After breakfast, we rushed to Manhattan again. Today’s main agenda is related to a series of investment or cooperation projects of the Westeros system in China.
The focus was a meeting in the morning about China Telecom's IPO.
The First Boston team of Credit Suisse and the Apollo Management team of Cersei Capital participated in the meeting, and also connected the Chinese team. The main purpose of the meeting was to accelerate the overseas listing process of China Telecom.
Based on past memories, Simon previously believed that China Telecom’s overseas listing only needs to be completed in the first half of next year, because the second half of the year will be the financial crisis in Southeast Asia. Once the crisis breaks out, even under the cover of the Westeros system, the IPO will still be completed smoothly and the financing will be completed. The amount will inevitably shrink significantly, and it will also affect the subsequent stock price trend.
The initial listing date set was around May next year. Now, Simon has personally decided to advance this deadline by five months, requiring the IPO operation to be completed by the end of this year.
The IPOs of large state-owned telecommunications companies have previously been cases such as Nippon Telecom and Deutsche Telekom. The IPO process of these companies once took several years. For China, the original plan was to formally sign the contract when Simon visited China in April next year. The listing was originally only for one year.
Suddenly shortened to 7 months, all parties were caught off guard.
Simon was also forced to do so.
With the current turbulent momentum of the new technology wave, Simon believes that the Nasdaq index will last until the end of the year at most. It just so happens that the overseas IPO ideas designed by the Westeros system for China Telecom are largely based on the concept of new technology. Gimmicks attract investment. In this case, once China Telecom conducts an IPO after the new technology bubble bursts, the results can be imagined.
Simon did not publicly finalize the reasons for this decision in the meeting room, but all parties knew it.
At the end of the meeting, Simon had another phone call with the person in charge of China at noon, and finally reached an agreement. Compared with the procrastinating West, Simon is actually very confident in China's efficiency. In the past few months, the reorganization of China Telecom's assets with the support of the Apollo management team has progressed much faster than initially expected.
This is also considered a Chinese characteristic.
Decision-making is slow, and sometimes it can take ten or eight years, but once a decision is made, it can be executed very efficiently.
In addition, at the end of the morning meeting, Simon personally drove the teams from First Boston and Apollo Management directly onto the plane to China. Also rushing to China were Chen Qing and his two daughters. Simon hoped that they would put aside their worries for the time being. I will personally participate in the entire China Telecom IPO process in the next few months, so that I can not only accumulate more experience, but also further expand my contacts.
At the same time, it also serves as Simon's 'eyes'.
China Telecom is the first attempt for China's large state-owned enterprises to list overseas. It is also a test for overseas financing of many large state-owned enterprises in China. It is very important for China and will determine whether it can undertake more overseas listing projects of Chinese state-owned enterprises in the future. Cake is also crucial to the system of Westeros.
So there is no room for error.
After working during the day, there was a cocktail reception hosted by an investor from Verizon Telecom in the evening. Simon did not stay at the reception for too long. He arrived at eight o'clock and just briefly greeted some important guests and exchanged pleasantries. Half an hour later, Just leave early.
Came to an apartment in Greenwich, this is Jerry Hall's home.
Just after knocking on the door a few times, the door opened, and a little girl who became more and more graceful jumped out, threw herself on Simon, and said sweetly: "Dad."
Simon walked in with Jerry Hall's eldest daughter Elizabeth in his arms, only to find that there was also a party being held here, and it was a very relaxed family party, the kind where the whole family was brought along.
At a glance, you can roughly understand that this is Jerry Hall's social circle. In the fashion industry, there are Anna Wintour, the female editor-in-chief of "Vogue"; in the television industry, Anna Coleman, the female president of Fashion TV Or Cathy Hilton and Kris Jenner, the heroines of the Housewives series, etc.; in the music industry, Jane Wenner, editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone magazine, etc.
Because I know most of the memories from my previous life.
Of course, many of them are just acquaintances. In the past, even if they had more than ten identities, they had to look up to the elites at the top of each pyramid. But this time, Simon is the absolute one to be looked up to.
Because some unscrupulous little girl probably got the news or instructions from her mother, she called at noon and invited Simon to come over and spend the night. She didn't expect that there would be a party. Even though he had been busy for a week and didn't want to socialize anymore, Simon didn't mind too much about women's little thoughts. Anyway, he didn't need to spend any thought on this level of social interaction.
