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The Three Comma Club: How Billionaires Think, Act & Shape Our World
‘If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.’—Paul Getty
The Three Comma Club is the most exclusive club in the world.
Its members include pop stars and politicians, inventors and industrialists, media magnates and mining moguls, heirs and heirs-in-waiting.
Each has crossed a threshold marked by nine zeroes separated by three commas. Each is blessed or burdened with more money than they could spend in a dozen lifetimes. There are just over 3,000 of them, a minuscule sliver of humanity.
And yet they wield enormous power over economies, governments, and society at large. They are despised as much as they are admired, envied as much as they are courted.
These are the billionaires. Welcome to a guided tour of a world where money has slipped its earthly bounds.
The Three Comma Club is the most exclusive club in the world.
Its members include pop stars and politicians, inventors and industrialists, media magnates and mining moguls, heirs and heirs-in-waiting.
Each has crossed a threshold marked by nine zeroes separated by three commas. Each is blessed or burdened with more money than they could spend in a dozen lifetimes. There are just over 3,000 of them, a minuscule sliver of humanity.
And yet they wield enormous power over economies, governments, and society at large. They are despised as much as they are admired, envied as much as they are courted.
These are the billionaires. Welcome to a guided tour of a world where money has slipped its earthly bounds.
343 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 22, 2026
About the author
Jonathan Ancer
10 books18 followersJournalist, cryptic crossword fan, enthusiastic cyclist and collector of Billy Bunter books.
Author of:
The Victor Within;
Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson;
Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies; Mensches in the Trenches: Jewish foot soldiers in the anti-apartheid struggle;
Joining the Dots: The Unauthorised Biography of Pravin Gordhan; and
Bullsh!t: 50 Fibs that Made South Africa
Author of:
The Victor Within;
Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson;
Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies; Mensches in the Trenches: Jewish foot soldiers in the anti-apartheid struggle;
Joining the Dots: The Unauthorised Biography of Pravin Gordhan; and
Bullsh!t: 50 Fibs that Made South Africa
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July 3, 2026
Do you know what the difference is between a millionaire and a billionaire?
I didn't. At the launch of this gripping book, author Jonathan Ancer explained that while a million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years.
That's a big difference. Many many millions of differences.
The Three Comma Club by Jonathan Ancer and Gus Silber will take you deep, deep into the world of billions.
Of a banana duct taped to a wall selling for $6.2 million as art.
Of businesses and billionaires made entirely by accident.
And those made entirely based on purpose.
Of meanness and greed and competitive spirit, but also philanthropy, kindness, ingenuity, timing and luck.
Of Taylor Swiftenomics and the secret Prince discovered too late.
Of billionaires as thrill seekers in a chapter ingeniously titled; 'thrillionaires'.
And of billionaires as explorers or just wanna-be ones.
This book may have not made me richer, but it definitely made me smarter, and I came to consider that maybe those two are the same thing.
I didn't. At the launch of this gripping book, author Jonathan Ancer explained that while a million seconds is 11 days, a billion seconds is 31 years.
That's a big difference. Many many millions of differences.
The Three Comma Club by Jonathan Ancer and Gus Silber will take you deep, deep into the world of billions.
Of a banana duct taped to a wall selling for $6.2 million as art.
Of businesses and billionaires made entirely by accident.
And those made entirely based on purpose.
Of meanness and greed and competitive spirit, but also philanthropy, kindness, ingenuity, timing and luck.
Of Taylor Swiftenomics and the secret Prince discovered too late.
Of billionaires as thrill seekers in a chapter ingeniously titled; 'thrillionaires'.
And of billionaires as explorers or just wanna-be ones.
This book may have not made me richer, but it definitely made me smarter, and I came to consider that maybe those two are the same thing.
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