{"id":22813,"date":"2008-04-08T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/08\/over-1500-times-the-net-worth-of-bill-gates-yet-nobody-has-heard-of-him\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:00:01","slug":"over-1500-times-the-net-worth-of-bill-gates-yet-nobody-has-heard-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080408-01\/?p=22813","title":{"rendered":"Over 1500 times the net worth of Bill Gates yet nobody has heard of him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonwhoswho.com\/member_profile.php?id=10122\"> Dr. Carlos Alves<\/a>, owner and president of the Solomao Alves Group (I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;s an accent mark missing, but that&#8217;s what it says on the site), must be the richest man on the planet: &#8220;Company generates annual revenue exceeding $20 billion and owns personal assets valued at $100 trillion.&#8221;\n One hundred trillion dollars in personal assets.\n That means that he owns pretty much every single thing on the planet, seeing as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bcg.com\/about_bcg\/media_center\/press_releases.jsp?id=2423\"> global wealth was only $97.9 trillion in 2006<\/a> by one organization&#8217;s estimate.\n But that&#8217;s not all. In addition to being a fantastically wealthy multi-trillionaire, he has a &#8220;Ph.D in NASA Technology&#8221; and has been &#8220;selected in Harvard University as Senior Personality with highest QI.&#8221; Whatever QI is. He&#8217;s also qualified to joint [sic] a consortiun [sic] consisting of scientists &#8220;to expertising [sic] at my works as greatest international Megastar.&#8221;\n What? You&#8217;re that awesome but still, nobody has ever heard of you? How do you fix that? Simple: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bigg.net\/n70087-Dr_Carlos_Alves_Named_in_to_Madison_Whos_Who_of_Executives_and_Professionals.html\"> Issue a press release proclaiming how awesome you are<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Mind you, that didn&#8217;t appear to help much. The only information available on the Solomao Alves Group I can find on the Internet comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonwhoswho.com\/\"> the directory itself<\/a> (warning: annoying voice), a vanity publication where you have to pay to be listed. <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mmfhoh.org\/viewtopic.php?p=7880\"> Some people claim it&#8217;s a scam<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carlos Alves, owner and president of the Solomao Alves Group (I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;s an accent mark missing, but that&#8217;s what it says on the site), must be the richest man on the planet: &#8220;Company generates annual revenue exceeding $20 billion and owns personal assets valued at $100 trillion.&#8221; One hundred trillion dollars in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-22813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Dr. Carlos Alves, owner and president of the Solomao Alves Group (I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;s an accent mark missing, but that&#8217;s what it says on the site), must be the richest man on the planet: &#8220;Company generates annual revenue exceeding $20 billion and owns personal assets valued at $100 trillion.&#8221; One hundred trillion dollars in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}