When you scoop up some venture capital money, the first thing you should do is rent out a mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Silicon Valley. Don't worry: after you move into Downton Valley, your investor will cheer you on!

When you can afford something like this, why not turn down $3 billion? Ha ha, joking, that's still baffling. At least Bobby Murphy, the other, 25-year-old, slightly less Machiavellian guy behind Snapchat, can ponder his business moves in a new, $2.1 million, ultra-modern Venice Beach fortress. [via Curbed]

Why would you ever have one mansion when you can have two of them, right next to each other, you schmuck? Common sense like this is why Elon Musk is a billionaire, and you aren't.

She wasn't just going to let Mark Zuckerberg be the only one swallowing up adjacent property, was she? She's been in Vogue, don't you know,and if she wants to spend $11.2 million on a Palo Alto mortuary a block away from her house, then God bless her.

When Marissa Mayer isn't posing upside down in lawn chairs, Yahoo's chief executive is doing normal CEO stuff, like buying this miniature, $33,000 version of Palo Alto's Peninsula Creamery. To place in her backyard. For her infant son.