"Chairman, are we going to revise the World's Billionaires rankings again?"
Steve Forbes flipped through the documents and replied casually, "Of course, it's a tradition at Forbes."
Although < Forbes > will publish the rankings every year, they will revise the rankings every quarter. Sometimes, there will be changes to the rankings every week.
< Forbes > also has its own website. It has an online magazine, and it charges a fee. They hope the World's Billionaires rankings will change every day. This way, the sales of their traditional magazines will increase, and the online subscriptions will increase.
But this is unlikely to happen. Even if there are changes to the bottom half of the rankings, not many people will pay attention to them.
< Forbes > only calculates billionaires with more than 1 billion USD. Last year, there were more than 1,000 billionaires in the world. Other than the top 10, the top 100 are also quite popular. But not many people pay attention to those in the top 100.
Maybe those in the top 130 and 140 are not as popular as the last place. It's just like how the second place in many competitions is not as popular as the last place.
That's why Steve does not care about these things. He even felt his subordinates don't need to report to him about these trivial matters. They can just follow the usual procedures.
One of his subordinates hesitated. "Chairman, are we still going to use round numbers for Feng's assets? Many people say that his net worth has already exceeded 100 billion USD. Should we calculate 100 billion USD for him directly? "
Steve waved his hand. "No. Let's announce his assets at 90 billion USD. Oh, put financial investments at the top of his list of industries. "
Every person on the list must introduce their age, nationality, assets, etc., and also their main assets.
For example, Bill Gates's name will be listed as software; Carlos's name will be listed as telecommunications and media; Warren Buffett's name will be listed as finance, etc.
Every year, Feng Yu's name will be listed on the list. Of course, it will be listed as diversified investments. But the top 10 are listed in detail, and Feng Yu's investments are much richer than the rest of the tycoons.
It seems that Feng Yu's investments are successful in every field. Feng Yu is the world's number one in many fields, and this is unbelievable.
In fact, Steve was the one who first mentioned that Feng Yu's assets had already exceeded 100 billion USD, but no one noticed. Or, many people didn't want to believe it.
< Forbes > also has the world's top accountants and asset analysts to help them verify the assets of many tycoons.
Some people wanted to be on the list, so they always lied about their assets. They consider it an honor to be featured in Forbes.
Some people like Feng Yu like to hide their assets. Most of them were from Europe and Asia. They seemed to like to hide their wealth.
It was just like how some people liked to appear on the cover of top magazines and accept interviews from top media outlets, while others didn't like it at all.
Many sports tycoons ran clubs that were losing money, but they enjoyed it. Because their most profitable business might not even be ranked in the industry, and they were not famous.
However, after becoming a sports tycoon, not only did their fame increase greatly, but they could even appear on the cover of "Time" and so on.
Don't think these tycoons are doing this for fame. This fame can also bring them high profits.
Those sports fans will buy his company's shares and products. Even when Feng Yu needs financing, it will be easier for him to do so. Also, these investments can be used for their political gains.
For example, the owner of a football club in Italy. He had also become the president of a football club and was ranked tenth on the world's most powerful list.
If it wasn't for his team's good results and fans, how could he be ranked so high in Italy with his assets?
Many tycoons would even stand up to the media after the Forbes ranking was announced, claiming that there was something wrong with the Forbes valuation of their assets. The valuation was too low, causing their ranking to drop as a result.
Most of these tycoons are from North America, Russia, the Middle East, and other regions. They regard this ranking as an honor.
After Steve finished reading the document, his subordinate passed him another document. There are some tables on the list, and he needs to sign it before it can be published.
But when Steve saw the top 10 richest people, he raised his head in shock. "Have these figures been verified?"
"We had verified it many times. The changes in the top 10 are too big, but it is real. "
Steve's eyes narrowed. The change in the top ten rankings was not just a little big, it was very big.
Other than Feng Yu's first place, the rest of the top 10 rankings had changed a lot.
Many tycoons' assets had shrunk because of the global economic downturn, especially the stock market. Those tycoons who rely on their listed companies' share prices had shrunk their assets.
For example, Warren Buffett. Last year, he was ranked second. But this time, Warren Buffett is ranked third. His assets are only 1 billion USD higher than Bill Gates.
But what surprised Steve the most was the second person on the list. Europe's richest man, Russia's Kirilenko, had jumped to the world's second richest man. His wealth is estimated to be 50 billion USD!
Could it be that Kirilenko's wealth didn't decrease during the financial crisis? Instead, it increased?
Many of Feng Yu's businesses are not listed and are not affected by the stock market crash. Is it the same for Kirilenko?
Hong Kong's Superman Li is ranked ninth with 21 billion USD. At the same time, there is another Hong Kong tycoon in the top 10. Fu Rongqi is ranked tenth with 20 billion USD assets.
Hua Xia has three people on the list at the same time. This is the first time in history!
India had four people on the list at the beginning of the year, and now, only two people are on the list. There are huge changes in the top 10.
According to Steve's understanding of these tycoons on the list, there will be changes when < Forbes > World's Richest List is published next year.
Hmm, I need to focus on advertising this time. Maybe this issue of the magazine will have a breakthrough in the sales. It will be best if he can be ahead of < Fortune > and < Business Weekly >.
Oh, maybe he can discuss with Feng Yu and ask if he is willing to increase his assets to more than 100 billion USD!
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