Hollywood Hunter

At the end of get off work, because of a party, Simon returned to Malibu on time today.

This matter still has to go back to the purchase of Dumei Point Park. After several months of operation, George Norman has got the state government, but Simon wants to get Dumei Point Park. Resident problems.

Although the local residents of Malibu seldom care about Dudme Point Park on weekdays, more tourists who visit Malibu will climb the sharp corner of the cliff to look at the sea.However, Dumei Point Park is a public place in Malibu after all, and Simon can fully transform it into private ownership only if it is approved by the community residents.

The party tonight is mainly to entertain community committee representatives and some important residents.

Because of Simon’s personal habits, the party took place in Jenny’s villa on the east side of Dumei Point Park.

Just after entering the door, Janet, who was directing the party company staff to prepare for the party, gathered together and whispered to Simon: “I’m basically done. Our foundation will donate $1 million to support the Dumei Cape Elementary and Middle School. Construction, and then participate in the lobbying of Malibu to build the city alone. Then, they will vote for us to buy Dumei Cape Park. Tonight you only need to accompany them to eat, drink and chat."

The real estate bubble in North America in the 1980s promoted a peak period for Malibu construction, but Malibu really became hot since the 1990s, especially after Larry Ellison began to speculate on Malibu real estate.

The current Malibu is not yet a lone city, it is just a district under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, and it is far from the celebrity that followed.

In recent years, Malibu residents have been seeking to build cities independently.According to California law, after obtaining municipal status, Malibu will no longer be subject to the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Government. It can separately enact laws and reject various project plans of the Los Angeles County Government.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the urban area, the Los Angeles County Government has been trying to extend many engineering projects to Malibu, and Malibu residents have continued to struggle against the highways, sewage pipes and even nuclear power plants that the county government has jammed in. plan.

It is conceivable that if any of the above projects are settled in Malibu, it will be difficult to become a livable place.

therefore.

If such a billionaire billionaire with rich financial resources can settle in Malibu, it is absolutely obvious for the development of this area.By comparison, a state park that is basically shrubby on weekdays is insignificant, and it is self-evident that residents will make choices.

At the end of the party at night, things are no longer suspenseful.

In the mansion west of Dumei Point.

In the bedroom, after taking a shower, Simon walked over to the bed and kissed Janet's face leaning on the head of the bed looking at the magazine, asking, "In the evening you said you would donate $1 million to Malibu's elementary and middle schools ?"

"Yeah," Jenny nodded characteristically, but said: "It's not a donation, Malibu doesn't have these schools yet. The residents always want to build, but the county government doesn't give money."

Simon hugged Janet's light body and threw it to the other side of the bed. He sat down on the bed and asked, "This is a good thing, why not give money?"

Janet was thrown away by Simon and pretended to be photographed angrily with a magazine on him, only to say: "The county government wanted to build a sewage pipeline that extended from the city of Santa Monica two years ago and was rejected here. And many other things have been blocked. The residents here are so disobedient and willing to give money."

"Since this is the case, donate more and build the school better. Our little one will go to school here in the future."

"One million dollars is already a lot, and our little guy won't go to school here. We must go to the best private school."

"Okay," Simon nodded with a smile, said: "Mother decided to go to school."

Janet giggled and saw that Simon was about to turn off the lights, and said, "There is one more thing. The shell company that Bingshan helped us set up recently won another building.

With that said, Janet leaned over to pull open the bedside table drawer, took a document out of it and opened it, and found a flat map on it to show Simon.

In order to replicate the "Avenger Building" in Manhattan, Simon needed to buy six buildings between 59th and 60th Streets east of Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

After the burst of the real estate bubble that followed the stock market crash last year, this has become a lot easier.The selected plot is not the "Cosmic Center" level next to Fifth Avenue. The shell company set up by Aunt Janet had bought two buildings for US$20 million and US$35 million respectively. , Simon was able to get half of the land he needed.

Simon looked at the information on the other three buildings marked on the flat map, including a 16-storey apartment building, which is the tallest of the six buildings, and is obviously the most difficult bone to eat: "Next I want to continue Was it difficult to acquire?"

Janet also reached out and clicked on the apartment building, saying: "It is a bit difficult to persuade the residents in this building to sell the house together. There are two options. For those who are not willing to sell the property, one is We bought the same apartment nearby and let them move in. The other is to replace the property of our future building."

Simon Road: "Choose the first option as much as possible, our building plan is not easy to disclose."

"I think so," Jenny nodded characteristically. "However, Simon, you have to pay attention to your financial situation recently."

The original two buildings have already spent US$55 million, including the next US$30 million, which is already US$85 million.

Simon’s previous sale of Motorola’s $300 million in cash out of stock has little left after a few months of spending, and James Rebold has been investing in new technology companies in accordance with Simon’s instructions. The money is not enough to pay the next 30 million US dollars to buy a house.

"Death Is Coming" and "When Harry Meets Sally" have successively generated income, and the financial situation of Daenerys has been alleviated.But if Simon intends to find a studio for the company, this is definitely a big investment.

It costs money everywhere.

Moreover, according to the public promise in the process of reducing Motorola's shares, Simon will need to continue to withdraw funds from the stock market next year.

"Tomorrow Rebold will come from New York, I will talk with him first," Simon said for a moment, "And, compared to the assets under the name, my personal debt ratio is still very low, the bank must be very Will you please lend me money?"

Janet said: "Of course, but you don't like borrowing money at all, right?"

"Yeah," Simon nodded and said, "Speaking of which, where I wrote all the IOUs that were hidden by you, should I come back now?"

