There's a saying:
"The only difference between men and boys is the size of their toys."
A few tech moguls have some very big, floating toys. Mark Cuban, Larry Ellison, and Paul Allen are just a few who own some of the largest yachts in the world.
Others vacation on yachts with models. Others zip around with friends.
Eric Schmidt was selling his 255-foot tugboat yacht in April. It was once valued at $48 million. He also bought a yacht that was bigger than Larry Page's.
Eric Schmidt has owned multiple yachts. In 2011, New York Post reported that Schmidt had purchased a yacht larger than Google CEO Larry Page's. The 195-foot yacht was purchased in 2009 for a reported $72.3 million.
In addition to the mega-yacht, Schmidt and his wife Wendy "accumulated some $60-odd million in assets for 'ocean studies,'" according to The ODP. That $60 million included two boats, one which was priced at $48 million.
There are pictures of the large tugboat yacht here.
Steve Jobs designed a 250-foot yacht run by 27 MacBooks that's now owned by his family.
One year after his death, the yacht Steve Jobs personally designed was completed.
It's a 250-foot yacht with a large sun deck designed by Philippe Starc. It was built in the Netherlands by shipbuilder Koninklijke De Vries.
There are more photos of the yacht, here.
Amazon's star engineer James Hamilton lives on a boat and often works remotely from Hawaii.
James Hamilton, a star Amazon engineer who makes sure its Web services business is always up and running, lives on a boat with his family.
His boat, The Dirona, is a custom-built, 52-foot Nordhavn yacht.
Pictures of the yacht can be found here.
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