Chapter 292
Chapter 292 The richest man in the world! !
70 billion USD?
is followed by a .
What does it mean?
Abel has thought hard about it, and he's not sure what his net worth is right now.
Exactly what he said at the White House to the curiosity of some Bush group leaders. What you pay most attention to now is not the amount of money you have, nor the bank card number.
Because it's just this number. Able, who is good at finances, believes that he only needs to give himself time so he can have as much time as he wants.
What Abel wants most now is influence in all aspects.
This is power over money, and this is the development of money - capital!
Since this year, he no longer pays much attention to how much money he has. What he pays attention to is how much capital he can now influence and utilize.
Abel believes that this number is the center of his influence on his environment and even the world.
At that time, when facing George and the others, he simply chose some of the things he knew and told them.
The data he gave them at that time seemed to be more than 60 billion US dollars, Abel recalls.
Judging from this data, it seems that what Forbes said was not wrong. Abel carefully read Forbes' description of his wealth—
[Abel Smith, this name started last year, obviously audiences around the world are no longer unfamiliar. ]
[What the public likes to say most about this gentleman is that aside from his notoriety that makes everyone jealous, and his appearance as if Apollo is still alive.]
[In addition, public opinion is very curious and jealous of Mr. Abel Smith. How much money does he have? ]
[That's a very good question. After about six months of research, Forbes finally determined the approximate figure of this gentleman's assets.
[First of all, Mr. Smith has a media company under his name. This media company may rank 6th in Forbes' global media group rankings this year. This is Smith Media, worth $17 billion. ]
[Grandfather. Smith also owns a real estate company called "New Start Real Estate". ]
[Xinqidian Real Estate Company, this is like going to the supermarket to buy potatoes, buying luxury houses, land and office buildings like crazy. It has been ranked fourth on Forbes' list of real estate companies in the United States. It is worth 8 billion US dollars..]
[Grandfather. Smith also owns a company called Pacific Energy, formerly Sempra Energy. This is the giant electric company of Southern California and the West Coast, with a market value of $17 billion. In the same category of companies, he also owns half of California Pacific Electric, worth $8 billion.]
[In addition, Mr. Smith is the sole owner of Pacific Bank of Commerce. The bank is currently worth $15 billion. ]
[To date, Mr. Smith has a fortune of 65 billion US dollars. ]
[In addition to these large companies, Mr. Smith also owns many small and medium-sized companies under his name, as well as shares in Internet companies such as Google. We cannot calculate this portion of the data. We can only assume that it is about 5 billion US dollars, which is not a small number. ]
[More than 70 billion US dollars is Mr. Smith's current assets according to the data we collected]
[Attentive readers will no doubt notice that we have not listed Mr. Smith's most important company. ]
Make no mistake, Smith Capital. Wall Street's new investment banking giants! ]
[The reason Smith Capital is not listed is because it is too exaggerated. ]
[It is reported that Warren Buffett, PNC Financial Services Group and other giants are shareholders in this company. They paid a very high price for their shares in the company. ]
[We don't know how much it will cost, we just know that it is impossible to calculate the value of Smith Capital. ]
[So here we don't list Smith's capital value, we just add a sign after Mr. Smith's asset figure. ]
[This symbol here means that Mr. Smith's assets are definitely more than 70 billion US dollars. He may be richer than we imagine. ]
[What's even more exaggerated is that Abel Smith is only 21 years old this year, making him the youngest person on our list. ]
[He is 8 years younger than Daniel Ziv, 29, who inherited the property. He is a living legend. He is the living reality of the American dream. He]
[.]
In the second half of the article, Abel seems all too familiar.
It's another set of lighthouses that create and market new lamp beads.
Abel's story "$50 to New York" is told in a different way.
Abel did not continue reading. More than $70 billion?
Abel thought to himself, it seemed almost the same.
He turned it over again.
The sixth page is William Henry Gates III, which is Bill Gates' second name.
The rich person in the front is more important and each has two pages of content on a piece of paper. On the back there is only one page left for the rich man, on the back there are two people pressing a piece of paper.
Bill Gates, who Forbes called the tycoon of the era, has a fortune this year of 58.2 billion USD.
Compared to more than 60 billion USD last year, this amount decreased by several billion USD.
It's actually very easy to understand. The data used by Forbes last year was from before the dot-com bubble burst. The impact of the dotcom bubble continued this year and Microsoft's stock price plummeted.
Although Microsoft is not strictly speaking considered an Internet company, it should be considered a high-tech computer company.
But the stock market doesn't care. In the eyes of common shareholders, Microsoft is one of the largest Internet companies.
Of course, Microsoft's stock price also fell thousands of miles at the same time as the monopoly investigation and the bursting of the Internet bubble. In other words, Microsoft had a de facto monopoly. After falling for so long, it started to rise again and stabilized.