"I'm not going to give it to you anymore. I want you to owe me a lifetime."

"It's too vicious."

"Huh."

The next day, James Rebold came to Los Angeles and brought Simon news that he still needed to spend money.

Fortunately, it was all good news that Simon liked to hear.

"The valuation of Cisco’s new round of financing was finally confirmed to be US$120 million. We invested US$18 million to obtain a 15% stake in this company. In addition, Quantum-Link, this small company happened to want to break away from Apple recently. The cooperation is operated separately. After negotiations, we invested 5 million US dollars to obtain a 25% stake in this company. At the same time, I got the priority of Quantum-Link's next round of financing. The next step is..."

James Rabold recently negotiated equity investments in 5 companies.

However, Simon is actually only concerned about two of them.

Cisco needless to say, this super giant with a market value of more than $600 billion in the wave of new technology in the late 1990s has long been targeted by Simon.

The $18 million acquisition of 15% of Cisco’s shares, even if it will be diluted in many years to come, but even if only 10% is left, at the top of Cisco’s stock price, this family of shares will reach $60 billion, and the rate of return will reach More than three thousand times.What's more, Simon will naturally not be satisfied with the current shareholding ratio, and will definitely continue to increase his shareholding.

The other Quantum-Link was found after Simon's careful search.

Quantum's Chinese transliteration is'Quanteng', the original meaning of'quantum' in English, so many technology companies like to use the word Quantum.As for Quantum-Link, this company's current name is unknown, but its later name is a household name, American Online (AOL).

Simon’s most memorable experience was the collapse of AOL and Time Warner around the millennium.

At its peak, the combined market value of AOL-Time Warner exceeded US$300 billion, but only a few years later, with the bursting of the Internet bubble, AOL became almost penniless, with market value falling by more than 90%, and Time Warner. So vitality hurt.

However, before the Internet bubble burst, AOL was definitely a very worthwhile investment company.

What's more, US$5 million won 25% of AOL's shares. Think about the market value of AOL's peak of more than US$160 billion. This is entirely the price of cabbage on the bottom of the foot.

"As for the Qualcomm company in San Diego, they currently have no financing plan, but the other party also said that if there is such an intention, they will contact us. Simon, the total amount of these five investments is 65 million US dollars, but Westeros There are only $28.55 million left on the company’s books. If you’re sure it’s okay, we may need to make a loan.”

Cashing out more than 300 million US dollars of Motorola’s funds and setting aside profits tax, Simon spent more than a half on increasing his shareholding in Microsoft and other companies, and spent a lot of money on the series of copyrights such as The Lord of the Rings, and the two in Manhattan. Building expenditure.

There are now 28.55 million left, and more have been sent.

Thinking about the chassis, Simon remembered the Gulfstream IV business jet that he had previously ordered. The bare metal price was 16 million US dollars, and the cost of decoration was about 18 million US dollars.

At the beginning, Simon only paid a part of the deposit, and the aircraft will be delivered next month. It happens that Simon can fly to Europe to participate in the Cannes Film Festival in France. However, Simon also needs to pay the remaining balance, which is another expense.

The budget of the Manhattan Building, the investment budgets of the five technology companies, and the budget of the private jet are only about $100 million for these three items.

Simon could not sell Westeros shares, because of the nature of Westeros, it is also very large to want to issue bonds publicly.Therefore, loans are basically Simon's only option.

Although he doesn't like borrowing money in his bones, Simon also knows that borrowing money is a must if he wants his business to expand rapidly.Moreover, compared to Simon’s current net worth, it’s just a loan from Daenerys. Simon’s personal debt ratio is less than 10%, which is definitely very low among the rich, and the bank is definitely very willing to lend him money. .

After careful discussion with James Rebold, Simon made the decision to continue lending 100 million dollars.

After dealing with personal financial problems, April also came to an end unconsciously.

After the continuous release of the following two weeks, the North American box office of "When Harry Meets Sally" has unknowingly exceeded $70 million, which was already the top ten threshold for the North American box office last year.Although the box office slipped below $8 million in a single week, with the continuous release of this movie, there is no suspense in the local box office of "When Harry Meets Sally".

The selection of the leading actor in "Batman" has been continuing, and this matter has inevitably become the focus of heated discussion in the media. Crazy, this contract was even called a'Hollywood slavery contract' by a newspaper.

No matter how the outside world commented, Daenerys had no intention of making concessions, and still pushed forward its plan step by step.

Simultaneously with the selection of "Batman", Simon is also arranging to move those two special effects software companies to Los Angeles.

The one in San Francisco is fairly easy to manage. It is very common for Americans to move because of changing jobs. Simon chose an office building in Santa Monica, and most of the employees quickly managed it.The Vancouver company has some troubles because it is a Canadian company that involves overseas labor issues, but it will basically be resolved in the next one or two months.

Things on the set.

Simon can see that Amy is obviously very much looking forward to his purchase of the MGM studios in Culver City, because in the past Simon wanted to spend a lot of money to invest in some projects, Amy would always persuade him, but this time it did not.

But after some consideration, Simon decided to postpone the matter.He really didn't feel much about MGM's studio.Even compared to Fox's Century City studios, Paramount's Hollywood studios, and Universal and Warner's studios in Burbank, Culver City's MGM studios are just simple real estate, and their value-added potential is not too great.

Moreover, Simon also prefers to be able to build a new shooting base.

So busy, in May, the Gulfstream IV business jet purchased by Simon was successfully delivered, and the Cannes Film Festival also arrived.