Dume Point Estate.
In the master bedroom of Shell Villa, Jennifer was the first to wake up, feeling the breath of the man next to her, and instinctively moved her body towards him.
Then I realized something.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Janet's charming and sleeping face on the other side of him.
What happened last night came back to my mind.
The two women left early, and the female assistant was dragged by Janet to Dume Point Manor. It was nothing at first, but after 11 o'clock, Simon hadn't come back yet, and Janet complained that a certain guy was probably fooling around again. , threatening that she would also 'fool around', so the female assistant was pulled and taken into the master bedroom of the villa.
Unexpectedly, the two of them took a bath together, took care of each other before going to bed, and went to bed together. Before they fell asleep, Simon came back.
Just remember a thought.
Think of it as a reward for not going out fooling around.
At this time, when I woke up, I could not help but feel embarrassment and shyness in my heart.
She gently retracted her arm around the man's chest, trying to get up and escape secretly. Within a few movements, Janet on the other side hummed twice, rubbed her face against Simon's shoulder, and suddenly opened her eyes, directly facing the person opposite. The female assistants looked at each other.
After quietly observing the female assistant for a moment, Janet looked like she had been caught stealing a kitten. With a mischievous smile on her face, Janet pushed the man hard.
Simon woke up immediately.
With the warmth and fragrance in his arms, Simon naturally stretched out his arms and hugged them together, greeting: "Good morning, darling..."
confirmed.
It's all 'honey'.
It's just that these 'babies' sound really weird.
What a bastard.
The female assistant thought to herself, so she simply closed her eyes again and pretended to be an ostrich, expecting Janet to leave first.
So shameful.
Janet was obviously not satisfied with a certain guy's 'babies' either. She opened her small white teeth and nibbled on Simon's shoulder a few times, and said: "Asshole, get up quickly. You are personally responsible for today's breakfast."
After being pushed and bitten by Janet for a while, Simon had no choice but to get up first.
After Simon left, the female assistant was helplessly caught and touched by Janet, and finally escaped.
But he was too embarrassed to go downstairs and hid in a bathroom. In order to buy time, he simply took a comfortable bath.
At a certain moment, I remembered something.
It seemed like no safety measures were used during the make-out session last night.
He used to be very self-conscious.
Obviously the situation is different. As for the two women, when the man is interested, of course he doesn't want to be restrained.
Moreover, it happens to be a dangerous period recently.
Soaking in the bathtub, I hesitated for a long time and finally decided to let nature take its course.
After dilly-dallying for a long time, I finally had to go downstairs.
The huge shell villa seemed very quiet, and the beautiful maids had obviously been sent away. Because Simon prepared the breakfast himself, it seemed very simple.
Men don’t have much talent in cooking.
He knew it before, and even teased him for finally discovering that he was not omnipotent. He retorted that the food of you people on earth is too unskilled and too lazy to pay attention.
The three of them ate breakfast together. Neither of them showed any abnormality, so she adapted naturally. She just looked at Janet sitting next to him, feeling a little envious, and complained that she was too shy. On the other side of him, It was obviously empty, but I had to sit across from it.
However, it felt good to be able to meet his eyes.
Breakfast talk can't escape last night's Golden Globe Awards.
31 nominations and 12 awards are really eye-catching.
In other words, Daenerys Entertainment as a whole has been at its sharpest in the past two years.
This is obviously not in line with his proactive and restrained style in previous years.
Although, some kind of convergence has never seemed to have much effect.
Simon certainly had no fan of the authorities.
In the past few years, Daenerys Entertainment had not yet established a foothold in Hollywood, so it had to proactively restrain itself and actively cooperate with other Hollywood studios to avoid targeting.
Since the successful merger with MCA, many things have changed.
Before the merger with MCA, Daenerys Entertainment's strength had grown rapidly, but it had never been considered one of the big players in Hollywood. The traditional top seven were. After completing the merger, Daenerys Entertainment completely completed a transformation from the inside out and officially became a player in Hollywood.
This is one of them.
