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Silicon Valley’s favorite Harvard dropout (sorry, Gates) has arrived in Panama at the same time as the “ Launchpad ” vessel he apparently purchased for around $300 million, after the Russian-commissioned megayacht was seized. Longer than an NFL football field, it’s still slightly smaller than Jeff Bezos’ own midlife crisis.

The super-secretive yachting community makes all this difficult to confirm but the video below from March gives an expert account of Zuck’s fancy birthday boat.

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I n a move that has raised eyebrows, Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently added a $300 million diesel-powered mega-yacht to his collection of high-end vehicles, despite his public advocacy for climate change. The vessel, currently anchored in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, starkly contrasts his climate-friendly stance.

The Launchpad: Zuckerberg’s newest acquisition, a mega-yacht named “Launchpad,” made its way to Fort Lauderdale last Monday. The colossal 287-foot vessel, manufactured by renowned Dutch yacht builder Feadship, embarked on its journey from the Netherlands on February 29, reported ZeroHedge.

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The yacht, a design masterpiece by Espen Øino International, is the largest ever built by Feadship. Globally, it holds the 45th spot among the world’s largest mega-yachts. Equipped with 4 MTU engines, the “Launchpad” operates as a large-displacement diesel vessel, according to SuperYacht Times.

Climate Change Advocacy Under Scrutiny: SuperYacht Times reports that the yacht operates with “4 MTU engines, enabling a top speed of 24 knots.” This indicates that the vessel is propelled by large-displacement diesel engines, presenting a contradiction for the billionaire known for advocating climate change initiatives.

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Zuckerberg’s extravagant collection also includes a Gulfstream G650 private jet, another notable contributor to his substantial carbon footprint. This glaring contrast between Zuckerberg’s climate change advocacy and his carbon emissions has attracted widespread criticism.

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Photos exclusively obtained by Loomer Unleashed show META CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new $300 Million yacht Docked in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, flying a Marshall Islands Flag in an attempt to avoid paying United States taxes. Zuckerberg’s yacht was originally built for a Russian oligarch and became available for Zuckerberg to purchase due to the United States sanctions against Russia. The hypocrisy is gleaming as Zuckerberg is one of the most prominent financiers of the Democrat Party, who countlessly makes up Trump-Russia hoaxes. The Left has also been lecturing Americans to “pay their fair share” in taxes and reduce carbon emissions. Zuckerberg’s yacht purchase is another example of the global elite embracing the concept of rules for thee but not for me.

Photos show Zuckerberg’s new $300 million yacht, flying the Marshall Islands flag, docked in Fort Lauderdale. The orange and white stripes, along with a blue star, clearly indicate that the flag flying on Zuckerberg’s boat belongs to the Marshall Islands. Zuckerberg likely docked his yacht in Fort Lauderdale due to the Palm Beach boat show.

It is common practice for the global elite to register companies and luxury items like yachts in the Marshall Islands to avoid paying American taxes on their purchases or gains.

X user @toughtalkty confirmed Loomer’s reporting, “Laura Loomer is right! Check out Zuckerberg’s latest tax evasion scheme sitting pretty next to the cruise terminal in Fort Lauderdale.”

Zuckerberg is one of the most prominent financiers of the Democrat Party. The U.S. Congress’ Election Integrity Caucus revealed that Zuckerberg spent $144 million on drop boxes in the 2020 election. The report read, “Only 10 percent of CTCL’s funding went to right-leaning counties, confirms earlier allegations that CTCL used these private funds, which were provided by Big Tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, to selectively drive turnout in Democratic areas. These funds bypassed state and local governments and went directly to local election agencies.”

The hypocrisy is glaring, as Democrats routinely accuse President Trump of Russia collusion hoaxes. One of the Left’s biggest donors, Mark Zuckerberg, is purchasing yachts originally built for a Russian oligarch.

Last week, Loomer Unleashed took a video of Democrat Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz walking through the Halls of Congress wearing a Putin mask in an attempt to push Trump-Russia smears. Moskowitz did not answer when Loomer Unleashed asked if he believed his behavior was immature. Moskowitz’s behavior looks even more ridiculous given Zuckerberg’s latest yacht purchases.

Democrats continue to push the false Trump-Russia narrative despite it being a well-known fact that Hillary Clinton and her campaign made up the Trump-Russia collusion hoax so the Obama FBI could spy on Trump’s campaign to interfere in the 2016 election in a failed attempt to swing it Clinton’s way.

Loomer’s caption of Zuckerberg’s yacht perfectly highlights the remaining hypocrisies with Zuckerberg’s purchase, “So not only is Zuckerberg a hypocrite for burning so much Diesel while he and his wife fund “climate change activism,” but he’s also a hypocrite for dodging taxes. Zuckerberg also funded leftist groups that stole the 2020 election from Trump, and many of the activists supported by Zuckerberg said Trump didn’t pay his fair share in taxes.”

Zuckerberg is another globalist in Joe Biden’s America who is allowed to live by the motto “Rules for thee but not for me.”

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A billionaire without a luxury vessel is as good as a coat without fur. Zuckerberg has been linked to several superyachts in the past like the $150 million yacht named Ulysses. It belonged to Kiwi billionaire Graeme Hart who sold the ship in 2017. A spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg denied reports in 2018, saying, “The reports related to Mark purchasing a yacht are completely inaccurate as he did not purchase a yacht.” As opposed to their prompt replies in the past, Zuckerberg and his team have chosen to stay mum on the matter. Perhaps, because there is nothing to clarify in a true story.

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How Meta creator Mark Zuckerberg spends his $187 billion fortune, from Italian sports cars to millions in Hawaii real estate

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most powerful and wealthiest figures in the world.
He spends his $187 billion net worth on Italian sports cars, real estate, and, most recently, a 7-foot-tall sculpture of his wife .
Here's a closer look at how the Meta CEO spends his money.

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the wealthiest people in the world.

The Meta founder and CEO is one of a few centibillionaires, with a net worth of $187 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index .

A good chunk of his wealth goes towards splurges on real estate, especially in the tropical paradise that is Hawaii, where he's started raising cattle . He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, also invest in childhood education and medical research. Most recently, he showed off a 7-foot-tall statue of Chan that he had commissioned.

Here's how the tech mogul spends his billions, from cars to properties to charity:

Zuckerberg has bought a number of vehicles over the years.

Zuckerberg is known for driving relatively inexpensive cars ; he's been seen in an Acura TSX and a Honda Fit, for example.

He loves his signature Volkswagen. He's been spotted driving a black Volkswagen Golf GTI, a car that he bought well after making his fortune, that has a starting MSRP of a bit over $30,000.

That's not to say he's never splurged on cars, though.

He dropped serious cash on at least one sports car: an Italian Pagani Huayra that sells for upwards of $1 million.

He posted some new wheels on Instagram in 2022.

That July, Zuckerberg posted a photo of what appeared to be two refurbished vintage Ford Broncos, one baby blue and one black, with the caption "his and hers." Their price is unknown.

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He spends money more freely on real estate.

In May 2011, he bought a 5,000-square-foot home in Palo Alto for $7 million. He's since tricked it out with a "custom-made artificially intelligent assistant."

He later spent an addition $43 million on four homes surrounding the original residence in Crescent Park, The Wall Street Journal previously reported .

He also used to own a townhouse in San Francisco.

Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, reportedly paid $10 million for the 4-bedroom, 4-bathroom home.

But in July 2022, Zuck sold it in an off-market sale for $31 million , making it the biggest residential real estate deal in San Francisco at the time.

Then there's Hawaii.

In 2014, the billionaire's real-estate portfolio jumped the Pacific when he spent $100 million on two properties on the island of Kaua'i : the Kahu'aina Plantation, a 357-acre former sugarcane plantation, and Pila'a Beach, a 393-acre property with a white-sand beach. But there's been local backlash.

In 2016, Zuckerberg angered neighbors by constructing a 6-foot wall around his property, and in 2017, Zuckerberg filed suit against Hawaiian families who had legal-ownership claims on parcels of land within his property. Though he dropped the suit, residents accused him of "neocolonialism."

Still, Zuckerberg has kept adding to his Hawaii properties.

In March 2021, he spent $53 million on nearly 600 acres of land on Kauai and that December, he purchased 110 more acres of land nearby for $17 million .

He's reportedly building a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker at his Hawaii compound, complete with features like an escape hatch and a seemingly "blast-resistant door," Wired previously reported.

When Zuckerberg is in Hawaii, he appears to spend his time unwinding and enjoying some hobbies.

He's been photographed riding a $12,000 hydrofoil in the ocean off Kaua'i and practices shooting arrows and throwing spears on his property .

Zuck's other hobbies include training in MMA and participating in jiu-jitsu tournaments . He's even built an octagon fighting cage in his backyard .

Zuckerberg made another massive real estate purchase in 2018.

He shelled out for two lakefront properties on Lake Tahoe , which cost a combined $59 million. One of the houses, called the Brushwood Estate, spans 5,233 square feet on six acres of land. The property features a guest house and a private dock.

Between his two Lake Tahoe properties, Zuckerberg owns about 600 feet of private shoreline on Lake Tahoe's west shore. When Zuckerberg buys properties, he tends to buy the other homes surrounding it for privacy reasons, just as he did in Palo Alto.

Zuckerberg also has a yacht, called Launchpad.

He was spotted on the Dutch-built, 118-meter megayacht this summer .

With Zuck's recent image overhaul, he's probably spending more on clothing than he was in his same-shirt-everyday era.

