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The Microsoft billionaire who arrived on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast with five helicopters full of bodyguards, and demanded that all available local lions be collected in one oasis so that he could see and picture them.

Obnoxious and disgusting.



Don't get worked up by one highly stylized sentence from someone trying to make a literary point. There isn't nearly enough information here to pass that kind of judgement.


Googling for 'microsoft billionaire namibia lions' and various similar things, I haven't managed to find any other sources for this, or anything like it.


Who would that be? Not Gates surely.


I would guess Paul Allen, who has done work in Namibia. But take his anecdote with a grain of salt - plenty of journalists have misrepresented stories.


According to the Forbes list of billionaires: http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:static_sear...

There are currently four Microsoft billionaires (probably fewer at the time referred to in the article):

* Bill Gates $79.2 B

* Steve Ballmer $21.5 B

* Paul Allen $17.5 B

* Charles Simonyi $1.4 B


paul allen


I would have guessed Balmer.


Paul Allen is well known to have one of the largest super-yachts in the world. I'm not sure Ballmer even has one.




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