Chapter 811

He soon fell in love with a beautiful, delicate, eccentric, stubborn and bold little man in his arms. He let the child shout his father and chat with him all the time. In the early morning, the little guy finally got sleepy. Instead, the little hand holding Simon's skirt was tighter. He wanted to sleep together and his mother to sleep with him.

Simon agreed with a smile. He picked up the little girl who was still wrapped around him like a koala and looked at Shuer higgina. The woman understood and got up to lead the way to the bedroom on the third floor. The person in her arms was asleep. However, Simon just put the little guy down and immediately woke up again. He just grabbed Simon again and asked his father where he was going.

Simon patiently explained that he had to brush his teeth before going to bed and would be back soon.

Lilliputian is not willing to leave even at this point of time. He says that he can brush his teeth very well and help, and then he climbs to Simon again.

When she comes to the bathroom, schulshiggina finds a brand-new spare toothbrush from the locker. As expected, the little guy helps Simon brush his teeth. He stands on the washstand supported by Simon. He is very serious. He tosses up and down for seven or eight minutes. Finally, he does not forget to take a glass of water to let Simon gargle.

In fact, I still want to take a bath. This time is definitely not suitable.

After brushing his teeth, the little guy immediately entangled Simon and had to go back to the big bed with him. After washing, Shuer higgina came out and lay on the other side under the little guy's command. Then he showed a very satisfied expression and proposed to listen to the song. Shuershiggina is worried that Simon will be impatient with his daughter's pestering. She is about to take over the job, and Simon has agreed.

Feel free to think of a children's song and start humming.

The little guy was very picky and said that he didn't like it. He wanted to change it. Simon patiently changed it several times, until he was satisfied with a song "good cat".

The bedroom is dark.

On the big bed, it was like a family of three with a soft male voice.

*Good cat, warm cat.

*Little plush ball.

*Happy cat, sleepy cat.

*Meow, meow, meow.

The next day, I still got up very early. I wanted to leave before the little guy got up. I didn't expect that the little guy around me would wake up just now. I thought that he would be forgotten after one night. The child's memory is always unreliable. However, the little girl just said good morning to Simon politely. She still called her father affectionately and said that she wanted to eat chocolate cake in the morning, which her mother never allowed before.

Simon won't allow it either.

Bargain for a while and give up obediently.

Shuer higgina also woke up at the same time, her eyes were red, and she didn't want to be seen by Simon and the children, so she took the initiative to hide in the bathroom.

After all, the child was sleepy. It was confirmed that Simon would call her to get up at breakfast. Soon he closed his eyes and went back to sleep until eight o'clock. After breakfast, Simon is leaving and the children are going to kindergarten.

I thought it would happen last night, but the little guy didn't pester Simon any more. He looked like a little adult and asked Simon when he would come to see her next time. Simon said that he would pick up the baby if he had time, so he was very satisfied and personally sent Simon to the door.

When I got on the bus, I looked back, and the mother and daughter were still standing in the door.

Seeing Simon looking back, Lilliputian waved his hand to Simon again, but his eyes were obviously reluctant to part with him. When he looked at Shuer higgina again, it was the same.

That makes sense.

About what kind of mother, teach what kind of child.

A girl over three years old, perhaps instilled by her mother, instinctively feels that it is a matter of course that her father is not around for a long time.

Until he left, Simon didn't express his attitude to the little guy calling his father. In fact, it's a kind of default. However, Simon is not a man full of paternal love in his heart. He also knows that it's the best choice for his children to continue to stay with schulthina.

Back at Kensington Garden Street, Simon and his entourage rushed to Heathrow airport.

Set out for North America.

Because of the time difference, it takes 10 hours to fly from London to Los Angeles and arrive at the destination. It is still the morning of May 4 on the west coast of the United States.

This time accumulated a lot of business, arrived in Los Angeles, Simon directly into the work.

Simon is not in Los Angeles this time, personally finalized Stallone as the hero of the game of the brave series, the two sides officially signed the trilogy contract.

Unlike Schwarzenegger's top salary of $15 million, Stallone, whose popularity has declined in recent years, only gets a base salary of $10 million.

However, the share of the following two films is the same as that of Schwarzenegger, which is 10% and 20% of the gross profit of the global box office, that is, Denise and Warner Bros. take back the share of the global box office minus the production and publicity budget stipulated in the contract, which is one grade lower than the box office share without cost deduction.

The project must be profitable for Stallone to get a share.

