What Bill Gates Learned in 2018

Always an interesting read to help discover what the future holds and how one of the most successful people of our time thinks.

Nuclear Energy

Some spotlight points from his latest year in review includes the fact that Nuclear power is something that we should expect to see grow and for reasons having to do with it's low impact on the environment if we can properly use technology to avoid catastraophic damage that comes as the main headline risk of using Nuclear energy. A deal in China that would have greatly reduced global warming was scrapped due to global trade tensions.

Gene Editing

With Artificial Intelligence gaining the majority of headlines we should look at the risks associated with Gene Editing and the problems that may come as a result of this. While there are many positives.

Stopping Epidemics 

Were close to eradicating the polio virus with 29 cases last year vs 22 the year before. The two cases happened in war torn areas of Afgahnistan and Pakistan but once we eradicate this we will have a resounding celebration knowing that one of many killer epidemics is gone. The Spanish flu killed over 50 million people and the next flu could do the same so that's where our worries should be focused not on terrorist attacks, climate change, and an asteroid hitting us. 

Reference: https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Year-in-Review-2018

How Much Would Steve Jobs Be Worth Today if He Never Sold Any Apple Shares?

Apple's Current Market Capitalization as of today is $784.55 Billion dollars. The largest of any publicly traded company in the country. Steve Jobs was famous for taking a salary of $1.000 and living off of his bonus but theoretically if we were lucky enough to have him alive today and had he never sold any of his shares we could ask what would Steve Jobs Net Worth be?

Crunchbase was able to provide the ownership of common stock the day Apple went public. It shows Steven P. Jobs with a 15% share of the company and Stephen G. Wozniak with holdings of 7.9%.

So if we calculate 15% of $784.55 billion dollars we get: $117,682,5000.00 thats 117 Billion Dollars and thus would have made him the richest person in the world. Wozniak would also be 61 Billion.

While these figures are not truly realistic since both were diluted and sold shares but still fun and interesting to look at. Alternatively you could say that Bill Gates owned 49% of Microsoft when they went public and the current market cap is $573 Billion. So $286.5 Billion...