For me, the first thing I’d do is clear my family of all debts(or whatever financial issues) there is and then the second thing i’d do is buy a hundred Siomai for me to eat
What are you buying if you won One billion dollars?
Initially? Nothing. Unless my identity has been publicly tied to this amount of money, in which case a plane ticket to somewhere I’m not known, probably.
Start a nonprofit open source IoT hardware company. Internet-connected smart devices and appliances are cool, but not the way they are implemented now. I’d base everything on common hobby chips like ESP32, AVR, and STM32. Every single device would have a completely unlocked firmware upload port.
Hello Vegas, give me 1 billion on red. D’oh, I’ll mail you a cheque.
- Buy a big mansion/estate somewhere quiet in Scotland
- Hire staff and carers
- Fill mansion with the CFS/ME sufferers who are in awful situations and give them somewhere safe/peaceful to exist.
- Rinse and repeat to how many such facilities that much money can support.
- Leave enough in trust to keep the facilities open.
Property. What I then do with it can be decided later.