probably too much to expect that below-types will start jumping from fifteenth floor windows any time soon (and their going bye-bye won't destroy capitalism), but one can hope... Michael Hoover > Here's how some famous billionaires fared as the stock market plunged > this week. > > William H. Gates III, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft > Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news), lost $11.1 billion on his 741.7 million > shares of the company. > > Charles R. Schwab, chairman and co-CEO of Charles Schwab Corp. > (NYSE:SCH - news), lost $2.6 billion on his 175.2 million shares. > > Jeffrey P. Bezos, chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, lost $2.4 billion on > his 117.5 million shares. > > Michael S. Dell, Chairman and CEO, Dell Computer Corporation > (NasdaqNM:DELL - news) lost $2.3 billion on his 306.1 million shares. > > Jerry Yang, Chief Yahoo! of Yahoo!, lost $1.6 billion on his 45.4 > million shares. > > Stephen M. Case, chairman and CEO of America Online, lost $122.4 > million on his 8.90 million shares.
