Hollywood Hunter

Also in another mansion in East Hampton, Chen Qing arrived early, and when she entered the door, she happened to see Shirley ordering the waitress for breakfast. Chen Qing, who was messing around with these goblins, couldn't help but feel a little bit annoyed, and she was a little annoyed when she spoke: "Where's the boss?"

Even last night... Shirley didn't dare to put on airs in front of Chen Qing, and said, "Simon is upstairs in the living room, just got up."

Chen Qing just nodded, ignored the other party, and turned to the stairs.

Soon, I found my boss in a living room on the second floor. Simon was fully dressed, sitting on the sofa by the window and flipping through some materials, but holding Miu Miao in his arms. She was in a short nightdress that couldn't be concealed, with fair skin and red cheeks, curled up in the man's arms, really like a well-behaved cat.

Seeing Chen Qing, Miao Miao greeted first: "Ms. Chen, good morning."

English is used.

Moreover, compared to Shirley, although the girl's tone was equally respectful, she couldn't hide some small pride after being favored by a man after all.

Chen Qingxin said that I don't care about you, and the movements of her hands have already picked up Xiaonizi: "Go out, I have something to talk to the boss."

Miao Miao couldn't help the strength of Chen Qing, who had been exercising frequently, and she was also unprepared. It was only when she was pulled up that she pitifully asked the man for help.

Simon took the little girl over, hugged her comfortingly, and kissed the beautiful face that was already charming, and reminded with a smile: "Go, remember, don't provoke her even when I'm around, it will suffer of the head."

The man reminded him so bluntly, but in fact, Miao Miao, who is also very smart, wisely stopped acting coquettishly, took the initiative to kiss the man, got up obediently, did not forget to say goodbye to Chen Qing, and went out.

Before Xiao Nizi went out, Chen Qing had already slipped into the man's arms, without mentioning the episode just now, she looked at the information in his hand: "Boss, what are you looking at?"

Feeling the warmth and fragrance of another style, Simon pointed to the cover of the document to Chen Qing: "The latest online game project plan of the Warcraft" series."

Speaking of which, the once famous World of Warcraft, the world's number one mmorpg game, was originally launched in 2004 on the original timeline, and its development started around 2000.

In 2000, "Legend of China" hadn't caught on yet.

Not to mention other things, the result of too early development is that World of Warcraft has continued to use the modeling style of the first generation until many years later, whether it is architectural scenery or character images, it seems a bit rough.

Of course, this in no way hinders the greatness of World of Warcraft.

This time, the online game industry exploded ahead of schedule, and China has shown a market potential that cannot be ignored in just a few years. Simon has long put the Warcraft brand under his command, and of course he will not let this project go.

Since the beginning of the year, Simon has voluntarily asked the development team of Warcraft to separate a team and select elites from other teams to build the framework of World of Warcraft. During this period, Simon has personally participated in the formulation of details through emails and other forms many times.

Until now, more than half a year later, the preparatory work has been preliminarily completed.

First, as ever, the latest project, internally titled World of Warcraft, will be a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and will be developed in 3D.

Secondly, it is also the essence of "World of Warcraft". Relying on the years of accumulation of the "Warcraft" stand-alone series, this game will have a very large world structure.

Thirdly, compared to World of Warcraft’s first innovations in operations, dungeons, battles, etc., because of Simon, a big butterfly, many online game settings that are commonplace in the eyes of later people have appeared. Let future games lose some first-mover advantages, but at the same time it can save some detours.

Finally, the project will be put into a formal development process next month. The development cycle given by Simon is two years. However, according to the procrastination habits of the Warcraft team, he is also ready for three years or even longer to sharpen his sword. The maximum It may have been released after 2004.

With the previous success of the Warcraft series, the Warcraft team also has this privilege.

Of course, it is impossible for Chen Qing to understand that the game her boss is holding is far beyond her expectations, but when it comes to the topic of the game, she immediately regains her spirits and worries: "...It's really huge profits, I can feel it. , now everyone is a little worried about making money, and they keep telling me that they hope to be able to go public, probably because they want to be safe..."

