William Gates III

52 Years old

$57.0 billion

Rank 1

 

 

 

Steve Jobs

53 Years Old

$5.7 billion

Rank 61

 

 

Paul Allen

55 Years old

$16.0 billion

Rank 12

 

 

 

Steven Ballmer

52 Years Old

$15.0 billion

Rank 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Wozniack

59 years old

Wealth: ?

Rank: ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Gates;

 

How big of a stack would Bill Gates make in 100 dollar bills:

 

If 10,000 100 dollar bills is a 40 inch stack (1,000,000 = 40 inches)

            Then, (40/1 milllion) * (61500 mil) = he would have a 250,000 inch stack

                        (250,000 ft) * (1ft/12inch) =     20500 foot stack

                        (20500 ft) * (1 mile/5280 ft)     = 38.8 mile stack

 

How much does Gates make in an hour?

 

742,639,107 (seconds he has lived since March 13, 1986) divided by 60 (sec) and then divided by 60 (min) again gives him 206,288.64 dollars. This is how much he makes per hour

  1. If, on his way into the office, should he see or drop a $1000 bill on the ground, it's just not worth his time to bend over and pick it up. He would make more just heading off to work.
  2. That $45B in 12 months is an astounding rate at which to make money. That's higher than the entire gross domestic products of Chile and Egypt, and he's done twice as well as Guatemala, 4 times better than all of Sri Lanka or the Dominican Republic, 6 times better than Costa Rica, El Salvador or Panama, 8 times better than everybody in Brunei, including the Sultan, and 23 times better than all of Bermuda. That's right, in 1998 Bill's made much more (before taxes) than the entire population of Kuwait, all the Emirs, oil wells, Sheiks, millionaires and peasants -- everybody.
  3. Nobody -- even G.M, Exxon, Ford, IBM and Intel combined -- has earned what Bill's did in 98 by holding onto that MSFT stock
  4. Consider that he made this money in the 25 years or so since Microsoft was founded in 1975. If you presume that he has worked 14 hours a day on every business day of the year since then, that means he's been making money at a staggering million dollars per hour, around $300 per second.

 

 

 

Q: Why didn't you go back to Apple after they fired Steve Jobs?

A: Wozniak says he never really quit, he always kept a small employment status at Apple. He is not the political type.

 

Q: I just wanted to tell you that if the movie was accurate, I admire you more than Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.

A: The personalities and incidents are accurate in the sense that they all occured but they are often with the wrong parties

 

Q:  The first Apple I is going for $40 K. What do you think?

A: Wozniak actually had to buy the first Apple I and he gave it to Liza. The one they are auctioning must be the second Apple I.

 

Q: Was it really you who did Dial-A-Joke?

A: I started the first Dial-a-Joke in the San Francisco Bay Area. Later, I operated Dial-a-Joke out of my Cupertino apartment, where I did a lot of the Apple designing. I used a thick Eastern accent, like Russian, and used the name Stanley Zebrezuskinitsky when I took live calls.

 

Q: It is surprising how you never turned greedy with all the power and wealth going around due the computer sensation, like Jobs and Gates.

A: The personalities were very accurately portrayed in the movie. I don’t know how I stayed the same way after High School; all I wanted to be was nice and funny.