Chapter 142
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Jonathan Friedman and others are still waiting for them at the WMA headquarters. In the afternoon, everyone wants to discuss the heroine of "Instinct". Simon recently took a fancy to a heroine candidate. After a few chats with Amy, Simon left the company office building, and Jennifer followed the car with a stack of documents.
SUV shuttled through the streets of Los Angeles, Jennifer handed a meeting memorandum to Simon, saying: "Dad held a conference call with Sun executives in the morning and confirmed to join the board of directors of this company. So far, we have obtained 16 companies. Board seats. Dad said that Apple and other companies are actually very promising, are you really not going to join?”
Simon flipped through the memo in his hand.
The full name of sun is sun-microsystems-inc., which is a new technology company that mainly produces servers and workstations. The powerful java language is developed by this company.
In Simon’s memory, Sun’s market value at the peak of the dot-com bubble was over $200 billion. However, after the burst of the Internet bubble, the company began to decline rapidly due to various reasons, and was eventually acquired by Oracle.
During last year's stock price crash, Westeros began bottom-hunting when Sun's market value was around $850 million. Including the recent small increase in holdings, Simon spent less than $45 million for a 5% stake in Sun.
If history doesn't change, the stock will be worth $10 billion at the peak of Sun's market cap in the future.
However, sun's potential return on investment is clearly not comparable to Microsoft's.
Simon spent only $56 million to buy 4.9% of Microsoft's shares last year. In the latest increase, he unknowingly increased the number of shares to 3 million shares, which is relative to Microsoft's total share capital of 50 million shares at this time. , the shareholding ratio is exactly 6%.
According to the highest point of Microsoft's market value of 600 billion US dollars in 2000, just this 6% Microsoft stock will increase Simon's personal wealth by 36 billion US dollars.
Therefore, whether it is sun or Microsoft, the next few years will be Simon's key holding target. Simon plans to increase his stake in these companies to at least 10% or more.
In comparison, Simon is less interested in the current Apple.
Simon put about $150 million into Apple's 4.9 percent stake last year at its low point of around $3 billion, more than Microsoft and Sun combined, and second only to Motorola's $250 million and Intel. of $170 million.
However, according to the information in memory, Apple will begin to flourish and decline after the market value exceeds 7 billion US dollars in the next few years, and Simon naturally has no desire to hold it for a long time.
After carefully reading the meeting memorandum in his hand, Simon heard Jennifer's question and said, "Last time, I made a promise to join the board of directors for three years without reducing my holdings. The current money in Westeros is definitely not worth it. The way to support it for three years. So, we must voluntarily give up some board seats now.”
Jennifer nodded, talking about another matter, and said: "Also, before the market closes today, we have bought 1.23 million shares of New World Entertainment, with an average price of about $7.50, and a total expenditure of about $9 million. New World Entertainment The total share capital of Entertainment is 25 million shares, and we are stuck at about 4.9% of the required reporting. After submitting the report to the sec next Monday, the stock price will definitely rise as the news becomes public. Dad plans to continue to absorb within 10 US dollars. Then make a takeover offer to New World Entertainment.”
Due to problems with the capital chain, the current share price of New World Entertainment is much lower than its actual value. In the acquisition plan previously discussed by Simon and James, the final transaction price was capped at a premium of 50%.
Simon said: "This matter, let your father execute according to the plan, there is no need to tell me all the details."
Jennifer responded and handed over another very thick folder, saying: "Also, this is some aircraft information that you asked me to collect a few days ago. The prices listed on the documents are only public quotations from airlines. In the actual transaction process, buyers usually get a certain discount.”
For the work travel needs of himself and Amy, James and others, Simon decided to buy a business jet a few days ago, and ordered Jennifer to collect some information at will.
Glancing out of the car window, there was still some distance from the WMA headquarters. Simon opened the folder and asked Jennifer, "Do you have a favorite type? I bought a plane, and everyone can use it."
