On two days on the weekend, with the help of Sofia and think tanks in various fields such as politics and military around her, Simon initially formulated specific plans for the "Troy Plan" and the "Solvie Plan".

And start execution immediately.

The first step is to select people, which is actually the most important step.

Simon did not give full power to Joseph Schrapp, Celia Miller and others, but planned to check it personally. Of course, the specific implementation still requires the assistance of these people.

In terms of politics, the plan is to select a group of new political activists to support them. Some of these people come from the Westeros system, the children of management at all levels of each subsidiary, or some executives who are interested in politics. The other part is at least not necessarily related to the Westeros system on the surface.

What Simon values ​​most is the latter part.

Because once it is branded as the Westeros system, it is not easy to climb too high in the American political system, and it is not suitable for doing so, which can easily make people associate.

As for the people who appear to have nothing to do with the Westeros system, there is no ceiling.

It is not impossible to run for president in the future.

These people are very easy to find. After all, there are countless people in any country who want to make a difference in politics, so they have various circles and groups.

The key is how to win over and support these people without letting the outside world discover clues.

The club system that will be formed by Sofia is the key.

In short, it is all about slow work and meticulous work.

Fortunately, Simon now has funds, team and time, so he can just grind it slowly.

Unlike a group of people selected from the circle of vested interests of the Westeros system, relevant external people, Simon is locked in the middle and lower classes in the United States. These people lack financial connections to climb up and can only rely on the support of the Westeros system, and their loyalty is also quite guaranteed.

Simon actually does not seek absolute loyalty, but once he has determined his position, in fact, many times, the matter of loyalty or not is completely helpless.

Betrayal never comes without a price.

The military needs to be more cautious. For the time being, it is still mainly to win over senior US military officials who have retired and still have considerable connections. One of the main plans Simon decided on the weekend two days to take out a batch of board positions for Westeros system subsidiaries and gradually spread it out.

Die and ask for directions.

Then, through these connections, gradually penetrated into the senior management of the US military.

Continuing to spend the weekend in New York, Simon and Sophia flew back to Los Angeles together. Sophia came with her mainly to visit the two little guys, after all, they were their biological mothers.

The two returned on a brand new Boeing 767.

Simon placed orders for two Boeing 767s last year, and recently delivered. After Sophia became pregnant last year, one of them became a woman's exclusive use. The interior decoration was completely designed by her own person. However, the ownership of the aircraft is still under the name of the Westeros family. This is not that Simon is stingy, but that the Westeros family can continue to pay for the use and maintenance of the private aircraft.

This is a very huge expense.

The annual maintenance cost of a private jet is equivalent to about 10% of its own construction cost, and there are various expenses such as hiring a crew and starting costs per flight. A private jet has been used for 30 years, and the cumulative cost is enough to buy another four or five brand new aircraft.

This is also the reason why many rich people can only rent private jets even though they seem to be worth a lot of money.

Just like Sophia himself, even though she has reached billions of dollars in personal net worth with the Melisandra stock she holds, it is not easy to spend $100 million in cash every year to maintain a private Boeing 767.

Fortunately, the money problem is not a problem for Simon.

Back to Los Angeles, it was January 29th.

on Monday.

In the new week, the biggest news of this day is undoubtedly that the share price of Igret Company officially exceeded US$300 billion, becoming the world's first listed company with a market value of US$300 billion.

This is mainly because Egret released his full-year financial report for 1995 on Saturday, January 27.

With the second quarterly revenue of US$6.53 billion that rose again in the fourth quarter of 1995, the entire year-round revenue of Igrit finally reached US$20.82 billion, successfully breaking through the US$20 billion revenue mark.

Compared with the annual revenue of US$11.67 billion in 1994, the year-on-year increase reached 78%.

Not only that, in the fourth quarter of 1995, Igret's single-quarter net profit also reached US$380 million, directly surpassing the total net profit of US$310 million in the first three quarters, and the net profit for the whole year reached US$690 million.

This is of course Igret intended.

It is mainly to send a signal to the outside world that it is actually very easy for Igret to make a profit.

This is also a fact.

The capital industry is the most infinity for people with discerning eyes.

Even if Igret doesn't make a fuss about profits, just one year when revenue has increased from $10 billion to more than $20 billion, it is enough to make investors crazy.

Because revenue is what best reflects the value of a company.

This is why the statistical standard for Fortune 500 companies is company revenue rather than market value or profit.

Not to mention this era, even if the revenue volume can reach the level of 10 billion US dollars in more than ten or twenty years, it is definitely the leader in all industries. And when a company's revenue exceeds 10 billion US dollars, it can maintain an extremely high growth rate, which is even more rare.

Therefore, after two days of public opinion on Igret's 1995 financial report over the weekend, the stock market opened on Monday, Igret's stock price rose 9.3% throughout the day, and its market value soared from US$291.1 billion to US$318.3 billion.

Not only that, stimulated by this positive news, the Nasdaq Index also rose sharply across the board this day, rising from 2816 points at the opening of the day to 2937 points, with a single-day increase of 4.1%. It seems that Westeros’ announcement of Cisco’s share reduction in just announced last week has been forgotten.

Fortunately, I still stayed within 3,000 points.

Simon was relieved about this.

The capital market is naturally lost.

It failed to break through 3,000 points in one go, just like the stock price of Igret.

However, many people are already ready to push the Nasdaq to a high of 3,000 points in the following week.

Simon was ready to go.

The market reaction caused by the release of Igret's 1995 financial report was basically expected. Therefore, Simon also planned to cool down the Nasdaq again before Tinkobaire was listed. Such a hot and cold alternating alternation is actually easy to have a headache, but he can't take care of so much.

