Domination in America, Starting from being a Boxing Champion-Chapter 445 - 373 NVIDIA Corporation

In addition to Tesla, Link also held a 16.5% stake in Twitter and owned 450,000 shares of Amazon stock.

Currently, Twitter has not gone public, but after three rounds of financing, its market value has reached 1.8 billion US dollars, making the 16.5% stake worth approximately 280 million.

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This year, Amazon shook off the impact of the financial crisis with its stock price rising from 336 US dollars at the beginning of the year to 396 now, bringing its market value to 68.8 billion US dollars.

The 450,000 shares of Amazon were worth around 182 million US dollars.

Together, these assets brought his net worth to around 1.2 billion US dollars, neither the 1 billion mentioned by The Wall Street Journal nor the 1.5 billion estimated by the New York Post.

As for the money from his tours, record sales, and boxing matches, some had not yet been received, and the portion that had been received was successively invested into stocks of Tesla and Twitter, so they could not be added together cumulatively.

He then inquired about good investment opportunities currently available from Kathy.

Kathy handed over a tablet, which displayed a document with potential investment projects selected by the research department of Vanguard Asset Management Company, graded from five stars to one star, the higher the number of stars, the greater the investment potential.

Due to the success of Facebook, many similar social networking apps had become desirable targets for Wall Street investment banks, which was evident on this list as well, with nearly all the companies at the top being internet technology firms, including WhatsApp, Instagram, Foursquare, and others.

Link browsed the list and suddenly saw a familiar company name, NVIDIA Corporation, marked as a company specializing in designing graphic processing units and motherboard chipsets for artificial intelligence computing.

The company was founded in 1993 by a Chinese American, Jason Huang, and went public in 1999, with a current market value of 13.8 billion US dollars.

The research department of Vanguard Asset Management Company gave the following recommendation:

This enterprise is a leader in the global 3D graphics technology and digital media processors industry, and its founder and manager, Jason Huang, is an exceedingly talented entrepreneur.

Although the company's growth has been less than smooth since it went public, with its market value increasing by less than 10 billion dollars in over ten years, it has made steady progress and is considered a company with substantial potential in the internet sector.

The reason against recommending it: With the boom in the smartphone market in recent years, NVIDIA also announced last year that it would enter the field of smart device research, learning to manufacture mobile computing chips, but this area is highly competitive.

NVIDIA manufactures computer chip software, but many of their technological products cannot be adequately utilized in computers. For instance, their GPU chips can process 3D graphics and data, but the chip has a high workload and does not function normally inside a phone due to its size and cost.

This led to NVIDIA's failure to make a transition, forcing it to abandon this market segment and subsequently suffering significant losses, with its market value falling from around 16 billion US dollars to the current 13.8 billion.

Vanguard Asset Management Company's research department gave NVIDIA a three-star rating, neither excellent nor poor.

Link stroked his chin, recalling that NVIDIA was also a company with a market value exceeding one trillion and was a leader in the future field of artificial intelligence semiconductors, having achieved great success in automated driving and autonomous vehicle research.

The company was unremarkable 20 years before, but often featured in the news 20 years later.

To his surprise, the company's current market value was only 13.8 billion US dollars—less than one-fifth of Amazon's and had even more potential than investments like Twitter and Amazon.

After some contemplation, Link flipped through the list once more from start to finish and marked three promising projects, including NVIDIA, and handed them over to Ms. Kathy, asking her to arrange for a detailed investigation of these three, and to prepare a comprehensive investment report.

If they indeed turned out to be solid, he would consider investing.

Ms. Kathy Wood took a look and said she would report back to him the following week.

Kathy then mentioned that managing the shares he held in multiple companies, along with Golden Shell investments, was rather complicated. She suggested that he establish an investment firm or asset management company to improve management efficiency.

When necessary, he could also leverage the company for financing, and if it did well, it might even go public in the future.

Link thought it was a good idea.

He was already overwhelmed with work, and each week he had to go through the investment reports sent by Kathy, filled with numbers and charts that often left him with a splitting headache.

Add to that his responsibilities involving Link Music, Dynasty Promotions, world tours, boxing matches, Palm Beach Films, Wanda Film Industry, Dolphin Bay Agency, and other companies' affairs.

Then there were seven or eight films and the weekly calls to several girlfriends.

There was too much on his plate, and he needed to find a way to lighten his load.

Establishing an asset management company was not a bad idea.

While chatting with Kathy, he noticed a familiar figure entering from outside.

The man was in his forties or fifties, slightly balding with a bit of a beer belly, casually dressed, and accompanied by a woman in her thirties. They were talking and walking with an intimate air about them.

