Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1677 : trillion

A new week, the time is already September 4, 2000.

Attend a meeting in the morning.

Completed the first full board meeting of the new Pfizer with the Warner-Lambert merger and management reshuffle.

The merger between the two major pharmaceutical giants in North America, Pfizer and Warner-Lambert, started last year, and the news was announced on December 20 of the previous year. At that time, the total market value of the merger between the two companies reached 262.5 billion US dollars. After several months of review by Washington and the complex reorganization of various aspects after passing the review, it was not until recently that all the merger processes were completely completed, and the transaction was reopened last week. As of the close of last Friday, the market value was fixed at 3103. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

Another $300 billion super giant.

Therefore, other pharmaceutical giants such as Johnson & Johnson in North America and Merck in Germany are far behind, and become the world's largest pharmaceutical giant worthy of the name.

The reason why the market value of the new Pfizer company after the merger has exceeded 300 billion US dollars is inseparable from the strong dominance of the Westeros system in this merger, so that the newly listed Pfizer has been regarded by the capital market as another one. Westeros concept stocks.

In fact, so too.

The brand-new Pfizer, after the completion of the merger, the Westeros system is based on the three platforms of Westeros Company, Apollo Management Company and Black Rock Asset Management Company, with a total shareholding ratio of up to 19.3%. At the public level, all three became shareholdings. Major shareholders with a ratio of more than 5%, and occupy the top three, of which Westeros Company ranks first, with a shareholding ratio of 8.7%.

For a corporate giant with a long history that has long made it a publicly-owned company, controlling nearly 20% of the company's shares is basically the same as owning the company.

Therefore, after the reorganization of Pfizer's board of directors, with 11 seats, the Westeros system unceremoniously won 6 seats this time, more than half of which, even the new CEO of Pfizer, Henry McKinnell, has also passed With Simon's approval, he was able to take office.

Not only that, the remaining 5 places on the board of directors were also finalized after discussions with several other capital shareholders who had a good relationship with the Westeros system. Under normal circumstances, they would not sing against Simon. At this level, saying that Pfizer is already surnamed 'Westeros', there are basically not many people who object.

Of course, keep a low profile, even if it is a well-known fact, the Westeros system will certainly not be so preached.

On the other hand, although he has become the master, Simon was only an observer at this important board meeting today, and he did not express much opinion.

The layman does not guide the layman.

Although, Simon does not agree with some of Pfizer's R&D strategies, such as the disgusting industry scandal of deliberately developing long-term chronic drugs instead of a one-time cure, even with Simon's current position of power, these methods are not It may have any impact on him and even the rest of the Westeros family, but I still feel that it is too unstructured.

Our journey should be the sea of ​​stars.

Similarly, the pursuit of health by human beings, in Simon's view, should be two words, eternal.

However, since it was the default rule in the industry that lasted for many years, he did not interfere for a while.

Simon's strategy, since it is a profitable company, then make money with peace of mind. Money is actually resources. With enough resources, Simon can invest in forming other companies or teams to achieve his goals.

On the other hand, although he did not point fingers, the reason for his appearance is also very simple, to declare sovereignty.

This company, yes, has the last name 'Westeros'!

This is also Simon's consistent attitude towards the various hills of the huge Westeros system. I can delegate power to you, but you must know who this company belongs to. Otherwise, no matter how powerful you are, you have to get out.

The meeting lasted one morning.

While arranging a networking reception at a hotel near noon, Pfizer also released a market bulletin based on the success of this board meeting, which is basically a brand-new future development strategy for Pfizer.

Of course the dark side will never be mentioned.

The highlight of this communique is that Pfizer plans to invest US$10 billion in the next 10 years in research on genetic engineering and related drugs and therapies.

It's still a new technology concept that is clamoring at the moment.

After all, the wave of new technology around 2000 was not just the Internet, but also concepts such as biopharmaceuticals and genetic engineering.

