Below the question were a few options… [A. Top 30. B. Top 20. C. Top 10. D. Top 5.]
The World’s Billionaire List was not just about guessing. They had also prepared a prize… They would draw two people from the netizens who had answered the question correctly, and each of them would give a glass phone worth 8,888 yuan!
Seeing these options, all the netizens who were watching the show were stunned. ‘It’s at least in the top 30? They’re definitely not in the top 100?
‘Last year, he was ranked 163th, so it should be normal for him to enter the top 100 this year, right?
‘Yet, he’s jumped all the way up to at least top 30?
‘Isn’t he developing too quickly already?
‘In that case, well…’
‘I choose the top 5 then.’
With a hint of rebelliousness, the netizens who had been “fed” by the rich and powerful chose their own guesses.
This wave of marketing made this year’s World’s Billionaire List the most followed year in history.
Furthermore, other than this interview, Su Yang did not publicize his company’s specific data and did not receive any finances. Hence, the capital market did not have a rough estimate of Su Yang’s net worth. However, the World’s Billionaire List had used this kind of internal data to determine his net worth.
This made many of the top 30, top 10, and even top 5 tycoons in the country curious about Su Yang’s wealth as they peered their eyes open…
Su Yang did not expect that the World’s Billionaire List would be so fun to use his own ranking to make a guess. Therefore, when he found out about this, he did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Just then, he received a video call from Chu Xia…
Because he had spoken to Chu Xia on the phone during the Lunar New Year and even used a video call to exchange greetings with his parents, Su Yang could not help but wonder why Chu Xia suddenly called him today.
So he picked up the phone and asked, “Chu Xia, why are you calling me today?”
On the other side of the screen, Chu Xia looked like a little hamster who was stealing food. “Hello? Boss, please tell me quietly. What’s your ranking? I want to win the prize.”
Su Yang was speechless and almost vomited blood!
‘Chu Xia actually called me because of this?!
‘Moreover… You’re already with such a wealthy man, but you’re thinking of “cheating” everyday just to win a prize?!
‘Can you have some aspirations!?
‘If you make me happy, I could even give you 10 prizes!
‘Also… I’ve already sent you a glass phone, so why do you still want it!’
Su Yang’s heart skipped a beat.
He took a few breaths and then said helplessly, “Chu Xia, is that all you want? I’ll give you a glass phone, okay?”
Chu Xia rejected him arrogantly, “I don’t need you to give me a glass phone! What would the one you give me mean? I want to use my own abilities to get this phone, fair and square!”
Su Yang was speechless
‘Does your definition of fair and square mean coming to me to ask for a cheat?
‘Some fair and square style you have…
‘Little Chu Xia who wants to play fair and square is just hilarious.’
At the thought of this, Su Yang said in annoyance, “Based on my estimate, it’s going to be difficult to get into the top five, so I should be in the top 10.”
“Wow!” Chu Xia exclaimed,” So you’ll be one of the top 10 richest people in the country from now on!”
Su Yang puffed up his chest proudly. “How is it? Am I awesome?”
In the video, Chu Xia’s eyes widened, and she nodded obediently. “Yes, yes, yes. You’re super awesome!”
Then, Chu Xia’s big eyes blinked a few times and she asked cutely, “Then, will you be able to chat and laugh with the two Boss Mas?”
Su Yang was even more pleased with himself. “I think so. After all, we’re on the same level.”
Hearing this, Chu Xia’s eyes were already sparkling. She said, “Then, can you get Boss Ma to give me a permanent super member? It’s best if I get a whole set of red diamonds, green diamonds, blue diamonds, and colored diamonds! All of them have to be permanent!”
Su Yang’s face fell.
Chu Xia didn’t notice at all and continued, “Oh right, right. I’m also playing Honor of Kings, so could you get Boss Ma to give me Wu Zetian again? I haven’t been able to draw any! Oh right, it’s best if I get one that has a skin with it…
“Also, there’s more! Can the other Boss Ma clear my shopping cart? I have so many things that I like inside! And can he help me clear off my instalments? Every time I spend money, I get so excited, but when I have to play the instalments, I become so sad…
“Ah! Also! …”
Chu Xia was as excited as a little rabbit as she kept talking about her new and mysterious ideas.
Initially, Su Yang listened to a few sentences, but later on, he felt that the words entering his left ear, passed directly through his brain and out the right ear without even paying attention to what she had said…
After listening for a while, Su Yang coughed and asked, “Do you want to be a member of Juduoduo app? I have that.”
