Bill Gates returns to the richest man: “Indicating that my donation is not fast enough.”
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Even if he has retired from Microsoft for 11 years, Bill Gates has not stepped down as the world’s richest man.
For many people, the toilet revolution that Bill Gates launched with all the resources to promote and the transformational transformation of Microsoft, a super company in recent years, are not as dazzling as the richest man in the world. After all, this uncle, who is always smiling, wearing glasses, can be said to be a self-made entrepreneur mascot, filling an imagination of the world’s richest man.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates
“No one in this world can make you fall, if your own faith is still standing.”
Bill Gates has verified his famous saying with his own experience. He started leading Microsoft at the age of 20 and became the youngest billionaire ever at the age of 31. At the age of 39, he surpassed Warren Buffett to become the world’s richest man. This seat was 13 years old.
Two years after being taken down by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, in November this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bill Gates surpassed Bezos with a net worth of $ 110 billion.
This time back to the top of the list, thanks to the nearly 48% surge in Microsoft’s stock price in 2019, the value of the 1% stake held by Bill Gates has also greatly increased.
Microsoft has made a brilliant record in head-to-head confrontation with Amazon. On October 25, the Pentagon issued a statement stating that it signed a huge 10-year cloud computing contract worth 10 billion US dollars with Microsoft. The project aims to provide the US Department of Defense with cloud storage services for sensitive military data and technologies within the next ten years.
After the announcement, Microsoft’s stock price rose nearly 3%.
On the way to regaining the richest man, Bill Gates’s competitor is by no means Jeff Bezos, but also one of the few-in addition to Buffett, it is Mexican telecom giant Carlos Schilling. In the past ten years, the four richest men in the world have almost taken turns.
Corresponding to the stable pattern of the world’s richest and the four strongest hegemonies, the richest man in mainland China has changed like a horse. You sing me on the stage, before 2014, China ’s richest man even changed every year, freshThere are duplicate names.
The title of “the richest man” may be personal, but the influence of the “richest man” has affected the whole society. Regardless of year-round stability or frequent changes, the change of the richest man reflects the economic warmth and industry changes.
Bill Gates steps down from the altar
“The richest man in the world” = Bill Gates. For a long time, this concept has been deeply rooted in the impression of people all over the world.
This is not groundless, after all, Bill Gates has occupied this position for 13 consecutive years since he first topped the Forbes Global Rich List in 1995.
But since 2008, this position has been shaken.
This year has been a bad time for Microsoft. At the time, Microsoft was in a trough of business transformation, and PC shipments and financial revenues were stagnant. In 2008, Microsoft’s financial revenue was 60.42 billion U.S. dollars, which further fell to 58.44 billion U.S. dollars in fiscal 2009.
When technology giants Apple and Google started to race on the track of the mobile Internet, Microsoft was also far behind. In 2012, Microsoft, who missed the track, desperately pursued, and chose to marry Nokia to acquire Nokia’s mobile phone and operating system.
“We announced the deal with Nokia, which is also a painful example.” To this day, Microsoft CEO Nadella still negatively evaluates the acquisition. The Windows phone applauded and did not applaud, and eventually returned.
Nadella recalls that erroneous attempt in his autobiography “Refreshing: Rediscovering Business and the Future”: “A few months later, I announced that this transaction (referring to the acquisition of Nokia) had failed and planned to reduce nearly 18,000 Most of the job cuts are due to the acquisition of Nokia’s equipment and services. It’s heartbreaking to lay off so many talented and passionate employees. “
During this period, Microsoft’s downturn also directly affected Bill Gates’s net worth. From 2008 to 2013, Bill Gates only briefly became the richest man in 2009. It was Warren Buffett and South American telecommunications giant Carlos Schilling who took over the title.
Warren Buffett, the richest man in 2008
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