Listening to Nizi in his arms, Simon could actually imagine it.

For example, the list of China's richest people, which can be called the pig-killing list, is ultimately due to China's uncertain attitude towards private wealth.

Now, suddenly there is an industry that makes more money than selling fans directly. Of course, it will inevitably attract strong attention. If you don’t pay attention, it may turn into sorrow.

Simon has nothing to do about this, he just said: "The relevant companies all have foreign capital, and we have given up enough benefits, so there is no need to worry too much. Moreover, in another year, when China enters the WTO next year, the situation will be better Hmm... If it really doesn't work, you can also choose one and conduct an IPO operation, so that all parties can see the potential commercial value of these companies."

Chen Qing was a little surprised: "Boss, do you agree?"

"Everything has two sides," Simon said. "I didn't want to be too conspicuous there, but since it has become dazzling in the eyes of many people, let's make it more dazzling."

Chen Qing twisted her body, and changed her posture facing her boss: "Boss, then, which one to choose, let's talk about it first, there is no problem in Suzhou."

Oh, don't worry. "

Seeing Nizi's expression, Simon smiled and said, "You decide."

Chen Qing blurted out: "Let's go to Xiangshan Network, the person in charge told me about it last time."

Simon nodded, thought about it and added: "Remember to make enough equity and business adjustments before going public. In addition, if you can, try to be as fast as possible."

Of course Chen Qing understood, nodded her head, and asked again: "Boss, how long do you think Nasdaq can last?"

"I personally think that it will be at the beginning of next year at most." Simon said, shaking his head: "It may collapse at the end of the year, or it may last longer. The financial market is too contingent, and everyone can actually judge the trend. But when the specific turning point will happen, it is very difficult to say."

Chen Qing recognized it very much, and began to snap her fingers: "In this case, I will try my best to control the IPO process of Xiangshan Network within 4 months, and finish it before the end of the year."

Overseas IPO may be very difficult for other Chinese companies. If they can’t get their hands on it, it may not be possible to get it done in a few years, but the Westeros system has all the necessary resources and channels, let alone 4 months, if it is urgent, it will not be a problem to get it done within 3 months.

However, after Chen Qing finished speaking, she immediately felt a little regretful: "Boss, although it can be listed, if the Nasdaq really collapses by then, the stock price will definitely go down all the way, and it will become ugly?"

Simon continued to turn over a page of the "World of Warcraft" project information in his hand, and shook his head when he heard the words: "The cyclical fluctuations in the financial market are actually a kind of survival of the fittest. When the Nasdaq collapses, the first ones to be out are those who lack substantial revenue and have no income." Compared with the companies that burn money to speculate on concepts, game companies in China already have very healthy business operations. Even if the stock price will go down in the future, they will only be a group that performs relatively well. "

Chen Qing thought about it, and felt relieved.

The two continued to discuss some details. Shirley came up to remind her that breakfast was ready, so she got up and went downstairs to the restaurant. Chen Qing also used the excuse of talking about things to drive Shirley and her daughter away, and continued to occupy her boss.

There are indeed things.

On the Chinese side, some small-scale financial policies have been liberalized recently. Among them, one with great potential, financial leasing, plans to make some arrangements here.

Chen Qing returned to Shanghai for two days after her trip to Vietnam to finalize more details with the team there. Because the financial leasing company planned to be established this time, the headquarters is planned to be located in Shanghai.

As for what is a financial lease?

Ordinary people often have no idea, but in the West, this is actually a fairly mature industry.

Just to mention one, in the aviation field, because the price of aircraft is too high, many airlines actually adopt a leasing model for their aircraft, which generally cooperates with powerful financial institutions. Financial institutions pay for the purchase of aircraft, and then lease The way to deliver the airline to use, the airline pays the lease fee every year.

It's basically something that everyone can benefit from.

Let's talk about China's financial leasing, the model is roughly the same.

Moreover, there was a very controversial industry slang in China later, which was called "buying is worse than building, and renting is worse than buying". A billion-dollar rental business.

