FX.co ★ Billionaires’ weirdest business ideas

Elite beef

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently revealed that he is raising elite cattle to produce the highest quality beef in the world. The billionaire is going to feed the cows living at his estate macadamia nuts, the most expensive on the planet, and give them beer to drink. According to experts, this project is nothing more than "a billionaire's strange sideshow" and an unecological business idea.

High-speed vacuum train

More than a decade ago, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, was obsessed with the idea of creating a revolutionary form of transportation — Hyperloop. The concept involved using a special low-pressure tube to move capsules capable of transporting people or cargo at speeds of up to 1,500 km/h. In 2020, Hyperloop completed a trial of its first passenger ride, but the project was shut down three years later.

Giant 10,000-year clock

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested $42 million in a unique project called The Clock of the Long Now. It is a giant clock designed to run for the next 10,000 years without human intervention. Designed by Danny Hillis, it is intended as a monument to long-term thinking. The clock over 150 meters tall, powered by temperature changes, is being assembled inside a mountain in Texas. Critics consider The Long Now project one of the most unusual and ambitious endeavors of Jeff Bezos.