Zuckerberg has elevated his look with more stylish (and expensive) shirts, like this $1,150 Balmain tee , not to mention many a gold chain necklace .

Besides cars, real estate, and clothing, Zuckerberg has pledged to give away money by signing onto the Giving Pledge.

He joined Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and over 200 other millionaires and billionaires who have taken the vow to donate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy. He plans to sell 99% of his Facebook shares during his lifetime.

He plans to donate significantly to his and his wife's organization.

Zuckerberg said in September 2017 that he planned to sell 35 to 75 million shares over the following 18 months to fund the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, totaling between $6 billion and $12 billion.

The philanthropic organization, which the couple founded in 2015, aims to "help solve some of society's toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities," according to its website . CZI has awarded more than $6.91 billion in grants over the years.

In 2020, for example, the organization poured $4.2 million into a jobs program for residents of Kaua'i and committed $1 million to help the region battle COVID-19. CZI has also contributed millions to causes like criminal justice reform and affordable housing.

The pair have also donated to research.

Zuckerberg and Chan have poured billions into research focused on curing the world's diseases by the end of the century. In order to accomplish this lofty goal, CZI launched a nonprofit called Biohub to start looking into the cure for diseases, including research on genomics, infectious diseases, and implantable devices.

Zuck told The New Yorker in 2018 that "we'll basically have been able to manage or cure all of the major things that people suffer from and die from today. Based on the data that we already see, it seems like there's a reasonable shot."

Most recently, Zuckerberg revealed he'd commissioned a 7-foot-tall turquoise statue of Chan.

He's "bringing back the Roman tradition of making sculptures of your wife," he wrote on Instagram.

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The Unraveling of a Crypto Dream

Brock Pierce arrived in Puerto Rico seven years ago, promising to use crypto magic to revitalize the local economy. Now he’s mired in legal disputes and fighting with his business partners.

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Reporting from San Juan and Vieques.

Published Aug. 13, 2024 Updated Aug. 14, 2024

On sun-drenched days in 2022, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Brock Pierce liked to take his friends sailing to the island of Vieques, about 75 miles from his home in Puerto Rico. Mr. Pierce wanted to show off a property that he described as “the most important passion in my life”: a once-glamorous beachside resort that he had recently bought for more than $15 million.

In its heyday, the resort, a W Hotel, boasted a 6,000-square-foot spa, restaurants run by a Michelin-starred chef and sweeping views of the ocean; it was a key source of tourism jobs in Vieques. Then, in 2017, the hotel was damaged by Hurricane Maria, forcing it to close. Mr. Pierce planned to reopen it, using his crypto riches to revitalize both the glistening property and the local economy.

A former child actor, Mr. Pierce knew how to put on a show. On the trips to Vieques, he would anchor his Italian-made yacht at a local harbor, then lead his guests to the gates of the shuttered W, along a stretch of beach where wild horses roamed.

“This was my massive personal bet,” Mr. Pierce said recently. “This was where my heart was.”

But Mr. Pierce’s display of opulence was something of an illusion. Like many other grandiose projects that he has started in Puerto Rico, the hotel’s revival is now mired in unpaid bills and legal quarrels. Last fall, Mr. Pierce lost the W in a dispute with another investor. The hotel is still closed, its windows smashed and its floors covered in mold and horse dung. A $17,000 lounge chair , designed by a prominent Spanish architect, is collecting dust in the empty atrium.

The two-story W Hotel in Vieques, with terraces overlooking palm trees and bushes.

When he moved to Puerto Rico in 2017, Mr. Pierce, an investor in a range of experimental crypto ventures, made headline-grabbing promises to revive the local economy, with the help of a tech-bro brain trust. Best known for his role in the creation of Tether , one of the world’s most popular digital currencies, Mr. Pierce led a wave of industry migrants to Puerto Rico, many of whom started buying land and trumpeting a project they called Puertopia — the transformation of the U.S. territory into a hub for crypto investors and technology start-ups.

“If you’re an American, and you’re in crypto, you have to at least take the trip,” Mr. Pierce said in 2019.

Puerto Rico was a convenient place to cash in on crypto profits. In 2012, the local government passed legislation to turn the archipelago into a tax haven for wealthy transplants. Under a law now known as Act 60 , people who move there can apply for a benefit that allows them to pay nothing in capital gains taxes. The measure was aimed at increasing investment in the Puerto Rican economy, which has struggled to overcome two decades of financial crisis.

But Mr. Pierce’s vision of a crypto-fueled economic turnaround has yet to materialize, according to hundreds of pages of court records and interviews with more than two dozen people familiar with his efforts in Puerto Rico. His business partners have turned on him, and some colleagues say he is running out of cash. There is no clear evidence that the arrival of tech entrepreneurs has helped the local economy. Instead, the Act 60 arrivals have become symbols of a new era of exploitation.

Many locals consider Mr. Pierce the latest offender in a centuries-long history of global elites who have treated Puerto Rico as their personal playground. After the United States invaded in the late 1800s, American businessmen took over hundreds of acres of local land to build sugar plantations, funneling profits back to the United States. Decades later, the U.S. Navy conducted training exercises in Vieques, including bomb tests that harmed the ecosystem and caused lingering health issues.

With the arrival of Mr. Pierce and other wealthy newcomers, Puerto Ricans observed a new rupture, as housing prices surged , especially in coastal towns, displacing local families. On a stretch of wall outside the W, a group of local artists has painted a mural that shows Mr. Pierce, dressed in a crimson tunic, holding a sign shaped like the Bitcoin logo. “Colonialismo,” the caption reads.

Chameleonic Instincts

On a recent Friday evening in Old San Juan, Mr. Pierce, 43, settled down for a cup of coffee at the Monastery, a masonic lodge-turned-hotel that has served as an unofficial home base for crypto migrants in Puerto Rico. He wore a wide-brimmed orange hat and an oversize white T-shirt, emblazoned with the words “bruised never broken.” With a sweeping gesture, he pointed out the window, which overlooks a bustling cobblestone thoroughfare called Calle del Cristo, one of the oldest streets in the city.

“This is some of the first colonial Spanish conquistador infrastructure that was developed,” he explained. “The first formal road with bricks in all of the Western Hemisphere.”

Now the view belongs to Mr. Pierce: He bought the Monastery in 2018 for $4.8 million.

Mr. Pierce arrived in Puerto Rico with an eclectic résumé: The son of a home builder and a church officer in Minnesota, he was a child actor who had a short-lived career in the “Mighty Ducks” movies and starred in a film called “First Kid” with the comedian Sinbad. As an adult, he became an early investor in several prominent crypto projects, ultimately achieving a net worth estimated at $700 million to $1 billion.

After Act 60 passed, arrivals from the United States became a visible presence in restaurants and nightclubs throughout Puerto Rico. Mr. Pierce, a regular at Burning Man, was easily one of the most recognizable. He could often be spotted walking the streets of Old San Juan — a short, energetic man in a T-shirt and leather vest, a chain dangling from his neck.

Mr. Pierce bought two houses in a gated community in Dorado, a wealthy enclave where he settled with his partner, an entrepreneur named Crystal Rose, and his mother, Lynette Calabro. Mr. Pierce hobnobbed with local politicians and hosted extravagant parties, where the guests sometimes took drugs, like cocaine and ketamine, according to two people who attended the events.

For a while, Mr. Pierce managed to charm some of the locals with his openness and curiosity. He had the chameleonic instincts of a skilled actor, adjusting his behavior to suit the audience. “If it was serious people, he’d act seriously,” said Hugo de la Uz, a local maritime expert who helped manage Mr. Pierce’s yacht. “If it was crazy people, he’d act crazy.”

Mr. Pierce expressed interest in nearly every world religion, cultivating a kind of hippie spirituality. Once, on an excursion with some fellow Act 60 migrants, he nestled in the bosom of a Ceiba tree, a species revered by some Puerto Ricans. “I feel connected to him, because he has a spiritual depth,” said Carli Muñoz, a Puerto Rican pianist who has socialized with Mr. Pierce in San Juan.

But the good vibes only went so far. “I’ve made myself sure not to go into business with him,” Mr. Muñoz said.

Since he moved to Puerto Rico, Mr. Pierce has bought at least 14 properties, according to real estate records. Some, like the Monastery, were already functioning businesses. But Mr. Pierce also announced plans to convert much of his portfolio into new projects, including an art gallery and a community center. None of those ventures has come to fruition. A hospital in the city of Humacao that he bought late last year has struggled, and the gallery was recently listed for sale. In 2019, Mr. Pierce took over a three-story building that once housed a children’s museum in Old San Juan; for a while, he told the local media, he used it as “a space to meet and discuss big ideas.” Today, the building is empty, paint peeling from its walls.

“It’s so sad,” said Robert Cimino, a Puerto Rican businessman who owned the building for 19 years before he sold it to Mr. Pierce for $2 million. “I wanted to sell it to someone who could maintain it.”

Over and over, Mr. Pierce has found local Puerto Ricans to help him with development projects — only for many of those collaborators to later say that he exploited them, failing to pay bills or cutting them out of deals. At the same time, he has battled in court with another Act 60 arrival, Joseph Lipsey III, who seized control of the W last year, claiming that Mr. Pierce had defaulted on a loan.

Mr. Pierce has denied that he deceived anyone. But at least three lawsuits against him are pending in the local courts. Over coffee at the Monastery, he acknowledged that his own poor judgment and naïveté had upended his plans in Puerto Rico. “I trust in people,” he said. “That’s one of the things that have gotten me into a little bit of trouble.”

