Seattle didn’t just wake up to rain this week—it woke up to a $300 million floating mansion casually sliding through its waterways like it owned the place. And of course, the internet did what it does best: immediately turned it into a full-blown spectacle involving Mark Zuckerberg’s superyacht, Meta layoffs, and a suspicious amount of binocular-wielding locals.
At the center of it all? A 387-foot megayacht called Launchpad, reportedly linked to Zuckerberg, now permanently etched into Seattle’s collective memory as that time a superyacht showed up during a very awkward week.




