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A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why
- dougb5 3y agoI was starting to think the land acquisitions weren't that big a deal, especially relative to other CEOs. But then he has to go be all goon-like: "A couple of days before the interview, Benioff texted the same NPR colleague again, asking for intel on my story. Then he called me and demanded to know the title of this piece. During that call, he also mentioned he knew the exact area where I was staying. Unnerved, I asked how he knew, and he said, "It's my job. You have a job and I have a job." During the interview, he brings up more personal details about me and my family."
- smcin 3y agoSalesforce.com's Marc Benioff has gone on a much larger — and previously unreported — shopping spree (via 6 anonymous LLCs and one nonprofit) for land around Waimea, Great Island HI since the pandemic in 2020. To undo the clickbait and make these facts indexable.
- nojvek 3y agoLand is one of the real fixed assets of the planet. I don’t care much if billionaires own billions of bitcoin. But when they own huge swaths of land, it is a zero sum game. Land is the OG wealth.