Chapter 162

After work, Simon returned to Malibu on time today for a party.

After several months of operation, George Norman has taken care of the state government, but Simon still needs to solve the problem of Malibu residents if he wants to get the domay Point Park.

Although the local residents of Malibu seldom pay attention to the domay Point Park, more tourists just visit Malibu and like to climb the sharp corner of the cliff to enjoy the sea view. But after all, domay Point Park is a public place in Malibu. Only with the approval of the community residents can Simon completely turn it into private ownership.

Tonight's party is mainly for community committee representatives and some important residents.

Because of Simon's personal habits, the party was held in Jennie's villa on the east side of domay Point Park.

As soon as she came in, Janet, who was directing the party company's staff to prepare for the scene, came over and whispered to Simon, "I've done it. Our foundation will donate $1 million to the construction of domay point primary school and middle school. Next, we will participate in the lobbying of Malibu's independent construction of the city. Then, they will vote for us to buy domay Point Park. You just have to eat, drink and chat with them tonight. "

in 80s, the real estate bubble in North America promoted a peak period in the construction of Malibu. But Malibu really became hot, or began in 90s, especially after Larry Allison hyped up Malibu property.

Now Malibu is not an independent city, but a district under the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, and it is far less famous than later.

In recent years, Malibu residents have been seeking to build their own city. According to California law, Malibu will no longer be subject to the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Government after obtaining the municipal status, and can make laws alone and refuse various project plans of the Los Angeles County Government.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the urban area, the Los Angeles County Government has been trying to extend many engineering projects to Malibu, and Malibu residents have constantly resisted the plans of expressways, sewage pipes and even nuclear power plants that the county government wants to plug.

It can be imagined that any of the above projects settled in Malibu will hardly become a livable paradise again.

So.

If Simon, a super rich man with abundant financial resources, can settle down in Malibu, it will definitely promote the development of this area. In contrast, a state park, which is usually just a shrubbery, is insignificant, and it is self-evident that residents will make a choice.

At the end of the evening party, there's no suspense.

In a mansion west of Cape Dumay.

In the bedroom, after a shower, Simon went to the bedside, kissed Janet, who was leaning against the bedside reading a magazine, and asked, "in the evening, you said you would donate $1 million to Malibu's primary and secondary schools?"

"Yes," Jennie nodded, but added, "it's not for donation. Malibu doesn't have these schools yet. The residents always want to build it, but the county government doesn't give them money. "

Simon picked up Janet's light body and threw it to the other side of the bed. He sat down on the bed and asked, "that's a good thing. Why don't you give the money?"

Janet was abandoned by Simon and photographed him in a magazine pretending to be angry. Then she said, "two years ago, the county government wanted to build a sewage pipe extending from Santa Monica, which was rejected by this side, and many other things were blocked. It's strange that the residents here are so disobedient and willing to pay. "

"In that case, let's donate more and build a better school. In the future, our kids will go to school here."

"A million dollars is a lot of money, and our kids won't go to the best private schools here."

"Well," Simon nodded with a smile, "it's up to mom to go to school."

Jeanette grinned and saw that Simon was about to turn off the light. She said, "one more thing, the shell company we set up by iceberg recently talked about another building. All the property rights, including the land, add up to $30 million."

With that, Janet pulled open the bedside table drawer, took out a file from it, opened it, and found a flat map on it to show Simon.

To replicate the avenger building in Manhattan, Simon needs to buy six buildings between 59th and 60th streets east of Madison Avenue.

last year, with the collapse of the real estate bubble in the stock market crash, the incident became much easier. The selected plot is not the "universe center" level next to Fifth Avenue. The shell company founded with aunt Janet's help has bought two buildings for $20 million and $35 million respectively. With this one at the moment, Simon got half the land he needed.

Simon looked at the information of the other three buildings marked on the plane map, including a 16 story apartment building, which is the tallest of the six buildings, and obviously the most difficult bone to chew: "is it difficult to continue to acquire next?"

"It's difficult to persuade the residents of this building to sell their houses together. There are two options for those who are not willing to sell their houses. One is that we buy the same apartment nearby and let them move in, and the other is to replace the property of our future building."Simon said: "try to choose the first one as far as possible. It's not convenient to disclose our building plan now."

"I think so too," Jennie nodded. "But Simon, you need to pay attention to your financial situation recently."

The original two buildings have already cost US $55 million, including the next US $30 million, which is already US $85 million.

Simon's previous $300 million cash out from selling Motorola shares has not been much left after several months of spending. Moreover, James Leibold has been investing in new technology enterprises according to Simon's instructions, and now the remaining money is not enough to pay the next $30 million to buy a house.

"Death is coming" and "when Harry meets Sally" have generated revenue one after another, and the financial situation of Denise pictures has been alleviated. But if Simon is looking for a studio for the company, it's a big investment.

It costs money everywhere.

Moreover, Simon will not be able to continue to cash out of the stock market until next year because of the public promise in the process of reducing Motorola's shares.

"Tomorrow, rabold will come over from New York. I'll talk to him first," Simon said after thinking about it for a moment. "Moreover, compared with the assets under my name, my personal debt ratio is still very low. Surely the bank is very willing to lend me money?"

Janet said, "of course, but you don't like to borrow money at all, do you?"

"Yes," Simon nodded and said, "well, where did you hide all the notes I wrote? I should be able to get them back now?"

