Kazakhstan citizen Sultan Talip (Talipov) has opened a construction company in the USA and started building private homes for sale, he said on Facebook (Meta). He hopes to earn $1 billion by 2035 from this venture. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.
"I am that Kazakh, opened a construction company in America and started building such private houses. We are now in Florida, this house has 250 square meters under the roof. Just this morning we started putting up walls and here is the result of the first day — half is ready, tomorrow the walls will be completely ready," he said.
According to him, the house will have various rooms with their own bathrooms. Sultan Talip noted that Americans usually put loungers and barbecues on the terrace in front of the house.
"In the future, the owner of this house can build a large pool here and relax with the whole family with children and live like in the forest in such wonderful nature. It is exactly such private houses that all Americans prefer to buy, so we are building specifically for Americans, so that later we can build this house and sell it," he said.
The entrepreneur noted that he wrote a script for his life 18 years ahead – until 2035 – in 2017.
"A construction company in the USA is one part of this script. With its help, I plan to earn $1 billion," he stated.
According to social media posts, in 2023 he was selling women's clothing via Kaspi. In July 2024, he moved with his family to the USA and currently lives in Melbourne, Florida. Sultan Talip managed to win a Greencard. After moving to the USA, he returned with his children to Astana and Almaty.
"Everyone has a big mission for the summer holidays. The younger ones will learn the Kazakh language, the older ones will communicate and hang out with friends. Everyone will undergo a medical examination. In America, dental treatment is very expensive. Therefore, everyone will undergo dental treatment. Of course, it would be more profitable to fly on vacation to the Bahamas or California. But still, nothing can replace the native land and native people," he wrote then.
Sultan Talip also reported that he took an instructor to learn to fly a private plane.
"Today I took an instructor and flew the plane myself for the first time. It turned out to be easier than I thought — the main thing is when you truly love this business. In the future, I want to get a pilot's license and buy my own private jet for 10-12 seats," he noted.
Earlier, BI Group of billionaire Aydin Rakhimbayev engaged in building houses and selling apartments. Developer BI Group announced sales of housing in the USA at the end of 2024. Kazakhstanis were offered to purchase apartments in the financial center of Miami starting from $477,000 with a guaranteed income of 10% or villas starting from $6.8 million.
Kazakhstan's largest developer – BI Group of Aydin Rakhimbayev – acquired the Ukrainian construction company Watzenrode. The purpose of the purchase is to take a prominent place in the reconstruction of Ukraine, as well as to build residential complexes in Kyiv and Kyiv region, Ukrainian Forbes reported at the end of 2025.
Private company BI Development Ltd., part of BI Group, received revenue of 1.06 trillion tenge in 2025 compared to 582.5 billion tenge in 2024, according to the company's financial statements. Thus, revenue increased by 81.9% over the year. Net profit of BI Development Ltd. amounted to 122.6 billion tenge compared to 75.9 billion tenge in 2024 (+61.6%).
The main owner and CEO of BI Group, Aydin Rakhimbayev, ranks ninth in the list of the richest Kazakhstanis according to Forbes with a fortune of $1.1 billion ($967 million in 2025). Other co-owners of BI Group are Bauyrzhan Isabayev, ranking 46th with $220 million ($323 million in 2025), and Askhat Omarov, 60th with $150 million ($242 million in 2025).