Across America, Starting with the Boxing Champion

 Chapter 557 Forbes New List

In March, the new list of the world's richest people ranked by Forbes magazine was released.

This year, there are 1,645 people on the Forbes list of the world's richest people with total assets exceeding US$1 billion, and the total net worth of all the rich people on the list is as high as US$6.4 trillion.

Among them, Bill Gates ranks first with a net worth of US$76 billion.

Last year's world's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu, ranked second with 72 billion.

Spain’s richest man, Amancio Ortega, still ranks third, worth $64 billion.

Fourth is Warren Buffett, worth $58.2 billion.

Fifth is Larry Ellison, worth $48 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg ranks 21st with a net worth of 28.5 billion.

Ma Yun ranked 29th with 21.2 billion.

Link ranks 37th on the list, with a net worth of US$19.5 billion, which has doubled from last year's US$9.8 billion.

"Forbes" magazine still calculates his net worth in three parts.

The first part is the shares controlled by Kingback Investment Company.

Including 16.6% of Nvidia shares, 17.4% of Tesla shares, 5.7% of SpaceX, 1.6% of News Corporation shares, 8.6% of Netflix shares, 2.025% of Eli Lilly and Company, and a small amount of shares of Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Apple and other companies.

NVIDIA's market value has not changed much this year. As of the end of the year, the market value was US$10.2 billion, which was only US$400 million more than at the end of last year.

Because NVIDIA's stock price is still low, Golden Shell Investment successively obtained about 1.1% of the shares last year.

The 16.6% stake in Nvidia is worth approximately US$1.6 billion.

Tesla Motors performed very strongly last year. After the launch of new energy vehicles, profits rose for four consecutive quarters. At the end of last year, the market value of Tesla Motors exceeded 20 billion US dollars, reaching a peak of 25.6 billion US dollars, and the current market value is 22.3 billion US dollars.

The market value has more than doubled from the 8.5 billion at the end of last year.

Kim Baker Investment owns 17.4% of Tesla shares, worth approximately US$3.8 billion.

And SpaceX performed well last year.

After four years of bidding, SpaceX and Boeing won a US$6.8 billion manned space project contract from NASA last year.

Among them, SpaceX received a US$2.5 billion contract. Its main mission is to use SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft to help the National Aeronautics and Space Administration transport astronauts and cargo to space.

After receiving the space agency contract, SpaceX shares grew rapidly in the stock market, with a current market value of approximately US$3.6 billion.

News Corporation's development was stable last year, and its stock price changed little, returning to around US$50 billion.

The 1.6% stake is worth US$800 million.

Netflix performed well last year. Its market value exceeded 20 billion at the end of last year and its current market value is 26 billion US dollars.

Golden Beike Investment’s 8.6% stake in Netflix was worth US$1.8 billion at the beginning of the year.

Eli Lilly's market value exceeded US$50 billion at the beginning of the year, and its current market value is 52.4 billion.

Golden Beike’s 2.025% stake is worth approximately US$1 billion.

The remaining Amazon, Facebook, Instagram and other shares are worth approximately US$600 million.

Among them, the hundreds of thousands of Amazon shares that Link bought in 2008/09 are currently worth more than 400 million US dollars.

Total of the above parts.

The value of Golden Baker Investment’s shares is US$9.8 billion, and Link holds 98% of Golden Baker Investment.

The second part of the assets is mainly music companies, film companies, and sports shares, totaling approximately US$7.3 billion.

Music includes link music, Spotify shares, and SB entertainment.

Spotify has grown rapidly last year and currently has 60 million free users and 15 million paid users worldwide.

In 2013, the full-year revenue was US$1.28 billion, with a loss of US$210 million. The reason for the loss is that the Spotify platform needs to pay a large amount of royalties to record companies. Last year, the platform paid royalties to record companies as high as US$933 million.

The royalties paid to Link Music alone are as high as US$85 million.

Despite its losses, Spotify successfully surpassed peers such as Pandora Music Box last year and became a free music platform unicorn with a market value of approximately US$6 billion.