Booed at a Beauty Pageant

Mr. Pierce likes to present himself as a kind of geopolitical mover and shaker. In 2020, he ran for U.S. president as an independent, collecting a little under 50,000 votes. He boasts of “engagements” in El Salvador and Panama, and one evening in June, his assistant announced that Mr. Pierce was joining a Zoom call with the president of Palau, a tiny archipelago in the western Pacific.

“I spend a lot of time with pretty much all of the world’s religious leaders,” Mr. Pierce said at the Monastery. “And a lot of the world’s nation state leaders.”

But Mr. Pierce’s main focus is Puerto Rico, where he has become a leading spokesman for Act 60. After he moved, he told Rolling Stone that he would rebuild the economy “with money that we saved from the I.R.S. in a Robin Hood fashion.” The publicity helped turn Puerto Rico into a popular destination for the crypto set: These days, about 2,600 people receive the Act 60 tax break, according to government figures.

The local backlash against Mr. Pierce started almost as soon as he arrived. “Gringo go home,” someone wrote in red paint on the side of the Children’s Museum. But behind the scenes, Mr. Pierce was expanding his real estate empire. He recruited a prominent local hotel developer, Gonzalo Gracia, to help him find buildings in Puerto Rico that he could rehabilitate and convert into tourist attractions.

Soon Mr. Pierce’s business dealings began to deteriorate into legal disputes with local partners. In 2021, he struck a deal to help produce the Miss World beauty pageant at a concert venue in San Juan. By then, Mr. Pierce was already considered something of a carpetbagger in Puerto Rico: When he was introduced as one of the judges, the crowd booed him. Later, he sued Stephanie del Valle, a Puerto Rican pageant executive and former Miss World, claiming she owed him $1.2 million. Ms. Del Valle countered with her own suit, accusing Mr. Pierce of defamation and seeking $31 million in damages. (The dispute is pending in local court. Mr. Pierce said he was “committed to resolving this matter fairly.”)

Ms. Del Valle was one of the first in a string of Puerto Ricans who have clashed with Mr. Pierce, saying he cheated or manipulated them, according to lawsuits and interviews. Around the same time as the pageant, Mr. Pierce bought an 80 percent stake in the W. The deal was among his largest investments in Puerto Rico, and it paved the way for him to seek more than $30 million in tax credits from the local government.

Mr. Gracia helped set up the acquisition. He represented Mr. Pierce in meetings with local officials in Vieques and found an architect to make plans for the hotel’s reopening, court records show.

But the partnership was short-lived: Once the deal was finalized, Mr. Pierce cut him out of the project, Mr. Gracia claimed in a lawsuit in 2022, and refused to pay him a $790,000 commission.

A similar pattern unfolded on another project in Vieques. In 2021, Mr. Pierce asked a local naval engineer to help him open a hotel-cum-museum on a boat docked on the island’s northern coast. The engineer, who requested anonymity to avoid business repercussions, arranged meetings with local administrators and discussed the project with the mayor, before Mr. Pierce abruptly abandoned the plan. In an interview, he said that Mr. Pierce still owed him $17,000 for the work. (Mr. Pierce said he had no record of that debt.)

By last year, there were signs Mr. Pierce was stretched thin. He had asked Mr. De la Uz to make repairs to the Aurora, the yacht he used to ferry friends back and forth from the W. Most of the guests were “Americans that he was trying to convince to give him money,” Mr. De la Uz recalled. “Portraying himself as Puerto Rico’s savior.”

In a 2023 lawsuit, Mr. De la Uz claimed that he and Mr. Pierce co-owned the yacht, and that Mr. Pierce missed repair payments, even when one of the boat’s engines “could shut down at any time for no reason.” While guests partied on the deck, Mr. De la Uz said, the yacht was collecting water and slowly sinking into the Caribbean Sea.

Mr. Pierce declined to comment on the allegations, saying, “We are actively working through these issues in court to reach a fair resolution.”

‘I Did Zero Due Diligence’

When Mr. Pierce went out on the Aurora, he sometimes brought along a newcomer to the Act 60 community — Mr. Lipsey, a 62-year-old logistics mogul. For a while, Mr. Pierce knew Mr. Lipsey just by his nickname, Jopepi. Mr. Pierce found him socially awkward but likable enough. A local rabbi had vouched for him. “I was led to believe this was a very charitable man,” Mr. Pierce said.

Mr. Pierce knew only the vague outlines of how Mr. Lipsey had ended up in Puerto Rico. In 2017, Mr. Lipsey had made a fortune from disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Maria, transporting bottled water via a contract with the U.S. government. But two years later, a legal scandal upended his family’s upper-crust life in Aspen, Colo. A wild New Year’s party at Mr. Lipsey’s house led to a police investigation; he and his wife ultimately pleaded guilty to providing alcohol to minors and were sentenced to a year of probation .

The Lipseys sold their house in Aspen and eventually moved to Puerto Rico, settling near Mr. Pierce in Dorado. Soon the families grew close. Mr. Lipsey’s wife became friends with Mr. Pierce’s mother. After Ms. Calabro died of a heart attack in 2022, Mr. Pierce recalled, Mr. Lipsey said that he had made a promise to her: He would always be there for her family.

Mr. Pierce and Mr. Lipsey collaborated on various business ventures, but their most consequential deal involved the W. Last October, Mr. Lipsey agreed to lend Mr. Pierce $10 million — $4 million to buy the remaining 20 percent of the hotel and $6 million for a separate deal to invest in a chain of bankrupt hospitals. The terms were risky for Mr. Pierce: He was supposed to complete the hotel deal within two weeks. As collateral, he had to post his entire stake in the W. Mr. Pierce said that he was uncomfortable with the requirements, but that he agreed anyway. “I did zero due diligence,” he recalled.

The month after the deal was signed, Mr. Lipsey accused Mr. Pierce of violating their agreement and seized control of the hotel. Rather than use the borrowed funds as intended, Mr. Lipsey later claimed in legal papers, Mr. Pierce had spent the money on private jet flights and a 72-hour-long birthday party that spanned San Juan, Miami and Los Angeles. (The event was titled “Brock Pierce’s Odyssey Birthday Celebration: Three Mythical Events,” according to court documents.)

As the dispute escalated, Mr. Pierce summoned Mr. Lipsey for a meeting at the Hacienda Tamarindo, a small hotel in Vieques that Mr. Pierce had bought for $3.2 million. Mr. Lipsey later told the Puerto Rican police that the meeting amounted to a kidnapping. Mr. Pierce had asked for his phone and locked the door, he said, while an armed guard hovered nearby.

In court, Mr. Pierce has denied misusing the borrowed money or kidnapping Mr. Lipsey. But when the W dispute began, he wasn’t in a healthy frame of mind, said one of his advisers, Cassandra Wesselman, who recently moved to Puerto Rico. Ms. Wesselman said it was she who had suggested bringing the armed guard to the Hacienda Tamarindo — to protect Mr. Pierce from a couple who were staying in another room. They belonged to a cult, she explained, and she believed that they had been exercising a malign influence over Mr. Pierce. (In response, Mr. Pierce called that account of his actions “misleading.”)

A month after the disputed meeting, Mr. Pierce sued Mr. Lipsey, seeking to reclaim control of the W and accusing him of “malevolent acts” and “insidious machinations,” including fraud, extortion, deception and theft.

A judge rejected Mr. Pierce’s request for an injunction, which would have restored his ownership of the W as the case proceeds. The parties have stayed in touch, discussing possible settlements. But the friendship between the two men is over.

Mr. Lipsey had not spoken publicly about the dispute until July, when he discussed it for two hours with a reporter from The New York Times over a WhatsApp call. A cigarette dangling from his mouth, Mr. Lipsey gave a virtual tour of his house in Tennessee, where he spends part of the year, switching on his camera to show off an unusual collection of artwork. On one wall hung a canvas with two splotches of red paint. It was the work of his son’s girlfriend, Mr. Lipsey explained; the splotches were imprints of her breasts.

Mr. Lipsey called Mr. Pierce “not a good guy” — a terrible businessman who was constantly running out of money. “All the stuff he moved to Puerto Rico for and he’s talking about, he’s not doing,” Mr. Lipsey declared.

He has said about as much to Mr. Pierce’s face — and worse. During one heated conversation, Mr. Lipsey said, he called Mr. Pierce “a real disappointment to your mother.”

A Blithe Confidence

One morning in June, Mr. Pierce went on a stroll through Old San Juan, winding his way along the narrow sidewalks as he pointed out his favorite spots. Despite the summer heat, he had dressed all in black — part of a simple color scheme he follows every day, so time-consuming wardrobe decisions are one less distraction to worry about. “Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs, these guys wore the same outfit every day,” Mr. Pierce explained.

He stopped outside Carli’s, an upscale jazz bar run by Mr. Muñoz, the Puerto Rican pianist. Mr. Muñoz once dedicated a song to him and Ms. Rose, Mr. Pierce said. He smiled at the thought.

“It’s called ‘Superheroes,’” Mr. Pierce said. (The song’s actual title is “Superpower.”)

Even after all the setbacks, Mr. Pierce expresses a blithe confidence that he can be a force for progress in Puerto Rico. But his self-assurance belies a persistent messiness in his business affairs. Among his friends, Mr. Pierce’s clash with Mr. Lipsey is the subject of vigorous armchair speculation. Robert Anderson, a crypto enthusiast who lives in Puerto Rico and is friendly with both men, said they have behaved “like children,” acting out because they’re bored. “They need some stimulation,” he said. “They want to feel something.”

