Thanks for posting - really interesting article. The waste described in this article bothers me probably more than anything else. Purchasing duplicate flights to make sure that the flight was going to be efficient and comfortable for Mr Shaw is ridiculous to me. Donating a bunch of money from his foundation to colleges his children may want to attend is more palpable then having an apartment of people living upstairs that are planning the quality of a rug for one of their kids bedrooms, etc- that is astonishing. I wonder how well-adjusted these kids grew up living in that kind of environment.
There wasn’t a lot of information on what people thought of him on a personal level (outside of his neurotic over-researching behavior). Did his staff think he was a good person? Is he a narcissist? I wonder how much the kids knew and know now about the family dynamic. it must be tough for the youngest one to have an article like this out on the internet and be a high school/ soon to be college student.