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From Wondery, I'm Arisha Skidmore Williams.

And I'm Brooke Sifrin. And this is even the rich.

We've spent the last four episodes hanging in Rome with the Getty family.

We saw the sights, we ate pasta, and we drank cognac. We witnessed a kidnapping.

But today, we're leaving all that behind us. Ciao!

You know what I've been thinking lately? There's kind of a big difference between being rich and being a billionaire.

Like rich people have boring, tiny sailboats, but billionaires have mega yachts?

Yes, exactly. Or like rich people are writing up the coronavirus pandemic in their mansions.

But some billionaires are taking cover in doomsday style bunkers, where they have enough food, water, and pedagonia fleece vests to survive the end of the world.

Just the bare essentials. And when we talk about billionaires these days, I think one place comes to mind. Silicon Valley.

It's this magical kingdom where computer nerds can become tycoons.

And that power goes straight to their big brains.

Exactly. I wanted to learn a little bit more about what makes tech billionaires tick.

So I called up Sarah Ellison. Sarah's been a journalist for more than 20 years, working for outlets like the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post, where she's currently a staff writer.

And she says that if there's been one constant in her long career, it's this.

She writes about very rich people who sometimes act outrageously.

I seriously can't wait to hear what she has to say.

Well, you don't have to.

So Sarah, these days you write primarily about people in power, whether in Washington, D.C. or on Wall Street.

How did that become your focus?

When I started out, I worked for the Wall Street Journal for almost a decade.

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