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Any reason why the Rothchilds never show up in these lists? My best guess there is some sort of "who's the richest game" for some new money players (who's fortune can be tracked), where old money prefers obscurity.
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End of financial year tomorrow.
eh is it? I thought it's end of Q2 tomorrow only. The $10 billion is probably the addition of Q1 and Q2 so far this fiscal year.
For all the hype Silicon Valley gets, the companies of the world's 2 richest people are in the Seattle area.
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Really meant San Fran. An extreme disproportionate amount of investment dollars go there considering just how much value has come out of Seattle with much less starting capital.
Wasn't Microsoft founded in Albuquerque?
For all the hype Silicon Valley gets, the companies of the world's 2 richest people are in the Seattle area.
Seattle* is an anomaly. Roughly the 100th city worldwide by size, yet has 2 of the 5 largest companies in the world by market cap. * Technically Seattle metro area
With a little math, we are not-too-many years from the world's first US$ trillionaire. Using Mr. Bezos as the example: US$ 72,000,000,000 Annualized gain of, say, 10% on AMZN stock Over a period of 27.6 years 1.1^27.6 * US$72,000,000,000 = ~US$ 1,000,000,000,000 Just in time for his 80th birthday.
For all the hype Silicon Valley gets, the companies of the world's 2 richest people are in the Seattle area.
People are usually including Amazon and MS when they use the metonym "Silicon Valley".
Though now that you mention it, I have heard that commute times around the valley are terrible....
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http://www.snopes.com/rothschild-family-wealth/ Basically, after three generations a single persons wealth is distributed out enough to get dropped from these sorts of lists. Jeff might be the 2nd richest in the world - it's highly unlikely his grandchildren will be ranked as such.
Good point. One family that is directly measurable however: offspring of Sam Walton. Bill G is a distant second by that yard stick: https://www.forbes.com/profile/walton-1/
Any reason why the Rothchilds never show up in these lists? My best guess there is some sort of "who's the richest game" for some new money players (who's fortune can be tracked), where old money prefers obscurity.