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Seventeen years ago, Bill Gates left his role at Microsoft, the company he founded, to focus on philanthropic efforts through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, providing billions of dollars in capital to noteworthy projects each year.
With a net worth of $117 billion, according to Bloomberg (1), Gates’ portfolio is widely diversified. There’s his Microsoft stock, of course, but the rest of his fortune is spread out among a number of private interests, including a unique one — U.S. farmland.
Recent estimates indicate that Bill Gates owns over 250,000 acres of farmland across the United States and is the nation’s largest private farmland owner (2). Gates himself said in a 2021 Reddit AMA that he owns roughly 1/4000 of all U.S….
