Building a Generational Business - An Intro.

The Taipan 2025 touches on Building Generational Business.

There are 21,000+ companies in Japan that are over 100 years old, of which 90% have less than 300 staff.

Local perspective, Ghee Hiang in Penang is 7 generations long. But in terms of generational successes and comparing to the Rothschild and von der Leyen (est 1579 AD), the words, wealthy and powerful, what does one mean by that?

Key takeaways:

1. A lot of wealthy people are not on Forbes deliberately. In Malaysia, Daim, Razeleigh, etc., were revealed to me by a previous Government insider and confirmed by a former advisor to the PMs, on why there are more Chinese in Forbes than any other race. There is a Bumiputera company that just sells burger patties, which is said to be making a billion a year.

   
   

2. They try to arrange strategic marriages when the children are young.

   
   

3. It's global and not limited to Asia. The Kennedys, the Bushes, there was 1 Mayflower descendant who put several Presidents and well-known people in the US map. Some families may have millions of descendants, like Confucius.

   
   

4. In Japan, there are 4 ruling houses + 1 throne. Some clans would even change their clan name to closely associate with these ruling houses.

   
   

5. In China, there are 1,000+ surnames - I have met those who claimed to be from Zhang Jiya time until the most recent someone who revealed her true name. Some people will marry to "borrow" just the name, but the targeted families had no material wealth, so the only value factor is the genealogical link. Refer to any Royal families and claims to thrones since the time of beginning.

In Ceteris paribus, "wealth does not last more than 3 generations" applies to every family due to structural and generational descendants that have not been enlightened. Or the creator of the organisation did not know how to transfer knowledge methodologically.

Not just Asia Phenomenon.

Hence, my Legacy Modelling demystifies how generational businesses are being made.

The system that links family offices - the inner sanctums, guarded referrals, etc., is to enable cutting short the digestion period to have a successful project.

According to McKinsey, BCG, KPMG and Bain & Company, the risk of failure falls somewhere between 70% and 95%. Therefore, rarely experienced investors will come up with the appropriate-sized funds unless all their internal criteria are met.

What if, Planet Earth has already been carved out by 8 families that control very much of the 90% economic wealth? Is that a possibility? The rest serves them in a divide-and-conquer agreement. ChatGPT would have an interesting answer waiting for you. Much like, is time-travelling possible? All questions lead to Rome.

Without him, there is no Today's China.