America's Road to Fame

Chapter 440 Didn't You Mean It?
Interestingly, in this conversation with Rick Walton, William Chen did not hear him talk about Walmart Group's acquisition of Zoom.

This may mean that his mentality has indeed changed, that is, he no longer hopes to use Zoom to "save" Wal-Mart Group, but more, er, regards Zoom as his own business.

This matter is not difficult to understand, because Rick Walton himself was born in the Walton family, and he has an incomparable understanding of the situation of a traditional retail group like the Wal-Mart Group.

And as he leads Zoom and develops it to the current level, he will also have more experience with the advantages of e-commerce based on the Internet to connect the world. In this process, he can gradually realize , Belonging to Wal-Mart Group, maybe Zoom will not help Wal-Mart Group improve its disadvantages in competition with Amazon, but will bring Zoom into the traditional shackles.

"By the way, William, I remember you talking to me about your big plan, which is the idea of ​​bringing together the most famous stars in one competition. I talked about it with Delfina, and she also felt a lot about it. interest."

At that time, William Chen did talk with Rick Walton about the Atlanta All-Star Carnival on the phone, because in this plan, the participation of well-known companies is also very important, and Delphine The LVMH group owned by the family is a very good partner for this carnival.

"Really, Rick, now I have handed over this matter to Ivanta, I believe she and Delfina will have a lot of common topics."

When he was in New York before, Chen William had already helped Ivanta contact some manufacturers, including Nike and Adidas, and the other party was also very active in this regard. Now Ivanta's main job is to promote this plan. , to bring more fashion, sports and other companies into the camp of this carnival.

Speaking of which, it seems that this matter is not so difficult now, and one of the most important assistance is Chen William's influence.

At present, the entire Meta Group has completed the equity incentive plan. At this time, the executives of the group are also very supportive of this plan, and the whole plan is going very smoothly.

Because Meta Group can be said to be one of the most growing companies in the United States at this time. In the just-released 2012 global company market capitalization list, Meta Group ranked on the list with an overall valuation of 1930 billion U.S. dollars. The 15th place in the list, and above it is Huaguo Mobile, with a market value of 1950 billion US dollars, only 20 billion US dollars higher than Meta Group.

On this list, following Meta Group, are Wal-Mart Group, HSBC Holdings and Google.

In 2012, Iverson Mobil Petroleum Company topped the list of global companies with a market value of 4100 billion US dollars. Among technology companies, Apple ranked second and Microsoft ranked ninth. company.

However, William Chen knows that by next year, Apple will surpass Iverson Mobil Oil Company and become the company with the highest market value in the world, while Meta Group is likely to directly enter the top ten.

At this time, he was also a little fortunate that he had "donated" the Meta Group to the Kettering Foundation, and held shares in other companies through various offshore companies and companies registered in Atlanta Island, which also led to , It is already very difficult to evaluate William Chen's worth.

Even though everyone knows that these companies are controlled by William Chen, the specific shareholdings of these companies are kept secret, at least not so easily disclosed.

Therefore, last year, Forbes and other magazines tried to evaluate Chen William's property, but this year, they completely gave up the statistics of his net worth, and his name no longer appeared on the list.

Otherwise, if you calculate the wealth he owns now, to use a term that was very popular in the fan circle later, it would be "fault number one", and his net worth may be much higher than that of No.2, which would be too ostentatious.

If, even if the current statistical results are not so exaggerated, then after the valuations of companies such as Tesla, Netflix, and Meta Technology start to skyrocket, then I am afraid that his net worth will really appear, which is much higher than that after that. A situation arises where the sum of the names is higher.

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When William Chen left Rick Walton's house and returned to his villa, he saw three women chatting in the living room.

"Hello, Ms. Talulah, long time no see."

The three daughters in the living room are Miranda, Ember and Musk's ex-wife Talula.

"Hi William, sorry to bother you."

When Dalula saw William Chen, she showed a smile, but it was obvious that she was still in a low mood.

"No, I heard from Ember before that you have been feeling a little low recently, and I can understand it. In fact, I suggest that you can go out for a walk more now to relax. It will be a good way to dispel some negative emotions."

"Thank you for your suggestion, William, that's what Ember told me before, and we are discussing the next vacation."

Uh, when William Chen heard what she said, he glanced at Amber, but he saw her give him a look, so he held back and didn't ask any more questions, because he clearly said with the two women that he would accompany them on vacation For a while, I don't know why Ember talked about this matter to Talula again.

After all, he and Musk are partners, and William Chen knows that Talulah and him will be disconnected in the future. At this time, he doesn't seem to have anything that is easily misunderstood.

After William Chen came back, Talula quickly proposed to leave, but it happened to be dinner time, so William Chen politely asked her to stay, and everyone had dinner together.

Talula didn't insist too much. After dinner, after everyone chatted casually for a while, Talula offered to leave again. This time, Ember accompanied her and sent her home.

After William Chen arranged for the driver to send the two of them away, he returned to the living room, looked at Miranda who was sitting on the sofa with some doubts, and asked:
"Do you know what's going on? Miranda, why are you and Talulah discussing the vacation?"

"Ah? Didn't you mean it? William. I saw that when we were chatting today, Ember brought up the topic of vacation and discussed the location with Talula. I thought you knew about it..."

Uh, judging by her performance, she was also kept in the dark, so William Chen didn't continue to discuss this topic with her. It seems that he needs to wait until Ember returns before questioning her properly.

(End of this chapter)