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Technology
Bill Gates
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The figure
$96.5Bas of 1 Jan 2019Wikidata (citing forbes.com)↗staleEvery figure below names its source and the date it describes.
Bill Gates$96.5Bas of 1 Jan 2019Wikidata (citing forbes.com)↗stale
$250B$500B$750B$1T
Drawn on a fixed rule from nothing to $1T. The same rule is used everywhere on this site, so two fortunes compared here can be compared with two compared anywhere else.
The figure
Where it comes from
This figure is 7 years old. Large fortunes move with the markets daily and nothing here tracks that, so read it as a record of what was published then, not as a current valuation.
Stated by Wikidata (citing forbes.com).
The record
Head to head
Rating1500
Decided votes0
Won0
Lost0
Nobody has voted on this person yet, so their rating is still the 1500 everyone enters at. It is not an assessment — it is an absence of votes.
Background
In brief
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person in their The World's Billionaires list for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of July 2026, his net worth stood at US$106.5 billion, making him the 19th-wealthiest individual in the world.
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The history
4 figures on record
Every figure the site holds, newest first, each with the date it describes and a link to the claim. Nothing is discarded when sources disagree.
| As of | Figure | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Jan 2019 | $96.5Bas of 1 Jan 2019Wikidata (citing forbes.com)↗ | estimated |
| 27 Jul 2017 | $89.8Bas of 27 Jul 2017Wikidata (citing forbes.com)↗ | estimated |
| 01 Jul 2016 | $77.7Bas of 1 Jul 2016Wikidata (citing forbes.com)↗ | estimated |
| 01 Jan 2015 | $79.2Bas of 1 Jan 2015Wikidata↗ | estimated |
— no figure carrying a source and a date. KIND is how the source itself presented the number: reported, estimated, or derived by us from holdings.
Portrait
And its licence
Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union · CC BY 4.0 · file page
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