Rebirth

On June 21, 1996, Forbes magazine published the annual global billionaire list, summarizing the income of the super-rich on the 1996 global rich list.

With the release of the list, it has naturally attracted widespread attention. Naturally, since the Internet has just emerged in today's era, it is not as lively as later generations, but it is natural to cause a burst of excitement within a certain range.

Since the world’s richest list was first launched in 1982, it has aroused a huge response all over the world. After all, wealth is always fascinating, especially in the Western world.

Later generations of Forbes are said to compile more than 100 lists of various people, wealth, companies, and lifestyles every year, but the list that has huge influence on a global scale is naturally the first to be the rich list.

Naturally, there is also a list in the United States that is also quite important. It is still a rich list, that is, the list of rich people in the United States, called the "Forbes 400" rich list.

After all, most of the early global super rich were concentrated in the US, especially the top rich people on the list. Naturally, this nationwide rich list has a huge influence within the US, but the Forbes 400 rich list is generally 9 Announced in the month.

In the eyes of future generations of Li Feng, among the major lists published every year, two magazines must be the most influential, one is Forbes, and the other is Fortune magazine. Among them, Forbes' rich list and wealth The top 500 is definitely the most interesting list.

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It is a pity that Fortune magazine belongs to Time Warner, and Li Feng also knows that it is impossible to get it. Otherwise, Li Feng will definitely let Barry pay attention to or even propose an acquisition. However, in addition to Fortune Magazine, Business Weekly, known as one of the three largest business magazines in the United States, has also There is a little eyebrow.

To say that among the American emperor’s current commercial magazines, in addition to wealth and Forbes’s tremendous imagination, there is another magazine that is not inferior to the two, and that is Business Weekly.

Originally Li Feng didn't know it, but when Li Feng proposed to buy Forbes, Barry said why it wasn't Business Week. It was not until after Barry literally literate Li Feng that Li Feng knew that the circulation of Business Week was larger than Forbes.

In the United States, in terms of influence, the reputation of Forbes magazine today is slightly inferior to that of Fortune and Business Weekly. Fortune and Business Weekly are the main competitors.

Naturally, from the perspective of the global influence of later generations, it seems that the reputation of Business Weekly is still Forbes. In fact, this is only in China. Who makes the Forbes wealth list too famous, so that everyone knows.

Ordinary people in China will pay attention to a business magazine in the United States, unless they are professionals. This is why ordinary people in China only ask about wealth and Forbes.

Li Feng mentioned earlier that if a media group wants to acquire print media, it will mainly focus on business, fashion magazines, and publications. According to Barry, it seems that Business Week is also in talks.

If Business Weekly was also acquired by Li Feng, plus the new magazine that Barry invested in before, it would be the next generation of the nation’s top business magazine, FastCompany. At that time, the four most important business magazines in the United States, apart from Fortune In addition, it will be in the bag.

In this regard, Li Feng is still looking forward to it, and Li Feng could not be more satisfied with the management of the media group led by Barry.

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With the announcement of the Forbes Rich List, in addition to Gates's second consecutive ranking as the richest man, there have been a lot of reports on Li Feng's sudden emergence, and even good people and various gossip tabloids called Li Feng the'Hollywood's richest man'.

No way, although various rumors of Li Feng’s wealth have been reported before, although it is clear that Li Feng’s current wealth is amazing, now Forbes has liquidated Li Feng and let the outside world know Li Feng’s “real” wealth. , How much net worth, plus Li Feng's age of 16 years old, the result can be imagined.

The 16-year-old Li Feng has a net worth of more than 5 billion U.S. dollars. Then 10 years later, at the age of 26, how much net worth can he reach? After 20 or 30 years, think of all the possibilities, let journalists from all walks of life It was a burst of excitement, too much news.

Moreover, Li Feng is a real self-made, orphan, this is the representative of the typical "American Dream", and there are more exciting things than this.

The result is like this. Now almost all media in the United States are reporting, whether it is national media such as Time Magazine, USA Today, gossip tabloids, and even a large number of TV networks. There are many reports of Li Feng. Compared with the previous series of company reports, it is much denser.

It is now that people in the United States have really met Li Feng. This is the charm of the Forbes wealth list.

Naturally, as the rich list spreads around the world, Li Feng has accumulated a lot of pseudo-fans all over the world, although it is estimated that even if Li Feng is standing in front of others, these'fans' may not know Li Feng, but after all I heard of Li Feng Deeds of wealth.

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All kinds of interview invitations came again, everything from financial circles, entertainment circles, etc., but Li Feng declined. Naturally, Li Feng’s refusal to take over the interviews led to more interview invitations for Li Feng, leaving Li Feng speechless. .

In fact, many of them are contingent, thinking in case their invitation is accepted. This is Li Feng's first formal interview. If you can get such an opportunity, you will immediately become famous throughout the United States.

Eventually, even Time Magazine sent an interview invitation, but Li Feng still refused. Then even Barry Diller couldn’t help but find him personally, saying that Li Feng was asked to accept interviews from its magazines and TV stations. It's an outsider field.

In the end, Li Feng refused all, even his own, but promised that the first interview in the future would be given to his own, and only then did Barry.

In fact, Li Feng really doesn’t want to be interviewed. Of course, after 10 or 20 years, it is estimated that his photos have spread all over the world through various channels, but now in 1996, Li Feng still wants to be quiet for a few more years. .

In Li Feng's vision, while the current information dissemination is still relatively primitive, he has just been stable for a few years, and when the information is flooded in later generations, he will not be able to stabilize if he wants to be stable. After all, people like Bill Gates in the future generations, every move. It's all under the attention of others.

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Naturally, with the proliferation of media reports, Li Feng's phone naturally kept ringing. In addition to his own woman, the bosses of the other major companies called to congratulate them. At the same time, the friends and partners who had contacted They all followed one after another, such as Yang Zhiyuan, Mansour, Kenny, etc., which annoyed Li Feng.

No, after hanging up Yang Zhiyuan's phone, Li Feng couldn't help but finally turned off his personal phone.

Thinking of the small chat with Yang Zhiyuan on the phone before, it was a bit funny. Now Yang Zhiyuan and David Filo have also entered the list. Yang Zhiyuan's ranking is also pretty good, but David's is relatively low, and it is almost the end.

Thanks to Li Feng’s advance layout, both Yang Zhiyuan and David Filo’s shares in Yahoo are actually more than those of Yahoo in the previous life. In addition, today’s Yahoo is indeed not inferior in market value compared to one year later. As a result, Yang Zhiyuan entered the list one year ahead of schedule, but his previous life, Yang Zhiyuan, entered the wealth list for the first time in 1997.

In this regard, Li Feng can only generalize, our little butterfly has no other influence, but he can still have enough influence on his career.

Li Feng doesn’t know, because his biggest influence is to become a super rich man. Naturally, Li Feng also believes that as his wealth and career continue to expand and accumulate in the future, the wind caused by the little butterfly’s wings will definitely Is getting bigger and bigger.