Hollywood Hunter

Simon returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco in the evening of February 9.

Back home, Catherine Bigelow, who hadn't seen it for a while, came over to visit and was drinking coffee and chatting with Janet by the glass curtain wall in the sunset of the Shell Villa.

Catherine was a little embarrassed to see Simon.

Mainly because of the failure of "Detroit", this movie has already been downgraded, and finally the North American box office barely exceeded 10 million US dollars, and it was nothing in the award.

Simon certainly had no illusions about this, hugged and greeted Catherine, and turned to the couch beside Janet, leaning directly on it, very uncomfortably pillowed on Janet's thigh, and the other side also kicked off the shoes at will Leaving aside.

Catherine looked at the scene in front of her, with a smile on her face. A little man would be so casual if he didn't take her as a foreigner, so he asked, "Is the work too busy and tired?"

Simon just hummed.

The body is not tired, mainly because these days are more mental.

Janet held Simon’s head on his leg intimately, and stroked the man’s hair with one hand, smiling silently to Catherine with her mouth: "Excessive desire."

Catherine just glared at Janet.

This can't answer the call.

Simon felt something, closed his eyes and touched Janet with a small hand in his palm, squeezing it tightly, and asked in a soft whisper of the woman: "What am I going to say?"

Simon didn’t use force, but Janet was startled and didn’t take the small hand from the palm of the man. He dragged a big hand to his mouth and took a soft bite. Then he asked, “Kate and I are going to the exhibition tomorrow morning. Watching the exhibition at the center, Pop, do you want to go together?"

"Don't go."

"Together, the charity art exhibition can do good deeds."

"Can I do bad things?"

"Okay, tomorrow you deliberately ruin some famous paintings, and then you can make headlines. Simon Westeros is mentally abnormal again, uh, and then I can become the Westeros family 700 billion, um, it is 900 billion. The guardian of huge amounts of dollars."

"And then?"

"Send you back to Watsonville Mental Hospital."

Simon smiled: "This seems to be the plot of a movie."

"Ok?"

"Two years ago, "Scorpion Lover" starring James Spade, the actor was framed by an evil wife who tried to seize his property and sent to a mental hospital. Guess how he made a comeback?"

Janet blinked: "How did you turn the disk?"

Catherine beside him also showed a curious expression.

Simon still closed his eyes and rested, but raised his hand to catch Janet's white neck and tried to feel it, and then retracted it.

Janet immediately understood: "Well, it's amazing."

Catherine was confused: "What?"

Janet told Catherine: "It's not illegal to kill someone with mental illness."

Catherine reacted this time and looked at the two of them. Even if they understood it, it was just a joke, but one had to send the other to a mental hospital, and the other had to kill the other. The one killed in the settings was quite excited. … It seems to me that in the first place, the two in front of me are the kind of madness in my bones, so she can't suppress this relationship.

Everyone continued to chat, the twilight came.

Catherine was invited to stay for dinner, and was also assigned to take care of a little guy. Although bitten by Nick who had not quit the habit of grinding teeth, it was inexplicable to envy the atmosphere of Westeros.

Just refused to stay after having used dinner.

Catherine was sent away. It was more than eight o'clock in the evening. The family gathered in a living room on the east side of the Shell Villa. Until the five little guys slept in succession, Simon and two Jenny had time to say something private.

The main thing is recent.

Simon decisively abandoned his original plan to continue the one-year reduction of shareholdings, but in fact it was far less on the surface.

Just like the assassination that triggered a series of follow-up storms two years ago, the reason was that the Woodfield family bet too much money on shorting technology stocks.

The situation is much worse now than it was two years ago.

Because of the optimism about technology stocks, countless people flock to the Nasdaq market, or directly buy large stocks, or spare no effort to build a long position, how many people's interests are tied to the upward trend of Nasdaq, this kind of Under the circumstances, Simon wants to counter the trend and suppress the technology stocks. The risks involved can be imagined.

Therefore, after feeling the pressure and warning from all sides, in addition to decisively abandoning the established reduction plan, Simon also raised the security level around his family to the highest level, and the Westeros family private intelligence network has begun to operate at full speed these days. Once a potential crisis occurs, deal with it in advance.

