Craziest Things Owned By The World's Richest People

it's clear that the world's largest corporations hold the vast majority of planet Earth's wealth and resources their CEOs wield prodigious power and have immense wealth that the average person couldn't even imagine but how exactly do these CEOs spend their money today we are looking at the ridiculous things owned by CEOs no matter what public figures are bound to make enemies and all of Facebook's bad press has put Mark Zuckerberg Facebook's founder in serious danger according to security filings Facebook spent 7.3 million dollars last year for costs related to personal security for Zuckerberg at his residences and during personal travel pursuant to mr. Zuckerberg overall security program that marked a 50 percent jump from the four point nine million dollars Facebook spent on Zuckerberg security in 2016 the budget works out to twenty thousand dollars a day to protect Zuckerberg it's also believed to be a record for security costs for any CEO of a large corporation and the budget is only increasing in 2018 Facebook approved a 10 million dollar annual pre-tax allowance to amplify security for CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his family that should be no problem for Zuckerberg who was worth 74 billion dollars Evon musk is a billionaire and tech industry icon who breaks the mold of his peers his entrepreneurial spirit started young and he's been making money in ludicrous sums since his youth in South Africa though he's an outspoken and highly controversial figure it's impossible to deny that musk has taken the tech world by storm with companies like PayPal Tesla and SpaceX among others with a net worth of 20 1.4 billion dollars he has some serious buying power as a result Elon Musk has owned private jets for nearly two decades today he owns a 70 million dollar Gulfstream g650 er in 2018 must reportedly flew 150 thousand miles on his private jet [Music] Bill Gates the second richest man in the world arrived on ambergris Key believes in 2018 to perfect his tennis game Gates arrived on his luxury mega yacht at essa the fourth which is sitting right off the coast of ambergris Key and reportedly considered buying a property on the island instead he snapped up a whole island the island which is reportedly the largest in the torn F Atoll is located around 24 miles east of Belize City the entire island spans approximately 400 acres Warren Buffett is lauded as the greatest investor of all time the Sage of Omaha has picked stocks with incredible accuracy over the course of his life that means he has snapped up some of the most popular companies in the world during his career among them are GEICO insurance See's Candies Dairy Queen Benjamin Moore Duracell NetJets and fruit of the Loom that means the next time you taste a blizzard or get your car insured you have Warren Buffett to thank but Buffett is equally renowned for his practice of philanthropy he has committed to giving away 99% of his wealth over the course of his lifetime and has convinced many other billionaires to do the same Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world with a net worth of 110 billion dollars needless to say he has a very impressive real estate portfolio including his corn ranch purchased in 2004 the corn ranch serves as the base of operations for Blue Origin the aerospace company founded by Bezos in 2000 the 165 thousand acre spread located just north of Van Horn Texas is the test site of the new Sheppard rocket this vertical launching and landing man suborbital vehicle has been in development for the last decade and took its maiden flight in April 2015 Bezos Blue Origin made history in 2015 when it successfully launched in landed new Shepard a reusable rocket recently the space rocket company completed its ninth test of the new Shepard rocket system the launch included a crew capsule on top of the new Shepard rocket booster according to the Houston Chronicle Blue origins goal is to launch up to six people in the capsule into the edge of Earth's atmosphere on tourism flights Jeff Bezos took to Twitter to announce that construction of the 10,000 year clock has begun on his property in Texas with a view to encourage thinking about humanity in the long term conceived back in 1986 by American computer scientist Daniel Hills the clocks mechanism is designed to advance far more slowly than your average timekeeping device it will tick once a year its century hand will move once every 100 years and it's cuckoo will emerge every millennium following the completion of a few prototypes the foundation has now begun building a 500 foot mechanical version on Bezos land in the Sierra Diablo range of West Texas the construction is presently drilling into the mountains there to house its components which are being machined and assembled in California the clock is valued at 42 million dollars making it the world's most expensive clock by some estimates our ologists around the world are rejoicing at one of the most impressive timepieces in history Mark Zuckerberg is notorious for valuing privacy how much in 2014 the Zuckerberg reportedly shelled out 100 million dollars for two huge tracts of land on Kauai --zz North Shore creating a 700 acres spread for family getaways the land has 2,500 feet of ocean frontage as well as a working organic farm the couple made plans to build a 60 100 square-foot two-bedroom residence on the property along with a 16 bay garage complex and a ranch administration building that includes key car protected offices and security headquarters this way he can do high-level executive work from the comfort of the beach and this is just one of his many homes ma hua Teng also known as Ponemah is the CEO of Tencent Holdings a Chinese tech behemoth that he co-founded in 1998 ma has a background in engineering the entrepreneur grew up in southern China where his father worked as the manager of a major state-owned port after graduating from Chen Jien