Chicago 1990

"No, it's okay ......"

Sloan twisted and turned, cryptically.

"What?" Sonia looked up and wiped her mouth.

"That's enough for today." Sloan ruffled his hair and struggled to reach for the small wallet on the nightstand, "Here, keep the change."

Sonja's eyes instantly freeze on the green twenty dollar bill, "Really? I ...... don't have to be pitied."

"Who pities you! Do you want it?"

Sloan shakes the bill between his teeth, and Sonja clutches it away.

It's back! It's all back! Dignity, Confidence ......

Sloan's comment was the most pertinent and the least coaxing, and he held the money tightly in his hand with a weeping cry in his heart, his eyes unconsciously a little moist, "But the doctor said I'm only 80 percent recovered. The tone of his voice also choked up.

"Eighty percent ...... I feel about the same, but your skills have improved a lot."

Sloan plucked at his damp blond hair, sat up halfway and laughed.

"Well, that's a good thing. Won't I be even stronger when I'm back to full strength?"

What is a blessing in disguise? It seems that the saying that human potential is forced out is true, Song Ya can't help but start to think about it.

"It's really more interesting to see the more original you, personally."

"Hehe, don't believe me." Sonja buried his head back down.

"Hey! Stop the service! Now!"

"Beg me ......"

"Don't really worry too much, Bronfman Jr. is no Motullah, he doesn't spend all his energy on his career, the rich and famous like to make 'decisions' after having fun, that kind of guy just has to make decisions."

Sloan had returned to his cool-headed professional elite status, sipping his siren coffee with big red lips, and said to Sonja in the office of the president of Littman Media in small-town New York State, "They're born with a lot of money, and they don't have to work extra hard for anything. It's easy for the money to roll in."

Littman Media's roadshow has entered its final sprint, as the second round of advertising bans on Amerika Music has caused many investors to back off and subscriptions have been somewhat cold.

Although Amelican Music has placed very few ads in the affected media, it is a niche site and has been much more negatively impacted by this landmark event than other generalist sites, which were also affected by the second wave of the ban.

The act of users uploading and sharing songs, which is still in a legal gray area, began to be frequently mentioned in the media, and most of the news graphics used screenshots of the Amerika Music website.

Some financial studies have begun to calculate the number of visits this behavior has brought to the site, and the capital markets have re-estimated the value of the site with the loss of these visits.

"The problem is that Bronfman Jr. is industrious and even a bit of an outlier in what you'd call the second and third generation of the rich,"

Sonia returned.

It's true that Bronfman Jr. didn't do much extra for himself. In addition to getting the ban passed, Universal Music also started contacting all-music sites to negotiate an acquisition, and his main focus was still on negotiating a merger with PolyGram, traveling back and forth to Europe frequently.

The founder's attitude towards the site was more romantic and pure, so when Amelican Music was caught up in a scandal involving former president DeLay, they turned down Wall Street's temptation to go public.

These are two very different things in the minds of musicians, who despise Wall Street, but Universal is one of their own.

And with the new president, William Chang, following Sloan's orders, starting to build up his own record database from scratch, and burning money to get ahead, the sense of crisis among the founders of the all-music website has naturally deepened, and perhaps they have begun to regret not accepting Wall Street's listing offer and not taking advantage of people's illnesses to kill them, resulting in even the database reservation now being put in jeopardy.

"Well."

Sloan agrees, and she shows Sonia some of the newspapers and magazines she collects, and Bronfman Jr. is pictured very closely with the current Chancellor and his wife in Los Angeles, who are caught up in the White House intern scandal and are particularly in need of support and public opinion help from the Hollywood giants at the moment.

"Fortunately, he sold the MTV network cheap."

If the top political and business relations Bronfman family still owns that television network, Sonja simply does not know how to resist the little Bronfman's flip-flop, but your son is good in that he always likes to be on the end, he does not seem to have told others about the harsh words he whispered to him that day, David Geffen and Universal Music President Doug Morris have not yet publicly commented on himself.

