If you want to say which is the most eye-catching company in the world in the past two years, there is no doubt that it is Tesla. As Tesla's stock price soared, its founder Musk has also been the world's richest man for two consecutive years.
Not long ago, Forbes released the 2022 global billionaires list, Tesla CEO "Elon Musk" replaced Amazon founder "Bezos" with a net worth of $219 billion to become the richest man in the world, and Musk's vast majority of wealth comes from his 16% stake in Tesla.
It seems that overnight, everyone "suddenly realized" that they could become world-class rich people by holding a large number of Tesla shares, but what everyone didn't know was that within Tesla, there was a personal major shareholder whose assets were second only to Musk, he was an Indonesian-born Chinese-American businessman named "Liao Kaiyuan".
Liao Kaiyuan, the Chinese shareholder, currently ranks 337th on the "2022 Global Rich List" with a net worth of 6.5 million Tesla shares, equivalent to 53.5 billion yuan, and in the field of new energy vehicles, he ranks third after Musk and He Xiaopeng.
How did this little-known "most bullish retail investor" rise to the rich list? On what basis did he realize the class leap?
01 Know how to seize the wind in order to earn the first pot of gold
To say that Liao Kaiyuan's life counterattack, it is also a twist and turn, not very smooth at the beginning, in 1989, Liao Kaiyuan and his wife are very eager to become entrepreneurs, so they decided to start a business together.
That same year, they saw a business opportunity when a software company in New Jersey was on the verge of bankruptcy, but the company had a division that sold commercial licenses for professional software and was still closely associated with some of the largest software vendors in the United States, like IBM.
They looked back and thought that this company contained great commercial value, so they did not listen to the dissuasion of their friends, sold all their savings, even the real estate in New York, plus some loans, and finally bought the company for $1 million, and changed its name to SHI, which is the internationally famous "World Software House" company.
The small company that was once shaky gradually emerged under the management of the two, not only did not fail, but also became one of the world's largest IT suppliers, until 2019, the company's revenue has exceeded $10 billion. This investment allowed him to earn at least more than 10,000 times
If you say that Liao Kaiyuan was just lucky this time, you are wrong, and in 2019 he seized the second outlet.
It is said that Liao Kaiyuan, as a stock market retail investor, he only entered the stock market in 2019, when he first entered the stock market, he was the same as the stock speculator leek, did not have a far-sighted investment strategy, and had invested a lot of money in technology companies and new automotive forces such as Baidu, Nvidia and NIO, but then almost all of them were cleaned up, and finally only one bet was left, that is, Tesla.
Liao Kaiyuan has been very concerned since he noticed Musk and Tesla, and he is very optimistic about Tesla's new energy vehicles, because he has made certain speculations about the development of new energy since 2018.
He learned at that time that Norway and the Netherlands set the deadline for banning fuel vehicles on the road to 2025, and even India announced that its timetable was 2030-2032, while the United States, Britain, France, Germany, etc. have also announced plans to ban the sale of fuel vehicles, and the ban schedule is generally set at 2025-2040.
He believes that fuel vehicles are gradually being replaced by electric vehicles, which is an almost irreversible trend. Later, after meeting and talking with Musk, he firmed his judgment even more.
In the end, he sold all his shares and invested them all in Tesla, just as he did when he bought Software House. During this period, he experienced two sharp declines in the stock price, the highest of which was 21%, but this did not deter him, and he continued to buy and eventually brought his stake to 6.5 million shares, becoming Tesla's third-largest shareholder.
Many people don't know how to catch the vent, because most people's thinking is solidified, not good at change, and even less adaptable to change, which is why most people regret missing the vent.
Looking back, the world has changed drastically, many industries and jobs do not exist, this is a process of reshuffling the commodity economy, and the next 30 years, undoubtedly, will change faster than the past 30 years.
Nokia was still in full swing in 2008, but not in 2010, it was sold at a low price, and the main thing was not the change of shareholders, but this Nokia, together with the Saipan dynasty, was eliminated by the market. The market will accelerate in the future, and the elimination and iteration will naturally be faster.
