Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Seattle Tech Mogul Collections: Rocketships, WWII Airplanes, Meteors

Seattle looks like it's earning quite a reputation for tech-moguls-with-collections. This month's Forbes highlights the World War II aircraft collection of Paul Allen (Microsoft), along with the meteorite collection of Naveen Jain (Infospace). Naveen Jain apparently has spent $5M on his collection of meteors. Seattle already has a high profile collector in Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), who recently collected the historic Apollo rocket engines from the bottom of the ocean (and has his own company, Blue Origin, working on developing his own rocket fleet).