The company's president of Universal Pictures, Ron Meyer, has actively begun to fight for the right to adapt the film to Cold Mountain, and publicly ridiculed a black man for even casting a Southern perspective story, which has been put on hold indefinitely.

"We don't have a lot of good news."

Sloan handed over the prospectus, "only to add legal risk to the mix and warn investors that the passage of the Digital Millennium Act will likely no longer condone this behavior by users, as it will then no longer be in a gray area and illegal. That would mean losing a lot of access."

"Anyway, don't take the suspicion of misrepresentation, hard work."

Sonia casually flipped through the pages, "It's been a tough few days, hasn't it? Sloan."

"OK, just a lot less people around at the Wall Street cocktail party."

Tens of millions less in valuation is a given, Sloan has already voluntarily lowered the offering price, which is all real money ......

She shrugged her shoulders, "But and was willing to let us join the Internet industry delegation that worked on the Digital Millennium Act, their stock price was slightly affected by the advertising ban, and they were unhappy with Global for pushing the ban.

"Never mind their attitudes, the wave was like a shortfall for WoW, and the stock subsequently rose even higher. Forget about it, it's better to ask for help than to ask for help yourself, I might be able to bring back a big advantage when I go to China, but don't get your hopes up."

It's the only way, and there's also the news that Littman Media's new headquarters in Chicago opened on schedule, which is a little bit of good news, "See you in Chicago in a few days? Perversely, Governor Peter Flock and the others will all be here for the inauguration, and you need to prepare a great speech."

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Sonja left Sloan in an excellent mood, and walked with a majestic air.

"When will you be back? Our new was played simultaneously around the world, the platter album where the two songs are located was also released by Sony Columbia Records, wow, the response was extremely good, your cup of life popularity even overshadowed the French I kicked the ball do you mind."

Shakira manager Estefen laughed out loud on the phone, after Europe and the stars made up some footage, through the global influence, the World Cup theme song is bound to be voluntarily played and discussed by Member States.

"Yes? Haha, that's good."

Isn't that what you fought so hard for with the theme song? Although no specific feedback yet, but how to say their global exposure will certainly have a great increase, and this increase is still free, from now until the closing of the World Cup in June, the national sports stations, soccer stations can not help but broadcast their own, and the English region of the Spanish language have works.

"Uh, I'll go to Bedford Hills to see Little Rega first, and then come back on the same flight to Chicago."

With the twenty knives in his pocket and the feeling of pride that the world was his oyster, Charis let go and Mila left, he grew more and more unsettled.

"It's Daddy, yo."

Mariah Carey is at home watching TV with Rega, who is almost two years old. Rega claps his hands, wiggles his hips and sings to himself in the picture.

"He inherited his voice from me," Sonja came in the door and smiled at the sweet scene.

"Never, that's too bad."

The ex-wife rolled her eyes, she'd never thought much of her own singing.

Little Rega was a little scared to see himself instead of being lively and hid behind his mother.

"Look what I've brought you. Rhaegar, it's an early education book oh."

Sonia took the present out from behind her back and lit it up, and her son's little mouth was going to cry or not cry.

The three of them played happily together for a while, "Sandy revealed something to me, he said that little Mr. Bronfman is particularly annoyed with you right now." Mariah Carey settled her son down and asked with concern as she took him upstairs, "Is it because of what happened the other day in Holland?

"Why ask if you know!?"

Sonia's face turned very cold in an instant.

She pursed her lips, "What? So careful, I told you I was just trying to help."

"Huh!" Sonja gave her a hard shove.

"Ow! What do you ...... want!?" The ex-wife stumbled a few steps on the heels and turned back to curse, but the man's fierce stare immediately had no bottom, softening her tone to a questioning one.

Sonia continued to push.

"Ooh ......" her body also softened, whimpering and grabbing the door frame, "I don't!"

Sonja wrapped one arm around her waist, roughly dragged her into the room, and closed the door.

(The end of this chapter).