Bill Gates could have accumulated three times Elon Musk’s current wealth, if he had held on to his Microsoft shares and not devoted to philanthropy.

The net worth of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the fourth richest person in the world at present. He is often known for his philanthropy. But do you he could have accumulated assets and had worth money which would have been more than what Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos had combined. Yes, its true.

Bill Gates would have accumulated three times Elon Musk’s current wealthif Bill Gates had held on to his Microsoft shares and not devoted to philanthropy. Musk is currently valued at $409 billion, according to Forbes.

Bill had once owned 11.2 million shares

Before Microsoft went public in 1986, Bill owned 11.2 million shares, representing nearly 49% of the company, worth around $200 million at the time. If he had kept all his holdings, those shares would have grown through stock splits to 3.2 billion, giving him and Melinda a 43% stake in the company today, worth an estimated $1.4 trillion.

Not just this, Melinda French Gates, Bill’s former wife and co-founder of the Gates Foundation, would also rank as the world’s third-richest person with a projected net worth of $300 billion.

Gates promised to donate 99% of income in philanthropy

However, according to Forbes, the couple could have collected roughly $100 billion in after-tax dividends over the decades. This amount alone would have made Bill wealthier than all but the top 18 of the world’s more than 3,000 billionaires.

In May, Gates pledged to donate 99% of his more than $100 billion fortune over the next 20 years to accelerate his philanthropic efforts through the Gates Foundation.