Bent Jensen & Family
Source of wealth: electric systems
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The scale of their wealth
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Bent Jensen & Family's fortune with the healthcare spending of a massive country
Bent Jensen & Family could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo, with a population of over 105,800,000 people, for approximately 1.1 years.
But even if we compare their fortune with that of a rich country
On the other end, Bent Jensen & Family could cover the healthcare spending of Luxembourg, considered the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, for 0.5 years.
Education
Buying the future
Let's also compare their fortune with education spending, first with a poor country
Bent Jensen & Family could cover the total cost of Nigeria's education system, the most populous country in Africa with over 243,000,000 inhabitants, for 0.7 years.
And yes, we can also compare it with a rich country
But they couldn't just cover the cost of a poor country; Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, and Bent Jensen & Family could pay for it entirely for 1.0 years.
Research
The monopoly on progress
Coming full circle, we think it's also interesting to add another gigantic country
Bent Jensen & Family could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with over 260,000,000 inhabitants, for 4.1 years.
And of course, the country that invests the most per capita worldwide
But even if we compare the total wealth of Bent Jensen & Family with Israel, the country that invests the most per capita in research in the world, they could cover the total cost of the system for 0.1 years.
Gold
Everyday luxuries
Bent Jensen & Family's fortune is equivalent to 17 tons of gold. It's hard to process, since we don't usually keep a handful of gold bars in our piggy banks.
A standard gold ring usually weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18 karats.
Based on today's gold price (excluding the jeweler's commission, shipping, or anything else), that ring would be worth $546.86.
Bent Jensen & Family could buy 4,488,324 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and way too many gifts!!
And if you're struggling to visualize that many rings, it would take 1 trucks to transport them. Although Bent Jensen & Family will almost certainly have enough money left over to pay for the gas.
Biography
Bent Jensen is the owner and CEO of Linak, a $680 million (revenue) Danish company that manufactures and sells linear actuators.
Linear actuators are devices that convert power into linear motion and are used in industrial equipment, furniture and hospital beds.
Jensen's grandfather founded the company in 1907; it originally made pulleys, grinding mills and forges.
Jensen, who received a mechanical engineering degree, joined the firm in 1976 -- with an idea for a new product: the linear actuator.
Today the company has factories in Denmark, the U.S., China and Slovakia.
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