America's Road to Wealth

The sea breeze blew towards the villa, and the waves hit the rocks not far away, splashing white water.

It rushed to the shore and gently caressed the soft sand.

The waves are layer by layer, swaying lightly from a distance, outlining a white "skirt" on the beach.

The wind has its own rhythm, and the waves have its own rhythm.

Paris. She has her rhythm.

Santa Barbara, California.

In the villa at No. 73 Maria Bay Avenue.

The rhythmic sound in one room finally died down.

It was replaced by the rustling sound of dressing.

After a while, Paris’s slightly hoarse voice sounded——

"You got it in there again! There are so many more, aren't you afraid that I'll get pregnant?!"

"I don't take medicine!"

The man's rich voice followed soon after, "If you don't take medicine, you'll be pregnant."

"Asshole! I'm only twenty years old!"

"Ikana is also twenty years old. She is almost two months pregnant, and she has twins. Well, how about you having babies in the same year?"

"Fake you!"

A few more seconds passed.

Paris's slightly blushing, charming and passionate face poked out of the door.

At the door, she saw the female bodyguard not far away.

Paris walked out of it sneakily and cautiously, and walked quickly outside.

From a distance, she looked weak when walking.

People who didn't know better thought she had exercised too much just now.

After a while, Abel, dressed casually, walked out.

He nodded towards the female bodyguard, who was actually his female bodyguard captain, Tony.

Just now he was stealing fragrance inside, and Duoni was responsible for keeping watch outside.

Today is already November 1st.

It had been eleven days since he arrived on the West Coast from Texas.

During this time, Abel mainly lived here in Ikana.

He would go out to work most of the day and come back at night, or sometimes not at all.

Occasionally I would stay here during the day to spend time with Ikana, who was pregnant.

Like today, he didn't go out. Not long after he got up in the morning, he grabbed Paris and entered this room.

It's almost eleven o'clock now.

After two or three hours, Paris was naturally exhausted.

Having said that, Abel is no longer afraid of Ikana knowing that he ate her best friend.

In line with the idea that the boat will go straight when it reaches the bridge, even Ikana knew it.

Abel felt that she would be unhappy for a few days at most.

The Smith Family Office had not been established for long, and when she signed, Paris said she didn’t hesitate at all.

But Paris insisted not to let Ikana find out, "At least don't let her know now. She still has a baby in her belly!"

That's what she said and what she did.

At her insistence, the relationship between the two in front of Ikana has not been exposed for the time being.

But in this case, Abel felt quite

Secretly having sex with her pregnant girlfriend right under her nose.

In every corner of her house, even in her room, bedroom, and Ikana's best friend.

To be honest, Abel found it very exciting.

There is a different kind of role-playing, or the feeling of subduing temptation.

Abel felt that Paris probably did it on purpose. Deliberately insisting on not letting Ikana know about this relationship

If Ikana knew about it, this relationship would be gone.

Missing the very interesting feeling of having sex in front of your "best friend".

Abel had to admit that Paris knew how to play.

Even the pure version of her can play tricks in this area that only Liv Tyler can match.

Wait for Paris to leave first.

Abel deliberately lagged behind Paris for a long time, and waited until she had left long before he walked towards the stairs from the second floor to the living room on the first floor.

In the large living room on the first floor.

Paris was talking to Ikana, who had just woken up, and the TV was on next to her.

"I think the 23rd store can be opened. Just choose Chicago, even there. Hey, dear, didn't you go out today?"

As Ikana spoke, she looked up and saw Abel walking down on the second floor.

"Yes. Didn't go out this morning."

Abel smiled and raised the phone in his hand, "I just made a call. Get up, my dear."

"Yes." Ikana smiled happily and walked towards Abel with a "duangduang" figure.

With every step he took, his good figure hidden in his loose robes was fighting against the strong gravity.

With her young and energetic body, Ikana easily won this confrontation.

Ikana walked over and hugged Abel.

She seemed to be melting into her boyfriend's arms intimately, but her little nose was trying to smell something from an angle that Abel couldn't see.

The shower gel smells like you just took a shower.

Same goes for Paris, she also smells like she just took a shower.

Ted Lerner's daughter, she thought quietly to herself.

Abel hugged her, and the two of them came to the sofa in the living room and sat down.

Not far away, Paris was lazily eating a banana.

It is really eating bananas, fruits, the kind picked from the banana tree.

"I'm talking to Paris about opening a new YKM store."

Ikana turned her back to Paris and didn't see herself talking to her boyfriend.

Her best friend Paris, who was eating a banana, started winking teasingly at her boyfriend.

She also stretched out her hand and ate the peeled banana, looking very charming.

Abel was sure that Paris did it on purpose.

This chick, like Liv Tyler, loves to play tricks on herself!

The fun is all about heartbeat and excitement!

"I just heard it. Are you going to open a new store in Chicago? That's still possible. I remember you have already opened in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Miami. Now it's natural to develop to Chicago."

