Shaquille O’Neal Eyes $400 Billion Rothschilds Family in Next Major Ambition

Shaquille O'Neal currently has a net worth of approximately $500 million and wants to continue building it as long as possible.

Shaquille O’Neal Eyes $400 Billion Rothschilds Family in Next Major Ambition

Shaquille O'Neal will not stop until he amasses more wealth (Image via FirstSportz)

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal is one of the few who learnt to use his position as a basketball star to make money both on and off the court. Now, as an Inside the NBA analyst, he stays close to the sport that gave him that platform, while also having the time to build his portfolio.

He amassed over $286 million during the 19 seasons he spent in the NBA as one of the most dominant players of all time. He must have spent a lot of it, considering his penchant for expensive custom cars, houses, and other purchases.

To compensate for that, he started investing early. O’Neal’s early investment in Google gave him a huge boost in terms of net worth. Other than that, he has invested in the famed Ring Camera, several franchises of Papa John’s, and Krispy Kreme Donuts.

Now he is estimated to hold a $500 million net worth. Usually, a person worth that much and who also happens to be 53 years old tends to slow down and enjoy life. But O’Neal is constantly looking to increase his net worth, as he explained while on the Pivot podcast.

I’m not fulfilled at all. I’m programmed to once I get something, celebrate it for 2 seconds, and then move on. I can stop right now, but I don’t want to stop. I don’t want to stop for them (pointing to his children). I read all the time, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, I want my kids to be like the O’Neals.

Shaquille O’Neal said

The Hall of Famer reiterated that he wants to ensure that generations of his family can continue living the good life from the money that he is creating now. That is why he is taking inspiration from the $400 billion Rothschild family.

Shaquille O’Neal’s parents instilled the dream in him

While speaking with Ryan Clark and his co-hosts of The Pivot, Shaquille O’Neal clarified that he cannot stop even though his investments are continuing to make him money. He revealed that this drive he has is because of how his parents raised him.

Shaquille O'Neal wants to leave his children with generational wealth
Shaquille O’Neal wants to leave his children with generational wealth (Image via Open Source/X)

My greatest attribute is I listen to two people. I listen to a secretary that had a baby at 16 years old, and I listened to an Army drill sergeant who was a high juvenile delinquent. They created all of this. They used to tell me this in the 70s, ‘You can do this, you can have this’.

Shaquille O’Neal said

The Big Aristotle clarified that his parents gave him the idea that he could have a massive house with a bowling alley, planes, etc. Now he is fulfilling the dreams that his parents instilled in him many decades ago. Without those dreams, he would not be where he is.

Shaquille O’Neal would have been a billionaire had he invested more in Google

Shaquille O’Neal has invested a lot of his money in various ventures. His policy is derived from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who suggested that the NBA big man should invest in things he believed would help change the world.

The LSU alum’s investment in tech company Google was a chance investment. He never knew he would stumble upon a chance to invest in the company while playing with kids. His investment ballooned and helped increase his net worth by a considerable amount.

However, the four-time NBA champion regrets not investing more. It is unknown how much he had invested originally, but going by the way he talked about his regret to author Zack O’Malley Greenburg, it seems he now knows that he could have been a billionaire.

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