Therefore, only by discovering the change in the trend earlier than others and constantly grasping the turning point of the wind outlet can you win at the starting line, earn the first pot of gold, and even achieve a counterattack in life.
02 The leap of class is inseparable from the embrace of "bubbles"
In fact, Liao Kaiyuan's success, you can say that he is rich and risky, but you can also say that he knows how to properly embrace the "bubble" and knows the bubble investment strategy, which is essentially a relatively radical investment strategy.
Of course, for us ordinary people, there is no need to learn from Liao Kaiyuan to gamble, but his bubble investment strategy, we can also learn from, for example, when you have less money, you should choose a relatively aggressive investment strategy, because the principal is small, all to obtain stable annualized income, is meaningless, can not change what results.
For example, you have 20,000 yuan, only take 10,000 to do 3% annualized fixed income financial management, the remaining 10,000, you can invest in some high-yield things, note that I am talking about idle money, as for those pension fees, family support expenses, the elderly's medical money, children's education fees, etc., you better not move, the cost of losing is too high, the possibility of turning over is very small, you can't afford to lose.
Why is it said that the counterattack of life and the leap of class are inseparable from the embrace of the "bubble", because the essence of the bubble is an attachment to the rapid rise stage of an industry.
Now let's see if the new energy automobile industry that Liao Kaiyuan invested in at that time was like this, although Tesla at that time was far from the current size, and even controversial.
However, the development trend of new energy vehicles has been upward in recent years, and those who have been insisting on investing in this process have finally become winners. They're embracing the bubble as they're embracing the trend
Any industry has cycles, and the rise and fall of an industry will not occur at a uniform speed, there must be a period of sudden steep rise, then experience a gentle, then experience a steep rise, then flat, and so on, until the apex, and then begin to decline, begin to experience recession, and that steep rise stage, is where the bubble breeds.
Think about some industries in recent decades, such as real estate, the Internet, education and training industries, etc., have experienced an industry bubble, when all the hot money invested poured into those industries, thereby quickly catalyzing those industries. It will not begin to decline until the stage of slow rise, but the time period of each industry is basically calculated in units of 10 years.
If you don't embrace the bubble and wait after the window period to enter, there will be basically no drama, let alone meat, and you can't even drink soup.
03 When the "bubble" comes, don't hesitate to jump on it
If you want your income to increase tenfold in a short period of time, or even become rich in a few years, you will never be able to earn by going to work every day to receive a salary, and you will never be able to achieve wealth freedom by working part-time.
It must be in the industry of your choice that has ushered in a steep upward period of bubble-like explosion that you stepped on. For example, if you buy a house before 2014, a bubble in rising assets can multiply your assets several times.
Of course, it is impossible for real estate to skyrocket now, but the bubble of new energy vehicles has only begun, and it can be said that it is not a bubble now, because its trend has just begun.
According to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, global new energy vehicle sales reached a new high of 6.75 million units in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 108%. Among them, China's new energy vehicle market continued to break through, with production and sales increasing by more than 160% year-on-year, and sales reached 3.52 million units.
Note that this is still after the impact of special events after 2020, which is also an accelerated process that is already happening, you don't turn a blind eye to it. What seems to be an abnormal rise is actually an inevitability of the times.
It is estimated that in 2040, the total sales of new energy vehicles can reach 50 million, of which "pure electric vehicles and driverless vehicles" can reach more than 40 million, and the backward production capacity of fuel vehicles. At that time, it will be eliminated and walk into the old archives of history.
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In short, if we ordinary people want to be like Liao Kaiyuan and realize the counterattack of life, we must have a sense of the outlet, we must not only grasp the vent ahead of others, but also grasp the next outlet earlier than others, and enter the wave of every trend as early as possible.
Not only that, but also dare to embrace the bubble, the bubble industry has hope, this hope is likely to help you jump out of the class, let you counterattack.