Dr. Thomas J. PowellEntrepreneur | International Financier | Doctor of Law & Policy | Lifestyle Enthusiast

$100B In a Day?! Oracle's Big Payday!

9 Oct 2025 · 0 min

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Dr. Thomas J. Powell uses time analogies to show how vast a billion really is, then asks who saw their net worth jump $100 billion in a single day. A million seconds is two weeks. A billion seconds is 32 years. 100 billion seconds takes you back 3,200 years.

Questions this video answers

About two weeks.

Approximately 32 years.

About 3,200 years.

The speaker says it goes back to medieval times.

So I'm going to do a little bit of math quiz here. So what's the difference between a million and a billion? In seconds?
In seconds.
So a million is about two weeks. A billion is 32 years. 100 billion. So when we start talking about math is 3200 years, which is about the equivalent of our large sequoias over in Yosemite. So you see those trees? Big trees there? And 400 billion is about how long we've been around in society. So we go back to medieval times. Why do I say that? Well, something happened this last week in the financial markets that one person in one day's net worth changed by $100 billion. Does anybody know who that was?
Oracle.