America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 292 The World's Richest Man! ! !

$700 billion?
Also followed by a +.

What does + mean?
Abel thought about it carefully, and he was not sure how much net worth he had now.

Just like what he said in the white house when he faced the curiosity of several bush bosses.

What he pays more attention to now is not how much money he has, nor the number in his bank card.

Because it's just the number.Able, who is talented in finance, feels that he only needs to give himself time, and he can have as much as he wants.

What Abel wants more now is influence in all aspects.

It is the power above money, and it is the evolution of money—capital!
Since this year, he hasn't paid much attention to how much money he has.

What he pays attention to is how much capital he can influence and use now.

This number, Abel felt, was the core of his influence on the surroundings, and even the world.

At that time, facing George and the others, he just picked out something he knew and said it again.

The data he told them at that time, Abel remembered it seemed to be more than 600 billion US dollars.

Judging from this data, it seems that what Forbes said is not wrong.

Abel looked carefully at Forbes' description of his wealth—

[Abel Smith, this name has been used since last year, and it is obvious that the public around the world is no longer unfamiliar. 】

[What the public likes to talk about most about this gentleman is that apart from any of his rumored objects that everyone envies, and his appearance as if Apollo is still alive]

[Other than these, the public is most curious and envious of Mr. Abel Smith. How much money does he have? 】

[This is a very good question. After about half a year of research, "Forbes" finally determined the approximate wealth figure of this gentleman]

[First of all, Mr. Smith has a media company under his name. This media company can be ranked sixth on Forbes’ list of global media groups this year. It is Smith Media, which is worth 170 billion US dollars. 】

[Mr. Smith also has a real estate company called "New Start Real Estate". This company has been established for less than a year, and it has shopped all over the United States and the United Kingdom. 】

[New Start Real Estate Company is like we go to the supermarket to buy potatoes, buying luxury houses, land, and office buildings like crazy. It has already ranked fourth on the Forbes list of real estate companies in the United States, and it is worth 80 billion US dollars..]

[Mr. Smith also has Pacific Energy, which was formerly Sempra Energy.This is the power giant in Southern California and the West Coast, and it has a market value of $170 billion.In the same type of company, he also owns half of California Pacific Electric, worth $80 billion]

[In addition, Mr. Smith is also the sole proprietor of Pacific Bank of Commerce.The bank is currently worth $150 billion. 】

[As of now, Mr. Smith has a fortune of $650 billion. 】

[In addition to these large companies, Mr. Smith also has a number of small and medium-sized companies under his name, as well as the stocks of Internet companies such as Google. We cannot calculate this part of the data. We can only speculate that it is about 50 billion US dollars, which is not low. 】

[More than US$700 billion, this is the current wealth of Mr. Smith from the data we have collected]

[Attentive readers will definitely find that we have not listed the most important company of Mr. Smith. 】

[No mistake, Smith Capital.Wall Street's New Investment Banking Giants! 】

[The reason why 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 of this company.They paid a huge price for their stake in the company. 】

[We don't know how much it will cost, we only know that the value of Smith Capital cannot be calculated. 】

[So here, we don’t list the value of Smith’s capital, we just add a + sign after Mr. Smith’s wealth number. 】

[The + symbol here means that Mr. Smith's wealth is definitely more than 700 billion US dollars. He may be richer than all of us imagined. 】

[What is even more exaggerated is that Mr. Abel Smith is only 21 years old this year, making him the youngest in our list. 】

[He is eight years younger than the 29-year-old Daniel Ziv who inherited property. This is a living legend. He is the living reality of the American dream.]

【.】

In the second half of the article, Abel looks too familiar.

It's another set of Lighthouse's creation and marketing of new lamp beads.

Retelling Abel's "$50 to New York" story in a different way.

Abel didn't continue to read.

$700 billion or more?
Abel thought about it for a while, and it seemed to be about the same.

He flipped it over again.

The sixth page is William Henry Gates III, which is the No.2 name of Bill Gates.

The rich people in front are more important, and each of them has two pages of content on one piece of paper.

There is only one page left for the rich man in the back, and there are two people squeezed on a piece of paper in the back.

Bill Gates, who is called the overlord of the times by Forbes, has a wealth of US$582 billion this year.

Compared with last year's more than 600 billion US dollars, it has shrunk by several billion US dollars.

This is actually easy to understand. The data used by Forbes last year was the data before the Internet bubble burst.

The impact of the Internet bubble continued this year, and Microsoft's stock price fell a lot.

Although strictly speaking, Microsoft is not considered an Internet company, it should be regarded as an IT high-tech company.

But where does the stock market care about this? In the eyes of ordinary shareholders, Microsoft is one of the largest Internet companies.

Microsoft's stock price, of course, also plummeted thousands of miles along with the monopoly investigation and the bursting of the Internet bubble.

