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In 1999, he became the first ever centibillionaire when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. Later in his career and since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft in 2008, Gates has pursued other business and philanthropic endeavors.
Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1986, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company purchased more than ten companies a year between 2005 and 2008, and it acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single year, including Onfolio, Lionhead Studios, Massive Incorporated, ProClarity, Winternals Software, and Colloquis.
He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Allen was ranked as the 44th-wealthiest person in the world by Forbes with an estimated net worth of $20.3 billion at the time of his death in October 2018.
In its simplest form, net worth is simply a company’s assets minus its liabilities. By this metric, which is also referred to as shareholders’ equity, Microsoft’s net worth as of the quarter ...
And, later that same year, the company started “shipping Microsoft Windows, a graphical operating environment that runs on the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system.” In 1986, Microsoft went public.
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. [2] Its best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft 365 suite of productivity applications, the Azure cloud computing platform and the Edge web browser.
Microsoft became the second-ever company worth $3 trillion on Wednesday as the artificial intelligence boom sent shares of the company’s stock soaring higher.
In addition to Microsoft’s Gates, there is CEO Steve Ballmer at 51 overall (number 7 in tech), with net worth of $15.2 billion; and Paul Allen at 53 overall (number 8 in tech), with a net worth ...