I don't see it elsewhere in the comments, but to be very clear, Elop's being listed there does not mean he is the 7th biggest individual shareholder at Microsof

I don't see it elsewhere in the comments, but to be very clear, Elop's being listed there does not mean he is the 7th biggest individual shareholder at Microsoft. The headline is 100% inaccurate. Not all shareholders are publicly reported — there are likely hundreds, even thousands, with larger individual stakes, both those still working Microsoft and not. Moreover, that list doesn't even necessarily report all of the holdings of each individual, many listed in public filings can and do own far larger amounts (by orders of magnitudes). I'm not sure what reporting requirements dictated Elop be listed there to begin with, but regardless, the article is wrong. HN desperately needs the ability to retroactively retract such silliness when it happens (which it does from time to time), because people tend to quote and repeat headlines so quickly these days that they create their own truth. (Six months from now, if someone says, "Isn't Elop the 7th biggest individual shareholder of Microsoft", you'd say, "Yeah, I remember hearing that, I think he is.") Case in point:   http://www.google.com/search?q=7th+biggest+individual+shareholder+of+Microsoft http://www.google.com/search?q=7th+biggest+individual+shareh... Sigh.