If Gates continues selling Microsoft shares, he might run out of them by 2018

May 5, 2014 20:19 GMT  ·  By

As I've told you during the weekend, Bill Gates has recently sold some stock at Microsoft, as it does every single year, so it now has only 330 million shares, which makes him the biggest second individual shareholder after former CEO Steve Ballmer.

According to new reports however, if Bill Gates continues selling Microsoft shares at the same pace, he won't have any left by 2018, which means that in just a few years, the company's co-founder might more or less retire from the software giant he created a long time ago.

Bill Gates sold 20 million shares last week, a thing that he has been doing for the past few years and is very likely to keep doing it in the coming years, even though it's pretty clear that he might run out of shares at some point.

Gates instead continues to invest in his Bill and Melinda Foundation, although he's now working for Microsoft in a more active role. The new CEO Satya Nadella is now working with Bill Gates on new product, as Microsoft's co-founder agreed to spend at least one day a week at the software giant in order to make sure that the new direction of the company is the right one.