After the contract was finalized, the first draft of the script tailored for Stallone has been completed, and there are some videos of Stallone's audition.Hollywood first-line stars, at the level of Stallone, usually have few auditions. In the original Godfather series, Marlon Brando was insulted because he was asked to audition by the studio before shooting. When the film was on fire, he resolutely refused to participate in the second film.

The legendary male star's unruly also led to his now miserable old age.

Simon was very satisfied with Stallone's attitude and made up his mind that in addition to this project, he would cooperate in the future.

As a matter of fact, the two projects we are working on now are "game of the brave" which will start shooting at the end of the year. While preparing for this film, Stallone will participate in James Mangold's "police Empire" with a nominal base salary of $60000. As a prize winning film planned for next year's award season, in addition to Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro and Harvey Kay All of them will take part in the film with the basic salary stipulated by the trade union, so the budget of the film is only $10 million.

On the other hand, Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed another project of Warner Bros., the order of evaporation.

Terry Semel also made a special call to Simon for this.

Simon didn't deliberately put pressure on the project to spoil it.

The secret order of evaporation in my memory was Arnold's last big selling project in the 1990s. Then, the star's coffee seat only existed in the terminator series, which repeatedly restarted and failed. Warner Bros. still wants to get rid of the influence on the DC movie universe.

In a word, because "Terminator 2" is a collaboration between danielis and fox, the copyright of "terminator" series is now jointly owned by the two companies. In recent years, some people have been interested in restarting this series, but Simon does not intend to let the follow-up of "terminator" series appear.

There is no need to waste market resources repeatedly.

Of course, if someone is willing to spend a lot of money to buy half of the copyright in Denise's hands, as in memory, up to $60 million, even if only half of it, Simon will agree. After all, it's more expensive than Simon paying tens of millions of dollars to buy out the copyright of Tolkien's novel series.

The three cooperation projects are scheduled for next summer's mummy. After the leading actor and heroine are finalized, the progress of this period is also smooth.

In the end, there's only one "Thunderbolt baby".

Simon has already selected Kate Beckinsale and has two other roles. In fact, Linda WAGGS, Simon's casting director, has been following up. Although he was not in Los Angeles during this period, Simon still watched a lot of audition videos.

The other two angels are basically confirmed.

Kate Beckinsale belongs to the cool type.

According to Simon's design, he needs a beautiful snake and scorpion. After several deliberation, he chooses Macon Amick, who is famous in Hollywood with David Lynch's bimodal.

Simon met each other at a party in the process of visiting "this man from the earth" in Toronto at the end of last year. At that time, he gave some advice, hoping that the other party would mend her acting skills. Obviously, the actress didn't turn a deaf ear to Simon's words, and the audition effect was much better than the performance in last year's "snake and scorpion lover".

With enough experience, up to standard acting skills, basic dancing skills, and willing to sign a long-term contract, the other party finally got the role.

The last candidate, Simon, wanted to be politically correct.

I couldn't convince myself.

In the 1990s, Hollywood's political correctness did not reach that level, just like the phenomenal American drama "sex and the city" series, in which the four female owners were all white, and the fire was still burning, and "the underworld family" did not force in one or two prominent black people.

So the last character falls on Catherine Zeta Jones.

This famous old man killer in Hollywood has developed well in recent years, including Simon's quiet promotion, such as the heroine of "star gate" directed by Michael Bay last year, the heroine of "the sea of algae" adapted from a British novel by gaomen pictures, and even the heroine of "ambition of the earth" who has an affair with Tom Cruise.

As a result, Catherine Zeta Jones, the three female owners of "baby thunderbolt", is relatively the highest ranking. The other two female stars have rich acting experience, but they have not participated in such blockbusters as "Stargate".

Catherine Zeta Jones also belongs to the beautiful type, but this kind of beauty belongs to the enthusiastic and unrestrained style, not the snake and scorpion beauty positioning of Macon amik.

In a word, Simon will maintain the unity of the three angels through the details of clothing modeling, so as to give the audience a sense that the three belong to the same whole. However, the three will also have their own strong personal style and different role skills, forming obvious differences.

Just like "the game of the brave", shooting of "Thunderbolt baby" also started at the end of the year. The three main characters have decided to work hard for their roles in the second half of the year. Simon also according to the memory of information, from the other side of the ocean invited professional martial arts guidance, to the three people developed up to three months of professional physical training plan.In addition to the three cooperation projects, Cameron's Titanic and Tim Burton's Brokeback valley are also progressing smoothly.

