[GLGT] Late Singapore Nippon Paint tycoon’s fortune makes six grandchildren billionaires

[kitsura]

was he a kind and good dad?
my dad passed down nothing too, but he was a kind and good man who made me who I am today. he also educated me well. he is very far from useless to me


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Nope he was negligent and when he was home he was abusive as he had a short temper.

 

[Akky85]

Painting is serious business. Especially HDB painting. My house there got 2 rounds of voting for paint colour scheme. First round not enough, ppl kpkb ask for 2nd round voting. Then end up people choose the dullest scheme.

Not just HDB, Singapore is a busy trading hub and time to time due to regulations and such, ship need to be repainted and touched up also, i think NP also jiak most if not all of the business here.

 

[TheSilentBang]

Lucky mfkers Imagine being young and a billionaire without putting a single sweat on it.

 

[toolbox03]

Actually not easy to donate whole fortune out unlike Ang Mo

Just divide equally but some charsiew will think not fair

 

[icebleue]

Errr lol. Lazy to dress doesnt mean humble hor. I think they have 10 mega yachts.

Dress to impress. They are rich so they don’t have to dress up. Mark Zuckerberg is one example.

only the poor need to dress up, the poorer you are, the better clothes you wear.

I recall one guy wearing suit out. Stays in rental flat.

 

[icebleue]

Lol I like this paragraph from straits time

Over a decade ago, Mr Martin Lavoo helped co-found Sustenir Agriculture, a super-foods vertical farms start-up that has been backed by Temasek. He had worked before in finance and sales.

“I’m just a regular guy that has decided to risk it all on trying something completely new,” he said in an interview published on the website Empirics Asia in 2015.

Now got 28 genders.
Hes just a regular guy with a penis

 

[Itsthatguy]

shiok!

They earned it..

The billionaire can choose to donate all to charity
but like all billionaires, they will give a lot of money to their offsprings they think deserved the money.

only daft people really think billionaires really donate all their fortune to charity.
Most are under charity trusts run by their offsprings

but i see so many middle class ..doing that.. lol

Why do charities deserve it?

 

[sanzhu]

Warren n bill gates showed him the way

Wad why

 

[CyberTan]

Dress to impress. They are rich so they don’t have to dress up. Mark Zuckerberg is one example.

only the poor need to dress up, the poorer you are, the better clothes you wear.

I recall one guy wearing suit out. Stays in rental flat.

You sure Zucks don’t dress to impress? That sounds very naive. Have you heard of this brand called Brunello Cucinelli.

 

[Smarty22]

Unlike some billionaires who are prudent in their spending and lifestyle, the NP founder lived life to the fullest and luxuriously , enjoyed good food, owned an expensive yacht, lived in big GCB . Whatever money not spent (too enormous a sum to spend in his lifetime) is now left for his offspring

 

[Kiwi8]

https://www.straitstimes.com/busine...-fortune-makes-six-grandchildren-billionaires


HONG KONG – An academic in New York and the founder of a Bali charity are among six people who inherited stakes in the paint empire built by Singapore’s second-richest man.

The six are grandchildren of the late

tycoon Goh Cheng Liang, who died in August aged 98,

and who have each inherited stakes worth more than US$1 billion (S$1.3 billion) per person in a publicly traded firm.


The handover of the fortune marks an unusual transfer of assets for an ultra-rich Asian family that has skipped one generation.

Song song sia....

 

[deathan9el]

didn't get into the list, sadly

 

[ahnyaahnya]

Yes my dad is useless in comparison. Had 3 kids and passed down nothing.

My dad passed on a large % of his assets to Cheng hu

 

[lowveld]

A billion is a thousand million. Let that sink in.

 

[ahnyaahnya]

shiok!

They earned it..

The billionaire can choose to donate all to charity
but like all billionaires, they will give a lot of money to their offsprings they think deserved the money.

only daft people really think billionaires really donate all their fortune to charity.
Most are under charity trusts run by their offsprings

but i see so many middle class ..doing that.. lol

Only daft people will really donate ALL their fortune to charity.

 

[Senfai]

Better than striking TOTO

 

[OutBreak]

Yes my dad is useless in comparison. Had 3 kids and passed down nothing.

He passed down his genes to you. What nothing?

 

[ahnyaahnya]

Actually not easy to donate whole fortune out unlike Ang Mo

In case you're thinking of Buffet ...Warren Buffet leaving his children " enough for them to do anything, but not enough to do nothing "
Similarly, Gates children will inherit a teeny tiny % of his wealth , "a chance for them to achieve their own success and identity without the burden of wealth "

 

[Taloona]

Dress to impress. They are rich so they don’t have to dress up. Mark Zuckerberg is one example.

only the poor need to dress up, the poorer you are, the better clothes you wear.

I recall one guy wearing suit out. Stays in rental flat.

I read that Mark Zuckerberg's Tshirt cost a few hundred dollars.

 

[shodan99]

Dress to impress. They are rich so they don’t have to dress up. Mark Zuckerberg is one example.

only the poor need to dress up, the poorer you are, the better clothes you wear.

I recall one guy wearing suit out. Stays in rental flat.

Zuck now into expensive watches already