“I’m not paying no motherf*cker” Shaquille O’Neal outraced Jeff Bezos, costing him billions in investments
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Shaquille O’Neal the most dominant force ever seen in the league’s history is also dominating the investment game out there. And, while chasing the bag he is trying his best to secure generational wealth by investing and getting good returns. On the hardwood, he won most of the races he was locked in for throughout his time in the league and got himself multiple championships, awards, rewards, honors and a Hall of Fame career all of these contributes to his greatness. Shaquille O’Neal though has continued his heroics and greats in retirement as now he is an analyst, DJ and most importantly an established businessman or investor in the game out there as he is a global megastar.
In retirement where a lot of athletes go broke due to their spending habits. Shaquille O’Neal is one of the very few names who have earned more and spent more in retirement. As of 2022 he is listed with a net worth of $400 million and more, he has also made it to the list of Top 20 richest athletes ever and a major part of Shaquille O’Neal’s wealth comes from his off-court business decisions. As he has been influenced and motivated by many big shots like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and many of those one percent guys out there.
Shaquille O’Neal has got his investing skills altered after losing some hefty amounts early in the game and now is a smart investor. After he started following the path of some great and successful investors in the game. Big Diesel has also claimed that now he only invests in the products he believes in and that have the potential to change the lives of people. This investing rule of his hasn’t just changed the life of people but also his and he isn’t stopping any time soon as the game for him is on and it’s just winning which matters for him.
Shaquille O’Neal during all these years has been a good investor and some of his great investments have been in Google, Loyal3, Apple, Papa John’s, Auntie Annie’s, Five Guys, Krispy Kreme, Lyft, 24 Hour Fitness and several tech companies, start-ups and you name what. But one of his investments in Ring Doorbell has caused the Business Tycoon and once the richest man on earth, Jeff Bezos billion of dollars in investment.
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Shaquille O’Neal reveals how he caused Jeff Bezos to invest billion dollars
Shaquille O’Neal once wanted security cameras for his home as people are crazy out there. So he ended up calling a security firm and they gave him a hefty figure to which he replied: “I’m not paying no m*****f****** $80000.” Then the big guy ended up finding Ring as telling about that story he quoted: “So I go to Best Buy. I’m getting TV and stuff at the house. And I see this little, Ring camera and the crazy thing about it is, I hooked it up myself. I put it on the door, I forgot about it. I’m away in China, and somebody rings the bell, and I’m talking to him. I was like, ‘Damn! My people don’t know about this…”
Further Shaquille O’Neal adding his investment story for Ring said: “So I went to the conference and told the guy that my name is Shaquille O’Neal I want to invest in your company and you gonna pay me to do commercials. And let’s see what happens what happens…so I invested some money in it and a year later Jeff Bezos brought the company for a cool billion…” That’s how Shaq caused Jeff Bezos to buy the company for Billions and now Ring is parented by Amazon. This is one of the many investment stories of the giant as time keeps revealing them and believe me there are many to come. As he isn’t going to stop and will keep chasing the bag.
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Ritik Malik
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