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0:00Congratulations,
0:01you're a trillionaire. The richest
0:04person to ever live.
0:06You are worth more than four Jeff Bezos'
0:09combined. If you spent [music] a million
0:11dollars every single day, you wouldn't
0:14go broke for another 2,700 years.
0:17[music]
0:18The world is in the palm of your hand.
0:21But there's a problem. Everyone knows.
0:24You are now the most famous person on
0:27Earth. Your face is on every screen in
0:30every country on the planet. There are
0:32people outside your building right now.
0:35Hundreds of them. Some with cameras,
0:38some with signs. Some just standing
0:41there staring up at your window. This
0:43makes you paranoid. But you're a
0:45trillionaire, so there's an easy fix.
0:48You hire a bodyguard. Nope. Not enough.
0:52Two bodyguards. Not even close. You get
0:56a full detail. 12 operators minimum.
1:00Armed, trained, rotating 24-hour shifts.
1:04The kind of protection usually reserved
1:06for sitting presidents. You make some
1:08calls. Within 48 hours, it's all done.
1:12Good. You're safe. But your Honda Civic
1:16isn't going to cut it anymore. So, you
1:18buy Bugatti. Not a Bugatti. Bugatti. The
1:22entire company. $2 billion. That's 0.2%
1:27of your net worth. The equivalent of
1:29someone making a hundred grand a year
1:32buying a jacket. Your accountant logs it
1:35as a rounding error. But you still need
1:37somewhere to live. Your current
1:40apartment building is swarming with
1:41paparazzi outside. Basically, the entire
1:45world knows where you live.
1:47So, you buy a compound. 14 acres behind
1:51walls and iron gates. A guardhouse at
1:54the entrance manned around the clock.
1:56The property has its own private road.
1:59You can't even see the main house from
2:01the gate.
2:03$200 million.
2:06Easy. But a place that size doesn't run
2:08itself. You need staff. Housekeepers,
2:12groundskeepers, two private chefs on
2:14rotation, a property manager, a house
2:17manager, drivers, an entire maintenance
2:20crew, IT staff just for the security
2:23systems, a personal assistant who has
2:26her own personal assistant. Within a
2:29month, 63 people work at your house.
2:32Now, you're comfortable, secure.
2:35Everything runs like a machine. So, you
2:38can really start spending. Because,
2:41well, you have a trillion dollars and
2:45you're a little bored. You buy a Boeing
2:47747 and have it gutted and rebuilt into
2:51a private [music] flying residence. $400
2:54million.
2:55You buy an island in the South Pacific.
2:58You commission the largest private yacht
3:00ever built. Helicopter pad, submarine
3:03bay, movie theater, full medical
3:05facility. $600 million.
3:09And nobody warns you about [music] this
3:10part. A trillion dollars makes money
3:13faster than you can spend it. And even
3:15sitting in the most boring investments
3:17on Earth, your net worth grows by tens
3:20of millions every single day. You wake
3:23up richer than when you fell asleep
3:25every morning without lifting a finger.
3:28So, money is handled. Security is
3:31handled. The cars, the properties, the
3:33staff, all handled. But you want coffee.
3:38Just coffee. From the place you've been
3:40going to for years. Your security team
3:43needs 45 minutes of advanced notice.
3:46When you finally get through all the
3:47paparazzi and walk in, every person in
3:50the coffee shop has stopped talking. The
3:52barista's hands are shaking. Someone in
3:55the corner is filming you from behind a
3:58laptop screen. You get your coffee. It
4:01tastes exactly the same. But everything
4:04around is different. So, you stop going
4:07there. You don't want to be a nuisance.
4:10But there's good you can do with this
4:12money. Real good. So, you write a check
4:15for $500
4:17to disaster relief. The media covers it
4:20for about half a news cycle. Because
4:23relative to what you have, $500 is what
4:26you earn in a slow week.
4:29People are grateful for about a day.
4:32Then they want more. They always want
4:34more. But it's not the strangers that
4:37get to you. It's the people you already
4:39know. Your phone rings constantly, but
4:42none of the calls are from friends
4:43anymore. They're from lawyers, wealth
4:46managers, heads of state, charity
4:49directors. Everyone wants a meeting.
4:51Everyone wants your name on their thing.
4:54Your signature on their check. The
4:57friends from before start to disappear.
5:00Some just stop calling. The ones who
5:02still do sound different. Careful,
5:05measured. Like they're weighing each
5:07word before it leaves their mouth. You
5:09invite your college roommate to the
5:11compound for a weekend. He says yes
5:13before you finish asking. When he gets
5:16there, he compliments everything. The
5:19house, the grounds, the wine, the guest
5:21room. He agrees with everything [music]
5:23you say for two straight days. He laughs
5:26at jokes that aren't funny. And he never
5:29pushes back on a single thing. He used
5:32to argue with you about everything.
