As the 58list employment fraud case ended in a reversal that embarrassed traditional print media, the incident was basically settled.
Simon left the handling of some subsequent incidents to the Ygritte team, and he himself began to accompany the two women on maternity leave.
Both Jenny's due dates are in early November, from September to November, which is about two months. Although it is impossible to completely ignore everything, Simon only plans to spend an hour or two at home every day to take care of the company's affairs, and will no longer go to the company to work every day.
The only little hassle is flying back and forth between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In fact, I really wanted the two women to be together, but as the pregnancy progressed, the female assistant became more and more dissatisfied. She always felt that she would feel weird and guilty in front of Janet.
After handling the fraud case, he spent the weekend in San Francisco with his female assistant, and set off back to Los Angeles early on Monday morning.
"A case in Miami that also claimed that she was defrauded when applying for a job on 58list also took a turn yesterday. The woman who claimed to have been deceived just wanted to extort some compensation from the website. The 58list team has begun filing a lawsuit for fraud and reputation infringement. Over in Washington , The New York Times Group submitted a report to the Senate over the weekend, accusing the classified information service provided by 58list of being a disguised form of low-price dumping, aiming to destroy the physical classified information advertising industry and achieve a monopoly. Mr. Schlapp believes that proactively pushing Congress to target The best solution would be for 58list to hold a hearing to avoid a formal investigation by the Department of Justice or Congress. Oh, and one more thing, Ms. Brill just fired the Weinstein brothers over the weekend."
Inside the Boeing 767 returning to Los Angeles.
Simon was leaning on the sofa in the front cabin in a leisurely manner, casually flipping through a script while listening to Girl A report on some company matters.
After hearing that Nancy Brill had suddenly fired the Weinstein brothers, Simon finally looked up and asked: "What's going on?"
Alison sat on the side sofa, glanced at her boss, and said: "Harvey Weinstein tried to assault an actress, an artist under WMA, after finishing a movie audition in New York last Friday. Mr. Friedman had already suppressed it after personally asking about it. However, Ms. Brill later learned about it and made the decision on Sunday."
Simon didn't know what to say for a moment.
It was originally thought that the Weinstein brothers, recruited by Nancy to work under Blockbuster Entertainment, might compete with Gomen Pictures in the field of literary and artistic films. This is actually what Simon wants to see. Only competition can guarantee the Gomen Pictures team. Will not slack off.
I just didn't expect that this would be the result before things started.
Harvey Weinstein’s scandal is really nothing in Hollywood.
When the Weinstein incident broke out, it was because the Weinstein brothers lost power in Hollywood. They thought they 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. If you’re not unlucky, who else will be
It's just that at the time, Hollywood probably didn't expect that the matter would be so big.
This time.
Simon could probably figure out what happened without asking in too much detail.
Miramax went bankrupt in the first half of the year, and suddenly joined Daenerys Entertainment, which was in the ascendant in Hollywood, and Harvey Weinstein inevitably returned to his old ways.
It's just that Harvey probably overlooked one thing. His direct boss is a woman, and she is a woman with a strong and independent personality and obvious feminist tendencies. So, I had just joined Blockbuster Entertainment and had not made any achievements yet, but I did such a bad thing. If you don't get out, who will
If you don't cherish such a good opportunity for recovery, you can only accept your fate.
Simon thought for a while and said, "Ask Amy to say hello to other studios and let the Weinstein brothers disappear completely from Hollywood."
The Weinstein brothers are definitely capable.
Since his own company cannot use it, Simon will not give other film companies opportunities. It will be troublesome if they develop into competitors.
Alison agreed and lowered her head to write down the matter on the memo.
But in my mind I couldn't help but think of Nancy Brill biting her boss's jaw.
Simon suddenly asked: "A, do you think Nancy will fire me too?"
Alison raised her head, looked at Simon, and shook her head solemnly: "You are the boss."
"Employees can also fire their bosses," Simon smiled and said, "What about you?"
