This visionary CEO has a 300-year plan - and it could make you rich...

Please do not reply to this message, as replies are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. You are receiving this email as a part of your subscription to Strategic Tech Investor. Your ability to alter your subscription information can be found at the bottom of this email. [Strategic Tech Investor] [Your ticket to the top of the income pyramid?]( This is rather shocking, and might make you outraged. But it's all true... America's "class system" has locked you out of almost all of Silicon Valley's biggest ideas... These "big shots" get rich from their private deals. Meanwhile the "working stiffs" get stuck with crumbs from the financial table... To find out how this "secret backdoor" works, [Click Here Now](. --------------------------------------------------------------- August 11, 2017 [This Visionary CEO Has a 300-Year Plan - and It Could Make You Rich]( By Michael A. Robinson Dear Strategic Tech Investor Reader, LATEST REPORT --------------------------------------------------------------- The "Gold of Tech" Could Become Your Best Portfolio Insurance In uncertain markets like these, you need to stay as focused - and unemotional - as possible. One way to do that is to always have some "portfolio insurance" on hand. And as this technology becomes increasingly integrated into the world's financial system and balloons into its own "ecosystem," I project it could soar 137% in the short term. So let's investigate the "gold of tech" in my latest report. [Take a look...]( LATEST APPEARANCE --------------------------------------------------------------- [Can Rising eBay Actually Deliver to Shareholders?]( MICHAEL'S LATEST ALERTS --------------------------------------------------------------- Research [The One E-Commerce Play Better Than Amazon]( Trading [Make This Free Trade for 105% Gains]( The very first "rule" in my [Tech Wealth Blueprint]( holds that "great companies have great operations." And those great operations require great leaders. Now, these leaders don't have to be "rock star" CEOs with name recognition, like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg. But they do have to be competent and experienced, with the unique vision and wherewithal to make their product or service "indispensable" for billions of consumers no matter what's happening in the rest of the world. The kinds of leader who can reshape the world. That's the kind of leader - and the kind of company, of course - I'm going to fill you in on today. You might not be familiar with him. He's certainly not as recognizable as Musk or Zuckerberg. But I'll put him (and his 300-year plan) up against those Silicon Valley greats any day of the week... --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why This Marijuana Company Is Creating a Cannabis Town]( This just in from Money Morning: American Green Inc. just purchased an entire town. As the legal marijuana industry continues to expand, marijuana companies across the nation are looking for ways to not only profit, but to also support the communities they serve. One way to do this is to create an entire town dedicated to cannabis. This town serves two purposes: generate interest and revenue for the marijuana company, and provide an eco-friendly oasis for cannabis consumers - and the community. [Take a moment to learn about Nipton, Calif...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- The Vision Thing The FANG companies have all found outrageous success based on their dominant approach to the individual tech trends of the 21st century - Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: [FB]() and social media... Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: [AAPL]() and mobile miniaturization... Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: [NFLX]() and media streaming... and Alphabet Inc. (Nasdaq: [GOOGL]() and online search. Of course, these massive, market-leading tech firms are all built more or less around the vision of one person, or at least a small group of them. Masayoshi Son has vision, too - and his firm is building one of the most broad-based approaches to those same tech trends as any of the big FANG players. Consider the tech fund he's set up, called - you guessed it - the Vision Fund. It's now the world's largest private equity fund. It's pulled in close to $100 billion from countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as tech heavy hitters like Apple and Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: [QCOM](), which both have a burning interest in innovating "the next big thing." [SHOCKING DOSSIER:]( [Inside China's Master Plan to Destroy the United States]( Son's vision, for instance, led him to grab a 32% stake in $382.51 billion Chinese e-commerce juggernaut Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Nasdaq: [BABA](), a savvy play on the unstoppable rise of the Chinese middle class. Right now, at an "early" stage in his 300-year plan, Son's firm is starting to look a whole lot like Facebook did at the end of the last decade. --------------------------------------------------------------- [1,328% Total Gains in 30 Trading Days]( Shah Gilani has just set a new industry benchmark. Since April 21, he's been CRUSHING the market with an average of 44% gains PER DAY (including partial closeouts). And these gains are growing daily. You have to [see it to believe it](. --------------------------------------------------------------- He's Not a Household Name - but These Are Masayoshi Son's Softbank Group Corp. (OTC: [SFTBF]() is "big in Japan," where it's a dominant presence in that country's broadband and fixed-line telecom industry, as well as its internet, finance, and technology sectors. It's also the world's 62nd-largest company, according to Forbes. Plus, it's one of tech's quietest, most powerful "pick-and-shovel" plays. You see, through sharp acquisitions - chiefly U.K.