Made in Hollywood

"Dear, are you ready?"

Pushing open the door of the locker room, Duke walked in. The top stylist from Hollywood had already assisted Ivanka to change her clothes, greeted Duke, and hurriedly left with her assistant.

"Am I pretty?" Ivanka asked, turning her head.

Duke laughed. "Very beautiful."

Ivanka's blond hair is on the back of her head, without any accessories on it, just wearing a diamond-encrusted platinum necklace on her smooth and slender neck. Below the necklace is a shoulderless white evening dress hand-made from Chanel, which is close The design especially highlights her proud capital.

"Is the dress a little tight?" Duke walked over.

Ivanka looked in the mirror and said, "I think it's just right."

She probably understood what Duke meant, rolled her eyes slightly, leaned close to his ear, and said in a low voice, "I also prepared another tighter gauze dress, which I'll show you at night."

Duke's eyes lit up immediately, "Okay."

With a smile, Duke handed the box in his hand to Ivanka, "Your birthday present, dear, happy birthday."

"Thank you." After Ivanka took it, she picked up the gift box and shook it, "Is it okay?"

Duke made a gesture of invitation, and Ivanka opened the gift box, which contained a beautiful watch.

"very beautiful."

Ivanka took a closer look. This should be a top Patek Philippe watch. It was obviously made by hand. No matter what angle you look at, the outline of her head can be seen on the sapphire-encrusted dial.

"I like it," she added.

Elegant and restrained, the watch resembles herself.

Ivanka took off the bracelet, handed the watch to Duke, then stretched her wrist over again, "Will you put it on for me?"

"Happy to help." Duke rubbed her wrist lightly. "My.Lady."

"Am I that old?"

Duke shrugged, put on a watch for Ivanka, glanced at the time again, and pulled her out as he reminded, "It's almost time. It's time for us to go down."

Walking to the spiral staircase leading to the banquet hall, Duke walked down first. The music in the banquet hall stopped abruptly, and the eyes of countless guests turned to this side. He raised his hand and led the protagonist of today's banquet down. When Ivanka turned the spiral staircase. Appearing in front of everyone, the banquet hall burst into warm applause.

Ivanka's style is mainly sweet, holding Duke down the spiral staircase, and greeting the guests who came over to say congratulatory words, no matter the etiquette. Or the temperament, both impeccable.

"Evie, you are so beautiful."

Doug Walter came over with his girlfriend and greeted Ivanka. He also made a joke on purpose, "Duke. You have to pay attention tonight, be careful someone else is staring at Ivanka."

"If someone dares to rob me..." Duke replied in a timely manner, "I will definitely throw him into the sea."

"What if it was me?"

A loud and somewhat rebellious voice sounded from the side, Duke smiled apologetically to Doug Walter. Turning around, "Hello Donald, you're late."

Donald Trump seemed a little unhappy, "There was a traffic jam on the way here."

"dad……"

Ivanka let go of Duke's arm, walked over and hugged Donald Trump. Donald's tone was a bit complaining, "I was ready in New York, but you refused to go back."

Turning to look at Duke, Ivanka said softly, "My career is in Los Angeles, and this is a good opportunity to expand my social circle."

As Ivanka said, although this is an extremely important 21st birthday in the United States, after the ceremony such as cutting the cake, it inevitably turned into a social party.

Duke's face is big enough, not only Hollywood celebrities and executives of some big companies, but also many celebrities from Silicon Valley, also attended the birthday party he carefully organized for Ivanka.

Just like Ivanka always indulges him in public, Duke will also consider her. Ivanka is obviously a very professional woman. Duke invited people from the IT industry more for Ivanka. Consider, from a practical point of view, Ivanka is also very happy to be able to make friends with successful people in Silicon Valley.

Many of them are, in a sense, or have been Duke partners.

Such as Yahoo's Jerry Yang, the two founders of Google, and the famous Steve Jobs from Apple.

"I'm also very optimistic about the future of virtual social networking."

After a brief understanding of Ivanka's company, Jobs began to use his eloquence again, "It's just that Apple is currently in a critical stage of transformation, and it is impossible to diversify its energy into this aspect."

Ivanka said with a smile, "I heard that Apple is preparing to re-integrate resources?"

"That's right." Although Jobs was talking to Ivanka, his eyes kept glancing at Duke, and he suddenly said, "Evie, if you want to expand social networking sites, you need a lot of money, are you interested in accepting investment from Apple? "

"If necessary, I will take the initiative to contact you." Ivanka is young, but it is not difficult to deal with this.

