How a Refugee With 2 Bags of Gold Built Asia's Real Estate Empire

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David Sassoon fled Baghdad in 1829 with nothing but two saddlebags of gold. Within 30 years, his family controlled Asia's largest trading empire.

By 1940, they owned half of Shanghai's International Settlement.
This is the untold story of how refugees built a real estate dynasty that lasted 5 generations.

KEY LESSONS:

📍 Why infrastructure beats innovation every time
🏗️ The original REIT model (invented in 1850s Bombay)
🌏 How to use "cultural arbitrage" in modern investing
💰 Physical assets vs. paper wealth through regime changes
⏰ Reading market cycles across 130 years

THE SASSOON PLAYBOOK (STILL WORKS TODAY):

Find displacement (there's always displacement somewhere)
Bridge cultures (every market has an insider/outsider divide)
Buy infrastructure (not products, not services - infrastructure)
Hold forever (but be ready to run if you have to)

MODERN PARALLELS DISCUSSED:

Li Ka-shing family (same playbook, different century)
Indian tech families in Silicon Valley
Chinese property developers in Vancouver
Why West Coast real estate in 2025 = Bombay in 1840

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION: The Sassoons were better capital allocators than the Rothschilds. Fame is narrative. Wealth is cash flow.

📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED:

The Hanseatic League episode
The Kipper & Wipper Crisis episode
Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great

🎯 WHO THIS IS FOR:

Real estate investors looking for timeless principles
Anyone interested in how generational wealth is really built
Students of history who want actionable insights
Investors seeking contrarian perspectives

💡 THE BIG INSIGHT:
"When governments changed, paper wealth vanished. Buildings remained. When currencies collapsed, warehouses still collected rent."