Hong Kong Selfmade Billionaires 
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Here is a map of Hong Kong

This is the free eBook, published in Amazon Kindle 

Here is how to get free eBook 
Step #1, write to drpaulchan@gmail.com
Step #2, write "Hong Kong" for title 

And I will email you free eBook pdf format

This is my youtube link to Hong Kong Selfmade Billionaires

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=sL1QvpVzMDo


Why do we study Hong Kong Selfmade Billionaires?
#1   Reason   Hong Kong has the highest density of selfmade billionaires in the world 

5 selfmade billionaires per million population

    #1  Hong Kong  (5 per million population)
    #2  Israel  (1.8 per million population) 
    #3  Unites States (1.3 per million population) 

#2 Reason,  Hong Kong is famous for its Wealth and also its Inequality

E.g. the Poor in Hong Kong live in Cages  (about 6 feet long and 2.5 feet wide)

Here is a picture of the Cage People in Hong Kong 

Some Strange Statistics
No 1   The Majority of selfmade billionaires in Hong Kong has high school or less education 

No 2  The Majority of selfmade billionaires in Hong Kong are immigrants 

Gordon Moore  
Age 89     Net Worth $8.9 Billion
Born  San Francisco, US    Citizen  US
Selfmade in Micro-Processors    , co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor (1957) 
and Intel (1968) 

Education:   BS  Chemistry   UC Berkeley
                     PhD   Chemistry  California Institute Technology

Gordon Moore is Most Famous as the author of the Moore's Law
The Moore's Law is the most famous law in Silicon Valley 
 Here is a quote of the Moore's Law

Here is a picture of Gordon Moore 


 







Here is my youtube link to Gordon Moore
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=kDLdmqasb0g


Moore's Law is Extreme Optimism 
which is the opposite of 
Murphy's Law, which is Extreme Pessimmism


Gordon Moore is most famous as co-founder of Intel





Here is a quote of Murphy's Law

Aristotle Onasis 
Age 69   Net Worth  $600 Millions in 1975, probably $8 Billion to $10 Billion today
Born  Smyrna , Ottoman Empire    Citizen:  Argentina
Selfmade in Shipping 

EDUCATION:  High School, graduated near bottom of class 

Here is picture of Aristotle Onasis

He made his immense wealth by owning 70 oil tankers, the largest fleet in the world

He is nicknamed "The Golden Greek" because everything he touches seems to turn into gold. 

Here is my youtube link to Aristotle Onasis 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqrVIvClryw


In my database of 3,000+ selfmade billionaire, he is the most famous womanizer 

This is  one of the most famous woman he seduced but never married
Maria Callas 

These are some of his most famous quotes

In 1923, he was a stateless refugee immigrant to Argentina.  He had endured a Cruel War (Greek Turkey War 1919 - 1922)
and a Cruel Father (who treated him harshly) 

Here is his secrets 

Vinod Khosla 
Age    62      Net Worth $2.4 Billion 
Born   New Dehli, India    Citizen   US
Selfmade in Venture Capitalist 

founded Khosla Venture in 2004 in Menlo Park, California

Education:
BS Electrical Engineer    IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) New Dehli
MS Biomedical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University
MBA  Stanford University (1980) 


This is picture of Vinod Khosla

This is my youtube link toVinod Khosla 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xah8YnYGmA4&t=78s

co-founded SUN MICROSYSTEMS in 1982 

From 1982 to 1984, he was CEO of Sun Microsystems

He was the first to see the impact of fiber optics, network and PCs that would change the world. 

Since 2008, Vinod Khosla has been involved in the Martins Beach Controvery. 

He bought 30 acres of land adjacent to Martins Beach and barred public access to Martins Beach through his property. 

The Livermore Methodology

who is Jesse Livermore? (1877 to 1940)
He was once the richest man in Wall Street.  In 1929, he shorted the stock market and made $100 million, about $14 billions in today's value. 
 

 

what is Livermore Methodology?


This is my youtube link on Livermore Methodology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN2E_1tTBhw

Livermore was a math wizard in high school.
His dad forced him to grow potatoes so he ran away. 

At age 14, he was working as 
chalk boy at Bucket shop 

By writing the stock prices using a white chalk on blackboards, he figured out the patterns of stock price movements were not random.   

In more modern term, we can sum it up 
"IQ is Pattern Recognition"

Those with IQ observed and deduced certain repeatable patterns.  They act accordingly, and then are viewed as genius

What I learned from Ingvar Kamprad?

First, who is Ingvar Kamprad?

Well, he was the richest Swedish Selfmade Billionaire and one of the richest man in Europe with net worth more than $30 million. 

Ingvar Kamprad just passed away at age 91 two days ago.

These are the reasons he is one of the greatest entrepreneur in the world. 

#1   Small Country -- Sweden is a small country in population, with about 10 million people

He built a global empire and was Furniture King of the World. 

If you have visited an IKEA you know the scale and innovation

#2  Small Education -- Ingvar Kamprad never went to high school. 

To me, he is small education, big billionaire 

#3  He is an inventor who beat Thomas Edison in furniture 

Ingvar Kamprad invented folded tables and folded furniture.

Thomas Edison thought of mass producing furniture and shipping them.  Unfortunately Edison's idea was not folded furniture but concrete furniture (from molding) 

In retrospect, it is easy to see how Thomas Edison failed and how Ingvar Kamprad succeeded

What I learned the Most from Ingvar Kamprad?

LESS IS MORE 
For Furniture 
For Life

Robert F Smith
Age 55   Net Worth $3.3 Billions 
Born  Denver, US    Citizen   US
Selfmade in Private Equity , co-founded Vista Equity Partners in 2000

Education:  BS  Chemical Engineering  Cornell University 1985 
                             MBA Columbia University  1994 

This is a picture of Robert F Smith 

This is my youtube linke to Robert F Smith 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYCYl_X01M

He worked for Krafts Food after graduation from Cornell University and he owns 4 patents, 2 in Europe and 2 in the United States




The co-founder of Vista Equity Partner, Brian Sheth, also became selfmade billionaire

 Robert F Smith has been busy doing charity, first giving $30 Million to Cornell University and then $20 Million to the Museum of African American History in Washington DC

His specialty is Enterprise Software, where his company helps companies to improve productivity