Link and Iwaka own a total of 16.8% of Spotify shares, and his owns 75%, worth about US$750 million.

Link Music Company has grown rapidly after receiving investment from Universal Music last year, with a current market value of approximately US$2.2 billion.

He owns 45.8% of Link Music shares, worth approximately US$1 billion.

He and Ivaca also own 2.2% of Universal Music shares and SBprojects entertainment shares, with a market value of approximately US$600 million.

In terms of music, his assets are approximately US$2.3 billion.

In terms of movie companies, they include Lionsgate Pictures and Palm Beach Pictures, as well as Lionsgate’s 11.37% stake in Netflix.

He has assets to his name of approximately US$4.5 billion.

In terms of sports, including a 23.5% stake in Dynasty Promotion and the Nike-Link sports brand, the value is approximately US$500 million, which is little changed from last year.

The third part of assets are overseas assets.

Including Hong Kong Island Golden Baker Investment Company, 41% of BigHit Company shares, Paris Rose Film Company, etc.

Valued at approximately US$2.5 billion.

Link is 25 years old this year, with a net worth of US$19.5 billion, ranking 37th on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, and the youngest billionaire on the list.

After the "Forbes Rich List" was released, Link's net worth aroused a lot of discussion and was hyped as a "wealth myth" by many media.

In addition, Eva Ka also made it to the Forbes Global Rich List for the first time, with a net worth of US$1.2 billion and a Forbes ranking of 1,432. Her assets mainly include Link Music shares, Spotify shares, Lionsgate Pictures shares, luxury brands, etc.

The old father-in-law is worth 2.5 billion and ranks 339th, with little change. "Forbes" magazine believes that according to this trend, Ivaka has the opportunity to overtake her father-in-law's net worth in the next five years, and will become the only super-rich second generation to overtake her father's generation without relying on family inheritance.

Ivaca also became a role model for American upper class society.

On the small list published by Forbes magazine, Link's income in sports and music is still far ahead.

His sports income last year was approximately US$850 million, including income from six boxing matches, advertising endorsements, and a 5% annual sales share of the Nike-Link sports brand.

Ranked second is Mayweather, with annual income of approximately US$105 million.

The income mainly comes from his matches with Alvarez and Guerrero last year, appearance fees and cable pay TV PPV box office share.

Cristiano Ronaldo ranked third with $73 million, Messi ranked fourth with $65 million, and LeBron James ranked fifth with $42 million.

In terms of music, his income last year was about 180 million US dollars, mainly from the record share of his fifth album and royalties from other album singles. If you include "Victory", his income last year was more than 200 million US dollars.

In second place is Madonna, with 125 million. The main sources of income are royalties from the new album "MDNA" and first tour income, as well as her Material Girl clothing brand and Truthor Dare perfume.

Ranked third is lady Gaga. Although she has not released an album, she earns US$80 million from perfume endorsements and tour commissions.

Taylor, ranked fourth, earns US$75 million, royalties from new albums and tour commissions, as well as advertising income from Amazon Music, iPad, Toyota Shuangqiu and others.

Beyoncé ranked eighth with $53 million.

Selena ranks 12th with a net worth of US$12 million. Her main source of income is album royalties, advertising and film remuneration, and she has become a well-off little rich woman.

Justin Bieber, Bruno Mars, and Lana Del Rey also rank in the top 20 with income from royalties, tours, and advertising.

In terms of actor's income, he only filmed two movies last year, "Captain America 2" and "Gone Girl", with a salary of 45 million US dollars, ranking fourth in the male actor income rankings.

The first is Robert Downey Jr. with $75 million, the second is Dwayne Johnson with $52 million, and the third is Bradley Cooper with $46 million.

Leonardo ranks fifth with $39 million.

Among female actors, Jennifer Lawrence ranked first with 35 million U.S. dollars, Sandra Bullock ranked second with 32 million U.S. dollars, and Scarlett Johansson ranked third with 17 million U.S. dollars.

