11/20/2023 0 Comments Da vincis notebook![]() TINDERA: I'm looking through a copy of what’s now called the Codex Leicester, which I purchased online for about $30. With closing fees from the auction house, it came out to $30.8 million. So Gates sort of went out and bought the ultimate book. We reported that same year that Gates envied his friend Warren Buffett, because he had more time to spend reading than Gates did. PETERSON-WITHORN: Yeah, and Gates loves books. And then amid all of this, he buys this one-of-a-kind Leonardo da Vinci manuscript at a Christie's auction for $28 million. ![]() PETERSON-WITHORN: And in fact, that fall he had just appeared atop our Forbes 400 ranking of the richest Americans, with an estimated net worth of $9.35 billion. He was described in our Forbes 400 issue of the magazine that year as both a “hard worker” and “brutally candid.”ĬBS CLIP, CONNIE CHUNG: You know, you may be the richest man in America, or at least the second-richest man in America.ĬBS CLIP, BILL GATES: Well, that's simply based on taking the stock I own in Microsoft and doing some type of multiplication. He had just gotten married to Melinda Gates on New Year's Day of that year and was in the middle of building his multi-million-dollar mega mansion, Xanadu 2.0. TINDERA: So back in November 1994, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates was 39 years old and pretty much at the top of his game. Thanks for joining me.ĬHASE PETERSON-WITHORN: Hi, Michela. Joining me for this is Chase Peterson-Withorn, an editor on the Forbes wealth team. And we're going to show you how we narrowed that range to settle on one number. In this episode, we're taking you inside the world of rare books, manuscripts, and Old Masters works to tell you about how we've estimated the value of one very special notebook, with ties to the world's most expensive painting ever sold at auction: the “Salvator Mundi.” For this notebook, we considered values ranging from $50 million, all the way up to $4 billion. TINDERA: I'm Michela Tindera, and this is Priceless. On the telephone in this room at $28 million. In this room, in-on the telephone rather, at $28 million. Any more? Twenty-eight million dollars, then. It's on the last telephone at $28 million. At $28 million it's away from the room now and on the telephone at $28 million. ![]() MASSEY: Twenty-five million, twenty-six million. ![]() TINDERA: Gates is up against a group from a bank in Milan that’s sitting in the front of the Christie's salesroom. MASSEY: Nineteen-million five hundred thousand I'll be happy to take. TINDERA: Now the audience in the room doesn’t know this, but a representative for Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is bidding on the phone. TINDERA: On sale is a one-of-a kind Leonardo da Vinci manuscript known as the Codex Hammer. ![]()
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