Chapter 289 The Richest Man
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Malcolm Forbes, the second-generation head of Forbes magazine, was discussing this year's ranking of America's 400 richest people with the editorial team until a few days before the new issue was finalized.
One notable difference on this year's homegrown list compared to previous years is the exit of Sam Walton.
Due to the continued deterioration of his physical condition, Sam Walton has officially transferred his shares in his name to the family trust and several children at the beginning of this year.
If Sam Walton hadn't sold his shares, the retail tycoon's fortune of more than $8 billion would definitely remain the No. Now, although the Forbes global list to be released next month will count the Walton family as a whole, the position of the richest man on the local list has become an issue that many people pay close attention to.
During this time, Malcolm Forbes has received countless calls to inquire about this matter. Many rich people seem indifferent on the surface, but they are actually very interested in their wealth rankings. As the most authoritative wealth list in the world, Forbes magazine is also cautious about the determination of its own list data.
After careful investigation and multi-party forensics and a lot of discussion among the editorial team, the list of the new issue was finally finalized. Malcolm Forbes also understands that this year's list is destined to generate a lot of controversy.
Saturday, September 9th.
With the release of the new issue of "Forbes" magazine, early in the morning, the phone of Malcolm Forbes's home in the wealthy area of Fashers, a western suburb of New York, kept ringing, and many people's first words were ' Mal, are you kidding us? ’
Forbes' list, of course, can't be a joke.
However, the name of a young man at the top of the list this year makes too many people feel a little dazzling.
Beverly Hills.
In the villa of the Trousdale Manor, just after five o'clock on the west coast, Simon began to receive calls from all parties, congratulating him on winning the top spot on this year's rich list, including France's Sophia and Australia's Janet They all called.
Overtime was arranged on the weekend, and I planned to finish the later stage of "Batman" in one go. However, the chaotic early morning made it difficult to work peacefully this weekend.
After breakfast, Simon had just left the house in the car, and some media reporters who were already squatting outside followed him, and they didn't count until Simon's car entered Warner Studios. Just after arriving at the late-stage center of Warner Studios, Terry Semel appeared in front of Simon. It was also a congratulatory message, and he also asked Simon if he had time to eat together at noon.
There is no serious business, Simon can be too lazy to have lunch with a big man, naturally refuses.
After a few small chats, Terry Semel left, and Simon's driver handed over a copy of Forbes magazine before he entered the Batman studio at the Post Center.
Simon instructed the staff who looked at him with more strange eyes to prepare for today's work. While sitting on the office chair in the studio, he opened the magazine in his hand. He is not interested in rankings that are too long, and just looks at the top ten lists that the magazines specifically list and occupy an entire page.
No. 1: Simon Westeros, $6 billion, 21.
Second place: John Kruger, $5.2 billion, 76 years old.
Third: Warren Buffett, $4.2 billion, 59.
Fourth place: Summer Redstone, $2.88 billion, 66 years old.
Fifth place: Ted Arison, $2.8 billion, 65 years old.
No. 6: Donald Newhouse, $2.7 billion, 61.
No. 7: Samuel Newhouse, $2.7 billion, 60.
No. 8: Anne-Cox Chambers, $2.55 billion, 69.
No. 9: Barbara-Cox Anthony, $25.50, 66.
No. 10: Ross Perot, $2.4 billion, 59.
A 21-year-old hairy boy suddenly appeared in front of a group of top rich people with an average age of more than 60 years old, and he looked really winked.
To achieve such a pioneering work in just three years, it would be hypocritical to say that I am unhappy.
However, Simon did not continue to read more information, but quickly threw himself into the day's work.
$6 billion is indeed not much different from Simon's current net worth, but it is still far from Simon's expected goal. At least, on the list of the world's richest people, it is estimated that it is still difficult for him to enter the top ten this year. Simon's goal is not just to enter the top ten on the global list, or even to get the first place.
He has never forgotten the somewhat frivolous remarks he had made with Janet on the outskirts of Phoenix on his 19th birthday.
Since living again, just doing the best is not in line with Simon's expectations. He hopes to reach a height that everyone can look up to.
Simon started the day's work calmly, but the media in North America and around the world were boiling over the news that he had topped the 400 richest list in the United States.
Number one is always the one that gets the most attention.
Just like the Forbes Rich List for many years, the world knows Bill Gates, who has long occupied the first place, but if asked who the second or third place is, most people cannot blurt out accurately.
With Simon's ascent to the top, the first reactions of the major media were almost one-sided doubts.
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Mon Westeros is very rich, this is a concept that has been established in most people's minds. However, how is it possible that a 21-year-old has become the richest man in the United States in just three years without inheritance, with a personal net worth of $6 billion?
However, compared with last year, the data given by Forbes this year is more detailed, and even some of the assets that Simon thinks are well hidden have been picked up by Forbes.
Among the personal assets under Simon's name, the most obvious is still the batch of technology stocks.
After the large-scale reduction in the first half of the year, although the remaining 19 technology stocks have stocks like amd that brought losses to Simon, the stock prices of Microsoft and Intel, which are heavily held by Westeros, have been in the past six months. are continuing to rise.
Compared with the statistics after the completion of the reduction at the beginning of the year, the overall value of the technology stocks held by Westeros reached 13% in half a year, with a total value of 1.77 billion US dollars.
The second asset is Cersei Capital.
In recent months, the Japanese have released more news intentionally or unintentionally, and the operation of Cersei Capital has gradually become known to more people.
According to Cersei Capital's net worth of more than $3 billion, "Forbes" judges that Simon has at least a third of it, which is another $1 billion.
The third asset is a large collection of properties in Simon's name.
This is where Simon was surprised.
