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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
Pay your employees well, provide good benefits, and pay your taxes and I don’t care how much money you have. I like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett is one of my favourite people.
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He had to pay them well, they knew how much money was coming in and they had skills he needed.
Gates started off as an all star star coder and programmer, but his time at Microsoft was largely defined by his ruthless business practices, how he would smash his rivals, find ways to steal their IP or get it for cheap, with the ultimate goal of creating a tech Monopoly. The primary reason for creating a monopoly is to keep all the money and power for yourself, so I'm going to assume that was his motivation. How much of gates Fortune is other people's fortunes that he pirated away for himself?
Keep in mind I just listed his Forbes value, in all likelihood he probably has tens of billions squirreled away in offshore accounts, remember the Panama papers?