Total company equity
$2.88TTechnologyFounder + operator groupUnited States
Bill Gates & Satya Nadella
Microsoft · MSFT
Microsoft's company claim joins its founding and modern operating eras rather than assigning the full current value separately to multiple people.
The calculation
Every input, in the open.
Builder equity retained
$28BWealth for others
$2.85T- Held by others
- 99.0%
- Builders retained
- 1.0%
Current founder and operator Microsoft-equity estimate; requires a filing-by-filing cap-table audit.
Attribution
Why this is one claim.
Gates represents the founding and platform era; Nadella represents the cloud and current operating era.
Confidence
What could still move.
The no-double-counting structure is clear, but the combined current company-equity estimate requires a deeper holdings and awards audit.
Attribution timeline
The company-building arc.
- 1975Microsoft founded
- 1986Microsoft goes public
- 2014Nadella becomes CEO
- 2026Index snapshot
Primary evidence
Source trail.
Snapshot values change with the market. Ownership inputs remain tied to the dated filings below until a new index version is published.