Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 425 Green Shoes

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Katherine's "Crazy Flowers" is obviously more rough.

Roughness is of course not rough, it just gives people a more sharp and cold feeling.

The desert and yellow sand, the desperation, and the unbridled flying that becomes more and more neat as the plot progresses, make it difficult for the audience to see that this is the work of a female director.

However, the director is still a woman.

Therefore, the new version of "Crazy Flowers" highlights feminism more clearly.

Fortunately, under the constant influence of Simon, Catherine gave up the preaching that she liked to add deliberately in her original works, and focused more on subtly expressing certain points of view through stories.

During the initial discussions, Catherine had hoped that the two heroines would eventually escape to Mexico.

However, in the finalized version, Thelma and Louise drove off the cliff, thus sacrificing a whole story.

After the preview was over and the announcements for the last two months were discussed, Simon took Catherine back to the Dumay Cape Manor. It was already more than six o'clock.

Catherine was notified in advance that she would be here today, and Janet had already asked people to start preparing dinner.

Back home and greeted Katherine affectionately, Janet talked about something else.

The lawsuit against Matthew Broderick and his gang ends today.

During this period of time, the investigation and litigation of the attack had always been the object of media attention, but Simon himself did not spend too much thought on this small matter.

The Santa Monica Police Department officially released its findings to the media last week after months of investigation.

In fact, the truth of the matter could not have been more obvious.

The Los Angeles District Court today formally pronounced its verdict based on the findings of the investigation and the content of the lawsuits filed by both parties.

The indictments of Matthew Broderick and Mark Stein were dismissed outright.

In response to Simon's lawsuit, the six were sentenced to between $5 million and $1 million in damages for defamation and a total of 600 hours of community service, and they were not allowed to publicly discuss any Simon-related matters.

In addition, because the two parties initially signed a settlement agreement privately, Simon did not file an intentional injury lawsuit, so the original attack case was ignored by the court.

Janet wasn't going to let it go if she wasn't pregnant.

Now, with a little life pregnant in her belly, the woman has no desire to pursue it.

Moreover, the million-dollar compensation amount will basically empty the family of a few people. Three out of the six people cannot afford to pay at all, and they can only bear such a civil compensation debt for a long time. In the future, unless you pay off this compensation, you will never be able to turn around in your life.

When dinner began, this trivial matter for Simon was already thoroughly exposed.

After having dinner together, Janet continued to talk until more than nine o'clock, Catherine firmly rejected Janet's suggestion to invite her to stay, got up and left.

After the only time the three of them were absurd together, the woman never let Simon succeed.

Janet is three months pregnant and can actually do something.

However, to be on the safe side, the woman had no intention of letting Simon touch her at all, and Simon had no intention of teasing the pot-bellied woman. This time is just to make out with the female assistant when you go to LA, or to go on a little hunt like last Saturday.

Although he will not treat himself badly in matters of men and women, Simon is actually very restrained.

I spent most of the weekend with Janet discussing building a private medical center in Malibu.

The thought arises mainly because of pregnancy.

During these days, the woman had already bought a plot of land in the mountains north of Dumei Cape Manor, and even her name had been registered, Westeros Medical Center.

However, it is certainly not a matter of one or two days to build a top-notch private medical center, even if the little guy is not able to use it when he is born, so this is mainly for the future.

Basically, it's an investment that doesn't pay much, roughly like the Johnston family-funded medical centre in Melbourne.

After discussions, Simon decided that this medical center will be mainly used to serve the management of the entire Westeros system, and it will be supported by the Simon \u0026 Janet Westeros Foundation. In the future, some medical centers dedicated to research will be established. mechanism.

Many charitable projects sponsored by Western billionaires always cover the "medical" item, and they are largely self-serving.

David Rockefeller, the third generation of the Rockefeller family, lived to be 101 years old and changed six hearts in his life.

These "six hearts" are precisely the accumulation of the Rockefeller family's medical philanthropy. Ordinary emerging rich, even if their wealth far exceeds that of the old Rockefeller family, it is unlikely that they will gather six matching hearts for themselves.