Although the man next to him didn't look at him, Jennifer dodged his eyes slightly and said, "This, of course, is up to you to decide."
Simon smiled, looking at the latest Gulfstream iv business jet information before him, and said, "Speaking of which, I haven't officially thanked you for that video tape. If you have a type you like, I'll follow yours this time. The mind is ready to buy."
Listening to Simon's relaxed tone, Jennifer was a little dissatisfied and couldn't help but say, "It's yours who bought it, it's not sincere."
Simon glanced at Jennifer and noticed that she had tied up her hair again today, revealing her fair neck: "If I change the ownership of this plane to your name, will your father think we have something, and then Beat me up."
Jennifer felt Simon's gaze, shrank her neck, shook her head and said, "My dad won't, Miss Johnston will, maybe I'll be beaten too."
Simon pretended to hesitate, and shook his head: "That's fine, there's nothing but one to suffer.
Damn it, it's not worth it. "
Jennifer's face immediately turned red, and a certain image appeared in her mind again.
Noticing that Simon turned his eyes to the information in front of him, he raised his hand, carefully touched the back of his head and secretly pulled off the ribbon tied to his hair, feeling the loose hair, and then relaxed a little.
I thought he hadn't noticed, but just as she was about to put the ribbon into the satchel quietly, a voice came from her ear: "It doesn't look good."
Omg.
Resisting the urge to jump out of the car, Jennifer grabbed her shoulder bag and glared at Simon, "I won't let you see it."
Feeling the slight vibrato in the girl's tone, although Simon was still a little unclear, he stopped teasing and focused on the aircraft information in front of him.
Due to the loose air control system, the private jet industry in the West is very developed, and the price is not high.
According to the information in Simon's hands, the latest Gulfstream IV luxury business jet has a total passenger capacity of about 20 people and a cruising distance of nearly 8,000 kilometers. The current official price is only 16 million US dollars. According to what Jennifer just said, this price can also be discounted.
Of course, cheap is definitely only relative.
According to the latest media statistics, Simon's current net worth of around US$1.6 billion is enough for him to be squeezed into the 50th of this year's Forbes Global Rich List. What's more, most of Simon's assets are stock assets that can be quickly converted into cash, which further enhances the gold content of his personal wealth.
By contrast, many billionaires of Simon's worth would not necessarily be able to easily put up $16 million in cash to buy a private jet.
After turning over some small business jet brands in front, Simon quickly saw some models that he was more interested in.
Boeing 747-300, priced at $120 million.
This is Simon's ultimate goal.
At present, the Boeing 747-400 is still in the research and development stage. The Boeing 747-300 is the latest model in the Boeing large aircraft series. As for the data such as passenger capacity and cruising distance, if it is transformed into a private jet, there is obviously no need to pay attention. Such a plane is enough to connect any two places on the planet with a full tank of fuel. The fuselage is six stories high and 70 meters long, and the interior space is spacious enough to build a swimming pool.
but.
Simon can only look at it now. The cost of 120 million US dollars, although it is almost double the price of the same type of large passenger aircraft more than ten years later, and he can afford it, but he cannot buy it now.
Too flamboyant.
If Simon buys it now, he will definitely be drowned in the spit of the entire North American media.
Even if Simon doesn't care about that, buying such a Big Mac, parking and maintenance issues will definitely make him devastated. In the final analysis, it is still a question of background. If the Rockefeller family bought such a plane, even if it would still be criticized, more people would take it for granted.
As for Simon Westeros.
All right.
upstart.
The car stopped outside the WMA headquarters on Camino Street, and Simon had made a wise decision to buy a Gulfstream iv first. The smaller aircraft also has a short lead time relative to larger Boeing, with deliveries taking three months after an order is placed.
Entering the WMA headquarters with Jennifer, Jonathan Friedman, Brian De Palma and others are already waiting for Simon.
For more than a year, Simon has changed from what it used to be, but the turmoil within wma has never stopped.