In the final analysis, the influence of the Westeros system is not strong enough to really control the US and even the world economy.

To do this, Simon needs to fully integrate the $900 billion in personal assets on the books at this time with the global economy. In this case, if he wants to manipulate it in the future, he does not even need the Westeros system to do it himself. When Simon speaks, someone will do the work.

Only in this way can the power of huge wealth be brought to the extreme.

The revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades still need to work hard.

In the living room of the Shell Villa, this time Janet was resting on Simon’s lap, listening to the quirky words of the man, laughing and asking, and asking about the visit to Livermore Lab during the day. Simon talked about his decision not to support the laser ignition project, and Janet blinked: "Why not support it, did you forget, um, that?"

Simon certainly knows what a woman is referring to.

The sword of Damocles in the Westeros family.

If the Westeros system mastered laser ignition, it would be equivalent to possessing the most advanced hydrogen bomb technology. By then, this would become a very powerful deterrent.

Thinking about it this way, Simon explained: "It's just not supported now. I plan to start with the magnetic confinement plan first, and set up two teams at the same time. Tokamak and the stellar simulator come together. After the magnetic confinement plan matures, this aspect The technical accumulation is also deep enough, and laser ignition is logical."

Janet asked, "So, what if someone else did the laser ignition first?"

Simon laughed: "This is even simpler. You know, the time for nuclear-weapon states in the world to develop nuclear weapons is always getting shorter and shorter. The reason is that once the plan is proven feasible, as long as the follow-up efforts are in one direction. Laser ignition is also In the same way, once someone succeeds, the successors will follow in succession. Moreover, judging from the current state of research and development of nuclear fusion technology in various countries, even if they are given another two decades, I don’t think those people can achieve anything."

"Why?"

"The big environment is like this. Without confrontation, without faith, it is very difficult to want a country or a person to do something."

"So, are we?"

Simon laughed: "We have interests. Without confrontation, without faith, then, the most effective tool for driving a team to overcome technical difficulties is interest. So I don't like the national level of aerospace and nuclear energy research, Whether in North America, Europe or Asia, the treatment of researchers in related fields is very general, and bureaucracy is serious. If you do not get a reward for your achievements, you will be severely punished if you screw up. In this environment, you want to make progress. It’s basically impossible. So the aerospace and nuclear energy fields are still at the level of the 50s and 60s. We are different. I will not only provide them with a sufficient budget, but also share most of the equity as a reward for research. Team, as long as the technology can break through, even if we only retain 10% of the shares in the end, the benefits involved are huge enough."

Jenny characterized her head and said: "In this case, we must determine the dual shareholding structure in advance to ensure our control."

"of course."

Without absolute control, in the future, if the Westeros system's shareholding in SpaceX and other companies is reduced to less than 10%, these companies will basically fall into the same situation as Boeing Loma.

Janet listened to the man saying that he had considered all aspects of the whole thing, so he stopped talking and talked about the Westeros private intelligence team. In order to avoid the recurrence of similar incidents two years ago, the woman Recently, the family's private intelligence team has also been adjusted.

I took two days off on the weekend.

In the new week, he has been spending Valentine's Day at home. Simon left Los Angeles and flew to New York again on February 15 to participate in the listing ceremony of Tin Kober on February 16.

After a two-week road show, Tinkerbair’s intention to subscribe for shares reached 17 times the amount of funds raised by this IPO. Facing such strong market demand, Tinkerbearer re-drafted the issue price and directly adjusted the price of US stocks from US$43. Adjusted to $50, the IPO market value increased from $35 billion to $40.7 billion.

Even as a result of some criticisms, a total of 130 million new shares were quickly subscribed.

After all, everyone knows that it is only a 16% increase in the issue price range, which is still a far cry from the Tincobull’s $100 billion valuation estimated by some institutions.

The issue price was raised to US$50, and the total amount of IPO financing reached US$6.5 billion, of which Westeros’ cash out of 30 million shares was also raised to US$1.5 billion.

On the other hand, in order to avoid long nights, several Wall Street giants such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, after a brief negotiation with Westeros, also decisively took over the last time that Simon throws Daenerys, Cisco and AOL. Three stocks totaling $3 billion.

