After introducing the two ladies, Anthony Arnault naturally turned his attention to Paul Roland.
Paul Roland looked at Carmen Kess, with vigilance and inquiry in his eyes. He didn't expect that Carmen Kath would get to know the son of the owner of LVMH just after he left for a while. If it was before, he would definitely be happy to see it happen. But now, if Carmen Keith had any thoughts that he shouldn't have, it would definitely be a disaster for him.
God knows, WM has just come through a disaster.
Feeling Paul Roland's gaze, Carmen Kess shrunk her neck a little guiltyly, but she couldn't explain anything on this occasion.
Delphine Arnault, who came with Paul Roland, watched her younger brother solemnly introduce Carmen Case to herself and others, but she just thought it was a little funny.
Of course, she would not lose face to her own brother in front of outsiders, but raised her hand to Paul Roland with a gentle expression, and introduced to Anthony Arnault: "This is Mr. Roland, he is from Miss Kath's agency. Boss, it just so happened that you and Miss Kath got to know each other again, what a coincidence."
Anthony Arnault remembered what Carmen Case had said just now that she was waiting for her boss, and after contacting the current situation, he immediately understood the ins and outs of the matter, and an embarrassing expression appeared on his face again.
Hearing Delphine Arnault introduce himself, Paul Roland withdrew his gaze from Carmen Case, smiled and shook hands with Anthony Arnault, although he wished to take Carmen Case back to New York immediately , but I also know that I must not be too rude at this time.
Just now, he was teased by a pair of lilies, and now he was embarrassed again. Anthony Arnault felt a little bit annoyed in his heart, but he didn't have the nerve to stay any longer.
After Anthony Arnault left, Paul Roland relaxed and took Carmen Keith to find a seat with Delphine Arnault and Carlisle Baker, and began to discuss Carmen Keith's endorsement of Dior' The real me' perfume thing.
Although, as Giselle said, 'True Me' perfume is just a new perfume line, the future is not clear. But after all, this is Delphine Arnault's first project after joining the family business. In order to ensure the success as much as possible, Dior has spared no effort in investing in this product.
Having won the Victoria's Secret Angel spokesperson contract, Carmen Keith is destined to become one of the fastest-rising supermodels in the fashion industry in the next few years. In addition, her image and temperament are very suitable for the positioning of the 'True Me' perfume. Negotiated the preliminary cooperation intention.
After talking about the matter, Delphine Arnault and Caris Baker bid farewell and left to entertain other guests. Carmen Kess had time to whisper to Paul Roland this time: "Why don't I reject this endorsement?" gone."
Paul Roland was stunned for a moment when he heard what Carmen Kess said, then shook his head and smiled: "It's not necessary, Carmen, you just need to know what you're doing. By the way, didn't you say you were going to ask Mr. Williams this afternoon?" Say thank you, I thought about it, it's the Oscars this weekend, it's kind of tricky, but I'll try and see if I can get you an invite to the Vanity Fair party so you have a reason to go to LA .”
Carmen Kath's eyes flashed, she lowered her head slightly, and asked in a low voice, "So, what about him?"
"I don't know what Mr. Williams is thinking, so you can just go there." Paul Roland guessed her doubts, explained something, and then smiled again: "Speaking of it, today's North American The media here is very lively, you can buy a newspaper tomorrow morning to read."
It turned out that he didn't say that he would take the initiative to see himself.
I was a little lost, and when I heard what Paul Roland said later, I felt that I was going to write inexplicably, so I looked up.
Paul Rowland nodded and said, "Of course it's about Mr. Williams."
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It was night in Paris, and it was still day on both coasts of North America.
Today's North American media is indeed full of excitement, because the new year's Forbes Global Rich List has finally been officially announced. Moreover, I don't know if it is to catch up with the trend, Forbes Group also chose to publish the 1999 Forbes Rich List through the Internet for the first time.
Prior to this, a large number of media had made predictions on this year's list, but the long-established authority has focused the attention of both the public and the media in North America on the data provided by Forbes.
There is almost no suspense, Eric's name is still high on the top of the list.
There is also not much suspense. Eric became the first super rich whose personal wealth exceeded 300 billion US dollars.
$315.5 billion.
That's the exact number that Forbes finally announced.
Among them, Forbes magazine’s valuation of Firefly Group has only increased by 20 billion US dollars compared to last year, reaching 120 billion US dollars. Eric has obtained a fortune of 88.5 billion US dollars by virtue of his 73.7% stake in Firefly Group.
In addition, the rest of Eric's net worth basically comes from the technology stock companies under Firefly Investment. Only this asset is worth more than 200 billion U.S. dollars.
Moreover, this time Eric's personal net worth of 315.5 billion U.S. dollars has completely exceeded the sum of all other people in the top ten Forbes rich list.
Although due to the overall economic recovery in North America and even the world, the assets of most rich people on the Forbes rich list this year have seen a significant increase, but after Eric, the total net worth of the nine rich people from the second to the tenth , and only 245 billion U.S. dollars, well behind Eric's personal net worth of 70 billion U.S. dollars.
Last year, Eric's personal assets of 136.7 billion US dollars have already attracted the attention of the whole world. This year, the wealth of more than 300 billion US dollars has completely robbed many people of their imagination. Most ordinary people have completely failed to understand what it means to have a wealth of more than 300 billion US dollars.
However, in this daze, there is naturally no shortage of sober or self-confessed cognizers.
"After a detailed investigation of the huge corporate assets controlled by the Firefly system, I felt a deep fear. Because I seemed to see a scene that was even more terrifying than the Rockefeller family's United Oil Company controlling the federal energy industry. If it wasn't for Steve ·The Case team led the departure of AOL, and the Firefly system will almost create a complete Internet industry interest chain, which involves the entire set of Internet industry equipment manufacturers, service providers and content providers, and, no matter Whether it is Cisco, America Online, or Yahoo, they are all leaders in the entire Internet industry with an absolute leading position, and only Yahoo Networks has already controlled more than 70% of the market share of the most important portal platform in North America."
