Bad Hotels and Not Enough Wine: A Week With Billionaires

DAVOS—Billionaires and world leaders swarm this tiny Alpine village for one week every year to stage a lavish networking extravaganza with the social stress of a high-school prom and the physical demands of Nordic skiing. It is probably the only place in the world where you will turn around and realize the person behind you in line is Jane Goodall, or in another instance, the person in front of you is Sam Altman. Davos doesn’t have enough meeting spaces for all the thought leaders and their thoughts.