Billionaire tech tycoons are frantically buying up islands and pimped-out bunkers amid fears of nuclear war
Silicon Valley events are reportedly dominated with talk of the impending apocalypse
WEALTHY tech moguls are preparing for the apocalypse by buying island properties, having laser eye surgery and investing in pimped out nuclear bunkers.
Dinner party conversations in Silicon Valley are now dominated by talk of society crumbling amid nuclear war and what steps the billionaire elites are taking to avoid the fallout, reports the New Yorker.
Reddit founder Steve Huffman, 33, admits he and former CEO Yishan Wong have both had corrective eye surgery in preparation for breakdown in western civilisation.
He said: “If the world ends — and not even if the world ends, but if we have trouble — getting contacts or glasses is going to be a huge pain in the ass.”
The New Yorker also spokewith Larry Hall, the CEO of the Survival Condo Project, which is a 15 storey nuclear warhead silo turned into luxury doomsday properties.
In 2008, Hall paid $300,000 for the silo and spent nearly $20million refurbishing it for anxious wealthy investors.
He has now sold all the private apartments – 12 including one for himself – for $3million each.
New Zealand is one of the most popular places in the world for tech moguls to buy ‘apocalypse insurance’.
A record number of Americans reportedly bought property in the far flung island nation in the seven days after Donald Trump’s shock election win.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman told the magazine “saying you’re ‘buying a house in New Zealand’ is kind of a wink, wink, say no more.”
Another popular choice for technology giants to buy is Hawaii.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has bought a 750 acre property on the island of Kauai, reports Forbes.
The young billionaire reportedly bought two properties on the land for a whopping $100 million where he plans to build one giant home.
Co-founder of software giant Oracle Larry Ellison owns 98 per cent of Hawaii’s sixth largest island Lanai.
Ellison, who is the fifth richest person in the world, also bought the Lanai’s own airline which provides commuter flights around the island.
PayPal co-founder and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel owns a giant oceanfront home in Maui.
The high-profile Trump supporter bought the property for $27million which is the biggest real-estate deal in Maui’s history.
Another member of the Silicon Valley elite, Michael Dell, has built a sprawling compound known as The Castle on top of a hill in Austin, Texas.
In 1997, the CEO of Dell Technologies started to develop the property which is known for its high walls and state of the art security.
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