The hardest part was making the Argenta street legal in the US, but that wasn’t even that hard since he’d been ‘driving on the wrong side of the road’ on and off for the last two months. Now it was second nature. “Sterling has over two dozen different research and development departments along with the most sophisticated fabrication tech and facilities on Earth. I design everything from household appliances, vehicles for civilian and military use, weapons and armor. And in the last two years I’ve branched into global telecommunications since acquiring half of King Telecomm and I’ll have you know I was the single richest man in the world for a whole day before I gave Stark back his entire company and the other half of King’s.That whole deal really pissed off Osborne, Fisk and Hammer but that’s just icing on the cake.”
Price invested heavily in what he made but the returns exceeded what he put into them thanks to the stellar products born from those investments. The acquisitions of King Telecomm and Stark Industries were master strokes of business, political and legal maneuvering and best yet he got them both for pennies on the dollar while the remaining competitors were squabbling amongst one another and the whole thing left him making Gates, Musk and Trump looking like a gaggle of dirty hobos. “I am the world’s first trillionaire, even if I don’t have a net worth that high now that milestone can never be taken away from me.” Price had a net worth of 488 billion, higher than Bezos, Musk and Arnault combined and it was all because he developed superior things and was a savvy businessman.
Price put up a holoscreen from his pocket watch to show Dane just what Sterling and man who raised it to magnificence were worth and a basic synopsis of what he put into each of his tech divisions. “I was just going to say because I’m that rich, but it sounded distasteful in my head. I don’t use Microsoft’s or anyone else’s programs or services to develop or fabricate my creations so that saves me an astronomical amount of money in royalties and external costs. Everything I make and use to make it is designed and constructed in house.”