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  • Should a 21 year old give all money to investors

    A 21 year old who had a company that was sold for $30,000,000.00 would almost certainly not be on Quora asking this question.

    A company that size would have many employees, and either a smart owner or great counsel. Board of advisers, or investors already who have advised the company to that size. 30 Million Dollars is no small feat.

    I’ll assume this is hypothetical and I’ll answer this all the same.

    You diversify. You don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

    First, we’re going to assume that you owned only 50% of the business. I’ll throw that in there. As it’s rare to sell a 30 million dollar business and have 100% ownership. For the sake of argument, and to make things simple, 50%.

    Then, we’re going to assume you have sales costs, lawyer fees, and taxes to pay on your earnings.

    So all in, I’m going to assign a number of money you actually made on that sale, we’re going to say you earned 9.5 million dollar from your share after all expenses. So of your 15 million (50%), 5.5m went to taxes and other expenses. You made 9.5 million.

    Putting all 9.5 million to investors would be a bad and risky move. You are young, so if you want to turn that money into more money, you need to invest in yourself.

    • 1.2 million into savings.

    You want enough into savings that you can live minimally off the interest. Depending on what type of savings it’ll be different. I’m not going to get into inflation and other factors. But let’s assume at a solid 2% return (still a bit high). To simplify things, that’s $24,000 year earnings.

    That should be enough money for you to live off of until you get going with your next project. That’ll cover food, living, travel/gas, everything as if you were making minimum wage. This is free money.

    • 2.5 million into stocks and higher risk investments.

    Get yourself two primary brokers to each manage 750 thousand. Then get a third broker and use 1 million and copy Warren Buffet’s top 5 portfolio stock investments. They don’t need to know about each other.

    Diversify your portfolio for each of the two 750 thousand ones. You want a nice range of options. But keep focused. Maybe have one do energy and the other do health care related or something.

    • 500 thousand into cryptocurrency.

    Crypto is a thing right now. But don’t put too much into it. Just see where it goes. I’d recommend using 400 thousand and spread that between 5–6 major cryptos (seek advice on the market), then spend that last 100 thousand and put a small amount into every single new crypto as it gets released. Expect to throw a lot of money away, but you never know when that next bitcoin will come. Being first in the door could potentially have a massive payout.

    • 350 thousand (value) to go towards your parents.

    You wouldn’t be where you are now without your parents. If you sold a company for 30 million. Then your parents did something right.

    Time to pay them back. Pay off their mortgage, buy them a new car, send them on vacation. They’ve earned it, dealing with you for 21 years.

    • 50 thousand into something nice for yourself.

    Wait, why only 50 thousand?

    You are young. You have a lot to learn, and the biggest mistake anyone makes when coming into money is spending too much on themselves for “extra” luxury uneeded things. You do not want to tempt yourself and get that ‘taste’ of success too early.

    Always set the bar low first. Because no matter what you do, each time you get wins in life, you’re going to raise that bar to reward yourself. And if you set it too high, you will be broke.

    You will thank yourself in your future if you can keep this to under 50 thousand.

    What do you do with that 50 thousand? You buy a lower end brand new car. Toyota, Chevrolet, Ford. Or you buy a used higher end car. A used lambo, a used mercedes. You do not buy a brand new luxury car. Worst investment you can ever do.

    • 1.5 million into investing in yourself.

    So what is investing in yourself?

    Investing in yourself is learning, getting knowledge, getting educated. You want to improve yourself daily. Get a mentor. Pay for coaching lessons.

    I would recommend getting a coach for stocks, investments, and crypto. Pay for someone to teach you these things.

    Buy a ton of books, every business book you can get your hands. Read every single day.

    Take webinars online, go to local seminars, anything business related to help your future.

    Hire some top coaches to get you up to speed and provide you the most value possible. Lessons that will follow you for life. Lessons you can utilize and earn more money. The more you invest in yourself, the faster, and further you will go in life, and the more money you will make.

