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Founder of IKEA overtakes Gates as world's richest

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I was under the impression the guy who founded Walmart had superceded Gates at some point. :?
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There were times when other did the same. Certainly it is not the first time.
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Uraniun235 wrote:I was under the impression the guy who founded Walmart had superceded Gates at some point. :?
The founder of Oracle also overtook gates as the worlds richest man once.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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I didn't read the article, but I hear alot on this board about this....IKEA...whatthe hell is IKEA? (Keep in mind my channel is PBS, I listen to NPR, and I hardly ever leave the house unless it's to battle the aliens who regularly try to land on the Modis buidling in Downtown jacksonville in order to spread their intergalactic bubonic plague across the city.

They haven't succeeded....yet
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Chardok wrote:I didn't read the article, but I hear alot on this board about this....IKEA...whatthe hell is IKEA?
IKEA is a "furniture retail chain".
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But I see funky furniture outsells yeech OS.
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Chardok wrote:I didn't read the article, but I hear alot on this board about this....IKEA...whatthe hell is IKEA? (Keep in mind my channel is PBS, I listen to NPR, and I hardly ever leave the house unless it's to battle the aliens who regularly try to land on the Modis buidling in Downtown jacksonville in order to spread their intergalactic bubonic plague across the city.

They haven't succeeded....yet
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Lord of the Farce wrote:
Chardok wrote:I didn't read the article, but I hear alot on this board about this....IKEA...whatthe hell is IKEA?
IKEA is a "furniture retail chain".
It is also a swedish company.
I have to tell you something everything I wrote above is a lie.
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IKEA also furnishes about 3/4 of my town's furniture supplies.
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What the hell would someone do with 53 billion?
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All praise IKEA! :)

I love it, and have to stores near my town. :mrgreen:
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Aya wrote:What the hell would someone do with 53 billion?
buy France?
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Aya wrote:What the hell would someone do with 53 billion?
buy France?
NO NO NO buy Quebec its bigger and you will have money left to buy something else,but you'll have to do some ethnic cleansing by removing the separatists assholes. :wink:
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Aya wrote:What the hell would someone do with 53 billion?
Whatever they damn well pleased.
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That's gotta be embarrasing for Gates. Out of all the really rich people in the world, he loses his spot as the richest man in the world to the founder of a chain of furniture stores.
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Aya wrote:What the hell would someone do with 53 billion?
Have a very large cruise ship custom built as a personal hatch for starters. That plus crewing and fueling it for years should knock about two billion off total.
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Aren't these guys merely the richest non-royalty?
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So when this happened and Gates looked up his net worth, was it the BSoD? (Blue Screen of Death)
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Aren't these guys merely the richest non-royalty?
Compared to them, most Royals aren't that awfully rich.
Maybe the Sultan of Brunei, or the Queen of the NEtherlands, but most are shabby compared to gates and consorts.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Aren't these guys merely the richest non-royalty?
Listing of such things generally do ignore royalty and heads of state. However I'm pretty sure even with those included this guy is still at the top. The Sultan of Brunei was the worlds riches person bar none with 40 billion for a while (he now has much less) and I don't think any other Royality is outside the 20 billion range.
Dahak wrote: Compared to them, most Royals aren't that awfully rich.
Maybe the Sultan of Brunei, or the Queen of the NEtherlands, but most are shabby compared to gates and consorts.
The Queen of the Netherlands only has a quarter billion dollars, the reprt of her having 2.5 billion was apparently based on incorrect information supplied to Forbes. The Sultan had 40 billion at his peak but is now thought to have as little as 10 billion.
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Sea Skimmer wrote:The Queen of the Netherlands only has a quarter billion dollars, the reprt of her having 2.5 billion was apparently based on incorrect information supplied to Forbes. The Sultan had 40 billion at his peak but is now thought to have as little as 10 billion.
She reportedly has a fairly large share of Shell, and extensive investments.
I don't belive 250 million dollars puts her too low...
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Yeah, the Sultan of Brunei was who I was thinking of, specifically. Thanks for the clarification.
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Uraniun235 wrote:I was under the impression the guy who founded Walmart had superceded Gates at some point. :?
The Walton fortune, IIRC is in total superior but it is split up among the many children and relatives of Sam Walton--the founder of the megacorp. So I think if you look at a list of the top 50 richest, several of them will be named Walton, but none of them will be in the top five.

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