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Simon didn't know what to say for a moment.

Originally thought that the Weinstein brothers were recruited by Nancy to Blockbuster Entertainment, and then they might compete with Gaomen Pictures in the field of literary films. No slack.

It's just that I didn't expect that things hadn't started yet, and this would be the result.

Harvey Weinstein's shit is not a big deal in Hollywood.

When the Weinstein incident broke out, it was because the Weinstein brothers lost power in Hollywood. They thought their wings were strong enough to break away from the Disney system. Without a big backer, they became competitors of other major Hollywood studios. It's not clean, you are not unlucky, whoever is unlucky.

It's just that the whole of Hollywood probably didn't expect the incident to be so big.

This time.

Simon could probably figure out what happened without asking too much detail.

Miramax went bankrupt in the first half of the year, and suddenly joined Hollywood's thriving Daenerys Entertainment, Harvey Weinstein inevitably relapsed.

It's just that Harvey probably overlooked one point. His direct supervisor is a woman, and she is a woman with a strong and independent personality and obvious feminist tendencies.So, just joined Blockbuster Entertainment, and hadn't made any achievements yet, and made such a mess, if you don't get out, whoever gets out.

If you don't cherish such a good opportunity to recover, you can only accept your fate.

Simon thought for a while, and said, "You ask Amy to say hello to other studios, and let the Weinstein brothers disappear from Hollywood completely."

The Weinstein brothers definitely have the ability.

Since his own company cannot use it, Simon will not give other film companies a chance. It will be troublesome if it becomes a competitor.

Alison agreed and lowered her head to record the matter in the memo.

It's just that I can't help thinking about Nancy Brill biting her boss's jaw.

Simon suddenly asked, "A, do you think Nancy will fire me too?"

Alison looked up at Simon and shook her head solemnly: "You are the boss."

"Employees can also fire the boss," Simon said with a smile, "What about you?"

Alison paused, understood what Simon was asking, couldn't help avoiding the gaze of her boss, lowered her eyes and said, "No."

"Looks like I can do whatever I want."

I really want to look up at him.

It seemed as if something was secretly read in my heart.

So I don't speak.

The tip of the pen draws a circle on the memo, draws another circle inside the circle, taps two dots, fills in the eyes, and adds the ears.

After a moment of silence, Alison was the first to react, and quickly continued to report some things. Finally, she found a copy of "Forbes" magazine that was just released today, and said, "Boss, do you want to read it?"

Today is Monday, June 9th.

"Forbes" announced half a month ago that it will announce the latest list of the 400 richest people in the United States in today's issue of the magazine.

Simon actually knew the data of this list in advance.

Seeing the magazine handed over by girl A, she still took it.

The cover is a dense investment map of the Westeros system.

"Forbes" actually wanted a photo of Simon, but it was not surprisingly rejected.

In recent years, although Simon's name has hardly been cut off in the media, photos of him are very rare, not even blurry photos taken secretly by paparazzi, and reports about his private life are becoming rarer and rarer.

It has already been made public when it should be publicized.

Keeping a low profile for now will avoid giving a lot of people a sense of the pervasiveness of Westeros.

This actually saves a lot of hassle.

Just above the dense investment map is a very conspicuous blackened number: $120Billion.

1200 billion dollars!

Compared with last year's 650 billion US dollars, it has almost doubled.

Open the magazine, the first few pages are the detailed list of the 400 richest people in the United States.

The top ten takes up a whole page as usual.

No.1: Simon Westeros, $1200 billion.

No.2: Bill Gates, $105 billion.

No.3: Warren Buffett, $83 billion.

No.4: John Kruger, $59 billion.

No.5: Helen Walton, $45 billion.

No.6: Robinson Walton, $45 billion.

No.7: Jim Walton, $45 billion.

No.8: John Walton, $45 billion.

No.9: Alice Walton, $45 billion.

No.10: Rupert Murdoch, $35 billion.

In this year's list, Simon's Yiqi Juechen and the Walton family's five-member group are still the two most conspicuous parts.

Damen became the second millionaire with tens of billions of dollars. This should be a matter worth mentioning, but it is a pity that the personal net worth of 105 billion dollars is still less than a fraction of Simon's net worth.

Moreover, compared with 1993 in the original time and space, Damen's net worth has increased a lot earlier.

