"Your job is to meet my needs. It's such a happy decision." Eric snapped his fingers, then waved his hands to the two women, and said, "Go and rest, I can see these things by myself gone."
Before meeting each other, Caroline would never show such small emotions in front of Eric.
However, after confirming the love relationship between the two, the innocent Caroline directly regarded Eric as her relative, so she no longer buried everything in her heart like before. It's just that, I used my temper a little bit, and expressed my inevitability, but when I heard Eric's words, Caroline turned her head around, and couldn't find a reason to refute for a while.
Looking at the stack of folders that she deliberately piled up in front of Eric, Caroline suddenly felt that she was a little too much, and her toes in small high heels were grinding on the carpet, so she lowered her voice and hid from Eric. With a look in his eyes, he said, "Then, Eric, would you like coffee?"
Mayer stood by and rolled her eyes when she heard Caroline's words.
Little Carly, you have to remember that you were angry just now.
Eric couldn't help showing a smile at the corner of his mouth, he really wanted to reach out and pinch Caroline's face, of course he didn't do it rashly, otherwise he would be chased by Caroline again and apologize: "Well, pure water That's it."
Noticing the reactions of the two people beside her, Caroline was even more embarrassed, and escaped from the study with her head down.
Eric watched Caroline run away, and remembered something, stopped Mayer who was about to leave, motioned her to sit on the opposite sofa, and asked, "I asked you to sort out the projects of Nokia's major R&D centers. How are the materials prepared?"
Mayer sat down on the sofa and said, "Carly and I contacted Nokia last week, but Nokia currently has 17 technology research and development centers of various sizes around the world, with many types of technology research and development projects. There are hundreds of them, and they said that it will take a week to sort out the project data, and it will probably be completed this Thursday.”
Eric nodded, but with some emotion in his heart.
Nokia has not yet reached its peak state, and it already has 17 technology research and development centers. It is conceivable that Nokia's technical strength will be so strong in its heyday. Such an aircraft carrier-class industry giant collapsed in just a few years, and the reason is absolutely impossible to be technical.
After sighing for a moment, Eric looked at Mayer and said, "Have you thought about what to do in the future?"
Hearing Eric's question, Melanie, who had just joined Firefly Electronics, immediately appeared in Mayer's mind.
The focus of Firefly Electronics' development this year is overseas business. Melanie left Eric and was directly placed in the position of Vice President of Overseas Operations newly established by Firefly Electronics. power hierarchy.
Some time ago, Eric suddenly transferred himself to his side. Although Mayer had been a little puzzled, he could also realize that the opportunities he faced were definitely not as bad as Melanie.
Twirling the corners of her professional tube skirt with her fingers, Mayer's thoughts were very clear, and she said seriously: "Eric, I have recently started to do a graduate thesis on artificial intelligence. It is related to search engines, I think I will be more suitable for technology research and development in this area in the future.”
"I originally wanted you to go to Yahoo," Eric smiled, and said, "However, many of Yahoo's businesses are now on the right track. Although technology research and development will never stop, the basic development route has been finalized. Yahoo! What we need to do in the future is to expand the scale as much as possible, and even achieve globalization. If you go to Yahoo, there is not much room for you to display, so I want you to come to Nokia.”
Eric suddenly talked to her about future plans at this time, and Mayer had already had some expectations. Hearing Eric's confirmation, Mayer's expression hesitated: "Eric, I, I didn't I thought about working in Finland."
"No," Eric shook his head. Seeing Caroline walking in with a glass of water, he paused, took the water glass handed over by Caroline, and motioned for her to sit down opposite, before continuing: "You In the future, you only need to work in the United States, probably in Silicon Valley. I hope you can gather the technical resources of several companies such as Nokia, Yahoo, Qualcomm, and Firefly Electronics to develop a smart phone. You should know the concept of a smart phone. ?”
"Well, I have been in the assistant's office for a year, and I have come into contact with some relevant information, but it is not very detailed."
Mayer nodded immediately, a little excited in her heart, integrating the technical strength of several major technology companies under Firefly Investment to develop a product, then this product is absolutely very important in Eric's heart, think about the current Fireflyer player He knew that as long as this product was successful, his status in the Firefly system should not be much worse than that of several executives of Firefly Electronics.
"I will give you the detailed information later. What you need to do next is to fully understand Nokia. I asked you to collect information about the Nokia Technology R&D Center project. This is what I want to see, but I also I hope you will be able to understand these things in detail in a few days, so that you can understand them clearly."
Mayer nodded and assured, "I will, Eric."
The story is about the same, Eric just wanted to let the two of Mayer leave, feeling Mayer's excitement, he added: "One more thing, Nokia is not the only one that will develop the smartphone I am planning. , Firefly Electronics will also launch this project at the same time. I have no intention of putting all my eggs in one basket. If you do not do well in the future, you will still get nothing. Of course, if you do well, your advantages are also very obvious. Nokia Already have a very strong global mobile phone sales network, the products you make can occupy the market more easily.”
Mayer was a little disappointed when he heard the words, but he was relieved in a blink of an eye.
It's very rare for Eric to entrust her with important tasks. It would be abnormal if he put all his chips on himself.
After talking about the matter and sending the two women away, Eric turned his attention to the pile of documents in front of him.
The first thing to pay attention to is last week's box office information.
The box office performance of "The Day After Tomorrow" is still strong. For a commercial blockbuster with a high box office in the first week, the box office decline of the second weekend remained at 42%, which is still very rare.
Subsequent "The Mask of Zorro", although the film's media reviews were good, the box office in the first weekend was only more than 18 million US dollars, which did not pose any threat to "The Day After Tomorrow". Several other films, "The Truman Show" , "Patriot" and "Lethal Weapon 4" are far behind.
