Hollywood Hunter

In 1992's "Forbes" North America 400 list of the richest people, Simon's $65 billion and Daemen's $7.5 billion, veteran media tycoon John Kruger ranked third with $5.5 billion in personal wealth.

Compared with the first two, John Kruger's personal wealth has not changed much in recent years.

Later, Sam Walton passed away in April this year. Sam Walton’s wife and four children occupy the fourth to eighth places with the same personal wealth of US$5.1 billion, and have also become the Forbes list in recent years. A highlight on the list.

Immediately afterwards, Warren Buffett ranked ninth with a personal wealth of $4.4 billion.

The two brothers of the Newhouse family are tied for tenth with a personal wealth of US$3.5 billion each.

It is not difficult to find that even if the two tied tenth personal assets are also included, apart from Simon, the combined assets of all the top ten billionaires on the list are only 499 US dollars, which is still less than Simon’s 65 billion US dollars. A huge gap of 15.1 billion US dollars.

When the list was announced, it inevitably aroused the attention and discussion of all parties.

Simon's personal assets last year were only 35 billion U.S. dollars, but this is already a bit shocking. This year's 65 billion U.S. dollars has completely exceeded most ordinary people's imagination.

As a result, many media naturally began to analyze, what does 65 billion US dollars mean?

An article in the "New York Times" gave an intuitive concept that best fits ordinary people: According to the average annual income of US$25,000 in recent years, an ordinary person wants to make 65 billion US dollars. Worked for 2.6 million years.

Simon Westeros accumulated his wealth up to this time, but it only took 6 years.

Of course, there is no shortage of discussions about Simon's wealth at this time.

However, only the publicly listed high-tech companies such as Cisco, AOL, Microsoft, and Intel in the Westeros system are already dazzling.

Daenerys Entertainment, who has successively created a series of box office miracles, completed the merger of MCA, and created the DC movie universe, is even more like a hidden Big Mac. Unlike a series of listed companies such as Cisco, the huge Daenerys Entertainment is now completely owned by Simon Westeros.

In addition, the strength of Verizon Telecom, Cersei Capital, Melisandre, Eaglet, etc. cannot be underestimated.

Such a business empire is so large that it has become ubiquitous in American life. The founder’s personal net worth has reached 65 billion US dollars. Although the asset growth in just one year has reached an astonishing 30 billion US dollars, but careful statistics show that Not so unacceptable.

With media reports and public heated discussions, the technology and entertainment sectors of American Story will inevitably rise again after the release of the new annual "Rich List".

The uncertainty in Hollywood is too high, and the barriers to entry are somewhat high. As a result, the booming new technology industry has once again attracted more and more attention.

Entering September, the 1992 US presidential election also entered the most recent sprint.

The candidates of both parties in the United States have been determined, and the current President George Bush easily won the nomination of the Republican party. After Bill Clinton defeated a series of competitors, he successfully became Bush's competitor.

When this year's "Forbes" list was released, the two candidates' views on Simon Westero's personal wealth also became an important issue frequently mentioned by media reporters during the election campaigns of the two candidates.

In this regard, George Bush is even more embarrassed.

In contact with the US economy in recent years, media reporters like to ask how George Bush intends to solve the growing personal wealth of the top rich in the United States and the United States’ record-setting poverty rate and high unemployment rate.

As everyone knows, Mr. President always likes to pay attention to overseas issues, and to be more accurate, it is oil.

There is almost no doubt that the Bush family is an important part of the American Petroleum Corporation.

For the American economy, Mr. President is really not interested.

Of course, this is the case, but it certainly cannot be said, so I can only cope.

In this regard, Clinton is quite comfortable.

Clinton’s campaign slogan was related to the economy. When the presidential candidate was asked similar questions, he would often subtly shift the topic to the rapidly exploding new technology field in the United States, and contact his running partner Al Gore. The "Information Superhighway" plan that he launched has constantly depicted the prospect of another major change in the US economy after his election, especially the number of opportunities, wealth and jobs this economic revolution will bring to the United States.

In fact, much of the data cited by Bill Clinton was quietly provided by the Westeros system.

With the three Internet giants Cisco, AOL and Igreat, coupled with Simon's prophetic advantage, no one knows the development prospects of new technology in the next few years better than the Westeros system.

These materials are definitely not available to the George Bush camp.

Moreover, now Hollywood and Silicon Valley have largely sided with Bill Clinton. This is an indisputable fact.

Regarding these two forces, one holds a large sum of wealth in the United States, and the other holds a large amount of public opinion resources, and the Bush administration can only draw in as much as possible.

For Simon, facing the wave of public opinion after the release of the rich list, the Westeros system will certainly not remain indifferent.

The hatred of the rich is an emotion that no society will lack. Therefore, the public relations team of the Westeros system has been operating at full capacity during this period. The focus is on Simon's promotion as a special case, a miracle, and not just a pure super-rich.

The public's acceptance of miracles will always be higher.

Simon Yiqi Juechen's personal wealth can also be called a miracle.

There are discussions, surprises, envy, and there is no shortage of targeting and questioning.

Not only the US presidential election, this year is also an election year for both houses of the US Senate. The actions of the two presidential candidates with Simon would appear to be too obvious and deliberate. Some members of Congress do not have too many estimates for the support rate.

After the release of the Forbes list, a California Republican candidate for the Senate soon began to accuse the three companies of the Westeros system of having a strong position in the emerging Internet field for hindering the development of competitors in the same industry.

The congressman was very cautious and did not directly use monopoly terms.

