{"id":944394,"date":"2025-07-07T11:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944394"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T06:22:14","slug":"bill-gates-out-of-worlds-10-richest-man-list-as-his-net-worth-falls-30-in-7-days-he-is-replaced-by-microsofts-former-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/bill-gates-out-of-worlds-10-richest-man-list-as-his-net-worth-falls-30-in-7-days-he-is-replaced-by-microsofts-former-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates out of world\u2019s 10 richest man list as his net worth falls 30% in 7 days; he is replaced by Microsoft\u2018s former CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has dropped out of the top ten on the world&#8217;s richest list, with his net worth now calculated as less than that of his former assistant and successor as Microsoft&#8217;s former CEO, Steve Ballmer. This change comes after a recalculation to reflect Gates&#8217; substantial charitable giving. Gates&#8217; fortune was reduced by about $52 billion, almost by 30% this week. This recalculation shrank his net worth from over $175 billion to $124 billion, moving him from fifth to twelfth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Steve Ballmer, with a net worth of $172 billion, replaced Gates in the fifth spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates has dropped out of the top ten on the world&#8217;s richest list, with his net worth now calculated as less than that of his former assistant and successor as Microsoft&#8217;s former CEO, Steve Ballmer. This change comes after a recalculation to reflect Gates&#8217; substantial charitable giving. Gates&#8217; fortune was reduced by about $52 billion, almost by 30% this week. This recalculation shrank his net worth from over $175 billion to $124 billion, moving him from fifth to twelfth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Steve Ballmer, with a net worth of $172 billion, replaced Gates in the fifth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}