When Mark Zuckerberg for the first time spoke about his Hawaii home, famously called 'Doomsday bunker', and said to have basement of the size of NBA basketball court

Meta CEO Mark ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg calls it a ‘basement’“I think that’s a little shelter, a basement,”“We have the basic house that we built and an office out there and just a bunch of storage space and whatever you want to call it, hurricane shelter or whatever. I think it got blown out of proportion that whole shelter, that the whole ranch was some sort of Doomsday bunker which is not true,”Underground shelter is nearly 4,500 square feet“storm shelter”“In all my years of selling real estate, I’ve maybe sold maybe one or two homes with basements,”“Very infrequently do we come across homes the magnitude of his compound,”Zuckerberg says ranch is about more than the shelter“It’s not unreasonable when you have a financial ability to do something that protect you and your family. It doesn’t surprise me,"

Source: Times of India September 15, 2026 07:42 UTC