Inside Big Bunker

The billionaires who are preparing their homes for world-wrecking disasters

“Saying you’re ‘buying a house in New Zealand’ is kind of a wink, wink, say no more,” LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman told The New Yorker in 2015.

What a billionaire really means when they say that, Hoffman said, is that they are buying a doomsday bunker: “They’ll be, like, ‘Oh, you know, I have a broker who sells old ICBM silos, and they’re nuclear-hardened, and they kind of look like they would be interesting to live in.’”

Eleven years later, it’s commonplace to hear about billionaires acquiring remote tracts of land in places like Hawaii and New Zealand, then reinforcing them to be apocalypse-resistant. In today’s deep-dive, we look at the billionaires who are building compounds, where they are building them, and what they are putting inside of them.

Editor’s Note

This is a topic that, admittedly, doesn’t have a news peg. Just one we found interesting and ended up going down the rabbit hole on. Thank you for reading, and we’ll be back tomorrow. See you then.

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