Gates had the equivalent of 2.06 billion shares in September 1998, when Microsoft first became the world’s most-valuable company, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

He sold the vast majority of his stock before leaving the board in 2020. But if he had held on to it, it would have been valued at about $693 billion on Friday — easily outstripping the combined wealth of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Link in bio.

SOURCE What If Bill Gates Hadn’t Sold His Microsoft (MSFT) Shares? – Bloomberg