Over the course of two days over the weekend, with the help of Sophia and the political and military think tanks around him, Simon initially formulated the specific plans for the 'Troy Plan' and the 'Solvay Plan'.
And start executing immediately.
The first is the 'Trojan Plan'. The first step is to select people. This is actually the most important step.
Simon did not leave full responsibility to Joseph Schlapp, Celia Miller, etc., but planned to take care of it himself. 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. Some of these people come from within the Westeros system, management children at various levels of various subsidiaries, or some executives themselves who are interested in politics. The other part, at least on the surface, has nothing to do with the Westeros system.
What Simon values most is the latter part.
Because once you are branded with the Westeros system, it is not easy to climb too high in the American political system, and it is not suitable to do so. It is easy to associate.
As for this group of people who have nothing to do with the Westeros system on the surface, there is no certain ceiling.
It is not impossible to run for president in the future.
These people are very easy to find. After all, there are so many people in any country who want to make a difference in politics, so there are various circles and groups.
The key is how to win over and support these people without letting the outside world discover the clues.
The club system that will be formed by Sofia is a key.
All in all, it's all about slow work and meticulous work.
Fortunately, Simon now has no shortage of funds, team and time, so he can just work hard slowly.
Unlike a group of people selected from the circle of executives with vested interests within the Westeros system and relevant outsiders, Simon targeted the middle and lower classes in the United States. These people lack the financial connections to climb up and can only rely on With the support of the Westeros system, loyalty is quite guaranteed.
Simon actually doesn't expect absolute loyalty, but once a position is determined, in fact, many times, it is completely out of his control whether he is loyal or not.
Betrayal never comes without a price.
Relatively speaking, the military needs to be more cautious. For the time being, it is mainly to win over senior US military officials who have retired and still have considerable connections. One of the main plans that Simon decided on during the two days over the weekend was to come up with a group of Westeros system subsidiaries. Board positions come out and gradually spread out.
Give food and ask for directions.
Then through these connections, he gradually penetrated into the top brass of the U.S. military.
Continuing to spend the weekend in New York, Simon and Sofia flew back to Los Angeles together. Sofia came mainly to visit the two little guys, after all, she is the biological mother.
The two returned on a brand new Boeing 767.
Simon placed an order for two Boeing 767s with Boeing last year and they were just delivered recently. After Sophia became pregnant last year, one of them became a woman-only one. The interior decoration was completely designed by her. However, the ownership of the aircraft is still in the name of the Westeros family. , this is not because Simon is stingy, but because this way the Westeros family can continue to pay for the use and maintenance of this private jet.
This is a very large expense.
The annual maintenance cost of a private jet is equivalent to about 10% of its cost. In addition, there are various expenses such as hiring a crew team and each departure fee. If a private jet is used for 30 years, the accumulated expenditure is enough to buy four or five new jets.
This is also the reason why many wealthy people can only rent private jets even though they seem to be wealthy.
Just like Sophia herself, even though her personal net worth has reached billions of dollars thanks to the Melisandre stocks held in her name, it is not easy to spend ten to twenty million dollars in cash every year to maintain a private Boeing 767.
Fortunately, money is no problem for Simon.
Back in Los Angeles, it’s January 29th.
on Monday.
In the new week, the biggest news of the day is undoubtedly that the share price of Yigret officially exceeded US$300 billion, becoming the world's first listed company with a market value of US$300 billion.
This is mainly because Igret announced its full-year financial report for 1995 on Saturday, January 27th.
With a single-quarter revenue of US$6.53 billion that surged again in the fourth quarter of 1995, throughout 1995, Yigret's annual revenue finally reached US$20.82 billion, successfully breaking through the US$20 billion revenue mark.
Compared with the full-year revenue of US$11.67 billion in 1994, the year-on-year increase reached 78%.
Not only that, in the fourth quarter of 1995, Yigret's single-quarter net profit also reached US$380 million, directly exceeding the total corporate net profit of US$310 million in the first three quarters. The full-year net profit in 1995 reached US$690 million. .
This is naturally what Igret did intentionally.
The main purpose is to send a signal to the outside world that it is actually very easy for Yigrit to make a profit.
This is also true.
The most indispensable thing in the capital industry is people with a discerning eye.
Even if Igret doesn't make a fuss about profits, just the fact that its revenue has grown from US$10 billion to more than US$20 billion in one year 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 it is more than ten or twenty years later, the revenue volume can reach the level of tens of billions of dollars, and it will definitely be the leader in various industries. And when a company's revenue exceeds 10 billion US dollars, it is even more rare to be able to maintain an ultra-high growth rate.
As a result, after two days of public opinion fermentation on Yigrit's 1995 financial report over the weekend, when the stock market opened on Monday, Yigrit's stock price soared 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 good news, the Nasdaq index also rose across the board that day, rising from 2816 points at the opening of the day to 2937 points, a single-day increase of 4.1%. It seems that Vest just announced last week Los Angeles' announcement to reduce its holdings in Cisco has been forgotten.