In addition, the strength of the entire Westeros system has rapidly increased.
Economically, Simon's net worth of US$65 billion last year already represents that the Westeros system has become a powerful capital empire. Politically, not to mention the investment plan that has lasted for several years in private, just successfully completing the bet on Clinton is enough to ensure that the Westeros system will not encounter too strong opposition for at least the next four years.
Not only that, relying on the newly emerged Igrit portal, Westeros also has a strong voice in media public opinion, and will no longer appear so passive when faced with targets.
Having the confidence in these aspects is enough for Daenerys Entertainment and even the entire Westeros system to continue to maintain a strong momentum of expansion.
For many old-line super-rich families, starting from Rockefeller and Morgan, the process of wealth accumulation has never been smooth sailing. During this period, it was full of intrigues and intrigues.
The key to why Simon was able to reach the top quickly and smoothly in just six or seven years lies in the word 'fast'.
The rise of the Westeros system is really too fast.
It was so fast that competitors had no time to react much, and a powerful new capital upstart was formed.
Not only that, for many established super-rich people, the process of rising to wealth often means robbing others, reshuffling the cards, and manipulating the redistribution of wealth.
The Westeros system is different.
Simon's early accumulation in the capital market can be described as unconventional.
Although too many people lost their money in financial disasters like the Master's 87 stock market crash, Simon's operation in the stock index futures market at that time did not have a direct causal relationship with the failure of those losers. Instead, he became a legend in the financial market.
Subsequently, during his accumulation in Hollywood, Simon has maintained a win-win situation.
The most important new technological field also does not involve the secondary distribution of wealth.
Because this is a brand new industry field that is growing rapidly.
Especially Internet participation.
Relying on investments in companies such as Cisco, AOL, and Igrit, the Westeros system has single-handedly opened the door to the Internet industry.
Perhaps in the future more and more people will discover how huge the benefits this industry developed by the Westeros system will mean, but at this early stage of the development of the Internet, as a pioneer of a new 'copy', Westeros There are no competitors with strong conflicts of interest in the Luo system.
The rise was too rapid and did not involve drastic redistribution of wealth, which is why the Westeros system was able to quickly expand to its size at this point.
As for the future.
Simon can fully imagine that restricting the expansion of the Westeros system and preventing the emergence of a powerful capital oligarch will probably become a kind of political correctness in the entire United States. There will inevitably be many people jumping out to demand restrictions on the development of the Westeros system. .
After all, the current Westeros system is too conspicuous.
Since we can foresee that this is inevitable, there is no need to hide our capabilities and bide our time.
While the resistance from the outside world is not too great now, Simon hopes that the Westeros system can expand as quickly as possible.
After the Golden Globe Awards, as usual, there was a heated discussion in the media about the results of the awards.
The media does not have much objection to the fact that "Scent of a Woman" has become a big hit during this awards season. Other films in the same period are not very competitive. In fact, Daenerys Entertainment even appeared in the media in order to avoid being too Being in the limelight, it had to actively suppress the views of several other excellent films under its umbrella.
This is actually true.
It seems like a small year for the 1993 awards season.
However, for Daenerys Entertainment, "Scent of a Woman", "The Crying Game", "Howards End", etc., and even mainstream films such as "Wonder Woman", if they are separated in major Hollywood studios, It is entirely possible to compete for awards.
After the Golden Globe Awards, as usual, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences also announced the nominees for the new Oscars.
Of the five Best Picture nominees, Daenerys Entertainment only occupies one spot.
Of course it's still "Know a Woman by Scent".
However, cumulatively, Daenerys Entertainment still received as many as 23 nominations in all awards, ranking first among major Hollywood studios.
Even though there are some sour comments in the media, the overall nomination is not too controversial.
In traditional Hollywood, there are always multiple companies sharing the market. When a shabby company like MGM settles down, it is often difficult for other companies to distance themselves.
However, unknowingly, everyone in Hollywood has gradually discovered that the traditional structure is changing, a change from a coexistence of heroes to a single company.
