(Original title: This is a magical lesson. Li Ka-shing, 89, was excited to be like a primary school student.)
What is your impression of Li Ka-shing?
It is said that there is a lot of money and wealth can be enemy;
There are real estate tycoons, industrialists;
He also said that he is an old man and a philanthropist.
Li Ka-shing’s accumulation of wealth is a legendary story. There are many versions of his stories about success, but they are hard-working, thrifty, and sharp-eyed. However, few people know that Li Ka-shing is also very obsessed with cutting-edge technology. He has invested in a list of technology companies, including Facebook, Skype, Siri, and other long-established famous technology companies. This is consistent with the steady and traditional Li Ka-shing. Are not the same.
On Friday, Li Ka-shing, aged 89, received a one-on-one "teaching," the subject is the most difficult computer science, and the teacher is the world's top computer scientist. The performance of Li Ka-shing in this class may give us another explanation of his success.
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89-year-old Li Ka-shing excited to attend classes and stood up several times
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The “smartest humans†have been artificially intelligently crushed. How the artificial intelligence will develop in the future. How to get along with humans has become a hot topic recently. Not only the big names in the scientific and technological community, such as Ma Yun and Li Yanhong, relished this year. Li Ka-shing, who is 89 years old, also showed great interest in artificial intelligence.
On May 28, the Li Ka Shing Foundation’s official microblogging released the news that last Friday (small series note: May 26) two founders of DeepMind came to Hong Kong to give Li Ka-shing a lesson on artificial intelligence, Li Ka-shing Prepare papers and pens early and take notes. At the same time, Li Ka-shing was very excited to listen to classes and stood up several times, causing the two founders of DeepMind to politely match the station.
â–²Photo Source: Weibo @ Li Ka Shing Foundation
According to the pictures released by the Li Ka Shing Foundation, in addition to receiving lectures from the top AI experts, Li Ka-shing also watched Ke Jie’s man-machine battle with AlphaGo.
It is worth mentioning that the Li Ka Shing Foundation microblogging mentions that Li Ka-shing feels that it can be valuable to participate in DeepMind's early investment.
It turned out that as early as in the early days of DeepMind, it was favored by Li Ka-shing’s investment in Victoria Harbor. In just two years from 2010-12, DeepMind received over 50 million US dollars including Li Ka-shing and Elon Musk. Angel investment. In 2014, Google acquired DeepMind for 400 million pounds.
Investment favors technology companies
At the age of 89, she is still learning the latest wave of artificial intelligence. In addition to DeepMind, Li Ka-shing is still a keen investor in high-tech.
As early as 10 years ago, Li Ka-shing set his sights on technology. In 2007, social networks had just emerged, but there were two investments worth $15 billion to Facebook, one from Microsoft and the other from Li Ka-shing. This is one of Li Ka-shing's most well-known investments following Skype. It is said that Li Ka-shing made this decision in only five minutes.
In 2009, he invested in the Canadian e-book Kobo, which is Amazon's biggest rival in the e-book market, with millions of users. In 2012, he together with KPCB invested 12 million US dollars investment emotion recognition company Affectiva. This is a cloud-based facial emotion recognition and analysis service company that uses webcam to capture and recognize people's facial movements, such as frowning, raising eyebrows, giggling, and smiling, to judge people's emotions.
In the process of investing, Li Ka-shing often enters the market under the name of Horizons Venture, which is responsible for the venture capital business.
The official website of Xiaobian (micro-signal: nbdnews) Viewing Victoria Harbor Investment finds that at present, the number of investment projects of Victoria Harbor Investment in the world has reached 80, mainly in North America, Europe and Israel. There is only one investment project in Mainland China. .
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According to the 2014 report from Forbes China.com, Zhou Kaixuan and Zhang Peiwei founded the Hong Kong-Hong Kong investment together in 2002 and sought investment opportunities in the high-tech field. Two years later, Li Ka-shing joined the Li Ka Shing Foundation. As reported in 2014, they completed a total investment of 350 million U.S. dollars.
Zhou Kaixuan once said, “He (Li Ka-shing) likes disruptive innovation and sees it as a window to predict the future. He likes to meet with the founders and CEOs of the 'disruptive' companies we invest in to understand them. Concept and mission."
In addition to Skype, Facebook, DeepMind, Spotify, Waze, Siri, and Summly, etc.
High-yield investment
So, why does Li Ka-shing favor technology companies like this?
Some netizens remarked that it was because his son Richard Li had once “sold up†Tencent and he had a deep lesson.
According to the China Entrepreneur Magazine, Li Zeyi, chairman of the PCCW Group and nicknamed “Little Superman†by the Hong Kong people, invested 2.2 million U.S. dollars in 1999 and held Tencent’s 20% stake in Tencent. This was also the time when Tencent’s entrepreneurship was difficult. The most important venture investment. However, less than two years later, Li Zexi sold this equity to the MIH holding group in South Africa for 12.6 million US dollars.
Although Richard Li has received more than five times the reward, if he still holds Tencent’s 20% stake in the company today, it’s twice as much as the equity of founder Ma Huateng. According to Tencent’s current market value of more than US$300 billion, The income is already astronomical.
Although his son was “losing†on Tencent, the technology companies that Li Ka-shing invested brought him a lot of revenue.
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According to a report by Forbes Chinese, in 2005, Victoria Capital invested in Skype, and after one year EBay paid $2.5 billion for the IP voice service provider.
In 2009, Victoria Harbor Investment invested USD 15.5 million in Siri, which specializes in speech recognition systems. The company was acquired by Apple in 2010 for US$200 million and became a voice assistant.
The most successful was an early investment in Facebook, which was worth nearly $1.5 billion in 2014.
In the end, you may wonder that Buffett, who is two years younger than Li Ka-shing and is in a country with a strong atmosphere of innovation in the United States, is reluctant to invest in technology companies (even if he invests in Apple, and Buffett sees it as a consumer product company). What is Li Ka-shing? Do you understand the ever-changing technological trend?
Every time Xiaobian (micro-signal: nbdnews) does not know the answer to this question, but from Li Ka-shing's invitation to the founders of DeepMind, we can easily see that Li Ka-shing is a person who likes to learn. Some media have reported that Li Ka-shing must watch a half-hour new book before going to bed at night to learn about cutting-edge ideological theories and science and technology. According to himself, he reads books on literature, history, philosophy, technology, and economy. This is actually a habit he has maintained for decades.
Perseverance in learning is one of the important reasons why Li Ka-shing has only succeeded in primary school education.
Every edited He Xiaotao
Daily Economic News integrated Yangcheng Evening News, Forbes Chinese website, etc.
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