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- From: tim@ssd.intel.com (Tim Gates)
- Subject: Re: Why is Borland downgraded?
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- References: <1992Dec19.223345.5183@sequent.com> <a0e3VB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:42:35 GMT
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- In article <a0e3VB1w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky) writes:
- >
- >neal@sequent.com (Neal C. Wyse) writes:
- >
- >Bill Gates draws one of the smallest salaries of any CEO in the
- >Fortune 500. In fact in one Fortune salary listing (this summer I
- >think) he led the list of what they called "bargain CEO's" in the
- >Fortune 500. He has made his money through Microsft's unbelieveable
- >share price appreciation over the past
- >decade and through holding stock options against that appreciation (as well as
- >continuing to hold a pretty big block of Microsoft shares). Anybody who has a
- >problem with seeing Gates making that kind of money that way has a personal
- >problem with Gates that has nothing to do with his salary. Sounds
- >uncomfortably like techie-envy to me.
-
- I don't have my prospectus here in front of me, but if my memory serves me
- correctly Bill Gates' salary was around the $600K region. What really struck
- me was that he owned in excess of 90M (M as in Million) shares, not a bad net
- worth.
-
- If he has invested a couple of thousand dollars in a operating system and
- transformed it into a personal wealth of 8 billion, who can fault him for
- blowing 35M on a house. If it were me, I would have a hard time stopping at
- 35M.
-
- tim@ssd.intel.com
-