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riversedge

(79,216 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:36 AM 5 hrs ago

Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 children hopes to have dozens of U.S.-born boys to one day take over

Wealthy families passing on wealth to their hundreds of kids ensures that wealth will stay at the top. .............


Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 children hopes to have dozens of U.S.-born boys to one day take over his business

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chinese-billionaire-fathered-more-100-120000886.html

Emma Burleigh
Thu, December 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM CST

Xu Bo, the founder of one of China’s largest mobile gaming companies, is looking to have “50 high-quality sons” in the U.S. to take over his billion-dollar empire.

Billionaires like Telegram founder Pavel Durov and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have fathered legions of children who are slated to inherit their empires. Now, an ultra-wealthy Chinese businessman is doing the same in the U.S., in hopes of producing around 20 U.S.-born children to inherit his video game fortune.

Xu Bo is the founder and chairman of Guangzhou Duoyi Network: one of China’s largest mobile gaming companies. Despite the 48-year-old entrepreneur growing his company in Guangzhou, he’s not looking to pass down his $1.1 billion fortune to a child born in his home country. A Wall Street Journal investigation into Xu’s surrogacy history in the U.S. found that the Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children, and had previously fathered and was actively fathering at least eight more surrogacy kids. There could be dozens more.

The billionaire’s video game company had also reportedly stated that Xu has more than 100 children born through surrogates based in the U.S., according to WSJ reporting. He was allegedly seeking “50 high-quality sons,” according to accounts linked to Xu on Chinese microblogging website Weibo, and said that “having more children can solve all problems.” During a 2023 court hearing, Xu also said he hoped to have around 20 U.S.-born children to one day take over his business, according to WSJ. He also fantasized about his American kids marrying Musk’s children in the future. Last month, Xu’s ex-girlfriend also alleged that he had 300 children living around the world—a claim his company denied.......................

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Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 children hopes to have dozens of U.S.-born boys to one day take over (Original Post) riversedge 5 hrs ago OP
Weird. I can not get that tab openned. marble falls 5 hrs ago #1
It worked for me UpInArms 5 hrs ago #4
I did an MS update and everything went kablooie. It seemed to fix itself mysteriously after 15 minutes of panic. marble falls 4 hrs ago #10
I am so glad it healed itself UpInArms 35 min ago #12
I take no credit. It just started acting right. I was ready to got to Best Buy and buy another! marble falls 29 min ago #13
Just this kind of story should explain what a billionaire is to the undereducated UpInArms 5 hrs ago #2
and will own everything. rampartd 4 hrs ago #8
Musk is on the same path................. Lovie777 5 hrs ago #3
Even fathers who are very involved in their children's lives have children who reject tanyev 5 hrs ago #5
I agree. Even two or three children fight like cats and dogs over the inheritance. Irish_Dem 4 hrs ago #6
Good grief. rzemanfl 4 hrs ago #7
Wasn't this the wet dream of Jeffrey Epstein? FakeNoose 4 hrs ago #9
These billionaires have seriously deranged thinking Clouds Passing 3 hrs ago #11

marble falls

(70,568 posts)
10. I did an MS update and everything went kablooie. It seemed to fix itself mysteriously after 15 minutes of panic.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:36 AM
4 hrs ago

marble falls

(70,568 posts)
13. I take no credit. It just started acting right. I was ready to got to Best Buy and buy another!
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 01:28 PM
29 min ago

UpInArms

(53,967 posts)
2. Just this kind of story should explain what a billionaire is to the undereducated
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:41 AM
5 hrs ago

Have a billion? Have a hundred children?

Each of them will have 100 million or more to inherit …

tanyev

(48,585 posts)
5. Even fathers who are very involved in their children's lives have children who reject
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:51 AM
5 hrs ago

Daddy’s plans for their lives. Threatening to cut off the purse strings will give them some leverage, but they may be surprised and disappointed at how this eventually plays out.

Oh well.

Irish_Dem

(79,448 posts)
6. I agree. Even two or three children fight like cats and dogs over the inheritance.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:07 AM
4 hrs ago

This will be a nightmare.

FakeNoose

(40,019 posts)
9. Wasn't this the wet dream of Jeffrey Epstein?
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:32 AM
4 hrs ago

Epstein had the idea to set up some kind of a genius sperm bank that collected the seed from geniuses and billionaires. Then he wanted to artificially inseminate young, healthy women with the seed from those men. I don't think he actually started doing it, but he formed friendships with the potential donors, such as Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and I'm sure there were others.

So it looks like the Xu Bo has the same idea and he decided to do it all on his own. Of course there will be no guarantee that his own offspring will be "geniuses" or "billionaires." They could become drug addicts or alcoholics, and they could blow the entire fortune in Las Vegas. Also I'm wondering why does he say they're all boys? Didn't he produce any girls? Or maybe he has both, and then he disowned the girls....




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