Of course not!
Andy make complaints about it in his heart, but he didn't show any unnecessary expression on his face. He laughed and said, "Mr. Stic, cooperation is certainly no problem. I would like to cooperate with you and manage the giants. After all, this is an old NFL team. If I take over the team from the Mara family, I will have a lineup adjustment next. My goal is to win the world championship. Army, Super Bowl! "
Preston listened to Andy's words and nodded his understanding. Knowing that the smiling young man in front of him was waiting to ask himself, he had to ask: "so, how much is it?"
Andy chuckled and said: "in the first year, not too much, you and I each put out 100 million US dollars to transfer players. It will not take long to build the giants into a champion team."
Preston said, shaking his head and laughing, "you're squeezing me away with money, young man, you win. Let your team contact me and say a good price, 49% of the $100 million share belongs to you!"
"Thank you!" Andy knows that the other side must understand how to use money to smash the team. If the other side is as good as himself and dares to play golden dollar football like this, it's useless. But now it seems that he's not the one who doesn't need money.
After a few more words, Ivana appeared at Andy's side at the right time. Andy put his arm around her waist and shuttled among the guests. Ivana was just like a fish in water for this kind of social Jiao occasion. The guests were amazed by the charm she showed.
"In addition to the Rockets, do you want to buy the New York Giants?" Warren Buffett and his little wife are chatting in a small circle with William III and Amanda, the head of the Hearst family. When they see Andy holding Ivana, they ask.
"Yes, I like sports. I don't play basketball or rugby very well, but I think it's a good choice to have a team and a good investment project." Andy chooses to avoid Amanda like a sharp arrow in essence, and directly answers Buffett's question.
A few people nearby can only look envious of Andy's big spending. The rockets and the giants need at least $500.6 billion. God, what an enviable young man!
At this moment, Ivana is also very proud, inadvertently and Amanda's eyes meet, if you change, you can see two women's eyes flashing electric sparks.
"It's a good idea. I'm surprised that your financial management philosophy tends to be conservative at your age. I thought you would continue to invest in the financial market." Although William III Hearst knew that his niece was a little tangled with Andy, his elders would not be involved in the affairs of the younger generation, but the excellence level of Andy, a young man, was rarely comparable to it. Thinking of what, he said to Andy with a smile: "your free city technology company, WhatsApp, if you want to finance, remember to give it to Andy I'll make a call! "
His words immediately attracted the attention of a group of people, who immediately thought that Andy, in addition to setting up two funds and doing some benefit sharing, his company has been eating alone. People who have paid close attention to Andy in Mockingbird game know that it is impossible for him to raise funds. That company is now a money printing machine and does not need to expand at all. The profits it makes every day can make this game company a unicorn company in the industry.
WhatsApp is different. With the popularity of Apple's smart phones, which everyone had seen decline at the beginning, everyone saw the potential of the smart phone market. With the popularity of the software, which is widely accepted and welcomed by more and more users, Andy's free city technology company has also become a branch with great potential in the eyes of many investors and investment companies Technology company.
As long as users grow, its value will double, double, and double again. The value of ten billion dollars can be reached in an instant, which is the typical rising mode of technology companies such as it industry.
For a company like WhatsApp to develop, it needs a lot of money to burn. Andy can choose to play by himself, but ultimately it needs to be taken out. Win win cooperation, benefit sharing, and glory sharing are generally the development mode of American enterprises. Eating alone is certainly OK, but we also need to prepare for all things that can be solved by ourselves. Look at the miserable situation of AOL To understand, in the United States, eating alone is definitely not a good thing.
"Yes, but its value is not enough. Now it's still a baby, users need explosive growth, and profit plans need to come up with solutions. To achieve these two points is the most suitable time for financing! " Andy laughs confidently. "It has this potential. It's not just a tool to send free text messages. It's just the initial version now. There are many powerful functions that haven't been added. It will be an indispensable application for every mobile phone. No one can do without it!"
"Andy, you have a genius brain. You can make a lot of money every time you think of something. You have to be admired." An investment company billionaire said with envious eyes.