Chu Xia hesitated for a moment. “Can I change it to JD.Com? I still like buying things in JD.Com.”
Su Yang was speechless.
“Crack.”
Su Yang crushed the cup in his hand.
‘Is Chu Xia doing this on purpose? How is my Juduoduo worse than JD.Com?
‘Isn’t it just…
‘Isn’t it just…
‘Fine… I don’t think I can compare to JD.Com.
‘Sad.
‘I’ve just been despised by my girlfriend…’
After the conversation, Su Yang felt that his heart was full of wounds.
‘So what if I’m a super-rich man? So what if I’m one of the top 10 richest men in the country? My girlfriend doesn’t even use my own products!
‘I feel so lonely…’
After chatting with Chu Xia for a while longer and explaining to her why he was in the top 10, Su Yang finally hung up on Chu Xia…
That was the most tiring conversation he had with Chu Xia.
After chatting with Chu Xia, Su Yang received a few more calls from his friends. Other than congratulating him, some of them even took the opportunity to ask Su Yang about his ranking!
Hence, in a fit of anger, Su Yang gave each of them a glass phone instead!
However, after sending it, Su Yang calmed down and took out his Weibo as well. He clicked on the poll on the billboard and chose the top 10 option.
‘Lotteries seem to be really contagious…
‘I don’t lack a phone, but I want to vote and see if I can get it.
‘Could this be the legendary… Test of luck?’
After voting, Su Yang took a look. There were quite a number of netizens who had voted. In just half a day, the total number of votes exceeded 400,000.
The top 30 option consisted of 10% of them, 45% for the top 20 option, 15% for the top 10 option, and 30% for the top 5 option.
Su Yang analyzed the mentality of the voters and concluded that it was almost impossible for the lowest option (top 30) to be the right answer.
So the option with the most choices was the second option, the top 20, followed by the top 5.
However, Su Yang felt that they had all made the wrong choice…
After all… Could there be anyone who knew more about his wealth than himself?
Su Yang had also explained a few of his businesses to Chu Xia earlier. The most transparent business in the capital market was Zhongan Automobile, which had almost no value due to the loan.
As for his other projects, they had not been financed or listed, so they did not have an accurate estimate.
However, under such circumstances, most people would give a conservative estimate for their authority.
For example, the valuation of his Findme app and Jiadian app. If they were listed or financed, it would be around five billion yuan. But at that moment, it was about three billion yuan.
Then, although Jiadian Pictures had produced a few popular movies and TV series, according to the low valuation of the film company, it was at most a few billion yuan. After all, the Huayi Brothers in the film industry had leaked that it was only about 10 billion yuan.
Jiadian Mobile’s glass phones would be worth more.
According to the cell phone industry’s valuation range: For example, Xiaomi’s annual revenue was 200 billion yuan, its market value was around HKD 400 billion, Apple’s annual revenue was 1.5 billion yuan, and its market value was 50 billion yuan.
The market value of Jiadian Mobile’s glass phone should be around four or five billion yuan. In addition to the new technology involved, it should be around six or seven billion yuan.
Of course, this was the current valuation. Once the new technology was authorized and gained value, it would prove more applicable, and the value of glass phones would definitely increase.
As for the rest, like the milk tea shop, health supplements company, and so on, because they were too small, they did not even add up to 100 million yuan. So, they could be omitted directly.
Hence, Su Yang felt that all of those would only add up to be around 70 billion yuan.
Last year and the year before that,,the top five places on the World’s Billionaire List were all worth 80 billion yuan. However, that year was a year where wealth exploded. Many rich people’s wealth had increased exponentially. For example, Ding Sanshi, the CEO of NetEase Group, who got into the rankings with 46 billion yuan last year, had a net worth of more than 90 billion that year.
Therefore, Su Yang believed that he was only ranked within the top 10 in the country. It was going to be very difficult for him to enter the top five.
After taking part in the voting, Su Yang tossed his phone aside and looked at the Clown Sea Serpent and Zhao Licheng who were sitting in front of him. A question mark popped up in his head. “Eh? Oh, right. Where were we talking about?”
Zhao Licheng and the Clown Sea Serpent secretly smiled. Then, Zhao Licheng said, “Mr. Su, we were talking about our plans to enter the world.”
Because almost everything in the country had been settled, whether it was the Platinum Missions, the reaping of the number of people influenced, or the nation’s arrangements, they all needed time to progress. Therefore, Su Yang’s attention was already on the world.