Although the financial leasing project in Chen Qing's hands is still in the final stage of negotiation, the team under her name has already locked in a large order in advance, cooperating with a joint venture airline company just established in Suzhou, a total of 6 aircraft leasing plans, although all The total value of small and medium-sized aircraft is 250 million US dollars, but it is equivalent to more than 2 billion yuan.

This is mainly due to the demand for tourist passenger transportation driven by Jinshu Film and Television City and the efficient freight demand for electronic products in the industrial park.

After breakfast, the two took a helicopter to Manhattan together.

It's all a lot of work.

Only today, Chen Qing has to coordinate with the Apollo management company team about the financial leasing company, and also has a meeting with the CNOOC team who will try to list again in October. In addition, since my boss allowed it, the Xiangshan Network IPO matter was immediately put on the agenda, and today I plan to spend two hours on coordination and communication.

Simon's affairs are of course more and more piecemeal.

Three hours in the morning, one hour to deal with the accumulated documents; one hour to meet with James Raybould's team to discuss some results of the previous trip to Vietnam; half an hour to meet with Steve Case, the head of AOL, about An upgrade of America Online's broadband network; a half-hour meeting with Raymond Smith, and an upgrade of Verizon's 3G network.

The last two things can't be helped either.

The investment in the field of infrastructure construction is large in scale and slow to take effect. It is not in line with the nature of enterprises to pursue short-term interests. It also affects financial report data and even the bonuses of executives at all levels. Simon does not keep an eye on it and chases after him. Too much motivation to do it.

At noon, I had dinner with Celia Miller, the person in charge of military affairs at home, to discuss the recently passed record-breaking 2001 defense budget of 309.9 billion U.S. dollars and the national missile defense plan.

For this matter, Simon's attitude is also very clear.

Since you can't stop it, you should participate as much as possible, and one more piece is one piece. After all, when the money is in your own hands, it can be invested in more valuable fields.

Therefore, after lunch, Simon preliminarily determined that next year will start another round of increasing holdings of military enterprises.

Why not start now?

Because it is expensive.

At the top of the bull market, now is a better time to sell than buy

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Being so busy and taking care of my private life by the way, a week passed in a blink of an eye.

The first thing to focus on is Hollywood.

During the box office week from August 18th to August 24th, the documentary Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon undoubtedly received the most attention in the film industry. The box office of "The Grand Canyon" finally reached 20.35 million U.S. dollars in its seven-day opening.

20.35 million US dollars, of course, cannot be compared with this summer's "Finding Nemo" and "The Hangover 2", but for a niche documentary with a production cost equivalent to only 3.6 million US dollars, this is definitely a dark horse level little miracle.

In short, the result is that Yu Xiaomin, who has been on the youtube self-media platform before, as the producer of the project, has become famous in the film and television circle, and has recently attracted attention.

In addition, there is Jiang Mi, who is the most eye-catching bright color in the project. Although she only participated in a documentary, she also succeeded in breaking the circle, so it was fed back to her personal modeling career.

Let’s say that this year’s Victoria’s Secret show, which is undergoing member selection, plans to reserve only three places for Asians, one for China, one for Japan and one for South Korea. Of course, the boss of Victoria’s Secret made the decision in person, but he still couldn’t help but propose, The quota in China can be given to Jiang Mi.

As for China, the news of the big sale of Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon was sent back, and it was once again boiling.

Before the project was still hesitating about the schedule, with the documentary's big sales, it can be said that the green light was given all the way, and it was directly finalized on the next Chinese National Day.

In addition to Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon, another recent Chinese-language film project, Kung Fu, is equally popular.

This is mainly due to the film's gradually showing box office potential that exceeds expectations.

In the same recent box office week, the fourth week of Kung Fu was released, and it received another 9.22 million US dollars. Although the single-week box office has fallen into the 10 million box office range, the cumulative North American box office of the film has reached 86.76 million US dollars. "'s total North American box office of 87 million, leaving only a small gap.

Moreover, according to the current trend, many people expected that as long as it can reach the box office level of "Hero", this Chinese film will be a great success. Obviously, it will become another pure Chinese film that has entered the North American box office club of 100 million yuan.