Bill Gates worth $90 Billion (yes, that’s with a “B”)
What do you get when a guy practically invests a new industry, builds the world's most used operating system, and then goes into saving the world? A guy that's worth $90 Billion dollars, that's who.
Bill Gates' net worth has crossed the $90 billion threshold, according to a real-time rankings from Bloomberg's Billionaire Index.
Gates' net worth climbed not because of any stock rise at Microsoft but because of jumps in the shares of Canadian National Railway Company and Ecolab, two smaller companies in which he has holdings.
He's well ahead of Amancio Ortega, the Spanish retailer who is the world's second richest man. Ortega's fortune is $76 billion.
Forbes, which also tracks billionaires' wealth, estimates Gates' net worth at a more modest $78.7 billion. Forbes also says that Gates' net worth briefly topped $100 billion back in 1999, back before the federal antitrust case decision against Microsoft that year and the bursting of the tech bubble in early 2000.
According to Bloomberg, Gates' net worth is up $6.2 billion so far this year, but that's only the fourth biggest gain among billionaires on the index.
Compared to FaceBook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg who comes in at a net worth of $8.9 Billion and Amazon.com's founder Jeff Bezos' net worth of $6.5 Billion, that's a lot more chunk change!
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