Matt Levine, Columnist

Adam Neumann Is So Good at This

Probabilistic billionaires, non-recourse loans, Warren Buffett’s personal account, IPO allocations and Skynet vs. onions.

November 9, 2023 at 6:16 PM UTC

By Matt Levine

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Here are three ways to become a billionaire. One is you create some good or service, you sell it for more than it costs you to produce it, and you keep doing that until you have a billion dollars. Call this a cash billionaire.