5:34Movies, politics, where to eat. That was
5:37the whole friendship. But that
5:39friendship is about to be the least of
5:41your worries. Because then, the lawsuits
5:44start. Not one lawsuit, not two. 17 in
5:49the first 6 months. An old [music]
5:51business partner claims you shorted him
5:53on a deal from 9 years ago. A woman in
5:56Arizona says you verbally promised her
5:58$10 million at a fundraiser in 2019. You
6:02have never been to Arizona.
6:05Most of it is garbage. Your legal team
6:07tells you that. They say the word
6:09frivolous so often it stops sounding
6:11like a word. But each one costs six
6:14figures to fight. Each one puts your
6:16name in a headline. Each one requires a
6:19deposition or a filing or a statement or
6:23some kind of settlement. Your lawyers
6:25tell you to get used to it. When you
6:27have a trillion dollars, people will try
6:30to take it from you using every tool
6:32available. The legal system is a tool.
6:35And you are the deepest pocket on Earth.
6:38You settle three of the cases. Not
6:41because they have merit, because
6:43fighting them in public costs more than
6:45writing the check. A million here, two
6:47million there. They're just rounding
6:49errors. But every settlement gets
6:52reported. And every report invites five
6:55more lawsuits.
6:57Your legal budget for the year crosses
6:59$40 million.
7:01You have an entire floor of a law firm
7:04working exclusively on your cases. You
7:07have never met most of the lawyers. They
7:10send you summaries weekly. Pages [music]
7:13and pages of people who want your money
7:15and are willing to lie in a courtroom to
7:17get it.
7:18But daily life goes on. Or something
7:22that looks like it. And then it happens.
7:25You meet her.
7:27She's sharp, funny in a way that catches
7:29[music] you off guard, doesn't mention
7:32the money once. You see her again and
7:34again. Three weeks in, it starts [music]
7:37to feel like something real. Then, you
7:39notice things.
7:41She mentions your island in a
7:43conversation you never had with her. She
7:45knows your pilot's first name. She knows
7:48which car you prefer for the city. Small
7:51things.
7:52Things that mean she looked you up
7:54before you ever met. Which, of course,
7:57she [music] did. Everyone does. But now
8:00there's a question sitting behind every
8:02moment with her. Does she like you? Or
8:05does she like this?
8:07The compound, [music] the jet, the
8:09access to a life she'd never touch
8:11otherwise.
8:12And once that question gets in your
8:14head, it stays. You watch her
8:17differently.
8:18So, you stop calling. Then she texts you
8:21twice. And then she stops.
8:24But the story doesn't end there. Two
8:26weeks later, a tabloid runs a piece.
8:29Inside the trillionaire's secret
8:32romance. Photos of you at the
8:34restaurant. Photos of her leaving your
8:36compound. A quote from a source close to
8:39the couple. You didn't sell it. She
8:41didn't sell it. Someone at the
8:43restaurant did. A waiter or a valet.
8:46Someone who saw you together and picked
8:48up the phone. Now, her name is
8:51everywhere. Her face, her job, her
8:53apartment building. Strangers are
8:56sending her messages. Some are
8:58threatening. She had a life before you.
9:01A private, normal, anonymous life. And
9:04you erased it just by sitting across
9:06from her at dinner.
9:07Your PR team drafts a statement. Your
9:10lawyers send a cease and desist to the
9:12tabloid.
9:14None of it puts her name back in the
9:16box. You send her a message.
9:18>> [music]
9:18>> An apology. She reads it. She doesn't
9:22respond. But the leaks keep coming. And
9:25the next one is worse. Somebody from
9:27your past sells a story to a magazine. A
9:30joke you made at a party in 2011 that,
9:33stripped of context and printed in a
9:35headline, makes you look like a
9:37different person.
9:39It's everywhere within 48 hours.
9:41>> [music]
9:41>> People who have never met you now have
9:43an opinion about who you are based on
9:46something you said [music] in a dorm
9:47room 15 years ago.
9:50Your crisis PR team goes into action.
9:53They tell you the same thing they always
9:55[music] tell you. Don't respond.
9:58Responding makes it worse every time.
10:01So, you sit in your office behind your
10:03seven screens [music]
10:05and watch someone sell your old life for
10:07what your team estimates was about
10:09$250,000,
10:11>> [music]
10:11>> a quarter of a million dollars. That's
10:14what your past is worth to someone who
10:17used to be your [music] friend. You
10:18can't call them. You can't confront
10:20them. You can't even confirm you know
10:23who did it because that becomes a story,
10:25too.
10:27You just sit there. Your mother calls on
10:29a Sunday morning. She sounds the same as
10:32she always does.
10:33Ask if you're eating enough. Tells you
10:36about a bird that keeps getting into her
10:38garden. For 10 minutes, your shoulders
10:40drop and your jaw unclenches and you
10:43almost forget what your life has become.
10:45Then, she mentions your brother.
10:48He didn't ask her to call. He never
10:50would. But, he's behind on the mortgage
10:53and his car needs work. And you have
10:55more money than some countries. And he's
10:57family.
