Hollywood Hunter

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A restaurant in Venice Beach.

Bill Gates got off the plane from Los Angeles International Airport and rushed here directly. It was nearly 12 o'clock. There were many customers in this well-known restaurant, but Simon had not arrived yet.

Guided by the waiter to sit down at the reserved seat, Bill Gates was thinking about what to do next when he noticed a man and woman walking in with a whisper and a laugh. Looking up, he immediately recognized Hollywood star Richard Gere and his supermodel girlfriend Cindy Crawford.

Richard Gere has been out of fashion over the years, but his girlfriend is as beautiful as in the TV newspapers in reality.

Bill Gates couldn't help but glanced at Cindy Crawford a few more times. Women are always more sensitive to certain gazes. Cindy Crawford felt Gates' gaze, turned her head and noticed that it was A man with black-rimmed glasses who seemed familiar, didn't care, just withdrew his eyes lightly.

Realizing that he was almost ignored, Bill Gates retracted his eyes angrily and pretended to look around. The guests here didn't seem to care that a billionaire like him was sitting here.

Just thinking about it in such a loss, suddenly there was some commotion at the door of the restaurant.

Looking again, it turned out that Simon Westeros was coming. His bodyguard was blocking the reporter who wanted to come forward. The waiter in the restaurant noticed the movement and ran over to help the young man open the glass door.

Simon Westeros walked in, and the eyes of everyone in the restaurant were immediately drawn to the past. Some guests clearly stood up and seemed to want to come forward to say hello, but they just stayed where they were.

Bill Gates hesitated, but he stood up and took two steps forward.

Simon approached and warmly reached out to Bill Gates and said, "Hi, Bill, good noon."

Bill Gates finally felt a little more attention on his body, and his emotions were a little complicated, but there was a smile on his face and he shook hands with Simon, saying, "Nice to see you again, Simon."

The two were about to sit down, when Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford, who had just come in, came over and greeted Simon with a clear fascination, compared to the natural estrangement when they entered the restaurant before. The star style is just like two different people.

"Paramount's "ia file", I seem to have seen the outline, it should be good...Cindy, your performance in "Gucci Mark" is really good, maybe you can try to develop into Hollywood...Oh, okay, I'm joking, don't rely on me."

After socializing and joking, Richard Gere returned to their seats.

Simon and Gates also took their seats, watching the beautiful waitress put down her restraint and asked for an autograph after Simon took the order, and obviously left a card. Gates remembered that he came to Westeros this time and took the initiative to lend him For the Boeing 767, the envy in my heart could not help but accumulate more.

He has always been the focus of attention in the IT circle, but in front of this young man, in this glitzy city, he can't earn any attention at all.

Thinking about the situation where he wanted to visit the front cabin on the plane, but was rejected by the flight attendant on the grounds that it was Westeros' private space, Gates secretly made up his mind that he would also have one that did not belong to this young man in the future. car.

Finally finished the entertainment, and when he was free, Bill Gates thought for a while and took the initiative: "Simon, I have seen the World Wide Web technology of Igret in San Francisco, and I have to say that the development potential of this technology is really great. ."

Igret's World Wide Web technology has linked companies such as Cisco, AOL, and Sun in which Westeros holds shares.

However, Simon does not have the idea of ​​making the graphical interface browser produced by Igret a built-in browser in the Windows system for the time being. He intends to keep a low profile and let this technology develop for another year or two, fully mature and become a unique standard in the industry. , and then carry out large-scale promotion.

Therefore, without taking up the topic of Gates, Simon just smiled and said: "I have tried the test version of Windows 3.0, I have to say, compared with the previous versions, Microsoft's product has made great progress this time, and it will be released next year. It's definitely going to be okay to get a foothold afterwards."

Since Simon brought the topic here, Gates took advantage of the situation: "So you started buying Microsoft stock again?"

"Yeah, you know, Bill, I have a lot of money recently. Since there are promising companies, I must invest them as soon as possible."

Bill Gates can't help but think of many reports from this time.

The young man in front of him may not be the richest person on the Forbes list, but he is probably the one with the largest cash holdings among all the billionaires in the world. It's just that Cersei Capital, which has been shrouded in clouds, is said to have reached $8 billion in cash, half of which seems to belong to this young man. The $4 billion in cash alone exceeds the net worth of most of the world's super-rich.

Thinking this way, Bill Gates said: "But, Simon, I don't think you should continue to buy. Westeros has held more than 10% of Microsoft's stock because Westeros has bought In recent years, many institutions have also begun to seize the Microsoft shares in their hands, and there are fewer and fewer tradable shares in the market. You know, the reduction of tradable shares will definitely have a strong inhibitory effect on the rise of stock prices. I think, Westeros has enough of Microsoft's holdings that you can consider buying other companies."

Simon had roughly guessed that Gates should be this way.

The ratio of outstanding shares of a company in the secondary market

The decrease in the number of cases and the decrease in trading activity will indeed restrain the rise of the stock price. This is actually the reason why many companies conduct stock splits when their stock prices rise to a certain extent.

"However, I still want to buy more Microsoft shares," Simon said, as if he thought about it for a while, and then said, "Bill, otherwise, I have made such a suggestion before, put you How about selling me some of the Microsoft stock in my hand, I can buy it at 10% off the market price. You have eaten 45% of it now, sell me 10%, and you are still the largest shareholder of Microsoft. Moreover, I am right Microsoft's control is meaningless, as long as you can sell me some stock, I can also authorize you the voting rights of Microsoft stock in Westeros Corporation, Westeros Corporation is only a pure investment shareholder ."

Bill Gates couldn't help but think of the Boeing 767 he took when he came to Los Angeles.

