What makes one person success financially?

March 25, 2018

Introduction

I graduated from top university from China called Shanghai Jiaotong university. When we were in the second year, 1985, there is a new classmate who joined us, his name is Neil Sheng, now he is top 100 ranking richest people in China. I had so many successful stories to tell from my classmates or friends back in Shanghai Jiaotong University or Florida Atlantic university.

It is fun to write a small research topic and spend some time to think about. Life is such a great teacher. If you treat your neighbor, friends, classmate nice, you will have so many lessons to learn as an adult. I will share my person stories and will make this Sunday more meaningful.

What makes one person successful financially?

I have five siblings, and also I was told so many stories from my siblings. How hard they work as a teacher, physician, or a small business owner.

I have friends to visit me from California, the young successful couple both with Ph.D. degree, they visited my home in the city of Vancouver in 2017. And she told me that she got 3 offers in one month in California. I was so surprised that the huge difference in the corporate world later on.

Last week I had a friend who visited me as well. She told me another successful story. She chose to stay in Shanghai and had a very successful career, and took care of her parents last 20 years. And she shared with me a story about how good it is to obey your parents and respect your parents, give back to your parents, similar to Christian testimony. Since she is a good daughter and she likes to take care of aging parents, she bought a home over 15 years ago to let her parents living close to her. She does not like to stay in the same house with parents. That one good deed helps us to gain over 5 million Chinese dollars alone in the capital gain over 15 years.

I offered her a road trip to visit the city of Seattle since I plan to have a vacation to Seattle. I did drive her in 2007 from New York to Boston, and we visited Yale, Harvard and MIT universities. At that time, she was planning to find a university for her daughter.

Struggle is fun and meaningful

Ephesians 6:2 Honor your mother and father.

Shen Neil - Shanghai Jiaotong university alumni

Nov. 5, 2017

Introduction

It is so interesting to be an alumni of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. I went back to have a vacation this October, I had to meet classmates of undergraduate 70141 and also graduate class 8902.

My undergraduate class is named as 70141, and my graduate class is names as 8902.  I had chance to meet some of my classmates and I had chance to follow more on wechat about their stories. One of 8902 classmate posted the blog about Shen Neil who is my undergraduate classmate of 70141, of course, he is no longer the first degree of my friend circle. My close friend's circle is engineers and teachers of alumni of 70141 and 8902 classes.

Here is the article written in Chinese for me to study in 20 minutes tonight. Chinese sentences are written like this: Four year Shen Neil makes 2 billion dollars, but he invested 50 billion first, in 11 years make 2600 billion dollars.

" 投资教父"沈南鹏，4年赚到20亿还嫌不过瘾，他一举砸下500亿 , 11年创下2.6万亿奇迹!

Study of Shen Neil 

Shen Neil's wiki page is here. 

Shen Neil's wiki page in Chinese is here. 

His partner of Sequoia: Michael Moritz

52 minutes interview called Sequoia's Neil Shen to Entrepreneurs: "Follow Your Heart", the video link is here published by Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Several arguments to look into from the article:

Arguments:

不过天才就是天才，在十几次面试的过程中，沈南鹏就摸到了门道。

此后不到两个星期，他就把江恩理论、5个波浪循环、MBS、CDO、中国国债、布伦特原油报价等问题搞透了。

Facts:

就在另外两个人绞尽脑汁在纸上比划的时候，沈南鹏不到5分钟已经给出了答案。

原来不太懂中国的商业环境，到了1999年，我已经比较‘土鳖’了