The Mansions of recent Tech Giants [Homes]

Sep 28th 2010
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My goodness, Steve Jobs ‘ new house appears like it’ll be a doozy. And it’ll should be, if he wants to take care of with the ivory castles his tech mogul cohorts have built for themselves.

Larry Ellison

The Mansions of recent Tech Giants [Homes] The Oracle CEO put this $25 million manse up for sale back in 2005, though it’s hard to imagine why; the grounds include a koi pond that feels more like a koi lake, an authentic tea house, and other Japanophilic touches that Ellison commissioned through the years. How invested was he in remodeling? The man imported more than 500 cherry and maple trees and around 5,000 hundreds boulder to get just the fitting effect. He’s since moved on to (relatively) smaller digs in Woodside.

Michael Dell

If an estate looks this good from Google Earth , imagine what it has to be like on the inside. The $18 million home is the most costly ever built in Texas, and the property’s 33,000 sq. ft. make it arguably the most important in addition. Eight bedrooms, a conference room, indoor and outdoor pools, a view of Lake Austin; not bad for a guy who started his business out of his (presumably much smaller) dorm room.

Eric Schmidt

Schmidt has one of many more modest mansions on this list, but four bedrooms and four baths on four acres continues to be pretty impressive. It’s estimated to be worth $3.5 million or so, but the undeniable fact that he bought it from Ellen DeGeneres and Portia Di Rossi? That you can’t put a value on that.

Larry Page

The Mansions of recent Tech Giants [Homes] We continue our Google House Tour with co-founder Larry Page’s $7 million home that’s becoming a lot bigger, literally; Page last year applied for a permit to build a 6,000 square-foot home on the lot adjacent to his current residence. He’s reportedly bought up several adjacent lots through the years to bulk up his compound.

Bill Gates

Gates’s home- known to a few as Xanadu 2.0-isn’t just huge (66,000 sq. ft.). And it’s not just pricey (assessed at $147.5 million). It’s also essentially the mostsome of the most technologically advanced houses on the earth. The guy lives his job, with an estate-wide Windows server system. Guests wear pins that allow individual rooms adjust temperature and brightness to private preferences. It’s, fittingly, the grandaddy of mansions for the grandaddy of tech giants.