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A Tech Billionaire Is Quietly Buying Up Land in Hawaii. No One Knows Why
npr | Feb. 28, 2024Waimea . . . a mystery has been brewing in this small mountain town. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land…
He’s the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based Salesforce, one of the world’s largest software companies, which owns the popular messaging service Slack and is worth nearly $300 billion. He also owns Time magazine. Benioff is hard to miss — the 59-year-old stands at a towering 6 feet, 5 inches and is often seen driving around Waimea in his white Hummer pickup, sporting his signature look of a baseball cap with his curly brown hair tumbling out back.
Benioff lives in a beachside mansion down the mountain from Waimea. He built the $24.5 million, 9,800-square-foot home about 20 years ago and also bought dozens of acres of ranch land in Waimea around that time, according to public records.
Jeff Bezos owns a sprawling beach mansion in Maui. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has plans to build a bunker on his land in Kauai, according to Wired. Benioff’s former boss, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, owns 98% of Lanai.
And here I am, gaping at the price of a fast-food meal.
And billionaires, hey, if you don’t want to be a kidnap victim, don’t sport a signature look. That’s for free.