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 U.S. treasury, it would only reduce the national debt by 1%

-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.”.