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The Gold Medal Of Li Jiacheng, The Richest Man In Asia

2012/3/10 11:32:00 11

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As the richest man in Asia, he is not only in Hongkong, but also in the mainland of China.

But in recent years, what he has been striking is that he has always been able to dig out treasures of high-tech industries, including Facebook, Siri and Spotify.

Forbes magazine recently obtained such a rare opportunity to give an exclusive interview with Li Jiacheng, so that the world can have an opportunity to understand his new investment strategy and what areas he is investing in.

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Li Jiacheng

Eighty of his age is three, but he does more work before lunch every day than his half year old.

Before I saw him, he had run out of porridge and vegetables for breakfast, read the international news and had a round of golf around his home.

He has lived here for the past 50 years.

Li Jiacheng's office is located on the top floor of the Changjiang group center. This office is known as a private swimming pool, and one of the fastest elevators in the world (it takes 70 seconds in 45 seconds to speed up the eardrum).

In front of me is a detached and tranquil state.

"Investing in high technology can make people feel younger."

He smiled and said that his trademark black frame glasses also followed the "dance".

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Forbes magazine

It has been 1/4 centuries since the establishment of the world's richest list.

During this period, Li Jiacheng has developed a huge family business in the rich place of 7 million of Hongkong.

One of every seven apartments in Hongkong is built by his company.

He also controls 70% of Hongkong's port logistics, and has huge market share in utilities and mobile communications services.

His achievements in the mainland, especially retail and real estate, are also remarkable.

Li Jiacheng has not received an exclusive interview with Western media for nearly five years.

And this time, he made a golden hole in his most unexpected career.

In recent years, Li Jiacheng has invested in a series of investment in the field of high technology, and he has joined the list of technology Bole represented by Yuri Milner (Yuri Milner).

For startups, even if they get their shares, success is guaranteed.

Facts prove that the old man has unimaginable courage in the digital world.

He told me that he spent five minutes in December 2007 and decided to invest in Facebook, even though the company had almost no revenue at that time.

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The estimated value of the plan has reached US $15 billion.

This investment opportunity was presented to Li Jiacheng by his confidante Zhou Kai, who is the head of Horizons Ventures, a private high-tech investment company of Li Jiacheng.

Li Jiacheng was immediately attracted to Facebook's growing user base and its business prospects in the mobile world, so he soon agreed to invest $120 million to buy 0.8% of Facebook.

After that, he added additional investment, but the number of shares he bought was unknown.

Considering that the market value of Facebook will have to exceed $100 billion after the listing, it will surely bring Li Jiacheng $1 billion or more wealth.

Investment in Facebook is just one of the most prominent examples of Li Jiacheng's investment in the field of high technology.

Victoria Harbour invested in Skype in 2005. Later, the loss company was bought by eBay for $2 billion 500 million.

He also invested $7 million 500 thousand in Siri, which was acquired by Apple Corp in 2010 a year later.

In recent years, he also invested in music website Spotify, crowdsourcing car navigation service company Waze and waterproof technology company HzO.

"One of the coolest features of him and his team is that they are clear about the direction of the imagined world."

Spotify CEO Daniel Daniel (Daniel Ek) said so.

AIKE is only 29 years old enough to be Li Jiacheng's grandson.

AIKE said: "from the moment he invested in Spotify, he promised to install Spotify on his car.

This happened in 2009 when Spotify did not launch mobile apps.

What he wants is: "when can Spotify be popularized on every vehicle?" in his view, Spotify everywhere is a reasonable thing.

What he sees is not technological limitations, but the way the world should develop. "

Because of its deep-rooted connections in Asia, many of the rookie companies are coming to the market, hoping to get help from the company and enter the market of China's second largest economy in the world.

Noam Bardin, chief executive of Waze, said: "I only know them through their investments in Facebook and Skype." Noam Bardin. "

The Israeli American company received a total of $30 million from Victoria Harbour and Kai Penghua Kleiner last year.

Soon, he praised Li Jiacheng for his insight into global vision, decisive decisions and strong connections.

"They have deep roots in the mainland of China."

Yahal Zilka, the founder of Magma Ventures and the founder of Waze, added.

He said that Victoria's investment helped them in adapting to Chinese culture and finding potential partners.

Later, he and Li Jiacheng jointly invested two other Israeli technology start-ups.