Chapter 292 The richest man in the world!!!

$70 billion?

There is also a + at the back.

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 when faced with the curiosity of several bush bosses in the white house.

What he is more concerned about now is no longer how much money he has or the numbers in his bank card.

Because if it was just this number, Abel, who was gifted in finance, felt that he could have as much as he wanted as long as he gave himself time.

What Abel wants more now is influence in all aspects.

It is power above money and the evolution of money - capital!

Since this year, he has not paid much attention to how much money he has.

What he values ​​​​is the influence he can have now and how much capital he can use.

Abel felt that this number was the core of his influence on his surroundings and even on the world.

When he faced George and the others, he just picked out some things he knew and said them.

The figure he told them at that time, Abel remembered, seemed to be more than 60 billion US dollars.

Judging from this data, it seems that what Forbes said is correct.

Abel looked carefully at Forbes' description of his wealth——

[Abel Smith, this name started last year, and it is obvious that the public around the world is no longer unfamiliar with it.]

[What the public talks about most about this gentleman, apart from any of his scandals that make everyone envious, and his appearance as if Apollo were alive]

[Besides these, the one that the public is most curious and envious of is definitely 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 in Forbes' list of global media groups this year. It is Smith Media, and it is worth US$17 billion. 】

[Mr. Smith also has a real estate company called "New Starting Point Real Estate." This company was established less than a year ago and is selling goods all over the United States and the United Kingdom.]

[New Starting Point Real Estate Company is like us going to the supermarket to buy potatoes, buying luxury houses, land, and office buildings like crazy. It has been ranked fourth on the Forbes list of American real estate companies, and it is worth 8 billion U.S. dollars.]

[Mr. Smith also owns Pacific Energy Company, formerly Sempra Energy. This is a power giant in Southern California and the West Coast, with a market value of US$17 billion. In the same type of company, he also owns half of California Pacific Electric.

Valued at US$8 billion]

[In addition, Mr. Smith is also the sole proprietor of Pacific Bank of Commerce. This bank currently has a market value of US$15 billion.]

[So far, Mr. Smith has a fortune of US$65 billion.]

[In addition to these large companies, Mr. Smith also owns many small and medium-sized companies, 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 5 billion US dollars, which is higher but not lower.

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[More than US$70 billion, this is Mr. Smith’s current wealth according to the data we collected]

[Careful readers will definitely find that we have not listed one of Mr. Smith’s most important companies when they see this.]

[That’s right, Smith Capital. Wall Street’s new investment banking giant!]

[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. In order to buy shares in this company, they paid a huge price.]

[We don’t know the price. We only know that the value of Smith Capital cannot be calculated. 】

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

[This symbol + here means that Mr. Smith’s wealth is definitely more than 70 billion US dollars. He may be richer than all of us think. 】

[What’s even more exaggerated is that Mr. Abel Smith is only twenty-one years old this year, making him the youngest person on our list.]

[He is eight years younger than the 29-year-old Daniel Ziff who inherited his fortune. He is a living legend. He is the American dream in living reality. He]

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

It’s Beacon’s routine of creating and marketing new lamp beads again.

Retell Abel's "$50 to New York" story in another way of describing it.

Abel did not continue to read.

Over $70 billion?

Abel thought about it for himself, and it seemed to be something like this.

He turned it over again.

Page six is ​​William Henry Gates III, the second-place name of Bill Gates.

The rich people in the front are more important, and everyone has exclusive access to one piece of paper and two pages.

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

Bill Gates, who is called the dominant figure of the era by Forbes, has a fortune of US$58.2 billion this year.

It has shrunk by several billion U.S. dollars from more than 60 billion U.S. dollars last year.

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

The impact of the Internet bubble continues this year, and Microsoft's stock price has fallen a lot.

Although strictly speaking, Microsoft is not an Internet company, but an IT high-tech company.

But the stock market does not care about this. In the eyes of ordinary investors, Microsoft is one of the largest Internet companies.

Microsoft's stock price naturally plummeted during 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 now begun to rise again and has stabilized.

This allows Mr. Bill Gates to maintain this range.

Abel flipped through it again, and the eighth page started with Buffett.

At this point, Buffett's wealth figure is $34.5 billion.

Almost exactly half of the first place, and much worse than the second place Bill.

Behind Buffett is Paul Allen, with a fortune of $32.3 billion.

Behind these two people, only 29.5 billion is left in fifth place.

In other words, in this year's list of "Forbes", there are only four rich people with a net worth of more than 30 billion US dollars.

Abel is no longer interested in the following rankings.

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

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

"Look here, take a few more looks. Sitting in front of you now is the richest man on our planet."

Listening to the very young boss' words with a slightly show off tone.

In the office, the Four King Kongs plus David.

Jade and a few others who came in from behind all started laughing.

A smile seems to be contagious, and it doesn't take long.

All the employees of Smith Capital (UK) on the 15th floor of Forey Building also knew about this.

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

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

The sincere part is that in a capitalist country, working for the world's richest man will give you more face.

The other half of workplace etiquette is that your boss has become the richest man in the world and you don’t smile. What do you mean?

And this news quickly spread to the entire world as the "Forbes Ranking 2001" was launched in multiple languages ​​around the world.

Ordinary people certainly don't have much interest 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 centrists can at most say a few words of awesomeness.

But among the 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 artificial clouds rising in Lop Nur, China in the 1960s.

East Coast of the United States,

New York.

Manhattan, Hearst Media Building.
To be continued...