Hollywood Hunter

Since it was a reception at the Rayboulds' house, Simon stayed until the end to bid farewell to the other guests and discuss some more Westeros business with James Raybould before leaving at eleven o'clock at midnight.

It was nearly midnight when the car left the Upper East Side, bypassing Central Park and arriving in front of a house on West 78th Street on the Upper West Side.

Here was the residence of Alexandra Martinez.

Angry Davis himself opened the door to usher Simon in, and as soon as he stepped into the living room, Simon heard the sound of a hidden woman's laughter and asked the housekeeper, who had arrived earlier, "Al has a visitor over here?"

The housekeeper was about to open her mouth when a greeting from the Princess of the Golden Rose Cave sounded from the railing of the second floor terrace standing in direct view of the living room, and the woman then quickly stepped down the stairs with a light blush on her face and flung herself into Simon's arms, "What brings you here so late, Simon?"

Simon hugged the woman who was wearing only a pale pink body-hugging nightgown and hugged her, feeling the hot soft warmth of the jade in his arms and the faint taste of wine, and smiled, "Always have to come over after socializing."

So saying, a few more women had appeared by the second floor railing, not the maidservants at Alexandra's side, but apparently her friends.

Simon was possessive enough of the women around him, but didn't restrict their private lives, as long as they didn't cheat on their own behind their backs, even if they had some friends of the opposite sex. Seeing that the women still had guests here late at night, but just like the last time at Hall's house, he didn't mind too much and nodded to the women upstairs.

And, looking over this way, found that several of them knew each other.

With her arms around Alexandra, she walked through the living room and stepped on the stairs to the second floor, where about six or seven women with different looks greeted her from the open living room upstairs, looking surprised, excited, restrained, and eager to try out.

Oh, I'll introduce ...... er, they don't even need me to introduce them, do they?"

"Heh, no."

Simon said, looking over to make sure there were seven women in total.

Porgy Small recognized them instantly, as well as the two stars of Sex and the City, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall, and one more, 'Single Drug Mom', Mary Louise Parker, which was a coincidence, two Parker's, and once Simon would have confused the two names.

Then again, the other three women Simon no longer knew.

Apparently they were all good friends that Alexandra had met in New York in recent months, and by the looks of it, the women were all of comparable age, and, with a little grooming, were also all in one of the closer circles, or television, or dance theatre, and probably a bit of fashion.

The Princess of the Golden Rose Cave was very sociable.

Briefly sweeping past the group of women, Simon smiled once more and said, "Sit down, everyone, what are you all talking about at this late hour?"

He said he first hugged Alexandra and headed to the second floor living room sofa.

Simon spoke, and the women all sat down, but it was hard for the group of women to get back to the relaxed conversation and laughter they had just had in the face of this young man who seemed a little younger than them.

Just kidding.

This is Simon Westeros.

Live.

The last two days Verizon Telecom IPO triggered a series of media frenzy, even if not very interested in the relevant news, but in Manhattan, but also inevitably surrounded by all kinds of related news, want to avoid can not avoid.

What's more, most of these women present, by the way, have to make a living in an industry controlled by a man.

Be it film or fashion.

Like the two stars of "Sex and the City," and Candace Bushnell, who sits next to them, whom Simon doesn't know but is actually the original author of "Sex and the City," and Mary Louise Parker, the single drug mom who is currently continuing her Broadway career while starting to make her way to Hollywood.

The connections are all very straightforward.

The last two, one was an independent fashion magazine writer similar to Candace Bushnell, and one was a famous makeup artist in New York City.

Although they were both Imperial Sister level women, but since they were all still partying on Alexandra's side in the wee hours of the morning, they might have the intention of contacting Simon, but it was obvious that these women should all be single, or at least not married, otherwise not suitable for hanging out late at night.

A few gossips, worried that Simon did not know their identity ground and took the initiative to introduce some more, seeing someone without a high super mogul in the slightest, the atmosphere gradually came to life.

"About Ygritte, the market capitalization can even reach $500 billion, Simon, it is amazing, we were just discussing whether to invest in some technology stocks," opposite the sofa, with a glass of red wine, Porgy-Small Silk said, while intentionally throwing seductive gaze. "Simon, can you give us some advice?"