10:59You had no idea he was struggling. You
11:01sent him a few million dollars that
11:03afternoon. He doesn't call to say thank
11:06you.
11:07Three months later, at a holiday dinner
11:09you flew the whole family to on [music]
11:11your 747, he sits at the far end of the
11:14table. He talks to your cousins, your
11:17aunt, anyone but you. When you try to
11:20catch his eye, he stares at his plate.
11:23He leaves before dessert and he doesn't
11:25say goodbye.
11:27A week after the dinner, your mom calls
11:29again. Different tone this [music] time.
11:31Quiet. She tells you your brother said
11:34something to your cousin
11:36that you ruined [music] the family. That
11:38everything changed when the money came.
11:41Your mother isn't telling you this to
11:42take sides.
11:44She's telling you because she doesn't
11:46know what to do. She has a security
11:48detail she didn't ask for, a son who
11:51won't talk to his brother, [music]
11:53and a family that used to fit around
11:55table and now needs a catering staff and
11:58a 747 to be in the same room.
12:01>> [music]
12:02>> You tell her you'll talk to him.
12:04You don't. What would you say? You can't
12:07unsend the money. You can't undo the
12:10[music] jet. You can't walk into his
12:12house without two armed men waiting in
12:15the driveway. The gap between your lives
12:17isn't something [music] you can close
12:19with a conversation.
12:21So, you stop trying. But, the compound
12:24keeps running. The 63 workers keep the
12:27machine humming. You start to take
12:29comfort in the routine of the staff.
12:31Then, your head of security calls
12:33another meeting. Someone on your
12:35household staff has been feeding
12:37information to a tabloid. Nothing
12:39dangerous, but consistent and paid. Your
12:42team found the leak through metadata on
12:44a photo that ran in a gossip column.
12:47The angle matched a specific window in
12:50the east [music] wing. Only three staff
12:52members have access to that hallway.
12:54They narrowed it down in two days.
12:57It's Linda, the housekeeper. She's
12:59escorted off the property on a Wednesday
13:02morning. Your security team handles it.
13:04You watch from the second floor window.
13:07She's carrying a cardboard box. She
13:09doesn't look up. A man in a suit walks
13:12her to the gate. Another man [music]
13:14opens it. She gets into a car that's
13:17been called for her and the gate closes.
13:20You stand at the window for a while
13:21after she's gone.
13:23The east wing hallway is empty. Your
13:26team hires her replacement by Friday.
13:29But, there's always something next.
13:31Tuesday afternoon, you take the yacht
13:34out. The ocean is so blue it looks fake.
13:37Sunset turns everything gold. Dinner is
13:40pan-seared Dover sole prepared by a chef
13:43who trained for a decade in
13:45Michelin-starred kitchens.
13:47The table is set [music] for one.
13:50You get back to the compound and go to
13:52bed early. The master suite is much
13:55bigger than your old apartment. [music]
13:57You lie there. The ceiling is very
14:00white.
14:01Somewhere [music] around 3:00 a.m.,
14:03you're awake.
14:04You get up. The compound is dead silent.
14:07The theater room, empty. [music] 60
14:09seats. The screen is dark. The library,
14:13empty.
14:14You walk the main hallway. The only
14:16sound [music] is a faint mechanical hum.
14:20The security camera at the end of the
14:22corridor adjusting, tracking your
14:24movement. You stop, it stops. You take a
14:28step, it follows.
14:30You go outside. The grass is [music]
14:32wet. It's cold under your feet. You walk
14:35to the middle of the lawn. The sky is
14:38the same sky you used to look at when
14:40[music] you were broke. Same stars, same
14:43depth, same silence.
14:45You used to lie on the roof deck of your
14:47old apartment building [music] and stare
14:49at it for hours. The rent was late and
14:52you didn't care.
14:54The stars haven't moved.
14:56Everything underneath them has.
14:59You stand on the lawn until the cold
15:01[music] gets into your bones and then
15:03you go inside. You go back to bed.
15:07After a week in Italy, you arrive back
15:09home. Your assistant meets you on the
15:12tarmac. She asks how the trip was.
15:15Great, you tell her.
15:17Now, back to the compound, through the
15:20gate, past the guardhouse,
15:22>> [music]
15:22>> past the pool you've used three times,
15:24past the tennis court you've never
15:26touched, past the wine cellar with
15:28bottles that cost [music] more than most
15:30people's monthly rent.
15:32Into your office where seven screens
15:34display your portfolio, [music]
15:36your companies, your calendar, and a
15:38news ticker that mentions your name
15:40twice [music] in the first 30 seconds.
15:43You sit down.
15:45Outside, security does a shift change.
15:48New faces [music] replace the old ones.
15:50The groundskeeper rides the mower across
15:53the lawn. Over 60 [music] people work
15:55here.
15:56You are the only one who lives here.
16:02>> [music]
16:06[music]

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