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I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize. Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness. Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding. He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history. The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future. A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite. That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

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This is for everyone. What a great session. Tim regaled us with the insights in the birth and development of www and the strategic and bold decision to keep it free. As the moderator said it, he could have been richer than God! @timberners_lee @georginagodwin @JaipurLitFest

@SanjoyRoyTWA good to see you at the author signing event at The White Crow Mumbai. Looking forward to JLF2026 next month.

कल 7 नवंबर का दिन देशवासियों के लिए ऐतिहासिक होने जा रहा है। हम वंदेमातरम् गान के गौरवशाली 150 वर्षों का उत्सव मनाने जा रहे हैं। यह वो प्रेरक आह्वान है, जिसने देश की कई पीढ़ियों को राष्ट्रभक्ति की भावना से ओतप्रोत किया है। इस विशेष अवसर पर सुबह करीब 9:30 बजे दिल्ली में एक समारोह में शामिल होने का सौभाग्य मिलेगा। यहां एक स्मारक डाक टिकट और सिक्का भी जारी किया जाएगा। वंदेमातरम् का सामूहिक गायन इस आयोजन का मुख्य आकर्षण होगा! pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…

@SrBachchan sir this instruction can only be when a tall person like you are a hotel guest !

@AyushiBalani Is that a tattoo on your forearm?

I try to be chill but my brain writes essays about everything

@DeepikaBhardwaj With pet parent smiling….

Mowgly posing for Selfie 😍

@sanjeevsanyal Jai Hind

Somewhere on India’s west coast

@zomato - why is delivery partner fee INR 92 for delivering 1 item compared to INR 82 for delivering two of same item ?

@narendramodi youtu.be/Ah9SrbCB7-k?si…

At @IITKgp today, I witnessed the future of Bharat - brimming with confidence, courage and patriotism. The packed hall, unstoppable energy and non-stop cheers will always stay with me. On this historic occasion of IIT KGP’s Platinum Jubilee, it was inspiring to see how our young innovators are the torchbearers of Atmanirbhar Bharat. With their passion and brilliance, our nation’s growth story has no limits. #IITKGP #PlatinumJubilee #AtmanirbharBharat @Suman_iitkgp

@Apple dear Apple how do I know which merchant I signed up for ?

@hvgoenka OMG! He is omnipresent 🤣. Start Intermittent Fasting or switch to non-bread food items. 🤣🤣

I was eating a toast and I started hallucinating… are you seeing him also 😀

@elonmusk - thank you for being in Mumbai. After X, Tesla is one product you created that I will own.