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Help me settle a bet about Bill Gates...

UglyCasanova

UglyCasanova

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I have $10 riding on this so I need some kind of proof to show him. What was the absolute highest net worth Bill Gates ever had? My friend says it was $500 billion and I said no way, argument ensues. The bet is whether he ever had over $150 billion or not. I'm 99.99999% it never reached this high, nor even over 100 billion.
 
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Found it.
 
Adjusted for inflation, Rockefeller's net worth was only about $300 billion. Bill Gates was not even close to $500 billion. And Gates is considered "middle class" next to Rockefeller.
 
UglyCasanova said:
I have $10 riding on this so I need some kind of proof to show him. What was the absolute highest net worth Bill Gates ever had? My friend says it was $500 billion and I said no way, argument ensues. The bet is whether he ever had over $150 billion or not. I'm 99.99999% it never reached this high, nor even over 100 billion.
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wiki says 101 billion
 
If I had $100 billion, I'd probably buy my own personal cruise ship and live on it. It's not enough to take over the world so what else am I going to do with it.
 
mmntech said:
If I had $100 billion, I'd probably buy my own personal cruise ship and live on it. It's not enough to take over the world so what else am I going to do with it.
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That's what Paul Allen does. He has a huge ass yacht that has two helipads and 2 submarines. and he has no where the money bill has.

He also blows it on the Seahawks and Blazers and probably lady friends.

But you know what I notice that the ultra rich somehow life throws them a wrench. they or a family member of theirs comes down with some disease and they often donate tons of money into helping to find a cure for it.
 
mmntech said:
If I had $100 billion, I'd probably buy my own personal cruise ship and live on it. It's not enough to take over the world so what else am I going to do with it.
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If I had even $1mil I would buy a cruising yacht and live on it.
 
mmntech said:
If I had $100 billion, I'd probably buy my own personal cruise ship and live on it. It's not enough to take over the world so what else am I going to do with it.
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Dude, why settle so low? Go Richard Branson and buy a whole island. Then you could have somplace to park your cruis ship.
 
RbSX said:
Yeah what it takes is a lot more than a million to pay for fuel, moorage, maitenance, etc.

Million dollars isn't squat.
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Ask any who are living on a similar boat, it can be done for as little as $1000/month, even less. Also, fuel? Did you even click the link, it's a sailboat. Sure, you may occasionally use the engines, but fuel is hardly a budget breaker.

Moorage is almost completely avoidable as well. It all depends on how you decide to live.

And it's hardly a "bomb shelter". It looks quite a bit smaller than it actually is.

I suppose it comes down to what you need to live comfortably. It doesn't take much for me.
 
Seriously, you could get a 50' or larger for well under 100k. That's a BIG freakin boat that you don't want to be sailing alone. Fuck fuel, that's for weekend 'gin palace' warriors and billionaires.
 
UglyCasanova said:
Can anyone find any other supporting evidence. He says he can't trust wikipedia.
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Your friend is stupid.

A Microsoft's peak, the entire company was only worth about $500 billion:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=...=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

All time high in Dec of 1999 of about $60 and there are 8.8b shares outstanding (probably even less then). Do the math. He has never owned more than 20% of so of the entire company, let alone the entire company. He owns less than 10% now.

Furthmore, NYTimes reports his highest net worth being $82b:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070715_GILDED_GRAPHIC.html#

Your friend just doesn't want to pay up.
 
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