Fortunately, it is still within 3,000 points.
Simon was pleased with this.
The capital market is naturally disappointed.
It failed to break through 3,000 points in one go like the stock price of Ygritte.
However, many people are already gearing up to push the Nasdaq index to a high of 3,000 points in the coming week.
Simon is also gearing up.
The market reaction triggered by the release of Ygritte's 1995 financial report was basically expected. Therefore, Simon also planned to cool down the Nasdaq a little before Tinker Bayer was listed. With such alternation of hot and cold, it is actually very easy to get a headache and a hot brain, but you can't care so much.
Ygritte became the first company with a market value of US$300 billion, which inevitably once again aroused the curiosity of the media and the public about Simon's latest net worth.
According to the current Westeros Company’s 57.9% shareholding in Ygritte, the total value of Simon’s Ygritte shares reached US$184.3 billion on Monday, a single-day increase of US$17.1 billion.
For a young man who turns 28 next month, his personal assets are no longer suitable for annual statistics.
It’s not an exaggeration to calculate it on a daily basis now.
It's just a company named Igret. The increase in Simon's personal wealth caused by the stock price fluctuations on January 29 may be a figure that many ordinary people can't achieve in ten lifetimes.
It has been more than three months since Yigrit was listed on October 6 last year. It is still only the shares of Yigrit held by Simon, and the overall appreciation has exceeded US$50 billion. At the end of October last year, Forbes "Magazine's statistics on Simon's personal wealth are based on the market value of Ygritte on the first day it was listed. This means that the Ygritte family alone increased Simon's personal wealth by US$50 billion in just one quarter.
Moreover, it is not just Igrit, even if the Westeros system has begun to take repressive measures, the stocks of Cisco, AOL, Microsoft, Intel and other companies have continued to rise rapidly in the past few months. According to Simon’s shareholdings in these companies, the total value added in more than three months has been no less than US$100 billion.
There are also a large number of other unlisted companies.
Like Tinker Bayer.
In the Forbes 400 list of America's richest people at the end of October last year, Tinkerber's valuation was calculated based on the combined valuation of the two companies during the acquisition of Broadcast, which was US$17 billion.
Now, only three months have passed. According to the latest Tinco Bayer prospectus, the company's valuation has reached 35 billion U.S. dollars. Not to mention Igret's indirect shareholding in Tinco Bayer, only counting The value of Tinco Bayer's 61.6% stake directly held by the Westeros Company has reached US$21.5 billion, which has doubled compared with three months ago.
Finally, after the U.S. stock market closed on January 29, Fortune magazine, which had always been unable to compete with Forbes on the mainstream wealth list, was the first to publish a special article on its official website, identifying Simon's latest net worth at US$900 billion. There is only a gap of US$100 billion away from US$1 trillion.
Although the figure of 900 billion is still not absolutely accurate, the analysis given by "Fortune" is very detailed. After all, it is only a series of key holding companies in the Westeros system such as Igrit, Cisco, and AOL. In three months Over time, the value-added wealth provided to Simon exceeded US$150 billion.
Other unlisted companies, such as Tinker Bell, Melisandre, Verizon Telecom, etc., have a potential value added of US$50 billion, which is not an exaggeration.
Therefore, the total of US$900 billion is an increase of US$200 billion in one quarter compared to the US$700 billion on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans in October last year. Even though it is amazing, it is basically in line with the reality.
Other media outlets, of course, were not far behind and started discussing this topic.
On the other hand, "Forbes" seems to be doing nothing. Forbes probably believes that publishing the list once a year is enough. If it is too widespread, it will inevitably lose credibility. This is obviously the result of the reserve of typical traditional media, and it may not last long. Simon clearly remembers that later Forbes also started to launch real-time wealth statistics lists.
Regardless of the controversy, most media and the public basically agree with Simon's latest personal net worth of $900 billion given by Fortune.
as well as.
Everyone is now starting to pay more attention to when this number will exceed 1 trillion US dollars.
No one will doubt that as long as the Nasdaq does not collapse in the short term, and it continues for a few more months, US$1 trillion is only a matter of time.
Another Hollywood financial magazine, "Barron's", had already been optimistic about this point in the website news of the day.
Tinker Bayer listing.
As the road show progresses, the official listing date of Tinker Bayer has been basically finalized. February 16 is still a Friday.
The "Barron's" article believes that Tinker Bayer's valuation of US$35 billion is a very serious underestimate. Such an emerging electronics giant with revenue exceeding US$10 billion and annual net profit has reached US$1 billion, even because of Due to the nature of its own business, it cannot be compared with the highly sought-after authentic Internet companies, but its own Internet genes are also obvious.
Since the entire Internet industry is growing rapidly, Tinker Bayer, which relies on the entire Internet ecosystem, has no reason to conduct conservative valuations like traditional electronics companies.
