“王”的故事：北大物理学家庭缔造“曼哈顿计划”量级的移民美国梦
Wang(King)’s Story — A “Manhattan Project”-Level Immigrant American Dream
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全球30岁以下的亿万富翁仅有21人，其中又只有2位是真正意义上的白手起家（self-made），其余19位全部是靠继承的财富。
在这21人中，15人来自欧洲，其中光是德国就占了7位；年纪最小的Johannes von Baumbach，含着金钥匙生在豪门世家，19岁就坐拥人生起点难以企及的54亿美元。
相比之下，那两位凭借才智与勇气打拼出来的年轻亿万富翁，更加引人瞩目。
其中亚历山大·汪（Alexandr Wang，汪滔，美国，28岁，身家20亿美元）可代表华人家庭美国梦的终极梦想篇章，应该说将这里的“华人”改成“移民”更恰当。
Alexandr汪，名字取得威风，中文姓谐音和英文名都是“王”，双关。历史上的亚历山大大帝，在战场上从未被击败，是历史上最伟大的将军之一。20多岁就已经斩获举世无双的戎马征途，铁迹从欧洲一路向东，突破小亚细亚直达印度。2000多年后，秉承东方血脉、受西方文化孕育的Alexandr汪，则在科技创新的疆域中，同样是在20出头，即完成纵横捭阖的大业，缔造了自己的科技帝国。
他的父母是北京大学毕业的科学家，在举世闻名的新墨西哥州洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室工作。80年前，这里作为原子弹的故乡，孵化了震惊全球的“曼哈顿计划”。又过了40多年，一对年轻的华人物理学家来到这扎根。他们培养的孩子，从15岁雏鹰展翅，打入信息奥赛美国国家队阵营，到23岁即登上年轻亿万富翁首席，他们就是移民家庭的豪华版“曼哈顿计划”。
Alexandr汪作为榜单中最年轻的白手起家亿万富翁，他的传奇经历早已广为流传。从小是天才少年型奥赛选手，多次打入美国物理和信息奥赛队，被MIT争取到的人才。大一即从麻省理工学院退学，告诉父母“去参加一个暑期实习项目”，结果再没有重返课堂。而是与伙伴共同创立Scale AI，专门为人工智能模型（如ChatGPT、自动驾驶系统等）提供数据标注服务。其客户包括微软、通用汽车、Meta等科技巨头。
另一位靠自己打拼出的亿万富翁，埃德·克雷文（Ed Craven，澳大利亚，29岁，身家28亿美元），也是科技新贵，被称为币圈奇才。他与人共同创立了Stake，这是全球最大的加密货币在线赌场之一，去年创收47亿美元。该平台的交易量巨大，处理了全球2%到4%的比特币交易。
回顾过去几十年，硅谷的互联网浪潮、移动电讯的崛起，都曾造就一批超级富豪。而这个时代的财富密码是AI与加密币，跟前两波一样，科技创新是可以转化成泼天财富的不二通途。
汪与克雷文，正是这股科技新浪的最佳注脚，一个心里装的是AI的星辰大海，一位以加密交易爆发式崛起。
数月前，Alexandr汪在《华盛顿邮报》买下整个版面的广告，呼吁“美国必须赢得AI之战(America must win the AI War)”。随后，他受邀出席国会AI听证会，Trump也致函他出席中东之行。在美国所有顶级高科技大佬都露面的这场为AI发展谋求投资的高规格出访中，他年轻的面孔，站在了美国科技叙事的最前沿。
美国是一个可以将来自全世界各国移民人生轨迹推向极致的应许之地，“王”的故事再度验证，智慧的基因与自由的土壤一相逢，就能孕育出又一个新的奇迹。
文明迁徙与新故事的开端，总在这片热土上生生不息地发生。昔日，欧洲移民远渡重洋，摆脱宫廷王朝的繁文缛节，在美洲大陆开创出全新的文明。今朝，东方移民走出古国，以自由与希望为沃土，发挥厚重文明基因与庞大人口基础的优势，升华为东西合璧的科技创新之光。
“王”的征途，不只是属于他个人与家庭的辉煌，更是新一代东方移民在新世界吹响的号角。未来的精彩仍将不断上演，而累累硕果属于全人类。
🔗“王”的故事：北大毕业物理学家家庭谱写“曼哈顿计划”量级的移民美国梦
Wang(King)’s Story — A “Manhattan Project”-Level Immigrant American Dream
There are only 21 billionaires under the age of 30 worldwide, and among them only 2 are truly self-made, while the other 19 inherited their wealth.