Pfizer has already invested heavily in biopharmaceuticals, but this time, it has launched the concept of genetic engineering on a large scale. After all, Pfizer has accumulated a century of R&D resources in the pharmaceutical field, which is definitely not comparable to the technical team that Simon has hastily invested in and incubated for a few years.

Simon just didn't expect, or everyone didn't expect that Pfizer's bulletin, which was mostly just a cliché, unexpectedly boosted the birth of a small miracle.

At the opening of the afternoon, Pfizer, a leading stock on the New York Stock Exchange, unexpectedly pushed up the genetic engineering concept stocks on the two platforms of the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq because of its planned investment in bioengineering. Among them, Nasdaq The related concept stocks in the market have risen fiercely, and together, the entire market has been pulled up a lot.

As a result, Igreat, which has been sprinting for a certain target between fluctuations for several months, at 2:37 p.m. that day, amidst much attention, its market value finally broke through the long-lost $1 trillion mark, creating a brand new Capital Market Records.

The first trillion-dollar company was born.

The market value of Igreit exceeded one trillion yuan, which in turn stimulated the rise of the entire market.

As of the close on Monday afternoon, the single-day share price of Igreat rose by 2.7%, and the market value rose from $987.1 billion before the opening to $1,013.8 billion at the close. In one day, the market value increased by $26.7 billion. It exceeds the total market capitalization of most companies in the two major stock markets.

With Igreat becoming the first giant with a market value of trillions of dollars, and the Nasdaq index reaching a new high, with an increase of 1.5% that day, it closed at 7646 points, and the total value of the entire Nasdaq market was therefore Reaching $9.6 trillion, it is only one step away from the 10 trillion mark.

With Igreit becoming the first trillion-dollar company to be on the news at the same time, it is natural to escape Simon's latest personal wealth.

After the close of the afternoon that day, Forbes gave the latest figure, 3 trillion US dollars, on its official website and the official homepage of the social network at the same time.

That's right.

After Forbes communicated with the Westeros system, it deliberately rounded up a number, because 3 trillion US dollars, compared with the 3.1 trillion US dollars that Forbes actually hoped to release, gives the impression that there is no feeling.

No feeling, this is very important.

Not only the figure of 3 trillion US dollars, although the market value of Igret has exceeded one trillion, it is widely discussed, but on the major platforms of the Internet, Simon's latest personal net worth of 3 trillion US dollars generally only exists for a few hours. Fall slowly.

In short, it is too conspicuous. Since it is impossible to actively achieve the best state of 'existence, but invisible', the public opinion strategy formulated by the Westeros family media public relations team for Simon is 'existence, visible, but not feeling'.

Simon Westeros, $3 trillion.

Oh.

Then it's time to drink and drink, and it's time to play ball.

Probably so.

In any case, it was a very lively two days after all.

An estate in the northern suburbs of Greenwich, Connecticut.

It was Tuesday night, September 5th.

At the end of the day's work, Simon came here tonight to have dinner with Sophia Fisher, as well as a pair of Fisher's children, Daniel and Gemma. Compared to the two little ones when they first met, the boys and girls are now already. They are 19 years old and 17 years old respectively, which makes Simon's heart inevitably feel a little more time flies.

It has been 14 years since 1986.

Moreover, probably because too many people's memories are mixed, even if the age of this body is 32 years old, in fact, Simon is very uncertain about his mental age, but it must be more than 32 years old.

Sophia came to New York this time to arrange another round of autumn fashion week that is about to start. Here in New York, the opening time of the fashion week is September 21. Although most of Melisandre's flagship brands are in Europe, they are not suitable for North America. This supermarket is never taken lightly.

After chatting a few words about the fashion week, Gemma, who was charming and innocent, took the initiative to talk about the hot news in the past two days: "Simon, you are already a super rich with 3 trillion US dollars. Why do I look the same as before?"