Simon and Alexandra intimately squeezed in a single sofa, hugging the woman in their arms, also more than a glass of red wine in their hands, sniffing, "It's so late at night, but also to discuss the matter of making money, how meaningless, let's talk about something else."

The women who had pricked up their ears to see Simon say this, all followed with a light laugh.

And, looking at the two people on the single sofa who did not hide their intimate appearance, especially the man's arm that was wrapped around Alexandra's body that was not restless at all, the atmosphere in the air was inevitably more than a little strange.

This was Simon Westeros!

The women only felt the simple but not simple words popping up in their minds repeatedly, even if not to say a series of burning eye rings on someone's body, just this handsome face and the whole world because of the past some news is well known for the strong body, is enough to make the surrounding are already familiar with the women's thoughts surging.

Add to that the effects of alcohol, and you completely forget about the thoughts that inevitably arise when you first see this man walk through the door.

Candace Bushnell, who wrote the Sex and the City series looking about thirty-five years old but much more beautiful than Sarah Jessica Parker, the protagonist of her own work, smiled as she picked up Simon's words, "So, Simon, what do you think we should talk about?"

Simon didn't answer Candace's question, finishing the red wine in his glass in one gulp, then suddenly stood up with Alexandra in his arms, "It's late, everyone should get some rest, there are enough rooms here, if you want to go back, let Angeri arrange a car for you."

Said deliberately giving a meaningful look to the women around her, hugging the Golden Rose Cave Princess and heading straight for the stairs.

I quite liked the feeling of being surrounded by a group of women, but after all, it was too late and it had been a busy day and Simon suddenly just wanted to take a shower and cuddle up to a fragrant woman and rest as soon as possible.

The last look was also a very clear invitation.

Didn't want to do anything more tonight.

And none of the women around, even Porgy Small Silk, were really of much interest to Simon, but not if a few more women in the big bed were to be used as pillows, not that he would refuse.

The women in this second floor sitting room looked at each other as they watched Simon Westeros suddenly leave with Alexandra in his arms.

However, they probably all reacted quickly.

It was indeed a little late.

It was already early in the morning.

There weren't many men and women at this hour who had either gone to bed or done something and stuck around to talk about something, after all.

When Simon left, Angry Davis soon appeared, saying politely, "Is there anything else you need, ladies?"

No one spoke for a moment.

Do you want a car, or a room, that was the question.

Finally it was Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, who started with, "Angus, how many rooms are here?"

"Three rooms, Ms. Bushnell, it might be a bit crowded if everyone is staying, but the beds are huge."

Bushnell began, and out of various inadequate intentions, the women stayed.

Only, nothing happened during the night.

Even the next morning, after all, because it was Saturday, and because they had gone to bed very late last night in a difficult state of mind, the women who had risen late woke up to find that Simon had left early.

It was August 17th.

Saturday.

Even though it was the weekend, as he was leaving for Australia tomorrow, Simon had a full day of work planned for himself. And, because of the sudden receipt of a certain news from Washington, Simon also had to temporarily discuss with the San Francisco side of the response strategy.

Something about the White House about to launch an antitrust investigation into Ygritte.

For the upper echelons of the federal government, there were many things that simply couldn't be kept secret, not to mention that Simon had been trying to operate in Washington for so many years, it would be a failure if he couldn't get first-hand information in the shortest possible time.

In fact, this, Simon had even gotten information from three sources in succession.

One from the White House.

One from the Justice Department.

And one from the Treasury Department.

Jennifer's brother, Philip Raybould, had officially joined the Treasury Department, and the current Treasury Secretary, Robert Rubin, was also the former head of Goldman Sachs and had close ties to the Westeros system.

Simon was not at all surprised by the sudden flip-flopping of the Clintons, who had basically maintained a fairly tacit good relationship for several years.

There hadn't been too many high expectations for the pair in the White House. What's more, the two were considered to have a 'track record' for such things.

