Bill Gates Could Have Been World’s First Trillionaire If He Had Diamond-Handed His Microsoft Stock — But Instead, He’s Vowed To Not Die Rich

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Bill Gates Could Have Been World’s First Trillionaire If He Had Diamond-Handed His

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Stock — But Instead, He’s Vowed To Not Die Rich

Elon Musk may

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, but if Bill Gates had diamond-handed his

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stock instead of giving most of it away, we’d be looking at a very different kind of billionaire. A trillionaire, in fact.

According to a

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, Gates would be worth around $1.2 trillion today — more than three times Musk’s net worth — if he’d never sold a single share or donated a dime. The clip estimates that he and Melinda French Gates could have had a combined fortune of $1.5 trillion, making them by far the wealthiest couple in modern history.

Of course, that’s not what happened.

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The video highlights that since

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’s 1986 IPO — where Gates held 49% of the company — he’s steadily trimmed his stake over the years while building one of the most generous philanthropic legacies in history. Today, he holds less than 1% of

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stock, worth about $28 billion, while Melinda reportedly owns 380,000 shares worth roughly $170 million.

Still, the hypothetical is staggering: if they’d never sold and reinvested dividends, the Gateses would own over 3.2 billion shares after stock splits, controlling about 43% of

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— a stake valued at $1.4 trillion at today’s price. Toss in another $100 billion in post-tax dividends, and the cash pile alone would outsize most billionaire fortunes.

This alternate reality has its roots in the late ’90s,

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Gates would become the first trillionaire by 2005. At the time, it didn’t sound too far-fetched. By June 1999, Gates’ net worth had soared to $72.2 billion, growing at an eye-popping annual rate of 58.2% since the IPO. But instead of clinging to

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shares, Gates diversified, offloaded, and doubled down on giving.

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In a

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, he reaffirmed his commitment to philanthropy, referencing Andrew Carnegie’s The Gospel of Wealth. “The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced,” Carnegie wrote. Gates added, “People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that ‘he died rich’ will not be one of them.”

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