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All in all, Simon hopes that the company can calm down, rethink the company's product operations and advertising marketing strategies, and proceed with the next step of expansion with a more rational attitude.

Mainly overseas expansion.

Before that, because the Victoria's Secret show was so eye-catching, almost everyone was intoxicated by the glory brought by the show, ignoring many problems in the company itself, just like the former Victoria's Secret, When the big show shut down, all the accumulated problems exploded, and the whole company was pretty much doomed very quickly.

On the other hand, even without this big show, with the rapid growth of LTD in recent years, coupled with the hot state of the US stock market at this time, the market value of the next IPO next year is expected to reach the level of tens of billions of dollars.

From the initial US$24.5 billion to US$100 billion, the average annual rate of return exceeds 60% in five years, which is very worthy of investors.As a successful project invested by Apollo Management Company, of course, it will not be fully cashed out at one time, and there is still considerable room for growth in the future, which can continue to bring returns.

At the same time, announcing the closure this year instead of announcing the closure after the IPO next year also avoids many potential lawsuits.

After all, the influence of this big show is indeed too great. If it is re-listed next year and then announced to suspend it, it will inevitably impact the stock price, and even trigger a class action lawsuit by investors against the malicious manipulation of the Westeros system to suppress LTD's stock price. Now, LTD still maintains In the privatized state, there is no such problem.

From his standpoint, Leon Black couldn't agree with Simon's statement, but he couldn't refute it either.

Simon's idea is entirely for the long-term development of the LTD group, and as a private equity, it is often necessary to extract more benefits in the shortest possible time, and there are obvious potential conflicts of interest.

It's just that Simon is the big boss behind all this after all.

The boss has the final say.

Second, the modeling world is simply devastated.

Just like the shocking reaction of all the goblins when they first heard the news, how can everyone take a shortcut to become famous after losing the most powerful exposure platform of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show? !

It's a pity that, as the bottom of the food chain in the big circle, these fairies, big and small, have no right to speak.

Even, if Simon is not the biggest BOSS at the top of the pyramid of the entire Westeros system, but just the top level of Victoria's Secret who made the decision, a certain group of goblins who are not lacking in their bones may have already made trouble. In the original time and space, Victoria's Secret University The show has been amicable for 20 years, and the big show has just been closed, and the goblins immediately rebelled.

Joint letter.

Sue for harassment.

Expose and report all kinds of discrimination against Victoria's Secret.

Coupled with the sluggish performance of Victoria's Secret itself, under the impact of public opinion, it further pushed this established company into the abyss.

In short, how to say that sentence.

Ok……

It was forced anyway.

In any case, since a decision has been made and it is up to others to react, Simon has no intention of changing his decision.

Having spent the weekend in New York, Simon departed for London on Sunday afternoon.

The trip to Europe is expected to last for a week.

The main agenda here is for the investment promotion of the continuous issuance of bonds by the Westeros system in the second half of the year. Some investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, who are in charge of bond issuance, hope that Simon can attend in person.

Simon arrived in London on Monday local time. On the same day, July 7, Eaglet Company officially released its financial report for the first half of 15.

Ever since Eaglet's total revenue exceeded 1995 billion U.S. dollars, the growth rate of this Internet giant's performance has been slowing down. After all, it is unrealistic to double its growth at the same speed as it did at the beginning.Prior to 78, Eaglet's annual revenue growth rate was 50% year-on-year, but this year, the industry generally believes that Eaglet's revenue growth will be reduced to about [-]%.

Facts have proved that due to the madness of the new technology industry, the market has obviously underestimated Eaglet's performance growth.

In the first half of 1996, Eaglet's total revenue in the first two quarters reached 139.1 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 61% compared with the first two quarters of last year, significantly exceeding the industry's expectations of about 50%.

Not only that, because the gross profit of Eaglet’s many businesses is really high, and the entire new technology industry is burning money almost uncontrollably, even if more income is used to develop the business, Eaglet’s first half of the year The net profit rate still exceeded 10%, and finally reached 11.9%, and the net profit was an astonishing $16.55 billion.

