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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
What would you do if you had billions of dollars? Maybe you would spend it on supercars, yachts and mansions. But after you have bought everything you possibly could, what then?
Let's take a look at some tech tycoons who, after buying everything they desired, are now indulging in their favourite hobbies.
Source: Business Insider
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Larry Ellison
Net worth: $41 billion
Occupation: CEO, Oracle Corporation
Hobby: $1 billion on a medical foundation that focuses on diseases related to ageing
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Bill Gates
Net worth: $66 billion
Occupation: Co-founder and Chairman, Microsoft
Hobby: Reinventing the toilet. He said in a blog that he was looking for methods to capture and process human waste and transform it into useful resources.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Paul Allen
Net worth: $15 billion
Occupation: Co-founder, Microsoft
Hobby: Apart from owning multiple professional sports teams, building a rock-and-roll museum, collecting vintage WWII planes, he has also invested a half billion dollars into the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Vinod Khosla
Net worth: $1.4 billion
Occupation: Venture capitalist, Khosla Ventures
Hobby: He is backing a startup working on fake cheese; one working on less-salty salt; and Unreal, a candy maker which promises healthier sweets.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Biz Stone
Net worth: N/A
Occupation: Co-founder and Creative Director, Twitter
Hobby: He is backing a company making fake meat. The company makes realistic fake chicken and will increase availability this year.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Peter Thiel
Net worth: $1.5 billion
Occupation: Managing partner, The Founders Fund
Hobby: He has set up a foundation that contributes to a number of anti-ageing research projects.
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Sergey Brin
Net worth: $20.3 billion
Occupation: Computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur
Hobby: His genetic-testing startup 23andMe, co-founded by his wife, Anne Wojcicki, targets Parkinson's and other gene-linked diseases.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Jeff Bezos
Net worth: $23.2 billion
Occupation: Chairman and CEO, Amazon.com
Hobby: He is spending $42 million to build a giant clock that will chime every year, decade, century, and millennium - for the next 10,000 years.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Michael Dell
Net worth: $14.6 billion
Occupation: Founder, Chairman and CEO, Dell
Hobby: In 2010, his private investment company, MSD Capital, bought the Magnum Collection. It includes more than 180,000 of some of the nation's most important and memorable photographs taken since 1947.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Marc Benioff
Net worth: $2.2 billion
Occupation: Founder, Chairman and CEO, salesforce.com
Hobby: Benioff is best known for his $100 million donation for the 180-bed UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. He was drawn to UCSF because of its "pioneering work with fetal surgery", he told Forbes magazine.
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Dustin Moskovitz
Net worth: $3.5 billion
Occupation: Co-founder, Facebook
Hobby: His foundation, Good Ventures, donated $500,000 to fight malaria and another $250,000 to fight schistosomiasis, a disease caused by parasitic worms.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
David Sacks
Net worth: N/A
Occupation: Founder, Yammer
Hobby: Through his production company, Room 9, Sacks produced the film Thank You For Smoking, which grossed some $39 million worldwide. That wasn't Room 9's only film. It also produced Dumbstruck, a movie about professional ventriloquists.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Hasso Plattner
Net worth: $6.7 billion
Occupation: Founder, SAP
Hobby: He has donated millions to fighting Aids. He hosts concerts to raise Aids awareness at his luxury golf estate in South Africa, a country hard-hit by the disease.
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John Chambers
Net worth: $3.36 million
Occupation: CEO and Chairman of the Board, Cisco Systems
Hobby: A year ago he donated $750,000 for cancer research at West Virginia University.
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A look at how tech moguls spend their wealth
Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $9.4 billion
Occupation: Co-founder, Facebook
Hobby: In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg started his brand-new education foundation with a bang: He gave $100 million to the public school system of Newark, New Jersey. That year he also signed the Giving Pledge and vowed to give away most of his money to more education and health charities.