Ask HN: Steve Job's Net Worth?

Posted by physcab on Thursday July 09, 2009 @06:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Doing a quick Google search shows that Steve Job's net worth is about $3.4 billion. That's an absurd amount, make no mistake, but why is it smaller than Sergey Brin's ($12 bn), Larry Page's ($12 bn), or Bill Gates' ($40 bn) net worth?

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Re:Ask HN: Steve Job's Net Worth? by DarkShikari on Thursday July 09, 2009 @08:03PM (#696874)

Is the net worth of someone like that really a valid concept?--since if they announced that they were to sell all of their stock, the price would plummet (since it would imply to investors they no longer trust the stock as an investment).

It's worse than illiquid; the mere act of trying to sell such a horde would destroy its value.

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Re:Ask HN: Steve Job's Net Worth? by bkbleikamp on Thursday July 09, 2009 @07:43PM (#696858)

Depends on when he sold stock options, how many stock options he had, the details surrounding him leaving and coming back as CEO, and about a million other possible variables.

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Re:Ask HN: Steve Job's Net Worth? by kqr2 on Thursday July 09, 2009 @06:45PM (#696784)

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/10/billionaires-2009-riches...

His net worth was estimated to be $3.4 billion by Forbes on 3/11/09. At that time, Apple shares were down 50% over the previous 6 months.

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Re:Ask HN: Steve Job's Net Worth? by pg on Thursday July 09, 2009 @07:31PM (#696846)

Random variation.

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Re:Ask HN: Steve Job's Net Worth? by gregking on Friday July 10, 2009 @08:24PM (#698647)

the bulk of his networth are disney shares due to pixar sale.

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