Why did Ma Yun, Chen Tianqiao, and Wang Shi keep hundreds of millions of family wealth?
Retreat bravely from the rapids and keep your life rich. If you continue to toss, you may become crippled.
Author: Li Jie (Baopu Financial Commentator)
Chen Tianqiao, who has not been named for a long time, once again entered the public eye because he bought a lot of land in the United States.
On January 8, according to foreign media reports, Chen Tianqiao currently owns 198,000 acres (80,127 hectares) of forest land in Oregon, ranking 82nd in the United States "landlord" list, and is also the second largest non-American citizen landowner in the United States.
▲Screenshot of the webpage of the American magazine "Land Report".
This piece of land is equivalent to the size of Baiyun District of Guangzhou, which is already a relatively large area of Guangzhou's main urban area.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average value of arable land in the U.S. rose 8.1% last year and has risen by more than a third since 2020. Chen Tianqiao lay and won.
01 Chen Tianqiao donates $115 million a year
In addition to buying land in the United States, Chen Tianqiao owns about 500,000 acres of woodland in Ontario, Canada.
Why is Chen Tianqiao so obsessed with buying forest land? My guess: in addition to economic considerations, I am afraid there are also spiritual needs.
Once, due to the failure of the investment in the Grand Box project, Chen Tianqiao was unwell. At first, I thought it was a heart attack, but later it turned out to be a "panic attack" of neurosis. People with this disease will suddenly develop a strong phobia, feeling that "death is coming, disaster is imminent" or "loss of self-control", accompanied by symptoms such as heart palpitations and difficulty breathing.
As a person who has felt "death is coming" many times, he buys a forest that cannot be seen, to a large extent, to buy himself a piece of quiet, a place to walk in the depths of his soul, a place to relax.
▲The Oregon woodland bought by Chen Tianqiao
In this life, people will eventually come to an end.
Chen Tianqiao is 50 years old, knows the destiny of heaven, buys woodland, looks comfortable by himself, and that's it.
It's also good to be less calculating, stay away from tension, and pass on the woodland to future generations.
In 2018, he and his wife, Qianqianqian, paid $39 million for the Vanderbilt Tower on East 69th Street in Manhattan.
In 2021, the couple bought the Seely Mulder estate on the outskirts of Los Angeles for $25 million.
▲ Seely Mulder Manor
The estate was built in 1934 and has been the residence of the president of the University of Southern California (USC) for more than four decades. From there, the Chen couple had easy access to Caltech's Tianqiao and Chriss-Chan Institute for Neuroscience.
The couple made a $115 million philanthropic donation to the institute to build a three-story, 150,000-square-foot facility on the Caltech campus, which opened in 2021.
In December 2016, Tianqiao Chen announced an annual donation of US$115 million to the California Polytechnic Institute for 10 consecutive years, with a total amount of up to US$1 billion, dedicated to brain science research.
▲ Chen Tianqiao and his wife
According to Shanda's website, it currently has three NASDAQ-listed subsidiaries and one Kosdaq-listed subsidiary in South Korea. Tianqiao's investments span public and private equity, venture capital and real estate.
Chen Tianqiao is not fighting, do something light, you can also say that he has retired, he is smart, for the sake of health, he should also let go.
02 Jack Ma bought a piece of land in the United States
Ma Yun is likely to enjoy his retirement in Japan at the moment, Ma Yun only turned 60 on September 10 this year, but he has stepped down from the position of chairman of Ali for a long time.
On September 10, 2019, Jack Ma stepped down as chairman of Alibaba's board of directors.
Jack Ma has been selling various types of stocks, and according to the information recently disclosed by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's equity information, Jack Ma and his other three concerted actors in Ant Group, Jing Xiandong, Hu Xiaoming, and Jiang Fang, cleared their interests in six Hong Kong stocks on December 28, 2023. The six Hong Kong stocks whose rights and interests were cleared by Ma Yun and others this time are AGTech (08279), Beijing Youbao Online (02429), Weitian Express (02482), Vobile Group (03738), Yashiwei (01993) and Zhongan Online (06060).
On November 16 last year, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosed two Form 144 showing that JC Properties Limited and JSP Investment Limited, wholly owned by Jack Ma Family Trust, planned to sell the shares of Alibaba founders on November 21, both of which were 5 million American Depositary Shares (ADS), according to Alibaba $87.070 on November 15, Eastern time/ The total market value of the stock reduction involved in this reduction is $870.7 million.
The lawyer in Jack Ma's office clearly replied to reporters that the sale plan disclosed this time is a long-term plan, and there is no actual reduction in the plan at present.
Mr. Ma now mostly does what he loves: cares about produce, lectures at universities under his name, and then stays in Tokyo to taste all kinds of food.
