This friend of Chandler's was named Jordan Fox.
Jordan had smuggled himself into the United States a t the age of eighteen to make a living and when he retired at the age of eighty, he had created a business empire that was worth at least four hundred billion U S dollars, and he was a legendary existence in the entire North American Oskian community.
However, this person did not leave a trace at all on the Forbes list.
He was the super-hidden wealthy that the western high society often talked about.
Most of the funds that could be counted on the Forbes list were mostly the founders and major shareholders of some listed companies, and only the assets of such people were difficult to hide.
For example, Bill Gates dominated the title as the world's richest man for a long time, but ever since Microsoft had chosen to go public, most of Microsoft's financial information had to be open to the public, and the data market value of its company could be checked by the securities market at any time. The stock market also publicly disclosed how much Bill Gates himself held in Microsoft and so, it was only necessary to do a simple multiplication and division method to know how much the Microsoft stock in his hand was worth.
In addition, the number of other listed companies under his name was also basically public information. As soon as you find out these companies one by one and then summed them up, you would be able to figure out his approximate value.
This kind of figure could be calculated by anyone who understood middle school mathematics without needing Forbes.
However, there was a large number of invisible tycoons in this world. Although they had countless industries under their hands, none of their enterprises would choose to go public.
The reason why they were not listed was because they did not want the outside world to know about their identity and wealth.
This was because once the company did not choose to go public, he would not have any obligation to the public to disclose its revenue status, so the public simply would have no way to know how much the enterprise was worth.
What's more, most of them had their companies scattered in several offshore regions around the world, where the protection of corporate information was as strong as that of Swiss banks. Therefore, no one knew how much wealth they actually had.
Jordan had met Chandler when he was young, and their friendship had lasted for over sixty years.
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