Duke raised his eyebrows slightly. He could see that Steve Jobs was not joking, so he was very optimistic about the future of Ivanka?

These real business geniuses and successful people have their own unique vision.

After finishing his conversation with Ivanka, Jobs turned to this side, "Duke, can we talk?"

"sure."

Duke would love to talk to this guy, too, and he and Warner Bros. haven't forgotten about Pixar Studios.

Ivanka was very smart and immediately said to Duke, "I'm going to introduce my friends from the West Coast to Dad."

When Ivanka left, Duke and Jobs walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows facing the sea. It was relatively quiet here and could talk about some work-related matters.

"Duke, I need your support."

Steve Jobs didn't go around in any circles and said directly, "I'm pushing forward with Apple's reforms, but I've encountered a lot of resistance..."

Duke nodded lightly, no matter whether it is a country or an enterprise, every reform will touch the interests of the inherent forces. Although a company like Apple has a deep Jobs brand, it has not yet reached the level of the future. Jobs' own shares are not Not much, and the board is not without opposition.

"What do you need me to do?" Duke said equally directly.

"At the general meeting of shareholders, give me your full support!"

Duke laughed when he heard Jobs' words. Most of the Apple shares in his hands were of the voting rights.

If it weren't for the fact that Apple was once in a quagmire, he could not have gotten this part of the shares. Of course, Steve? Jobs can not return to Apple.

Duke knows a little bit about what kind of person Jobs is. After returning to Apple, he has been eliminating dissidents, but after all, the current Jobs is not the future Jobs, and some enemies are not easily defeated by him alone.

After thinking for a few seconds, Duke looked at Jobs and asked naturally, "What about the conditions?"

"In the future, Apple will inevitably raise financing and expand its shares." Jobs was well prepared and said slowly, "I promise that within the next five years, you will have the right of priority to invest, and you can guarantee your current share of Apple shares."

The promise is tempting, especially for someone like Duke who knows how terrifying the future of Apple is, but in reality?

Duke shook his head and said, "Steve, since 2000, Apple's stock price has been declining, and its market value has shrunk from nearly $10 billion to $6 billion now. How can I be sure that my investment will not go to waste? ?"

Jobs gave only one answer, "Because the leader of Apple is called Steve Jobs!"

"That's not a reason for me to support you."

In some respects, Duke really admires each other, but will not make some decisions that are not in line with his own interests. This is a business meeting, and interests are the criterion for everything.

And talking to people like Steve Jobs is all in vain. Which of these business giants will casually bring personal emotions into business negotiations? Steve Jobs needs support now, but Duke believes that, If the timing is right, Jobs can definitely turn his head and sell him.

Think about it, in order to re-emerge, Jobs can put aside his prejudice with Bill Gates and accept the other party's high investment.

Befriend, develop, and be friends with these people? Even if Duke wanted to, I'm afraid Jobs and others would question the real purpose of his approach.

Duke looked at Jobs. He knew very well that this was just the first condition that Jobs threw. Even if the other party was arrogant, he would not naively think that this would impress him.

After a few seconds of silence, Steve Jobs turned his eyes slightly in the direction of Ivanka, and said, "I personally and Pixar Studio will be stationed on Miss Trump's social networking site, and I will ensure that every three to five days, update Some information on Apple and Pixar animations."

Although when it comes to personal assets, the current Steve Jobs may not be comparable to Duke, but when it comes to influence and appeal in the business world, it is much stronger.

His presence in instant sharing will undoubtedly attract the attention of many business people.

After thinking about it for about half a minute, Duke extended his hand, "It's a pleasure to work with, Steve."

"Happy cooperation." Jobs shook his hand lightly.

The meeting ended, but Duke did not intend to let Jobs leave. "Steve, I heard that the renewal negotiations between Pixar Studios and Walt Disney are progressing slowly. Michael Eisner does not want to make any concessions?"

Just as Duke and Jobs were talking about the Pixar studio, a Latino drove to the gate of the Duke's manor, took out the invitation card and handed it to the security for inspection, entered the manor, parked the car and walked towards the banquet hall.

His eyes are bright and energetic, and his fluffy and messy medium-length hair has a unique literary atmosphere of the independent film circle. (To be continued ~^~)