Chapter 1094： tear

Manhattan, US online headquarters.

At the end of the signing ceremony for the equity transfer, Steve Case was finally relieved.

After completing the equity transaction, the pressure that the firefly system has brought to Steve Case has long since disappeared.

As long as the merger between AOL and Time Warner goes smoothly, the 7.6% stake held by Firefly Investment will be compressed again. The new AOL-Time Warner Group will be a publicly held company. Without the large shareholder with sufficient shareholding and influence, the control of the new company will be fully controlled by the board of directors and management.

As the established chairman and CEO of the new company in the future, there is no doubt that Steve Case will become the head of the upcoming comprehensive media giant.

Every time I think of this, Steve Case can't help but feel a little more satisfied. He believes that as long as the merger is completed, with the synergy effect of one plus one and two, AOL-Time Warner Group will definitely surpass Yahoo and become the leading Internet media giant in North America.

The waiters waiting for the side gave champagne to everyone. Steve Case took a glass of wine and smiled and took the lead to the heads of several Wall Street investment funds who helped him.

After negotiations, the stock trading price of this equity transfer was finally determined to be $93, which was only $0.69 lower than the average US online stock price in the past week. AOL's stock has undergone a stock split, the current total share capital is 825 million shares, and the number of shares held by the clover fund is about 25.57 million shares. According to the transaction price of 93 dollars, the transaction size reached 2.3 billion 7800. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

Steve Case originally hoped that Eric could make a discount like the previous transactions, but Eric’s attitude was very firm this time, only agreeing to erase a dispensable fraction, so that the scale is not The 1% of the stock price is basically equal to no concession at all.

Recently, with the Nasdaq index exceeding 2,800 points, Wall Street’s concerns about the Nasdaq’s collapse have become more and more intense, and many investment institutions are trying their best to sell technology stocks. If it is not optimistic about the development potential of AOL and Time Warner, Wall Street will not shoot at this time.

Eric is reluctant to give in. Steve Case has no choice. After an additional board seat, several investment funds on Wall Street finally agreed to take over the stock in the hands of the Shamrock Fund.

At the end of last year's "New York Times" interview, coupled with this dispute over the price of the transaction, Steve Case and Eric's good relationship with the AFI from the Firefly system to invest in AOL has also completely disappeared. Although AOL and Yahoo still have some cooperation, it is conceivable that the relationship between the two sides will be more inclined to competition and opposition.

Therefore, at the simple reception after the signing ceremony, Steve Case was not even too lazy to maintain the superficial harmony, and with the heads of several Wall Street funds talking and laughing, completely represented the representative of the firefly system involved in the signing ceremony. Passers-by.

Eric is quite able to understand the emotions of Steve Case. If this kind of thing falls on himself, he will not be able to maintain his demeanor.

However, since the other party regarded himself as a passerby, Eric was not bored to continue, and soon left with Chris and others.

Since the sale of AOL stocks last year, Eric has decided to invest all of the funds that have been cashed in the next year or two for short-term convertible bonds that are worthy of insurance and sufficient insurance. The funds obtained this time do not need to be discussed too much. . The Nasdaq market has fallen into a completely unpredictable state of madness, although Eric is full of confidence in the Nasdaq’s previous curve, as much as possible to suppress stocks that do not sell the clover fund in advance, but at this time, he does not dare Enter the market to buy technology stocks.

Today is the last day of the New York Fall and Winter Fashion Week. Giselle will be the finale of the fashion week of the Calvin-Klein brand tonight, and Eric promised to give her a favor.

However, the closing big show started at 6 o'clock in the evening, and now it is only two o'clock in the afternoon. After Eric and Chris respectively, they rushed to a building on 46th Street. The TV production company established by Cindy and Linda was In this building.

Seeing Eric appeared, the bright-eyed blonde at the front desk personally led him to the door of a conference room. Seeing that Eric had never said anything, he was not willing to turn and leave.

