Billionaire Bill Gates is worth $175 billion today and helped transform the tech industry by co-founding Microsoft. Things could have looked a lot different if Gates didn’t fix a bad habit along the way. While an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Gates has a bad habit of procrastinating. “I liked to show people that I…
The Gates Foundation Trust, founded by the billionaire Bill Gates, has a portfolio valued at $41.806 billion, which is concentrated in these three stocks as of the end of the first quarter of 2025. What Happened: The foundation has received donations from Gates and the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, since the year 2000 and…
The Oracle of Omaha is shaking things up this year with a rule change to his March Madness bracket challenge. What Happened: In past years, billionaire Warren Buffett offered thousands of employees who work at various companies owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc BRKBRK the chance to win $1 billion — if they get a perfect…
Apple Inc. AAPL continues to trade at elevated valuation levels despite Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. significantly reducing its stake in the iPhone maker, according to a prominent market analyst. What Happened: Lawrence McDonald, founder of Bear Traps Report, highlighted concerns about Apple’s current price-to-sales ratio in a post on X on Sunday. “Think about…
The world’s top tech billionaires saw their fortunes plummet on Monday as markets tumbled, with the Magnificent Seven tech giants shedding approximately $780 billion in market capitalization during a single trading session. What Happened: According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Tesla Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk led the losses, with his net worth dropping from…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK BRK has amassed a staggering $325 billion cash reserve, its largest ever, and nearly double the previous year’s balance. This coincides with a record high in Warren Buffett’s favored valuation metric: the stock market’s value relative to the U.S. economy. While this may seem like Buffett is predicting an imminent market…
MicroStrategy Inc. MSTR co-founder Michael Saylor said that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK was destroying billions of dollars in capital by not utilizing the huge hordes of cash at their disposal to invest in Bitcoin BTC/USD. What Happened: During a podcast with Patrick Bet-David, Saylor drew attention to the company’s massive $325 billion cash…
Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, has made a significant move by reducing his stake in Apple Inc. AAPL and other stocks, generating a whopping $97 billion in gains for his company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. BRK BRK. What Happened: Buffett, last week, disclosed that he continued to cut his position in Apple and other stocks in…