In a CNBC interview at the Davos 2020 World Economic Forum, Bill Gates revealed that his profit so far from his ongoing vaccination programs has been $200 billion. His initial investment in the vaccination program was $10 billion. That translates into a 2,000% or 20 fold return on his investment. That compares to an approximately 85% return that he would have made over the same period of time by investing in the S&P 500. Matthew Belvedere for CNBC reported:
Over the past two decades, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated “a bit more than $10 billion” into mainly three groups: the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
“We feel there’s been over a 20-to-1 return,” yielding $200 billion over those 20 or so years, Gates told CNBC’s Becky Quick on “Squawk Box” from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.