#125 The Super Rich (Part 2)

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

Let’s have a look at some of the most interesting self-made millionaires that history has to offer! This week we have Sarah Breedlove and her lucrative beauty revolution, Richard Crawshay’s Welsh ironmongery bonanza and, more recently, let’s discuss Apple’s main man Steve Jobs.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to episodes of Oh What a Time early and ad-free.
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0:08.8	Hi and welcome back to part two of our episode on The Super Rich.
0:13.4	I'm going to... Just before I start, I think in a way, it's quite useful to try and work out how rich these people are.
0:33.7	So a million seconds is about 11 days.
0:36.5	Yes.
0:37.0	Okay.
0:38.5	Okay. A billion seconds is almost 32 years.
0:44.2	Wow.
0:44.9	If your wealth can be measured in billions, that's a lot.
0:49.9	That's a lot of money.
0:51.2	That is mind-blowing.
0:53.2	11 days to 32 years. Good fact. Very good fact. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like lot of money. That is mind-blowing. 11 days to 32 years.
0:55.5	Good fact.
0:56.3	Very good fact.
0:56.9	Yeah.
0:57.0	So it's like 11 and a half days is a million seconds.
0:59.7	Okay.
1:00.0	So they're wealthy.
1:00.9	They're mortgage-free.
1:02.0	So once you get into Elon Musk levels of wealth, you know, if a billion is 32 years,
1:08.8	it's very, very difficult to imagine just how much money that is. Now,
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