Igrit became the first company with a market value of $300 billion, inevitably once again arousing the media and the public's curiosity about Simon's latest wealth.

According to Westeros’ current 57.9% stake in Igrit, Simon’s total value of Igrit shares held by Simon reached US$184.3 billion, an increase of US$17.1 billion in a single day.

A young man who only turns 28 next month has no longer suitable annual statistics.

It's not too much to calculate by day now.

It is just a company called Igrit, and the growth of Simon's personal wealth caused by the fluctuations in stock prices on January 29 may be a number that many ordinary people can expect in their ten lives.

Since Igrit was listed on October 6 last year, it has been more than three months since Igrit's stocks held by Simon, and the overall appreciation rate of the company has exceeded US$50 billion. At the end of October last year, Forbes magazine counted Simon's personal wealth based on the market value on the first day of Igrit's listing. This means that only Igrit's family, in just one quarter, increased Simon's personal wealth by US$50 billion.

Moreover, not only Igrit, even though the Westeros system has begun to take suppression measures, the stocks of Cisco, American Online, Microsoft, Intel and other companies have continued to rise rapidly in the past few months. According to Simon's holdings in these companies, the overall appreciation rate in more than three months has been no less than US$100 billion.

There are also a large number of other non-listed companies.

For example, Tinkobaier.

During the statistics of the Forbes US 400 Rich List at the end of October last year, Tinkobaier's valuation was only calculated based on the total valuation of the two companies during the acquisition of Broadcast.

Now, just three months have passed, according to the latest Tincobaier prospectus, the company's valuation has reached US$35 billion. Not to mention the indirect holdings of Igret in Tincobaier, only counting the 61.6% stake in Tincobaier directly held by Westeros, the value has reached US$21.5 billion, which is doubled compared to three months ago.

Finally, after the US stock market closed on January 29, Fortune magazine, which could not win the mainstream wealth list, was the first to publish a special article on its official website, determining Simon's latest net worth at $900 billion. There is only a $100 billion gap left to $1 trillion.

Although the number 900 billion is still not absolutely accurate, the analysis given by Fortune is very detailed. After all, it is just a series of key Westeros system holding companies such as Igrit, Cisco, and American Online. In three months, the wealth appreciation rate provided to Simon exceeded US$150 billion.

Other non-listed companies, such as Tinkobaier, Melisandra, Verizon Telecom, etc., have a potential appreciation of US$50 billion, which is not an exaggeration.

Therefore, the total amount of US$900 billion is an increase of 200 billion in one quarter compared to US$700 billion on the Forbes US 400 Rich List in October last year. Even if it is amazing, it is basically in line with the facts.

Of course, other media were not willing to fall behind and discussed this topic.

However, Forbes looks like an old god is not moving. Forbes probably believes that the list is enough to release once a year, and it is inevitable that it will lose credibility if it is too rampant. This is obviously the reserve of typical traditional media, and it may not be reserved for a long time. Simon clearly remembers that Forbes also began to launch real-time wealth statistics lists later.

Regardless of the controversy, most media and the public basically recognize Simon's latest personal net worth of $900 billion given by Fortune.

as well as.

Now everyone is starting to pay more attention to when this number can exceed $1 trillion.

No one would doubt that as long as the Nasdaq does not collapse in the short term and lasts for a few more months, $1 trillion will be a matter of time.

Another Hollywood financial magazine, Barron's, was already optimistic about this point in the website news on that day.

Tinkobaier listing.

As the roadshow proceeds, Tinkobaier's official listing date has been basically finalized, and February 16th is still a Friday.

The article in Barron's magazine believes that Tinkobaier's valuation of $35 billion is a very serious underestimation. Such an emerging electronics giant whose annual net profit exceeds $10 billion has reached $1 billion. Even if it is not comparable to the highly sought-after authentic Internet companies because of its own corporate nature, its Internet genes are also obvious.

Since the entire Internet industry is growing rapidly, Tinkobaier, which relies on the entire Internet ecosystem, has no reason to conduct conservative valuations according to traditional electronic companies.

What's more, the news that Tingkobaier is about to release another brand new electronic product has begun to preheat public opinion. Perhaps this will be a hit product similar to iPlayer.

Therefore, even if it does not reach the terrifying level of Igret's market value of US$300 billion, Barron's analysis also believes that Tinkobaier's market value should be at least US$100 billion, rather than a mere US$35 billion. During the recent roadshow, many intentional capitals can be regarded as crazy subscription performance, which clearly proves this.

The market generally predicts that before the official listing, Tinkobaier may raise the issuance price again.

Simon and Tinkobaier's management is indeed thinking so.

It’s not that I feel that the valuation of $35 billion is too much and I’m unwilling to give up more benefits. If it were a year or two ago, Simon would be happy to do so. Now it’s mainly because he doesn’t want the market to be too enthusiastic about Tinkobaier’s IPO, because this will inevitably affect the entire Nasdaq sector and further stimulate the overall rise of the technology stock sector to rise too fast.

On January 29th, in addition to the hustle and bustle caused by the market value of Igret exceeding 300 billion, the 68th Oscar that night officially announced the nomination list.

The shortlist was basically expected by Simon.

The five core best film nominations, the highly anticipated "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" was successfully selected, and it also won 9 nominations including Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Soundtrack, etc., becoming the most nominated movie this year, and fans were thrilled for a while.

The film's distribution team also took advantage of the situation to launch a second wave of large-scale publicity and truly began to launch a public relations offensive to impact the award.

In addition to the Super War, four other films nominated for Best Picture are "Sense and Emotion", "Brave Heart", "The Dream of the Covered Bridge" and "The Legend of Nixon".
To be continued...