Because of the time difference between the east and west coasts, in order not to miss the schedule on Monday morning, Simon left Los Angeles early on Sunday afternoon to fly to New York.

A new week begins, also entering July 1991.

All day Monday, Simon was at Cersei Capital's investment conference.

Janet withdrew from the management of Cersei Capital because of her pregnancy, but the company's development and expansion did not stop.

Many investment bank funds on Wall Street have not yet left the United States because of the bonds in the past two years

The economic downturn triggered by the market crash, so Cersei Capital, which has bucked the trend, is basically the most active investment firm on Wall Street.

In the first half of the year, taking advantage of the economic turmoil caused by the Gulf War, Cersei Fund Management has accumulated more than $2 billion in profits in the oil and stock markets.

Apollo Management, which is in charge of private equity investment, also set up a venture fund of up to $1 billion at the beginning of the year to focus on investing in new technology fields, and is also constantly looking for various projects in other fields.

Right now is the most sluggish moment for the U.S. real estate market in the early 1990s. In the past two years, due to the bond market crash, major U.S. banks have withdrawn a large number of real estate-related assets and bond portfolios.

Because it is certain that the U.S. real estate market will recover rapidly in the next few years, just last month, Apollo Management and Lawrence Fink's Black Rock Asset Management Co. U.S. dollar real estate related assets and bonds.

Simon's stop in New York this time is mainly to discuss several recent investment projects of Apollo Management Company.

Among them, the most important one is to take a stake in Estee Lauder, a top cosmetics company.

After Ron Perelman swallowed Estee Lauder's most important competitor, Revlon, because Perelman was not good at business management, Revlon was gradually thrown away by Estee Lauder over the years.

Simon also knows that Estee Lauder will grow into a super cosmetics industry giant with a market value of $50 billion in many years.

At that time, Revlon had been completely forgotten.

In fact, Estee Lauder is also very suitable to be a member of the "Melisandre Company", one of the four women in the Westeros system, because the positioning of this company is also a luxury. However, the Lauder family, the founding family of Estee Lauder, still firmly controls the company, and Estee Lauder has not been listed, and it is impossible for Simon to acquire Estee Lauder.

This time, Apollo Management will get 10% of Estee Lauder's non-voting shares for $250 million.

Estee Lauder's 1990 revenue was $1.8 billion and net profit was $81 million.

The $2.5 billion valuation seemed high, but Simon knew it was well worth it.

Estee Lauder plans to use the funds to complete the acquisition of another cosmetics company, and will increase investment in product marketing.

Simon actually prefers to directly invest in the name of Melisandre. However, Estee Lauder should be afraid of the strength of the Westeros system, so he chose Apollo Management Company as a compromise. Of course, the high valuation of $2.5 billion is another very important reason.

Melisandre needs to use a few years to digest the Van Cleef \u0026 Arpels that it just bought, and Simon did not insist on Estee Lauder's choice.

In the plan, Estee Lauder will also conduct an IPO in the next few years, and Apollo Management will often choose to cash out during the corporate IPO process to complete a private equity operation.

In a few years, the debt burden of the Westeros system will not be as heavy as it is now, and Estee Lauder also has enough buffer time. Melisandre will take over the 10% equity from Apollo Management at that time, and everything will be fine. Appears to be in order.

At the end of the day's work, dinner was an invitation from Morgan Stanley CEO Richard Fisher.

At seven o'clock, Simon rushed to a French restaurant in midtown Manhattan, and Richard Fisher had arrived early.

The two discussed various details of the AOL listing as they dined.

Near the end, Richard Fisher brought up a topic again.

"Simon, according to recent market feedback, 22.5 million AOL shares are completely unable to meet the market demand. Since you are not willing to increase the issuance share, how about we add a green shoe plan?"

Simon smiled and looked at Richard Fisher: "Green shoes?"

"Yes, the green shoe program, the specifics are like this..."

Simon raised the cutlery in his hand to stop Richard Fisher's explanation, saying: "Charlie, I know what the green shoe plan is. However, for AOL, this is no different from increasing the proportion of stock issuance. I am won't agree."

