hectobillionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hectobillionaires
Etymology: From hecto- + billionaire.
Senses: examples: text: Last month, Bloomberg reported that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, has accumulated a fortune worth $150 billion. That is the biggest nominal amount in modern history, and extraordinary any way you slice it. Bezos is the world’s lone hectobillionaire.
ref: 2018 August 1, Annie Lowrey, “Jeff Bezos’s $150 Billion Fortune Is a Policy Failure”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2018; republished in Russian Denver, 2019 August 16, page 7, column 1:
text: TRUE OR FALSE: the founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s first and only hectobillionaire.
ref: 2019 July 8, Etan Smallman, “Think you know everything about… Amazon”, in Daily Mail, London, →ISSN, page 36:
text: Other oft-mentioned billionaires, including Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg, are approaching “hectobillionaire” — $100 billion — status as well. […] In this conventional view, not only should billionaires exist, but hectobillionaires make for no big deal, either. The next step up from hectobillionaire would be, of course, trillionaire status.
ref: 2020 July 1, Bob Lord, “Welcome to Hectobillionaire Land”, in Inequality.org, Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020:
text: In the meantime, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man and already its sole hectobillionaire (since 2018), is predicted to become its first trillionaire by 2026.
ref: 2021, Bronwyn Winter, “Rainbowing the workplace”, in The Political Economy of Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Critique, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part II (Selling same-sex marriage):
text: The nine current wealthiest Americans today — all white men — each hold a net worth above or rapidly approaching the $100 billion mark. Two of these “hectobillionaires,” Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, hold around $200 billion.
ref: 2021 February 17, Bob Lord, “America’s Future: Trillionaire Trust Fund Babies?”, in OtherWords, Washington, D.C.: Institute for Policy Studies, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2021:
text: Dave Chappelle had a treat for attendees at his comedy show in San Francisco last night. He brought attention-starved hectobillionaire Elon Musk on stage.
ref: 2022 December 12, Mark Frauenfelder, “Video of Elon Musk getting booed on stage at Dave Chappelle's show last night was removed from Twitter (here's a copy)”, in Boing Boing, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2022:
text: “Do you think presidents and prime ministers have any real power? They’re puppets, doing the bidding of the hectobillionaires.” Ciara had never heard that word before. She knew hecto meant 100, so she guessed it meant people with 100 billion dollars. Hana explained that there were only eleven hectobillionaires—nine American, one French, and one Korean. […] Ciara hadn’t noticed that one of the Pleiades was missing, but it made perfect sense for them to control Dr Kim. Naturally, he would meet up with the other hectobillionaires, who would be just as easy to handle.
ref: 2023, Terence McAdams, “Venomous Reef”, in Biocode – Endeavour, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN, chapters 11 (Venomous Reef) and 13 (The Bunker):
synonyms: centibillionaire
glosses: A person whose net worth is greater than one hundred billion (10¹¹) dollars, or other currency.
Related terms: decabillionaire
hectomillionaire