Forbes, an American financial magazine, published the list of Hong Kong's richest people in the new year. At the age of 93, Li Ka-shing regained the position of the richest man, and his assets rose from US$ 265,438 +0.7 billion to US$ 35.4 billion (about HK$ 276,654.38+0 billion).
Lee Shau Kee, the founder of Henderson Land, who is known as the "fourth uncle", ranked first last year, but his net worth rose slightly to 30.5 billion US dollars (about 237.9 billion Hong Kong dollars) this year.
Zheng Jiachun, Chairman of New World Development (00 17), ranked third with a net worth of US$ 2.21billion (about HK$172.4 billion).
What made Li Ka-shing break through this peak?
The answer is vicious eyes!
Forbes pointed out that although Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Industrial Group's share price dropped by 27% last year, Li Ka-shing's share price of Zoom, an American listed company, rose, so did his wealth. Overall wealth increased by 20% to $35.4 billion.
According to Bloomberg Rich List, Li Ka-shing earned 1 1 billion dollars by Zoom, accounting for nearly 34% of his net worth.
What is scaling?
Let's just say that zoom is the nail of the global version. It is engaged in modern enterprise video communication, helping enterprises to conduct online meetings, chats and seminars.
Zoom, an American cloud video conference company, was founded on 20 1 1 by Eric Yuan, former vice general manager of Cisco, a Chinese American. Victoria Harbour Investment, the flagship investment company of Li Ka-shing's high-tech enterprise, has invested in shares as early as 20 13, and contributed to the series B financing of 6.5 million US dollars, becoming the company's first institutional investor.
20 19 When Zoom was listed in the United States in April, the market value of 8.6% shares held by Li Ka-shing had soared to 850 million dollars.
By the end of 20 19, Li Ka-shing was the fourth largest shareholder of Zoom, with a shareholding ratio of 5.25% and a stock value of US$ 6.274 billion.
In 2020, due to the epidemic, people were forced to hold online meetings and classes, which made ZOOM a "popular fried chicken" during the epidemic, and its sales increased by 355% in the three months to July 3 1.
The skyrocketing of ZOOM, especially the skyrocketing, is a huge profit for Li Ka-shing, and the driving force behind it is Zhou Kaixuan, the co-founder of Victoria Harbour Investment, who met with Jacky, the founder of Zoom, in the United States to finalize the investment.
Victoria Harbour investment is praised by the outside world as a fulcrum of Li Ka-shing's wealth map. This is a venture capital company, which mainly invests in high-tech early projects and is managed by Zhou Kaixuan.
In fact, Li Ka-shing has always had a soft spot for "disruptive technology".
Li Ka-shing's vision is not limited to zooming. In recent years, Li Ka-shing has invested in many star projects, covering financial technology, quantum computing, synthetic biology, assisted reproduction, satellites and other high-tech industries.
From June 5438 to October 2020 10, the Nobel Prizes were announced one by one, including two prizes for medicine and chemistry, and two scientists were funded by Li Ka-shing.
The nobel prize in chemistry
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry are Charpantier of France and Jennifer A. Doudna of the United States.
Their main research achievement is gene editing. They have developed a kind of gene scissors called CRISPR/Cas9, which can be used to accurately change the DNA of animals, plants and microorganisms.
This technology can be used for the treatment of cancer and genetic diseases, which can be said to be a subversive innovation.
Among them, Li Ka-shing funded Dudner.
20 1 1 The Li Ka-shing Foundation donated 40 million dollars to the University of California, Berkeley, to build the "Li Ka-shing Biomedical and Health Science Center".
In 20 14, another100000 USD was donated to support the Innovative Genome Project (IGI) of UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. At the same time, the University of California at Berkeley established the Li Ka-shing Genome Engineering Center and a special chairman. Two universities allocated $2 million as start-up funds for related research.
The executive director of this IGI project is Dudner.
Dudner was also hired as the President's Chair Professor of Biomedical and Health Sciences in Li Ka-shing.
In other words, Li Ka-shing invested more than 300 million RMB in this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Michael houghton of Britain, Charles M. Rice of America and Harvey Oort of America all won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
The three of them discovered hepatitis C virus, which made it possible for blood tests and new drugs, thus saving millions of lives.
Li Ka-shing funded Horton.
In 20 10, the Li Ka-shing Foundation donated 25 million Canadian dollars (nearly 654.38+300 million RMB) to the University of Alberta, and the government of Alberta matched 52.5 million Canadian dollars.
The money was the largest cash donation ever received by Albert University, and the Li Ka-shing Institute of Applied Virology was established at that time.
Horton later became the director of Li Ka-shing Institute of Applied Virology.
Of course, it should be noted that in fact, Li Ka-shing not only contributed nearly 500 million yuan, but also didn't really fight and run. Over the years, the Li Ka-shing Foundation has donated more than 25 billion yuan.
From real estate tycoon to technology tycoon, Li Ka-shing's thinking on the layout of technology industry in his later years is far ahead of many young people. Donating money to the biomedical field may be selfish, but it is undeniable that the Li Ka-shing and Li Ka-shing Foundation has made positive contributions to the scientific research progress in related fields.