    • 1.2 million into private investment.

    Work together with your lawyer and find local angel investors, and Entrepreneurs and do private investments together with them.

    This is extremely high risk, but you can still diversify and start small. 1.2 million can fund a lot of start-ups and small businesses. With the right guidance, and starting young like you can be extremely rewarding.

    I would also look into real estate. Especially global, China and Hong Kong have massively growing markets. Doing private real estate deals can pay off well.

    • 2 million into your next business venture.

    You’ll put aside 2 million into your next business venture that will hopefully give you another 30+ million dollar sale.

    As you’ve already been successful once as an Entrepreneur, it only makes sense to do it again. Each time you do a business, you are better off then the last time.

    Do not use all the money at once. Spend it wisely. Hire a proper CEO for your start-up. Put together a proper team. And get an adviser to manage that 2 million dollars for you.

    • 200 thousand into other expenses.

    The last 200 thousand will go towards your lawyer and other costs you have for doing all the above things.

  • Why covering your laptop camera with tape is important

    Camera’s and microphones are the two easiest things things to hack on a laptop. And I mean very easy. Anyone with a few months to spare and access to google can learn how to do it.

    Years ago when I was in China I was getting updated on cyber security from one of our partnerships.

    We were going over everything from basic hacks a 9 year old could do to more sophisticated ones that professional blackhats do. This was to ensure all of our companies assets were up to date and complaint with expectations to be working with sensitive data from our clients and customers from China.

    One of the first things they showed me was how easy it is to get access a camera remotely. And over a dozen different methods of doing it.

    Back at my hotel where I was staying at the time, I had a laptop on my desk by my bed which I always left on, but locked.

    As well as at my home office in Canada, I had a few laptops there as well I had plugged into a backup battery power bar, so they had about 42 hours total of backup battery should power ever go out. I was using these as self cloud storage’s. So they were on as well.

    Within 5 minutes of the lesson just knowing my IP address (for my Canada office) and my QQ chat account on my hotel laptop they had access to my cameras in both my hotel room, and my home office. I was able to see my rooms from the board meeting through the eyes of my camera. And this was an amateur hack, something a 12 year old could learn online. The laptops did all have anti virus.

    Not only with cameras. We did microphone as well as other windows processes as well. All basic methods. They were able to push software onto the devices through vulnerabilities in the router/network and other means.

    No system is safe, but there are steps you can take to prevent certain methods (especially amateur). Most people though are not aware, and probably never need to.

    We did some advanced security lessons by which one of the professional consultants showed us how easily he can obtain direct access to devices, not just amateur stuff like cameras.

    He was able to get full remote access to my home office laptops in under 4 minutes of his demonstration. Which then he had full mouse/keyboard and screen share on. He was able to access emails, web browser, and over a dozen external harddrives and all contents connected to my network. Prior to that meeting I wasn’t even aware that was possible.

    We also did a safety test on my VPS (virtual private server) that I had hosted with Hostmonster and Godaddy at the time. This was a few years ago. I got permission to test our VPS’s security. The consultant wouldn’t do it without permission, which we got from a live chat agent.

    Within 4 minutes again he had access to our root VPS server. He bypassed the hosting servers basic security that was loaded by default on our virtual server. He was able to show me the root files of all of my CPANEL accounts that hosted our websites on Magento and WordPress and we were able to make live changes to my sites. To that, I was not happy. I was expecting a lot more security from those hosting companies, not with them anymore though.

    And this all done by an experienced consultant who works in the security industry to prevent malicious intent. Not a blackhat with evil intentions.

    This was a two day consult. About 11 hours total. So we covered a lot of what can happen in the world. It was then and there I realized the need for certain companies, and high profile people to utilize cyber security firms.

    Since then I always cover my mic and camera with tape, as well as make adjustments to device settings and network advanced settings to reduce amateur hacks.

