Luxury Yet Extravagant Things Owned By Tech Billionaires

Being a high-net-worth individual is pretty cool as you can rarely hesitate to buy luxury cars, watches or something else. Nevertheless, you might have to possess much more money to own other stuff, which is likely to set you back around millions of dollars. Here's the list of super-expensive assets owned by tech moguls.

Jeff Bezos – Amazon 

Jeff Bezos bought a textile museum in Washington, DC and the Amazon founder then turned it into a $23-million mansion.

​Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook 

The Facebook CEO amasses not only one but two properties in Hawaii. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg had to pay a total of $100 million for his new 700 acres of land.

​Bill Gates – Microsoft 

During the 1990s, Bill Gates had become so rich. Gates spent nearly $30 million to purchase a manuscript authored by Leonardo da Vinci. The scriptures comprise of sketches, writings, and diagrams.

​​Sergei Brin and Larry Page – Google 

Two co-founders of Google seems to be impressed by luxury yachts – an extravagant hobby. Brin spent 80$ million for his Dragonfly superyacht while Page too bought a yacht named Senses Luxury for $45 million.

Elon Musk – Tesla 

Before being the mold for the Iron Man character in Marvel Cinematic Universe, Elon Musk already showed his interest in eccentric-yet-awesome things. In his collection, there’s an iconic 1$-million submarine car called Lotus Esprit, which was used in the Bond-series film “The Spy Who Loved Me”.

​Jack Ma – Alibaba 

As a notable name in the community of tech billionaires, Jack Ma reportedly splurged nearly $200 million on a super mansion in The Peak, Hong Kong. However, the Chinese e-commerce magnate has never given any word about this home.

​Larry Ellison – Oracle 

Like Zuckerberg and other tech billionaires, the founder of Oracle has also dived into the beauty of Hawaii. Ellison even shelled out more than $300 million to be the owner of a 90,000-acre island.

​Mukesh Ambani – Reliance Industries

Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in India (and in Asia, too), has surprised the world since he starts the construction of his lavish mansion in Mumbai. The estimated cost reportedly reaches $1 billion, a staggering number even for those who actually are billionaires.

​Steve Ballmer - Microsoft

For your information, Steve Ballmer is also another co-founder of Microsoft and took on a role as the former company's CEO before passing it to Satya Nadella. With an estimated net worth of $51.9 billion, Ballmer in 2014 placed a bid of about $2 billion to acquire Los Angeles-based NBA team L.A Clippers.

Carlos Slim - América Móvil

Carlos Slim is a Mexican telecom billionaire that has held the title of "The richest person in Latin America" for quite a while. Slim is strongly in favor of collecting artworks and he spent nearly $1 billion on building a museum in Mexico. Named Museo Soumaya, the museum is home to more than 66,000 masterpieces from both Mexican artists and a slew of outstanding names like Leonardo Da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, or Claude Monet. More interestingly, it displays Slim's art collection for no admission fee.

Dietmar Hopp - SAP

The German billionaire Dietmar Hopp is a well-known figure in the software industry owing to his fame when shaping SAP SE, one of the largest IT companies, with other colleagues from IBM. As a real German, he's engrossed in football and spent $335 million on a football club in Germany - FC Hoffenheim.