It can be widely assumed that Steve Jobs would have given away none and spent little of his money if he were alive today. While best known for Apple, many people don't realize that Jobs actually earned more from Disney, specifically Pixar, each year than from the iPhone giant (via Ladders). Assuming Jobs started out at $10 billion with $2 billion from Apple and $8-ish billion from Disney, it's estimated he'd have a dragon-worthy pile of gold today.
"Add it all up and if Steve Jobs were alive today and held on to every single share of Apple and Disney, his net worth would be $45 billion. Every year he'd make $402 million per year from dividend payments," according to Celebrity Net Worth founder Brian Warner. And what's even more unbelievable is that if things had gone just a little differently, Jeff Bezos would be in some stiff competition.
Says Warner, "Now, let's pretend for a moment that Steve never sold any of his 20% original Apple stake. And to be fair, assume he never left the company to run Pixar and sell it for billions. If he just maintained that 20% stake as the company grew to a $2 trillion market cap, today he'd be worth well over $400 billion. That would therefore make him the richest human in modern history by a factor of TWO."
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