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Graeme Hart was once a high school dropout working as an auto-body repairman and truck driver. Today he's New Zealand's richest person, thanks to a career in private equity, with a taste for super-yachts, submarines and superhero-themed pinball machines.

Graeme Hart was once a high school dropout working as an auto-body repairman and truck driver. Today he's New Zealand's richest person, thanks to a career in private equity, with a taste for super-yachts, submarines and superhero-themed pinball machines.