{"id":14236,"date":"2004-04-06T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/bill-gates-no-longer-worlds-richest-man\/"},"modified":"2004-04-06T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-06T11:49:00","slug":"bill-gates-no-longer-worlds-richest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/bill-gates-no-longer-worlds-richest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates No Longer World&#8217;s Richest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>CNN<\/i> reports that &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2004\/BUSINESS\/04\/04\/ikea.richlist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish businessman who founded furniture retailer IKEA, has overtaken Microsoft&rsquo;s Bill Gates as the world&rsquo;s richest man<\/a>,&rdquo; amassing a personal fortune of &ldquo;400 billion crowns ($53 billion).&rdquo;  Wow&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=509&amp;e=1amp;&amp;u=\/ap\/ikea_founder\" target=\"_blank\">Kamprad disputes this claim<\/a> through IKEA spokeswoman Marianne Barner: &ldquo;Estimating the value of the company, including all the stores, and saying it&rsquo;s all Ingvar&rsquo;s, that is totally wrong.&rdquo;  Either way, he&rsquo;s still pretty damn rich&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108125215958030868?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN reports that &ldquo;Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish businessman who founded furniture retailer IKEA, has overtaken Microsoft&rsquo;s Bill Gates as the world&rsquo;s richest man,&rdquo; amassing a personal fortune of &ldquo;400 billion crowns ($53 billion).&rdquo; Wow&hellip; Update: Kamprad disputes this claim through IKEA spokeswoman Marianne Barner: &ldquo;Estimating the value of the company, including all the stores, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/bill-gates-no-longer-worlds-richest-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bill Gates No Longer World&#8217;s Richest Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}