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Time to spend the cash. The big money had been made.

I think retirement is more of a time to ponder life. I doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure. He'll probably invest in multiple companies.

I just posted a reference to his purchase of 0.4 billion dollar boat.

He is retiring. Amazon is outcome of purchase of many many companies just like Microsoft.

Gates is retired and Microsoft is still buying companies even hotels; anything and everything has been bought with the cash acquired from US's money printing machine.

I doubt he's going to pull some big expenditure - with a net worth of 182BN USD there isn't really an item available that would be "a big expenditure".

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