On a personal note, you did change the world Billy Boy. Hope you do the same again.

p.s. BTW, Joy Of Tech guys are good. Subscribe to them if you like a laugh once in a while.

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Billy Boy has been surpassed by Carlos Slim, the Mexican Telecom tycoon. Bill’s current estimated wealth is $ 59.2 billion, while slims estimated wealth is $67.8 billion.

Reasons:
Two of the most obvious reasons are:

1. A surge of 27% in the stock price of Slim’s wireless company, America Movil, in the second quarter
2. Bill reduced his net wealth by more than $30 billion, which he put in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

What Next?
Nothing really. To a question asked to him at the Microsoft conference last year, whether he’d be upset if someday he wasn’t the richest creature , he responded, “”I wish I wasn’t. “There’s nothing good that comes out of that.”
Moreover, he’d be retiring in a year’s time and would be dedicating he’s time, energy, and money to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. I wish him luck.

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