Alison paused and understood what Simon was asking. She couldn't help but avoid her boss's gaze, lowered her eyes and said, "No."
"Looks like I can do whatever I want."
I really want to raise my head and give him a blank look.
I seemed to be reciting something secretly in my heart.
So he didn't speak.
The tip of the pen drew a circle on the memo, and then drew another circle within the circle. Click two dots to fill in the eyes and add the ears.
After a moment of silence, Alison was the first to react and quickly continued to report some things. Finally, she pulled out a copy of "Forbes" magazine that was just released today and said, "Boss, do you want to see it?"
Today is September 6th, Monday.
"Forbes" announced half a month ago that it would 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 for this issue of the list in advance.
When I saw the magazine handed over by Girl A, I took it anyway.
The cover is a dense investment map of the Westeros system.
Forbes actually wanted a photo of Simon, but was unsurprisingly rejected.
In recent years, although Simon's name has almost never been cut off from the media, photos of him are very rare, even blurry photos taken secretly by paparazzi, and reports about his private life are becoming increasingly rare.
When it was time to make public, it was already done.
Keeping a low profile now can avoid giving many people the sense of oppression that is everywhere in Westeros.
This actually reduces a lot of trouble.
Right above the dense investment map is a very conspicuous blackened number: $120Billion.
$120 billion!
Compared with last year’s US$65 billion, it has almost doubled.
Open the magazine, and on the first few pages is a detailed list of the 400 richest people in the United States.
As usual, the top ten take up a full page.
First place: Simon Westeros, $120 billion.
Second place: Bill Gates, $10.5 billion.
Third place: Warren Buffett, $8.3 billion.
Fourth place: John Krueger, $5.9 billion.
Fifth place: Helen Walton, $4.5 billion.
Sixth place: Robinson Walton, $4.5 billion.
No. 7: Jim Walton, $4.5 billion.
No. 8: John Walton, $4.5 billion.
No. 9: Alice Walton, $4.5 billion.
No. 10: Rupert Murdoch, $3.5 billion.
Simon's Yiqijuechen and The Waltons are still the two most prominent parts of this year's list.
Daemon became the second billionaire. This should have been something worth writing about. Unfortunately, his personal net worth of US$10.5 billion is still less than a fraction of Simon's net worth.
Moreover, compared to 1993 in the original time and space, Damon's net worth has increased a lot earlier than expected.
In memory, Bill Gates should have ranked second to Warren Buffett in 1993 with a personal net worth of US$6.1 billion.
Historically, affected by the economic environment, demand for personal computers positioned as office products has been relatively sluggish in the early 1990s, which also restricted the development of operating system software supplier Microsoft.
This time, due to the early rise of the new technology wave and the popularization of the Internet, personal computers quickly got rid of their simple office use and began to enter thousands of households like televisions, video recorders and other products. As a result, PC sales continued to rise significantly 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 helped Damen become the second billionaire in the history of the Federation.
Of course, this time I will probably only be in second place.
Another person on the top ten list that surprised Simon was Rupert Murdoch.
Compared with last year's US$2.6 billion, the Australian-born media tycoon's personal net worth has increased by US$900 million this year. Although he only ranks tenth and is not far behind the other rich people who followed him, he can still be considered an entry. When it comes to the top ten list, even Sam Redstone, who had always been on top of him, 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 television business. As for the newspaper business, which Murdoch has always regarded as his foundation, anyone with a discerning eye now understands that the paper media industry is It has begun to decline under the impact of the Internet.
Moreover, although he is over sixty years old, Rupert Murdoch does not have the conservative mentality of a traditional businessman at all. News Corporation has begun to invest in Internet technology companies, and Murdoch has consulted Simon on related issues more than once.
In Simon's view, Murdoch is much better than Redstone in this regard.
Although they are both strong men in the business world, Redstone has stagnated since completing Viacom's layout in the traditional media field, and has been on a decline 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 John who also cannot keep up with the times. Like Kruger, he gradually disappeared from the top of the rich list.
