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Warren Buffett is probably the great exception to the rule of Billionaires pretending to live commonly. Most of the other "oh I drive a Honda" or "I live with
by steveBK123 3y ago
Warren Buffett is probably the great exception to the rule of Billionaires pretending to live commonly.
Most of the other "oh I drive a Honda" or "I live with roommates" origin stories turn out to be factual, but incomplete as we find out they have roommates in a $20M penthouse / commute in the Honda for optics but have a garage full of luxury vehicles / own 27 homes / etc.
Kind of like the classic Steve Jobs "hide the Porsches" story.
That said, I bet Buffett owns at least 2 MacBooks?
And really at the end of the day, anyone with a FAANG level job should have backup compute in the case of failure. It's a nothing expense next to the income we derive from using compute.
- FireBeyond 3y agoEven Elon, "I don't own a house" (but I have a holding company that owns several), but "I stay in a friend's $50M home which has a household staff".