Bill Gates stepped down as chairman and reduced its stake in the company to 338 million pieces. Status of the largest private shareholder Gates about to lose, and in the management of the corporation, he will only be able to participate indirectly in the status Advisor to the General Director for Technical Affairs. In the actions Microsoft has about $ 12.8 billion, belonging to Gates.
Authoritative business magazine Forbes recently updated its list of the hundred wealthiest people in the world, and the founder of Microsoft was able to return to a leadership position for the first time in four years, beating longtime rival - Mexican magnate Carlos Slim. In fact, for the year Gates was able to increase the state from $ 67 billion to $ 76 billion, Slim lags by $ 4 billion over the past two years, Gates was the leader of the list together for fifteen years.
Now there are 1,645 billionaires, 492 of whom live in the United States, and 172 are women. This year, people from IT-focused sector, except Bill Gates (number one) and Larry Ellison (number five, Oracle), about twenty positions list. Larry Page (17th place, Google), Jeff Bezos (18th place, Amazon) go head to head with $ 32.3 billion and $ 32 billion respectively. Sergey Brin (Google) $ 31.8 billion was on the 19th place. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), for the year increased his fortune from $ 15.2 billion to $ 28.5 billion, ranked 21st in the list of Forbes. Steve Ballmer (former CEO of Microsoft) is located on the 36th position with $ 19.3 billion, and the fortieth place is the largest shareholder of "Megaphone" Alisher Usmanov, with $ 18.6 billion,
Returning to the leader of the list Bill Gates, it is appropriate to add that he donated $ 28 billion to charity. Related Products :
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