After leaving the smiling goblin on a sofa in the living room, Simon turned to Jerry Hall, who was coming towards him.
Jerry Hall carefully looked at Simon's expression and confirmed that the man didn't mind. Then he felt relieved, stepped forward and hugged Simon, then took his arm and walked toward the crowd.
Many sharp-eyed guests also came over immediately.
Jerry Hall's large flat-floor apartment, which Simon originally paid for, has a total area of more than 700 square meters. It occupies an entire floor of the apartment building. It is equivalent to six or seven apartments in an ordinary home. You can get lost if you are not careful. To such an extent that tonight’s more than a hundred guests were spread out and it didn’t look crowded at all.
"The closure of Victoria's Secret is really a big loss for the fashion industry. Simon, are you really not going to think about it again?"
In the corner of the living room, Anna Wintour said this with regret, and several people around her also agreed. For this circle, the latest hot topic is that the Victoria's Secret Show will be suspended after this year. After all, the influence accumulated by this Super Bowl in the fashion industry in the past few years is too great.
Simon hugged the slender waist of the tall woman next to him, smiled and shook his head: "This is a decision that has been made, and it is not permanently suspended. Unlike the Super Bowl or Oscars, the model of the Victoria's Secret Show is difficult to maintain every year. It will bring surprises to the audience, so I hope it can be paused while it can still leave people with the best memories, and then restart at the right time in the future."
Everyone nodded again in understanding.
Tonight, it was an unexpected surprise to meet this young man who was becoming more and more powerful and wealthy. No one would be stupid enough to deliberately find fault.
Anna Wintour also looked understanding: "Simon, speaking of which, we have finalized a Victoria's Secret feature for this year's most important September issue of Vogue. As the leader of the Victoria's Secret show, can you take the time to accept a A short interview?”
This time Simon just smiled and shook his head.
I don’t want to risk this kind of limelight.
Anna Wintour didn’t bother. Jane Winner, the editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone magazine, interjected at this time: "Simon, what I pay most attention to is music. Since this is the last issue, everyone is very much looking forward to you providing a few more songs." BGM?”
"This needs inspiration."
As Simon said this, he couldn't help but think of "Love Transfer" a few days ago.
Janet's idea was to release Simon Westeros' latest single "To Jane" for public release. The more Simon thought about it, the more wrong he became. In the end, he gave up despite his firm opposition. After all, this song is not in Chinese. Say, the lyrics... As a Westerner, Janet doesn't understand them as deeply as Simon.
It's simply not appropriate to go public in Simon's name.
In the end, it was just decided to continue to promote film and music-related projects in China, and Simon did not intend to sign his name at all.
Janet pretended to be angry for a while, then put it down in an instant.
For this Victoria's Secret show, if he wanted to, Simon could easily come up with a few classic BGMs, but he had no such intention. Faced with Jane Wenner's inquiry, he just did Tai Chi.
After socializing like this for a while, Simon temporarily left and went to the bathroom. When he came out again, he saw Kris Jenner wearing a black deep V dress walking through the corridor and coming here. It was quite by chance that when she saw Simon, He once again showed the right expression of surprise and greeted: "Simon, I... um, let's go over there for a while."
Every time he saw this woman, Simon would inevitably have the urge to tease her.
He casually pushed open the door next to him, ignored the woman's little excuse, and said directly: "Come here."
Kris Jenner hesitated a little, then subconsciously looked behind her to make sure no one was paying attention, and then hurriedly entered the room. She closed the door and turned around to look around. It was a simple study room with a sitting area on the side by the window. The man was already leaning on the sofa. Seeing her turn around, he raised his hand and made a downward movement with a smirk.
There have been several similar encounters, and every time she thinks of the powerful position of this little man not far away, Kris Jenner, who admires power from the bottom of her heart, can't resist it. She just surrenders instinctively, without knowing it. Jue lowered his body, with a flattering expression on his face, and slowly crawled towards the man.
The party is still lively.
Adults have their own circle of adults, and children have their own circle of children.
Elizabeth took the Hilton sisters and the Kardashian sisters and hid in her room to show off the kimono she bought when she went to Japan with her mother for a vacation some time ago. They had a lot of fun, and then thought about the geisha doll she brought back from Japan, and forgot about it for a while. Where was he? He ran out to ask his mother, and happened to see Simon coming out of the corridor on the other side. After saying hello, he took Kim Kardashian, who he had developed into a follower, to the corridor where Simon had just come out.
