November 24, 2024 17:07 PM

Top Tech Companies Celebrities Find Lucrative In Investing Their Wealth

On top of being celebrities and the famous faces of Hollywood, these stars are investing a huge amount of their fortunes for these tech companies for a reason. Besides earning millions in front of the camera, investments on such firms are as equally lucrative.

Based from one of the many in the previous year's reports like Thrillist, the actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, popularly known as the terminator, also has his shares with Google. Having the ability to do this and doing it isn't rocket science. Even Tiger Woods made one of his wisest choices in doing the same by actually investing in Google earlier in 1999.

The tech company called Stamped are also getting a lot of support from the well-known figures in show business. Both Justin Bieber and Ellen DeGeneres have made their investment with the mobile tech company. This focuses on letting its users review and track just about anything.

Stamped was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 as indicated in ZDNet and it is even more of a strong statement that even after leaving their stardom, every celebrity invested with the company can live their lives comfortably in a very long run.

One of the lesser known icons in Hollywood regarding their investments is the actor/vocalist Jared Leto. The Joker of "Suicide Squad" made more than 40 investments with various tech companies. This includes the world-famous information exchange community site Reddit.

Leto also backed up Gobbler, a musician-friendly site where fellow artists can share their works all over the world. John Legend, along with the musical icon, Elton John have also made their investments with the tech company.

Tons of other figures like Snoop Dogg also made it possible for reddit to give 10 percent of its new shares to the site's users in 2014. This happened after reddit banned "The Fappening" where nude celebrity photos were shared in the sub-reddit page. There were speculations regarding the slow removal of the photos and the fund-raising, but this was denied by reddit CEO Yishan Wong.

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