The Brilliant Business Tycoon, Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the American business tycoon and legendary icon behind Microsoft, the top computer software company. It has been said that Bill Gates has the potential to become the world’s first trillionaire, a word so rare it is still not used in the dictionary. It is estimated this will happen for Mr. Gates in approximately 25 years, or around 2040. As per a late Oxfam report, wealthy people are gathering riches at an astounding rate; to the point that the world could see its initial trillionaire in only 25 years.
Since 1987, Gates has been frequently seen in the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people. Today, Gates is the wealthiest person on the planet, with an estimated net worth of US$84.2 billion as of January 2017.
Exponentially growing wealth is nothing new for Bill Gates. Way back in 1999, as his wealth crossed the $101 billion barrier, the media began to call him a “centibillionaire.”
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When Bill Gates parted with his company, he had a new worth of $50 billion. After 10 years, despite his praiseworthy endeavors to give much of it away through his worthy foundation, his wealth figure has now grown to $75 billion. The bottom line – The wealth of Bill Gates has increased by half ($25 billion) since he cleared out of Microsoft in 2006.
Other notable billionaires are Amancio Ortega, Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim Helu, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Michael Bloomberg.
Worldwide money related administrations organization UBS has evaluated that in the following 20 years, 500 individuals will hand over $2.1 trillion to their beneficiaries –more than the GDP of India, a nation with the population of 1.3 billion people.
If all goes according to prediction, Microsoft originator Bill Gates will be the world’s initial trillionaire in 25 years at the predicted age of 86 years.
