Li Ka-shing

Net worth over time

Biography

• Nicknamed Superman, Li Ka-shing is revered as one of the most influential businessmen in Asia.
• Li retired as chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Asset Holdings in 2018 but remains senior advisor.
• His son Victor now heads the conglomerate, which has more than 300,000 employees and operates in more than 50 nations.
• Li started Cheung Kong Plastics, named after the Yangtze River, in 1950 at age 21 with $6,500 in savings and loans from relatives.
• His Li Ka Shing Foundation has donated more than $3.8 billion; over 80% has gone to Greater China.
• Li says it took him five minutes in 2007 to decide to invest in Facebook, even though it barely had any revenues. He also invested in Siri and Spotify.
• At age 12, Li fled China with his family. Two years later his father, who had been a primary school principal in China but then worked at a watch factory, died.
• At the announcement of his retirement, Li joked that he'd been "working for a long time, too long."

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