Bill Gates is the sixth richest man in the world. In other words, there are only five people on the entire planet who have more money than him. The Microsoft co-founder has the ability to indulge in any luxury he wants, anytime he wants. He only has to speak to have some material good in front of him as immediately as possible.
His fortune is valued at 110 billion dollars. And the best of all, for him, is that the money only increases in his bank account. We did all this preamble, because it is surprising that Bill Gates always chooses to travel in economy class.
We are talking about a person, it is not that he has the ability to travel first class, it is that Bill Gates can have an entire fleet of airplanes if he so wishes. But the Microsoft co-founder prefers a commercial flight and, if possible, the one with the lowest fare.
This is what Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph says, with the same surprise as us. The platform entrepreneur streaming best-known in the world made an editorial for the Entrepreneur site, review The chronicler. In his article, the executive tells the reasons why Bill Gates does not fly first class, and for some it might make some sense.
According to what Randolph says, for Bill Gates there is no good price-quality ratio for first-class tickets. The difference in cost, which sometimes exceeds the common rate by five times, is not reflected in the benefits of paying that price.
Furthermore (Bill Gates’s word according to Randolph) everyone is on the same plane, so except for some extra comforts, they will arrive at the destination at the same time, and therefore, that is why he chooses to go for the economy flight.