10 Most Expensive Things Owned By Jeff Bezos

ah hello I'm mr. luxury and if you'd like to learn more about the wealthy high-class and luxurious style of living make sure to check out my channel in the description below now but enough about me this video is about Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos is currently the richest man in the world with a net worth of anywhere from a hundred and forty to a hundred and fifty billion dollars he's one of the few men to hear dr. evil demand a hundred billion and think he should aim a bit higher he attended Princeton University and spent some time working at a hedge fund on Wall Street he then moved to Seattle and while working out of his garage started up a small book selling website called Amazon the site has grown into an absolute monolith and Bezos still enjoys sixteen percent ownership in it along with all the perks of being its CEO there's a lot one can do with a hundred and fifty billion then Bezos has spent his money in plenty of interesting ways here are the top ten things Jeff Bezos spins his money on the largest house in Washington DC in 2016 Bezos purchased the largest mansion in Washington DC paying 23 million in cash to make it his own it's actually an old textile Museum and consists of two homes entitled the Pope and the would respectively both are over a hundred years old and connected by a walkway over all the mansion stretches out over 27 thousand square feet which you might think would be more than enough for anybody Jeff Bezos however would disagree as his goal is to make the place even bigger in April 2018 The Washingtonian obtained blueprints for the extension Bezos has in mind for his new not so humble abode costing an additional 12 million Bezos is looking to add until his mansion has 25 bathrooms 11 bedrooms 5 living rooms 3 kitchens and a gigantic ballroom among other amenities Bezos wants his home to be the ultimate in DC socializing and with digs like that he's sure to meet his goal but a globe-trotting celebrity like Bezos can't simply settle for one house rather his DC mansion is simply his fifth home as he currently owns estates all across the United States he owns a - home property in Medina Washington State a - home property in Beverly Hills California a ranch house in Van Horn Texas and several condos in Central Park New York City along with his DC mega mansion the space race running Amazon isn't Jeff Bezos his only passion he also much like fellow billionaires Elon Musk in Richard Branson is fascinated with space particularly space tourism this fascination was sparked when Bezos was just five years old and watched the Apollo moon landings and in 2000 Bezos founded the company Blue Origin whose goal is to someday make space travel affordable for all recognizing that sending people into space is expensive Bezos sells off roughly a billion dollars of Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin reports the New York Times the venture appears to be paying off as their ninth test flight on July 18th 2018 carried actual people 393 thousand feet into the air past the three hundred and eighty thousand foot mark that is considered the border between Earth and space the company hopes to have actual customers tour in space sometime in 2019 bezos's love of space isn't limited to mere tourism he also uses his money to preserve space travels past as an example in 2013 he financed the recovery of pieces of rocket engines from those pivotal Apollo missions that landed men on the moon these pieces had sunk 14,000 feet down in the Atlantic Ocean deeper than even the Titanic at some one of these pieces a restored f1 booster from Apollo 12 was donated by NASA to Seattle's Museum of Flight in 2015 at bezos's request a Gulfstream g65 er jet for someone worth such an insane amount of money it's surprising that Jeff Bezos his personal methods of transportation are so humble most famously after taking Amazon public and amassing over 12 billion in the process Bezos still insisted on driving to work in the most modest of vehicles a 1996 Honda Accord by 2013 he was still driving a simple Honda albeit a bigger one it's all part of his drive to as he explained to 60 minutes in 1999 spend money on things that matter to customers and not spending money on things that don't but that doesn't mean Bezos is completely devoted to frugality in his travels he spares no expense for occasions when driving a Honda simply won't cut it such as when he must fly not only does Bezos take a private jet he owns said jet through his holding company poplar Glen it's a top-of-the-line 2015 Gulfstream g650 er valued at an incredible 65 million dollars and has been touted as the longest range business jet in the world according to the robb report it can reach speeds of mach 0.92 5 or 704 miles an hour and can travel 7,500 nautical miles without needing to refuel the planes insides are pure luxury with incredible spacious and comfortable seating as well as a cabin that gets completely new fresh air every two minutes so many investments it's hard to spend a hundred and fifty billion on