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A billion dollars is, to state the obvious, a lot of money. If Jeff Bezos were to fill a sack with $5,000 every day—365 days a year—and hand it over to you, he would only exhaust one billion dollars after 548 years (and still have $203 billion left).

To put that into perspective, 548 years ago was 1476, quite some time before Columbus landed in America.

Billionaires and the Power of Verticality
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