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celebritynetworth is extremely unreliable source of information. Some articles call Mervold a billionaire which more likely. This is a person who had $650M in M

celebritynetworth is extremely unreliable source of information. Some articles call Mervold a billionaire which more likely. This is a person who had $650M in Microsoft stock. Owns 40% of 800 people corporation [1] and raised $3B capital [2]. Apart from the question about his actual wealth, Intellectual Ventures looks like a business which makes the problems with patents worse. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/06/01/after-10-years-nathan-myhrvolds-3-billion-of-private-equity-funds-show-big-losses/?sh=6b1ce07f5a9d https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2018/06/01/after-10...

ChrisLomont 6y ago
As a counter I pointed out elsewhere that he is not on Forbes 400, so he's likely worth less than 2.2B, and he's also not on Forbes billionaire list, so he's likely worth under 1B [1]. Which articles are more reliable on net worth than Forbes claim Myhrvold is a billionaire? Do any claim a net worth? I can find none, but you claim some. Please post so we can see. I also decided to look for a more accurate valuation of IV than wikipedia, since it looks like the data there is sourced quite some time ago. Dunn and Bradstreet, who I'd value much more than Wikipedia to assess companies lists IV as 500 employess and 100M annual revenue [2]. For a tech company, if this is the employee count and revenue, then it is not very profitable, so it's quite possible the entire company is not worth billions. This is 40% of the per employee revenue for google, 25% of MSFT, 12% of Facebook, 8% of Netflix, 30% of twitter, etc. If these are the numbers, this is not a very profitable company at all for tech. At any rate, places like DnB and Forbes, who have people tasked to work on this stuff, people with experience and contacts to do such work about as reliably as any public source, I think they are more likely accurate than the speculation in this thread. [1] https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ [2] https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.intellectual_ventures_llc.2928141d2d785b63aa7a4351cabb60b2.html https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.inte...

ChrisLomont 6y ago

As a counter I pointed out elsewhere that he is not on Forbes 400, so he's likely worth less than 2.2B, and he's also not on Forbes billionaire list, so he's likely worth under 1B [1]. Which articles are more reliable on net worth than Forbes claim Myhrvold is a billionaire? Do any claim a net worth? I can find none, but you claim some. Please post so we can see. I also decided to look for a more accurate valuation of IV than wikipedia, since it looks like the data there is sourced quite some time ago. Dunn and Bradstreet, who I'd value much more than Wikipedia to assess companies lists IV as 500 employess and 100M annual revenue [2]. For a tech company, if this is the employee count and revenue, then it is not very profitable, so it's quite possible the entire company is not worth billions. This is 40% of the per employee revenue for google, 25% of MSFT, 12% of Facebook, 8% of Netflix, 30% of twitter, etc. If these are the numbers, this is not a very profitable company at all for tech. At any rate, places like DnB and Forbes, who have people tasked to work on this stuff, people with experience and contacts to do such work about as reliably as any public source, I think they are more likely accurate than the speculation in this thread. [1] https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/ [2] https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.intellectual_ventures_llc.2928141d2d785b63aa7a4351cabb60b2.html https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.inte...