    But if an experienced blackhat wants in, they’ll get in.

  • My Opinion on China and Chinese People

    I’ve been in and out of China since 2010. More times than I can count. I stopped counting. Overall I have a really high opinion for most of China, the Chinese citizens, and the culture.

    It has it’s ups, and downs. It’s flaws, just like every country.

    One of the things I don’t really like is the censorship, the great wall. Not that it matters anymore. It’s more of a nuisance. Anyone who knows how to use a phone or laptop has a VPN in China. The great wall that China uses only affects non-tech people. With the generations growing up on computers and tech, every single person knows how to bypass the block, so essentially the great wall serves no purpose.

    The best thing about China, and the culture there is how friendly everyone is. It’s positive discrimination. Everyone wants to meet you, everyone wants to take a picture. People who are complete strangers will meet you and 5 minutes after talking they are inviting you to their homes to share a meal. Overall, from a foreigners perspective, they are very friendly.

    One thing about being a foreigner there for a while, is you get introduced to something people refer to as a white monkey job. White monkey jobs in China is where the only qualification to 100% get the job, is being white. That’s it, you don’t need to know any Chinese. And in some cases if you do, they’ll tell you to pretend you dont know it. Whether your paid to eat at a certain restaurant, or paid to sit quietly in a board meeting for a company, or paid to give a speech about – it doesn’t matter as long as it’s not in the Chinese language. Being white in China attracts customers, it attracts better business deals. Especially if they want investors. And these (usually illegal) jobs sometimes pay very well.

    Dogs. I personally have always thought of dogs as a pet, growing up in Canada, it’s the culture. Seeing thousands of dogs in marketplaces in China was a culture shock. I’m used it now. I’ve sat at hundreds of tables over the years where people eat dogs in restaurants. I’ve never personally ate dog as far as I am aware. I do not condone the abuse the dogs receive before being slaughtered. But I still respect the traditions (that is dying out). Less and less people eat dogs, and I think it’ll phase out within 40–50 years.

    Recently in China more and more insurance companies are now offering what is called helping insurance. This is where if another human in China needs assistance, you are insured to help them. Now you might be thinking, what, why? China has a very ‘it’s not my business’ type of approach to everything. If it doesn’t affect you, don’t interfere. This can be attributed to the growing scams that affect China. It’s not uncommon that the person you may want to help, ends up blaming you. Example: lady falls, you help her up. She blames you since you touched her to help, saying you caused it from the start…. you pay her medical bills.

    Besides the government issues, and alarming growth rate of scams, just about all else in China is amazing.

    Not all of the China government is what I feel to be backwards, they have made great progress the last 5 or more years especially with the economy, and environment.

    China is in the position with it’s growth to be the worlds biggest powerhouse, and it’s doing it. China makes more millionaires than any other country. China’s catching up in the tech world and surpassing everyone. It’s the best opportunity as a foreigner to make a lot of money by investing in China’s businesses.

    China also has the best food. You can live in China for 20 years, travel all over and never eat the same food. Every province you go to has a complete different palate.

    I’ve eaten everywhere, and wow, the food is amazing. I’ve got over 7200 images saved up over the years from food pictures I’ve taken. I would have had more too if two of my phones weren’t stolen while I was there. If you are a big foodie, then China has to be one of your stops.

    Corruption in China exists, it exists in all levels of society, military, and government. It’s not really growing, but it’s not really going away. It’s not too too bad, there are many other countries that are worse. And I got to experience it first hand from spending a lot of time in China.

    One thing is driving as a foreigner, whether you have a license or not, it doesn’t always matter. Some police, not all, if they want money will target foreigners who are driving, and may make up a fake excuse that you did something wrong. What they want is money, you pay them money, and they won’t write you a ticket and let you go on your way. This is true even if you have no license, they’ll let you drive off once paying them their fee. This doesn’t happen in big cities where things are more strict, but it still happens in other areas.

