Who said being a programmer wasn't balla as fuck?
>>53264069
his programming abilities isnt what attained his net worth
>>53264080
Yes it is. He literally wrote Microsoft BASIC, the product that founded Microsoft. Without programming he had no business.
>>53264069
>MUH LOONIX
stay poor faggots
>>53264163
>if the founder of Microsoft is rich that means I'm rich if I use windows too!
$44.3 billion donated to charity
still richest known man
>>53264188
No, it means that if you write proprietary software then you can make fuckloads of cash
Moron
>>53264188
typical retarded loonix user
stay md
>>53264209
>Redhat
STAY POOR WINDRONES
imagine what you could do with 75 billion
>>53264201
Yup, it's because he still makes a buttload of money through investments.
>More than half of Gates' fortune is held in assets outside his holding of Microsoft shares.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Investment
That's how he's continued to make money for years despite Microsoft not doing so well, and how his wealth keeps rebounding despite massive contributions to charity. In fact it's the primary way he's been making money for years. He's a fucking shrewd businessman, he really is.
>>53264247
i would by atomic bombs and nuke china, russia, india and africa, maybe south america
>>53264255
Not only that I imagine the donations help a fuckton with taxes if he pays any
>>53264255
>and how his wealth keeps rebounding despite massive contributions to charity
That's literally why the ultra rich have foundations, to launder money and not pay taxes. Naive as fuck.
>>53264247
i'd do what george soros is doing but instead of targeting the general population, I'd exclusively target weebs and gamers and make their life excruciating tbqh
>>53264069
His best friend was a programmer and his dad was a lawyer.
Yeah he's definitely richer than members of the Rothschild family...
>>53264069
Bill Gates and his wife are eating out at a fancy restaurant tonight eating some of the best food in the world.
Meanwhile this is what Richard Stallman doing for dinner tonight every night this decade until he finally passes away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
>>53264127
You mean he bought it off someone and modified it a little bit.
>>53264069
>the richest man in the world used to be a decent programmer as a teenager
it certainly says something positive about programming, but nothing about WORKING as a programmer.
>>53264590
le jew meme
>>53264590
Time to put on the tin foil hats!
>programmer
most of his programming was using paul allen to make a basic interpreter for altair 8080
The rest was just corporate acquisition and a dumb luck deal with ibm whch gave microsoft a monopoly on x86 pc market
>>53265223
>being in the right place, at the right moment, knowing the right people.
that's literally how every fortune is made
at least he was a competent programmer, unlike anybody else in the industry
Steve Jobs was way cooler than he will ever be though.
>>53265327
>Steve Jobs was way cooler than he will ever be though.
Well Steve Jobs IS out cold, hard to beat that.
>>53265327
he wasn't cool enough to cue his cance with smoothies
>>53265472
i gotta eplace the key between e and t
>>53264069
>Amancio Ortega
Wait what. I've never even heard of this guy, how does he suddenly have more money than Warren Buffett?
>>53265373
/thread
Can we really belive Bill Gates is the richest man in the world and not some rockefeller-like ilominaty big family man that asked not to be on this list?
>>53264127
His first OS was literally bought from someone else and even used the original name it had before they bought it.
>>53264996
Working for someone else is never good
But if we look at the world's richest people I think we can glean that there is money to be made in tech. Bill Gates, (the late) Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page / Sergey Brin, Michael Dell, etc.
>>53264069
please
>>53264069
>All the data he has
>All the data he sold
No wonder m8
>>53265070
>>53265040
good goys!
>>53264247
I'd help build and fund civilization on Antarctica to prepare the Aryan race for colonizing Mars.
>>53264069
He has reptilian-kike privilege, doesn't count.
>>53266704
but 86-DOS was a copy of CP/M 86 itself, at the point that its creator sued IBM for it
>>53264069
>Who said being a programmer wasn't balla as fuck?
Who said Gates was a programmer?
He was a hustler, a huckster and a convicted criminal.
