sweden has a total of 41 billionaires oh man are they not like the ones in other countries these
private rich guys have some weird hobbies and real estate ventures so of course we have to start with
the best of the best for sweden the biggest billionaire is none other than h m's stefan
pershin his father erling pershin started the company in 1947 and then passed it on to his son
that son then amassed 25 billion dollars as you'd expect he spends this money with true class
i think you'll find that for many swedish billionaires the lifestyle isn't so much about
flashy cars and giant parties they want to live well and live privately in houses that scream i'm
better than you naturally stefan lives in the capital of sweden's stockholm he doesn't have
just a little penthouse apartment downtown though the 74 year old billionaire lives in a gorgeous
mansion that you could probably tell with swedish even if you didn't know where the picture was
taken the house is all sharp triangular points and interesting brick work this is kind of a thing in
sweden the house is stationed on a giant piece of property that likely has plenty of gardens
walking paths and fountains i mean what's the point of having that much land if you don't have
gardens walking paths and fountains beyond that the doors are shut on this reclusive billionaire's
home when i said these guys were private i really wasn't kidding while tmz hasn't exactly covered
how much persian dropped on the home judging from the mansions in stockholm i would say somewhere
between 3 million and 10 million he owns an equally classy estate in another part of europe
southwest england's wiltshire manor is about as english a home as persian stockholm mansion
is swedish seriously it even has the overgrown greenery running up the walls that i imagine you
have to pay extra for if you didn't already know the average starting price for a manor is around
2 million dollars that's without the overgrown greenery over the walls too this home is rumored
to have gone for upwards of 31 million despite a turbulent market that's because there seemed to
be a pretty brutal bidding war over the property between him and several other would-be buyers he
was determined to pick up his dream house though the home is an edwardian style manor with room
to spare it sits on 8 500 acres with plenty of gardens and footpaths for those kind of cool
afternoon strolls through the english countryside you want with a home like this the home is located
on the outskirts of ramsbury which is pretty important for this particular swedish billionaire
you see while he doesn't have as many extravagant public hobbies he does love a good beer that's
what led him to purchase the ramsbury brewing company and distillery some people just buy those
home brew kits and set them up in their garage but those people don't usually have billions of
dollars to throw around if that wasn't enough of the english countryside life person decided to buy
an entire village apparently swedish villages just aren't worth the money he bought lincoln
hold village for 33.8 million dollars in 2009 i'm not really sure how you judge the value of a used
english village but this one seems pretty great it has pubs 1 500 acres of farmland 425 acres of
woodlands and a gorgeous downtown area i didn't even know you could buy a village let alone one
that cost tens of millions some billionaires buy loud ferraris others buy the quiet village life i
guess here's hoping it's just not like the village from hot fuzz that one was definitely a lemon you
may not know about sweden's rousing family but trust me these guys could have a netflix
docu-series that would be a real eye-opener just to sum it up there's been tragedy mystery family
strife and billions of dollars that isn't to say that the family doesn't know how to spend when the
clouds park for the seemingly cursed family to let a bit of the sun shine in hans rousing worth about
12 billion dollars is one of the family's most controversial figures still he managed to move on
and find some happiness with his second wife art expert julia broughton after the wedding hans and
his wife moved from the tragic belgravia mansion where he lost his first wife to a new mansion in
chelsea for roughly 38.4 million after the move he even submitted extensive remodeling plans that
included new landscaped gardens servant quarters and another entrance this also included plans for
a grand 13.5 million dollar basement development basically he wanted to pull up and replant
everything in the estate and then remake the interior apparently this has not made them popular
with the neighbors or maybe they just googled him not every billionaire story has a happy ending
once upon a time it looked like marcus pershin was about to own it all no relation to stefan
pershin if you were wondering is actually one of the most common last names in sweden
he developed a game all other game designers wish they could make he is the legendary craftsman
behind minecraft if you didn't already know this little pixely looking crafting game is the single
