Not long ago, Bill Gates bought 12,000 acres of farmland at a price of just over US$1,000 per acre, and he spent a total of US$13.5 million. Some people may ask, what did Bill Gates use to buy so much land at once?
In fact, Bill Gates already owns 1.63 million acres of land, an area equivalent to the entire area of Hong Kong. Therefore, Bill Gates is also the farmer with the most land in the world. However, many people think that Bill Gates is not flexible because he cleared out all 448% of his shares in , Microsoft, and .
We know that the market value of Microsoft has exceeded US$2 trillion in the past two years, and even reached US$3 trillion for a period of time. If Bill Gates had not sold his shares, his worth would have reached US$1.5 trillion. But he sold these shares and received only US$58 billion.
In fact, it makes sense for Bill Gates to do this, because the changes in Internet companies are unpredictable. One day he was the boss, and he may have fallen to the bottom tomorrow. Therefore, when the company's market value is at a high level, he puts money into his own Pockets are the safest.
Bill Gates doesn't want to wait until the market value continues to grow. He can invest US$58 billion in other industries, and the returns will still be high. As early as 20 years ago, Bill Gates established the investment company and successively purchased 1.63 million acres of land. The returns from these lands were actually higher than those at Microsoft.
But of course Bill Gates not only owns shares in Microsoft, he also owns shares in many companies, but Bill Gates is the same as Buffett. They are not willing to invest money in technology companies, so Bill Gates does not have a technology company. of shares.
The industries that Bill Gates invests in are generally infrastructure companies, including railways, electricity, banks, etc. In fact, the purpose of Bill Gates' investment is not to obtain returns as soon as possible, but to achieve long-term development. Bill Gates still has many undisclosed assets that even and Li Ka-shing cannot match.
You must know that the 58 billion that Bill Gates cashed out from Microsoft is cash, not book assets, and this cash is scattered in various fields. With Bill Gates' intelligence, this money will definitely become more and more. If the money is still placed in Microsoft, then if there is a problem with Microsoft, the money will be lost a lot, and now Bill Gates is reducing his stake to spread the risk.