Half-year revenue was US$139.1 billion and net profit was US$16.55 billion. Speaking of which, this is almost the amount of revenue that many Internet giants in Simon’s memory can only achieve after 10 years.Not to mention that in the original time and space in 1996, most Internet companies had not even formed a sustainable business model.

However, this performance is real.

The general environment of the Internet industry in the United States had been laid as early as the 80s and [-]s. With his forward-looking vision, Simon not only promoted the development of the Internet industry with the power of the entire Westeros system at least five years in advance, but also, as soon as he made a move It directly launched a series of mature business models.

In addition, Eaglet also owns businesses such as Internet-based tools and software that currently have a monopoly advantage, which is tantamount to the kind of toll bridge that Warren Buffett fancyes that no competitors can set prices freely.

Therefore, even though the software business, portal website, search engine, social network, e-commerce, software store, game store, cloud computing and other businesses are still in a relatively early stage of development, Eaglet at this time is almost It is equivalent to a collection of major Internet giants later.

All in all, compared to many new technology companies that are just burning money to tell stories at this time, Eaglet has already left all potential competitors far away.

To put it in a more clichéd way, Ygritte's current enemy is only itself.

According to Simon's potential plan, the company will inevitably be split in the future. Once it is split, it will be a super industry earthquake that is far more vigorous than the dismemberment of ATT. The market value of the Big Mac at the time of the split was less than [-] billion.

Eaglet is destined to be a super giant with a trillion-dollar market value.

In any case, on July 7th, Eaglet’s revenue and net profit data exceeded expectations, directly driving the company’s stock price to rise sharply again.

On Monday alone, Eaglet’s share price rose by 3.6% in a single day, which seems insignificant for other companies, but don’t forget, this is already close to 3 billion yuan. Dollar scale Ygritte.

With a 3.6% stock price increase, the market value of this emerging Internet giant broke through the $4000 billion mark in one fell swoop. At the close of trading that afternoon, Eaglet’s market value had reached $4103 billion.

In just one day, the total value of shares held by all Eaglet shareholders increased by US$3.6 billion due to this 147% increase.

Compared with Eaglet’s $4000 billion volume, the $147 billion increase in market capitalization seems insignificant, but just this $147 billion still exceeds the market value of more than 90% of companies in the U.S. stock market at this time.It can only be said that Ygritte's market value is already too high, so high that it makes people numb.

Just like later, the five major technology giants FAANG in the U.S. stock market cost hundreds of billions of trillions at every turn, but in fact there are too many companies hovering in the range of tens of billions or even one billion dollars. We can only look up to the five major technology giants.

With Eaglet leading the way, on Monday, the stock prices of Cisco, AOL, Microsoft, Intel, Tinkobel, Oracle and other companies rose one after another.In fact, it is also because the near future is the time period for the intensive release of financial reports in the middle of the year. Some analysts even believe that by the end of July, the Nasdaq index may rush to 7 points.

5000 points, this is the peak that Simon only reached around 2000 in memory.

If it really breaks through in July, it may really be possible to cause the new technology bubble to burst before the US election in November.

It is not the case.

Eaglet’s performance has exceeded expectations. There is no doubt about it. However, some people are happy and others are worried. Eaglet’s outstanding performance does not mean that the performance of other new technology companies is equally impressive. .

In the same July, in addition to the fact that the growth of Cisco continued to increase significantly due to the continuous increase in the demand for network equipment worldwide, America Online, another major technology giant in the Westeros system, was followed by the Internet penetration rate in the United States. Continuously improving and even reaching saturation, at least in the local area, performance growth has obviously begun to slow down significantly.

As a result, AOL's mid-year financial report was lower than expected.

In addition, although the entire new technology industry is still crazy, AOL is still issuing bonds on a large scale when the popularity of its own business areas is significantly higher than that of other operators. In fact, it means that the saturation is higher and the growth potential is lower. And to carry out large-scale infrastructure expansion, which seems to have some blind tendencies.

At this stage, the entire new technology industry is almost blind, but this does not mean that everyone cannot see the excessive investment tendency of AOL.

As a result, AOL's share price has fluctuated up and down recently.

In the eyes of investors, AOL urgently needs to develop new businesses and increase overseas expansion.

In fact, the direction is very clear.