"I'm not going to give it to you. I want you to owe me for the rest of my life."

"It's cruel."

"Well."

The next day, James Leibold came to Los Angeles and brought Simon the news that he still needed to spend money.

Fortunately, it's all good news Simon likes to hear.

"The valuation of Cisco's new round of financing was finally confirmed as US $120 million. We invested US $18 million to acquire 15% of the company's shares. In addition, quantum link, a small company, recently just wants to operate independently without the cooperation with apple. After negotiation, we invested $5 million to obtain 25% of the shares of the company. At the same time, I got the priority of quantum link's next round of financing. Next is... "

James Leibold recently negotiated equity investments in five companies.

However, Simon only cares about two of them.

It is needless to say that Cisco, which had a market value of more than 600 billion US dollars in the wave of new technology in the late 1990s, has long been targeted by Simon.

Even if it will be diluted in the next many years, even if only 10% is left, at the top of Cisco's share price, the value of this share will reach $60 billion, with a return rate of more than 3000 times.

What's more, Simon will not be satisfied with the current shareholding ratio, and will continue to increase his shareholding next.

Another quantum link was found after Simon's careful search.

Quantum is transliterated as "quantum" in Chinese and originally means "quantum" in English. Therefore, many science and technology enterprises like to use the word quantum. As for quantum link, the company is still unknown, but it became a household name, AOL.

Simon's deepest memory is the collapse of AOL after the merger with Time Warner around the new millennium. At the peak of

, after the merger, AOL Time Warner has a total market capitalization of more than $300 billion, but only a few years later, with the breakdown of the Internet bubble, the market value of the US online fell by more than 90%, and Time Warner was also badly hurt.

, however, before the dotcom bubble burst, AOL is definitely a very worthwhile investment company. What's more, when you think about AOL's peak market value of more than $160 billion at its peak, it's just a price that you can't afford.

If you take the equity of these two companies, the investment of the other three companies is worth losing.

"As for the Qualcomm company in San Diego, they have no financing plan at present, but the other side also said that if they have such intention, they will contact us. Simon, the total amount of these five investments is $65 million, but there is only $28.55 million left on the books of Westeros. If you are sure there is no problem, we may need to make a loan. "

To cash out Motorola's more than 300 million US dollars, in addition to part of the tax reserve, Simon spent more than half of his shares in Microsoft and other companies. He also spent a lot of money to buy the series copyrights such as the Lord of the rings, as well as the expenses of the two buildings in Manhattan.

Now there are 28.55 million left, which is more than that.

Thinking about it from the bottom of his heart, Simon remembered the Gulfstream IV Business plane he had ordered. The price of the bare machine was $16 million, and the decoration cost was about $18 million.Simon just paid a part of the deposit at the beginning, and the plane will be delivered next month, which just allows Simon to fly to Europe to attend the Cannes Film Festival in France. But Simon also needs to pay the rest of the balance, which is another expense.

The budget of Manhattan building, the investment budget of five technology companies, and the budget of private aircraft, but these three items need about $100 million.

Simon is unlikely to sell his stake in Westeros. Because of the nature of Westeros, it is very difficult to issue bonds to the public. So loans are basically Simon's only option.

Although he doesn't like to borrow money in essence, Simon also knows that borrowing money is necessary for his career to expand rapidly.

Moreover, compared with Simon's current wealth, only danilisi film's loan, his personal debt ratio is less than 10%, which is absolutely very low among the rich people, and the bank is certainly willing to lend him money.

After a careful discussion with James Leibold, Simon made a decision to continue lending $100 million.

After dealing with personal financial problems, April is coming to an end unconsciously.

After two weeks of continuous release, "when Harry meets Sally" grossed more than $70 million in North American box office, which was the top 10 in North American box office last year. Although the box office in a single week has fallen to less than $8 million, with the continuous release of the film, "when Harry meets Sally", there is no doubt that the local box office will exceed $100 million.

The selection of the leading actor of Batman has been going on all the time, which inevitably becomes the focus of the media. The five-film contract and the 15 year contract period make many people think that Simon westero is crazy. The contract was also called "Hollywood's slavery contract" by a newspaper.

No matter how the outside world commented, danielis pictures didn't mean to give way, and still pushed forward its plan step by step.

Meanwhile, Simon is also planning to move the two special effects software companies to Los Angeles.

The wave front technologies company in San Francisco is relatively easy to run. Americans have no habit of moving back to their homes. The mode of moving to trigger plots in Hollywood movies and TV plays is rampant.

Simon chose an office building in Santa Monica, and most of the staff moved quickly. Toronto's alias research company has some problems, because it is a Canadian company, involving overseas labor problems, but it will basically solve them in the next one or two months.

It's about the set.

Simon can see that Amy is obviously looking forward to him buying the MGM set in Culver City, because in the past, when Simon wanted to spend a lot of money on some projects, Amy would always persuade him, but this time he didn't.

But after careful consideration, Simon decided to put it off.

He didn't really feel much about the MGM set. Even, compared with Fox's Century City studio, Paramount's Hollywood studio and universal and Warner's studio in Burbank, the MGM studio in Culver City is just a real estate, and its value-added potential is not too great.

Moreover, Simon is also looking forward to building a new shooting base.

So busy, in May, Simon's Gulfstream IV Business plane was successfully delivered, and the Cannes Film Festival also came.