In other words, Microsoft has indeed achieved a de facto monopoly. After falling for so long, it has begun to rise again and has stabilized.

This allowed Mr. Bill Gates to maintain this range.

Abel turned the page again, and Buffett started on the eighth page.

On this, Buffett's wealth data is 345 billion US dollars.

It's almost exactly half of No.1, and it's much worse than No.2's Bill.

Behind Buffett is Paul Allen, with a fortune of $323 billion.

Behind these two, No.5 only has 295 billion left.

In other words, in this year's Forbes list, there are only these four people with a net worth of more than 300 billion US dollars.

Abel is no longer interested in the following rankings.

He threw the thick "2001 Forbes List" on the solid wood desk in front of him.

Abel raised his head and smiled, and said to the subordinates who were looking at him in the room:

"Look here, take a closer look. The richest man on our planet is sitting in front of you right now."

Listening to the words of the very young boss with a slightly flaunting tone.

In the office, the Four King Kong plus David.

There were also Jed and the others who came in behind, and they all laughed.

Smiles seem to be contagious, not for a while.

The employees of Smith Capital (UK) on the 15th floor of the Furui Building also knew about it.

That is their young boss, who has become the richest man in the world.

The smiles on the faces of these employees are half sincere and half workplace etiquette.

The sincere half is that in a capitalist country, it will be more face-saving to work for the richest man in the world.

The half of workplace etiquette is that the boss is the richest man in the world but you don’t smile. What do you mean?
And this news, followed by the "Forbes Ranking 2001" in the global multilingual listing, quickly spread to the whole world.

Ordinary people are of course not very interested in who becomes the new richest man in the world.

At most, after knowing it, those who hate the rich will curse a few more times, and those who worship money will become fans.

Ordinary people are centrists, and at most they can say a few words of bullshit.

But among business elites, financial people, media people, and people related to Abel.

The power of this news is no less than that of the two huge man-made clouds that rose in Lop Nur in China in the 60s.

US East Coast,
new York.

Manhattan, Hearst Media Building.

in the morning.

Amanda Hearst, who is working as a summer intern at Hearst Media Group with her cousin Lydia Hearst.

She was the first of the women connected to Abel to receive the news.

Who is Hearst Group, itself is a media giant.

She happened to be doing an internship in the company again today. In fact, it was an elite employee of the company who brought the two sisters to familiarize themselves with the work.

As for the family business, what if there is hope to take over in the future?

"World 's richest man!"

"Abe Smith!"

After Amanda Hearst heard the news from a supervisor, she almost jumped up in excitement.

Fortunately, this is a company. She held back, suppressed her excitement, and took her cousin Lydia Hearst by the hand and walked outside.

"Lydia! Lydia! Lydia! As I said, he is unique!"

Amanda excitedly said to her cousin:

"Look. How old is he, only 21 years old, and he is already the richest man in the world! 700 billion US dollars is equivalent to three Hearsts!"

Lydia thought to herself that no matter how unique he is, what does he have to do with us.

People are already marrying shrubs.

All your previous actions were in vain.

Looking at the excited cousin, Lydia could only say:

"It's very good. But."

She reminded Amanda.

"The Bush family has approved of him. Laura Bush is his girlfriend now, so he has nothing to do with us."

After hearing what Lydia Hearst said, the hyperactive Amanda calmed down a little.

Since that time I took the initiative to come to the door in Hawaii.

It has been a long time since the two sisters talked about this person.

The reason is because after that, after February of this year.

Among the upper-class rich families in the United States, rumors spread that the Bush family who lived in the white house would marry the Smith family, a local wealthy family in Texas.

During this time period, the shrub family is in its prime.

Gossip about this family spread quickly among the rich and powerful families in the United States, especially among the ladies and ladies who like to gossip the most.

Everyone is surprised that the shrub family wants to marry a small local rich family in the countryside.

Later, it was determined that this Smith was the one who was making trouble on Wall Street.

Everyone came to a sudden, admiring the speed and decisiveness of the bush family.

Sure enough, it is worthy of being a shrub family who started by marriage and quickly rose by marriage.

The Hearst family, who originally had some thoughts, also heard the news.

After a period of investigation and resolution, the Hearst family confirmed the authenticity of the news.

After that, the two cousins ​​of Amanda were given a restraining order by the elders of the family.

That is to stop getting involved with someone who is already married to a bush.

No matter how crazy Amanda's character is, she is still young after all. She was so active towards Abel at the beginning because of the secret support of her family.

The family now expressly prohibits it, even if she is dissatisfied, she can only choose to abide by it.

Not to mention Lydia.

She is often a small shadow next to Amanda in the family, and she is dispensable in the family.

Even if there is some affection, it is completely out of her hands.

The two cousins ​​have never contacted Abel since then.

Abel was a little afraid of Amanda's madness, she didn't bother him, and didn't continue to harass him with text messages.

