Peter Gabriel - a private billionaire?

[horsc]

Our Great musician conducts the private, closed life.
He's leads today in the musical industry, he's the person with great indisputable authority.
Modern digital enterpreneur's has
huge array of tremendous projects...
The Filter, We7, B&W Music Club.
PG - record company boss and cyber-entrepreneur)!
PG has a long collaboration with Ingenious PLC financial firm.
Also He is owner of Hi-End-firm Solid State Logic,
RealWorld Group owner including TOP sound recording studio RealWorld Studios.
Equipment of this wonderful complex by last word of technological progress.
Only one console SSL XL costs $1m (!)
+ inhabited complex
PG recruted ~ 80 persons (!) in RW Studios.
Plus to all He is founder of the philantropic
projects The Elders, WITNESS, WITNESS HUB.
Him calls "New Bill Gates with the best wardrobe,
Richard Branson without a Virgin balloon!..."
How you think, why This charm respect person not in TOP Forbes lists?

[Danlaw83]

I beleive it. He has invested in A LOT!

[martinus]

While I hope that Peter does not need to beg for money I would doubt that he is a billionaire. I do not care very much either way.

He is lucky to do what he likes to do best for a living, and he is apparently well-off enough to be able to support certain philantropic projects (I believe he 'only' co-founded The Elders and Witness).
That is all fine with me. He does not need to be in the Forbes list. As for the "Richard Branson without a Virgin balloon" quote - well, how could there be a virgin balloon with so many steaming Sledgehammers around?


(Dirty off-topic joke:
Teacher: "Can you tell me where the Virgin Islands are located?" - Student: "I do not know, but probably some way from the Isle of Man.")

[Visionsofangels]

Originally Posted by martinus

While I hope that Peter does not need to beg for money I would doubt that he is a billionaire. I do not care very much either way.

He is lucky to do what he likes to do best for a living, and he is apparently well-off enough to be able to support certain philantropic projects (I believe he 'only' co-founded The Elders and Witness).
That is all fine with me. He does not need to be in the Forbes list. As for the "Richard Branson without a Virgin balloon" quote - well, how could there be a virgin balloon with so many steaming Sledgehammers around?


(Dirty off-topic joke:
Teacher: "Can you tell me where the Virgin Islands are located?" - Student: "I do not know, but probably some way from the Isle of Man.")

Totally agree with what you have just said regarding gabe and his ''Billionaire'' lifestyle (??)
Lucky for him that he can afford to live the lifestyle he so chooses and be a part of the projects he's so passionate about......Do i lose sleep over whether he is a ''Billionaire'' or not?.....nah, my life ain't that dull.
Each to their own i say & I don't think PG could give a rats arse if he's on the Forbes list or not.

BTW....I'll have you know that i have family who reside in the Isle Of Man

[jebho62]

Not sure how a billionaires website would be down for a couple of months because of theft of server...would a billionaire not have invested in IT people who would follow a simple data backup regimen?

[martinus]

Originally Posted by jebho62

Not sure how a billionaires website would be down for a couple of months because of theft of server...would a billionaire not have invested in IT people who would follow a simple data backup regimen?

Certainly. But in these days when data is the all-important riches that get stolen the theft of the actual hardware is a bit odd, isn't it?

"Down for a couple of months"? I was able to order things from the shop at PG's site just a couple of days after the server was stolen, so they did have backup (but of course it takes some time to play it all back, and they'll have gone for the hot stuff (breaking news, delay announcements for his next putative releases) first).