This helps Mr. Bill Gates maintain this range.
Abel turned the page and Buffett started on page eight.
In this regard, Buffett's wealth data stands at 34.5 billion US dollars. That's almost half of first place and it's much worse than second place Bill.
Behind Buffett is Paul Allen with a fortune of 32.3 billion USD.
Behind these two positions, the fifth position is only 29.5 billion VND.
That means, in this year's "Forbes" list, only these 4 people have a net worth of more than 30 billion USD.
Abel no longer cares about the following rankings. He threw the dense "Forbes 2001 List" onto the sturdy wooden table in front of him.
Abel raised his head, smiled, and said to his subordinates who were watching him in the room:
"Look here, look closer. The person sitting in front of you right now is the richest person on our planet."
Hearing the words of the very young boss, the tone was a bit exaggerated.
At the office, the Four King Kongs plus David.
Jed and the people who came later all laughed loudly. Smiles seem contagious, just not for a while.
Employees of Smith Capital (UK) on the 15th floor of the Furui building also knew.
It was their young boss who became the richest man in the world.
The smiles on these employees' faces are half genuine and half workplace etiquette.
Half-honesty is that in a capitalist country, it would be more economical to work for the richest person in the world. Half of workplace etiquette is that the boss is the richest person in the world but you don't smile. What do you mean?
And this news, followed by the "Forbes 2001 Ranking" in the global multilingual ranking, quickly spread around the world.
Ordinary people of course do not care much about who will become the richest person in the new world.
Most of the time, after knowing, those who hate rich people will curse a few more times, and those who love money will become fans. Ordinary moderates can say a few words at most.
But among the economic elite, financiers, media and people associated with Abel.
The power of this news is no less than the two giant artificial clouds that rose in Lop Nur, China in the 1960s.
US East Coast,
New York.
Manhattan, Hearst Communications Building. Morning.
Amanda Hearst, who worked as a summer intern at Hearst Media Group with her cousin Lydia Hearst.
She was the first woman to receive this news among the women who came into contact with Abel.
The Hearst Group itself is a media giant.
Coincidentally, today she is an intern at the company. In fact, the company's excellent employees introduced the two sisters to work.
What if the family runs a business and hopes to take over in the future?
"The richest man in the world!"
"Abel Smith!"
From a supervisor, after Amanda Hearst heard the news, she almost jumped with excitement.
Luckily, it's a business. She held back, suppressed her excitement, held her cousin Lydia Hearst's hand and went out. "Lydia! Lydia! Lydia! Like I said before, he's the one!"
Amanda enthusiastically told her cousin:
"Look, he's only 21 years old, he's already the richest person in the world! Seventy billion dollars, equivalent to three Hearsts!"
Lydia thinks to herself that no matter how unique he is, he has nothing to do with us.
People were married to shrubs.
Your previous actions did not lead to anything.
Looking at her excited cousin, Lydia could only say:
"It is very good. But."
She called Amanda back.
"The Bush family has approved of him. Laura Bush is now his girlfriend so he has nothing to do with us."
After hearing Lydia Hearst's words, the hyperactive Amanda calmed down a bit.
From then on, I proactively went to Hawaii.
Between the two sisters, this person has not been mentioned for a long time. The reason is later, after February this year.
Among the giants of the upper class in the United States, there are rumors that the family of shrubs living in the White House will marry into the Smith family, a small wealthy local family from Texas.
During this period, the shrub family is at its peak.
Rumors about this family quickly spread among the rich and powerful families in America, especially among the most gossipy ladies and gentlemen.
Everyone was surprised that the bush family wanted to marry a small rich family in the countryside. It was later determined that Smith was the one causing the problem on Wall Street.
Everyone came together, admiring the Bush family's speed and determination.
Certainly, it is worthy of a shrub family that starts from marriage and quickly grows through marriage.
The Hearst family initially thought a little and learned this news.
After a period of investigation and resolution, the Hearst family confirmed the authenticity of this news. After that, two cousins Amanda received a restraining order from the elders in the family.
Stop getting involved with someone who is married to the bush.
No matter how crazy Amanda's personality is, she is still young after all. She is initially very positive towards Abel because of her family's secret support.
Now the family strictly prohibits it, even if they are not satisfied, they can only choose to obey. Not to mention Lydia.
She is often a small shadow next to Amanda in the family, she is an indispensable person in the family.
Even if there is some affection, it is completely out of his reach.
The two cousins have not contacted Abel since then.
Abel was a little afraid that Amanda would get mad, so she didn't bother him or continue to harass him with text messages. Abel was happy that it was late, let alone taking the initiative to look for her.