The green shoe scheme in the IPO process of an enterprise is generally a kind of support mechanism, which is used to deal with the uncertainty in the IPO process.

To put it simply, if the market is very optimistic after the listing of the new shares and the stock price rises, the IPO company will issue an additional share of no more than 15% of the new shares to investors, which can raise more funds. If the market declines, in order to maintain the stock price and avoid situations such as breakouts, IPO companies will use the previously raised funds to buy back a certain share of the stock from the market.

Richard Fisher proposed to start the green shoe program at this time, and obviously hoped that Simon would issue more AOL shares.

In fact, even the 15% release ratio this time, Simon is a little too much.

Simon would prefer to issue only 10% if he could.

However, in order to prevent too few outstanding shares in the market from affecting the activity of AOL stock trading and thus affecting AOL’s stock price, Simon decided to set the new share issuance ratio at 15% after repeated consultations.

And, there are other reasons for doing so.

AOL dominates the ISP markets in the most prosperous states on the east and west coasts of the United States, which is actually easy to be remembered.

Issuing a little more stock to all investors in the United States can also reduce some of the risks that may arise in the future.

Anti-monopoly and other unnecessary troubles encountered.

In this regard, the Microsoft and Facebook in Simon's memory are the best examples.

Because of its monopoly, Microsoft was devastated throughout the 1990s in the original time and space, and was almost split at one point.

In Simon's view, the big reason is that Microsoft's equity is too concentrated. Bill Gates and Paul Allen still held more than half of Microsoft's stocks until 2000. Such a huge wealth is in the hands of two people, and they also With such a strong monopoly advantage, other capital forces in the United States will naturally not be reconciled.

Later, when the students from the gate kept reducing their holdings of Microsoft stock, Microsoft gradually became a public-owned company jointly held by many types of investment bank funds in the United States, and Microsoft never encountered too much anti-monopoly trouble in North America.

Later, Facebook, because it became a public-owned company early, during the data leak scandal that shocked the world, the media exaggerated the rhythm of Facebook's collapse in minutes. Xiao Zha resigned and fined several trillions.

Final result.

Just a joke congressional hearing.

When everyone thought they were going to see a huge bombardment of Zuckerberg by a large number of members of Congress, all they heard for four hours was 'My granddaughter is a loyal Facebook user and wants you to sign it' Ah, 'please explain what big data is' ah kind of non-nutritious question.

In the final analysis, because a large number of pension funds, insurance funds, investment banks and other institutions in the United States hold Facebook shares, as long as the US government does not have a brain, it is impossible for the US government to really bring down Facebook, even if the punishment is slightly heavier.

In order to avoid the situation that Microsoft was in in the 1990s, Simon will continue to list high-quality companies in the Westeros system, and will continue to reduce his shareholding in these companies. can be used for other investments.

Ultimately, Simon hopes to achieve a way to integrate the entire Westeros system into the American economic system.

At that time, if suppressing the Westeros system is suppressing the U.S. economy, Simon does not believe that he will encounter the same troubles as his classmates.

However, this is not now.

For a new technology company like America Online, which is expected to hit a giant with a market value of 100 billion, it is really unwise to sell a large number of shares when it is only worth 3 billion US dollars.

Therefore, Simon did not hesitate to reject Richard Fisher's proposal.

There was an idea of ​​friendship between them, and although Richard Fisher's purpose was not achieved, this dinner was quite enjoyable.

After dinner, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening on the East Coast of the United States.

Simon left the restaurant and drove directly to JFK Airport.

With a seven-hour time difference between New York and London, the flight from the US east coast to the UK is about eight hours.

Simon takes off now, takes a nap on the plane, and arrives in London at noon local time on Tuesday.

Boarding the Boeing 767 private jet, the housekeeper Alice Ferguson, who will rush to Europe with Simon this time, greeted him, reminding him that Ms. Jenner had been waiting for more than half an hour with a little indifference on her face.

Since what happened last Saturday, the housekeeper has acted indifferently in front of her absurd boss, as if I want to keep my distance from you.