Among these 21, 15 are from Europe, with Germany alone accounting for 7. The youngest, Johannes von Baumbach, was born into a powerful family with a silver spoon in his mouth, and at the age of 19 already possessed $5.4 billion, a starting point in life beyond imagination.
In contrast, the two young billionaires who fought their way up with talent and courage are even more striking.
One of them, Alexandr Wang (汪滔, USA, 28, net worth $2 billion), represents the ultimate fantasy chapter of the American Dream for Chinese families. More accurately, the word “Chinese” should be replaced by “immigrant.”
Alexandr Wang’s name carries power: both in Chinese pronunciation and English it is “Wang,” meaning “king.” This is a clever double meaning. Historically, Alexander the Great was never defeated on the battlefield, one of the greatest generals in history. By his twenties, he had already won an unparalleled series of military campaigns, with his army marching from Europe to Asia Minor and reaching India. More than 2,000 years later, Alexandr Wang, bearing Eastern blood and nurtured by Western culture, has likewise, in his early twenties, accomplished great feats in the realm of technological innovation, creating his own technology empire.
His parents are scientists who graduated from Peking University and worked at the world-famous Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Eighty years ago, this place, as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, gave birth to the Manhattan Project that shocked the world. More than 40 years later, a pair of young Chinese physicists came here to settle. They raised a child who, at the age of 15, spread his wings and entered the U.S. National Olympiad team in informatics, and by the age of 23 had become the world youngest self-made billionaire. This can be called the ultimate fantasy of an immigrant family’s “Manhattan Project.”
As the youngest self-made billionaire on the list, Alexandr Wang’s legendary story has long been widely known. From a young age, he was a prodigy-type Olympiad competitor, repeatedly entering the U.S. Physics and Informatics Olympiad teams, and was recruited by MIT as top talent. In his freshman year, he dropped out of MIT, telling his parents he was “going to a summer internship project,” and never returned to class. Instead, he co-founded Scale AI, a company specializing in data labeling for artificial intelligence models (such as ChatGPT and autonomous driving systems). Its clients include Microsoft, General Motors, and Meta, among other tech giants.
The other self-made billionaire is Ed Craven (Australia, 29, net worth $2.8 billion), a rising star in technology, known as a crypto prodigy. He co-founded Stake, one of the world’s largest online cryptocurrency casinos, which generated $4.7 billion in revenue last year. The platform processes an enormous amount of transactions, handling 2% to 4% of the world’s Bitcoin trades.
Looking back at past decades, Silicon Valley’s internet wave and the rise of mobile communications have each created a group of super-rich. In this era, the keys to wealth are AI and cryptocurrency. As with the previous two waves, technological innovation remains the surest path to immense fortune.
Wang and Craven are the best annotations of this new technological wave—one with his eyes set on the boundless ocean of AI, the other rising explosively through crypto trading.
A few months ago, Alexandr Wang purchased a full-page ad in The Washington Post declaring: “America must win the AI War.” He was then invited to a congressional AI hearing, and Trump also invited him to join a Middle East trip. In this high-profile delegation, where all the top American tech leaders appeared to seek investment for AI development, his youthful face stood at the forefront of America’s technological fields.
The United States is a promised land that can elevate the life trajectory of immigrants from all over the world to the highest level. Wang’s story once again proves that when the gene of wisdom meets the soil of freedom, yet another miracle can be born.
The migration of civilizations and the beginning of new stories have always taken place endlessly on this fertile land. In the past, European immigrants crossed the oceans, breaking away from the cumbersome etiquette of royal courts, and established a brand-new civilization on the American continent. Today, Eastern immigrants leave their ancient lands, taking advantage of their deep ancient and civilizational genes and large population base, and on the soil of freedom and hope, elevate this into a fusion of East and West that shines with technological innovation.
Wang’s journey is not only the glory of himself and his family, but also the clarion call of a new generation of Eastern immigrants in the New World. More brilliance will continue to unfold in the future, and the fruitful results will belong to all of humanity.
(Credits to ChatGPT for polishing English)