    Toll routes. Tolls routes are very easy to get by without ever paying, even as a foreigner. There are countless places that will make you ID’s. Teacher, Special Driver, even Military. Flash a military fake ID at a checkpoint/toll route and you can get by without paying the 5, 10 or 20 RMB (varies). But if they catch you, they will either call the police, or request under the table payment. It depends on who you get.

    Import/export corruption exists too, it’s very political. Everything that high up has to do with relationships. If you have a great relationship with very powerful people in China, their influence has a lot of reach. So much so that certain people (even if they are not government) has the power to restrict or change exportation out of China. So if a large company like Walmart pisses the wrong person off, they could essentially increase Walmarts export tax rate on their own. And I’ve seen how this can work (Walmart was just an example). Or if some powerful person doesn’t like a foreign company, suddenly that company can be cut off from all Chinese business.

    Because of all the government work on environmental issues, pollution in China is decreasing. Areas that were smog before and hard to breathe have great big blue skies and fresh air.

    Which brings me to my next point, China has the best locations. China is an amazing country for tourists. You can go to China 20 different times, to 20 complete different areas and still not see everything.

    The first week I was in China for business, I got off the plane in Shanghai back in 2010, and took a 8 hour bus to Yiwu. On that trip I went to zoo’s, I went white water rafting and got a bad sunburn, I went to water parks, ice caves, etc. I got to see ancient cities and film/movie locations. There is just soo much to see there.

    Each time I went, I got to do new stuff. In 2011 I did archery for the first time. But I never hit the mark, so I didn’t win a free chicken. I saw even more ancient cities from famous movies. Soo many to see.

    Then there is the really famous tourist locations.

    I’m talking GuiLin. The Li River. Yangshuo. And all the areas around there.

    Without a doubt the best area in all of China for tourists. It deserves to be talked about more.

    GuiLin area is my favorite in all of China. So much so I own a ton of property there. Farmland, factories, retail stores, houses, apartments, you name it, I got it now.

    Each time I go to China, I got to go there also. If not for the scenery, then for the noodles.

    The Li River, is a great quiet place. It smells fresh, and amazing. Nature there sounds wonderful.

    There is nothing like the feeling of being on a raft in the river, and just drifting. From sun up, to sun down. It’s amazing.

    It’s such a calming area, that you can literally fall asleep on a raft, on the river and have the best sleep you’ll ever have in your life. I just wish I could get wifi there and I’d be taking out my laptop there to get work done.

    One other great thing I like about China is the shopping/night life. When the sun goes down, the street vendors come out. And as a foreigner, it’s really cool to see it all.

    Side/smaller streets get closed off from calls, and Chinese Entrepreneurs with a cart comes and setups. They unfold their carts and tents come out, tables, and all their products.

    Food vendors setup, with beer, BBQ and everything you could want in an evening meal. Tables and chairs get setup and they’ll come take your order. Meats and vegetables fried in oil, then grilled on the BBQ with tons of chili sauce. Mmmmmm, even spicy grilled corn on the cob.

    Everything in China is very inexpensive compared to other countries. So this makes China great for foreigners.

    You can work 1 year in a pace like Canada, or the USA, and live off of that money for 5 years in China.

    Everything is cheap from internet, rent, travel, phones, food, drinks, etc.

    I was given a VIP Exclusive Lifetime Pass for free to all movies in China. Because I am a foreigner and I like to drink there. I can see any movie I want for free.

    Beer in China is around $0.50 cents Canadian (CAD), where as in Canada, that size would be about $6.50.

    I paid I think $50 CAD per year for Internet in China at one of my apartments. In Canada I pay $119 CAD per month. That’s 28x cheaper in China.

    Phone, same thing, cheap in China, expensive everywhere else.

    Out in the country is unique in itself. Seeing where all the vegetables, fruits and rice is produced that makes it’s way to the USA and Canada. I got my hands in all of it just to try it out.