Although he quickly entered the "Forbes" rich list after Microsoft went public, and this year's "Forbes" North American rich list, he is also in the forefront with a net worth of 1.5 billion US dollars, however, because the assets under his name are basically all It is Microsoft stock, but his current standard of living is completely below the level that a billionaire billionaire should have.

For example, he doesn't even own a private jet now.

Compared with the young people in front of him, it is even worse.

Speaking of which, when we first met, the young man mentioned to him the suggestion to buy Microsoft stock directly from him, because he felt that there was still a lot of room for improvement in Microsoft stock, he chose not to hesitate at that time. .

Now, it seems, it would be nice to sell some stocks and improve your life.

If you sell a stock by yourself, you can get the voting rights of all the shares held by Westeros, so not only will you not lose control of the company, but you may even achieve absolute control over the company.

However, selling 10% at one time is definitely not acceptable.

Westeros optimistic about windows3.0, he is the same. Microsoft's market value has been around $3 billion this year, but he believes the company's stock price will rise again when the operating system goes public next year.

"Simon, 10% is too much," after thinking about it, Bill Gates said: "Also, if you want to buy it, it must be at the market price, and I will not sell it at a discount."

Obviously, his previous small arrangement should have worked.

Simon did not show any joy, and patiently said: "Bill, think about it, sell me 10%, and you can get 20% of the voting rights of Westeros, adding up to 55% of the voting rights. , which gives you complete control over the company."

"Up to 5%," Bill Gates ignored Simon's bewitching, thought for a while, and said, "However, I can talk to Allen, maybe he also has the idea of ​​selling stocks."

At Microsoft's current market value, selling 5% of the stock would give Gates more than $150 million in cash. In this era, the money is still very affordable, after all, the price of the first Gulfstream is only more than 10 million US dollars. In addition, with this money, you can also make some other investments.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen have maintained a combined 70% stake in Microsoft in recent years.

At the beginning, Bill Gates tried every means to reduce the shareholding ratio of his partner, so that he could firmly control Microsoft. Unexpectedly, Gates still did not 'forget' the other party when he sold his shares this time.

Simon naturally wouldn't express any objections, saying: "In this case, I can also get in touch with Allen."

After all, Bill Gates still felt a certain excitement in Simon's tone, and subconsciously added: "Simon, I can sell you a part of the stock, but you must make the voting rights of Westeros company permanent. authorized to me."

"That's impossible, Bill, and you will definitely continue to reduce your Microsoft stock in the future. You can't sell your stock almost as much and keep your voting rights in Westeros. However, I I really have no intention of competing for control of Microsoft. You are the most suitable operator of this company. Therefore, the authorization period of Westeros is ten years. Of course, I may also appropriately reduce my holdings of Microsoft shares in this process. In this regard, the Westeros Company still has its own freedom, and within ten years, the remaining shares of the Westeros Company will be yours, and the voting rights of these shares will also be yours.”

Bill Gates nodded slightly, and said, "What about ten years later?"

Simon shrugged and said, "Ten years is a long time, Bill, who knows what will happen in ten years?"

"Okay," Bill Gates nodded and finally said, "Also, you have to stop taking Microsoft stock from the public market."

"no problem."

The two chatted, and the waiter quickly brought up the lunch.

With 5% of Bill Gates' side, Simon feels that Paul Allen's transfer of the other 5% of Microsoft shares to himself will not be a big problem.

Speaking of which, Simon actually only hopes to get a total of 5% of the shares this time, so that he can increase his shareholding in Microsoft to the planned 15%. Now, the Westeros company's stake in Microsoft is likely to increase to 20%, and considering Microsoft's future value-added potential, this business is almost lucrative.

However, Simon couldn't help but think of the issue of funding.

The original increase in holdings of Microsoft and Intel was a months-long plan, and funds could also be absorbed and raised.

Westeros has made a lot of moves recently. If it wants to get 10% of Microsoft's stock at one time, it will require more than $300 million in cash.

Without drawing from Cersei Capital, Simon would have to borrow from the bank again. Fortunately, he has repaid the accumulated principal and interest of various banks of more than 200 million US dollars this year, and the debt amount has dropped from 900 million US dollars at the beginning of the year to over 700 million US dollars. $1 billion already within the range.

The two had a pleasant lunch. In order to help the classmates to sell stocks, Simon generously borrowed his Boeing 767 to send Gates back to Seattle.

The next day is still a busy work.

Daenerys Entertainment's slew of key projects for the next year are in various stages of production, and plans for those 10 films are progressing steadily.

Considering that the Los Angeles premiere of "Batman" is coming soon, Simon did not leave the United States at all, but just made an appointment with Janet and flew to Australia to spend Christmas with his family after the premiere.

On Microsoft’s side, news came two days after Bill Gates left, Paul Allen also agreed to sell 5% of Microsoft’s stock to Westeros, and Simon directly told James Raybold to put down all his It is time to be directly responsible for contacting this matter to ensure the smooth progress of the acquisition.

The news also spread quickly.

Compared with Intel, which has exceeded 6 billion in market value at this time, Microsoft's stock has not risen too high in the past year, and its market value has always been maintained at around $3 billion. There have been no small dips after that small crash in October.

Now, with news that Westeros has increased its 10% stake in Microsoft, the company's stock price has jumped sharply.

Fortunately, the two parties have already agreed on the price in advance, and neither Bill Gates nor Paul Allen has started the price. Westeros also quickly negotiated a new $300 million loan plan with Citibank.

Other companies that want to take out loans to buy stocks generally have a hard time getting money from banks.

But for Westeros, that's not a problem at all. No one would doubt the repayment ability of Westeros Company now, and everyone knows that if it were not for the taxation of Cersei Capital, Westeros Company would not need a loan at all.

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