"Forbes" magazine found information on the buildings and the corresponding land that Simon bought east of Madison Avenue in Manhattan. At the same time, the group of real estate investments in Europe were also counted, and Simon's cities such as Los Angeles and New York were counted. A large number of luxury homes, "Forbes" statistics Simon's property holdings total value of a staggering $ 400 million.
The fourth asset is a series of unlisted companies held by the Westeros Corporation.
Cisco, AOL, and even Igret, a company that was only a few months old, are all included, as is Gucci, a luxury company.
Cisco has begun to emerge recently, and Gucci's recovery in the past six months is obvious to all.
Forbes values the private companies at $300 million.
The combined value of these four assets alone is close to $3.5 billion.
Next, the fifth asset, and naturally the most important one: Daenerys Entertainment.
Forbes Magazine specifically lists the assets that Daenerys Entertainment already owns:
The three film labels of Daenerys, New World and High Gate with a large number of blockbuster films;
Daenerys Television, which owns multiple lucrative reality shows;
30% stake in Blockbuster, which owns more than 750 video tape rental and sales chains;
Marvel Entertainment;
Pixar Animation Studios;
Daenerys Special Effects Company;
Blizzard Studio;
The Daenerys Studios in Malibu and the Daenerys Entertainment headquarters building in New York;
toy factories in Rhode Island;
Then there's the comparison with the list of Columbia Pictures assets that Sony just completed its acquisition of.
Sony paid a total price of 5 billion US dollars, and only obtained Columbia Pictures' two major labels, Columbia and Samsung, a film library including more than 4,000 film and television copyrights, a loews theater chain with 820 screens, and 5 local TV stations.
The two major labels of Columbia and Samsung are obviously far inferior to the three labels of Daenerys, New World and Gaomen under the dynamic Daenerys Entertainment.
The copyright of more than 4,000 film and television works may be the biggest advantage of Columbia Pictures, but the income brought by these more than 4,000 film and television works to Columbia Pictures through annual home entertainment operations such as video tapes and TV broadcasts may not be as good as Danielle. Earnings from one or two blockbuster films owned by Silk Entertainment.
This asset is more of a potential secondary development copyright value and a long-lasting foundation.
Although the loews cinema chain is wholly owned by Colombia, the scale of 820 screens is nothing compared to the total number of screens in North America, which exceeds 23,000. In contrast, Blockbuster has rapidly expanded its market share to nearly 10% in the past six months.
As for local TV stations, in an industry merger in March this year, Ron Perelman, who was ambitious to enter the media field, bought 12 local TV stations for only $100 million, including the liabilities of these TV stations. , the total transaction value does not exceed 200 million US dollars.
In fact, the national TV networks of the mainstream TV networks in North America are mainly established by these TV stations. Each of the three established TV networks, abc, nbc and cbs, has more than 200 affiliated TV stations.
It is not difficult to imagine that the value of the TV station in Colombia's hands is definitely not too high.
In addition, Daenerys Entertainment has already started to build Daenerys Studios, but Columbia Pictures does not even have its own studio. If Sony wants to revive the operation of this old film company, it must continue to spend money to purchase studios.
In contrast, Sony Ken paid 5 billion US dollars for such a film company, and Daenerys Entertainment, which is still in a state of rapid expansion, is naturally not too low in value, and even exceeds Columbia Pictures.
Considering that Sony almost doubled the premium Sony paid for Columbia Pictures, Forbes magazine valued Daenerys at no less than $3 billion.
Finally, after repaying some of the debt due in the first half of the year, the amount of debt under Simon's name has dropped to less than $800 million.
Combining the above data, "Forbes" magazine has carried out rounding processing, giving Simon Westeros personal net worth of 6 billion US dollars.
The statistics made by Forbes magazine are well-founded, but the controversy in the media has not diminished in the slightest. In addition to a group of easily counted technology stocks publicly held by Westeros, Forbes magazine's assessment of the value of several of Simon's other assets has become the focus of media controversy.
In the days that followed, various media discussions and newspaper articles about Forbes Magazine's wealth list flooded into countless television screens and newspaper pages of various categories. "Is Daenerys Entertainment Really Worth $3 Billion?"
"What is Simon Westero going to do when he buys the Manhattan lot?"
"Is Daenerys Entertainment only worth $3 billion?"
"Media mogul John Kruger accuses Forbes of exaggerating Westeros' net worth figures to gain attention."
"Cersei Capital Interest Distribution Revealed."
"Ex-Motorola Chairman Robert Galvin: Selling Motorola Stock Was Simon Westero's Biggest Mistake."
"Analysis of the Westeros Company's Tech Stock Investment Landscape."
"Australia's qintex group has issued an offer to MGM for $1 billion."
"Best time to buy a dip: Westeros bullish on global real estate."
"Chicago police cracked a 'psychic learning class' fraud case, with a weekly tuition fee of $10,000, and the suspect's illegal profit of more than 2 million."
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Simon's attention is already very high. With a large number of media hyping the "Forbes" rich list, he has become a man of the North America in just a few days. Some media have begun to predict that Simon Westeros will be. Will not be on this year's "Time" Weekly Person of the Year.
The world has never been short of blind followers.
No matter how many media platforms argue and argue, it is already a given that Simon Westeros grabs the top spot on the list of America's richest people with a personal net worth of $6 billion.
As a result, as the discussion about Simon's personal wealth continued to spread, the technology sector of the North American stock market and the Japanese stock market, which was still rising, both poured into a large number of investors in a short period of time.
As the foundation of Simon's fortune, Hollywood has once again become the object of close attention of capital.
After the stock market crash of 1987, Hollywood went through a period of difficulties. Mainstream second-tier film companies such as De Laurentiis Entertainment and Canon Pictures went bankrupt. With a series of achievements, a large number of capital forces who have fantasies about the film and television industry have begun to move again.
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