The "Telecommunications Act" of the Clinton administration has lifted the business barriers between the telecommunications industries. AOL should take advantage of the trend to develop fixed-line telephone and cable TV services, and at the same time further break through its previous business areas, especially overseas development.

AOL's overseas expansion is indeed very strong, but in terms of business diversification, although there are occasional rumors, AOL's actual actions on this seem to be a bit slow.

So it is inevitable to be urged by the capital market.

The most direct response is also the stock price.

America Online's market value has always been the bottom among the three major technology giants in the Westeros system, and it has been further enlarged in recent months.

On the same day on July 7th, after Eaglet’s market value of US$15 billion, Cisco’s market value also rushed to the next US$4103 billion, while AOL’s market value was only US$3756 billion, which has been captured by Iraq. Greeter and Cisco have widened a gap of hundreds of billions of dollars.

In addition to the Big Three, in the same field of new technology, Tinkobel can be said to come from behind.

Relying on the success of the iRec series of digital video cameras released this year, Tinkbel already has three flagship products, namely iPlayer, iCam and iRec, and the annual sales of the three products have exceeded tens of millions. rapid growth and continues to increase.

As a result, Ting Kebaier, which broke through the 7 billion level when the IPO was listed, had reached a high of 15 billion U.S. dollars by the close of trading on July 2263.

Another $2000 billion corporate behemoth.

Coupled with the Daenerys Entertainment Group in the media and entertainment field, the closing market value of the day was 3537 billion US dollars.

Calculated, the cumulative market value of these five corporate giants that are firmly controlled by the Westeros system has reached a terrifying US$16356 billion. Suddenly, people are paying attention to one thing again, Simon · How much is Westeros worth now?

Chapter 984 Unsatisfactory

Hearing the reminder from the assistant beside her, Lin Su in the carriage raised her head, only then did she realize that she had arrived at her destination, put away the documents on her lap and got out of the car.

This is the island in the middle of the lake between Jinji Lake and Dushu Lake on the west side of Suzhou Industrial Park.

It is said to be an island in the middle of the lake, but it is actually a land area that happens to be sandwiched between the two major lakes with an area of ​​several square kilometers, and is not completely isolated from the two banks.

After getting off the car, looking around, there is a busy construction site around.

This is another property that Simon has started to build in China. It fully encloses 20 hectares of land at the southern end of Huxin Island near Dushu Lake, and plans to build a Chinese-style garden manor.

With Cisco, Nokia, Tinkbel and other enterprises of the Westeros system successively settling in the Suzhou Industrial Park, the municipal government seemed to be quick to approve the golden land that many developers coveted. Knowing that Simon West Luo wants to build his own foothold, 20 hectares of land, without blinking an eye.

Not only that, but before coming to Suzhou, Hangzhou has also circled a piece of land by the West Lake. After all, it is a West Lake scenic spot. The area cannot be compared with this side, but it has reached 5 hectares. Private plots are not something that anyone can do casually.

You know, the former residence of Chiang Ching-kuo in the 30s is next door to that plot, so you can imagine how Feng Shui is.

On a hot day, Chen Qing, who was still full of OL formal attire, quickly greeted her with a group of minions.

Minions, this is a subconscious feeling in Lin Su's heart.

Anyway, it's very flamboyant.

After a very westernized hug, Chen Qing dragged Lin Su to the construction site, and introduced with great interest the layout of this private garden, which occupies an area larger than the four major gardens in Suzhou combined. Where is the lake, where is the garden, where is the gazebo, where is the library...

Lin Su thinks that this girl just wants to expose herself.

Now is the dog days of China.

Both girls belong to the Jiangnan girls with fair skin. However, perhaps due to their better-off family background since childhood, Lin Su is fairer than Chen Qing. It is obvious that a certain man just likes this, so it is inevitable that he likes Lin Su more. .

Knowing is knowing, Lin Su still patiently accompanied Chen Qing to walk through the entire construction site.

Of the four major gardens in Suzhou, the Humble Administrator’s Garden, the largest, only covers an area of ​​just over 5 hectares. The other three gardens are all one or two hectares in size. , Absolutely a big project, I learned from the conversation that almost all the top garden construction teams in southern China, such as the Xiangshan Gang, have been recruited.