Jack Ma once bought a Japanese mansion in Hakone from Son, with an area of more than 2,000 square meters. Jack Ma is very fond of a sushi restaurant near Hakone, and he has been visiting this restaurant since 2019, and he loves sea urchin the most. After the epidemic, he will often order takeout of this sushi restaurant.
▲ It is rumored on the Internet that Ma Yun's mansion in Hakone
Jack Ma is based in Japan, mainly in Tokyo. He often spends his time soaking in hot springs and skiing with his family, accompanied by his own chef and security guard.
In Tokyo, he used high-end clubs in Ginza and Marunouchi as his base to meet with guests.
▲ Source: Yahoo News Japan
It must be said: In 2015, Ma Yun also bought a piece of land with an area of more than 100 square kilometers in the United States and entrusted it to the Peach Blossom Paradise Ecological Conservation Foundation to protect it.
Located in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, the land is a forest within Brandon Private Park, which covers 28,100 acres (113.72 square kilometers).
Mr. Ma is a master and a person who knows how to advance and retreat.
03 Wang Shi is in better condition than Yao Zhenhua
Wang Shi is also an enviable entrepreneur.
The last time he swiped the screen was because he said that he had a three-year-old daughter, and then he deliberately emphasized: "It's not an illegitimate daughter, it's a marriage match." This self-revelation immediately attracted great attention from people, and the topic quickly rushed to the hot search list.
Wang Shi also talked about his wife Tian Pujun. Wang Shi said: "Many people think that I am now married for the second time, and my young daughter-in-law thinks that she is in love with me. I'll give you an account now, when I met her, she had more cash than I did. Wang Shi also said that Tian Pujun did not make money by shooting advertisements, but that she was already a real estate consultant in the mainland of Shui On at that time, "(when I met her) she was already very successful, if you talk about sugar daddy, it should be me to her." ”
Wang Shi's wife is very controversial, but Wang Shi is very happy, this is a true thing.
Wang Shi's former opponent Yao Zhenhua was a bit miserable, "Yao Zhenhua and Baoneng Automobile were forced to pay more than 1.9 billion yuan, and the total amount of enforcement has exceeded 37.5 billion yuan" (January 10, 2024, Economic Observer).
In August last year, Yao Zhenhua, the actual controller of Baoneng Group, frequently appeared on the hot search, first in person in the battle for control of Zhongju High-tech but was intercepted by "security" and not allowed to enter the factory, and then because of the problem of salary arrears, he was surrounded by former employees, and even his glasses were knocked out.
▲Yao Zhenhua, who was besieged by former employees because of unpaid wages
In response to the question raised by netizens, "What do you think of the recent news about Mr. Yao Zhenhua?", Wang Shi said, "I have paid attention to the relevant news, and some Vanke employees and some relatives and friends have forwarded the relevant posts, but I don't feel good." ”
Wang Shi is in a good state of mind now, and he has several companies tossing in his hands, with an annual pension of more than 10 million, and his wife and young daughter are in front of him. He occasionally goes to do live broadcasts and speeches.
Wang Shi's current state is not only better than Yao Zhenhua, but also better than Wang Jianlin, Wang Jianlin has been selling assets, and his life is not easy.
04 Retreat bravely from the rapids to ensure a lifetime of wealth
What did Jack Ma, Chen Tianqiao, and Wang Shi do right? Learn to let go and learn to enjoy.
This is actually a concept that the vast majority of Chinese people are very lacking, and many people have heard a saying since childhood: "Only when you suffer hardship can you become a superior person".
It's definitely a bowl of highly poisonous chicken soup.
First of all, why do people have to endure hardship? Why can't they live happily all their lives?
Is it possible that once you start to get used to suffering, you will have endless suffering?
Why, then, do we have to be "human beings"? Is this a shameful jungle mentality and social Darwinism?
People have no way to endure hardship, and those who take the initiative to endure hardship are sick. Even if you are doing business, you will not suffer if you can not endure hardship, unless your brain is abnormal.
The reason why Ma Yun, Chen Tianqiao, and Wang Shi are smarter than Yao Zhenhua and Wang Jianlin is that after they encountered the impact of illness and major events, they suddenly had a clear state of mind, understood it, and let it go.
Retreat bravely from the rapids and keep your life rich.
If you continue to toss, you may become crippled.
In 2005, Chen Danqing published a book "Regression Collection", the so-called "regression", which involves puns, which can be understood as a kind of reflection and inquiry.
In fact, at some stages, it is wise to "regress".
Today, Ma Yun is soaking in the hot springs in Hakone, Chen Tianqiao is walking in the manor, and Wang Shi is at home with his three-year-old daughter......
They are not only financially free, but also spiritually free, and live the life they want to live, they are the real winners in life, and their children and grandchildren will also become winners in life because they will be reincarnated.