Mark Zuckerberg has revealed the reality behind his underground bunker rumours
Mark Zuckerberg has addressed the rumours of him having an ‘underground bunker’ beneath his $270 million (£200m) house in Hawaii.
The 40-year-old was compelled to disclose the reality behind the area after he shared a video of his spouse, Priscilla Chan, ‘catching’ him enjoying video video games contained in the so-called bunker.
The Fb founder presently sits third on Forbes’ billionaires record, behind Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, though he has been equally onerous hit by way of funds following Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariffs in the USA.
Nevertheless, he nonetheless has an estimated web value of $200 billion so he is not doing too badly.
Given the rising political tensions internationally, it is simple to know why the richest amongst us would possibly need to use their tens of millions, or billions in Zuckerberg’s case, to guard themselves and their households with a form of ‘post-apocalyptic bunker’.
In any case, it labored for probably the most half within the final World Battle, with many UK households having shelters of some type, even when they weren’t fairly of the identical scale because the billionaire’s.
So it is simple to see why the ‘memes’ about Zuckerberg’s ‘underground bunker’ received a bit of out of hand, and he is lastly revealed the reality about it – although sadly, it isn’t as thrilling as you may need hoped.
Talking on comic Theo Von’s This Previous Weekend podcast, the tech whiz revealed that the bottom in his Hawaii house is ‘extra of [an] underground storage state of affairs’.
He said: “There’s this entire meme about how individuals are saying I constructed this like bunker underground. It is not that massive of a tunnel. It is form of a tunnel that simply goes to a different constructing … It is like having a bit of storm shelter underground.”
It was solely final month he was advised that he may quickly be compelled to promote Instagram and WhatsApp after Meta acquired them in 2012 and 2014 respectively, so contemplating that and the opposite seemingly pressures that include proudly owning one of many world’s largest corporations, it is simple to see why he would possibly want a little bit of down time enjoying video video games in a basement.
Proudly owning an underground bunker would not be out of the query for somebody like Zuckerberg, who has additionally been seen signing and dancing in one in all Benson Boone’s sparkly outfits, whereas different billionaires appear prepared to flee Earth within the occasion of a nuclear conflict by their escapades in area.
Sadly, it turned out to be the far more mundane cupboard space, which makes you query how a lot stuff Zuck actually has, provided that he reportedly owns 10 properties.
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