-based ARM Holdings Plc. (Nasdaq ADR: [ARMH]() for $32 billion - Softbank has essentially become a supplier to many of the companies whose goods Americans use on a daily basis. ARM licenses the designs for chips that are now in 95% of all smartphones. The firm's list of clients read like a Who's Who of the consumer tech industry - Apple, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (OTC: [SSNLF](), Qualcomm, Nokia Corp. (NYSE ADR: [NOK](), and lots more. MUST READ TECH IPO NEWS [Stitch Fix CEO Eyeing $1 Billion Revenue Target Ahead of IPO]( [Uber IPO Could Be Delayed as Meg Whitman Drops Out of Running for CEO]( Softbank also recently announced it was looking to merge with Charter Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: [CHTR](), a $102.81 billion company that's the second-largest cable provider in the United States and the third-largest pay TV operator. It's also the fifth-largest telephone provider. Add to that the credible rumors that Softbank is looking to merge with T-Mobile U.S. Inc. (Nasdaq: [TMUS](), and you start to see that SoftBank is going to make a play for a major piece of the dynamic mobile telecom space - including content. But Son has been building SoftBank steadily, quietly, and expertly for decades now. It started as software company in the Japanese market in 1981. But even then, Son's vision included the mammoth U.S. market. By 1994, SoftBank bought Ziff Davis Publishing, which published the leading trade journal, PC Week. [THE BEST POT STOCKS:]( [The Most Lucrative and Fastest-Growing Legal Cannabis Stocks]( By 1996, it launched Yahoo Japan and was the largest shareholder in Yahoo Inc. at about the same moment that company was at the top of the search "heap." Since then, SoftBank has acquired various telecoms around the world, building out one of its core divisions. On this side of the Pacific, it picked up telecom upstart Sprint Corp. (NYSE: [S]() in 2013. Since then, Sprint has become a consistent thorn in the side of the former Baby Bells - AT&T Inc. (NYSE: [T]() and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: [VZ](). SoftBank has racked up some losses trying to make a stand in the U.S. mobile market, but it does have 58 million subscribers and continues to thwart AT&T and Verizon's aspirations of duopoly. 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[Over at Money Morning, David Zeiler lays out some of your options...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- A "Convergence Economy" Leader Though he doesn't have the celebrity of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, or Mark Zuckerberg, Masayoshi Son shares with them his vision of an evolving, tech-driven world, where many markets and industries are subtly interconnected - part of the "Convergence Economy" we've talked about, and profited on, for years. And like the U.S. "Tech Triumvirate" of Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg, Son has attracted critics who don't understand his big picture; who say SoftBank has "taken on too much debt"... or that there are "too many moving parts"... or there's too little to show for all his efforts. These naysayers do nothing to ding the investing case for owning Son's company. Besides, when you're inventing new worlds - whole new economies and industries - being misunderstood comes with the territory. For instance, no one thought much of an online bookseller. And to this day, plenty of (myopic) Wall Street analysts are uncomfortable with how Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: [AMZN]() is run, with the fact that most of its operating capital coming from its cloud computing division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS funds other divisions, and all of Amazon's cash gets plowed back into its businesses instead of executives setting some aside for a rainy day. When Facebook went public, the company was, in some cases literally, a laughingstock, both for the problems that beset the IPO itself and for the fact that Zuckerberg just seemed to be sitting around waiting for the technology to catch up with his vision. Wall Street didn't "get" that... Look who's laughing now. And, as you read this, you'll find no shortage of analysts fretting over the admittedly less-than-impressive launch of the Tesla Model 3, a vehicle I think has the potential to be the 21st-century Model-T - a car that puts smart, electric cars in exponentially more garages and unlocks entirely new technologies. These