Friends and colleagues say that Mr. Pierce appears to be running out of cash. In court, Mr. Lipsey’s lawyers have argued that Mr. Pierce lacked “the capital or resources” to develop the W. This summer, a representative for a Puerto Rican basketball team, Mets de Guaynabo, sent Mr. Pierce emails complaining that he had failed to pay more than $25,000 he owed the team as a part of a sponsorship deal, according to documents reviewed by The Times.

Mr. Pierce has also voiced concerns about his safety in Puerto Rico. Privately, he has discussed a plan to build a munitions repository in Vieques — a store of weapons that he said would offer a measure of protection if the locals ever rose up against him, according to two people who heard the comments.

In a 17-page statement to The Times, Mr. Pierce denied that he proposed creating the weapons repository, and said he remains wealthy, disputing the claims that he is financially strapped. He said that the complaint from Mets de Guaynabo was a “misunderstanding,” stemming from confusion over the terms of the sponsorship, and that he has now agreed to pay the fee. (The team representative declined to comment.)

Still, as The Times was finishing its reporting, a publicist for Mr. Pierce mistakenly sent a message to a group chat that included a Times reporter and Ms. Wesselman, Mr. Pierce’s adviser: “We still have not gotten paid,” the text said. “I assume your [sic] not paying us or you would have done it already.” Ms. Wesselman laughed off the message, saying that the publicist was “totally messing with us.” After he learned that a reporter had seen the text thread, the publicist said Mr. Pierce “always pays his bills.”

In his statement, Mr. Pierce defended his work in Puerto Rico. He said he had made charitable contributions, including a six-figure donation to support Covid relief efforts in the region. “Transformative projects take time,” Mr. Pierce said. “While some initiatives have faced challenges, others have seen significant success.”

Among his achievements, Mr. Pierce cited a hospital in the city of Humacao that he bought in late 2023 — the investment he had pitched to Mr. Lipsey. He said he had worked with a Puerto Rican radiologist, Josué Vázquez Delgado, to drag the hospital out of bankruptcy, retaining more than 90 percent of the staff.

But in an interview, a doctor at the hospital, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid discipline, said Mr. Pierce owed him tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages. The hospital has been late paying suppliers, the doctor said, and some of the surgeons are short on equipment. (Mr. Pierce said his team has addressed those problems and “dramatically improved the hospital’s operations.”)

On his walk in San Juan last month, Mr. Pierce sought to offer a visual demonstration of his success in Puerto Rico. He led two Times reporters to a building he had bought in 2019, a sparsely furnished space dotted with TV screens. The property, he declared, housed the world’s first art gallery dedicated to nonfungible tokens, the digital artwork known as NFTs. “You normally wouldn’t think that Puerto Rico would be the first place in the world to be pioneering in tech,” he said. The images on display included a fluorescent dinosaur, perched amid a forest of giant cactuses, that Mr. Pierce said his 5-year-old daughter had designed using an artificial intelligence tool.

But what he failed to mention was that a luxury real estate firm had put up a notice listing the building for sale and had held an open house . Confronted with that fact, Mr. Pierce acknowledged that he had recently tried to sell the gallery.

It was never fully opened, he explained, and has struggled to make money.

Kitty Bennett contributed research.

David Yaffe-Bellany writes about the crypto industry from San Francisco. He can be reached at [email protected]. More about David Yaffe-Bellany

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Welcome to the land of sheer silent whiteness. Its vast expanses are filled with fresh Arctic air, howling winds, and the spirit of true adventure. Come with us to the lands of the ancient Khanty and Mansi tribes that survived in this harsh climate of the Nether-Polar Urals . See the mountains that defy any logical or geological reason for their existence. Experience the wonders of this sparsely populated land where you can hardly see a human trace. Welcome to Yugra!

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The Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area – Yugra (KhMAO) is located in the central part of the West Siberian Plain, stretching from west to east from the Ural Range to the Ob-Yenisei Watershed. The vast areas of this plain, as well as the Lower Priob region, are considered one of the most recently inhabited areas.

The Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area (KhMAO) was established in 1930. Its name comes from two main northern indigenous peoples – the Khanty and the Mansi. From 1944 it was legally part of the Tyumen Region , but in 1993 the Area received autonomy and became a full-fledged territorial entity of the Russian Federation. It is a part of the Urals Federal District. The administrative centre is the city of Khanty-Mansiysk , whereas the largest city is Surgut. The word Yugra was introduced to the name of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area in 2003 to pay tribute to the old name used by the locals to call the territories lying beyond the North Urals.

The KhMAO borders the Komi Republic in the north-west, the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District in the north, the Krasnoyarsk Area and the Tomsk Region in the east and south-east, the Tyumen Region in the south and the Sverdlovsk Region in the south-west.

The area of the territory is 534,801 sq.km, the length from north to south is 800 km, from west to east is 1400 km. The population of this huge territory is 1,674,676 people as of 2020, which is the same amount as people living in Barcelona or Munich.

The main part of the territory is a huge, poorly dissected plain where absolute elevation marks rarely exceed 200 meters above sea level. The western part of the KhMAO territory is characterized by low and middle mountainous terrains with some Alpine relief featured in the Subpolar Urals. Here are ridges and spurs of the mountain system of the North Urals and the Subpolar Urals. The maximum absolute elevations are on the border with the Komi Republic . Mount Narodnaya (1,895m) is the highest peak.

More than 800 species of higher plants grow in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area . Almost the entire territory is covered by taiga forests that occupy about 52% of the area. Spruce, fir, pine, cedar, larch, birch, alder grow here. In the northern parts of the area, the composition of the vegetation is greatly influenced by perennial permafrost. Light lichen grasslands which are used as deer pastures are widespread there. Tundra dominates in the mountainous and hilly areas. River floodplains and lowlands are characterized by meadow vegetation, the so-called water meadows. High floodplains of large rivers are mainly covered with woods that mainly feature willows, birches and aspens. Forests and swamps are rich in berries and various valuable plants, most of which are used in traditional indigenous medicine.

The animal world is typical for the Russian taiga zone. There are 369 species of vertebrates. Mammals are represented by 60 species (28 of them are commercial species). The most common and valuable of them are wild reindeer, elk, fox, sable, fox, squirrel, marten, ermine, Siberian weasel, polecat, mink, weasel, otter, hare and others. Wolverine and West Siberian river beaver are included in the Red Book of Russia.

There are 256 bird species in the region, including 206 sedentary and nesting species. Some rare bird species are listed in the Red Book. There are 42 species of fish in rivers and lakes. Of these, 19 species are commercial, among them are starlet sturgeon, lelema, muksun (whitefish), pelyad, chir, lake herring, wader, tugun, freshwater cod, pike, ide, roach, bream, fir, perch, ruff, golden and silver crucian carp, carp (carp is grown in the cooling ponds of the Surgutskaya and Nizhnevartovskaya hydroelectric plants). Sturgeon is listed in the Red Book. There is an abundance of mosquitoes and gnats in the area, the greatest activity of which is in the second half of summer.

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Reindeer

Yugra can boast of over 2 thousand large and small rivers, the total length of which is 172,000 km. The main rivers are the Ob (3,650 km), the Irtysh (3,580 km). These are some of the largest rivers in Russia. Other significant rivers include the tributaries of the Ob (the Vakh, Agan, Tromyogan, Bolshoy Yugan, Lyamin, Pim, Bolshoy Salym, Nazym, Severnaya Sosva, Kazym rivers), the tributary of the Irtysh (the Konda River) and the Sogom River. Ten rivers are over 500 km long. All the Yugra rivers with the exception of the rivers in the Ural part of the region are characterized by rather slow currents, gentle slopes, some surge wave phenomena, spring and summer floods. The Ob River basin extends over a distance of 700-200 km from the mouths of its tributaries. Such abundance of water facilitates the appearance of floodplain swamps and seasonal lakes.

The region's swamps are predominantly of the upper and transitional type. Those water basins occupy about a third of the region. About 290,000 lakes with the area of more than 1 ha are surrounded by swamps and forests. The largest lakes are Tursuntsky Tuman, Levushinsky Tuman, Vandemtor and Trmemtor. The deepest lakes are Kintus (48 m) and Syrky Sor (42 m). However, most of the lakes (about 90%) are modest and quite small and have no surface runoff.

The area is rich in resources of fresh, mineral and thermal underground waters, which are still insignificantly used.

The climate is moderately continental. Winters are harsh, snowy and long, and summers are short and relatively warm. The territory is protected from the west by the Ural Mountains but its openness from the north has a significant impact on the climate formation because cold air masses from the Arctic freely penetrate the area. The flat character of the terrain with a large number of rivers, lakes and swamps also has its impact. Most of the precipitation falls during the warm seasons. But even with a small amount of precipitation, their evaporation is very low, which as a result contributes to the formation of the zone of excessive moisture throughout the Yugra. The snow cover is stable from late October to early May, its height varies from 50 to 80 cm. The region is characterized by a rapid change of weather conditions, especially in transitional seasons (autumn and spring), as well as during the day. Late spring and early autumn frosts are rather frequent and can happen even until mid-June. Average January temperatures range from -18ºC to -24ºC (0 F to -11 F) and can reach -60ºC to -62ºC (-76 F to -80 F) when the northern cold air masses break through. The average temperature in July, the warmest month of the year, ranges from +15ºC to +20ºC (+59 F to +68 F) and on very rare days can reach a maximum temperature of +36ºC (+97 F). The prevailing wind direction is north in summer and south in winter.

The weather in the mountains is quite changeable and cool even in summer. The best time to visit the region's mountains is between July and mid-August.