    And I have respect now for the farmers in China. A regular tourist to China wouldn’t normally get to the countryside in China, it’s too far out from the tourist locations.

    But I got to haul rice up to rooftops by hand, big bags. Up two, three, sometimes four flights of stairs, and dump the rice out on flat roof tops to let it dry before it gets sold.

    I got to move up and down rows of fresh growing produce. Like lettuce, taro, celery, cabbage, and more, and learn how to ‘weed’ it to get rid of the bad stuff.

    It’s been an amazing experience that I was doing between my business work there.

    You can even pay a camera and makeup/costume crew of 10–12 people to follow you around for 2 days for same price as getting 1 person for 1 hour in Canada.

    Most of everyone I have met in China has been amazing.

    China does have some issues, but the good is way better. It’s a great country. And everyone needs to visit it at least once in their lifetime.

    I have just over 19,000 photos taken in China since 2010. I never did sort it all, there is just too much. 40% is food, 40% is scenery, the rest is mixed.

  • Why Shopify Stores Fail 1

    Shopify stores are just like any other business. It’s not that the Shopify store itself is failing, but rather the business is failing. And most businesses fail. Thousands of businesses are started each week, and very few ever succeed.

    It comes down to the Entrepreneur who’s running their business. The abilities, knowledge, experience, and resources of that person. A lot fail – especially recently due to lack of information, people completely underestimate what’s involved with running a business, so most fail. This is okay.

    People just don’t understand how to get quality traffic who are willing to spend money at the store. Marketing is a huge pitfall and not many people realize the work that goes into it to succeed. There is actually too many people who just don’t understand.

    With the surge of Entrepreneurs starting their own businesses in the last couple years, many ‘fake gurus’ online have been boasting about starting a business, and how easy it is. Social media is flooded with people showing off the ‘easy’ businesses. Due to all the hype online, there is tons of people starting businesses lately.

    Here are some things they don’t tell you. Much of this can contribute to reasons why businesses fail.

    “Working Your Own Hours” is a very common saying, and catch phrase. Truth is, starting a business requires a lot of hard work. Most people who want to be successful are doing 70–80 hours a week minimum. You don’t really get to work your own hours. You eat, sleep, and breathe your business. It’s not until you find success and have a team that can take over workload do you get to cut-back and choose your own hours.

    “Financial Freedom” is another catch phrase used in the hype the last couple years. It takes a while to earn money in business. Most of it needs to go back into the business for growth, and you can’t really take money out right away. Everyone online is telling people that business owners make millions, this isn’t true. It could be months, and years for most before they are able to take money out. Again, it’s not until you’re successful where you have earned enough to take money out and reap the rewards.

    “Work Smart, Don’t Work Hard” – this is one of the biggest BS lines I’ve ever heard. Working smart is not enough, working hard is not enough. Whoever thought it was smart to tell Entrepreneurs not to work hard, but work smart instead should be kicked off the internet for causing such damage to the Entrepreneur world. If you want to make it in the business world, you need to do both. You have to be working hard everyday, and work smart. After-all, your competitors are doing both, if you want to compete and stay alive, you need to do both. Doing one is not enough.

    “Be Your Own Boss” – This is only partially true. This is good for the solo-Entrepreneur starting a small business, and keeping it small. You get to dictate your own business. However, once you grow your business to where you either have investors, or staff, you’re not really your own boss anymore. You are working for your company. Your money is not your own. Any mistake you make costs other people their jobs/lives, and other peoples money. When you take on investors, your investors are your boss. When you have staff, you are working hard to ensure you keep your staff employed. For most companies, you need the staff, you need the investors to grow/save your business. You need them, they don’t need you, so they are your boss.

    “How Easy It Is” – It’s true, starting a business is easy. Anyone can start a business. Every self-appointed business guru explains to everyone that starting a business is easy. But that’s the easy part, and no one ever tells you the rest. What they don’t tell you is that running, and growing a business is hard. Running a business and trying to make it successful is extremely hard. For 99.99% of people, it’ll be the hardest thing you’ll ever do in your business/career life.

