Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 800.

The next day was December 6.

Under the deliberate suppression of the Westeros family PR team, the news about the topping out of the Westeros Tower, while impossible to hide, caused very little ripples in the media. There was even no media coverage of the topping out ceremony the day before.

The estate on the northern outskirts of Greenwich.

At breakfast time, the family chatted about this incident, and Simon was reminded of a certain 'law of the skyscraper' that has not yet been formally proposed, which simply means that the completion of a large number of skyscrapers often leads to a serious economic recession. For example, in the 1930s, the construction of New York's skyscrapers, represented by Rockefeller Center, was accompanied by one of the worst recessions in U.S. history, and in the 1970s, the completion of the Twin Towers led to the collapse of the U.S.-led Bretton Woods system and the outbreak of the oil crisis in the same period.

This time, the Westeros Tower is topped off and the new tech bubble has reached its peak and could burst at any moment.

After breakfast, the Indian woman who got Janet's approval took a helicopter ride to Manhattan to attend the company's IPO listing today as a minority shareholder in Instagram.

Instead of rushing to work, Simon stayed home.

It wasn't until after nine o'clock that a black sedan entered the manor house and was alerted by the maid, who was next to Simon looking over a file, that Janet gave a blank stare at her man at home and got up to go out.

Getting out of the limo was Irene Lauder.

During this time living on the East Coast, Janet has met Grace, but also went to Boston to talk to Maria and the two women, leaving only Irene, the king did not see the appearance of the king, after all guilty apprehension for some time Irene finally took the initiative to come over to visit, and chose today.

Getting out of the car, Irene Landay was slightly relieved to see Simon and Janet walking together, and inevitably eyed some guy grudgingly, before smiling and welcoming Janet.

"Good morning, Jenny, it's good to see you."

"Me too, Erin, oh, you're so pretty today."

"Thanks."

Embracing and exchanging pleasantries, Janet also took Erin's small hand and walked inside the villa together, both women seeming to momentarily forget about some guy next to them.

Simon certainly didn't mind.

It's good that it's not a fight.

Smiling and following the two women through the door and back into the new sitting room, the two women sat down and Janet asked, "Erin, what would you like to drink?"

Erin, who was not so calm on the inside after all, used to say, "Just coffee."

"That's not good, it's best not to drink coffee when you're pregnant, how about orange juice?"

"Good."

Janet instructed the housekeeper, Angelique, who had followed her in, before looking at Erin beside her again with concern, "So, how have you been feeling?"

"It's only been a little over two months, but apart from the occasional pregnancy sickness," Erin said, pausing, "I had a test last week and the baby is fine."

"Do you know if it's a boy or girl?"

Hearing this question, Erin subconsciously looked at some guy next to her, a little guilty, and after a pause, she still said, "No surprise, it's a boy."

If it was an ordinary person who wanted to know the sex of the fetus, it could often only be identified by ultrasound after three or four months of pregnancy.

For Erin, on the other hand, there was no such wait.

The girl was guilty at this point, but after secretly being firm on the sex of the fetus, she had wanted to hide it from some guy. Only now, in front of Janet Westeros, ghostly, she couldn't help but say it.

In fact, two weeks ago, Irene secretly did the DNA fetal gender test, Simon quickly knew, after all, the girl was accompanied by eight female Westerosi guards, but Irene did not say, Simon also pretended not to know.

At this point, listening to Irene, Simon aptly revealed a delighted expression of satisfaction at the result: "Good boy, you always wanted the baby's name to be Noah," he said.

Irene was slightly relieved to see Simon like this.

Janet, on the other hand, gave Simon a glance, "You can go to work now, and also, Evgenia has already stayed here for a week, take her with you, when to send her back to the Ukraine, as you wish."

Ben wasn't really worried about anything, staying was more of a peace of mind for Erin.

Since Janet drove people, Simon took the initiative to get up, went up and hugged the two women separately, left the living room, called on the A-girl, and got Evgenia Korkosko, together with another helicopter to Manhattan.

And indeed it echoed the gift of many.

Little Eve came to deliver a holiday gift to Janet on behalf of the Kolko's before Thanksgiving, and a very pleased Janet was left behind to be personally disciplined for a week like a sidekick. Of course, Simon also understands that Janet obviously has other intentions, Ukraine over there a bunch of girls, eventually have to pick a few first line, as a megaphone ear to report God and so on.

In the living room.