The Internet industry is still in the early stages of development, and Yigrete is still in the stage of continuing to throw money at losses.

It is obviously too early to blame monopoly now.

Moreover, Eaglet has not only taken the initiative to open a series of core patents of the World Wide Web, but also spared no effort to create an open and shared positive image for itself in this process.

In addition, AOL is also not considered a monopoly because of its business scope restrictions.

Cisco, the only one with obvious monopoly suspicion, happens to have a relatively single product, and it is basically the only one in North America. You can't force others to license the products you have invented so hard to other companies.

Of course, as the Internet industry continues to explode, the dominant position of the three companies in the entire industry has become more and more obvious.

In private, careful consideration of certain joint strategies has indeed touched on the relevant US antitrust regulations.

But, after all, this just needs more real things.

No corporate giants in the United States dare to say that they have never violated American antitrust laws.

However, the "timing" of the Senate candidate's accusation this time was very bad, because Eaglet happened to make another key move to open up technology.

This time it is the email technology that many companies have been eager for.

As the most widely used technology of Eaglet Portal, almost every World Wide Web user will register an e-mail address after logging into Eaglet Portal.

Therefore, as of September 1992, the number of e-mail registrations on the Eaglet portal has reached 37 million, and daily active users have exceeded 10 million.

With such a large user base, any technology company with a slight vision understands the huge business opportunities contained therein.

The income of Egreat Portal from e-mail advertising is also rising.

However, for the outside world, this may be a huge user base that is eye-catching. For the Eaglet team, the e-mail service means huge operating expenses at all times.

Even if it is understood that this expenditure is totally worthwhile, it does not prevent the Eaglet team from creating other businesses through email technology.

The open e-mail technology was originally proposed by Carol Bartz, the head of the software service business.

As a powerful tool for the Eaglet portal to gather user groups, the portal team will naturally not agree.

The dispute between the two sides eventually fell to Simon's side.

Carol Bartz took over the corporate service business of e-mail. However, up to now, the Bartz team has also discovered that instead of providing direct-to-email services by Eaglet, it is better to provide users with a complete set of webmail technologies and solutions, the remaining server maintenance, and the technology of e-mail. The management and some sensitive matters related to the content are not required by Yigrete.

In doing so, on the one hand, the company's operational investment in enterprise-level email services can be minimized, and legal risks related to information leakage can also be avoided.

It was the latter reason that moved Simon.

Although the US privacy regulations on the Internet have not yet appeared, this does not mean that Eaglet does not need to bear related risks

Operating a huge e-mail user base, Eaglet has actually been attacked by hackers very frequently, and the company's security team has therefore become larger.

Now, if only to provide technology and services, and the management of the e-mail address is the responsibility of the user, Yigrete can get rid of a large part of the responsibility after an information leakage incident.

In addition, there are many more long-term considerations.

For example, the US government inevitably monitors the Internet field.

Later, the United States was always accustomed to accusing other countries of stealing Internet information to threaten network security. Simon did not know what other countries did. However, the US government's monitoring of the Internet has more than once revealed a real hammer.

In the original timeline, after the 9/11 incident, the Patriot Act promoted by the Bush administration was actually a surveillance bill.

The bill stipulates that the U.S. government has the right to check citizens' emails under the name of a national seat belt.

With the monitoring habits passed down by the US government for a long time, even without 9/11, Simon can be sure that the US government will intervene in the Internet for other reasons in the future.

If the Internet platform has only one e-mail service platform, then, at that time, whether it agrees to the US government's surveillance requirements or not, Eaglet will face strong pressure.

Now, if we voluntarily abandon the monopoly on e-mail technology, a large number of e-mail service providers and a larger number of private or corporate e-mail servers will appear in the Internet market, and the U.S. government will not want to do anything that needs to bear pressure. Then there is the Eaglet family.

Moreover, now that the e-mail technology is released and the standard of Eaglet is quickly promoted, it can also prevent other companies from developing alternative technologies.

Yigrete Company no longer provides a full set of services, and no longer restricts the server to the Yigrete network platform. Users can build their own servers and process information on their own. This will allow many companies that are concerned about confidentiality to accept this service. Therefore, it is conducive to the wider promotion of e-mail services.

In order to finalize this matter, Simone intends to stay in San Francisco for a few days to negotiate the overall details of the open email technology with the Eaglet team.

It coincided with California's congressional Senate candidate accusing the Westeros system of controlling the Internet industry. The plan has just been finalized. As a counterattack, the Eaglet team held a press conference to announce it with great fanfare.

Of course, after several disputes and compromises, this technology will still be a restricted opening.

In the short term, the targets of technology openness will only face companies, enterprises and government departments, and, unless authorized by technology, organizations cannot provide e-mail services to the public unless permitted.

By doing so, it is obvious that competitors of Yigrete Mailbox can be avoided.

Moreover, this restriction of Eaglet is completely reasonable to outsiders.

However, Simon does not actually intend to completely control and not allow other service providers to appear.

In fact, after the plan was completed, the Eaglet team began secret negotiations with Microsoft and AOL.

As long as the agreement can be reached smoothly, AOL and Microsoft will start their own e-mail service business.

Of course, it is impossible for this technology to be only licensed to mainland enterprises in the Westeros system. In the face of many applicants, Eaglet is also looking for other partners outside the Westeros system.

So until September 16, when Simon returned to Los Angeles, Daenerys Entertainment's "Desperate Housewives", which was created by Daenerys Entertainment for the USA TV network this autumn, was also about to officially start broadcasting.