Simon looked at the direction in which the two girls were running, paused, and didn't say anything. It seemed that he didn't have time to say anything.
On the other side, Elizabeth quickly came to the study room she had just entered and left, pushed the door into the room, went straight to the bookshelf, and pointed to a row of exquisite geisha dolls about 20 centimeters high on it: "Look, this is it, let's take it to Yi Ni and the others take a look."
Kim Kardashian was about to help when she suddenly sniffed, turned around and said, "Liz, here... seems to smell something?"
Elizabeth wondered: "What?"
He also sniffed as he spoke.
Then the two girls explored like puppies and came to the sofa on the other side of the study. They looked at the obvious wet stain on the expensive Persian carpet in front of the sofa and sniffed again. Kim Kardashian looked weird: " Liz, do you have a dog at home?”
"No," Elizabeth's expression changed several times when she understood what it was, and she suddenly became angry again: "It's really... so unethical. My mother specially asked someone to bring this back from Iran." The girl said that she had already covered her face. He held his nose and took two steps back, getting even angrier: "If I find out who it is, I will never step foot in our door again."
After Kim Kardashian was lured over from Paris by Elizabeth, although she has been working conscientiously as the girl's little follower, how could she be willing to do so in her heart. Seeing Elizabeth almost jumping up in anger, she didn't dare to say anything on the surface, but she couldn't help but feel a little gloating. She pretended not to care and said, "Then, who are you looking for?"
Elizabeth turned her little head, stepped forward a little, and immediately stepped back. She even forgot to take the geisha doll, and ran out directly, planning to complain to her mother.
Kim Kardashian lagged a little behind to catch up. When she went out, she thought about it and simply left the door of the study room open. If anyone else discovered it, humph, let’s see if your family doesn’t feel embarrassed, maybe it will happen again. I thought the Hall family had a quirk and liked to be on carpets... tsk tsk.
However, Kim Kardashian had just left, and the study door was quickly re-opened from the inside. The people in the room were a little lucky. Fortunately, the two girls didn't step forward and notice behind the sofa just now. However, then I thought that I obviously couldn't stay here much longer.
He found his mother and Simon again, chatting with Cindy Crawford and her fiancé Rand Gerber, and Stephanie Seymour and her billionaire husband Peter Brant.
Elizabeth was always very ladylike in front of adults. She waited obediently for a moment before whispering something in her mother's ear.
After Jerry Hall heard this, he thought for a while and called a maid, asking Elizabeth to take her over to watch the video. Cindy and the others had already walked away, but the girl didn't want to go over again and immediately hung up on Simon. Jerry Hall had no choice but to deal with it himself.
After her mother walked away, Elizabeth immediately pulled Simon: "Dad, let's go to my place and show you my kimono. It's very beautiful."
Simon roughly guessed what Elizabeth had just said to his mother, and remained calm on the surface. Only when he saw Kim Kardashian following quietly, did his expression flash a little strangely.
Elizabeth dragged her to the girl's bedroom. There was a room full of girls, and there were also boys at the party. Obviously, she couldn't enter the circle of girls.
After Simon entered the door, he happened to see a tall girl who was also very familiar in his memory trying on a blue floral kimono. When Elizabeth saw it, she immediately began to laugh: "Eni, you are so fat, you are not suitable at all. Haha, so ugly.”
No woman, not even a girl, wants to hear someone call her fat.
Seeing what Elizabeth said, Ivanka, the daughter of a certain golden retriever real estate developer, was immediately unhappy: "I'm just better developed and taller than you," the girl said, straightening her waist, and then pointed towards Elizabeth very lethally. Chest: "Oilfish."
Hairtail
The lethality was too great. The girl immediately let go of Simon and rushed towards Ivanka beside the bed. With her slender body, she threw the girl who was obviously a bit taller than her onto the bed, and started a half-serious struggle. .
Simon came to watch the fun, and of course he didn't want to help.
When they came to the sofa next to the wall, the girls who had eyes twinkling when they saw Simon immediately stood up and offered their seats to him.
Simon sat down on the seat vacated by Paris Hilton. He smiled and patted his knees casually. The girl didn't hesitate at all and sat directly on Simon's lap. She even hugged his neck affectionately and looked towards him and Ivan. Elizabeth, who was playing and fighting, said: "Liz, your father is mine."