Bill Gates no longer Richest Man!

[Carl Taylor]

Bill has been kicked off his perch by Warren.

Bill Gates No Longer Worlds Richest Man
(http://www.carltaylor.com.au/index.php/Latest/Gates-No-Longer-World-s-Richest-Man.html)

[Brendan]

Yea I spotted that in this mornings paper, I also noticed that the creator of Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg is now marked officially as the worlds youngest billionare, at 23! In Fact he is so rich Forbes has marked him at 785th Richest man in the world.

Zuckerberg is now part of the 50 people under 40 that are on the list.. The 'youth league' is headed by Google co-founders Sergey Brin, 34, and 35-year-old Larry Page, who have £9.4billion and £9.3billion respectively.

Not bad huh.. so when do we think we'll be on that list!?

[crackers]

Probably tomorrow if it all works out ;)

Bill is always up and down on the list. I believe he was dethroned a while back.

Creator if facebook is a lucky bastard thats for sure. On him.

[rosshill]

I wonder what the list looks like if you rank people by cash instead of paper assets?

[Brendan]

does it really matter though?

[wiiman]

Well the only reason he dropped off the list is because of the bid his compnay made for Yahoo. If the deal goes through next year he will be right there on top.

[Carl Taylor]

I think its not that Bill lost money

Its that Warren and the Mexican Telco guy are making more.

Warren's wealth has surged from his Berkshire Hathaway Stocks

[wiiman]

Yeah thats true. Bill did add 2 billion to his wealth. It would have been more had his stocks not dipped a couple cents.

[itycoon]

Its not because he lost money. The problem is because his company made a bid for Yahoo. Had he not he would have been at least 2-3 billion ahead of the others.