The World’s Richest Man Doesn’t Own Tangible Assets

For the first time in human history, the world’s richest man doesn’t own any mines, mills, refineries, lumber yards, or factories. Yet he’s worth tens of billions of dollars.

How did he get so rich? The answer is that great wealth no longer depends primarily on control of physical assets. We are in the midst of a new industrial revolution. If you have not been paying attention, you missed the signs.

A knowledge revolution is taking place. During the turbulent transition periods between one economy and the next, opportunities to create new empires exist.

Henry Ford created his empire during the “shift” to the industrial revolution with a radical new form of transportation. Today’s “IP entrepreneurs” create wealth by commercializing new knowledge and intellectual property.

Virtually every business and industry around the world either uses or produces IP. It’s the primary asset of every business that created new wealth over the last ten years. Companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook are just a few of the many IP centric companies with huge market capitalization, but no physical assets.

Wealth creation is becoming unbound by physical boundaries. The maturing of commercial infrastructures (i.e. the legal and financial systems that recognize IP rights) in countries around the world is creating a global IP market place.

The worldwide economy is transforming into an “intellectualized economy”, where wealth is created from intellectual assets (IP) and the know-how to covert them into commercial products, services and technologies. It’s a creative process that is limited only by your imagination and willingness to collaborate with others to discover what you can do with it.

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