This sentence is also recognized by everyone around us. When WhatsApp passes through the difficult period at the beginning, with the increasing number of users, the value of watspur will go further, but it will attract more investors to pile in.Ivana took Andy's arm and kept an elegant posture. She looked at the time and whispered in Andy's ear, "honey, it's almost time. The dinner party can start."
Andy nodded, smiled and put the glass on the tray of the nearest waiter. He nodded and smiled to several people around him, and invited all the distinguished guests to the table.
As everyone found their own seats one by one, the prepared waiters began to shuttle between the guests and pour wine. The dishes for dinner tonight were carefully prepared by Ivana, reaching as many as 31 courses, including a large number of high-end classic ingredients. The chief chef of four seasons hotel also prepared for a long time. While emphasizing the appearance of the dishes, he hoped to bring out the ingredients Our delicious food makes all guests have a pleasant journey of delicious food.
The dinner officially began. The front meal is flounder, scallop with seaweed, yellow cream and caviar. While the guests enjoy the delicious food, the orchestra on one side of the small stage begins to play melodious and soothing music.
Andy, with a charming smile on his face, stood up from the main seat on the left and nodded to the left and right. "Dear Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor to join you tonight. First of all, I'd like to thank my girlfriend Ivana, who has prepared for this dinner party for a long time, almost from the style of tableware The selection of sample materials, no details, thank you... Of course, she is an incomparable beauty! "
Voice fell, Ivana listened to the warm applause of the guests, looked up the wave in her eyes, looked at her boyfriend with a happy and infatuated eyes, a charming smile on her face.
"day in and day out is a great honor for us to be here. We want to thank Mr. Paulson and Mr. Bernanke, and the outstanding work of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury staff, for the rescue of the subprime mortgage crisis triggered by the US property bubble."
"Ha ha..." All present clapped their hands and laughed.
“。。。。。。 All of you, distinguished leaders, I propose a toast to our rare gathering and dialogue tonight, to ourselves, to Wall Street and to the prosperity of America. Thank you
The applause was mingled with happy laughter. Even though Bernanke and Paulson and the CEO of Morgan Stanley who had just been teased kept shaking their heads and laughing, Andy was relaxed, confident, humorous and funny, which diluted the shadow of the subprime crisis in some people's hearts. After all, the damage of the subprime crisis to the billionaires here was still Very small, but more of the impact of their own companies, Wall Street, the economic environment.
This is also why after the subprime crisis, the rich people on Wall Street are still running, dancing and dancing, and the luxury life continues, which causes people's sharp rebound and the event of occupying Wall Street.
The main purpose of Andy's dinner is to give this group of Wall Street executives, billionaires in charge of funds, Treasury Secretary Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, a chance to have a positive contact and discuss.
It's important to know that Paulson and John Thain, the current chief executive of NYSE, are both from Goldman Sachs. Because of the principle of avoidance, meeting in private has attracted too much attention. The argument of conspiracy theory will cause them a headache.
At the annual meeting of Goldman Sachs in Russia, Paulson would use the opportunity of visiting Russia to sneak away and meet with the senior management of Goldman Sachs to discuss the subprime mortgage crisis. The problem is that he never escaped the eyes of reporters and was sprayed with blood.
Andy watched the guests enjoy the delicious food and nodded frequently for appreciation of the taste of the food. At the same time, he whispered to the people around him who had specially arranged seats. He smiled with satisfaction. He looked at Ivana, who had been smiling like a crescent moon. He picked up the wine cup and met his girlfriend with a pleasant and gentle smile.
When a gentleman and lady left the dinner table with a satisfied look and went back to the banquet hall, and continued to gather in groups to drink sweet wine and chat after dinner, Andy did not surround Paulson and Bernanke with a group of Wall Street CEOs who were in a mess Not interested, but Andy has already prepared the rest area of the swimming pool on the second floor for them to hold the secret meeting.
He is now sitting in a corner lounge with David Dunne, a football mogul from England, sipping wine and discussing the Premier League club's problems.