In addition, after the announcement of the reduction of shares on February 2, Westeros also quickly completed its adherence to AOL's $20 value stocks in the past two weeks.

1.5 billion US dollars plus 3 billion US dollars plus 2 billion US dollars.

It can be said that in just half a month, Westeros cashed out a total of $6.5 billion in cash from the U.S. capital market, counting the two previous cashes for Daenerys Entertainment and Cisco, minus 15% The net tax on capital gains is approximately USD 9 billion.

Because of its 100% stake in Westeros, the money actually belongs to Simon.

This fund alone has surpassed the entire net worth of most of the top rich in this era.

The cash reserves of the entire Westeros system are much more than that.

Only the Igrid family, the funds raised before and after the IPO last year exceeded 20 billion US dollars. Simon imposed very strict restrictions on the use of this fund. Basically, it was to spend as little as possible. Replacement, large-scale project investments such as data centers, can only use Igret's own cash flow.

With such a huge amount of cash going on, not only is it expected that after the Sino-Singapore technology bubble bursts, the Westeros system will further strengthen the control of the new technology field, but also complete its own diversified expansion.

new York.

Simon arrived on the afternoon of February 15th, which happened to be the last day of New York Fashion Week.

The four major fashion weeks, in fact, do not all last rigorously for a week, but according to the number of brands participating in each major fashion week, long and short.

Just like this year, the first New York Fashion Week opened, lasting 8 days, the next London Fashion Week is only 4 days, then, Milan Fashion Week, 7 days, the last Paris Fashion Week, the longest, 9 days.

It is just from these days that the proportion of the fashion industry in various countries can also be seen.

Midtown Manhattan, Bryant Park, the main venue of New York Fashion Week.

Lyudmila Besonoskova ended the catwalk as a closed model. She applauded with the designer in the applause of everyone and returned to the backstage. She immediately saw Yekaterina standing next to her sister · Noskova three.

Bichi!

Lyudmila, who is already very good at English, couldn't help but say a hard word.

After being privately tuned for a whole year, Lyudmila finally made her debut in this fashion week, and, judging from the feedback these days, it is also a blockbuster.

With his outstanding appearance and professional quality trained for a year, Lyudmila can be described as the most popular new model in this fashion week. In 8 days, it counts as the Mark Jacobs brand of the same name ending tonight. Attended 21 catwalks, under the operation of Elite, "Vogue", "BAZAAR" and other magazines all made special reports on Liu Demira.

It's just, I'm not happy at all.

why?

Busy for more than 12 hours a day, 21 catwalks, but each can only get $1,000 in compensation, and 30% commission deducted by Elite, plus taxes, plus other expenses, it seems like a week Time earned more than 20,000 US dollars. As a newcomer who just debuted, it might make many rootless girls envious of collapse, but Liu Demira wanted to go crazy.

I was exhausted, and I could only earn 21,000 US dollars a week. Yekaterina ran to see the show, or in her eyes, she looked at her lively Xiao Bichi, and went to Fifth Avenue once. The cost is far more than this number, watching Liu Dayeva dangling in front of her with the LV bag she just bought, she just wanted to strangle each other.

Bichi!

It's too unbalanced.

Why should I be exhausted?

Ahhhhh.

Of course, in front of the three girls, Lyudmila will not show weakness anyway, just the beginning, he is just the beginning.

And you guys.

Hum, wait until Simon Westero gets tired, then cry.

Before she came this time, she heard that the singing group candidate that Rifney Media has been quietly selecting has been released, and the very beautiful ones will definitely become Simon Westero's new favorite.

In short.

Ahhhhh.

There was a manic little rabbit in my heart, but Lyudmila appeared impeccable on the surface, which is also the result of being tuned in the past year, and I greeted me with the head of the Helen Yamak brand from Russia. She is a fur brand. She likes fur the most, and because she is from Russia, although the Soviet Union has disintegrated, everyone still speaks Russian and is instinctively friendly.

Greeted for a while, and finally came to the three girls who still had to leave.

Speaking of Mark Yakob's catwalk on his own night, he secretly bites his little white teeth and continues to invite Ekaterina three. Come, don't be afraid of you!Can only rely on the man's Xiao Bichi!