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Bill Gates retains title of world's richest person with $78.5 billion


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It's no secret that Bill Gates isn’t short of a dollar or two. Truth be told, he really isn’t too badly off at all. Oh, OK... he's completely rolling in money! Earlier in the year he managed to regain his title of being the world's richest person, and throughout 2013 the Microsoft founder's fortunes have continued to grow.



Over the last twelve months, Gates' coffers have swelled by $15.8 billion, increasing his fortune to a staggering $78.5 billion. While usually associated with Microsoft, Gates has also invested in a number of other companies that have helped to increase his worth. In fact less than a quarter of his fortune is invested in Microsoft.


But a 40 percent increase in Microsoft's share prices certainly helped contribute to his fortune, and shares in Ecolab Inc. and Canadian National Railway Co. also added to the cash pile.


But of course, Bill Gates does not just sit back and watch the cash roll in -- he is well known for his philanthropic ventures. In fact he has donated a mind-blowing $28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.



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some one tell him he owes me a refund on mouse i bought 15 years ago.... the judge told me i cannot talk to him any more about that :s

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I think he used to be worth about twice that amount. I forgot what happened.

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I think he used to be worth about twice that amount. I forgot what happened.

windows vista happened..actually what happened he stepped down from actively running microsoft so he had to take small pay cut

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Airstream_Bill

I think he used to be worth about twice that amount. I forgot what happened.

windows vista happened..actually what happened he stepped down from actively running microsoft so he had to take small pay cut

Small Pay Cut. You would think he could refund the price of a Mouse.

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some one tell him he owes me a refund on mouse i bought 15 years ago.... the judge told me i cannot talk to him any more about that :s

Do you keep the ticket?, without it, Bill will refuse give your money back :P

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i sent a in a rebate with the proper form filled out and microsoft also wanted the ORIGINAL receipt form the store i made the purchase...then when it was in their building that crazy man sent microsoft anthrax in the m ail and lot of mail had to be destroyed... mine was one of them... will never get my rebate now...i think this in 2000 or 2001

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Be careful bill stewie might hunt you like what he did to santa. :lmao: Better refund his mouse immediately. :P:

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