Have you seen your clients, NPR?
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.
Yeah but if he’s a Republican it’s only a matter of time before some Far Left Judge and group take almost everything he has in phony charges….where did I hear this? Maybe a Law & Order episode.
Keep it under your hat but I hear they are all digging bunkers and prepping for the end times.
By “prepping for the end times,” do you mean as hapless victims of the events, or precipitators?
Yes.
Has anyone else noticed all the ads from the government telling us that we need to prepare an emergency response plan for the next disaster?
Nope — but it’s not surprising that they are. Not a bit.
(I see very few commercials, nowadays, with most of what I watch being on YouTube or some streaming service.)
I’ve seen several billboards. Creepy.
… especially when they specifically say “Windbag! Stock Up.”