^ I’d rather have $25 million crash pads in major cities around the world, along with compound that would serve as my “permanent” residence.
That is one ugly house lol
I think it would be hard to “spend” $1B, as in “consume it.” About the best you could do is buy a bunch of large, expensive skyscrapers to live in. You might be able to buy land to set up for conservation, although that is more akin to a productive activity than genuine consumption. You might be able to gamble it, but if you win, you’ve just increased your challenge.
I wish I had this problem to solve…
Well cost to buy a home in prime locations of Mumbai is nearly same as London/Newyork.
However i do agree that such an expensive home was not needed.
You can always burn it… Would be the fastest way to “consume it”…
You could have a massive fashion show/concert/party in Dubai and hire a bunch of superstar performers, best chefs, women. I could dream up an insanely expensive party.
I’d love to try.
I’d start with a 250 GTO or two. Then a Daytona Spyder and a 427 Cobra.
And that’s not investing. I’d be driving them. Fast.
I wonder how much I could spend on all of the F1 races in a year.
Yeah, I’m sure we can come up with something. For me, it would involve paying famous actresses to have sex with me, or perhaps kidnaping people to Congo to hunt for sport.
I would buy the Playboy mansion and have Hugh Hefner escorted from the premises. Ladies, there’s a new sheriff in town.
Like Rosanne Barr?
Honestly, I’d donate some of it… there are a few causes I’d like to support and I’d still have more than enough money to spend after that.
^i think op was saying that you have to spend the money and buy stuff for consumption, could u blow a billion dollars
If I had that money I’d derive more joy donating 90% it to a specific cause, say a rogue group looking to overthrow North Korea, than buying private jets, houses, islands, and other useless “stuff”.
^ donate to my charity. expense ratio is ~97% mostly on providing luxury travel and accomodations for the board, but the 3% does go to the homeless
You could probably spend 1bn cash pretty easily, your assets would still be large though.
Lol, business model of all the major global charities.
I would put on a month long continual fireworks display (think the “Grand Finale” of the Macy’s 4th of July Fireweorks, but going on for a straight month).
With the rest, I would pay scientists to create as much synthetic elements as possilble, each with half-lives under a second. No one knows how to spend money with no return like scientists.
There you go… 1bn spent with nothing to show for it. (Or forget the fireworks display and just produce the synthetic elements).
And 3% of a billion dollars ain’t chump change.
You could spend $1B easily. Just go high stakes gambling. Or, only use the most expensive stuff all of the time. Eat bowls of saffron. Drink only the finest congac. Buy all of your friends Tourbillions. Wear only the finest clothing and never wear anything twice. Have a different house band every night at hundreds of thousands a night, everything from Jay-Z to the Foo Fighters. Only bathe in Moet. Spend millions on medical costs due to skin infection from only bathing in Moet. Wear a different pair of these headphones everytime you listen to music. Heat your house by burnign this in your fireplace.
I mean, if you give me money it’s pretty damn easy to find ways to blow it. My actual answer to this question is simply to invest all of it into building the largest gravestone the world has ever seen, basically your personal pyramind/Mount Rushmore. You’d never be forgotten.
Your scientists would probably end up creating a synthetic element that splits into a pollution-free fuel and a cure for all diseases, making you the world’s first quadrillionaire.
^ Hey that’s not a bad idea. A huge ass monument a la Futurama dedicated to my memory.