In the memory of the 2008 U.S. elections, Hillary had a very good hope to become the Democratic Party's candidate, as a result, because the subprime mortgage crisis broke out, Wall Street for a time everyone shouted, originally Wall Street's most inclined supporters of Hillary in order to seize public opinion capital, a time to a slut operation, began to point the finger at their own biggest gold, said once in the White House, will take the toughest measures on Wall Street.

The flip-flopping was crisp and clean.

Probably once eight years of White House career made Hillary create an illusion that the power she has can overpower the capital, this stink move, directly pushed the whole Wall Street to her opponent, turned to support a certain black carbon, resulting in the birth of the first black president of the United States.

Now, Simon could understand the other side's considerations, too.

With Verizon's IPO, Ygritte's market capitalization surpassing $500 billion, and then, with a new year's Forbes America's 400 richest people list coming up at the end of the month, and with the election about to enter a sprint, the two parties definitely need to have some focus on the hot topics.

Simon's continued expansion of his personal wealth, a topic that has actually been discussed for a long time over the past few years, is bound to be a focal point of the general election debate.

The Internet industry was a key project of the Clinton administration when it took office, and Simon's own wealth has skyrocketed with the explosion of the Internet industry, and the Republican Party will link the two as cause and effect anyway. In order to avoid itself in the next few months of the electoral process into the passive, just like Simon's memory of Hillary's sloppy operation, this time, the White House side also intends to 'pre-emptive'.

Since the news was received in advance, although Simon had already prepared for the split of Ygritte from the beginning, such as the different heads of several major businesses that were focused on fostering, however, since the White House had taken action, Simon would not stand by indifferently.

A split is inevitable.

But at least on the surface, Simon will never cooperate to give the outside world an impression of actively seeking to split Ygritte, but will resolutely resist.

Because human nature is all about giving an inch.

If Simon actively cooperates with the split, it might be seen by many as a sign of weakness.

The Westeros system had grown to such a size that it could not tolerate Simon's weakness. Because the interests involved in the entire Westeros system are too huge, and there are countless covetous eyes around all the time, if Simon shows weakness in the Ygritte split, then, for some people, they probably can't help but wonder if Simon Westeros will also take the initiative to give in if they take action against any other industries in the Westeros system.

One step back, one step forward.

The result would be to attract a whole bunch of covetous hyenas.

In addition, while deploying to deal with the impending White House investigation, Simon also needs to consider the potential impact of this on the Nasdaq stock market.

The Nasdaq broke through 5,000, having reached a peak that Simon remembers from around 2000.

That's significantly earlier than initially expected.

And Simon really can't tell this time how far the Nasdaq can go, 6,000, or, for that matter, 7,000.

Not that it's impossible.

After all, the current Internet industry situation is completely different from once, the original 1996, the Internet has just begun to take off, and can be compared to the 2000 years or so, the entire so-called Internet industry, that is really serious bubble, just like Yahoo, in 2000, still trying to figure out their business model.

Now it is, and all aspects of Ygritte's business, both the business model and the revenue volume, are real, while maintaining a pretty strong growth rate.

Even if the stock price is high, but and once the P/E ratio reached seven hundred and eight hundred times or even thousands of times compared to many new technology companies, as of yesterday afternoon's close, the market capitalization as high as 5136 was Igret, P/E ratio is only 167 times, the bubble degree is actually very low.

Therefore, the next, even if Igret's share price doubles again to $1 trillion, is not impossible.

The Nasdaq's statistics are based on all stocks in the Nasdaq sector, and just one more trillion-dollar market cap company like Ignite would actually be equivalent to raising the Nasdaq by about 1,000 points, so it's perfectly feasible for the Nasdaq to break through 6,000 this time compared to the 5,000 it once peaked at.

As for 7,000, it is still not impossible, considering that Tinkerbell and other companies with a market capitalization of hundreds of billions of dollars also have solid performance to support the index.

In any case, a bubble burst is inevitable.

What Simon needs to do is to complete the various layouts he has planned before the bubble bursts, such as focusing on raising 'winterization' capital. After the bubble bursts, it will be necessary to maintain the health of the Internet industry to the greatest extent possible to prevent the NASDAQ crash from hurting the industry at all.