The first thing you need to do is to take a look at the newest addition to your own website, and then you'll be able to see it for yourself.

Erin made a puzzled expression.

Janet lifted a small, perfectly maintained hand and shook it at Erin, "The little bastard got five women pregnant at once, and you're just one of them."

Erin snapped her eyes wide.

She hadn't really known about this .......

To be precise, she did know about the pregnancy on Jennifer's side through some channels, but the others, such as Grace, and the two Ukrainian women over in Boston, were not too absolute secrets, but Irene, who had most of her mind on the baby in her belly after the pregnancy, did not know.

Five women, pregnant together?

There was a whole lot of thoughts circling around in her head before Erin finally looked at Janet, "Jenny, aren't you, aren't you angry?"

"Angry, but I can't help it, even though it made me marry a little jerk."

Janet replied, though there was clearly no anger in her tone at all.

Erin, of course, could feel Janet's emotions and just thought, well, in a way, the couple, must be the same. Well, that was the term Janet had just used for some guy.

Neither were good people.

Ugh, pity yourself as a victim.

Thinking so, and unable to resist reaching out to stroke her own belly, Erin just felt miserable, and so did the baby.

My poor little Noah.

The housekeeper brought orange juice at this time, Janet took a sip of her own glass, aimed at Erin who was still a little startled, and waited a moment before she said, "Actually, Erin, if you want, the baby can be born to me, and then you can leave the little bastard and start living your life again."

As a mother, it was always inevitable to be particularly sensitive to certain things.

Erin sniffed and immediately looked warily at Janet, "Simon promised, we, and we signed an agreement, you must not try to take my baby away from me."

Janet trailed off slightly, "Lighten up a bit, will you, Erin, it's just a suggestion from me, it's actually a good choice for you and the baby."

Erin was still like a fried cat, "Don't even think about it."

Janet shrugged, "Okay, okay, I take back what I just said. And it's not really what you think, even if you're not going to raise this little guy yourself, I'm not going to let him back into the Dume Point estate, I've got enough little annoyances around Janet, I'll let Simon's other women raise the kid."

Janet's very irresponsible words, instead, relieved Erin a little.

However, Janet quickly added, "But, Erin, you have to understand, think carefully, that when this child is born and you plan to raise it yourself, you will be completely bound to the Westeros family, and while the little bastard always looks like he doesn't care, and the women around him seem to be able to leave whenever they want, the truth is, how can a man not be possessive, let alone be The mother of your own children, so when the time comes, if you want to go back to your normal life and find another man to marry, things will be difficult."

Erin paused for a moment before saying softly, "In short, Noah is mine."

"Of course, even if you don't plan on raising the child yourself, neither Simon nor I will ever deny that the baby is yours, and there's no way you'll be prevented from visiting the child or anything like that."

Erin was wary again, "What are you trying to do?"

Janet blinked and looked innocent, "It's simple, it's better to make a decision now and leave him completely rather than start a conflict in the future, and to use a Chinese proverb, it's called long-lasting pain is better than short-lasting pain."

Irene finally understood a little better and glared at Janet, suddenly finding a counter-intuitive entry point, "If you say he's an asshole, then why don't you leave him?"

"I'm his wife, I'm licensed."

Erin was depressed, but immediately said, "Not if you're divorced."

Janet looked incredulous, "Don't you think Simon and I were made for each other, there's no way we're getting divorced."

"......"

Erin felt like she was getting sidetracked again, like something was wrong.

Sorting through it a little, barely catching the key, the thing was simple: the woman in front of her, who looked like she didn't care at all, but ultimately, wanted to get away from the bastard herself.

That's right.

If she were in Janet Westeros's position, she would certainly feel the same way.

Figuring that out, Erin fought with renewed vigor and said to Janet, "Janet, anyway, I'm not leaving Simon, at least not because you talked me out of it. And since you actually mind that he has other women around him, why don't you consider getting rid of Jennifer Raybould first, you don't have to target me."

Jennifer gave Erin a righteous look, "Get rid of Jenny and you'll help me with the kids, huh?"

Erin felt a little confused again, "You ...... accepted Jennifer just to help you with the kids?"

"Or what, five little annoyances, I don't have time to deal with that."

Okay.

Again, Erin was sure that the one in front of her, and a certain guy, were definitely in the same category.

I'm so miserable.

My poor little Noah.

