Financial analysts and other members of the investment community had high expectations
for the new company. Those expectations caused the company’s stock
price to surge. Thanks to that surging stock price, Henry Yuen became the third
wealthiest Asian-American in the United States, according to Forbes magazine. Yuen’s
net worth of $1.3 billion easily secured him a spot in the Forbes 400, the publication’s
annual compilation of the four hundred richest U.S. citizens. At the age of 51, the
Chinese immigrant whose family had been forced to leave its homeland following
the Communist takeover of that nation was among the most successful capitalists in
the world and was proudly living the “American dream.” But he wasn’t satisfi ed. According
to The New York Times, Yuen believed that his company’s “on-screen guide
would be the ultimate toll-keeper for the media [television] and told colleagues that
Gemstar would someday be bigger than Microsoft.