I'm a tech creator, the end of the rich, a landlord.
The long-dormant "godfather of online games" has once again "appeared" in the public eye.
According to the Chinese newspaper, there is a 1980,000 acres (about 80,127 hectares) of woodland.
It is reported that this forest land was purchased from Fidelity National Financial Ventures in 2015, when it was 85 million US dollars (about 6 yuan100 million yuan). According to information about the beneficial owners disclosed by the state of Oregon just last month, the name of the forest land is Shanda Asset Management.
According to the relevant rankings, owning this forest made *** the 82nd largest landowner in the United States, and also made him the second largest non-American landowner after the Canadian Irving family.
So, why would a rich man from the game industry be a big landlord? What have you been through all these years?
In fact, the super-rich are not alone in buying land. In recent years, some super-rich people have chosen to buy land in order to find a solution to hedge against inflation.
And the well-known Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ellison, Bezos, Zuckerberg and other bigwigs in the technology and investment circles are also big landowners.
According to relevant statistics, the number one landowner in the United States is John Malone, a U.S. telecommunications tycoon, who holds 2.2 million acres of land; Bezos, the founder of Amazon, holds 430,000 acres of land; Ellison bought 98 percent of Lanai, Hawaii's sixth-largest island, and almost turned the 364-square-kilometer island into his private island. Gates already owns nearly 270,000 acres of land through his investment company, and even Warren Buffett has hundreds of acres of land.
Even Jack Ma, the former richest man, bought a piece of 2.2 in New York State in 2015 for $23 million80,000 acres of eco-park.
This shows how much the super-rich are keen on land.
Speaking of the "Godfather of Online Games"**, many of the new generation may not know much about it.
** The history is mainly concentrated in the decade from 1998 to 2008.
In 1993, he graduated from Fudan University and joined Lujiazui Group. The aura of education and the fact that I am relatively good, so his starting point is higher than ordinary people, and after joining the company, he worked in the president's office of the group, and this work is five years.
Five years of training have given *** a high vision.
In 1998, he joined Jinxin.
But in less than a year, he chose to quit his job and start a business. With him were his wife, younger brother and classmates, and their first project was not a later online game, but ***
In that thriving Internet era, ** quickly received venture capital from China.com, when *** was only 27 years old.
After two years of hard work, ** began to clarify his direction and entered the field of entertainment interaction. So his company started from ** "Legend" and gradually became a giant in the field of Chinese online games.
After entering the field of online games, Shanda has reached nearly 60 million registered users in less than a year, and its market share has reached 65%.
By 2003, Shanda's net profit exceeded 100 million. In the same year, Shanda received a $40 million investment from SoftBank and hired Tang Jun to handle the listing.
In 2004, under the operation of Tang Jun, Shanda was successfully listed on the NASDAQ, and the company also became the second largest Internet company in China, and its worth once exceeded 12 billion yuan.
Since then, Shanda has gone more and more smoothly on the road of diversification, and in 2009, Shanda Games went public, raising more than $1 billion.
But unfortunately, in his 30s, he suffered from panic attacks.
Later, **also responded**, he said that whenever the sun sets, he feels like his life has come to an end.
Under the torture of illness, ** pressed the pause button on Shanda, in order to recuperate, he began to gradually let go of the company's business, sold what should be sold, and then delisted the game from the NASDAQ, of which Shanda sold part of the business to Tencent. In 2014, he stepped down from all of his positions at Shanda. It is then used to set up Shanda Asset Management in Singapore to invest, involving listed companies**, equity investment, venture capital and real estate.
Since then, there have been fewer and fewer "messages".
Previously, tech billionaire Bill Gates was on the hot search for buying land.
Gates also said in an interview with Sina Finance that he felt very helpless about these rumors, "This is a very sad thing for social networks."
In fact, Gates' large-scale farmland was in 2009, when Bill Gates bought a 492-acre farm in Wyoming for more than $10 million. Since then, Gates has been on the road to buying land.
Gates later responded, saying, "I've invested in these farms to make them more productive and create more jobs." In fact, all of these decisions are made by a professional investment team.
According to the data, it is Cascade Investment Company that manages the land for Gates, and the main hand is investment consultant Michael Larson, and the Gates family's investment in farmland and land is basically led by him.
John Malone, the number one landowner in the United States, owns much larger land than Bill Gates, and his company was acquired by the American Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1999, so he received tens of billions of dollars in funding in one fell swoop.
After that, he started to buy and buy, from pastures, forest farms to fields, to real estate, he was very passionate about land, and eventually bought up to 2.2 million acres of land.
And tech tycoon Zuckerberg also bought about 5. Hawaii in 2014 through a series of transactions6,656 square kilometers of land.
Recently, there was a "doomsday bunker" built by Zuckerberg in Hawaii.
According to the planning documents, the property, called Kulau Ranch, will include an underground shelter of about 464 square meters with its own energy and food **, plus the land purchase**, which will cost more than $2700 million US dollars, equivalent to about 1.9 billion yuan. If built, this would be one of the most expensive private properties in the world.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the average value of arable land in the U.S. last year was 81%, which has been more than a third since 2020.
On the whole, this is a sure-fire deal, and it is precisely based on the role of hedging against inflation, so in the wealth distribution of these super-rich, the purchase of land has become an important asset allocation method.