7. Four City Blocks in Seattle

Year Purchased: 2012
Estimated Value: Part of the $4 billion Amazon campus*

In order to make the huge Amazon campus that he dreamed of, Jeff had to buy the land first. Incredibly, the Amazon campus in Seattle runs across four whole blocks. That’s an incredibly large area of land that would have cost a fortune to purchase. 

It’s not clear just how much Bezos spent on it, but it would have been an eye-watering amount of money. Still, every tech giant needs its state-of-the-art HQ and Amazon wasn’t about to fall behind when everyone else was racing forward.