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Re: The Kjeld Billionometer
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lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch
Date: 
Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:28:21 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Suzanne D. Rich wrote:
  
Kjeld stays in top 200 of The Richest People in the World. Just think of all the LEGO sets we could buy with a billion dollars!

It’s fun to see these numbers compared. royalty and such are excluded. Note in 1999 KKK beat out The Three Steves (Case, Jobs, Spielberg). Chart and graph at your leisure.

summary:

Curiosity got the better of me and I checked out how he’s doing. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is no longer ahead of Steve Jobs, but he is higher on the list than Donald Trump! Here’s another six years of data added to my own (now very old) post...
year       1997  1998  1999  2000  2001  2002  2003  2004  2005  2006
list-place  126   145   175   154   251   200   162   205   243   245
billions    2.5   2.3   2.8   3.1   1.9   2.1   2.3   2.5   2.5   2.8
See Forbes.com for details of recent years, including notes on the company’s performance:
KKK in 2001
KKK in 2002
KKK in 2003
KKK in 2004
KKK in 2005
KKK in 2006

-Suz



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Kjeld stays in top 200 of The Richest People in the World. Just think of all the LEGO sets we could buy with a billion dollars! It's fun to see these numbers compared. royalty and such are excluded. Note in 1999 KKK beat out The Three Steves (Case, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general) ! 

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