William Ding
Source of wealth: Online games
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Biography
William Ding is the founder and CEO of NetEase, one of the world's largest online games companies.
In addition to legacy titles such as Fantasy Westward Journey, the company's portfolio also includes casual game Eggy Party and battle game Justice Mobile, which uses AI to generate storylines.
Facing tough competition in games from rival Tencent, NetEase has expanded into movies, e-commerce and online music.
Ding was China's richest man and its first internet and gaming billionaire back in 2003.
The mogul also has an interest in sustainable agriculture, with NetEase's e-commerce arm Yanxuan selling pork sourced from its own farms.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A William Ding's fortune is equivalent to 257 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
William Ding could buy 68,612,252 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 12 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that William Ding will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare William Ding's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
William Ding could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 17.2 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, William Ding could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 7.6 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
William Ding could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 11.2 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, William Ding could pay for it in full for 15.3 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
William Ding could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 64.3 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of William Ding with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 1.4 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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