Eric pushed the door open and found that Linda was no longer, but another supermodel Tyra Banks was sitting down at the conference table with Cindy and whispering something. When they heard the movement, the two women looked up together and suddenly Showing a surprise expression, got up and greeted him.

Eric gently embraced the two women and smiled and asked Tara Banks: "Tara, are there no catwalks today?"

"No," said Tyra Banks, shaking her head, but it seemed to add something: "We can't compete for young people."

Eric just smiled and sat down at the conference table, looking at the information on the table, saying: "What are you talking about, and, Linda?"

"Tella's talk show program," Cindy sat down next to Eric, saying: "Linda is outside, just have a call to find her, you didn't see it?"

Eric had not had time to shake his head, the conference room door was pushed away again, and Linda Ivangolinsta, who was holding the phone in his hand, came in. Tyra Banks just sat down on the other side of Eric and saw Linda go straight to her position and had to get to the side.

Before I sat down, Linda began to ‘thinking to ask the sin’: “You guy, once seduce the girls of our company, I didn’t even see me standing nearby, I have already fired her.”

Eric reluctantly said: "Are you really a boss like this?"

"Hey," Linda snorted twice, and changed her style. "I and Cindy have seen you play Iron Man," although the beard is hard to read, but Eric, You are really good at dyeing your hair dark, and the blonde looks a little mature."

Eric shook his head and said, "I don't like dyeing my hair."

After chatting a few gossips, Tyra Banks gave a premature leave, and Linda was excited to find a laptop and show Eric her own electronic account: "$168 million, I think This is enough for me to spend a lifetime. However, Cindy’s more scary, more than $280 million, I’m angry when I think about it. When you first pointed out Cindy’s investment, I didn’t even tell me, otherwise I’m definitely more than her. rich."

During this time, following Eric's suggestion, both Cindy and Linda sold all the stocks they held, and the two women became the supermodels of the fashion industry.

Although the income of top-level supermodels has increased significantly in recent years, even if you can calculate the expected income in the future, there will be very few people who can eventually accumulate more than 100 million net worth. Only this, Cindy and Linda can stand up in the long run. The position of the big sister in the fashion industry.

“Very good,” Eric said with a smile at his laptop screen. “Would you like to do something next?”

Linda said: "No, you help us plan?"

Eric single-handedly tried to think about it, then shook his head and smiled: "Too little, nothing can be done, or keep it as a pocket money."

When I heard Eric’s words, Linda, who was in the middle of excitement, finally remembered the man’s horrible body, and hugged Eric’s arm and shook it. “I’ve seen the report, and many media have It’s no big deal to say that more than half of your assets are just a bunch of bubbles.”

The new Forbes rich list will be released next month, and Eric really hopes that everyone will think so when it comes, and the pressure on him will definitely be much reduced.

After making a joke, Eric carefully helped the two women to make investment advice.

Together, less than 500 million US dollars of funds, for Eric, it is really too little, most of the firefly system needs Eric's personal attention to the project, such as the '4200' plan being promoted, or has begun construction. The Firefly Studios Park is not supported by the $500 million.

However, if you don't compare it with the Firefly Group, this money is definitely a huge amount that can't be ignored for most companies in the world.

I was discussing it with the two women. Eric’s cell phone rang and looked at the caller ID. Eric did not avoid it. He smiled and connected the phone and put it to his ear: “Hey, Giselle... now. Nothing, I am on the side of Cindy... Of course, I will definitely be on time, and I will go with Cindy and Linda to cheer you up... Well, then, goodbye."

After Eric and Giselle finished talking, Linda just slammed the phone and said, "I didn't promise to give her a favor."

Eric took a look at Linda’s expression and turned to see Cindy: “Are you quarreling with Giselle?”

"No," Cindy shook her head and said, "But you can't expect us to get along with them."

"You, they," Eric keenly caught two keywords and smiled: "It sounds like a story."