Many industries in the United States, such as telecommunications, oil, aviation, etc., are dominated by one company. However, this phenomenon has not happened in Hollywood. Even before the Paramount Act, when film companies directly controlled the film and television industry chain, Hollywood There are also close competitors such as MGM, Warner, and Paramount.
This is mainly due to the specific industry model of Hollywood movies.
The film industry has a fixed schedule every year, and film companies have to run too many projects at the same time within a specific schedule, otherwise they will be distracted. At the same time, unlike other industries, the film industry has strong gambling risks. It is difficult for any company to maintain success all the time. Everyone will make mistakes sometimes. Such mistakes also prevent the formation of a dominating situation in Hollywood. .
Daenerys Entertainment has changed this specific industry model to a great extent.
First of all, because of the existence of the film genius Simon Westeros, Daenerys Entertainment has produced too many classic films in consecutive years, and the probability of failure is very low.
Secondly, there is the rise of blockbuster movies, especially the establishment of the DC movie universe, which has made the success of Daenerys Entertainment sustainable, with the consecutive hits of "Batman Begins" and "Batman Begins" : The Dark Knight, The Flash, and Wonder Woman all prove this.
Thirdly, the three brands of Daenerys Entertainment operate in parallel, work intensively in different fields, and maintain a very good internal coordination mechanism. This is also a major reason for the strong rise of Daenerys Entertainment.
Speaking of which, Daenerys Entertainment's operating model can be understood by other studios after careful study, but it is even more difficult to follow suit and copy this model.
It's like the Walmart of retail.
The threshold for supermarkets is much lower than that of the film industry, and Wal-Mart's business strategy is not an absolute secret to the outside world, but in the end, there can only be one Wal-Mart in this world.
They only imitate Daenerys Entertainment on the overall surface, such as creating an independent label focusing on artistic films, but fail to delve into all aspects of it. The result will only be a tiger rather than a dog.
After the Golden Globe Awards, time quickly entered February.
America Online and Cisco, two companies in the Westeros system, released their fourth-quarter and full-year financial reports for 1992 only one day apart in the same week in February. .
As emerging technology companies, the fiscal years of both companies are calculated according to the normal calendar year, that is, from January to December each year.
In fact, before the financial report was released, the outside world already had rough statistics on the financial data of Cisco and AOL. Due to the rapid growth of the entire Internet industry in the past year, the stock prices of the two companies have been rising rapidly.
With the official release of two financial reports with annual growth rates of more than 100%, the stock prices of the two companies also rose rapidly again.
AOL's market value had approached US$20 billion in the previous weeks. With the release of its 1992 financial report, the market value of this new technology company easily exceeded the US$20 billion threshold.
During the previous IPO process, Cisco's valuation exceeded that of AOL. However, this infrastructure company is not as easy to attract attention as AOL. Its market value was suppressed by AOL for most of last year. However, with the release of its annual financial report , seeing the rapid growth of Cisco's global business performance, the company's market value also quickly broke through the US$20 billion threshold, and achieved overtake of America Online.
The rise in the stock prices of the two companies has even driven up the entire Nasdaq technology stock sector.
As of the close of trading on February 5, the first week of February, AOL's market value was finally fixed at US$22.1 billion. Cisco's market value was even more eye-catching, reaching US$26.3 billion, widening the US$4 billion gap between AOL. .
Westeros' shareholding ratios in AOL and Cisco are 66.1% and 53.6% respectively, which are significantly higher than when they were first listed.
Therefore, based on this shareholding ratio, only two companies, AOL and Cisco, brought Simon wealth of US$14.6 billion and US$14 billion respectively. The sum of the two amounts to US$28.6 billion.
At US$28.6 billion, this portion of his assets alone already exceeds the personal net worth of all other super-rich people in the world.
However, this is only part of the many personal assets Simon Westeros has in his name.
Last year's US$65 billion was unbelievable to many media. Now, facing the US$28.6 billion wealth of just two companies, many people have even felt numb, shocked to the point of numbness.