Among all the fans of Elon Musk there is one who may have managed to win the title of most avid admirer: his name is KoGuan Leo ed has accumulated 6.2 million Tesla shares, for a total present value of 4.6 billion dollars; this makes him the third largest shareholder in the company after Musk himself and Larry Ellison.
The tycoon of Indonesian origin, but a US citizen, is the president of the IT company SHI International, which counts among its customers giants of the caliber of Boeing and AT&T, and last year he made headlines for buying his mega penthouse in Singapore from James Dyson doing it even managing to pay 15% less than what the owner of cordless and bagless vacuum cleaners had done the previous year.
For the rest, KoGuan had remained in the shadows, limiting himself to frequently commenting on the Twitter tweets themed Tesla calling himself a fanboy of Musk, until the outing of these days, when revealed that he is Tesla’s third individual shareholder:
@bradsferguson, Please ask @MartinViecha, head of Investor Relation of Tesla, if I am Prof. Leo KoGuan and the 3rd largest individual shareholder of Tesla who owns more Tesla shares than that of ARK Invest and Baron Capital. Moreover, I challenge you to falsify KQID time engine. https://t.co/PMLwwohEmE
– KoGuan Leo (@KoguanLeo) September 22, 2021
To those who raised doubts about the veracity of the claim, he replied that the confusion was due to the fact that his shares are held in different accounts, but they all go back to him. To confirm your version summoned Tesla’s head of investor relations, Martin Viecha, who confirmed the fact.
So, KoGuan is truly Tesla’s third investor behind Musk and Ellison, and while it will be hard to get their shares, he is apparently continuing to buy stock in the company, albeit more slowly; is raising capital to buy another million shares by early 2022. As he wrote in a subsequent tweet, he believes so strongly in the project that he intends to win or fall with the company:
More than 6.2 million Tesla shares. Still buying more shares slowly. I will rise and fall with Tesla.
– KoGuan Leo (@KoguanLeo) September 20, 2021
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