Why Bill Gates Has More Invested In Apple Than Microsoft - How Money Works #shorts

Bill gates has significantly more money invested in Apple than he does in Microsoft.

That’s right, despite being the founder of trillion dollar software company, Bill Gates is no longer the companies CEO, or even their biggest investor.

Since 1995 he has slowly sold his holdings in Microsoft with a lot of the proceeds going to his charity work and whatever is leftover being reinvested through a New York based investment firm that exists exclusively to manage Bills personal fortune.

Its notable investment include a 71% stake in the Four Seasons Hotel chain, 270,000 acres of farmland and a 4% stake in Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company run by bills long-time friend Warren Buffet.

That 4% stake in Berkshire represents almost half of Bills Assets under management, and almost half of Berkshire Hathaway’s assets under management are Apple Shares.

At current values that would mean that Gates owns about 22 billion dollars’ worth of Microsoft stock, and indirectly owns 30 billion dollars’ worth of Apple stock.

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[ajrobbins]

Don't forget Pixar (and Disney) made Steve Jobs a billionaire before Apple did.

[davidwelty]

This will blow your mind: because of his sale of Pixar, Steve Jobs’s Disney stock position was larger than his Apple stock position both in number of shares and dollar value when he passed.

[xemnadicaxolando]

"I play both sides, so I always come out on top"

[Bhavinp]

This isn’t accurate. If Berkshire’s Apple holding is estimated at $150 billion, Bill’s 4 percent would be $6 billion. Bills 4% holding of ALL of Berkshire at todays $610 billion market cap would still be around $25 billion. Oh and Apple is nearly half of Berkshire’s equity portfolio, not half of the whole company.

[thethinkingmansgame]

Your smart to own part of your competitor.. especially if you can't put them out of business

[polaris]

If he had trusted in his own company and not have sold of his shares in microsoft, he would have been a trillion.

[achill_]

You answered the question 'How' and not 'Why'

[erickmarquez]

This real since the 90's to avoid FTC for monopoly accusations...

[chunnin]

270, 000 hectares of farmland that he wont let people farm on

[Nikhil-fryk]

He would be worth 693 billion dollars if he kept his Microsoft holding
But diversification makes his stocks easy to sell

[lakevna]

He's also the largest single owner of farmland across the US, and taking it all out of food production during a major food supply crisis.

[nestor]

That "idiot" on the computer screen was a nice touch

[zidcenter]

Days of Steve and Bill is very touching 😢

[finalcionide]

becuase if microsoft was ever to go bankrupt, hes going to up with apple profits. Hes basically hedging his own company against his competitor. 1000iq

[nobandfan]

He’s the largest private land owner. Lot of what he bought is prime farmland. Not sure if it is being used to make food or not.

[adrianfleming]

Yeah I remember when he bailed them out in the 90s man

[Rushi_]

Apple once was going to get bankrupt so he helped them to keep market stays competitive and department of commerce don't get into business

[ruvanefriebus-cvtd]

Bill Gates looks like a constipated turtle when he's sipping at a cup of coffee

[wuthichaiauomsin]

you forgot in the 90 bill gates save apple by put 150 million dollar in the investment.

[PepeTheFrog.]

Make a video on why he owns companies making synthetic meat and vaccines