{"id":1019652,"date":"2026-07-09T08:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019652"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:28:49","slug":"from-space-rocks-to-smartwatches-ai-millionaires-rewrite-the-luxury-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/from-space-rocks-to-smartwatches-ai-millionaires-rewrite-the-luxury-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"From space rocks to smartwatches, AI millionaires rewrite the luxury playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on roughly $3.5 million in SpaceX shares, Chip, a former data scientist at Elon Musk&#8217;s aerospace behemoth, has recently bought meteorites worth $10,000 and a $5,000 fire truck. <\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old space enthusiast is not sure how he will use the truck &#8211; maybe as an attraction for his 3-year-old kid&#8217;s birthday party. But his new wealth tied to SpaceX&#8217;s initial public offering in June has given him the freedom to buy &#8220;silly&#8221; things, he told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting on roughly $3.5 million in SpaceX shares, Chip, a former data scientist at Elon Musk&#8217;s aerospace behemoth, has recently bought meteorites worth $10,000 and a $5,000 fire truck. The 50-year-old space enthusiast is not sure how he will use the truck &#8211; maybe as an attraction for his 3-year-old kid&#8217;s birthday party. But his new wealth tied to SpaceX&#8217;s initial public offering in June has given him the freedom to buy &#8220;silly&#8221; things, he told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019673,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019652\/revisions\/1019673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}