    “Chances Are You’ll Succeed” – Fact is, most people fail. Most people fail their first time, sometimes their second time, sometimes even their third time. Failing is good, failing is learning. Fact is, 8/10 businesses fail in the first couple years, and only 3% last longer than 5 years. People always forget to mention this when teaching/coaching others, especially online and on social media. They want to sell their product, so they leave this out to encourage everyone to buy their product that teaches them business. Negativity and the truth doesn’t sell their brand/lifestyle product.

    Lets get going

  • China Club Incident – 2011

    Back in 2011, I was in China. On this particular night I was having drinks at a club. This was more of a high end private setting.

    I was with a couple guys, talking business, closing some deals. Most the clientele there that night was locals; rich business kids, business ‘wall street’ type, government officials, etc.

    Place was pretty packed, there was only one other group of 4 or 5 foreigners (to China); either investors or buyers from the US that was seated along one of the bars (behind me), where as we were at one of the raised tables like 10 feet away.

    As the night went on, they were drinking heavily. They were definitely wanting to get hammered. As for myself, and most other people, it’s mostly casual drinking there. I had a couple beers and maybe a mixed drink while I was sorting through business proposals and contracts, and trying to make heads or tales of the Chinese letters that couldn’t read back then.

    The group of Americans, were there before I got there, I wasn’t paying attention or really watching them, but I’d estimate they were downing beers, shots, mixed drinks, the works for a long time. It got to the point where they were talking loud (even for Chinese standards, and Chinese people naturally are loud). But they started getting very drunk. Cussing in English, talking about American differences to China, they were talking shit about China, Chinese culture, and Chinese people.

    Now, in Chinese culture, even the ones who understood English, which most people there that night probably did too, they don’t pay attention or ‘care’ about what the guy is saying, it’s none of their business. They don’t typically get involved.

    Of that American group, there was this one guy that stood out above the rest. He was completely racist, and a pig. Every Asian woman in that bar, was a complete sex object to him. Even his buddies in his group were trying to get him to settle down and stop being ‘too much’. Other people weren’t paying them any attention other than the bartender getting paid for drinks.

    That one guy, was a pretty big dude. Not big as in overweight, but just tall, broad shoulders, muscle, that T/Triangle shape. Now I’m within earshot of their group, so some of the things they were talking about, especially that guy, I could hear. And some of it was over the top even for me.

    It got to a point the guy started being handsy with some of the girls passing by him. He would turn around, spew stuff in English (sexual comments, wanting to pay for sex, etc) and brush up or try to fondle a woman passing by him. This wasn’t the type of establishment for that, this was more high end, high class… it was completely inappropriate.

    His group were kind of trying to get him to stop by making him face the bar. But he kept doing it. Some girls would comment in Chinese to him, not to touch them. Even the bartender said in English to the guy not to touch customers. But the guy wasn’t stopping.

    Well, he made a mistake. (To be honest, any girl he touched was a mistake.) But a particular woman he tried to grope was a really big mistake for him. The lady went over to her table, in the VIP section in the corner and told the table what happened.

    I first should mention that in China, Chinese do not like when foreigners get drunk and cause issues to local people. Many foreigners (to China) get beat up, stabbed, killed etc, because of this, especially in student bars.

    When a gentleman from that VIP table stood up, everyone in the bar stopped talking. It was instantaneous. Everyone turned to look because in the back of their minds, they knew what the foreigner guy was doing. I remember muttering under my breath “oh shit”. Like something was about to go down. My party at my table said we should leave, but I wanted to see, this was sort of all new to me. My younger self was curious as hell to see what would happen.

