Bill Gates

ar Bill left Harvard to devote his hours to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. With Bill in charge, Microsoft's priorities have been to continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use computers. In addition, if somehow you happened to hit the $10 million dollar lottery, well for Bill Gates that would be like winning $5. Now Microsoft has grown to be the largest software company there is and they show no sign of slowing down. 7 Billion dollars and if Bill really wanted to, he could buy 16. If you began traveling along this line picking up dollar bills since March 13, 1986 (the day Microsoft went public), and you wished to accumulate wealth at the same rate Bill has since that date, you would need to travel that line of bills picking them up at 18. If Bill wanted to spend all his time playing Pac-Man, assuming each 25˘ game lasts 10 minutes, Bill could play for 2,158,175. According to “Yahoo! Inside Trades Site,” Bill has 622,321,300 shares of Microsoft selling at $45. Alex Rodriguez plays baseball for the Texas Rangers and is the highest paid athlete in the world, making $252 million over 10 years, and would have to play 1,135. It has been calculated that Microsoft controls 80-85% of the entire PC software industry.