T. Boone Pickens Tells Drake How to Make a Billion Dollars

It has been more than two years since T. Boone Pickens and Drake squabbled briefly on Twitter over wealth-management challenges relevant to almost no one. So in the service of helping young people pursue their most optimistic financial goals, Bloomberg Businessweek today resurrects the beef with an exclusive perspective from Pickens.

When Drake, a former teen actor in a Canadian TV drama (and current rap artist), took to Twitter in 2012 to humblebrag about how hard it can be to get rich, octogenarian oil tycoon Pickens was ready.

To Drake’s claim on Twitter that “The first million is the hardest,” T. Boone Pickens, at the time a billionaire, countered: “The first billion is a helluva lot harder.” Pickens would know. The 86-year-old chairman and chief executive of BP Capital is worth about $950 million. His biography is literally titled The First Billion Is the Hardest.