Link sipped his coffee and watched the man for a moment, realizing that he indeed knew him—it was Mr. Thomas Swift.

He hadn't seen his prospective father-in-law and the grandfather of his child for a while. The man looked quite well, much better than when he was wheelchair-bound.

Taylor had mentioned that he transferred to Morgan Investment Bank's headquarters to work, which seemed to be the case.

Link watched as Thomas placed his hand on the woman's thigh, caressing it gently, and took out a box with the Cartier logo from his pocket, placing it on the coffee table. The woman opened the box, hugged him around the neck, and planted a kiss on his greasy face.

The old father-in-law let out a chuckle about to embrace the woman but suddenly locked eyes with Link. In an instant, his expression froze, and the muscles at the corner of his eyes twitched, revealing an awkward look.

Link offered a slight smile, stood up, and moved toward his would-be father-in-law, Thomas. Encountering him in such a situation was awkward whether he greeted him or not, so he decided to go and be part of the awkwardness.

Tom also stood up and walked over, shaking hands with him in the aisle, and glanced at Kathy Wood.

"Link, on a date?"

"Tom, this is Miss Kathy Wood, my investment manager,"

Link introduced.

Tom laughed heartily, greeted Kathy, and since both were from the finance industry and well-acquainted with Wall Street, they had heard of each other; Tom had a celebrity daughter, and Kathy was an emerging star in investment banking.

"Link, your investment in Tesla was impressive; many Wall Street consortia were afraid to get involved, but you had the courage—remarkable."

Tom praised.

"That's all thanks to Kathy."

"On Wall Street, although the manager is important, it's rare for clients to trust us and give us their money to handle,"

Tom adjusted his glasses and said.

Link smiled, mentioned the possibility of working together, and prepared to take his leave.

Tom nodded in agreement and before leaving, he told him that Taylor was pregnant and not very emotionally stable, hoping he would take the time to visit her and preferably not say anything upsetting to anger her.

Link understood his meaning, smiled lightly, and then parted ways with Tom, continuing his conversation with Kathy.

Tom sat in the booth opposite for three or four minutes, properly finishing a cup of coffee, and then left with the lady.

As Link watched his retreating figure, he felt that Mrs. Andrea also had it tough, constantly busy with Taylor's matters and having no time to take care of the home; now her husband was out finding a younger woman behind her back, and he wondered how she would feel if she knew.

But he had no intention of telling; this was Taylor's family affair, and it seemed he wasn't in a position to intervene now.

Thinking of Taylor, he picked up his phone and tried sending a message, surprisingly discovering he had been unblocked.

"I just ran into your dad."

That was the first message, and it went through.

"I'm discussing some work on Wall Street, happened to see Tom around; it's nothing much, just wanted to ask how you're doing? I'd like to come see you, could we schedule a visit?"

That was the second message, still successfully sent.

"It was my fault for getting you pregnant that night on April 13th, after going at it for three hours straight, leaving you unable to move even a finger. I asked if you could forgive me just once, not to leave, but you were still determined to go.

I was very angry then, acted on impulse, and secretly took off the condom, thinking I could use this way to keep you. I've reflected on it many times afterward and know I did something unforgivable and stupid.

Two months passed without any news of your pregnancy, I thought it hadn't succeeded, felt disappointed, yet relieved that I hadn't hurt you again.

A while ago when I returned from South Korea, I suddenly heard you were pregnant, which to me is undoubtedly great news. Our child will definitely be as smart and beautiful as you and as strong as me. I'm really looking forward to seeing the baby born. Although I'm not a good boyfriend, I will strive to be a good father, please give me a chance."

That was the third message.

"I'd like to play the piano for the baby while you're pregnant, maybe they'll grow up to be a singer too, what do you think?"

"Are you attending the MTV award ceremony the day after tomorrow?"

After sending seven or eight messages without a response, he checked the time and told Taylor he had to go.

Ding-dong!

As he and Kathy reached the door, his phone received a message.

"I can play the piano, better than you. The child is mine, and I will take good care of them; you don't need to worry. Ivanka... is a nice woman, more suitable for you than I am,"

Taylor said.

Link was somewhat surprised; Taylor, usually sharp-tongued, complimenting Ivanka?

"What did you talk about last time?"

"It's none of your business."

"I hope to have time to visit you and the child. They say children who grow up with a father are more masculine. Fat James, you know him, a single-parent family, grew up with his mother, and his personality became more fearful and timid. I hope to contribute to our child's upbringing."

"No need, I get angry just seeing you. It's better for you and the child if you don't appear in front of me."

"The child needs me."

After sending the message, he was shown as not a friend.