most successful game of all time it has beaten out even grand theft auto 5 with 238 million
sales and billions of dollars in revenue all of this success has earned him 1.9 billion this
kind of star power obviously leads one to some massive purchases most notably he bought himself
a 70 million dollar bachelor pad in beverly hills california that he outbid the likes of
jay-z and beyonce for it has 8 luxury bedrooms and 15 bathrooms where each toilet costs five thousand
six hundred dollars that's not all though the purchase was an ideal turnkey mansion situation
the day he purchased the home he was able to keep the place's extensive artwork furniture and even
the wine collection that included several boxes of dom perignon which can go for as high as 700
a bottle this place is a nerd's paradise with all kinds of cool amenities it has retractable glass
walls an infinity pool a home gym a 500 000 sofa made by bentley motors it's got it all even the
places candy bar came with two hundred thousand dollars worth of candy the home was also built for
super cars the place even has a spot where you can display your cars on a giant turntable so i'm not
sure if the supercars came with the place at all it also features several human-sized transformers
overlooking the cars after designing a game like minecraft you'd think that the stars would be
aligning for this gaming legend unfortunately all the billions don't matter when you decide to tweet
awful things all the time his behavior took him from one of gaming's greatest heroes to one of its
most controversial figures he wasn't even invited to the 10th anniversary celebration for the game
you would think with all that money you could hire someone to ask you are you sure you want
to tweet that if you can't tell already swedish billionaires can be a particularly eccentric
bunch with some interesting hobbies that set them apart from the others i've covered on this channel
they make some odd purchases but they do it with such stock formula racing is a big deal
especially in europe it is an extremely dangerous highly skilled sport that costs an annual budget
of 220 million dollars for the likes of mercedes or ferrari well the underperforming swedish team
sauber was saved by a collection of highly interested swedish billionaires in 2016.
at first they kept their names a secret eventually it was discovered that the buyers included members
of two of the biggest families in sweden first we have carl johan pershin the son of the richest
man sweden stefan pershion at that time he was following in his father's footsteps as ceo of h
m which netted him 1.6 billion the other was finn rousing of the infamous rousing family in sweden
today he has amassed over 8 billion so was buying this limit of a team a worthy investment is this
one of those classic underdog sports stories where they come through in the end well during that
season they placed 9th in the brazilian grand prix it was arguably one of the worst seasons the team
ever saw so yeah i don't think it worked out for him sometimes you get to live your sports dreams
and sometimes you don't daniel eck known for being a co-founder of spotify is a huge football fan
his team of choice is arsenal how much does he love his team well spotify has earned him 3.9
billion dollars he made a juicy offer to buy arsenal by juicy i mean he offered 2.4 billion
that's most of his money a lot of people are passionate sports fans but few would give almost
everything for their team what's crazier is that when this was rejected he made a counter offer of
2.7 billion count gustav douglas is a noble who has earned 21.7 billion dollars making him one of
the richest men in sweden he currently lives in an extravagant castle that was built in 1548 with his
family so obviously he has to have a pretty extravagant lifestyle right well he has one of the
most infamously mundane hobbies of all time he's a world-class stamp collector in may of 2013 he
purchased the 1855 trey skilling yellow stamp so what does this thing go for two maybe 300 try 3.1
million dollars frederick paulson jr isn't just another billionaire he's an extreme billionaire
seriously this dude's a whip and a hat away from indiana jones paulson uses his 8.2 billion dollars
to travel all over the world exploring the highest peaks to the deepest depths for instance he was
the first guy to cross from alaska to russia in a roughly nine thousand dollar ultralight plane
just flying one of those planes and expecting not to crash is an adventure in and of itself he also
attempted to climb ecuador's mount shimbrazo the highest point on earth guides alone can cost 650
dollars a person and that's without the supplies that can run around 30 000 on the best gear in
august of 2007 he wanted to touch the true north pole 14 000 feet into the deep he took a 2 million
submersible down to the seabed that no man had ever seen before on top of the cost of
the submersibles the whole trip was another two mil yeah harrison ford could definitely play this
guy sweden itself is worth 612 billion dollars i'm really starting to think i might need to move