Move Over, Bill Gates: Steve Ballmer Now Biggest Microsoft Shareholder

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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaks at the company's annual shareholders meeting Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013, in Bellevue, Wash.

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By Jason Abbruzzese2014-05-02 21:15:20 UTC

Bill Gates is no longer the largest shareholder of Microsoft, the computer software company he founded with Paul Allen in 1975.

That title now goes to Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft who recently ceded the lead job to Satya Nadella.

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The change comes after Gates sold 4.6 million shares of Microsoft, according to a report from Bloomberg Businessweek.

Ballmer, who stepped down in February, holds 333.2 million stock positions in Microsoft, edging Gates by a few million shares.

Gates still easily outpaces Ballmer in overall net worth, $77.2 billion to $20.1 billion, according to Forbes.

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