The American gambling king dies. Who is this gambling king?

On the morning of January 13, the US media reported that Sheldon Adelson, the CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Group and known as the gambling king of the United States, died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He passed away from complications at the age of 87. Speaking of Sheldon Adelson, we may not be particularly familiar with it in China, but in the United States, he is indeed a well-known businessman. He has assets of US$33 billion and coverage of Business empires from Las Vegas to Southeast Asia.

Speaking of Sheldon Adelson, he is a self-made model with a legendary entrepreneurial experience. On August 4, 1933, Sheldon Adelson was born into a Jewish family. He and his two brothers and sisters lived in a small apartment. Both his mother and father were working-class people. His mother ran a knitting shop. , and his father makes a living by driving a taxi. The poverty in his family when he was a child made Sheldon Adelson like to delve into making money. Sheldon Adelson was very business-savvy at a young age. In a previous interview, Sheldon Adelson said He has evaluated himself. He said that he is a real person who has grown from small money to big money. His parents could not even afford small money back then.

Sheldon Adelson said that when he was 12 years old, he borrowed $200 from his uncle and started a small business selling newspapers. When he was 16 years old, he asked The uncle borrowed US$10,000 and started a business selling candies from vending machines. He dropped out of City College of New York to focus on his career, and after serving in the Army, he began to focus on business. In 1988, he founded the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, striving to build it into an "integrated resort", including luxury high-end hotels, large casinos, conference centers, etc.

In addition to being successful in his own Las Vegas Sands Group, Sheldon Adelson also purchases properties and invests in various places around the world, such as Macau and Singapore. In these places, he mainly Build hotels, build casinos and other leisure venues.

Sheldon Adelson's business territory is so large that he is really the "American Gambling King".