as the chairman of the charity foundation and continue to devote themselves to charity all over the world.

The former richest man in the world predicted the epidemic risk and issued a warning in 215. When the epidemic broke out, he appreciated China's closed control, accused the United States of doing nothing, and suggested that the United States learn some scientific epidemic prevention methods from us.

In the past 26 years, Bill Gates has visited China for more than 17 times. He is more important to the China market than most American entrepreneurs, and makes profits by investing in China companies. In addition, he is also very interested in the construction of science and technology network in China.

Bill Gates was very disappointed with the way the United States handled the epidemic, and even said that the United States took this opportunity to put all the blame on us.

Bill Gates expressed his appreciation not only for the response to the epidemic, but also for the current orderly recovery work. In the face of this epidemic, we tried our best to control it and minimize its damage as much as possible, but the United States was helpless. This is what Bill Gates showed when dealing with the measures taken between the two countries.

When the number of confirmed cases has increased sharply in the United States, it has not forgotten to put the blame on others, which is a very risky behavior in itself. Bill Gates also called on the American people to take part in the global action to fight the disease and tide over this difficulty with everyone.

However, what we are discussing now is to look at all this from the present perspective. Any investment decision should face the uncertainty of the future cautiously.

all the most successful investments in history have their inevitability, but there are also some contingencies. No one can be 1% sure that their investment will make money, and luck is also very important in investment. People who are full of luck may occasionally make some small money by mistake, but it cannot be regarded as a long-term solution to make money.

No one knows how much Bill Gates regrets now, but even the cleverest person can't fully master his own stock, so there are no stock gods in this world, only a few winners can keenly capture the changes in the market and earn the price difference.