10/08/2026
CEOs SHOULD OWN LAND ASSETS - Dangote Refinery sits on over 6,000 acres of land.
Let's use that as a reference point, especially when you remember that Dangote Cement and several other manufacturing businesses also sit on enormous land masses.
But let's focus on the refinery.
The refinery itself is an asset.
We all agree on that.
What many people forget is that the land underneath it is also an asset.
I'll explain.
Elon Musk claims to live in a modest house, but what he doesn't talk about as much is the fact that one SpaceX facility sits on thousands of acres of land, while one Tesla facility alone occupies more than 2,600 acres.
That's access.
Bill Gates is one of the kings of technology, yet he owns hundreds of thousands of acres of land.
Not 250,000 plots.
I mean 250,000 acres.
That's more than 1.5 million plots of land.
That's practically a city.
Even Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns tens of thousands of miles of railroad tracks and the rights attached to them across North America.
No matter what you're building, understand this:
Land will not get cheaper.
You will need land for warehouses, dockyards, factories, logistics hubs, residential developments, data centres and future expansion.
Most people see the business.
Very few people see the land underneath the business.
That is the difference.
When Dangote acquired that land years ago, many people could not understand the vision. Today, everyone can see it.
One of the benefits of being a member of TheDALFceo 500 is access to information and opportunities.
Land won't get cheaper, don't wait to need that 1acre land for your business only to find out it's 20x the price four years from today.
Daniel ADENIYI