In short, after just a cursory look at the construction site, more than half an hour has passed.

If it wasn't for the assistant who quickly delivered the parasol and sun hat, Lin Su would have been afraid that she would suffer from heat stroke, but Chen Qing didn't look tired at all. ...and won't always bully her at certain times.

After seeing the construction site, the two didn't stay any longer, and got into the Mercedes-Benz that Lin Sulai was riding in. Chen Qing directly ordered the driver to go to the airport, and asked, "How do you like the inspection team accompanying Fiat?"

Lin Su shook her head, her mood a little weak: "There must be no hope for Hangzhou."

"It's a bad thing to have hope. If Fiat settles in Zhejiang Province, we can only choose another target to deploy in China." It seems that the result will not be too good. Those Italians have their eyes growing to the top of their heads, and they still look like they think we can’t afford a Ferrari when they come here. It’s no wonder that this attitude can do good business in China. "

The Fiat Group controlled by the Agnelli family recently officially sent a team to China for investigation. It happened that Chen Qing and her daughters were both in China. Coupled with the good relationship between Fiat and the Westeros system, Simon ordered Chen Qing and her daughters to follow up.As a result, Chen Qing only followed for two days before leaving halfway, leaving Lin Su to socialize alone.

Lin Su heard what Chen Qing said, and gave her a dissatisfied look: "So you ran away halfway?"

"Yeah, I don't serve those uncles."

Just like Simon's judgment at the beginning, even if her boss didn't remind her, Chen Qing felt that Fiat's inspection team was really unreliable, and even leading this company might not be very reliable.

Just don't waste time.

Chen Qing thinks that her time is very precious.

Lin Su, on the other hand, personally accompanied the Fiat team from Beijing to Nanjing for a week. In the end, she couldn't spare her affection and tried her best to mediate and invite the Fiat team to visit her hometown of Hangzhou.

Even though he also felt unreliable, Lin Su still worked hard.

After all, you can't both run away, a certain man has confessed.

The two chatted all the way, arrived at the airport, and directly boarded a Gulfstream V business jet to the United States with a group of entourage.After a journey of more than ten hours, the Gulfstream V landed at New York International Airport on the morning of Tuesday, July 7.

Just yesterday, Eaglet's market value exceeded the $4000 billion mark.

As Ygritte's market value hits a new high, along with it, Simon's personal net worth has once again become the focus of media attention.

Early this morning, the more authoritative "Fortune" magazine announced the latest statistics of Simon's personal net worth on its website, which is 1.3 trillion US dollars. Compared with breaking through the trillion threshold in February at the beginning of the year, it took less than half a year. Simon The personal wealth of the United States has increased again by nearly 2 billion US dollars.

This is obviously an inaccurate statistic, but it is almost the same as the truth.

Because, among the assets under Simon’s name, there are currently only five leading companies, Eaglet, Cisco, AOL, Daenerys, and Tinkber. Not only have their individual market values ​​exceeded 2000 billion US dollars, but Simon's shareholding ratio in these five companies, just these five companies, brought Simon's personal wealth to 10173 billion US dollars.

10173 billion US dollars, this is a fairly accurate data.

Needless to say.

However, "Fortune" magazine only made a relatively general valuation of all other assets of Simon, and the price was 3000 billion U.S. dollars, which was actually obviously low.The main reason is that the valuations of companies such as Cersei Capital and Verizon Telecom, which are still not listed, are difficult to be too accurate.

Compared with the sensation caused by the annual breakthrough of 1 trillion US dollars, 1.3 trillion US dollars has already made too many people feel numb.

After all, this is really beyond the limit of most people's imagination.

However, the closer people are to the top of this social pyramid, the more they understand how terrifying this growing personal wealth figure is.

Chen Qing was very immersed in it.

In particular, the two had just returned to North America, and they received an active contact from "Forbes", hoping to do some interviews and consultations with them.

Because the message was sent to the two of them together, Chen Qing, who was moved by some thoughts, quietly stopped it.

Obviously, "Forbes" contacted the two at this time, just for the 1996 "Forbes" 400 richest people in the United States, which will be released next month. Stocks, counting some other investments, the net worth of both of them has also reached the threshold of being shortlisted in the 400 richest people in the United States.