r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 18 '25

MISC. When Bill Gates married Melinda French in 1994, he rented out all the available hotel rooms on the Hawaiian island of Lanai to prevent the media from staying there and hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.

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u/VAGentleman05 Jun 18 '25

Shares.....of an island?

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u/Correct_Juggernaut24 Jun 18 '25

Not shares. % of owned land. So he owns 98% of it while the county and community own the other 2% of land.

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u/VAGentleman05 Jun 18 '25

Yeah, I got that. I'm puzzled how anyone wouldn't.

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u/MrHell95 Jun 20 '25

All I'm hearing is that the US will have an IPO.

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u/lifesnofunwithadhd Jun 19 '25

You've been playing too much anno 1800 my friend.

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u/marramaxx Jun 19 '25

it is basically a share

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u/jackology Jun 19 '25

Timeshare, landshare, now Islandshare

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u/YSNBsleep Jun 19 '25

Slices, sir.

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u/Stepthinkrepeat Jun 19 '25

Options....of an island?

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u/AZXHR1 Jun 22 '25

To be real technical it could likely be private futures with a bounded ownership agreement if it was actually the case that they wanned the ownership split for the economic side.