"Although the departure of AOL has severely damaged the Internet industry chain carefully built by the Firefly system, it has not hindered the crazy expansion of the Firefly system at all. Amazon, the e-commerce platform that also occupies the largest market share in North America, is the most important of them. example."
"At the same time, after the acquisition of Sony's film business, the Firefly system has also controlled four of the seven major Hollywood film companies. The crazy occupation of Hollywood media resources has also allowed the four major film companies controlled by the Firefly system to obtain more and more In the last year, the Firefly Group, MGM Group, and Fox Group of the Firefly system divided up more than 4.5 billion U.S. dollars in the local box office of 7 billion U.S. dollars in North America. The market share is close to 65%. One can imagine that once Columbia Pictures, which owns famous series such as "Men in Black", regains its vitality, the entire Firefly system will also gain a near-monopoly market advantage in Hollywood."
"If everyone thinks that the strength of the Firefly system is limited to these two aspects, it is a big mistake."
"During the research process, the author also found that although Eric Williams' overall layout of the Internet industry failed due to the separation of AOL, this magical young man who really looked like an alien visitor was in Quietly making an exquisite layout for another important technological field, which is the mobile communication industry, and, in this process, the forward-looking vision shown by Eric Williams, even the author himself can't help feeling amazed."
"Seven years ago, when digital communication technology was just emerging, Eric Williams spent a huge sum of money to buy 51% of the shares in the mobile communication department of the Nokia Group of Finland, realizing the absolute control of this mobile communication equipment manufacturer. And At that time, Firefly Investment only paid 420 million US dollars for the 51% of the shares. Seven years later, the Nokia Group has grown into the world's largest manufacturer of mobile communication equipment and mobile phones, with a market value of more than 60 billion US dollars."
"Closing, five years ago, Eric Williams once again took control of another company that was still very inconspicuous at the time, Qualcomm."
"The investment this time is even more like a stroke of genius when the author came here."
"Because, when the world's major communication equipment manufacturers are still frantically vying for second-generation digital communication technology patents, Qualcomm has unknowingly controlled thousands of third-generation digital communication technology patents, forming a Patent barriers that the entire mobile communication industry will never be able to overcome if you want to take a step forward. Here, if you are interested in reading, you can explore the differences between Qualcomm's CDMA technology and the second-generation FDMA technology. Exaggeration. Moreover, at this time the entire mobile communications industry has apparently 'woke up'. Just according to the data provided by the Forbes list, last year, Qualcomm's market value was only 5.76 billion U.S. dollars, and in just one year, Qualcomm's The market value has skyrocketed to 28.6 billion U.S. dollars during the statistics process of Forbes magazine.”
"Finally, the Firefly system has also invested in Sprint Group, one of the three major telecom operators. Although Sprint is the weakest among AT-T, Verizon and Sprint, it is not difficult to find that the mobile communication license auction process back then Among them, Sprint spends huge sums of money to obtain more photos than AT-T and Verizon combined. If Eric Williams’ layout of the mobile communication industry is considered, then if Firefly invests in Sprint, it will be It seems reasonable. At present, the market value of Sprint Group has also reached 56 billion US dollars, which is an increase of more than 500% compared with three years ago. There is no doubt that Eric Williams has made the right bet again, or, I even think Well, Eric Williams is not betting at all, he seems to be able to see the future."
"So, let's look back, Nokia, a manufacturer of mobile communication equipment; Qualcomm, a developer of mobile communication technology; Sprint, a mobile communication network operator. The combination of the three, together with Eric Williams on the Internet industry How similar are the layout models of the Big Three online and Yahoo.”
"Although there is already a very serious bubble in the Nasdaq market. This is almost everyone's company. At this time, this market has completely divorced from the scope of economic fundamentals and has become a paradise for speculators. But I have to Admittedly, the Internet, mobile communications, and the electronics industry, a series of new technology industries, will undoubtedly become a new economic field in the whole world in the new century that is no less than the oil industry in the early 20th century. Therefore, I have to remind the federal government , we have reached the point where we need to be absolutely vigilant against the continued expansion of this terrifying firefly, otherwise, in the next hundred years, the entire North America, and even the whole world, will be shrouded in the shadow of this firefly."
In the next few days, with the announcement of the Forbes Rich List, among a series of media articles discussing Eric’s personal wealth, this report by Howard Glassman, a special commentator of the Washington Post is undoubtedly One of the most resonant ones.
Even after reading this article, Eric himself had to marvel at Howard Glassman's in-depth analysis of the industrial layout of the Firefly system.
But after being amazed, approaching, there are all kinds of headaches.
Although most people can no longer imagine what 300 billion US dollars means, the hatred of the rich in the hearts of ordinary people is almost an emotion that will never disappear in this world. At the same time, due to the instinctive fear of monopoly oligarchs, with the The Dayton Post article was followed by more articles calling on the federal government to limit the expansion of the Firefly system.
Eric gradually discovered that the accumulation of wealth is really not a difficult thing for him. Perhaps, for a long time to come, how to protect the wealth he already owns will be a challenge for him. real test.
Of course, this storm of public opinion has not only brought pressure on the Firefly system. Due to this article in the "Washington Post", the stock prices of all listed companies involved in the entire Firefly system have experienced a very obvious rise. From March 15th to the end of the trading day on March 19th, in just one week, driven by the overall rise in technology stocks of the Firefly system, the Nasdaq index also officially broke through the 3,000-point mark.