Chapter 723 - Fifth in the World
During this time, reports about Zhou Shi emerged one after another, especially the exploration of his worth, which made him the front page of financial news.
FF went public with a market value of about $100 billion, and Zuckerberg was worth less than $20 billion, and he had already surpassed Michael Dale to become the youngest self-made entrepreneur in the United States. And Zhou Shi has achieved a great increase in personal wealth because of the rise in the stock prices of Yahoo and Amazon, and his net worth has reached $38 billion, while Buffett only has $44 billion at this time. Among them, Yahoo has a market value of about $45 billion, and he accounts for 40 percent of the shares, with a valuation of $18 billion; Amazon, which has a market value of $110 billion, and he has about 10 percent, with a valuation of $11 billion; and Guoke, Adobe, and Netflix, which is not much at a net worth of $38 billion. In this way, his fortune surpassed Larry Ellison to the fifth place in the world. This made Ellison very dissatisfied, so much so that he was angry with Zhou Shi and rejected the plan to travel together.
"How do you feel about becoming the richest young billionaire in the world?" A reporter from Newsweek got an interview with Zhou Shi, who had been personally raised by Zhou Shi and was not an asset, and had been losing money anyway, of course, it was not useless, and he could use these losses to deduct his taxes.
The inevitable decline of Newsweek's physical magazine, even with the help of advertising in Zhou Shi's industry, is not a nourishing life. Zhou Shi's new media plan has only just begun, and Toutiao has not brought much profit to Newsweek. However, the company's media distribution assistance system software, or to be more technical, the content distribution system they developed is also about the same.
His purpose in developing this software is undoubtedly to enable traditional media to better manage the content distribution in the Internet era, so that news consumers can get a better user experience. That is, the content management, typesetting and professional media released by the self-media can get similar effects, which can greatly release productivity. This includes better productivity tools for some journalists with reduced learning ability and the ability to manage content posted on multiple news social platforms.
Yahoo has too many things to deal with now, and Toutiao still needs to wait for the right time, so Yahoo's self-media plan is still in the planning.
"You should have seen it!" Zhou Shi pointed to his dark circles, but this was because Wang Xirui ignored him after returning to the United States, and Snapchat was even planning to relocate its cloud service platform to Amazon Cloud Computing. Wang Xirui even left the villa where they lived together, obviously very angry, and didn't listen to Zhou Shi's explanation. Li Ying stayed in China to deal with the investment of venture capital companies, and had no idea of coming to the United States. For a while, Zhou Shi became a loner, and he was troubled by it for many days.
"Are you so excited that you can't sleep?" the reporter opened his eyes and said nonsense
"If it is, it would be great!" Zhou Shi, "I used to want to make money very much, because I can do a lot of things with money, but when my capital exceeds 10 billion dollars, I become very panicked, I don't know why I have so much money, why not someone else, do I deserve to have so much wealth? How much value have I created for mankind?"
"Why do you think about this, is it too much, many people who have wealth think about how to enjoy life!"
"Actually, my ideal state is to maintain a wealth of less than 10 billion dollars, and the Forbes Rich Edition is within 100, so that I have enough reasons to enjoy life and learn from Larry Ellison's attitude to life. I envied his life, so I was friends with Mr. Ellison. But too much wealth makes me feel pent-up. Zhou Shi ignored the reporter's words and said to himself.
"Do you know how to use it?"
"I really don't know how to use it, even if I have a luxury yacht party every day, so much money is enough for me to use it for a lifetime, right?"
The "......" reporter was speechless, as if it was true.
"But is life all about indulgence, at least I don't think so. There is a saying in the Taoist classic "Lao Tzu": Misfortune and fortune are relied upon, and fortune and misfortune are lurking, and I think it is very correct, if I start to indulge in indulgence, there may be many unexpected consequences, such as my wealth disappearing at an unexpected rate. Of course that's not the most important thing, I think I'm now the manager of wealth, not the owner. “
"Why do you say that?"
There is a sentence in "Lao Tzu": The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more loss. The way of man, otherwise, the loss is not enough to give more than enough. Who can have more than enough to serve the world, only the Taoist. Zhou Shi turned on the pretending mode
"Wealth has never been my goal, what I pursue is the avenue between heaven and earth, or the truth of the universe. Wealth is only a means in my pursuit of truth, through which I can better pursue the Tao between heaven and earth! But too much wealth will make me lose myself, forget my original dream, never forget my original intention, and I have to always!" Zhou Shi's English is mixed with Chinese, and the reporter has a voice recorder, otherwise he can't continue, especially his thinking jumps, often talking and talking, I don't know where to go, which causes a lot of trouble for the reporter.
"Now that you have so much wealth, what are you going to do?" the reporter said
"I thought I had a lot of money at first, but this morning I was reminded that I still have a lot of money to pay. And these companies I hold are very good companies, they have a very big future, and it is impossible for me to cash out in a short period of time. So, I'm not as rich as everyone thinks I am. As for the future, I don't know yet, my understanding of the world is not enough now, there are too many things to learn and understand, and making a decision too early at this time is actually irresponsible for these wealth. "Zhou Shi
"Will you donate your wealth to charity?"
"Didn't I just say that I don't know what the purpose of charity is? I understand that charity should be to enable people all over the world to get out of the existential crisis and live with dignity! Therefore, the most important thing is to develop science and technology and improve the employment environment in the world! If you agree, then I will continue to do charity; if you do not agree, then there is no way. Maybe when I lose my current passion, or learn more about the world through learning, I will do charity more directly, but not now. Zhou Shi told his understanding.
What can this reporter say? He can only ask according to the plan! Zhou Shi is a very unique individual, and his miracle of wealth has never been created in this world. In the face of people like Zhou Shi, they either denigrated and did not believe in this miracle, or they were convinced by him. Why did Zhou Shi invest in social networks and traditional media, why did he publicize his belief in Taoism, and why did he not find more reasons for the miracle of his wealth! The richest man in the world who has not been created through the accumulation of time is destined to face many doubts. Perhaps in a few years, politicians like Trump will have some purpose of slandering Zhou Shi's source of wealth, saying that he is a puppet of a certain country in the East, a heresy that has invaded the Western world.
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