It's too late for Abel to be happy, let alone take the initiative to find her.

Gradually, the two cousins ​​did not contact Abel for several months.

This is exactly what Lydia is talking to Amanda about now.

It's just that Lydia underestimated her cousin's madness. Amanda pursed her beautiful lips silently, and suddenly said to Lydia:
"It's just a girlfriend. They're not engaged yet, and even if they are, they're still not married! Besides, he still has so many women, and the bush may not be able to marry him in the end! Lydia, I don't think I can give up !"

Lydia felt a terrible headache.

Lydia wondered, did she and Amanda get hugged wrong?
I am Aunt Anne's daughter, and Amanda is my mother's child?

Otherwise, how could Amanda be as crazy as her mother?

Lydia had no choice but to persuade: "Amanda! Do you want to make Aunt Anne angry?! The elders will not allow it!"

"Perhaps," said Amanda Hearst:

"But he is only 21 years old, and he already has 700 billion! 700 billion! God, two Buffetts can catch up with him! Lydia, do you think mom and the others won't be moved? I'm going to find mom! "

While talking, Amanda shook off Lydia and walked forward by herself.

Lydia showed a headache expression, gritted her teeth and followed.

In Lydia's eyes, Amanda started to "go crazy" again.

On the other side of New York, in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Ikana is packing up with her best friend Paris.

After thinking about it, Ikana finally decided to go to the west coast to raise a fetus and have a baby.

The weather on the west coast is much better than that on the east coast.

In the Greater Los Angeles area and the Greater Bay Area, the climate and weather are very suitable for human beings.

Ikana had already chosen the city where she would raise her baby, and she finally chose Santa Barbara, California.

Paris will be with her during pregnancy and childbirth.

One is to take care of Ikana, and the other is to have Paris to help and the secretarial team after arriving there.

Ikana can also remotely control the development of her own YKM company.

At this moment, a pair of girlfriends were preparing their luggage for departure to Santa Barbara.

There are a lot of luggage, and there are several lists alone.

Some not so personal and not so important, have been sent there before.

Two people are checking now, it's something more important, or luggage that hasn't been delivered yet.

"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 are you buying these? You can also buy them over there!"

"Um..." Ikana smiled embarrassedly, "Sorry, I saw them beautiful and cute when I was shopping, so I bought them by the way. You're right, I won't take these with me."

Only then did Paris nod her head in satisfaction, but she complained in her heart——

[This Ikana, after having a child in her belly, she put all her energy on the child, and her IQ has dropped a lot, really.]

I'm really envious.

This is not pregnant with a child, this is a listed company.

Paris only wished she hadn't given Abel a big belly.

Suddenly, the cell phone that Paris threw on the table next to her rang.

"Answer the phone. Let me see what else I haven't brought." Ikana took a few luggage lists and began to check.

Paris connected to her phone, "It's me, Paris."

"Respect dear Paris, it's me!" A young girl's voice came.

Paris thought to herself who are you, not a big shot, how could I remember your voice.

"Who are you?" Paris asked.

"I'm Kim, it's Kim. Oh, I'm Kim Kardashian!"

"Oh, it's gold."

Paris remembered that this was a "little girl" she had recently adopted in New York.

Because of her good looks and figure, the other party was selected by YKM as one of the long-term cooperation clothing models.

Paris is also the design director of the company, and she has met with her a lot.

Because Kim Kardashian is very obedient and sensible, Paris thinks she is very good, and took her to several fashion shows and some receptions.

Kim Kardashian has officially become her bag-carrying girl, so of course she has Paris's contact number.

"What's the matter? Kim, Ikana and I are busy. We are going to California tomorrow. By the way, your workplace will also be moved to California in the future." Paris said.

"Oh oh, ok." Kim Kardashian also knew of Ikana's existence.

That's her big sister's big sister
In addition, Kim Kardashian also knows that her big sister is one of the girlfriends of a super big man!

Kim Kardashian called Paris at this time today to say something related to the big shot.

"Dear and respected Paris!" Kim Kardashian's voice was full of excitement, longing and longing, "I made this call to tell you some news. I think you may not know it yet."

Kim Kardashian sounded a little excited.

So much so that Paris was a little curious at the moment, "What's the matter?"

"It's about the Forbes Rich List."

"That's none of my business?" Paris said dissatisfied. "It's not the celebrity list. And even if it was a celebrity list, I might not be able to make it now. Ikana might be able to make it."

"No no no no no!"

Kim Kardashian over there said excitedly:
"What I want to say is that in this rich list, Mr. Abel Smith is the richest man in the world."

"Forbes says he's worth more than $700 billion!"

"what?"

Paris thought she had heard wrong.

"Can you say that again?"

"Abe Smith?"

"Property of more than 700 billion U.S. dollars?!"

(End of this chapter)