Is Bill Gates net worth over 82 billion?
Actually technically he is. He has about $53 billion dollars left in Microsoft & a few small investments but his charity Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or something like that is worth about about 30 -40 billion dollars of his money from selling stock over the years. Because he has donated about half his fortune to his charity it technically is no longer under his control for person use as least & thus not offically counted as part of his net worth anymore. But since he still does control the money you could make a case that he still is worth more then $83 billion since he owns & controls the charity too but again he can’t use it’s money anymore for personal use. The charity of course does invest to help fund more causes & has some administrative costs namely the fact that Bill’s father runs the charity on Bill’s behalf but the costs are small for any charity but especially one as large as it is. Warren Buffets donation assuming he died in the next few months would about double the Cha