What's more, the news that Tinker Bayer is about to release another new electronic product has begun to warm up public opinion. Perhaps this will be another hot product similar to iPlayer.
Therefore, even if it does not reach the terrifying level of Ygritte's market value of US$300 billion, Barron's analysis believes that Tincobayer's market value should be at least US$100 billion, not a mere US$35 billion. During the recent road show, the crazy subscription performance of many intention capitals clearly proved this.
The market generally predicts that before the official listing, Tinker Bayer may increase the issuance price again.
That's certainly what Simon and Tinker Bayer management are thinking about.
It’s not that he thinks the valuation of US$35 billion is too low and is unwilling to give up more benefits. If it were a year or two ago, Simon would be happy to do so. The main reason now is that we don't want the market to be too enthusiastic about Tinker Bayer's IPO, because this will inevitably affect the entire Nasdaq sector and further stimulate the overall rise of the technology stock sector too fast.
On the same day of January 29, in addition to the uproar caused by the market value of Ygritte exceeding 300 billion, there was also the official announcement of the nomination list for the 68th Oscars that night.
The shortlist was basically what Simon expected.
Among the five core Best Picture nominations, the much-anticipated "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" was successfully selected, and also received 9 nominations including Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Score, becoming the most nominated this year. movie, fans were filled with joy for a while.
The film's distribution team also took advantage of the situation to launch a second wave of large-scale publicity, and really began to launch a public relations offensive to compete for awards.
In addition to Batman v Superman, the other four films nominated for best picture are "Sense and Sensibility," "Braveheart," "Bridge of Dreams" and "Nixon."
"Sense and Sensibility" produced by Daenerys Entertainment's High Gate Pictures, after shining brightly at the previous Golden Globe Awards, continued to win the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress this time Waiting for 8 nominations.
This is one more than the original time and space.
Which happens to be the best director.
As for why Ang Lee failed to get a nomination, the reason is obvious. Now Daenerys Entertainment is fully capable of breaking this prejudice easily.
It is also reasonable that "Braveheart" and "Bridge of Lost Dreams" were shortlisted.
On the contrary, "Nixon Biography" is obviously controversial.
This biographical film directed by Oliver Stone can only be said to be a normal performance of the director. It performed mediocre both at the box office and in word-of-mouth. The reason why it was nominated was partly due to the Oscar's sharing of pork and Oliver Stone himself. On the other hand, it is also the result of the strong promotion of Vivendi behind Disney. The French want to show their presence in Hollywood.
It happened that several films under Daenerys Entertainment that were expected to be nominated, such as "Apollo 13", "Beauty and the Beast", and "The Man from Earth", voluntarily gave up the application, and the "Nixon" with average quality got it. Chance.
This is why Simon insists that 1995, which just passed, was not an Oscar year at all.
It really can’t be counted.
Although Daenerys Entertainment does not count Batman, films such as "Sense and Sensibility," "A Walking Dead," "Apollo 13," and "Beauty and the Beast" have also received a total of 22 nominations, but because of "Nixon" "Biography" was shortlisted, this time the nomination announcement inevitably attracted doubts.
The Oscar organizing committee is also helpless about this.
Daenerys Entertainment almost dominated the top ten in the annual box office list last year, and there is no way other competitors are weak.
This cannot be the case with Oscar.
After all, everyone is in this circle, so we can’t completely deny other film companies a way to survive.
What's more, which year at the Oscars was free of controversy
Moreover, most people's attention was quickly attracted by "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."
This box office week surrounding the announcement of Oscar nominations, coupled with the launch of the second wave of promotional offensive by the distributor, from January 26 to February 1, the sixth week of release, the single-week decline of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" It narrowed to 17%, with revenue of US$31.54 million. The cumulative box office of this DC superhero blockbuster not only reached a new high, but also broke through another key threshold, reaching US$504.15 million.
This is also the reason why the two companies launched another wave of publicity offensive.
Now, it is no longer a problem for the local box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" to exceed 600 million. Daenerys and Warner Bros. are directly targeting a further local 700 million mark.
According to the current box office curve of normal commercial films, the single-week box office volume of Batman Begins is only 30 million US dollars, from 500 million to 700 million, and it seems impossible to collect another 200 million. However, Batman v Superman has transcended the scope of ordinary commercial movies. It is a phenomenal blockbuster.
The box office curve of phenomenal movies is never normal.
What's more, pushing forward further, for example, "Back to the Future" and "Ghostbusters", which won the annual box office championship that year, the local box office of both films exceeded the US$200 million threshold. Only US$18.43 million and US$23.16 million respectively.
Now, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" itself is already a phenomenon-level box office blockbuster that is even stronger than the two films that year. Now it has caught up with the trend of Oscar, and the local box office has hit the first US$700 million box office in North American film history. record, the probability of success is at least 50%.