This fun timeline history shows how Bill Gates grew his net worth to unfathomable levels by 2019.
On March 13, 1986 Microsoft had it’s Initial Public Offering (IPO) at an opening price of $21/share. In the end 2.5 million shares were sold, which netted the new public company $61 million.
Bill Gates was arguably the biggest winner that day.
As co-founder and chairman Gates received around $1.6 million dollars for the shares he sold. What really set the world a buzz that day was the 45% stake he retained, which was now worth a cool $350 million, making William Gates III one of the 100 richest Americans.
But as magical as that day sounds, it was only the beginning…
