Inside The Survival Business | Forbes

Entrepreneur and developer Robert Vicino has dedicated his professional career to the business of survival. His company, Vivos, built a "members only" survival community with dozens of communal bunkers in anticipation of a major disaster. Each bunker provides enough floor area, with attic potential, to comfortably accommodate 10-20 people and the needed supplies, which would last for a year or more. Although pricing for membership may sound reasonable at a few tens of thousands of dollars, not everyone who applies gets accepted. Forbes spoke with Vicino to understand what makes the doomsday business so profitable and why companies like Vivos are more relevant now more than ever.
 
Read more how billionaire bunker owners are prepping their underground escape on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2020/03/27/billionaire-bunker-owners-are-preparing-for-the-ultimate-underground-escape/#61d6e2654e12

Follow along on one man's journey to visit doomsday preppers around the world on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2020/04/24/notes-from-an-apocalypse-author-mark-oconnell-travels-the-world-to-see-how-people-are-preparing-for-doomsday/#4e56ea837d5b

To learn more about the business of billionaire bunkers, follow Forbes Lifestyle contributor Jim Dobson on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/#2791b674122b

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