Even though there were 1.4 billion people in the country, which meant that there were 1.4 billion people who could be influenced, there were still 7 billion people throughout the world. If he wanted the system to improve and evolve, if he wanted to lead the country to prosperity and become the number one in the world, Su Yang knew that he had to walk out.
It would be a children’s game to keep on mingling around within the country.
True men should make a name for themselves overseas! They should let the whole world know that Chinese companies could still become the global overlords!
Hence, Su Yang called Zhao Licheng and the Clown Sea Serpent over to talk about their next move. After all, the best way to enter the world at the time was definitely not to make their moves together since Jiadian Group and Su Yang were not that powerful yet.
Therefore, focusing on one market to test the waters was the best method.
At that thought, Su Yang looked at Zhao Licheng. “Oh, right. Let’s continue then, do you mean that the first step will be to make a move on Japan?”
Zhao Licheng nodded.
Su Yang said, “But you have to be clear that the Japanese market is not small. It is one of the top five markets in the world. My goal is to take over a country’s market in a short period of time and then dominate the world. Can we do that?”
Zhao Licheng nodded again. “Mr. Su, don’t worry. I have a plan…”
While Su Yang, Zhao Licheng, and the Clown Sea Serpent were discussing how to sweep the Japanese market in a short period of time, Brother Ma was chatting with Wang Xing and Liu Dong in the reception room of Tencent’s headquarters in Shenzhen.
These two tycoons were both tycoons from Tencent.
Take Wang Xing for example. The founder of each group was only ranked in the top 50 of the World’s Billionaire List. However, ever since the group merged with the public, they had become the undisputed leader of the food delivery and group purchase industry. However, Tencent was the biggest shareholder of each group and held more than 20% of the shares.
On the other hand, Liu Dong, the founder of JD.Com, the second-best e-commerce platform in China, was ranked in the top 15 of the World’s Billionaire List for 15 years. Tencent was also the biggest shareholder of JD.Com.
Furthermore, he had taken the path of a heavy asset. Initially, the capital market did not think highly of this path, thinking that it would slow down development. But now, because the country was developing faster and faster, the value of these assets was increasing at an extremely fast rate. Therefore, the capital market was looking more and more favorably on his model. Even the top Chinese tycoon, Ali, had started to copy this path.
This also proved his success.
Tencent had also invested in JD.Com. He was also JD.Com’s biggest shareholder and held more than 21% of the shares.
At this time, it was the beginning of the year, so these two big shots had come to talk to Brother Ma about their respective plans for the next year. They wanted to see if there were any conflicts or if there was any place they could work together. Of course, they were also here to exchange their feelings.
Therefore, after they were done with their business, the few wealthy men started to talk about Su Yang who was in the limelight.
Brother Ma sat on the leather sofa and started the conversation. “By the way, what do you think of Su Yang?”
Liu Dong thought for a moment and then said, “He’s a visionary.”
As soon as he said that, the meeting room fell silent for a while. Brother Ma and Wang Xing recalled Su Yang’s development process and nodded their heads. Su Yang’s ability to take every step accurately and make every project a success was indeed “unique”.
Brother Ma asked, “Do you think we can pull him onto our chariot?”
Wang Xing shook his head. “It’s almost impossible. He’s already developed. He doesn’t need money, connections, or background. We aren’t able to offer him what he needs.”
If Su Yang was there, he would definitely say, “Yes, you do have something I need… My girlfriend would like a permanent QQ super member.”
Ahem…
Liu Dong also agreed with Wang Xing’s idea. “Moreover, his current net worth should be high enough to be able to enter the top 10 ranking. He can even form an empire of his own. So, how could we possibly pull him towards us?”
Brother Ma smiled nonchalantly. “Being in the top 10 is just that. But for people like us, we don’t care about the money we have, but the resources we can use. After all, Tencent is an aircraft carrier company worth trillions of yuan. It has many industries both domestically and overseas. These are things that the Jiadian Group cannot compare with.
“Plus, it’s not like we’re trying to get closer to each other. We’re just partners. Even if you have Tencent’s investment, aren’t you all developing independently? We’re talking on equal terms.”
At this point, Brother Ma touched his chin and pondered for a while before saying, “Also, I feel that this might really work.
“Look, at the current level that he’s developed to, he will either have to continue fighting within the country, or he will develop to the outside world.
“I have a feeling that his ambition and the burden he carries will not be small, and he is not willing to fight his own homeland, so he will most likely go overseas to develop.
“Right now, all the top companies in the country are looking for opportunities to develop outwords, which I feel like he has already noticed.”