Chan Laiwa
Age 77 Net Worth $5.8 Billion
Born Beijing, China Citizen China
Selfmade in real estate , founder of Fu Wah International Group in 1988
Education High School Dropout
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In 1982, she moved to Hong Kong
In 1988, she founded Fuh Wa International Group in Hong Kong, her own real estate firm
In 2014, she became the richest woman selfmade billionaire in China and in the world.
In 1999, she founded the Red Sandalwood Museum and spent more than $1 Billion US of her money
Joseph Tsai
Age 54 Net Worth $8.3 Billion
Born Taipei, Taiwan Citizen Canada
Selfmade in eCommerce , co-founder of Alibaba in 1997
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His went to Yale Law School.
His father graudated from Yale Law School.
His grandfather also graduated from Yale Law School.
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In 1997, he quit his investment banker job with AB
that paid him $700K a year to join Alibaba
$700K a year is about $60K a month. He took a salary of $80 a moth to work for Alibaba.
He was willing to work for Peanut
His is a brilliant strategy. First, he helped Alibaba survived by raising $1 Billion from Yahoo.
At one point Yahoo owned 40% of Alibaba.
Later on, he bought back 20% of Alibaba from Yahoo.
In 2018, he is the richest selfmade billionaire in Canada
Joseph Tsai bought the Brooklyn Nets (NBA Team) from Mikhail Prohorov in 2018
Lindsay Fox
Age 81 Net Worth $3.1 Billion
Born Sydney Australia Citizen Australia
Selfmade in Trucking , founded Linfox in 1956
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In 1956, he founded Linfox. He was 19
This is a picture of his first truck, now he owns more than 6,000 trucks , operating in 12 countries.
Since 1993, his son Peter Fox took over as Chairman of Linfox and let Linfox to another chapter of glorious growth
Steven Lam
Age 32 Net Worth $1 Billion
Born Hong Kong Citizen Hong Kong
Selfmade in eCommerce , co-founder of GoGoVan in 2013
Education UC Berkeley BA Business
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He created the first Unicorn in Hong Kong at the young age of 32. His company is called GoGoVan
In 2013, he co-founded GoGoVan with 2 others who they met in California
In 2017, GoGoVan merged with Suyun of Beijing to become a Unicorn
Eric Schmidt
Age 63 Net Worth $13.9B
Born Falls Church, Virginia , US Citizen US
Selfmade in Search Engine CEO of Google 2001 to 2011
Education
BS Princeton University
MS PhD UC Berkeley in Computer Science
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Eric Schmidt was brought in to scale Google by Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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Prior to joining Google, he was CEO of Novell
And before that, he was CTO of Sun MicroComputer, where he helped developed the Java Language
In Google, he was famous for introducing Genius Hours, where Google employees spend 20% of their time working on their own idea or projects
From 2001 to 2011, he was CEO of Google and he wrote the book "How Google Works"
Daniel Ek
Age 35 Net Worth $2.6 Billion
Born Stockholm, Sweden Citizen Sweden
Selfmade in music streaming, co-founded Spotify with Martin Lorentzon
Education: RTH Royal Institute of Technology Dropped out
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Spotify in 2018, is the world's largest music streaming company
Daniel Ek started a web service company at the age of 14, initially charging $100 per web site. By Age 18, he was making $50,000 a month and hiring 25 classmates.
At age 23, he co-founded Spotify with Martin Lorentzon
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Wang Xing
Age 39 Net Worth $5.3 Billion (Oct 2018)
Born, Longyan, Fujin China Citizen China
Selfmade in Internet founded Meituan in 2010
Education: BS Tsinghua University 2001
MS University of Delaware 2003
PhD Dropout University of Delaware 2004
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He is known as Father of China Web 2.0
His first project was imitating Facebook and he sold the website RenRen for $2 Million in 2006.
In 2010, he founded Meituan, which is equivalent of Groupon in US . Meituan promotes discount through group purchase.
Dianping is a Evaluation and Delivery Application.
In 2015, Meituan merged with Dianping to create Meituan-Dianping Group through IPO in Hong Kong
In 2018, Meituan-Dianping is China's Everything App and has more than 350 million users.