For the little girl who has been close to her for many years, even if she is not as cute as she was when she was a child, Simon still won't take the cliché of 'more money is just a number', and said with a smile: "Which aspect, if it is money If it is, because the process of quantitative change to qualitative change has not yet reached, for example, 10 billion to 1,000 billion must be qualitative, but 1 trillion to 3 trillion, the change will not be too big. In addition, if you say my own words, it is a pity , Gemma, carbon-based creatures won't become silicon-based creatures because they have enough wealth, so I'm still me."

Simon said it was interesting, everyone smiled, Gemma said: "However, some of my classmates realized the discussion, your 3G plan seems to be very likely to change human beings from carbon-based creatures to silicon-based creatures."

"It's our 3G plan," Simon deliberately emphasized a little, and added: "In addition, at least according to our current scientific understanding, the silicon-based state is far less stable than the carbon-based state, so our team will not Efforts in this direction still need to be improved on the basis of our carbon-based organisms."

Gemma nodded, and suddenly looked at her mother again: "I think you must have researched something. For example, mother, it doesn't seem to have changed much over the years, and she is still so beautiful."

Sophia heard her daughter suddenly mention herself, and the little man's eyes turned immediately, feeling a little embarrassed.

After so many years, it is true that even Sophia herself has maintained considerable confidence in her current appearance and figure. However, this is largely due to her own foundation. After all, everyone's physique is different, and it is probably affected by genes and human lifespan. It is the same, some people begin to age rapidly after the age of 30, and some people can resist the erosion of the years, Sophia is lucky to belong to the latter.

Of course, careful maintenance over the years is also essential.

After all, no matter how good the foundation is, it can't stand the waste.

Speaking of which, Sophia suddenly discovered that there are many women who are similar to her around men. After all, a certain guy's personal preference will probably never change in his life.

Thinking of this, she was somewhat embarrassed to be looked at by the little man, Sophia changed the subject: "I have seen the report, everyone was discussing it, the time node when the market value of Igret broke through one trillion should be Tinkbay. Er's autumn conference, I didn't expect it to suddenly pass, which is really surprising."

The time for Tinkbell's autumn new product launch conference was confirmed last month, on September 16th, a Saturday.

In fact, there is nothing new this year, mainly routine updates.

However, Sophia is right, even if there are no new explosions, because the company has continued to grow rapidly in recent years, every Tinkbell's press conference will always drive the capital market to become active.

Simon nodded: "I didn't expect it, but Igret's market value exceeded 900 billion very early. Since the Nasdaq bubble has never burst, 1000 billion is only a matter of time."

Sophia asked curiously: "According to you, if the Nasdaq bubble bursts, what should be the reasonable market value of Igret?"

"$300 billion to $500 billion is actually quite reasonable."

Daniel, who was relatively silent, said at this time: "Simon, Igret's recent price-earnings ratio is more than 160 times. If it is cut in half, it is also 80 times. Is it still too high?"

Simon looked at the boy and said seriously: "The price-earnings ratio shows the growth potential. Although the market value of Igreit has exceeded 1 trillion, it is far from reaching the limit in terms of the future industrial scale of the global Internet market."

Gemma was speechless: "But, I think, Simon, Igret is already too big."

Simon smiled: "You're sharp, that's really a problem."

Gemma was praised, a little embarrassed, and said: "Simon, my classmates discussed privately, saying that there has always been someone in Washington who wants to split Igret, and it has always been suppressed. Well, in short, you are very powerful. ."

Simon just smiled this time.

For the inside story, if the brothers and sisters are not there, they can chat with Sophia without any scruples. For now, forget it. After all, the little girl obviously likes to communicate with her classmates.

For Igret, Simon has actually been thinking about splitting the company decisively at the appropriate node.

Otherwise, once it becomes so big that the big company is incurable, it will be too late to split up.

This time node is probably the next crash of the Nasdaq.

Of course, it is not to start immediately after the crash, it is likely to lead to a rapid deterioration of the market conditions, adding fuel to the fire to offend too many people. So wait until a proper trough. At that time, according to a certain statement in the past, one whale fell, um, it must not be born of all things, but of several whales.