The Wealthy Men Of America living lives of luxury eating caviar on their yachts with supermodels and driving Lamborghinis to exotic destinations or are they what does someone do with that much money and how does someone even come into a fortune that's in the billions of dollars today we're going to take a look at the five wealthiest men in America to see how they've gotten to where they are and where exactly they plan on going.
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison sixty-five billion dollars Larry Ellison is one person who knows exactly what to do with his sixty-five billion-dollar fortune, a two-time college dropout that didn't stop him from founding Oracle Corporation, a computer technology company formed in Silicon Valley in 1977. He found himself sitting on a goldmine, and the company quickly skyrocketed to success, so what has Larry spent all his money on the exact type of stuff you would expect a billionaire to as a yacht racer? He owns the 12th largest yacht in the World, which cost a whopping two hundred million dollars to build when he's not racing overly expensive boats, he's flying the military jets he owns for fun; he also enjoys collecting properties around the World but more specifically, Malibu where he's managed to buy 12 properties worth more than 180 million dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg has sixty-nine point nine billion dollars with a fortune of sixty-nine point nine billion dollars. MarkZuckerberg is the youngest billionaire on our list at 35 years old now. If you don't recognize him from the lizard person memes that arose after he testified before Congress, you certainly recognize his company Facebook.
Zuckerberg became the youngest-ever self-made billionaire in the World at the age of 23, made famous through several movies about the creation of Facebook Zuckerberg has had a rocky relationship in regards to how the public perceives him with dozens of lawsuits filed against him over the years and many questioning the privacy of their information on Facebook it certainly hasn't been easy for him to be viewed everyone in a positive light Zuckerberg plans on donating 99% of his fortune to charity in the meantime what is he doing with all his money well buying a lot of houses Zuckerberg owns ten properties across the u.s. From. In the past few years, a townhome in San Francisco to a beachfront plantation in Hawaii, he bought the four neighboring houses to his primary home in Palo Alto in a bid just to ensure his privacy.
Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett, eighty billion dollars the oldest billionaire on our list Warren Buffett has a net worth of 80 billion dollars, is one of the most recognizable billionaires in the World and one of the most successful investors of all time.
Warren started his career investing at the ripe old age of eleven, which might make you feel a little inadequate thinking about what you were doing in your preteens his humble beginnings started by putting gumball machines in barbershops, a business that he eventually sold a hustler from the very beginning Warren went on to be a millionaire by the age of 30 and a billionaire at the age of 56 but what exactly do you do with all that wealth if you're Warren Buffett you invest some wisely. You give the rest away, teaming up with the next billionaire on our list. Warren signed The Giving Pledge in agreement to give all his wealth to charity.
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