yourself so Jeff Bezos instead spends it on multiple investments across various fields he even has a website Bezos expeditions com devoted to tabulating his many investments as is befitting a man who made his billions online Bezos is big on investing in technology particularly the kind that helps connect people and keep them informed he's put money into Twitter given over 50 million in venture capital to Business Insider and invested in social platforms like teach Street which helps provide students with information about classes and teachers in their area ZocDoc which helps people find affordable doctors in their area and next door a social media site devoted to happenings in once local neighborhood bezos's investments often pay off greatly in the case of work day its initial public offering after going public thanks to bezos's investment earned the company six hundred and eighty four million dollars Bezos is also a fan of investing in travel companies as well he put a hundred and twelve million to financing Airbnb and invested thirty five million into Oba then there's the more traditional investments such as print news through his group Nash Holdings LLC Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for what was reported as two hundred and fifty million dollars since then he's worked to change the post from a traditional and declining ink and paper business into a web savvy and data-driven company that in 2016 published over twelve hundred articles a day interestingly enough Bezos doesn't just invest in future sounding tech he also has an affinity for traditional retail as evidenced by his investment in glossy baby they make handcrafted glass bone holders for votive candles those short thick candles often seen at a church and something about them clearly caught Bezos his eye real estate as briefly mentioned earlier Bezos has real estate literally from sea to shining sea and he doesn't just use them for living space he uses his estate in Texas the 165 thousand acre corn ranch as a base of operations for Blue Origin is outer space company that's hoping to make space tourism as regular and occurences city bus to us the corn ranch also hosts test launches for new shepherd the vertical landing manned suborbital rocket that is Bezos his best hope for popularizing space tourism someday then there's his personal real estate such as his to Beverly Hills homes his lakeside Washington State property which he expanded to over 30,000 square feet at a cost of 28 million and his 10,000 square foot Manhattan apartment inside century tower the Manhattan home cost him around 10 but has been more than worth it especially to the city bezos's presence alone since century towers property values skyrocketing if you want to be Jeff Bezos New York neighbor expect to shell out anywhere from two to three thousand per square foot charitable donations with more money than anyone in modern history it would be a shame if Jeff Bezos didn't use at least some of it to help others fortunately he does exactly that investing small fortunes and giving back to his community and the world in general for the most part Bezos gives back by making it easier for people to further their education particularly those who otherwise would not have the financial means to do so in September of 2018 he launched the Bezos day1 fund where he would pledge two billion to support homeless families through ventures such as building high-end Montessori style preschools in low-income neighborhoods in addition his Bezos Family Foundation funds many in educational projects such as Broome students rebuild and mind in the making plus he personally has donated millions of dollars to educational facilities such as the Seattle Museum of History and industry not to mention Princeton University his alma mater what's more Bezos is using his money to help kids caught in an immigration loop in January 2018 he and his wife Mackenzie donated an incredible 33 million to the dream us the dream is a group that strives to help dreamers undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children to get to college and realize their untapped potential with that money the dream will be able to award scholarships to a thousand high schoolers with DAC a status who might otherwise have slipped through the cracks thanks to us is current battle with immigration a very early form of Google it's common thinking that Jeff Bezos is worth a hundred and fifty billion thanks entirely to Amazon that's not entirely true however even if Amazon had ultimately tanked like so many other late nineties coms Bezos likely would have been a billionaire many times over thanks to an early investment in of all things Google in 1998 Bezos was still working hard at establishing Amazon as legend long-term venture when he bought out an Indian delivery service called John Lee while that venture proved a failure it did introduce Bezos to a man named Rama Rama who was concurrently advising two Stanford students Larry Page and Sergey Brin during their attempts to launch a brand new search engine called Google Shriram introduced