# Bill Gates' Fortune

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-fortune/71510>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 6, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-fortune/71510 "2001-07-06T18:05:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kgriffey79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@kgriffey79](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kgriffey79)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-fortune/71510/1 "2001-07-06T18:05:13Z")

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How much of his money is in stocks and how much does he have access to in banks and such?? Just wondering

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-fortune/71510/2 "2001-07-06T18:17:33Z")

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As of April 30, Gates held 701,749,300 shares of MSFT, which represents a lion’s share of his net worth, $48 billion as of May 16. He probably has a few billion in other assets.

Source:

> **[Yahoo Finance - Stock Market Live, Quotes, Business & Finance News](https://finance.yahoo.com/)**
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> At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.

That will also show you his recent sales of MSFT. Has has dumped $300 million at a crack a couple times.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-gates-fortune/71510/3 "2001-07-06T18:49:58Z")

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Whoops! I screwed up. I guess I’m not ready for the big leagues yet. :o

Since yabob kindly reposted his comment in the [other thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=77074), I’ll close this one too.

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