The Yugra of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area has a huge natural resource potential. These are oil and gas deposits, forests, gold and iron ore deposits, as well as bauxites, copper, zinc, lead, niobium, tantalum, brown and hard coal deposits, rock crystal, quartz and piezo quartz, peat deposits, etc. The region has plenty of natural resources. In terms of natural gas reserves, the Yugra ranks second in the Russian Federation after the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District .

The industry is dominated by oil and gas production, power generation and processing industries, including woodworking except for pulp and paper production.

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Pump-rocking

The Khanty-Mansi area has very developed tourism of all kinds. There is a modern infrastructure for cultural exploration as well as for active recreation.

Fans of sports and eco-friendly tourism will be able to conquer majestic mountains and raft down picturesque rivers, enjoy the beauty of nature in nature reserves and natural parks. The hills and mountains of this area open up endless opportunities for skiing and snowboarding.

The mountainous part of the Subpolar Urals located on the territory of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area is very beautiful. The highest peaks of the Ural Mountains are situated here.

Being the highest point of the whole Urals, Mount Narodnaya (1,895 m), also known as Naroda and Poenurr and translated as People's Mountain is territorially situated in the Subpolar Urals, on the border of the Yugra Area and the Komi Republic . It is the highest point in European Russia outside the Caucasus. This leads to its large topographic prominence of 1,772 metres (5,814 ft).

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Mount Narodnaya

The top of the mountain is half a kilometre from the border towards Yugra. As for the name of the mountain, scientists could not come to a common opinion for a long time, so there are two versions. According to one version, in the Soviet years, an expedition of pioneers gave the mountain a name in honour of the Soviet people - Narodnaya (the stress is on the second syllable). According to the other version, even before the arrival of the first Soviet tourists, the peak was named after the River Naroda (the stress is on the first syllable) flowing at the foot of the mountain. The Nenets peoples called the River Naroda Naro, which means a thicket or a dense forest, and the Mansi peoples called it Poengurr or Poen-urr, which translates as the top, or head. The maps used to refer to it as Mount Naroda or Mount Naroda-Iz. Nowadays, it appears everywhere as Narodnaya.

In the 1980s, someone set a bust of Lenin on the top of the mountain. Its remains can be found there to this day. There is one more symbolic relic there – some Orthodox believers erected a worship cross on top of Mount Narodnaya after a Procession of the Cross.

The slopes of the mountain are steeper in the north-east and south-west and there are many steep rocks on them. The south-eastern and northern parts of the mountain are more gentle but they are also covered with scree. Be vigilant and careful when climbing! On the slopes of the mountain, there are many not only boulders but also caverns filled with clear water as well as ice. There are glaciers and snowfields. From the north-eastern part of the mountain, you can observe Lake Blue near which tourists and travellers like to make bivouacs.

Mesmerizing with its beauty and inaccessibility, it attracts many tourists and fans of active recreation. This majestic mountain is quite remote from the settlements, so getting to it is not an easy task. The mountain is located in the Yugyd Va National Park , so it is necessary to register in advance and get a visit permit from the park administration. How to get to the park administration and get a permit, read the article on the Yugyd Va National Park .

Mountain Zaschita (1,808 m) is the second-highest peak in the Ural Mountains, after Mount Narodnaya . Mysteriously, the name of the mountain, which roughly translates as Defense or Protection Mount, does not correlate in any way with the Mansi names of the nearby mountains and rivers. The origin of the name is unknown. There are some speculations but we will consider just one of them. On the map of the Northern Urals which was made by the Hungarian researcher Reguli the closest peak to Mount Narodnaya was called gnetying olu. Its location coincides with that of the present-day Mount Zaschita . The name gnetying olu in the Mansi can be deciphered as a mountain on which there is some help from ice. The mountain is believed to protect deer grazing on glaciers from mosquitoes. So, early topographers called the mountain more briefly – Mount Defense. Indeed, the slopes of this mountain are covered with a lot of snow and glaciers (the Yugra, Naroda, Kosyu, Hobyu glaciers and others). And it is here that the Mansi shepherds bring their deer which can rest on glaciers and snow. Summarizing all the above, we can say that Zaschita Mount is to some extent protection for deer from mosquitoes. The very name Zaschita appeared on maps with the beginning of hiking tours in the Subpolar Urals.

Mount Neroyka (1,645 m) is 100 km from Neroyka village, the closest tourist base to this peak. In the 1950s, people who were engaged in quartz mining near the mountain worked and lived in this base. Later, a gravel road was built from the village of Saranpaul to the mountain for large-scale development of the quartz deposit. In recent years, the road has not been much used and is practically not cleaned from snow in winter. There has been a plant built 20 km down from the mountain for primary processing of quartz with the use of nanotechnologies. There is an annual big camping event near the mountain. It is organized by the Tourism Department of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. You can have a 1-hour helicopter ride to the mountain from the village of Saranpaul. Should you wish to fly from the city of Khanty-Mansiysk , be prepared to fly over the taiga for 2.5-3 hours.

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Mount Neroyka

Quite inquisitive tourists happened to discover, by a lucky chance, a Pyramid similar to that of Cheops but four times bigger. It is located on the territory of the Narodo-Ityinsky Ridge. The closest to the pyramid is the village of Saranpaul. The sizes of the found pyramid are as follows: the height is 774 m, in comparison to the Egyptian pyramid which is 147 m; the length of a lateral edge is 230 m whereas the Egyptian pyramid is 1 km. The pyramid is located precisely according to the cardinal directions, there is not a single degree deviation at that. The origin of the pyramid is unknown, scientists are still making assumptions. No traces of human activity were found near the pyramid. The only way to get here at this time is by helicopter.

Samarovskaya Mountain is another wonder that is baffling many people. It is dividing the city of Khanty-Mansiysk into northern and southern parts. Few now living residents know that in the old days the highest part of the modern city used to bear a plural name of the Samarovsky Mountains among which there were Mount Palenina, Komissarskaya, Miroslavskaya, Filinova, and Romanova. Originally, there was a village called Samarovo amidst these mountains. Until now, many issues bewilder both residents and scientists. How could a mountain form in the middle of the West Siberian Plain? What is inside it? Won't the weight of the buildings erected on the top of the mountain affect its height? The uniqueness of Samarovskaya Mountain is that it consists of numerous large stones, boulders, rocks that are absolutely foreign to this area. Scientists have not yet come to a consensus on the mountain’s origin.

The Yugra is very famous for its ski resorts, the main of which are:

The Cedar Ravine ski resort (Surgut city, Naberezhny Ave. 39/1)
Three Mountains (Trekhgorie) ski resort (30 km from Nizhnevartovsk, Ermakovsky settlement)
Stone Cape (Kamenniy Mys) ski resort (near the city of Surgut)
Pine Urman ski resort ( Khanty-Mansiysk , Sportivnaya Str., 24)

The far-away lands of the Yugra are the blessed sanctuaries for many animals as the area is rather hostile to a human There are reserves, natural parks, wildlife sanctuaries here that aim to protect the national treasures of the lands. Having visited these regions once, you would crave for coming back again and again to feel that unique sense of unity with nature, to forget about the urban fuss and and hustles whatsoever. The harsh but beautiful nature of this extraordinary area leaves an indelible trace in the soul of every person.

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Samarovsky outlier. Archeopark

On the territory of the district there are 25 specially protected natural areas, the most famous of them are:

The reserves are two: the Malaya Sosva Reserve and the Yugan Reserve, the latter was established in 1982 as the largest reserve of taiga landscapes. The purpose of the reserves was to study unobtrusively and carefully preserve the endemic flora and fauna without disturbing natural processes. Hunting and economic activities are prohibited here, which is important for the preservation of natural ecosystems.
The natural parks are the Samarovsky Chugas Nature Park, the Siberian Sloping Hills (Uvaly), the Numto (also called Lake Numto), and the Kondinskie Lakes.

These reserves and natural parks offer tourists their own excursion programs to make visiting their territory much more enjoyable and educational.

The Samarovsky Chugas Nature Park is located in the center of Khanty-Mansiysk , on a small hill between the Ob and Irtysh rivers.

The territory of the Siberian Sloping Hills (Uvaly) natural park is 350 km away from the city of Khanty-Mansiysk . You can get there by helicopter or by plane. The office of the park is located at 7a Pionerskaya Street, Nizhnevartovsk.

The Kondinskie Lakes Natural Park is located 380 km from Khanty-Mansiysk . Half of the park is covered with swamps, but there is also a recreational area. There you can rest, swim, do some amateur fishing, picking berries (cowberries, cranberries) and mushrooms is permitted. There is only one independent walking route here, it runs for 3 km in the deep forest. It is a cool place for kids since the park is equipped with sports grounds, a pool and a small zoo where the kids can interact with brown bear cubs. What else, try the TaiPark, it is a rope course running at the height of 2.5 meters, having 15 stages, the full length is 125 meters. There is an opportunity to order water walking tours in the town of Sovetsky, which can be reached by train from Khanty-Mansiysk .

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Kondinskie Lakes

The Numto Nature Park is located almost in the center of the West Siberian Plain, in the Beloyarsk district of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, 300 km from the city of Surgut and 200 km from the town of Beloyarsk. It is located on the border of Yugra and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area. The administration of the park is located at 2, Beloyarsky micro-district, 4a. The territory of the natural park is a treasure trove of archaeological and ethnocultural monuments. As of today, there have been discovered 20 architectural monuments, including fortified and not fortified settlements, places of worship abandoned by the peoples who lived here from the Stone Age to almost the present day. Researchers have also found 65 monuments of ethnic value, the main of which are worship objects, sacred places and cemeteries.

