I wanna be a Zimbabwe dollar billionaire. Where can I buy Zimbabwe dollars in bulk at a reasonable price? [more inside]
posted by ph00dz on Jul 31, 2008 - 19 answers

Zillions of billionaire characters in fiction try to buy their way out of dying by funding crazy research efforts or moving into orbit or whatever—think of John Hurt in Contact or Lionel Luthor in Smallville. Are there any examples of such figures in reality, in history? Howard Hughes types with nothing to lose?
posted by cgc373 on Apr 29, 2007 - 23 answers

Could someone be richer than the usual suspects (Gates, Buffet, et al.) and not have that fact be known to the world at large? [more inside]
posted by maxwelton on Jan 1, 2007 - 22 answers

What motivated Bill Gates?
posted by ValveAnnex on Jul 23, 2005 - 19 answers