Following the list is a feature article detailing Simon's personal assets.
In the past year, the fastest growing personal assets under Simon's name were undoubtedly new technology companies such as AOL, Cisco, Microsoft, and Intel.
Among them, AOL and Cisco have recent market values of US$35.6 billion and US$38.7 billion respectively.
Based on Simon's shareholding ratio in the two companies, his asset value alone exceeds US$40 billion.
Westeros has heavy holdings in listed technology companies such as Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN, and Silicon Graphics. According to Forbes magazine, Simon's personal wealth has also reached 13 billion U.S. dollars.
In addition, there is Nokia, which has just been launched recently.
"Forbes" calculated the value of Simon's shares based on the average stock price one week after the listing on August 20. The value of Simon's shares reached about US$60.
Just the shares of these listed technology companies have brought Simon wealth close to 60 billion US dollars.
The unlisted company assets 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.
Among them, Yigret just raised US$1 billion at a valuation of US$15 billion in the first half of the year, publicly confirming the huge potential value of this Internet company. The valuation of US$15 billion has increased three times compared to last year's US$5 billion. .
Daenerys Entertainment has also launched preliminary IPO preparations, and its valuation has increased by US$5 billion compared with last year, reaching US$25 billion.
Melisandre, whose territory in the luxury goods industry continues to expand, has also been valued at US$5 billion compared to last year.
Cersei Capital, valued by Forbes at $10 billion, is the same as last year.
Together, the four 'women' contributed to Simon's personal wealth of US$55 billion.
In addition to the four women, Westeros also owns a very important unlisted company, Verizon Telecom, which was acquired and integrated with MCA. Compared with last year's valuation of US$10 billion, Forbes gave this year's valuation The value is estimated at $15 billion.
Four women plus Verizon, that's another $70 billion.
With the two integrated, this is already US$130 billion.
Moreover, all of these are clear assets in the Westeros system that are very easy to count or have listed stock prices as references.
As the industrial layout of the Westeros system becomes larger and larger, many of the assets of unlisted companies that are smaller or have lower shareholding ratios, as well as the cash, properties, real estate and other personal wealth held by Simon Westeros, appear to be It is difficult to count and estimate.
For this part of the wealth, "Forbes" gave a rough figure of 10 billion US dollars.
"Forbes" calculated that the Westeros system's debt amount was US$16 billion last year, and this year's figure is approximately US$20 billion.
Many investments and expansions in the Westeros system over the past year, including the construction of the Westeros Tower in Manhattan and the personal consumption of Simon and his wife, were actually carried out in the form of bank loans.
If it were other wealthy people, if they added $4 billion in debt in a year, their personal financial situation might be in jeopardy. However, compared to the huge scale of the entire Westeros system, the increase in debt scale by 4 billion in one year is actually not much at all.
If necessary, Simon Westeros can easily pay off all 20 billion US dollars of liabilities by selling some core assets.
Therefore, based on comprehensive statistics, with a total of 140 billion U.S. dollars in assets, minus the approximately 20 billion U.S. dollars in liabilities of the Westeros system, Simon Westeros' personal net worth reaches 120 billion U.S. dollars.
US$120 billion is more than twice the US$50.7 billion of the wealth of all the other top ten richest people in the Forbes list.
Moreover, in this year's "Forbes" America's 400 Richest List, the combined wealth of the 400 richest people is only US$469.1 billion.
Of course, this also includes Simon’s $120 billion.
In other words, Simon’s personal net worth of US$120 billion is already more than one-third of the US$349.1 billion of the other 399 top American billionaires.
On a more macroeconomic level, Simon's personal net worth is equivalent to 1.8% of the US GDP of 6.5 trillion in 1992, which has exceeded the 1.5% of the Rockefeller family at its peak.
At the same time, Simon's personal net worth of US$120 billion, if counted as an economy, would be enough to surpass Russia, Portugal, Israel and other countries in the 1992 GDP list of the world, ranking 27th.
The real wealth is beyond compare!