The Malaya Sosva Reserve includes several subordinated territories and sanctuaries, including Lake Ranghe-Tour. The reserve offers a 4-km walking guided route that gets the visitors introduced to the typical features and characteristics of flora and fauna of the region. The route is called Bear Trail and you can spot bears there (don’t come close though, we’ve already written how to behave if you meet a bear in the wild). Also, you will see the River Malaya Sosva, some marshes, ancient cultural monuments and other nice sights. Permission to visit the reserve can be obtained from the administration of the reserve at Lenina Str. 46, town Sovetskiy.

As to the Yugan Nature Reserve , it is inaccessible to common hikers who are afraid of flying since there are no roads to it. The only way to get there is taking a helicopter ride. You also must obtain a permit in the administration of the reserve, go accompanied by employees of the reserve, and only on special transport of the reserve (motorboat, snowmobile). The central manor of the Reserve and the administration are located in the village of Ugut. To get to this village, you should first go to the town of Surgut, then go to the town of Pyt-Yakh, and from it there is a road to the village of Ugut. It is about 100 km from Ugut to the southern border of the reserve i, and another 25 km to the nearest cordon. The administration works from Monday to Friday. You can request a permit via mail at [email protected] , order a guided tour at [email protected]

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Yugan Nature Reserve

The Yugra lands are heaven for water sports aficionados. They can have some awesome fishing or go rafting along such rivers as: the river Naroda, the Deep Sabun, etc.

The Naroda River is 140 km long. It is the left tributary of the Manya River located in the Ob River basin. The river has its origin on the south-western slope of Mount Narodnaya . It is a mountain-taiga river with rapids, swifts, numerous rolls, which attracts interest among water tourists. However, it is usually not rafted very often.

The Deep Sabun River flows through the territory of the Siberian Sloping Hills Nature Park. The park has developed multi-day water routes. It is possible to raft along the river in summer and to go skiing along it in winter.

The Kondinskie Lakes are a system of lakes along the left bank of the Konda River. The largest lake is the Arantur, with pine forests on the northern side and sandy beaches well equipped for a nice relaxing me-time. The water heats up well in summer. The small river Okunevaya and the river Maly Akh flow into the lake. The Maly Akh comes in on the west side and connects lake Arantur with Lake Pon-Tour. This lake is the richest in fish, and there is also a parking lot for fishermen here. The streams connect Pon-Tour with small lakes Krugloe and Lopukhovoye. When you look at Lopukhovoe lake, you feel as if you have found yourself in a fabulous place: more than half of its surface is covered with white lilies, as well as yellow flowers of the water-beans. Then the river Big Akh, which flows into the river Konda, connects all the lakes into a single system. Along the river there are many archeological monuments such as forts and settlements which have paths to them. The southernmost lake of the park is Ranghe-Tour.

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area. Rivers and Lakes

Yugra is not the easiest destination and not the most accessible, but the effort is well worth it. You should first get to the capital of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Area – the city of Khanty-Mansiysk either by air or by train.

Khanty-Mansiysk is based on the premises of the former village Samarovo founded in 1582. It used to be the territory of the Khanty people and a pit stop for coachmen who rode their wagons across the country. The village was founded by Russian Count Samara, thus the name Samarovo. The modern city actually began to develop in 1930 because amidst the Siberian taiga there finally started to appear stone houses on the high bank of the Irtysh River. In 1940, the village was renamed into Khanty-Mansiysk by the name of the peoples living on this territory – the Khanty and the Mansi, and in 1950 it received the status of a town.

The city has several attractions. Mount Samarovskaya is probably the biggest natural and scientific wonder. It divides the city in two parts and causes many concerns for urban developers who always wonder whether this mountain can move making the buildings slide or even sink in.

Another beauty is the century-old cedar grove that is within the city limits. The grove is a part of the natural park Samarovsky Chugas. The word chugas in the language of the Khanty means a lonely hill in the low river floodplain.

The park is one of the main attractions of the city, it hosts an open-air ethnographic museum called the Torum Maa, a cultural and tourist complex called Archaeopark, a biathlon center. Kids and adults, nature lovers and fans of culture love this place dearly.

A memorial sign to Yugra's discoverers is installed on top of the Samarovsky Chugas. It is a tall stele pyramid divided into three portions. On the lower level, there is a restaurant, on the second level is a small museum, and on the third level there is an observation deck, 40 m above the ground, with a magnificent view of the Irtysh River and the river port. The pyramid is decorated by the bas-relief depicting the discoverers of the region, from the 16th-century Count Samara to the geologists of the 20th century.

Another trademark of Khanty-Mansiysk is the State Museum of Nature and Man. The museum hosts a gallery and a workshop of a famous artist G. Rayshev.

The city has a lot of small monuments generously spread around the city. There is the Khanty family resting on a camp, this monument is near the airport building. You can take a pic at the Golden Tambourine located at the intersection of Gagarin Street and Mira Street. Connoisseurs of culture should also visit the Sun – the Theatre of Ob-Ugrian Peoples, it is the world's first professional theatre of Khanty and Mansi peoples. And if you are travelling with kids, the Khanty-Mansiysk Puppet Theatre is a must-visit. In the period from May to October, you can take a boat ride to the confluence of two rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Yugra Service Co. operates such cruises, you can find more information locally at their address Tobolsk Trakt street 4, Khanty-Mansiysk .

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“I have been to Yugra many times. I was sworn in as a Siberian in a cedar forest,” producer Andrey Suleikov writes in the preface to a collection of legends called Yugra. It’s My Land . “I tasted lingonberries in the cold and could not tell whether the berries were coated in sugar or ice. I also enjoyed outdoor hot springs while taking a traditional Siberian bath."

Fuel pumping stations

Sounds more like time travel than a present-day tourist trip, doesn’t it? But that is what Yugra is like: a fusion between prehistoric things like mammoths and modernity, which has brought oil, gas and new buildings. Even the region’s official name (which is quite long: the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area – Yugra) combines the present with the past.

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There is a beautiful legend about Yugra’s origins. In one very bright, warm and sunny city, twins of unprecedented beauty were born: a brother named Yug and a sister named Ra. At first, they grew up like ordinary small children, but with age they began to argue and fight, so much so that when they did flames flared up around them. The townspeople were afraid that they would burn everything down, so they exiled Yug and Ra to a remote northern land covered with ice and snow. The brother and sister illuminated this land with their light and made it warm so that people could come here to live. Yug and Ra stopped fighting and began living together in harmony. Since then, this northern land has been called Yugra.

When you look at the map, it may seem that Khanty-Mansiysk is located almost in the middle of Russia. However, the climate here is similar to regions of the Far North. In winter, the temperature here drops to below -40 degrees Celsius.

We asked local residents and people who know this region well to tell us more about it and to share some tips for tourists who come to visit.

Why should a foreigner visit Khanty-Mansiysk?

“If you want to feel the coldness and colors of Russian winter, then you should definitely stop by in our small cozy town,” says a local tattoo artist, Semyon Chepurnoy.

A Khanty man in a traditional dress

Yevgeny Zinovyev, a journalist and the former editor-in-chief of a local media outlet, says that Khanty-Mansiysk provides the opportunity to experience a real and not touristy part of Russia. “In winter, there are frosts, snowdrifts and wind. In summer, heat, midges and bears. At any time of the year, you can experience the everyday life and customs of the indigenous peoples: the Khanty and Mansi. And of course, in Khanty-Mansiysk you can get to know the backbone of modern Russia – its oil and gas sector."

“We have unique scenery here. Khanty-Mansiysk is located on seven hills and is surrounded by the taiga. There are a lot of fish in the rivers, and a lot of mushrooms, berries and pine nuts in the forests surrounding the city,” says local insurance company employee Sergey Yankovich.

View of the city and the Irtysh River

The harsh climate of the region influences how local residents relate to visitors. “Residents of the city are very good-natured and welcoming and are always ready to offer help in any situation, even to a stranger, because in the north, there is an unspoken rule: If you see that a person is in distress, be sure to help them, because tomorrow, it may be you in their place. The harsh climate and surrounding scenery leave no room for error, especially in winter,” Sergey says.

Things to see/do/taste in Khanty-Mansiysk

Mammoths at the Archeopark

According to Irina Pudova, a local resident and the author of a collection of legends called Yugra: It’s My land , the first thing to do in Khanty-Mansiysk is to see the local mammoths. Seven life-size bronze prehistoric animals "roam" the area near Samarovsky Hill on the grounds of the Archeopark complex. Here you will also find a prehistoric bison, a pack of wolves, a cave bear, two woolly rhinos and prehistoric people themselves.

Sculptures of bisons at the Archeopark cultural and tourist complex

“Then you could get something to eat,” Irina advises. “The thing to do is to go to any local restaurant of Siberian cuisine and ask for muksun. It is a valuable freshwater fish of the salmon family, which is highly prized by locals and tourists alike.”

Khanty-Mansiysk is a relatively new city and only received this status in 1950. Soo oil was discovered in the region, prompting a dramatic push in its development. Prior to that, there were just Siberian settlements built by Russia in the late 16th century. Irina is impressed that a modern city was built in such harsh conditions.

The Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin

“Cultural objects, squares, houses - all this is unique. And everything is new, there is nothing very ancient here. Except for mammoths!” she says.