At the beginning of the new year, Ed Limato, one of the vice presidents of wma, brought a large number of stars such as Mel Gibson, Steve Martin, Denzel Watson, Michelle Pfeiffer under his own name Switching to icm, this move once again hurt wma's vitality.
In Simon's view, this is almost inevitable.
The control of wma is still firmly held by several old men such as Norman Broca. Ed Limato is unlikely to go further in the short term, but the gold broker moved to icm and immediately obtained the icm partnership Title of person and co-president.
After Ed Limato jumped ship, he acted for a number of top movies such as Brian De Palma, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Matt Dillon, Sandra Bullock and Simon People, coupled with the support of wma chairman Lou Weiss, Jonathan, who was not too conspicuous among a bunch of vice presidents, has unknowingly become a popular candidate for the next president of wma.
Simon is actually very interested in the talent agency industry.
However, due to California's "Talent Agency Act" restrictions, agents cannot get involved in the production field, and similarly, film companies cannot intervene in the talent agency industry. Simon can only slightly interfere with the changes in the talent agency industry based on his limited influence, but he cannot affect the overall situation.
In a large conference room at wma headquarters.
Simon greeted everyone one by one, and soon came to a tall black-haired actress, who was the heroine of "Instinct" chosen by Simon, Linda Fiorentino.
In the original time and space, Linda Fiorentino is best known as the female forensic doctor in "Men in Black".
However, Simon chose the other party because she starred in another movie "The Last Temptation". This 1995 film in the original time and space is a thriller and pornography type that obviously follows the trend of "Instinct". The femme fatale played by Linda Fiorentino in the film deftly plays drums with the men around her
between the palms.
Linda Fiorentino's performance won almost unanimous praise from critics after the release of "The Last Temptation." Only because the movie was first broadcast on hbo TV and did not meet the Oscar selection criteria, the actress unfortunately failed to get the Oscar nomination that year.
Simon and Linda Fiorentino shook hands, and everyone sat around the conference table.
After picking Linda Fiorentino in a group of actress profiles the other day, Simon arranged an audition for her and Michael Douglas. The effect is also very satisfying.
Michael Douglas did not come back today, the audition tape was played, and Brian de Palma agreed, and everyone discussed the details of the film with Linda Fiorentino's agent, George Lipton. and contract matters.
Several big men were discussing enthusiastically, and a certain hoarse female voice said with obvious dissatisfaction: "Is there no one who wants to ask my opinion?"
Simon and others looked over together, and Linda Fiorentino's agent, George Lipton, quickly said, "Linda, you can go back first, I'll call you after get off work."
Linda Fiorentino squinted her agent and said nothing. She reached out and seemed to fumble for a moment in the pocket of her jeans. She took out a pack of cigarettes, completely ignoring George Lipton's almost demanding expression, and continued. He took out his lighter, lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, exhaled blue smoke, then looked directly at Simon, and said, "Mr. Westeros, George handed me my resume, I never said I wanted it. play this role."
Simon looked at the woman's style with great interest, and suddenly remembered some rumors about the actress being very difficult in his memory, but just smiled and said: "Then why didn't you refuse, and cooperated with the audition?"
Linda Fiorentino said: "I just wanted to try playing with a big star like Douglas."
Simon said with a good temper: "So, what about now?"
Linda Fiorentino deftly flicked the soot and said, "Your script is very good, but there are a few more nude scenes. If I can delete some of the scenes, I can agree to appear in it."
Simon made a gesture of invitation directly and said, "Ms. Fiorentino, if you are requesting this, you can go out now."
Linda Fiorentino didn't move, didn't show a guilty expression, took a slow puff of cigarette again, and said, "Mr. Westeros, as far as I know, "Instinct" will start shooting next month , the schedule is very tight. You can't find a second actor who is more suitable than me in a short time."
Simon shook his head and said: "Actually, I already had a very suitable candidate in my heart before you, but I hate him more, so I don't plan to use her. Now, do you want to make yourself more annoying than her? "
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