Ikana's beautiful big eyes were looking at her, and Abel couldn't make any special expressions or strange behaviors.

With him like this, Paris across from him felt even more unscrupulous, and the expression on her face was provoking him.

I have to say it's very exciting, especially now that Ikana hasn't discovered the relationship between the two.

It tickled Abel.

"Paris feels the same way."

Ikana turned around, the moment she turned around.

The charming expression on Paris's face suddenly became normal.

With this acting skill, Abel felt that she could try it in Hollywood.

"Right?" Ikana turned around and asked her best friend.

"Yes." Miss Paris Hilton said softly with a serious face:

"Although there are more and more black people in Chicago now, there will also be some customers with purchasing power among the black people. Black women also need to wear beautiful clothes! Chicago's status is there, and of course we cannot let this place go."

"Look. She and I are on the same page."

Ikana turned around again and looked at her boyfriend.

As a result, Paris behind her had a more serious expression on her pretty and delicate face, and she also made more little moves.

If Ikana hadn't been there, Abel felt like he would be here right now, punishing this little girl on the spot!

"Okay. I'm a little hungry, let's go have lunch. After lunch, I have to go out in the afternoon."

Abel felt that he could no longer stay here.

He had to admit that she was Ikana's best friend.

It really added a lot of temptation to Paris.

With Ikana right in front of her, this temptation became even stronger.

"Oh, okay." Ikana said, "Then I'll have someone prepare lunch."

"Um."

This lunch was warm and a bit ambiguous.

The warmth comes from Ikana, who has become more and more obsessed after becoming pregnant.

The little ambiguity comes from Paris, who keeps making little moves.

After lunch, Abel left 73 Maria Beach Boulevard in Santa Barbara.

He got into a helicopter and set off for San Diego.

The driving distance between these two Bay Area cities is about 350 kilometers.

It takes three or four hours by car.

If you take a helicopter, it only takes about an hour from takeoff to landing.

There is no doubt that helicopters are much faster for this kind of short-distance travel.

As for the question of whether helicopter travel is risky, Abel also has his own considerations.

According to last year's data, there were about 5 accidents for every 100,000 helicopter flying hours in the United States.

This data is five times that of ordinary civil aviation.

In other words, flying in a helicopter is five times more risky than flying in a plane.

But data shows that these helicopters are involved in accidents.

95% of them occur when the weather is bad, such as rain, snow, or fog.

Just avoid using the helicopter in bad weather.

This can reduce the risk of helicopter travel, which is five times more dangerous than civil aviation, to about the same as land transportation.

In that case, Abel felt that it was an alternative mode of transportation.

Around two o'clock in the afternoon.

Abel appeared outside the headquarters of Qualcomm in the suburbs of San Diego.

This is Abel's second time here.

The last time he came here, he was just a passerby.

He was a relatively high-status, extremely wealthy passerby who was invited in to visit.

This time when he came here, he had become a member of this company——

"Chairman, good afternoon."

"Good afternoon, Chairman!"

"Good afternoon, Chairman."

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In the Qualcomm headquarters building.

Abel, who came in through the gate, smiled and nodded to all the employees who greeted him.

He became the chairman of Qualcomm at the end of this month.

After September 11, the U.S. stock market plummeted.

Abel, who came out to rescue the market, not only gained financial influence and fame that is unparalleled in the United States.

What he gained was also the status of shareholder of more than 200 American listed companies.

One of them is Qualcomm.

And after that, he increased his stake in Qualcomm from about 10% to 55% at the end of October.

He officially became the largest shareholder of the communication company, and then naturally became the chairman of the company.

Thanks to the Nasdaq stock market crash and the September 11th disaster.

In another five years, the market value will exceed Qualcomm's $40 billion.

Now this 55% stake costs him less than US$2 billion in cash.

Regarding his arrival, Qualcomm has been in difficult times for several consecutive years.

Whether it’s founder Irving Jacobs, employees, or shareholders.

Most showed great welcome.

With the world's richest man entering the market, will the company still be worried about lack of funds in the future?

At this time, Owen Jacobs and shareholders did not know that a new era was coming.

In this new era, Qualcomm will still be one of the most important navigators.

At this time, they all thought Qualcomm was a shithole.

Since it is a cesspit, they are naturally happy that the world's richest man is willing to jump in and share the joys and sorrows with everyone.

I just don’t know if they will still be happy when they think about their current decision in a few years.

Qualcomm Building.

Abel came to the patent wall opposite the door of the hall again, and he was still shocked by it.

This prestigious patent wall carries the glory of Qualcomm's continuous focus on R\u0026D and innovation, and this is only a small part of Qualcomm's patents.

This patent wall is a carrier used by Qualcomm to demonstrate its recognition of employee innovation and its emphasis on technology research and development.

After all, technology is difficult to see and touch.

Obtaining patent recognition is undoubtedly the best compliment for Qualcomm, where more than 80% of employees are technical engineers.

Abel carefully looked at each patent certificate, which contained the name of the patent, the implementation path of the technical solution, the time when the patent was applied for and obtained, the names of the personnel involved in the research and development, etc.