In addition to the Archeopark mentioned above, Yevgeny Zinovyev’s list of favorite places in the city includes the Museum of Geology, Oil and Gas, along with the Museum of Nature and Man and the centuries-old cedars in the Samarovsky Chugas natural park. He recommends checking out the views from the observation deck near the Monument to the Explorers of the Yugra Land and paying a visit to a local bathhouse.

'Red Dragon' bridge over the Irtysh River

Yevgeny also provided us a checklist of culinary delights that anyone visiting Khanty-Mansiysk should be sure to try:

Muksun (in any form but best of all frozen and sliced as Stroganina).
Wild berries (cranberry, cowberry, cloudberry).
Venison (in any form but best of all stewed and sprinkled with frozen berries and pine nuts).

Sergey Yankovich recommends visiting the open-air ethnographic museum Torum Maa, which means "Sacred Land" in Mansi. “There you can get acquainted with the history of the city and the district, as well as with the life of the indigenous peoples of the Khanty and Mansi, who belong to the Finno-Ugric group,” Sergey says.

Torum Maa ethnic center

In addition, he advises anyone who comes to Khanty-Mansiysk to visit the spot where the Ob and Irtysh rivers meet, pay a visit to Misne Hotel’s restaurant and taste traditional dishes there, as well as dishes prepared by local fishermen and hunters while in the taiga.

According to Semyon Chepurnoy, the Valley of Streams natural park is another must for any visitor. It is one of local residents’ favorite recreation areas, where you can stroll along a dedicated footpath offering stunning views of the city. Semyon also advises trying pancakes at the GoodFood chain of cafes.

What are the best souvenirs?

“We all love something mystical and supernatural. There is a strong culture of shamanism here, so I think it’s cool to take with you some local amulets charged by a shaman—a bear claw or a pendant made of beads and deerskin,” says Irina Pudova.

A Khanty woman in the traditional dress selling souvenirs

Sergey Yankovich advises that authentic souvenirs can be found at the Crafts Center on Roznina Street. “There you can also see and even try on the national costumes of the Khanty and Mansi and try to solve traditional puzzles that representatives of the indigenous peoples made for their children.”

According to Yevgeny Zinovyev, the best souvenirs are Khanty and Mansi amulets, clothes, jewelry, as well as traditional local treats such as muksun, wild berries, pine nuts and venison.

Cowberry bush

For his part, Semyon Chepurnoy recommends bringing away memories and photographs as well as a little bit of Siberian Frost ❄.

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Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug



Ханты-Мансийский автономный округ — Югра
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• Khanty	Хӑнты-Мансийской Aвтономной Округ
• Mansi	Ханты-Мансийский Aвтономный Oкруг

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Coordinates: 70°10′E / 62.250°N 70.167°E / 62.250; 70.167
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• Total	534,801 km (206,488 sq mi)
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• Total	1,711,480
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• Density	3.2/km (8.3/sq mi)
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Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug — Yugra [lower-alpha 1] , commonly shortened to Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast ). It has a population of 1,532,243 as of the 2010 Census . [4] Its administrative center is located at Khanty-Mansiysk .

Administrative divisions

Demographics, settlements, ethnic groups, vital statistics, external links.

The peoples native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi , known collectively as Ob-Ugric peoples , but today the two groups only constitute 2.5% of the region's population. The local languages, Khanty and Mansi , are part of the Ugric branch of the Finno-Ugric language family, and enjoy a special status in the autonomous okrug. Russian remains the only official language.

In 2012, the majority (51%) [7] of the oil produced in Russia came from Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, giving the region great economic importance in Russia and the world. It borders Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug to the north, Komi Republic to the northwest, Sverdlovsk Oblast to the west, Tyumen Oblast to the south, Tomsk Oblast to the south and southeast and Krasnoyarsk Krai in the east.

The okrug was established on December 10, 1930, as Ostyak-Vogul National Okrug ( Остя́ко-Вогу́льский национа́льный о́круг ). In October 1940, it was renamed the Khanty-Mansi National Okrug . In 1977, along with other national okrugs of the Russian SFSR , it became an autonomous okrug (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). In 2003, the word " Yugra " was appended to the official name. [8]

The okrug occupies the central part of the West Siberian Plain .

Principal rivers include the Ob and its tributaries Irtysh and Vatinsky Yogan . There are numerous lakes in the okrug, the largest ones are Numto , Tormemtor , Leushinsky Tuman and Tursuntsky Tuman , among others. [9]

The northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude traverses the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

Population : 1,674,676 (2020); [10] 1,532,243 ( 2010 Russian census ) ; [4] 1,432,817 ( 2002 Census ) ; [11] 1,268,439 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . [12]

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug has an area of 523,100 km 2 , but the area is sparsely populated. The administrative center is Khanty-Mansiysk , but the largest cities are Surgut , Nizhnevartovsk , and Nefteyugansk .


	Rank			Pop.
	1			380,632
	2			277,668
	3			127,255
	4			101,466
	5			67,727
	6			58,565
	7			46,643
	8			44,646
	9			43,666
	10			39,570

Historical population
Year
1939	92,932	—
1959	123,926	+33.4%
1970	271,157	+118.8%
1979	569,139	+109.9%
1989	1,268,439	+122.9%
2002	1,432,817	+13.0%
2010	1,532,243	+6.9%
2021	1,711,480	+11.7%
Source: Census data

The Indigenous population ( Khanty , Mansi , Komi , and Nenets ) is only 2.8% of the total population in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. The exploitation of natural gas in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug has attracted immigrants from all over the former Soviet Union. The 2021 Census counted 17 ethnic groups of more than five thousand persons each. The ethnic composition is as follows:

Population of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug: [13]

Ethnic Group	Population	%
	888,660	70.3%
	79,727	6.3%
	41,596	3.3%
	29,717	2.4%
	21,791	1.7%
	21,259	1.7%
	19,568	1.5%
	15,268	1.2%
	13,669	1.1%
	12,361	1.0%
	11,065	0.9%
	9,990	0.8%
	7,786	0.6%
	7,085	0.6%
	6,156	0.5%
	5,562	0.4%
	5,297	0.4%
Other	48,194	3.8%

Historical population figures are shown below:

Ethnic group	1939 Census		1959 Census		1970 Census		1979 Census		1989 Census		2002 Census		2010 Census		2021 Census
Ethnic group	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
	12,238	13.1%	11,435	9.2%	12,222	4.5%	11,219	2.0%	11,892	0.9%	17,128	1.2%	19,068	1.3%	19,568	1.6%
	5,768	6.2%	5,644	4.6%	6,684	2.5%	6,156	1.1%	6,562	0.5%	9,894	0.7%	10,977	0.8%	11,065	0.9%
	852	0.9%	815	0.7%	940	0.3%	1,003	0.2%	1,144	0.1%	1,290	0.1%	1,438	0.1%	1,381	0.1%
	2,436	2.6%	2,803	2.3%	3,150	1.2%	3,105	0.5%	3,000	0.2%	3,081	0.2%	2,364	0.2%	2,618	0.2%
	67,616	72.5%	89,813	72.5%	208,500	76.9%	423,792	74.3%	850,297	66.3%	946,590	66.1%	973,978	68.1%	888,660	70.3%
	1,111	1.2%	4,363	3.5%	9,986	3.7%	45,484	8.0%	148,317	11.6%	123,238	8.6%	91,323	6.4%	41,596	3.3%
	2,227	2.4%	2,938	2.4%	14,046	5.2%	36,898	6.5%	97,689	7.6%	107,637	7.5%	108,899	7.6%	79,727	6.3%
Others	1,026	1.1%	6,115	4.9%	15,629	5.8%	43,106	7.6%	163,495	12.7%	223,959	15.6%	173,536	15.5%	219,465	17.3%
102,138 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.

Source: [15]

	Average population (× 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)	Fertility rates
1970	281	5 959	2 025	3 934	21.2	7.2	14.0
1975	415	9 450	2 572	6 878	22.8	6.2	16.6
1980	649	13 901	4 116	9 785	21.4	6.3	15.1
1985	1 041	25 130	4 863	20 267	24.1	4.7	19.5
1990	1 274	21 812	5 354	16 458	17.1	4.2	12.9
1991	1 276	19 060	5 884	13 176	14.9	4.6	10.3
1992	1 270	15 849	7 132	8 717	12.5	5.6	6.9
1993	1 274	14 531	9 401	5 130	11.4	7.4	4.0	1,59
1994	1 286	15 120	9 937	5 183	11.8	7.7	4.0	1,59
1995	1 298	14 418	10 041	4 377	11.1	7.7	3.4	1,46
1996	1 310	14 469	9 508	4 961	11.0	7.3	3.8	1,39
1997	1 330	14 640	8 497	6 143	11.0	6.4	4.6	1,34
1998	1 351	15 600	8 164	7 436	11.5	6.0	5.5	1,39
1999	1 359	14 728	8 476	6 252	10.8	6.2	4.6	1,29
2000	1 372	15 579	9 426	6 153	11.4	6.9	4.5	1,34
2001	1 398	17 130	9 863	7 267	12.3	7.1	5.2	1,43
2002	1 426	19 051	9 829	9 222	13.4	6.9	6.5	1,54
2003	1 445	19 883	10 000	9 883	13.8	6.9	6.8	1,58
2004	1 456	20 377	9 828	10 549	14.0	6.8	7.2	1,59
2005	1 466	19 958	10 415	9 543	13.6	7.1	6.5	1,54
2006	1 476	20 366	10 077	10 289	13.8	6.8	7.0	1,56
2007	1 487	21 887	10 093	11 794	14.7	6.8	7.9	1,66
2008	1 500	23 197	10 215	12 982	15.5	6.8	8.7	1,74
2009	1 513	23 840	10 107	13 733	15.8	6.7	9.1	1,77
2010	1 527	25 089	10 447	14 642	16.4	6.8	9.6	1,84
2011	1 543	25 335	10 072	14 642	16.4	6.5	9.9	1,86
2012	1 558	27 686	9 949	17 737	17.6	6.3	11.3	2,02

Religion in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)

			38.1%
Other			5.5%
			11%
and other native faiths			0.9%
			23.1%
and			11%
Other and undeclared			10.4%

According to a 2012 survey [16] 38.1% of the population of Yugra adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church , 5% are unaffiliated generic Christians , 1% of the population adheres to the Slavic native faith (Rodnovery) or to Khanty-Mansi native faith. Muslims (mostly Tatars ) constitute 11% of the population. In addition, 23% of the population declares to be spiritual but not religious , 11% is atheist , and 10.9% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question. [16] According to recent reports Jehovah's Witnesses have been subjected to torture and detention in Surgut. [18]

In Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the primary transport of goods is by water and railway transport; 29% is transported by road, and 2% by aviation. The total length of railway tracks is 1,106 km. The length of roads is more than 18,000 km.