folks can't see the truly disruptive potential in, well, nearly everything Musk is working on right now. Each one of these leaders' companies is unstoppable now, no matter what the naysayers say, and I think we're just about there with Softbank... --------------------------------------------------------------- North Korea's "Black Swan" Nukes... As the threat of North Korea's nukes continues to develop, Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald joins a Fox Business panel to consult on the possibility of the communist nation triggering a "Black Swan" event. To get the full rundown of this conflict - and to be first in line for Keith's critical insights in the future - [click here](. You'll also be added to his twice-weekly Total Wealth Researchnewsletter - completely free. --------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Buys Are Tomorrow's Gains Son is also committed to implementing the Internet of Everything (IoE), which is likely one of the reasons he bought ARM - an IoE play if ever there was one. And SoftBank just invested in the robot vacuum company iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: [IRBT](), as well as the fast-growing Southeast Asian ride service Grab, ride service Didi Chuxing, and shared workspace company WeWork in China. It's no wonder conventional U.S. analysts just don't know how to value SoftBank and its Vision Fund arm. But that doesn't mean it's not executing a plan. It means Son is interested in rolling up his sleeves and building his vision of the world - not appeasing analysts. --------------------------------------------------------------- [Ways to Play Weed Today]( Pot stocks are flying off the charts... It's unbelievable. And with new states set to legalize marijuana this year, the time to invest in marijuana stocks is right now. If you act fast, you could catch a rare opportunity to get in during the early stages of an industry boom, and acquire stakes before the market expands again. So time is of the essence, [click here]( immediately for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------- The "Mother of All Tech Funds" Right now, the conventional view is that Son's SoftBank is a Japanese firm that wants to be a serious U.S. player with a showboat leader who wants to be taken seriously. But, as you've seen, I think SoftBank is much, much more than that. The United States is a major tech market, of course, where Son has made some brilliant, if expensive, moves, but SoftBank is already running significant global operations. The real advantage here for U.S. investors is that SoftBank trades at a relative discount to its competitors in the United States: AT&T and Verizon. That's thanks to those analysts I mentioned. What's more, SoftBank is up 21.1% year to date while AT&T and Verizon are both underwater. And it's still trading at a current P/E of 11. [BREAKING:]( [New "Superfuel" Could Power the U.S. Electrical Grid for The Next 124 Years!]( Fiscal year 2017 ended in March, and it shows that SoftBank - even with all its various acquisitions and large debt load - is keeping the money coming in. Operating income was up 12% year over year. Net income was up 164%, and net income from operations was up 85%. The hard thing about SoftBank is trying to fit it in a traditional box. It's more diversified than most telecoms - it's not a focused tech firm. It's like a tech mutual fund with a unique investing philosophy. It is one man's vision, and we're early on in his 300-year plan. (Son has often mused that he sees a day where the average human lifespan exceeds 200 years.) I'm expecting Softbank and its shareholders to have a good, long ride. Follow me on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. Here's what else I'm following... --------------------------------------------------------------- [Top Secret Weapon Set to Stop Chinese Aggression]( Hostilities in the South China Sea now seem imminent, and the Trump administration could be on the verge of its first major crisis. But thanks to a small $6 defense firm with a top-secret new technology, China is about to be taken to the woodshed. [Frankly, you have to see it to believe it... it's YUGE](! 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Thanks to its major Silicon Valley real-estate holdings, I believe it will one day hand investors a stunning 1,294% gain. [Here's how it could go down...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [More...]( mailto:?subject=Michael%20Robinson's%20Strategic%20Tech%20Investor&body=Check%20out%20http%3A%2F%2Fwww.strategictechinvestor.com%2F You are receiving this e-mail at, {EMAIL}, as a part of your free subscription to Strategic Tech Investor. Remove your email from this list: [Unsubscribe]( To cancel by mail or for any other subscription issues, write us at: Strategic Tech Investor | Attn: Member Services | 16 West Madison Street | Baltimore, MD 21201 North America: 888.384.8339; International: 443.353.4519; Fax: 410.622.3050 [Contact Customer Service]( Website: []( © 2017 Strategic Tech Investor All Rights Reserved. Nothing in this email should be considered personalized financial advice. 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