Of the ten richest men, nine belong to the technological sector. One of them is Bill Gates, the eighth major billionaire of the planet, with a fortune that reaches 165,000 million dollars, according to the updated ranking it offers Bloomberg. The Microsoft co -founder has been surprised in recent times to see how his colleagues by profession have shown a political position clearly pulling the right, something he remains away.
“I always thought that Silicon Valley was central-left,” Gates said to New York Times In an interview published this last Thursday. “The fact that there is now a significant center-right group is a surprise for me,” confessed a Gates who donated 50 million dollars to Harris’s campaign because it was “different.”
The passage of time has shown that the idea that most technological executives adopt a liberal position is wrong. In fact, some of these most prominent magnates not only struggled to publicly support Donald Trump, being Elon Musk the most significant, but also ended up donating millions for their possession. In the case of Tesla owner, his contribution was 200 million dollars.
Apart from Elon Musk, the richest man on the planet whose heritage amounts to 433 billion dollars, Mark Zuckerberg (243,000 million dollars) has also shown his support for the current US president. Not only social networks giants, since also Cook (2.5 billion), Pichai and Bezos (256,000 million) witnessed Trump’s possession from a privileged place: just behind his family. Or what is the same: Tesla, Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon were surrendered to the new president. As if that were not enough, Tiktok’s executive director, Shou Zi Chew, was also there.
Despite this, Bill Gates, who has never shown his support for President Trump, revealed that he would do everything possible to work with the president. “I will get involved with this administration the best I can, as I did with the first Trump administration,” he said.
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