Masters of their craft, following achievement of some of their biggest goals, often turn to the training and tutelage of others as a post-career calling. Whether it’s sportspeople coaching the next generation of Olympians or musicians providing young people with skills, education is often seen as a follow-on from prior success.
But what if high-achievers could hold the spread of knowledge in harmony with prime entrepreneurial success? Well, the future is in self-development, and experienced property entrepreneur Vincent Wong knows that. That’s why, as co-founder and CEO of Wealth Dragons Group PLC, he is striving to promote self-help education to the masses alongside building a successful business and the tech solutions of the future.
Spanning facets of business, including property investing, online trading, and public speaking, Wealth Dragons has long-standing experience in inspiring and guiding swathes of participants to achieve their potential. Tens of thousands have attended their live seminars internationally since 2009, which speaks to a growing hunger for financial freedom across the globe. It’s this hunger that Vincent Wong hopes his company can feed through their evolving, futureproof solutions.
The current trend, of which most professionals across all sectors are now familiar, is a shift towards remote, on-demand services. Those not already in preparation for this worldwide progression were forced to learn the hard way. But for Vincent Wong, it provided an opportunity to transform his business and capitalize on the results. The Wealth Dragons team, including Wong’s business partner and fellow co-founder John Lee, set about revolutionizing their live events business into a 100% online approach. The generational clash between listing on one of the oldest stock exchanges in the world (Vienna) and Wealth Dragons’ modern methodology is stark yet intriguing.
More intriguing is the future Vincent Wong intends to build off the back of the pandemic’s cultural impact. While their transition to online seminars is complete, Wealth Dragons are developing two different apps that allow those with a predisposition towards self-development to access a base of knowledge and find suitable mentors online. Wong hopes that participants will then have all the tools necessary to mentor themselves into earning a recurring passive income.
Wong is a firm believer that it is high time for his industry to be brought into the digital age, which is why Wealth Dragons invested £4m in developing and launching their platforms to enter the e-learning market. The aim is to provide an educational service not catered for in schools so that the understanding required to achieve sustainable wealth is available to all at the click of a button.
As for the recent history that qualifies Wealth Dragons’ ambitious approach, it all began with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Wong and Lee in their roles as public speakers that they grasped with both hands and carried through to their future ventures. Given a chance to tour with one of the biggest events companies in the world, the duo received the honor of sharing a stage with the likes of Bill Clinton and Sir Richard Branson. It was an experience that spurred the expansion of Wealth Dragons in the UK, eventually leading to its float as an IPO in 2019. They are the first company in their industry in the UK to do so.
Pioneering is a mainstay of Vincent Wong’s career beyond Wealth Dragons. Becoming a property entrepreneur after obtaining an MBA in 1997, Wong’s focus was on structuring win-win deals for property owners and investors alike. Indeed, the theme of seizing the possibilities presented by international crises is not a novel one in Wong’s career either, as, at the height of the financial crisis, he was credited with spearheading financial strategies in the UK, Malaysia, and The Netherlands. Specifically, his ability to encourage investment in property by doing away with traditional mortgage financing and deposits was invaluable in keeping growth alive in those nations.
It follows, then, that Vincent Wong would be ideally placed to conceive of the innovative solutions necessary to overcome the hurdles of instability and uncertainty triggered by COVID-19. “It’s about building something that adds value to people,” he says. “It’s not so much what you do; it’s the person you need to be to be successful.” The value Wong can bring to the property sector has not waned either, as he is currently in the process of building a technology platform that he believes will fundamentally change the way property is bought and sold across the world.
Vincent Wong and Wealth Dragons PLC cannot be defined by one sole industry or practice. Rather, the knowledge they have accumulated, and the cutting-edge methods by which they spread it, are ever-evolving. In their journey to become a billion-dollar company, their mission is to bring prosperity to like-minded people along the way.
