How do billionaires rest ?

in #art7 years ago

Everyone sometimes needs to rest. But vacation - this is something different if you are a millionaire or billionaire. Heads of technology corporations use as a holiday home a variety of places, from an impressive secluded dwelling on an island to private super yachts, and derive the notion of elite rest to a new level.

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, head of Facebook, likes to rest on the North coast of the island of Kauai. It is reported that he paid $ 100 million for this plot of land with an area of 300 hectares. In addition, in his possession are a white sand beach and a former sugar cane plantation.

When co-founder of Microsoft, billionaire Paul Allen, does not plow the sea on any super yacht, he can relax in one of his many luxury homes. In addition to the island in Washington and an estate in the coastal zone in Hawaii, Allen owns a mansion on the top of a hill on the Cote d'Azur called "Villa Maryland". The staff of the servant totals 12 people, and Paul's neighbors include Bono and Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff loves all Hawaiian. At work, he wears Hawaiian shirts and even named his dog Koa in honor of the species of Hawaiian trees. In addition, he owns an area of 2 hectares on the Big Island, which he bought for 12.5 million dollars in 2000.

The chairman of the board of directors of Google Eric Schmidt has a yacht worth $ 72 million called "Oasis", on which he travels, for example, to the French Riviera. The yacht has many amenities and entertainment, including a swimming pool, water skiing and a gym that can be turned into a dance. Schmidt and his wife Wendy, with whom they live separately, also own homes in Nantucket and Montesito, California, in addition to their main house in Atherton.

HP CEO Meg Whitman owns a house and ranch in the mountains in Telluride, Colorado, where she is said to be breeding alpacas. In 2007, Whitman donated 1.15 million dollars to save more than 200 hectares of meadows and wetlands in the area.

Co-founder of PayPal and one of the first Facebook investors Peter Til bought this plot of 0.7 hectares on the oceanfront on the island of Maui in 2011. The house consists of four pavilions, located around the courtyard and the pool. The sale price was $ 27 million. It was reported that this is the largest purchase made by a single family in the history of the island.

At the end of 2014, Bill Gates spent $ 18 million on a 92-hectare horse farm in Rancho Santa Fe, California. On the site, which is called the "Paseana" ranch, there is a racecourse, a hotel, an office, a vet's apartment, an orchard and five stables. Gates also owns another horse ranch in Wellington, Florida, in addition to his main house next to Seattle.

Former CEO of Yahoo! Carol Bartz is resting in a house with five bedrooms on the Big Island in Hawaii. Near the site of an area of a little more hectare - a deposit of black lava and an elite golf course.

Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell travels with his family to an impressive secluded home in Hawaii, which many call the Raptor Residence ("Predator Residence"). According to rumors, this house with seven bedrooms, hidden in the tropics, costs as much as $ 64 million.
The founder of Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson owns the Caribbean island of Neker, an area of 30 hectares, where many parties with the participation of a crowd of celebrities took place. The resort hotel can accommodate up to 30 people, there are eight guest bedrooms, apartments with an area of 140 km² and a cable car, along which the guests descend to the beach.

Oracle co-founder billionaire Larry Ellison during the vacation can explore the whole Hawaiian island. He bought the island of Lanai for $ 500 million in 2012. If Hawaii bores him, he can always relax at his private golf club in Rancho Mirage or in one of his houses on the oceanfront in Malibu.

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