In addition to Hollywood, after more than a month's operation in Silicon Valley, igritte has completed a large-scale employee stock ownership plan.

In order to ensure that the IPO price is less than $50 and stimulate the market's enthusiasm to buy the stock, the igritte team also directly split the shares during the holding plan.

When the plan was completed, the new technology giant's total equity reached 3.795 billion shares.

As the largest shareholder, westero holds 2.561 billion shares, accounting for 67.5%.

Although in recent years, the voice of abolishing the multiple ownership structure of enterprises is growing, this time, igritte still adopts the dual ownership structure.

The 2.561 billion shares held by Westeros are all class B shares with voting rights equivalent to 10 times of common shares. Only Westeros owns such shares. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, which participated in the investment in the past two years, still hold only class A shares.

Therefore, even if the shareholding ratio is greatly reduced, the voting right of igritte owned by westero is still as high as more than 90%.

Then, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the shareholding ratio fell to 3.75%, holding 142 million shares.

The big four of igritte, Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, respectively took 4% of the shares, holding 151 million shares. Alice Ferguson took 2% of the shares, holding 76 million shares. However, each of the four is still in the next employment contract period, enjoying another 1% of igrit shares that have been cashed in succession.

Apart from the major shareholders, all other employees of igrit share the remaining 7% of the company's shares, totaling 265 million shares.

The company has more than 25000 employees.

Compared with a large number of shares obtained by several core companies, 25000 employees enjoy 265 million shares, which seems to be very few. In fact, according to the initially determined issue price of US $30, the total value of these shares has reached US $7.95 billion, equivalent to an average bonus of US $310000 for each employee.

Of course, the actual distribution will not be so even.

For example, Ralph Goodall, the chief engineer of cloud computing team who successfully implemented igrit cloud computing plan, Michael novarek, the head of 58list team, and other key department executives second only to the big four, also received awards ranging from millions to tens of millions of shares, including the total number of executives who obtained more than 3 million shares through awards and subscription That's 19.

According to the issue price of $30, it basically means that 19 people will be promoted to the ranks of billionaires in this IPO.

In addition, the total number of employees who obtained between 300000 and 3 million shares also reached 163, which means 163 multimillionaires. Finally, there are a group of employees between 30000 shares and 300000 shares, and the number is more 532, that is 732 millionaires.

It's just that less than 1000 core companies actually share about 200 million shares out of 265 million shares.

The remaining 60 million shares fell into the hands of other employees. Most of them could only get one or two thousand shares. Of course, it was worth tens of thousands of dollars.

In fact, this strong uneven distribution caused a lot of dissatisfaction, but Simon did not compromise.

What igritte needs to lock in is only the core 1000 employees.

Others, if willing to give up the award, Simon did not refuse the other party to change jobs.

This period of time is also the last period for other peers to dig a corner from igritte in a short time. Afterwards, everyone will sign a new contract and relevant non competition agreement. Because I feel that the equity distribution of igritte is not fair enough, many people choose to give up the reward they deserve and switch jobs.

For this kind of situation, igritte team will try their best to retain, and will not make trouble after failure, and let the other party leave.

The ESOP was completed and, according to the original plan, should have formally filed a prospectus with the sec.

However, after internal discussions, everyone unanimously decided to postpone the process.

The main purpose is to wait for the passage of the capital gains tax reform bill in May.

Because, after the completion of the ESOP, of the total 714 million shares planned to be issued to the public, only 531 million new shares will be used to raise funds. The other 183 million shares, with a total value of US $5.49 billion according to the issue price, belong to the shares that Goldman Sachs, Morgan and some senior executives intend to cash out.

Even if the capital gains tax reform bill is passed, a group of executives who have just obtained shares can not enjoy the lowest tax rate if they choose to cash out. Therefore, most of them come from Goldman Sachs and Morgan. The two companies have been holding igrit shares for more than a year and will be able to enjoy a minimum tax rate of 15%.It can be imagined that if things are exposed ahead of time and under the pressure of public opinion, the capital gains tax reform bill, which will be finally voted on, is likely to change.

That could mean hundreds of millions of extra dollars in taxes.

And it's bad for a lot of people.

now I Gerrit, because of the continuous rapid growth of all aspects of business, as long as it can ensure that the Internet bubble will burst before the listing, the late listing will be more beneficial to shareholders. Therefore, we are not worried. After the capital gains tax reform bill is finally passed, we will submit the prospectus to SEC.

At that time, even if the public opinion is still turbulent, it is absolutely impossible to change what has been finalized in a short time.