2022 was not a good year to be billionaire in the tech industry.
Bezos founded the world’s biggest ecommerce company — Amazon.com — and served as its CEO for 27 years. He owns around 10% of the company’s stock.
Gates holds roughly 1% of Microsoft stock, but also has stakes in Canadian National Railway, Deere, and Ecolab, all of which are managed by Cascade Investment. Ellison holds a 40% stake in Oracle and has shares in Tesla, the Indian Wells tennis event, a sailing team, and real estate, including 98% of Hawaii’s Lanai island.A former CEO of Microsoft for 13 years, Ballmer actually holds a larger share in the company than Bill Gates — 4%. He also owns the LA Clippers basketball team.
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