Gradually, the cousins did not contact Abel for many months.
This is exactly what Lydia is saying to Amanda right now.
It's just that Lydia underestimated her cousin's madness. Amanda quietly pursed her beautiful lips and then suddenly said to Lydia:
"She's just a girlfriend. They aren't engaged yet, and even if they were, they wouldn't be married! Moreover, he has so many women, the bush may not be able to marry him in the end! Lydia, I don't think I can give up!"
Lydia had a terrible headache.
Lydia wondered in her heart: did she and Amanda kiss?
I'm Aunt Anne's daughter and Amanda is my mother's daughter?
How could Amanda be as crazy as her mother?
Lydia had to persuade: "Amanda! Do you want to anger Aunt Annie?! The elder won't allow it!"
"Maybe." Amanda Hearst said:
"But he's only 21 years old and he already has 70 billion! 70 billion! My God, two Buffetts can keep up with him! Lydia, don't you think mom and the others won't be touched?" I'm going to find mom!"
As she spoke, Amanda shook Lydia and walked forward alone.
Lydia showed a headache, gritted her teeth and followed.
Amanda, in Lydia's eyes, had started to "go crazy" again.
On the other side of New York, in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Ikana packs her luggage with her best friend Paris. After thinking, Ikana finally decided to go to the West Coast to raise the fetus and give birth.
The weather on the West Coast is much better than the East Coast in many places.
The climate and weather in the Greater Los Angeles area and the Greater Bay Area are hospitable to humans.
Ekana chose the city where she would raise her children and she eventually chose Santa Barbara, California.
Paris will accompany her during pregnancy and childbirth. One is to take care of Ikana, the other is to ask Paris to help her and the secretaries after she gets there.
Ikana can also remotely control the development of his own YKM company.
At that time, two friends were packing their bags to go to Santa Barbara.
There's a lot of luggage and only a few lists.
Some things that weren't personal or important were sent. At this time, two people are checking, there is something more important or the luggage has not been delivered.
"I said. Ikana, don't you think it's too early?"
Paris pointed to several boxes of diapers on the ground: "The baby hasn't come out yet, why did you buy this?" You can also buy it there!"
"Ah" Ikana smiled shyly, "Sorry, I found them beautiful and cute when I was shopping so I bought them from somewhere else. You're right, I won't take them with me.
Paris nodded with satisfaction, but inside she complained:
[This Ikana, after having a child in her belly, put all her energy into the child, her IQ actually decreased a lot.]
I'm really jealous.
It's not a pregnancy, it's a listed company.
Paris only regrets not giving Abel a big belly.
Suddenly, the cell phone that Paris threw on the table next to her rang.
"Pick up the phone. Let me see what else I didn't bring. » Ikana took some packing lists and started checking.
Paris connected to her phone, "It's me, Paris."
"Respect dear Paris, it's me!" The voice of a young girl rang out.
Paris wonders who are you, not bigwig, how can I remember your voice.
"Are you?" » Paris asked.
"My name is Kim, it's Kim. Oh, I'm Kim Kardashian!
"Oh, that's gold."
Paris recalls, it was about a "little girl" she had recently adopted in New York.
Because of her beauty and figure, the other person was chosen by YKM as one of the clothing models for long-term cooperation.
Paris is also the company's design director and has seen her a lot.
Because Kim Kardashian is very obedient and sensitive, Paris found her very nice and took her to several fashion shows and a few receptions.
Kim Kardashian has officially become her bag carrier, so of course she has Paris's contact number. "What's going on? Kim, Ikana and I are all busy. We're going to California tomorrow. By the way, your workplace will also be moved to California." Paris said.
"Oh oh, okay." Kim Kardashian also knows about Ikana. She is her sister's older sister
In addition, Kim Kardashian also knows that her sister is one of the girlfriends of a super boss!
Kim Kardashian called Paris today to talk about something related to this important figure.
"Dear and venerable Paris!" Kim Kardashian's voice was full of enthusiasm, desire and longing: "I'm calling to tell you some news. I think you might not know it yet."
Kim Kardashian seems a bit excited.
Even Paris was a little curious at this time: "What's going on?"
"This is the Forbes Billionaires List."
"So why do I care?" Paris said dissatisfiedly: "This is not a celebrity ranking. And even if it were celebrity rankings, I might not be able to reach that now. Ikana can go up.
"No no no no no!"
Kim Kardashian enthusiastically stated:
"I mean on this rich list, Mr. Abel Smith is the richest man in the world."
"'Forbes' says he's worth more than $70 billion!"
"What?"
Paris thought she heard wrong.
"Can you repeat that?"
"Abel Smith?"
"An asset worth over 70 billion US dollars?!"
(end of this chapter)