Simon stopped, stretched out his hand to catch the delicate face of the housekeeper, patiently squeezed an upward arc on the corner of her mouth that satisfies him, and then nodded to himself, and then warned: "I dare to use this kind of thing again. If you face me, your salary will be deducted."

The housekeeper waited for Simon to let go of her face before blinking quickly.

Then.

Obviously nothing came to mind.

Are you going to resign?

Are you going to slap back?

Do you want to sue him for harassment?

Obviously.

It doesn't work.

Then, he could only bend down the corners of his provoked mouth again and glared at him, expressing that he was very unhappy.

Simon ignored the housekeeper and ordered, "Let the crew prepare to take off. In addition, bring me a pot of coffee and the box office report from last weekend."

Alice blinked again.

Take off directly?

Are you going to take that woman to Europe?

Seeing her boss walking into the cabin, the housekeeper followed suit a few times, then stopped and turned around to go about her own business.

Simon came to the living room in the middle of the plane, and Kris Jenner, who was sitting on the sofa, immediately stood up, and greeted with a smile with a bit of flattery: "Simon, you... ok."

Kris Jenner wore a light blue blouse and skinny white slacks today, showing off her mature and plump figure. In the 1980s, many Western women did not tend to tan themselves, and the women in front of them had very fair skin.

Without responding to the woman's greeting, Simon looked at her and continued to walk to the front cabin, saying, "Follow me."

Kris Jenner didn't understand Simon's thoughts, got up a little nervously, and followed her to the front cabin of the Boeing 767 with her satchel.

Entering the living room on the upper deck of the front cabin, Simon sat down on the sofa at will, looked at the woman who followed, and said, "I heard you know me well?"

Without the man's signal, Kris Jenner didn't dare to sit down. Hearing Simon's question, her guilty expression became a little more pleasing, and she took a step forward subconsciously, noticing the man's blocking eyes.

God, stopped quickly, and said: "I, Simon, I'm sorry."

After saying this, thinking of her current situation, Kris Jenner relaxed again.

If this little man is dissatisfied because she got the opportunity of "The Wife of New York" under his guise, he doesn't need to see her at all.

Now, things seem clear.

So he pointed to the position next to Simon, with a slightly provocative look on his face, and said, "Simon, can I sit down?"

Simon shook his head: "Stand."

The woman had to continue standing, watching the man leisurely pick up a magazine and flip through it, not knowing what would happen next.

However, thinking about what happened at the beginning of the year, in any case, she still has to get the chance of "The Wife of New York".

A few months ago, her ex-husband abruptly stopped her credit card and divorced her neatly.

She basically got nothing because of the prenup, and being a housewife for so many years, she found herself unable to do anything but continue to be a housewife.

Can only soon marry another man.

However, the feeling of suddenly having nothing, she didn't want to experience it a second time.

Therefore, when she recruited the heroine in "The Wife of New York", she knew that she was unlikely to be selected, so she would take the risk of using the name of the little man in front of her. She has been very concerned about the "Beverly Wife" series before. The housewives who participated in this reality show have not only gained fame and status, but some people have also developed a good career because of this.

Worst of all, participating in this series of reality shows is also paid.

It is said that in the latest season of "The Beverly Wife" this fall, the single-season salary of several protagonists has risen to 250,000 US dollars, which is already a very considerable income.

Even the latest "The Wife of New York" has a single season salary of $100,000.

What's more, she's confident enough to do something else with the fame brought by the reality show, like the Housewives of Beverly Wife.

The housekeeper came in with coffee and the box office report from the past weekend. Before leaving, she glanced at the woman standing at the door, thought about it and asked, "Boss, will you take off immediately?"

Simon looked up at Kris Jenner: "Would you like to go to Europe with me?"

Kris Jenner opened her mouth.

If it was only tonight, she would have found a reason.

However, she never thought about going to Europe.

only.

If you don't go, will you lose the opportunity to participate in the show?

Simon noticed the woman's hesitation and said, "You don't need to get off the plane, I'll take you back immediately when you get to London."

Kris Jenner counted the time, hesitated, and finally nodded.

Alice looked at the woman and nodded, said nothing, and turned to leave the front cabin.

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