These are the incomes of top-level actors. According to statistics from Forbes magazine, the average annual income of Hollywood actors last year was only US$52,000, which is lower than wages in many industries.

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"Forbes" magazine evaluates mainly net worth, not including cash flow on hand.

In fact, since the end of last year and the beginning of last year, Link has successively received dividends from shares of multiple companies, as well as profit sharing from Link Music, Lionsgate Pictures, boxing matches, music royalties, advertising, etc., totaling 1 billion U.S. dollars. After tax avoidance, the remaining The bet was less than $700 million.

The money was of no use in his hands. He gave it to Golden Shell Company for investment, and it was gradually turned into shares of many companies, including Eli Lilly, Amazon shares, Ins, etc.

Currently, Eli Lilly and Company's shares under Golden Shell Investment have increased to 3.2%, and Amazon's shares have increased to 0.55%.

Amazon's current market value is only US$141.3 billion, which is less than Alibaba's US$168 billion. While Amazon's market value will exceed US$2 trillion in ten years, Alibaba's market value will still be more than US$100 billion in ten years.

According to the current market conditions, investing in Amazon is still a good deal.

In addition, the investment team led by Ms. Kathy Wood has invested in Instagram, WhatsApp, Uber and other companies in the past few years, and has also achieved good results in recent years.

Among them, WhatsApp’s current market value is 6 billion U.S. dollars. Golden Shell invested 8 million U.S. dollars in the angel round and obtained 5.7% of the shares, worth more than 300 million U.S. dollars.

There are recent rumors that Facebook is preparing to acquire WhatsApp. If the acquisition is successful, Jin Beike will have a large amount of funds in its name.

After getting the funds, he plans to buy a building in Manhattan, New York, similar to his old father-in-law's building, with a hotel restaurant on the lower floor, offices for Link Music, Golden Shell, and Lionsgate on the middle floor, and high-rise apartments on the top floor.

It's just that I haven't found a suitable target yet, and I'm still selecting.

"Honey, is there any bad news? Why are you frowning?"

In the mountainside villa, Ivaca came over with a gust of fragrance, hugged his neck from behind and asked.

"I have too much money and I don't know how to spend it more rationally. Is this bad news?"

Link pointed to his photo in Forbes magazine. Below it was written $19.5 billion. He was rated as the fastest-rising rich man, the youngest rich man in the world, a famous entrepreneur, an athlete, an actor, a musician, a philanthropist, etc. wait.

"How about donating? Too much money will indeed increase worries. We can keep a few hundred million to spend."

Ivaca gently stroked his eyebrows with her fingers.

"I earned all this money through hard work in boxing. It's all hard-earned money. It's not cost-effective to donate it. Even if I want to donate it, I have to wait until I become the richest man in the world. My moral character is not that noble now."

"Then don't worry about so much. If you trust Kathy, just leave the money to her and the people at Golden Shell Investment Company. We only need to manage Lionsgate Pictures and Link Music."

Ivaca hugged him and said.

Link thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.

In the past few years, Casey and the people at Golden Shell Company have done quite well. In the future, the money earned can be completely left to them.

As long as you continue to hold stocks in companies such as Nvidia, Tesla, Eli Lilly, and Netflix, other investment operations will have little impact.

"I'll talk to Casey later."

Thanks to his cooperation with him, Casey is now worth more than 400 million US dollars and is a star figure in Wall Street investment banking.

"Dad said you have become one of the top 40 richest people in Forbes. Do you want to hold a party to celebrate?"

Ivaca smiled.

"It's not appropriate to hold a party because of this. We know how much money we have. We don't need to announce it to Forbes. There is no need to celebrate this. However, we can hold a charity party and auction some souvenirs, such as gold medals and trophies." , records, etc., donated to the Link Charity Foundation, what do you think?”

"Okay, that's a great idea."

Evaka kissed him on the cheek.

Link smiled softly, put down the magazine, hugged the beauty and kissed her.

While little Margarita was taking a nap, the two of them had a mess on the sofa.

(End of chapter)