page and Brin to Bezos and after a single demonstration of Google the Amazon CEO decided he wanted to invest however by this time the initial investing period had ended under normal circumstances Bezos would be out of luck luckily however Jeff Bezos does not operate under normal circumstances thanks to just a few years of running Amazon he was already worth one point six billion dollars this convinced page and Brin that Bezos knew what he was doing with his money so they allowed him to invest in Google which has clearly paid off in dividends Bezos invested or reported 1 million in Google but how much he made off of it nobody can really say to this day Bezos has refused to provide such details that said this is Google we're talking about it's currently worth over two hundred and seventy nine billion according to geo banking rates and is the most popular search engine on the planet it's highly likely that though he was a billionaire already had Amazon gone no further Google would likely have made Bezos one of the richest people anyway a 10,000 year clock some of Jeff Bezos his money goes to downright unusual ideas for example he wants to build a giant clock that will run for 10,000 years most likely it would outlast our current civilization this clock is the brainchild of the long now foundation working 500 feet inside a mountain located on bezos's Van Horn Texas property long now workers are currently cobbling together the 500 foot tall mechanical clock designed to run for a literal 10,000 years as Bezos explained in a tweet the clocks are a symbol for long-term thinking he so believes in that symbol that he has donated a reported 42 million towards this clocks completion it's an ambitious project to be sure especially considering he nor any of the long now employees will be around to know for sure if it works but to Bezos that's the point as he told Wired over the lifetime of this clock the United States won't exist whole civilizations will rise and fall new systems of government will be invented you can't imagine the world no one can that we're trying to get this clock to pass through incredible security being the richest man on the planet means you're in the public eye far more than the average person then Bezos realizes just this so he spares no expense when making sure he and his family are as safe and secure as possible recently Fortune reported that in 2016 Amazon spent an incredible 1.6 million on security for Bezos that figure by the way is for his own private security as per an Amazon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission he already has public security at all Amazon facilities Amazon's justification for such an expensive secondary security force was that Bezos really didn't earn much money that year his base salary is actually relatively lower a reported 81 thousand eight hundred and forty dollars per year and he apparently didn't receive any stock options in 2016 in other words the security cost likely came out of his own pocket in case you were wondering how the cost of Bezos his private security measures up to his peers it turns out that he spends more than basically anyone else Apple for example spent a comparatively paltry 200,000 on security for CEO Tim Cook in 2016 even companies like Oracle who in 2015 reportedly spent 1.5 million in security for founder Larry Ellison fall short compared to how much Bezos is willing to spend on keeping himself safe a chunk of Seattle Jeff Bezos technically doesn't own all of Seattle but at this point he might as well his real estate holdings in Amazon's base city are massive in 2012 Bezos purchased close to a dozen buildings comprising nearly 2 million square feet of office space he turned them all into Amazon South Lake Union had this purchase which cost 1.5 billion dollars instantly made Amazon one of the top commercial property owners in Seattle but the company wasn't done in the same year Amazon spent 200 million to purchase a three-block space in Seattle known as the deme triangle for even more office space two years later they spend 50 million on a fourth block for their triangle all this resulted in Seattle Times reporting that as of late August 2017 Amazon owned as much office space as 40 other Seattle companies combined the Seattle offices by the way are incredible definitely worthy of bearing the Amazon name Bezos very likely designed the unique futuristic architecture and innovative biospheres to help his Amazon employees stay motivated and if they never stopped creating and evolving they will ensure Amazon never stops thriving and Jeff Bezos never stops having me and limitless funds to help the world in any way he sees fit as always I'm mr. luxury if you enjoyed the video make sure to LIKE and subscribe and if you're looking for more luxury content make sure to check out my 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Published: Mon Dec 17 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/jared_labrecque]

if there isn’t an olive green nato strap on it, I could care less 🙄

[u/MatthewDPX]

Why doesn’t he just throw a Seiko 5 in a cave?