After roughly scanning the box office rankings, Eric put the form aside, skipping less important documents such as the character list of "Sleepy Hollow", and directly opened a group's bond financing plan.
The Nasdaq index is getting closer and closer to 2000 points. Eric plans that when the Nasdaq index reaches 2000 points, Clover Fund will completely stop buying technology stocks.
In the past six months, the Shamrock Fund has withdrawn funds from Firefly Group to buy technology stocks and still reached 2 billion U.S. dollars. In three years, the accumulated capital invested by the Clover Fund in the Nasdaq stock market has reached 7 billion US dollars, which is 1 billion US dollars more than Eric's original plan.
Withdrawing 7 billion US dollars in cash for stock investment in three years, even if the Firefly Group has a big business and its profitability far exceeds that of other Hollywood media groups, but at this time, with the launch of the internal Marvel movie universe, the "Lord of the Rings" three The group's cash flow has also begun to tighten due to money-burning projects such as the production of the trilogy, the implementation of the '4200' plan, and the construction of the Firefly Studios theme park.
Although it has invested 7 billion U.S. dollars, the total value of all the stocks held by the Clover Fund has reached 16 billion U.S. dollars. Compared with the invested principal, the return rate has exceeded 100%. Even if only part of the stocks are sold, Firefly Group’s Cash flow hunger can be relieved in no time.
However, Eric did not intend to do this. Instead, he chose to issue bonds, which is the most commonly used financing method when many companies face cash shortages.
At the end of May, the management had already begun to draw up a financing plan, and it was finally roughly finalized at this time.
Firefly will issue $2 billion in five-year corporate bonds in early July.
The current corporate credit rating of Firefly Group has reached the highest level of 3A. Therefore, the annual interest rate of the bonds raised this time is only 4.2%, which is a full 1.3 percentage points lower than the annual interest rate of the bonds issued when Firefly acquired ABC Group. It seems inconspicuous, but it can save Firefly $26 million in interest expenses every year, or $130 million in five years.
Although the annual interest rate is low, the bonds of Firefly Group are still very popular. According to the documents in hand, Morgan Stanley, which is in charge of the bond issuance, has already determined more than 50% of the distribution share.
The reason for this is that in addition to the security and profitability of Firefly Group’s bonds are very guaranteed, many investment institutions on Wall Street want to become the creditors of Firefly Group, which is also a large part of the factor.
As a non-listed company, the only opportunity for Wall Street Capital to get involved in Firefly Group is to buy the company's bonds.
In this way, once Firefly Group's operations are in trouble, Wall Street Capital, as a creditor, will have room to operate.
Of course, although the performance of the Firefly Group's film business this year will not be as impressive as before, Eric will not easily give some people a chance.
Even if the shares held by the Clover Fund are not counted, in addition to the film business, the company's TV business, theme parks and toy peripherals, and even the increasingly powerful digital field, are in excellent operating conditions and very stable profitability.
The two Boeing 747-400 ordered by Eric will be equipped with a communication system, but the current Boeing 767 does not have this configuration.
It took several hours to process the documents in front of me. Although I was a little confused, I couldn't discuss it with Los Angeles immediately, so I had to wait until I arrived in Helsinki.
Although the private plane flew from west to east, because it was flying to the Arctic Circle, which was in a state of extreme daylight, it only experienced a very short night, and the portholes lit up again.
Eric and Caroline ate a 'dinner' together on the plane, rested for a few hours, woke up again, and the Boeing 767 had arrived over Helsinki, Finland.
Looking down through the porthole, Eric found that Helsinki's Vantaa Airport was very conspicuous, occupying a large area in the north of the city. I was a little confused at first, but soon realized that it was not that Vantaa Airport was too big, but that Helsinki was too small.
The size of Finland is not much different from that of California. However, the total population of California is close to 40 million, while the whole of Finland has less than 5 million people. As the capital of Finland, Helsinki has a population of just over 500,000. Boeing 767 flew over Helsinki, Overlooking the city at a close distance, it feels more empty. Even in the city center, many places are covered with large tracts of woodland.
Eric got off the plane with his entourage, and Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila greeted him warmly with several people.
"Eric, welcome to Finland," Jorma Ollila warmly hugged Eric, and then began to introduce the following Nokia executives to him in English.
Eric shook hands with several people one by one. Among them, he is more familiar with Oli Karassuo, the current chief financial officer of Nokia. The other party is an authentic Finn, so the name is a bit awkward. A very interesting Chinese translation is called Kang Peikai.
Kallasvuo is the next CEO recommended by Jorma Ollila for Eric. As for Jorma Ollila, it is planned that after the other party leaves, he will still serve as a director of Nokia's board of directors, but he will no longer hold an actual position in Nokia. , It is said that the other party intends to run for the President of Finland next, but Eric does not know much about the specific situation.
In fact, Firefly can still keep Yoma Ollila if she wants to keep it, but Eric doesn't mean it. Speeding up the replacement of Nokia's management is also beneficial to Firefly's faster and complete control of the company. Once Yoma Ollila is allowed to continue Liu Renxiu District, the other party's influence in Nokia will only become stronger and stronger, and it will become more and more unfavorable for Firefly to take back Nokia's management rights.
Of course, although they will leave office next year, the two parties can be regarded as getting together and breaking up.
Eric doesn't want Jorma Ollila to continue to serve as Nokia's CEO, but he will never deny Jorma Ollila's contribution to Nokia over the years. If Jorma Ollila hadn't discovered and vigorously promoted the GSM communication technology dominated by Nokia, this small company in the corner of Northern Europe would not have developed into the current international mobile communication equipment giant.