You are what you eat—so how did someone who used to eat entire packs of biscuits and octopuses for breakfast become the world’s richest man?
The diets of the rich and famous are endlessly fascinating, but in Silicon Valley, where intense five-minute tech work / sleep regimes collide with the fads of California, tech billionaires take things to a whole other level.
Whether it’s Jeff Bezos eating entire packs of biscuits for breakfast, or Mark Zuckerberg serving cold goat slaughtered with a ‘laser gun’, these techies have fuelled their way to the top on some truly bizarre grub. They say you don’t need a silver fork to eat good food, but it seems that even those with silver forks can take it or leave it.
If you’re after the secret to success, you might not find it in the pantries of Silicon Valley. It’s important to note that eating some of this stuff is unlikely to make you very rich or successful, or even healthier. However, very rich and successful people do eat this stuff, and after all, you are what you eat.
In the late 1990s, the world’s richest man and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos admits he did not have great eating habits.
In an interview, he said he used to eat an entire pack of biscuits for breakfast every morning. “When my wife and I got married, I had been eating a whole can – for a couple of years – a whole can of Pillsbury biscuits for breakfast every morning.”
“I would preheat the oven to 375, I’d get out the baking sheet, I’d crack open the Pillsbury biscuits and place them on there with butter and I’d eat the whole can. And I was skinny as a rail.”
“She watched me do this every morning as my spouse for three months and she finally stopped me one day and asked, ‘do you even know what’s in that?'”
It doesn’t stop there. During a breakfast meeting in 2010 with the head of a newly-acquired tech business, Bezos reportedly ordered a breakfast dish consisting of Mediterranean octopus, bacon, green garlic yoghurt, and a poached egg.
Insta Mommy Gram 