The Saucetown Investor Podcast
Oct 15, 2026 · 37 min · 11 segments
Jho Low is the face of a massive financial scandal. Where is he now? The 1MDB fraud involved complex webs of international finance, shell companies, and high-stakes corporate partnerships. We trace…
Matt CoxHost
Lo Take Joe, who the whole world would come to know simply as Joe Lo, was born in 1981 in Penang, Malaysia, to a rich family.
The kind of family where the question was never whether you'd get a good education, only which country was going to supply it.
His parents sent him to Harrow, which is one of the most famous boarding schools on Earth.
And that's where the story really starts, because at Harrow, he became close friends with a classmate by the name of Riza Aziz.
Najib's father had been a prime minister of Malaysia, and Najib would become one himself.
A teenager, far from home, and the kid down the hall happens to have a stepfather who will one day control the country's checkbook.
He started a company while he was still in school and he called it the Winton Group.
And according to Billion Dollar Whale, the book that tells this story better than anyone as far as I can tell, he threw parties for his friends that became known for their excess.
Okay, for his 20th birthday, he reportedly rented a Philadelphia club and had a woman covered in sushi.
People started calling him the Asian Great Gatsby, and he could not have been happier about this.
He got close to the sons of the wealthy families of the Middle East, men who would go on to hold big jobs in Abu Dhabi's investment world.
Lo Take Joe, who the whole world would come to know simply as Joe Lo, was born in 1981 in Penang, Malaysia, to a rich family.
The kind of family where the question was never whether you'd get a good education, only which country was going to supply it.
His parents sent him to Harrow, which is one of the most famous boarding schools on Earth.
And that's where the story really starts, because at Harrow, he became close friends with a classmate by the name of Riza Aziz.
Najib's father had been a prime minister of Malaysia, and Najib would become one himself.
A teenager, far from home, and the kid down the hall happens to have a stepfather who will one day control the country's checkbook.
He started a company while he was still in school and he called it the Winton Group.
And according to Billion Dollar Whale, the book that tells this story better than anyone as far as I can tell, he threw parties for his friends that became known for their excess.
Okay, for his 20th birthday, he reportedly rented a Philadelphia club and had a woman covered in sushi.
People started calling him the Asian Great Gatsby, and he could not have been happier about this.
He got close to the sons of the wealthy families of the Middle East, men who would go on to hold big jobs in Abu Dhabi's investment world.
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