Bill Gates Made $168 Million This Month

6:41 pm EST August 10th, 2009 | News | 7 Comments

Since the beginning of August Gates sold 7 million out of his 726 million Microsoft shares for about $168 million.

I guess he needed some money for lunch, heh.

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7 Responses to “Bill Gates Made $168 Million This Month”

  1. SaveFarris says:
    August 10, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    So … rich guy cashing out? We’ve turned the corner!!!

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    August 10, 2009 at 10:58 pm

    Some things aren’t about politics. Try it sometime.

  3. EOM says:
    August 11, 2009 at 3:28 am

    He probably needed the cash to pay someone to remove IE8 from his home computers.

  4. jrfunkenstein says:
    August 11, 2009 at 8:56 am

    Guess his new OS rollout wasn’t quite the success he thought it would be, now that he’s dumping an obscene amount of shares in his own company.

  5. Duros62 says:
    August 11, 2009 at 10:17 am

    Maybe he’s going Galt!

  6. David in NYC says:
    August 11, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Or maybe he is giving the money away? He has already committed to distributing at least 95% of his estate to charity.

    And do you really think his divesting less than 1% of his Microsoft holdings (not his only assets, obviously) is indicative of something monumental? It’s about as big a deal as me cashing a check for $10.00.

  7. SaveFarris says:
    August 11, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    And do you really think his divesting less than 1% of his Microsoft holdings (not his only assets, obviously) is indicative of something monumental?

    It sounds more like he’s pulling an Eisner.