Cindy just laughed and didn't speak.

Linda couldn't help but said: "You don't know, your Brazilian little honey is amazing now. A few months ago, WM launched a newcomer, the foundation is very good. Just, WM designed her. The development route is exactly the same as that of Bangchen. They are all healthy and natural. They also compare her with Bangchen in a magazine, and then the girl is unlucky."

Eric did not understand some places, what does WM mean?

Looking at Cindy, the girl took the pen very aptly, and wrote two words in the blank space: Women-Management.

WM, Women-Management, Women Management Company.

I think it should be a model agency, but there is no way to compare it with the giants of model brokerage industry such as Elite, IMG and Ford.

Linda saw Cindy's little trick, saying: "WM is Women-Management. It's also explained. Kate Moss's North American brokerage contract is in this company, but now Hailuo is out of style because of beauty. They I am in a hurry to transform. Well, what have I just said?"

Eric smiled: "The girl is unlucky."

"Yes," Linda nodded, saying: "WM originally arranged 15 shows for the girl at this New York Fashion Week. Guess who she finally went a few times?"

"zero?"

Linda gently slammed it on Eric's shoulder, and then erected three fingers: "3 games, I heard that the girl knew that her Dior had been robbed after the first game, and it collapsed directly."

Eric looked at Linda’s little expression of a rabbit’s dead fox, but he didn’t feel much in his heart.

He is actually a very short-term person. It is impossible to be biased toward other people’s homes.

Moreover, Eric has always liked a woman with a strong personality, and a woman with too soft a temper is not long around him. It is like riding a horse. The most brave warrior in ancient times will naturally choose a hot horse with a hot character.

Stretching his hand on Linda's chin, Eric laughed: "Don't say so poor, don't you bully others?"

"No," Linda shook her head in a big voice, and turned to Cindy in a blink of an eye. She began to rebel against the revolution: "She did this. In the autumn show of THIERRY-MUGLER in 1991, she directly pushed with other models on the runway." It’s up, it’s ruining the whole show. Oh, I remember that the designers of THIERRY-MUGLER were crying.”

When I heard Linda’s own black history, Cindy had an indifferent appearance. “Everyone knows that it’s obviously Naomi Campbell’s first pick. When I stepped onto the runway, the scene was already messed up. It is."

Linda said: "Then the news of the next day is the news of 'Cindy Crawford pushing other models'."

Cindy proudly glanced at her: "This shows that I am the most famous, not a cat or a puppy."

The two women fought two mouths, Linda suddenly came to the interest, holding Eric's arm and said: "Right, I really want to give you the Brazilian little honey tonight, CK also invited this time. The girl, it seems that she has not heard the news that she was pushed out. Well, the scene must be very lively, maybe it will be played this time."

Linda’s gloating in the 42nd Street office, Bryant Park, the upcoming CK closing show, the scene is already very lively.

Seeing that Giselle hangs up Eric Williams’s phone call, Tom Cory, the CK Operations Director responsible for this big show, is a bitter to explain to the girl who is sitting at the dressing table and letting the make-up artist make up the makeup. Road: "Giselle, just a very inconspicuous appearance, everyone will not notice her, and now the adjustment is too late, you just don't exist, okay?"

Giselle did not concede at all: "She shouldn't have existed, anyway, you decide, or I quit, oh, Fernanda, Qus, they also quit with me, or you let her disappear, I don't see her in the background."

Tom Cory thought for a moment and said, "This way, I let her alone in other makeup, leave immediately after the end, will never appear in front of you."

Giselle waved his hand to indicate that the makeup artist first walked away and turned to look at Tom Corey. The girl was clearly doing it, but she looked like a condescending one. "Tom, I really don't want to find trouble, if it is other time, I Maybe don't care, but Eric will come over tonight, you should understand what I mean, I don't want to see her appear on the runway, this matter is not discussed."