Jeremy Tolibas
Intro Computers
Period 3
Wealth of Characters in POSV
Bill Gates:
Wealth: $58.0 Billion
Rank: 1
Age: 52
Paul Allen:
Wealth: $16.0 Billion
Rank: 12
Age: 55
Steve Ballmer
Wealth: $15.0 Billion
Rank: 15
Age: 52
Steve Jobs
Wealth: $5.7 Billion
Rank: 61
Age: 53
Steve Wozniak
Wealth: Less than $1 Billion
Rank: No rank
Age: 59
Bill Gates facts:
-If
his all of his money were $100 bills, and stacked them up, they would reach
roughly 39 miles high, enough to reach the International Space station.
-Bill
Gates earns $280,000 an hour
-If
he donated his stock to the
-If
he dropped or found a $100 dollar bill on the ground, it would not be worth his
time to bend over and pick it up
-He
could use only 35% of his net worth to purchase every single major league
basketball, football, baseball, and hockey, teams.
-He
could give every person in the U.S. $150 dollars
Woz.org Letter Summary: Letter Sept 16
The
letter asks what does Steve Wozniak thinks about the Microsoft-Apple deal.
Wozniak replies that the deal was “artificial and mostly in words.”. Wozniak
says that Microsoft is really helping Apple, and Apple isn’t really praising
Microsoft. The part where Microsoft purchased $125 million worth of stock from
Apple, according to Wozniak, was “The
portrayal of Bill Gates was to help get confidence back into Apple as an
ongoing company.”.