For Qualcomm, this is their hard work.

For Abel, all Fa Ke has is money.

As long as you have these, even if you do nothing and just lie down every day, you can get more than one billion US dollars in a year.

Everybody hates patent trolls, but everybody wants to be a patent troll.

Capitalists do this, and so do patent trolls.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Smith."

An old man's voice sounded next to Abel.

Abel moved his gaze away from Qualcomm's patent wall.

The founder of Qualcomm, Qualcomm's original chairman and CEO, and current CEO Irving Jacobs, stood next to him.

"Good afternoon, Owen." Abel pointed at the patent wall with a smile and said:

“Seeing this wall, I felt the greatness of technology and the greatness of Qualcomm.”

Owen Jacobs was a little reserved, bending down and nodding to him: "Thank you for your approval, Mr. Smith~"

This patent wall is also the pride of Irving Jacobs, the father of CDMA.

Their foundations are all built on CDMA, a communication technology.

It was the R\u0026D personnel headed by Irving Jacobs who developed CDMA technology and promoted it to the world.

"Let's go. How about we go up to your office and talk?"

Abel said to Owen Jacobs.

"No problem, Mr. Smith, please come this way." Owen Jacob had a good impression of Abel at this time.

If Abel had acquired Qualcomm a few years later, it would not be like this.

Because by that time Qualcomm had emerged from the cesspool, and it had become a gold mine that produced gold.

Everyone wants to stay away from the cesspit, and everyone wants to own the gold mine, even monopolize it.

If you go to rob the cesspit, no one will rob you, and they will think you are stupid.

If you want to steal other people's gold mines, everyone will choose to fight you.

Accompanied by Owen Jacob, the group of people arrived at the elevator hall.

"Good afternoon, Chairman. CEO."

"Good afternoon, Chairman and Mr. Jacob."

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Qualcomm employees who were waiting for the elevator saw Abe Smith and Irving Jacobs walking over surrounded by bodyguards and hurriedly greeted them.

Abel smiled and nodded.

After the special elevator door opened, Abel took Owen Jacobs and the bodyguards into the elevator.

It wasn't until the elevator door closed that the Qualcomm employees waiting for the elevator started chattering.

Everyone at Qualcomm is very clear about what has happened to their company in the past two months.

There are even more mixed feelings about Abel Smith, the young richest man in the world.

Abel Smith's rise is a legend across the United States and even around the world.

In the minds of young people, Abel Smith has replaced Bill Gates and Buffett as their new idol of the American dream!

Before, when Abel stood in front of the patent wall and stared at it, many Qualcomm employees in the crowded hall saw that scene.

Many people feel that they are honored and proud to be able to shock the legendary figure Abel Smith.

It is for this reason that ordinary and mid-level employees of Qualcomm generally have a great impression of Abel's stay.

This is mainly because Qualcomm’s life has been too difficult in recent years.

With such serious losses every year, we still invest so much in scientific research.

Many employees are worried that it will go bankrupt accidentally.

In that case, the prospects for communication professionals like them will be very bad.

Because even industry giants and leaders like Qualcomm can go bankrupt, doesn't that mean that the mobile communications industry has no future? Other smaller companies will only be more troublesome and dangerous.

In this era when there are no competitors yet, no one in the entire industry wants Qualcomm to fail.

What's more, the employees in the company don't want to lose their jobs, and naturally they hope that the company can develop in the long term.

This worry has always been there before.

It has finally disappeared completely now, just because Abel Smith became the chairman of this company!

Americans all know that every time Abel Smith acquires a company, he usually does only two things immediately.

One is to increase wages by 5%-10% for all employees.

This makes ordinary employees or mid-level employees of all companies across the United States want the world's richest man to acquire the company where they work.

The second thing is capital injection.

When others acquire a company, they are eager to recoup the acquisition cost immediately from the successfully acquired company.

The acquired company is squeezed whenever possible, which makes the acquired company very nervous.

Some even go as far as using debt to acquire companies. After the company is successfully acquired, the acquired company is also asked to repay its debts.

Every time Abel Smith acquires a new company, he almost always injects a large amount of capital again after the acquisition is successful.

This makes every company Abel acquires immediately become a strong competitor in the industry after he takes over.

After all, in the business world, more money injected means more power to the company.

In this real world, money often means power.

About two hours later.

All two thousand employees at the Qualcomm headquarters got the good news they wanted to hear most.

That’s a salary increase! The administrative staff will increase by 5% and the scientific research staff will increase by 10%!

In addition, chairman Abel Smith will inject $500 million.

If other shareholders do not match the capital injection, Abel Smith's shares in Qualcomm will exceed 55%.

Obviously other shareholders will most likely not invest capital with him.

Since it's a cesspit, it's too late to escape. How could you still throw money into it?

This allowed Abel's shares to increase from the original 55% to 70% after the capital injection was completed.

If he chooses to delist at this time, no one can stop him except the U.S. Department of Commerce.