Super Spender - Chapter 349

Chapter 349: Chapter 343: The Richest Man

Translator: 549690339

“Mr. Lewis, do you realize what you just said?” an excited reporter asked.

“What does it mean?” Finn Lewis asked with some confusion.

“Mr. Lewis, WY is currently worth about 320 billion Federal Coins, Activision Blizzard is worth about 180 billion Federal Coins, and while T Company’s value has declined somewhat, it is still worth about 1600 billion Federal Coins. Therefore, according to your statement, the shares owned by Virtual World represent a personal asset of around 1200 billion Federal Coins to you.” the reporter quickly explained.

Honestly, this stunned Finn. He hadn’t thought about it in this way. In fact, many people hadn’t realized this, until this reporter spoke up. On hearing the reporter, all other reporters, and even the people on the stage, finally understood. Goodness, a personal asset of 1200 billion Federal Coins, what did this mean?

“According to the 2014 World’s Richest Person list of the Magazine, Mr. Bill Gates, who is ranked first, has a net worth of 760 billion Federal Coins,” the reporter quickly added.

Finn was in a daze. So…I am the richest person in the world now? Finn hadn’t thought about this before. He had unknowingly amassed 1200 billion Federal Coins. Goodness, why didn’t he feel any different? Becoming the world’s richest person seemed too easy.

“Magazine, come out, I promise I won’t beat you to death.”

“Magazine, isn’t your World Richest List touted as the most authoritative in the world?”

“Magazine, was Finn Lewis’s name eaten by you?”

Activision Blizzard’s press conference was indeed a sensational event. But it became much more sensational when the news broke that Finn Lewis had not only acquired Activision Blizzard but also T Company. The whole world was shocked.

“From a guy who was not even on the Magazine’s list last year, or even on the Flame Nation’s rich list, to being the world’s richest person, Finn Lewis tells you how long it took.”

“The myth of wealth accumulation has been refreshed.”

“Finn Lewis tells you, the world’s richest person is nothing, can kill in seconds.”

“A 25-year-old world’s richest person.”

With such explosive news, the sensation of Activision Blizzard being acquired, a piece of news initially deemed quite sensational, was just buried at the corner of countless news pieces. Now, no one cared about Activision Blizzard being acquired. Compared to the new world’s richest person, this news was no longer relevant.

In fact, not only was the Flame Nation totally shocked by this news, but the Northern Europe Federation was totally shocked too. A newly-crowned world’s richest person, who was just 25 years old, goodness! Who would believe if this was said? But they had no choice but to believe! These media outlets acted much faster than they did.

After Activision Blizzard’s press conference, the media outlets in the North Federation immediately began collecting related information. It was not necessary to investigate other companies in detail. Just by adding up Activision Blizzard, T Company, and WY, Finn Lewis’s net worth had already reached 1200 billion Federal Coins, or to be exact, 1191 billion Federal Coins. But don’t forget, Finn Lewis had other assets too.

Because all three of these companies were publicly traded, any share transactions had to be declared to the stock exchange. Finn didn’t plan to conceal anything so naturally, he declared the change in shareholding at the earliest. The only thing that was unclear now was the actual share distribution of the Virtual World.

The Virtual World was called a shareholding company, but it was a private company, so they could completely avoid disclosing the shareholding structure.

Mr. M’s phone was blowing up. At first, when he received a call from Time magazine, M thought they wanted to interview him. But when the other party asked whether M owned 5% of the shares of the Virtual World, M was stunned but he answered.

Since this information was not hard to find out. But when the other party asked about the other shareholders of the Virtual World, Mr. M paused, did not answer, but instead asked why they were asking this question. When he heard the reason from the other party, M was also dazed.

Because M had neglected this point as well. Or rather, everyone who had dealt with the situation unconsciously ignored this. Because, from Mr. M’s viewpoint, Finn Lewis was just using the assets of some foundation to acquire T Company. But it was only now that they realized that regardless of what assets Finn Lewis used to acquire the company, now the shares were under his name indeed.

When Tim Cook saw this news, he was also startled. Of course, Cook was familiar with the name Finn Lewis. As the CEO of A Company, Cook knew who the largest individual shareholder of A Company was, although this information had not been publicly disclosed yet.

During their negotiation, A Company and the other party had conducted a difficult discussion. The negotiation lasted for just over ten days, but it cost A Company 4.8% of its shares. Of course, what Fruits received would ensure Fruits’s supremacy in the future smartphone market, so the negotiation was not a total loss.

But Cook didn’t expect that the young man, who hadn’t shown his face at all during the negotiation, had now become the world’s richest person. And this was without counting the shares of Fruits. If Fruits’s shares were counted in, the person’s net worth would reach a terrifying 1500 billion Federal Coins, which was more than double that of the second richest man, Bill Gates. That was rather exaggerated. However, Cook soon calmed down.

Cook knew some inside information. For example, the events that took place in LD and why the MIH Group sold their shares. Did Finn Lewis, this young man, have so much money? It seemed unlikely, so there was only one possibility: perhaps the shares that were under Finn Lewis’s name were actually owned by that mysterious foundation.

In fact, not only Cook had this thought, but anyone who heard the news, especially those within the top wealth circle, basically thought the same. Because Finn Lewis was too young to possibly have such wealth. But it was quite reasonable for Finn to be able to use the funds of the foundation and act as their spokesperson.

But, even if Finn was their spokesperson, one couldn’t underestimate him because of his youth. Because, according to their estimates, Finn was likely the new generation operator of the foundation, similar to the role of Hawking. And because of his age, he would likely receive the attention of financial moguls worldwide in the future.

Cook thought this way was also due to another rumor circulating among the top wealth circles. Although Cook couldn’t enter the top wealth circle, he knew this because of his special status.

The price of crude oil futures in the market had fallen below 90 Federal Coins. The global price for each barrel of crude oil was currently 86 Federal Coins. But these were not the most important things. The most important thing was the two massive short sell orders being watched by all major global foundations!

Two short sell orders, each of one million lots! And all these two short sell orders totaling two million lots were held by Flame Nation’s XX bank! What’s even scarier was that their opening positions were at 100 Federal Coins! That meant their profit for each barrel of crude oil had already reached 14 Federal Coins! That meant the bank’s profit had exceeded 280 billion Federal Coins!