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The Microsoft billionaire who arrived on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast with five helicopters full of bodyguards, and demanded that all available local lions be colle
by numair 11y ago
The Microsoft billionaire who arrived on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast with five helicopters full of bodyguards, and demanded that all available local lions be collected in one oasis so that he could see and picture them.
Obnoxious and disgusting.
- chengiz 11y agoWho would that be? Not Gates surely.
- zzleeper 11y agopaul allen
- dllu 11y agoAccording to the Forbes list of billionaires: http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static_search:microsoft http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static_sear... There are currently four Microsoft billionaires (probably fewer at the time referred to in the article): * Bill Gates $79.2 B * Steve Ballmer $21.5 B * Paul Allen $17.5 B * Charles Simonyi $1.4 B
- fensterblick 11y agoI would guess Paul Allen, who has done work in Namibia. But take his anecdote with a grain of salt - plenty of journalists have misrepresented stories.
- stickfigure 11y agoDon't get worked up by one highly stylized sentence from someone trying to make a literary point. There isn't nearly enough information here to pass that kind of judgement.
- philh 11y agoGoogling for 'microsoft billionaire namibia lions' and various similar things, I haven't managed to find any other sources for this, or anything like it.