Posted on 02/28/2024 12:23:49 PM PST by BenLurkin
Waimea is primarily an agricultural town with just three stoplights and around 10,000 residents. It has lush forests filled with guava trees and torch ginger, and it's known for being the birthplace of the Hawaiian cowboy, or paniolo. It sits thousands of feet above sea level, where misty winds often blow sideways and, on clear days, give way to expansive views of the island's three towering volcanoes.
Over the last couple of years, a mystery has been brewing in this small mountain town. Someone has been quietly buying hundreds of acres of land...
He's the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based Salesforce, one of the world's largest software companies, which owns the popular messaging service Slack and is worth nearly $300 billion. He also owns Time magazine. Benioff is hard to miss — the 59-year-old stands at a towering 6 feet, 5 inches and is often seen driving around Waimea in his white Hummer pickup, sporting his signature look of a baseball cap with his curly brown hair tumbling out back.
Benioff lives in a beachside mansion down the mountain from Waimea. He built the $24.5 million, 9,800-square-foot home about 20 years ago and also bought dozens of acres of ranch land in Waimea around that time, according to public records.
Jeff Bezos owns a sprawling beach mansion in Maui. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has plans to build a bunker on his land in Kauai, according to Wired. Benioff's former boss, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, owns 98% of Lanai.
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Wish he’d buy out Pahoa!
That place is a dump!
Open drug usage, drunks passed out on the curbs, filthy poorly maintained houses.
Tear it down and start over.
Ditto. If I was a billionaire, I would buy up real estate too. Spend it on something you and your family can enjoy and put a big fence around it to keep out the riff raff (democrats and illegal aliens).
Who cares?
I believe people (including billionaires) should be free to buy whatever property they want to buy.
“Real estate is a great inflation hedge”
When I ask internet what is a good investment when:
stock market crashing - property
inflation - property
stagflation - property
dollar losing value - property
Most often a good move.
I thought you couldn’t buy ln HI you could only rent the property?
It is best to show up for dinner with a bottle of wine...
He thinks he’s going to be safe that way.
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I’ve often wondered what this Bible verse means....If nothing else, it raises the question of ‘what is an island’?
Revelation 16:20 “And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.”
Has anyone considered the action of asking him “why are you doing this”?
His name is on a lot of children’s hospitals.
It’s NPR. They are propagandists. Not journalists.
The next time a chunk of one of the islands sloughs off in a landslide, there won’t be anything left on most of the islands, including the land owned by these rich richard craniums.
So don’t sweat it.
But if you were expecting global cooling on the other hand......
Well, if the islands disappear during a massive earthquake, he ain’t going to be safe at all.
But then again, those guys likely don’t even believe in God, much less anything from Scripture.
LOL isolated on a small island when the food delivery's run out, how long before the locals make him into a meat sandwich.
It’s simple.
He grew up watching Gilligan’s Island reruns.
Guess climate change is only for the pions
Yea, I do not consider him just a rich schmuck. He comports himself pretty well around here. Never heard of any of the sketchy arrogance and stealthy shenanigans that FB nerd has been up to on Kauai. Frankly, I am surprised the locals have tolerated Z’s behaviors and the court cases he generated. It seems likely just a matter of time before they don’t
asteroid strike in the mid Pac would do it
Well, you thought wrong. (You may be thinking of Samoa.)
And the word is Haole. :)
To sell to more foreigners who will pay BIG BUCKS for our land.
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