What I learnt about billionaires at Jeff Bezos’ private retreat
by Noah Hawley · Australian Financial ReviewNoah Hawley
May 8, 2026 – 5.00am
At the end of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis’s oil baron character, old now and richer than Croesus, beats Paul Dano’s preacher to death with a bowling pin. Dano’s Eli Sunday, a nemesis of Day-Lewis’s Daniel Plainview during his seminal, wealth-building years, has come to sell Plainview, the oil-rich land that he once coveted.
But Plainview doesn’t need the land any more because – as he explains in one of the most famous monologues in modern cinema – he has sucked out all the oil hidden beneath it from an adjoining property, like a milkshake.
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