Chapter 439 Forbes Rich List

In early April, Forbes magazine released the new rich list as scheduled.

In the latest issue of the "World's Richest List", Link ranked fifth with a net worth of US$14.1 billion.

According to Forbes magazine, his assets mainly consist of three parts.

First, FlashGold Capital Management owns shares of many companies, including 4.05% of Microsoft shares, 3.35% of Cisco shares, 2.65% of Berkshire Hathaway shares, 37.3% of Apple shares, 3.2% of Disney shares, 6.25% of Pixar shares and other listed company shares.

This stake is worth approximately $10.5 billion.

In addition, Flash Gold Capital also holds shares in 16 unlisted companies, including 15.2% of Guess the Movie Pictures, 18% of LTD Clothing Company (Victoria's Secret parent company), 95% of Marvel Entertainment, 15% of UTA Agency, and 3.5% of CAA Agency.

This stake is worth approximately $2.2 billion.

The total value of Flash Capital is approximately US$12.7 billion.

Link owns 74.5% of Flash Capital, worth approximately $9.5 billion.

The second part is Link's overseas assets, including Kingsoft Capital and Horizon Investments, as well as other investments. Since Link has invested too much overseas and its shares are relatively dispersed, its investment methods are very covert and many assets cannot be verified.

Based on the capital that Link has diverted to overseas in recent years, Forbes magazine estimates that Link's overseas assets are approximately US$2.5 billion.

The third part is Guess Pictures.

After two rounds of financing for Guess What Pictures, Link still owns 33.3% of the shares.

After Pixar went public at the beginning of the year, a Wall Street investment consulting firm estimated the revenue of Guess What Pictures to be $6.5 billion.

The 33.3% stake is worth approximately US$2.16 billion.

The sum of these three assets is approximately equal to US$14.1 billion.

Ranked fifth on the rich list.

The first place is Bill Gates. Last year, Microsoft’s stock exploded, growing from more than 60 billion to 100 billion. At the beginning of the year, the total market value was stable in the range of 90 billion to 100 billion.

As Microsoft's largest shareholder, Bill Gates has a total asset of approximately US$36.4 billion.

Second place: Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, with a fortune of approximately $16.2 billion.

Third place: Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, with a fortune of approximately $15.5 billion.

Fourth place: Suleiman Al-Raji, a Saudi banker and the richest man in the Middle East, with a fortune of approximately US$14.6 billion.

Forbes magazine commented that because Link's investments are relatively scattered and varied, his assets are not easy to count, and his actual wealth is more than US$14.1 billion, estimated to be between US$14 billion and US$18 billion.

As a result, Link became the 'richest Chinese in the world'.

In addition, Forbes magazine also released a "Celebrity Income List", in which Link ranked first with a film salary of $280 million.

Second place is NBA star Michael Jordan, with an income of $78.5 million from annual salary + investment + commercial sponsorship. Third place is heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield, with an income of $54.3 million from competition bonuses and commercial sponsorship.

Fourth place is Tom Cruise, who earned $48 million from his salary and share of profits from "Mission Impossible" and "Jerry Jane".

The fifth place still comes from the boxing industry, boxing golden boy Oscar De La Hoya, with an income of 38 million US dollars.

Sandra Bullock ranked 12th with $28 million in earnings, also the highest among female stars.

In addition, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Connelly, Brooke Shields and others are also on the list.

After Forbes magazine released the list, some media put Link and his girlfriends together, collectively referred to as the 'Link family', and estimated that the family's total assets exceeded US$20 billion.

"Director Lin, congratulations on doubling your wealth again. You are amazing. You are the person I admire most in the world."

At the Hong Kong Island film set, during a break in filming, Chen Long came to visit the set and praised him repeatedly, making no secret of his admiration and envy for him.

"Those are just numbers on paper, nothing to brag about."

Link said nonchalantly.

Chen Long did not refute. He nodded with a smile and continued to say some nice things.

Link was helpless. When his net worth was more than one billion dollars, people would still joke with him when they saw him. But when his net worth increased to more than six billion dollars, people's attitude towards him became reserved and extremely respectful.

Now, his acquaintances have become more reserved and a little restless when they talk on the phone or in person, which sometimes makes it difficult for him to find someone to have a good chat with.

After Chen Long finished praising, Link asked him about the preparations for "Rush Hour 2".

Since Chen Long performed well in "Rush Hour 1" and made a great contribution to the entire film, when the second part came out, Guess What Pictures hired him as the producer of the sequel and was responsible for the production of this film.

Chen Long quickly replied that everything was going well, the script, casting, set, etc. had been prepared, and filming was scheduled to start at the end of the month.

Link nodded.

After seeing Chen Long off, Link continued to instruct Michelle Yeoh and Pierce on their action scenes.

Michelle Yeoh is 35 years old this year. She is a Malaysian Chinese actress. She debuted in 1979 and filmed many action movies in Hong Kong Island, becoming a famous action actor in Asia.

She had actually practiced martial arts, so her fighting moves were pretty solid, and she had plenty of experience in action scenes, so the filming went relatively smoothly. The only problem was that she and Pierce Brosnan didn't have enough chemistry during the filming, and the fighting moves lacked the romance and humor he needed.

To do this, he needs to point out to the two people how to take the photo and how to pose.

Under his careful guidance, the two made rapid progress.

The filming of "007" in China progressed smoothly, and it took three weeks to complete the filming task here.

When the crew was preparing to move to Tokyo for filming, Nobuyuki Idei, chairman of Sony Corporation, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, called him and welcomed him to Tokyo to make a movie, and hoped to have a chance to treat him to dinner to taste authentic Japanese cuisine.

Link agreed.

After arriving in Tokyo, Nobuyuki Idei booked the most luxurious Japanese restaurant in Ginza to entertain him and the crew members, and also arranged for more than a dozen Japanese female artists to perform dance on the spot. Some of these female stars were in their thirties and forties, some were in their twenties, tall and short, fat and thin, young girls and young women, plump and thin, all kinds of beauties were there.

There are also several familiar faces among them, including Rie Miyazawa, Izumi Sakai, Norika Fujiwara, Shizuka Kudo, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Akina Nakamori, etc.

Nobuyuki Idei told him that these female artists were gifts for him and asked him to choose any one he wanted.

Out of politeness, Link randomly ordered two female artists and invited them to sit down and chat, but when he saw that Nobuyuki Idei also wanted to order something, he simply ordered several familiar female artists.

Since this was Japan, he didn't do anything to them. He just ate, chatted, soaked in the hot springs, and listened to them singing and dancing. His main focus was still on the movie.

There aren’t many scenes in Tokyo, mainly two street chase and gunfight scenes, which took less than a week to shoot.

In mid-April, Link returned to the United States with his crew to shoot the rest of 007 at Universal Studios.

However, as soon as he returned to Los Angeles, Nobuyuki Idei sent a special plane to bring over Rie Miyazawa, Izumi Sakai, Norika Fujiwara, Shizuka Kudo, Akina Nakamori and others, saying that the women missed him so much that they were sick and hoped that he could take them in.

Miyazawa Rie, Fujiwara Norika and others also called him for help, their voices revealing a sense of grievance and helplessness, as if they were being forced by Idei Nobuyuki.

Link and Nobuyuki Idei had a cooperation worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Seeing that the other party was very sincere, he did not refuse and accepted it generously.

(End of this chapter)