As if reading Erin's mind, Janet nodded her head and encouraged, "So, it's better to have long-lasting pain than short-lasting pain."

"I'm not going to let you get away with that,"

Erin subconsciously shot back, after grabbing her bag, she felt no need to talk to Janet any longer and planned to get up and leave.

She was stopped again by Janet.

This genuine hostess painting a sudden change of style, the topic also turned directly to, picking up a file that Irene was reading before coming, talking about the Westeros family foundation's already unknown number of sub-funds in the near future intended to fund the stem cell research project of a biology laboratory affiliated with New York University, it just so happened that Irene lived in Manhattan for a long time, why not personally take charge of the operation of the family sub-fund that will inject 50 million dollars in the first installment.

The project is also linked to the baby in Irene's belly.

When the baby is born, the lab will be responsible for lifting stem cells from the umbilical cord to be cryopreserved for possible future health needs.

Erin was led in her train of thought by Janet, and in a daze, she agreed to go along with the conversation.

Outside the living room, Jennifer quietly came over to say hello to Irene and happened to overhear a conversation between the two women, and felt helpless.

I'm not sure if I've met the right person.

The two people around them, one with a certain kind of strong bones that can make women even produce Stockholm syndrome, and one who usually does not like to use his head much, but when he does, he can unconsciously drag people into the trap that he wants.

Let's just say that the poor girl in the sitting room must have felt in her heart that Janet was trying to get rid of her, and so the little woman who was already in love with some guy was instead reinforced with a certain kind of backlash by Janet's words.

You want me to leave, I'm not leaving.

This was instead exactly what Janet wanted.

Because Jennifer was well aware that Janet really didn't mind Simon shuttling through the flowers, or even on the contrary, Janet had some kind of odd little pride in her man's ability to attract women, and had just 'helped' some poor girl to strengthen her resolve in passing.

The ensuing talk about the family foundation was the order of the day.

If Irene was smart and sober enough, she should also have picked up on Janet's discussion of the family fund. After all, if Janet really wanted to drive her away from Simon, why would she want to be in charge of a Westeros family charity fund?

Not to mention a rather important fund.

You know, in the last two years, the Westeros Family Charitable Fund for life sciences research, has been Janet again personally follow up, and the hope to reverse aging in the field of stem cell research, can be said to be one of the very important direction, this plan to fund the NYU-affiliated biology laboratory of the stem cell research team, just one of the multiple top research team Janet has downloaded.

Poor girl.

Unknowingly considered to be once again captured by Janet who likes to 'work for those above', and will probably still be happy to be integrated into the Westeros family afterwards, so inevitably another layer of potential binding.

On the other hand, Simon arrived in Manhattan and dropped off little Eve before starting his day.

There were a lot of things to focus on today.

First up was the official listing of Instagram.

Simon didn't go to the Nasdaq exchange to stand up for the listing of the photo-sharing site, but instead sent A-girl over, who is, after all, one of Instagram's major shareholders, and today A, B, C, and D-girls will once again gather together, along with waifish leggings and, additionally, a large number of Instagram's resident celebrities.

Even without Simon backing it up, the listing is absolutely star-studded.

From its launch in July 1994 to its listing in December 1996, a total of two years and four months of operation, Instagram, the Internet's largest photo-sharing site, with the support of the Westeros system, now has 160 million users worldwide, making it one of the largest users of any single service on the Internet at this stage.

Also, in the third quarter of 1996, before the IPO was launched, Instagram generated $27 million in revenue in a single quarter, and is expected to surpass $100 million in revenue for the year. This performance is certainly not comparable to that of Ygritte, but with most other Internet projects still 'telling a story', it is quite impressive that Instagram has been able to do this.

After much evaluation and weighing, Instagram's final IPO valuation was set at around $6 billion.

At the height of the current Internet boom, a valuation of just $6 billion for a company with 160 million users is still a serious underestimate in many people's eyes, even if it's three times higher than the $2 billion it raised in its most recent round last year.

This certainly has certain considerations in it.

The undervaluation of the offering price means that the market reaction to Instagram's first day on the market will be very strong, even if it means that a straightforward doubling of the single-day share price from the offering price is not out of the question. That would mean pouring another round of hot oil into a new tech sector that many investors have already begun to contract conservatively.

The end result would be like a dose of adrenaline that would spur the Nasdaq back up again.

The immediate reaction to this operation is to ensure that the other recent rounds of financing operations in the Westeros system will go smoothly.