University with a degree in computer science in 1993 he landed a job developing software for pagers but many people are unaware that ma invested 16 million dollars in fortnight in order to bring it to China that means that he effectively has a 40% stake in the program produced by Epic Games its parent company is valued at over 15 billion dollars musk is also the CEO of SpaceX meaning that he has access to travel in outer space he recently revealed his latest plans to extend consciousness beyond Earth using a towering steel spaceship this is basically the holy grail of space musk said standing between a towering nearly assembled starship rocket and Falcon one the company's first vehicle whose debut orbital mission was celebrated by SpaceX 11 years ago starship a shiny steel rocketship designed to ferry dozens of humans to the moon and Mars is the top half of Musk's colossal interplanetary rocket system that stands 387 feet tall as the latest addition to SpaceX is lineup of reusable launch vehicles musk named Japanese billionaire yuusaku Misawa as starships first private passenger in 2018 Bill Gates is the co-founder of Microsoft and was once the richest man in the world the crown jewel of Gates property portfolio is undeniably Xanadu 2.0 it shouldn't be too surprising that one of the wealthiest people in the world also has an insanely extravagant home it took gates 7 years and 63 million dollars to build his Modena Washington estate named as an Adu 2.0 after the fictional home of citizen Kane's Charles Foster Kane at 66,000 square feet the home is absolutely massive and it's filled with high-tech details he reportedly pays around 1 million dollars in property taxes each year for the 200 million dollar mansion to give you an idea of the scale half a million board feet of lumber was needed to complete the project the house was built with 500 year old Douglas fir trees 300 construction workers labored on the home 100 of whom were electricians the house uses its natural surroundings to reduce heat loss xanadu 2.0 is an earth sheltered house meaning that it's built into its surroundings to regulate temperature more efficiently in addition an enormous reception hall could accommodate up to 200 guests the 2300 square foot hall could seat up to 150 people for a dinner party or 200 people standing up at a cocktail event a six-foot wide limestone fireplace dominates one wall while another wall has a 22 foot wide video screen the house has 24 bathrooms ten of which are full baths and there are six kitchens the home theater can accommodate 20 guests in plush seats it's designed in an Art Deco style with comfortable armchairs couches and even a popcorn machine for snacking an existing home was removed by barge to make room for a separate activities building the 900 square foot building sits next the gate sport court putting green and boat docks back in 2018 Google founder Larry Page purchased a secondhand yacht for forty five million dollars the internet guru bought the stylish 194 foot expedition super yacht census from New Zealand tycoon Sir Douglas Myers the steel-hulled yacht was designed by Kosh yachts and built back in 1999 at Germany's Schweers yard it was remodeled in 2010 featuring interiors by design genius Philippe Starck with accommodation for 10 guests and 14 crew over six decks [Music] Google is by far one of the most successful companies in the world and their executives owned not one but eight Jets in their private fleet in fact its executives built a private Airport for their use as well as that of other tech gurus that cost them nearly eighty two million dollars they own three Boeing 757s in addition to several smaller planes the world's fastest super yacht the Dragonfly is owned by Sergey Brin built from aluminum the dragonfly is touted as the most stylish and efficient super yacht on the water in 2011 it was up for sale for around 80 million dollars and was reportedly purchased by mr. Brin the boat cruises at 25 knots and it can sleep up to 18 guests taken care of by a crew of 16 Travis kalanick was once the CEO of uber before he was ousted by shareholders but in 2019 the 43 year old purchased a posh duplex penthouse atop a new luxury building in New York City for a cool thirty-six point five million dollars colonics penthouse spans 6655 square feet on the 30th floor of the building featuring four bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms expansive living and dining spaces with ample floor-to-ceiling windows plus an extra 3,400 square feet of outdoor space including a rooftop heated pool with a panoramic view of Manhattan the building which is slated to be completed by the end of the year will include a private covered Porte cochere with a mechanical parking system that moves cars into a garage there will also be a fitness center in a 55 foot pool [Music] Garet camp is the other co-founder of uber he managed to pay roughly 71 million dollars for a newly built Beverly Hills mansion the ultra contemporary structure sits on a rare street-to-street lot that spans over an acre of land allowing for a discreet hidden entrance to a semi subterranean car gallery of sorts above that is a broad bond and an expansive zero edge pool with a baja shelf or watery sunbathing spaces within the main home are best described as celestial and monolithic with a vaguely Bali influenced twist Alexei Alexandrovich motor shop is a Russian billionaire businessman he is the main shareholder and chairman of severe stock a Russian conglomerate with interests in metal energy and mining companies he is renowned for many purchases among them a massive super yacht called lady M the 65 meter 3 deck ship boasts its own helipad outside the city's Science Centre the vessel can sleep up to 12 guests in its six cabins it also has a crew of 14 who share seven cabins [Music]

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Length: 11min 57sec (717 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 20 2020