Chapter 712 (1/2)
October 17 is another week.
In a townhouse on Upper East 72nd Street near Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, the spilt family, who recently moved to their new home, are having breakfast.
The proposal to move was first put forward by her husband, but grace split didn't agree at the beginning. The couple's career was just getting better, and they were not well off economically. However, after Bill spotter listed a series of advantages of the couple in terms of network expansion and children's education after the move, the woman agreed.
The house is rented for the time being.
In fact, if we sell the property in Greenwich Village, and the couple's credit line in the bank has been greatly increased at this time, it's not unbelievable to buy a property directly in the upper east side. This time, grace resolutely did not agree.
Grace wants to keep the Greenwich apartment for her two children.
The real estate in New York City has a high value preservation. If you sell it now and want to buy it in the future, it's hard to say what the price will be.
On the dining table.
The topic was unwittingly introduced to the recent hot discussion on the Forbes list.
Especially a young tycoon at the top of the list.
Grace gave her son a bowl of sweet soup. After listening to her husband's analysis of cersei capital's hidden power, she asked with a smile, ”how much money do you think Simon westero has?”
Women are naturally good at camouflage.
Bill spatter felt that his wife was not close to or alienated from a certain name in her words. He was somewhat worried about gain and loss, but he said quickly: ”it's really hard to say, but the $300 billion must be seriously underestimated. Recently, we are bidding for an additional share issue of a communication technology company invested by westero system a few years ago. The company is called Qualcomm, which was listed in 1992. Due to the rise of mobile communication industry, the current market value of Qualcomm is $2.9 billion, and westero company holds 17%. The value of these shares is $490 million. Can you guess how much it cost to get the shares four years ago? ”
Grace pretended to think and said, ”100 million dollars?”
Bill spotter shook his head and directly solved the mystery: ”35 million. In four years, it has increased 14 times.”
Rita spelt, sitting next to her father, sighed, ”that's great, Dad. Is there anything special about this company?”
The spilt family's meal time used to be less active.
Since the past six months, the spurts' career has been rejuvenated, and their children's character has changed a lot. Grace can clearly feel that her daughter is more active and confident than before. The 16-year-old Rita split successfully entered the famous Dalton middle school in the upper east this autumn. Not to mention the girls themselves, even the spotters had never thought about this century old school in the past.
Of course, only grace herself knows that the reason why her daughter was able to enter this Manhattan top private high school is that she quietly called a little man.
Bill spatter laughed at his daughter and said, ”Rita's problem is exactly what matters. We recently conducted a survey on Qualcomm. What do you guess the result is? ”
Rita spatton rolled her eyes as she went to work.
Grace also smiles, glances at her son, who is listening carefully, and signals him to eat quickly.
Bill spatter also realized that he was selling a little bit of a leap, and explained: ”we found that this Qualcomm company has almost monopolized the patent of the third generation digital communication technology ahead of time. The industry predicted that the scale of the global mobile communication industry in the future may reach trillion US dollars, and a company monopolizing the patent of a generation of technology, even if it only depends on the patent In the future, the annual input of authorization fees may reach billions of dollars, and the current market value of 2.9 billion dollars is just the beginning. ”
Grace can't help but think of a little man's figure, but she asks, ”can we get around the patent barrier? Will so many communication giants be willing to pay billions of dollars in patent fees to a small company? ”
”If you want to get around it, of course it's not impossible,” bill spatter said. However, Qualcomm's technology is almost the best solution for the third generation of digital communication. If you want to bypass it, it will not only cost a lot, but also the technology can not be better than that of Qualcomm. Just like there is a Suez canal that can pass for thousands of dollars, do you think someone will spend billions of dollars to build another canal with longer routes and longer time
Grace nodded.
Bill spotter went back to his wife's question: ”because of the listing of Qualcomm, we can know that westero has invested in such a company with huge growth potential ahead of time. However, how many companies with the same growth potential have westero invested in these years? What is the current value of these enterprises that have not yet been listed? Unless westero system takes the initiative to make public, outsiders simply can not know. Therefore, it is impossible to really understand westero's family background. Take the most prominent company, igritte, for example. Because of the outbreak of the Internet industry, our analyst team judges that the growth rate of igritte's performance this year may be even higher than that of last year. Even if it goes public now, with igritte's ultra-high growth, it may be another big Mac with a market value of 100 billion US dollars. As a result, only Cisco, AOL, igrit and danielis have been able to support Simon westero's $300 billion fortune. ”Ray spatter listened to his father's words and finally asked, ”Dad, what's the concept of 300 billion dollars?”
I've heard this number a lot recently, and grace is curious about it.
Bill spelt obviously thought about it and said, ”it depends on who has such a fortune in his hands. For those oil tycoons in the Middle East, 300 billion US dollars is just a house full of gold, gold for dining tables, gold for toilets, and gold inlaid walls, showing the world that they are rich and rich, and then there will be no more then, and we will not allow them to have more then. However, for Simon westero, he is rapidly and efficiently transforming his own money into real power that can control the United States and even the world. Power, in fact, is the ultimate manifestation of capital. ”
Ray spatter could feel the eagerness and yearning in his father's eyes when he said these words, but he was a 15-year-old boy who could not understand them after all.
Bill spelt knew that it was not suitable to explain to the children more deeply, but he still couldn't help it, and then said: ”just like the dispute between the westrow system and the Hurst family in the first half of the year, Simon westrow almost destroyed the Hurst family with his own strong capital strength, plus the influence of the follow-up westrow system on other old media families in the Federation As a result, the westero system has controlled the federal media industry to a large extent. In the future, what you can and can't see in the media will have the influence of westero system. ”
Grace noticed her daughter's thoughtful expression on the other side of the table. She looked at her son who was also digesting her father's words. She resolutely interrupted her husband's intention to continue with her eyes and said to her son, ”OK, ray, drink the soup quickly. I don't want you to be late just at the beginning of the new week.”
After breakfast, Bill spelt's driver has parked his car on the ground floor of the Poole family's rented townhouse.
Grace personally sent her husband out, parting, see the man habitually come, she did not refuse, but slightly side head, only let the man kiss on his cheek.
The children didn't know that their parents had quietly separated and slept after they moved into the villa.
It's not because of Grace's secret relationship with Simon, it's on bill spotter's side.
Half a month ago, at a party in First Boston, the spotters attended together. As a result, a young woman suddenly protested against grace during the party. According to her husband's reaction at that time, grace still doesn't understand what happened.