Elon Musk is now the fourth-richest person in the world. He's about to get even richer

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by ajacobson, Aug 26, 2020.

  1. ajacobson

    ajacobson

  2. Millionaire

    Millionaire

    Imagine if Bill gates had kept his 49% of microsoft that he owned when MSFT IPOed.

    He would be worth $800 billion today, on his way to be a $trillionaire soon
     
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  3. Yeah, that's all the world would need.

    George Soros' mini-me with a bunch of more $Billions.
     
  4. Thank God Bill Gates is not that rich, if not he would have funded all those left-wing causes bigly.
     
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  5. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    Elon's now got enough money to make the green deal via lobbying a reality. No matter who wins re-election. On one side I feel conflicted, on the other, this country made its bed by voting those policies into place.
     
  6. Millionaire

    Millionaire


    Quick google:

    Bill Gates has given away $45 billion to his foundation.
    Soros has given away $32 billion to his foundation.

    Bill gates is still worth $115 billion, even after giving away $45 billion.
    Soros is worth around $8 billion today.

    I don't know how much of Gate's give away was humanitarian and political.

    But Soros is the one with the bad reputation for using his money to push his politics onto others.

    Gates could do a lot more political damage than Soros with the $115 billion he has left, i mean if he wanted to..
     
  7. socool

    socool

    Well damn
     
  8. And... he does!
     
  9. virtusa

    virtusa

    The biggest part of his billions are not cash but invested in stocks. To use these billions he has to sell stocks. Which will cut him off from future profits if Tesla stock would rise.

    On the other hand, if Tesla stocks would go down he would lose a lot of money, and positions in the ranking. What goes up (fast, or at a non realistic level) can go down fast and deep too.
     
  10. Millionaire

    Millionaire

    Do you have examples, i mean i heard about Soros funding things like BLM etc.

    But only negative things i have heard about Gates are the vaccination related things he wants to push on people, are there other examples?
     
    #10     Aug 27, 2020