In memory, Bill Gates should rank behind Warren Buffett in 1993 with a personal net worth of $61 billion.

In the past, due to the impact of the economic environment, the demand for personal computers positioned as office products has been relatively sluggish in the early 90s, which also limited the development of the operating system software supplier Microsoft.

This time, due to the early rise of the wave of new technology and the popularization of the Internet, personal computers quickly got rid of pure office use, and began to enter thousands of households like TVs, VCRs and other products, which led to a continuous increase in PC sales in recent years.

As one of the alliance partners of the Westeros system to promote the development of the Internet, Microsoft also benefited from this wave, which in turn promoted Damen to become the second billionaire in the history of the Federation.

Of course, this time it will probably only be No.2 forever.

On the top ten list, another surprise to Simon is Rupert Murdoch.

Compared with last year's US$26 billion, the personal net worth of this Australian-born media tycoon increased by US$9 million this year. The threshold of the top ten list, even Sam Redstone, who had been pressing on his head, was left behind this time.

Simon also knows that the growth of Murdoch's net worth is mainly due to the global growth of News Corporation's TV business. It has begun to decline under the impact of the Internet.

Moreover, although he is over sixty, Rupert Murdoch does not have the old-fashioned mentality of a traditional businessman at all. News Corporation has begun to invest in Internet technology companies. For this reason, Murdoch has consulted Simon more than once.

In Simon's view, Murdoch's point is much better than Redstone's.

Although they are all strong men in the business world, Redstone has stagnated after completing Viacom's layout in the traditional media field, and has been in a downhill state since the new century.

This time, the acquisition of Paramount cannot be completed as in the original time and space, and Viacom will certainly not be able to annex CBS in the future. Sam Redstone is likely to be like another media tycoon who also cannot keep up with the times. Like Kruger, he gradually disappeared from the top of the rich list.

The list is followed by a feature article detailing Simon's personal assets.

In the past year, the fastest growing personal assets under Simon's name are undoubtedly new technology companies such as AOL, Cisco, Microsoft, and Intel.

Two of them, America Online and Cisco, have recent market capitalizations of US$356 billion and US$387 billion, respectively.

According to the proportion of Simon's shareholding in the two companies, the value of his assets alone exceeds 400 billion U.S. dollars.

Listed technology companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN, and Silicon Graphics, which are heavily held by Westeros, contributed $130 billion to Simon's personal wealth during the statistics process of Forbes magazine.

In addition, there is Nokia, which has just been listed recently.

"Forbes" according to the average stock price value of the week after listing on August 8, the value of Simon's stock has also reached about 20 US dollars.

Just the shares of these listed technology companies have brought Simon a wealth of close to 600 billion US dollars.

The assets of non-listed companies under Simon's name are also huge.

The four very special women in the Westeros system, Daenerys, Melisandre, Ygritte and Cersei, are all unlisted companies.

In the first half of the year, Eaglet Corporation just raised one billion dollars at a valuation of 150 billion U.S. dollars, publicly confirming the huge potential value of this Internet company. The 150 billion U.S. dollar valuation has tripled compared to last year’s 50 billion U.S. dollars .

Daenerys Entertainment has also started pre-IPO preparations, and its valuation has increased by US$50 billion compared to last year to US$250 billion.

Melisandre, whose luxury goods industry continues to expand, has a valuation of US$50 billion compared to last year.

Cersei Capital, the valuation given by Forbes is the same as last year, at $100 billion.

The four 'women' add up to $550 billion in personal wealth for Simon.

In addition to the four women, Westeros also has a very important non-listed company, Verizon Telecom, which completed the acquisition and integration with MCA. The value is estimated at $100 billion.

Four women plus Verizon, that's another $700 billion.

Two integrations, that's already $1300 billion.

Moreover, all of these are still clear assets in the Westeros system that are very easy to count or have listed stock price references.

As the industrial layout of the Westeros system becomes larger and larger, many of the assets of non-listed companies with small scales or low shareholding ratios, as well as personal wealth such as cash, property, and real estate held by Simon Westeros, appear It is difficult to count and estimate.

For this part of wealth, "Forbes" gave a rough figure of 100 billion US dollars.

