Super-Yachts Last All Summer Long, Part II

By Paul Kedrosky · March 31, 2008 · ·

Tom Perkins of Kleiner Perkins fame has his mega-super-yacht Maltese Falcon for sale. Launched only in the summer of 2006, and nos being sold for $166m or so, this is not going be a 10x exit for the former venture capitalist.

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Comments

  1. Joe Moreno says:
    March 31, 2008 at 11:39 am

    Hmm, I wonder why he’s selling it?

  2. Mathew Ingram says:
    March 31, 2008 at 11:45 am

    Nice allusion to that great sci-fi short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” — wasn’t that the basis for Kubrick’s movie AI?

  3. Thomas Purves says:
    March 31, 2008 at 11:53 am

    The modern square-rig-esqe sail plan is a pretty radical design. Maybe it doesn’t sail so good.