After a $66 Billion Win, Trying for an Encore

摘要

South African billionaire Koos Bekker has spent 15 years riding the rocket of the Chinese Internet, thanks to one really smart-or really lucky-investment. Now he's trying to do it again. In 2001, Naspers, the media group Bekker chairs, put $32 million into a then-obscure Chinese Web company called Tencent. Its stake today is valued at $66 billion-roughly equal to Naspers's entire stock market capitalization, which makes Naspers Africa's most valuable company. To prove he's capable of duplicating that success, Bekker is scouring the globe in search of tech deals. "What we've done over the years is take huge risks," Bekker says over rooibos tea at Naspers headquarters, 19 floors above Cape Town's harbor. The challenge, he says, is to find places "where gaps still exist, because in many countries the good opportunities have been taken."