Some might think that but he still owns over $4 billion in MSFT. This was in 2000 and Microsoft not only killed IBM’s desktop OS product division they suckered a bunch of UNIX software vendors to port using a short lived Win32 licensed software stack( Wind/U ) and had yanked the rug out from under them by quadrupling the licensing fees. Windows NT was going to live and Windows 2000 was coming. He and Bill jointly annihilated the competition on the desktop and on the server and George Bush was going to kill the DOJs requirement to split the company up. MonkeyBoy was a happy camper.