"Forbes" counted the amount of liabilities of the Westeros system at 160 billion U.S. dollars last year, and this year's figure is about 200 billion U.S. dollars.

Much of the investment and expansion of the Westeros system in the past year, even including the construction of the Westeros Building in Manhattan and the personal consumption of the Simons and his wife, were actually carried out in the form of bank loans.

If it is other rich people, adding 40 billion US dollars in debt in a year, their personal financial situation may be in jeopardy.However, compared to the huge scale of the entire Westeros system, the debt scale increased by 40 billion in one year, which is actually not much at all.

If necessary, it would be easy for Simon Westero to sell some core assets, even if he wanted to pay off all 200 billion US dollars of liabilities.

Therefore, based on comprehensive statistics, the total assets of 1400 billion U.S. dollars, minus the liabilities of the Westeros system of about 200 billion U.S. dollars, Simon Westeros' personal net worth reached 1200 billion U.S. dollars.

1200 billion U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to more than twice the wealth of 507 billion U.S. dollars for all other rich people in the top ten of the "Forbes" rich list.

Moreover, this year's "Forbes" list of the 400 richest people in the United States, the combined wealth of the 400 richest people is only 4691 billion U.S. dollars.

That, of course, includes Simon's $1200 billion.

In other words, only Simon's personal net worth of US$1200 billion is already worth more than one-third of the US$399 billion of the other 3491 top rich Americans.

On a more macroeconomic level, Simon's personal net assets are equivalent to 1992% of the US's 6.5 trillion GDP in 1.8, which has exceeded the 1.5% at the peak of the Rockefeller family that year.

At the same time, Simon's personal net worth of US$1200 billion, if counted as an economy, was enough to surpass Russia, Portugal, Israel and other countries in the GDP list of all countries in the world in 1992, ranking 27th.

The real wealth is invincible!

Chapter 570 Timing of Holdings Reduction (Revised)

Simon returned to Los Angeles, and Veronica Johnston and Anthony Johnston also arrived in the morning.

Veronica is here to see off the little guy, and the Simon couple intends to take Melbourne for a while.

Anthony Johnston is for the Billiton acquisition.

Probably because of the release of the latest "Forbes" rich list today, reporters appeared outside Cape Dumei Manor. Simon's car entered the gate, and a flash of light lit up around him. Some reporters even tried to take pictures of the car window, but There's nothing to be gained under the barrier of one-way glass.

The car stopped in front of Shell Villa.

Simon got out of the car and greeted Anthony who was at the door with a hug: "Tony, how are you doing?"

"It's not bad," Anthony and Simon hugged each other, patted him on the shoulder after they let go, and said with a smile, "Also, congratulations, the world's first billionaire."

"Thank you," Simon smiled and entered the villa with Anthony, and asked, "What about them?"

"It's all inside."

The two of them were talking, and guided by the Indian girl who greeted them, they went to a showroom on the east side of the hall of the villa.

This is the room that Janet originally opened up to store the various awards Simon has won over the years and other items of commemorative value between the two.

As soon as I approached the showroom, I heard some scattered 'clank' sounds from inside. After entering the door, I found a little guy lying on the table where the flame guitar that Simon used in Madonna's concert was placed, and his little hands were messing around. Pluck the strings and have a great time.

Now of course no flames spewed out.

Janet and Veronica stood by and found Simon coming in. Veronica picked up the reluctant little guy from the table, hesitated for a while, put it on the floor again, squatted down and gently lifted the The child pushed Simon and said, "Moore, Dad is back, call Dad."

Because of the frequent video calls, Melbourne looked at Simon with a small expression that was not unfamiliar, but he was obviously not interested in this guy in front of him. After looking at him for a while, he turned around and burrowed into Veronica's arms, pointing again with his little hand. Refers to the flame guitar next to it.

The little guy approached, and Veronica hugged the child almost instinctively, and then took a careful look at Simon. She knew that Simon didn't like her holding the child in her arms all the time.

Just can't bear to let go.

Simon stepped forward and took the child from Veronica. The father and son looked at each other for a moment, unmoved by the tearful and pitiful expression of the little guy, and quickly handed it over to Isabel and Zooey next to him. A maid said, "Take him out to play." Seeing that Isabel wanted to pick up the little guy, she added: "No hugging, he can walk by himself."