    I knew the Chinese guy that stood up. I’ve never seen him before, or met him myself. But I knew of him, and his reputation, I recognized the area of the VIP section, the tattoos he had, and the ring he was wearing. His Guanxi (his social status) in that area of China was well known. I don’t think a single person who lived there didn’t ‘know of’ that guy or the guys network. It took me a couple seconds to realize who it was. People started leaving, customers. Girls were grabbing their purses and just making for the door. No way these foreigners knew of this guy. They weren’t in the area long enough, they probably didn’t even know what Guanxi was.

    So the Chinese guy has stood up, and he reaches into his back waistband/belt and takes out a glock or something (a gun) from it, and he hands it to one of his friends who then conceals it on himself. For those of you who may not know, guns are completely banned in China except for Police, Army, and certain Government officials. The only other people who can even get their hands on guns are organized higher end crime organizations/families (think triad). It’s 1000x harder to get a gun in China than it is in Canada or the USA. Penalties are 1000x more severe if caught.

    The Chinese guy walks over right up beside the foreigner group behind me and asks them in (pretty perfect) English, with a Chinese-Asian accent “who is touching my girls?”. He’s right up in their personal space.

    The American on the end, closest to the VIP tables was the guy causing the issues, who happened to be right up beside the Chinese guy said for the Chinese guy to “F off.” And the American gave him a shove. Big mistake. And I mean, the biggest mistake he’ll ever make in China.

    The Chinese guy grabs the stool from under him, and the big guy falls back hitting his head on the floor. He grabs him by the collar of his suit, and shoves him across the floor like a bowling ball. He picked up the stool off the floor, walked over to where the guy was now (where he stopped sliding), and starts beating him, his legs, arms, shoulders, head everything with the metal stool. The guy on the ground is screaming, wailing loudly and protecting his face with his arms.

    His friends/party at this point are on their feet watching (probably in shock). I’m standing up too. There are tables knocked down, chairs knocked down, drinks spilled everywhere. The American group made the decision to go help out their buddy. They didn’t even make it two feet towards the completely one sided beat down and the bartender girl goes “no, no, no, no, no”, like saying no as many times as she could in a short amount of time and she grabs one of the other guys arm to stop him from interfering, which stopped everyone from going to help.

    I was standing right beside them and I said to the rest as well “I wouldn’t mess with that if I were you guys, just watch and learn.” Even the building security didn’t interfere, they knew better.

    The beat down didn’t last very long. I’m sure to the guy on the floor, it felt like an eternity. But in reality it was less than a minute. The guy on the floor was covered in his own blood, crying like a baby. Honestly I was more worried about the nice suit the guy had on. May that suit rest in peace, it didn’t deserve it. The guy was still alive, and deserved it. Probably had a ton of broken bones, especially his arm. That guy definitely picked a fight with the wrong person.

    The Chinese guy went to the washroom to wash his hands after. Then he eventually sat back down in the VIP section.

    One of the building managers came over to the American group and starting saying “Money, Money, Money.” “Give Money.” “You damage place, you give money fix.” (or something along the lines, it’s been a while since this happened, I don’t exactly remember her words). Which they did, quite a bit too. Probably was their play money for the rest of the night.

    They helped their friend to his feet and security pushed them out. The guy was lucky, obviously he caught the Chinese guy on a good day. Waitresses started cleaning up and mopping the floor and picking up chairs and straightening tables up.

    It was quite an experience to have witnessed that myself. The Chinese guy never actually said “You just picked a fight with the wrong person.” But the smirk on his face when the American pushed him… definitely said it for him. Sometimes you know exactly what a person is thinking of by their face expression. And that is exactly what he was thinking.

    Police were never called, they would have arrested only the American foreigner anyways. I checked the local social media the following couple days, it never made the news. I doubt any taxi would take them to the hospital, because of the blood. And they had no money. So I assume to this day that they walked to the nearest hospital which would have been like 30 minute walk away. I didn’t go outside for at least another hour so I’m not sure whatever happened to those guys. Never saw them again in China.