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Mark Zuckerberg gave his ex-Facebook engineer startup advice at 2 a.m. over chess—now she’s a founder with over $8.5 million raised in funding

Mark Zuckerberg told his former engineer Sophie Novati: ‘Figure out a way to capture people's valuable attention’

When Sophie Novati landed her first job as an engineering intern at Facebook in 2011, the social media giant was firmly in its “move fast and break things” era.

“The energy was buzzing early Facebook,” the now tech entrepreneur recalls to Fortune . “There were so many people just trying to build and ship cool stuff.”

“It honestly almost felt like it was college,” she adds. “People were literally sleeping at the office… It felt like everyone that I was there with were just all buddies and hanging out. Everyone was working very hard. But it felt like the dorm room.”

A few years later, Novati left Facebook (now Meta) to join the platform Nextdoor as its second iOS engineer hire. The 33-year-old helped build it from the ground up before founding her own firm, Formation in 2019.

The job placement company offers various subscription packages and programs to help engineers secure work or increase their earning potential. For a fee (ranging from $2,500 to $20,000), job seekers can get access to unlimited resume reviews, negotiation coaching, mentoring, mock interviews, exam drills and more.

Having been Facebook’s de facto inclusivity lead in the engineering department, she says she was inspired to found Formation and help remove barriers to entry.

“At Facebook and Nextdoor, I was probably one of 15 people who was a woman and that ratio just didn’t feel right.”

Now, over 1,300 job seekers have enlisted Formation’s help to get a seat at the table—on average, they’ve landed a $127,286 pay rise in the process, according to the company.

But, Novati says, Formation’s success today is partly due to a late-night chess lesson from her former boss, Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg’s advice over chess

It was 2am on one night in 2011 when Zuckerberg was “hanging out with all the interns,” including playing a couple of chess matches with Novati (who claims she won).

“That was the vibe of the company at the time,” Novati says, adding that it was the first time she was able to ask him the million-dollar question: How’s the social network going to make any money?

“Facebook was growing users at a pace that no one’s seen before,” she adds. “But it couldn’t make any money.”

Of course, today, Facebook—or Meta—is a $1.3 trillion social media giant with Instagram and WhatsApp under its wing. However, up until 2012 , the year Facebook went public, its mobile app didn’t actually make money.

It didn’t feature ads and the move to incorporate them was considered risky.

In the end, the company was able to turn likes and shares into profit, by turning its users into the product.

The “aggressive” strategy lifted Facebook from “no meaningful revenue” to $153 million in mobile ads, The Atlantic reported at the time.

“His response to me was, if you can figure out a way to capture people’s valuable attention, you can always figure out how to turn that into money later,” Novati recalls.

“What he was really focused on building is figuring out how to deliver value to people,” she adds. “Later on, you can always turn that value into dollars.”

It’s why Novati has always been hyper-focused on promoting how Formation is adding value to engineers’ lives instead of worrying about its list of clients or sign-up rates.

“We look at increase in compensation as our number one metric,” she explains.

“College in the U.S. costs on average around $100k for 4 years. The average compensation for people who go through versus those who do not is about $20km. So people are paying $100k for $20k value—we are the flip here, we’re helping people make $127k more and we’re charging $10-15k.”

“It’s pretty crazy that people are making over $100k more as a result of going through a program,” she boasts.

So far, Zuckerberg’s ethos has been on the money.

According to Novati, Formation has raised over $8.5 million in funding and is working with the likes of Netflix , Google , Twitch, Dropbox , Adobe and her old employer Meta among others.

“There’s still a lot more that we can do to better capture the value that we’re creating,” Novati concludes.

But for now, her attention remains “on getting people into these top jobs and significantly improving the trajectories of their career.”

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According to the UK SUN, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg bought her. Valued at $300 million, this yacht represents the epitome of luxury and sophistication. ... Interior Design is a French interior design firm that specializes in creating bespoke interiors for luxury homes, yachts, and private jets. The company was founded by Francois Zuretti ...
See Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's brand new 287-foot superyacht
Mark Zuckerberg reportedly rewarded himself with a luxurious gift: a $300 million super yacht. The billionaire Meta Platforms CEO reportedly purchased the 287-foot vessel with the name Launchpad ...
Mark Zuckerberg turns 40 aboard his new megayacht.
Mark Zuckerberg turns 40 aboard his new megayacht. Silicon Valley's favorite Harvard dropout (sorry, Gates) has arrived in Panama at the same time as the " Launchpad " vessel he apparently ...
Zuckerberg's Yacht: A $300 Million LAUNCHPAD For Controversy
Above: LAUNCHPAD, a 387-foot FEADSHIP megayacht reportedly owned by Mark Zuckerberg is one of the largest private yachts in the world. Photo by Arno Lippert. A 387-Foot Feat Of Engineering. A truly amazing feat of engineering by one of our favorite builders, LAUNCHPAD is reportedly the second largest yacht ever constructed by Feadship. The ...
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Mark Zuckerberg's $300 million megayacht Launchpad and support vessel
Mark Zuckerberg's $300 million megayacht Launchpad and support vessel caused a sensation amongst beachgoers after mooring near the Italian island of Elba ... Back in May, the billionaire celebrated his 40th birthday by flying to Panama on his private jet to board the Feadship-built megayacht. ... It was designed by Norwegian yacht designer ...
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Last week, the crew tested the yacht and the ship's helicopter, signalling Zuckerberg's imminent arrival. The social media guru landed in the private area of Palma airport on Friday night, June 14. The businessman and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were snapped leaving the terminal, with their three daughters: Max, August and Aurelia.
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SEE IT: Mark Zuckerberg's $300 million new superyacht
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook parent Meta, gifted himself a $300 million superyacht named 'Launchpad' as his net worth nears $200 billion. (Dutch Yachting)
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Mark Zuckerberg's $300 Million Mega Yacht Causes a Stir in Italy
It cost Zuckerberg around $300 million to buy, and an additional $30 million per year in running costs. While specific details about the interior amenities of Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht are scarce due to the yacht's privacy, it is believed that it has multiple opulent guest suites, a master bedroom with a private balcony, and lavish ...
Mark Zuckerberg appears to celebrate 40th birthday on $300M 'Launchpad
Yacht-see! Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg reportedly flew to Panama to celebrate his 40th birthday — where the billionaire's alleged brand-new $300 million superyacht was docked. Zuckerberg, who ...
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Via Youtube / @Yachts.mp4 Still, Zuckerberg seems intent on his quest to ward off any extra attention. As witnessed on an earlier occasion, the 387-foot Feadship beauty and its support vessel pulled off a vanishing act in May when both ships turned off their AIS as they left Florida heading south towards Jamaica. The Launchpad superyacht left Panama on May 22nd and arrived in Gibraltar with ...
Mark Zuckerberg's new US$300 million superyacht, Launchpad
How much did Mark Zuckerberg's yacht cost? Mark Zuckerberg's 118-metre Feadship superyacht, Launchpad. Photo: @DutchYachting/Instagram ... private cinema, beach club, gym and deck jacuzzi, per ...
Party Like a Billionaire: Mark Zuckerberg Takes Private Jet to His
On May 14, Mark Zuckerberg turned 40 and kicked off celebrations with a relatively intimate party thrown together by wife Priscilla Chan. Then, he hopped on his private jet and flew to Panama ...
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Zuckerberg's $300 Million Yacht Docked in Fort
Photos show Zuckerberg's new $300 million yacht, flying the Marshall Islands flag, docked in Fort Lauderdale. The orange and white stripes, along with a blue star, clearly indicate that the flag flying on Zuckerberg's boat belongs to the Marshall Islands. Zuckerberg likely docked his yacht in Fort Lauderdale due to the Palm Beach boat show.
Did Mark Zuckerberg fly to Miami in his private jet to inspect his
Zuckerberg has been linked to several superyachts in the past like the $150 million yacht named Ulysses. It belonged to Kiwi billionaire Graeme Hart who sold the ship in 2017. A spokesperson for Mark Zuckerberg denied reports in 2018, saying, "The reports related to Mark purchasing a yacht are completely inaccurate as he did not purchase a ...
Mark Zuckerberg's $195 Million "Ulysses" Yacht
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According to Irina Pudova, a local resident and the author of a collection of legends called Yugra: It's My land, the first thing to do in Khanty-Mansiysk is to see the local mammoths. Seven ...
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