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Although there are still some turmoil, in any case, Cisco's IPO has been a big success.

The financing of 7.2 million U.S. dollars, excluding various procedures, Cisco finally got 6.6 million U.S. dollars.

The management team announced a series of corporate development measures in the ensuing week.

Affected by these good news and the active market transactions, Cisco's market value has remained steadily above [-] billion U.S. dollars in the second week of its listing.

In addition, the original green shoe program was also implemented smoothly.

Other Cisco shareholders sold an additional 18 million shares at the $600 offering price, cashing in $1.08 million.

At the beginning, these shareholders were complacent that Simon could agree to start the green shoe mechanism. As long as the IPO is successful, even if the stock price does not rise too high, it will not be difficult to cash out the additional 600 million shares.

However, when Cisco's market value exceeded [-] billion in a single day, these shareholders who contributed to the green shoe plan will inevitably regret it.

According to Cisco's current stock price, these 600 million shares are a half-price gift. The shareholders who sold the shares are equivalent to a one-time loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. How can this not make people feel distressed.

What's more, there is Simon Westeros' prediction of $500 billion for five years.

In fact, most investors are not lacking in patience. The reason why everyone chooses to cash out is not only their own capital needs, but also because they are uncertain about the future of the company.

No one knows what the future holds for a company?

However, if Simon Westero's prediction of Cisco's five-year market value of $500 billion comes true, the additional sale of shares this time seems very unwise.

For Westeros, other shareholders chose to cash out, which actually brought some benefits.

According to the shareholding structure plan drawn up before Cisco’s IPO, once the initial shareholder’s Class A shares are sold, these shares will automatically be converted into Class B shares with only one-tenth of the voting rights of Class A shares, unless the two parties agree in advance and obtain a controlling stake The approval of shareholders and the company's board of directors, otherwise, would be the case, including the shares held by the Westeros Corporation.

Of course, Simon will not agree that the nature of the shares sold by other shareholders will not change.

Therefore, the conversion of 600 million Class A shares to Class B shares means that Westeros' voting rights to Cisco have further increased.

Cisco successfully completed its IPO, and while the media continued to discuss the company's stock price, they soon began to focus on another hot topic.

How much is Simon Westeros currently worth?

The reason for this is that "Forbes" magazine said that it will announce the new annual list of the 9 richest people in the United States in mid-September.

Although the U.S. stock market began to recover in the first half of the year, and the Gulf War was fought neatly, however, the continued downturn in the U.S. economy did not immediately improve.

Affected by the general environment, the wealth growth of many top rich people has stagnated.Some tycoons in the real estate field even embarked on the road to bankruptcy and were completely kicked out of the list of richest people in North America.

Simon was clearly an accident.

In the past year, the Westeros system absorbed two corporate giants, MCA and Bell Atlantic, with a total market value of 140 billion US dollars at one time, and the total liabilities of the entire Westeros system also exceeded [-] billion US dollars.

However, when AOL and Cisco's IPOs have been successful in a row, coupled with the fact that the stock prices of technology companies such as Microsoft, Intel, and SUN, which are heavily held by Westeros, have soared in the past year, no one would think that Simon Weiss Tello's personal fortunes would fall.

Simon Westero has been the richest man in North America and the richest man in the world since last year.

The question now is, how much has the super rich net worth grown this year?

Simon didn't have time to take stock of these himself.

Although Cisco's IPO was a great success, John Chambers and other managements were under double pressure because of Simon's five-year $500 billion remarks.

Now that the words have been spoken, Simon has to pay more attention to Cisco. In the following weekends and the first few days of the new week, Simon stayed in San Francisco to personally participate in Cisco's next plan.

So until September 9, Thursday, Simon was able to return to Los Angeles.

After that, nature still couldn't relax.

Previously, on September 9, the same day as Cisco's listing, "Thelma and Louise" directed by Catherine opened in North American theaters with a scale of 6 screens.

9月6日到9月12日，《末路狂花》开画首周，七天累计774万美元的票房基本上达到了丹妮莉丝娱乐的预期。

Because of its good reputation in the media, this movie is expected to have a very beautiful long run.

In addition to the new film "Thelma and Louise", Daenerys Entertainment's recent series of film projects are continuing to advance. Simon returned to Los Angeles and immediately began to work on these projects.

Strictly speaking, Hollywood is not suitable for a professional manager system, and major studios have always been more inclined to paternalistic decisions.

The two current "professional managers" of Sony's Columbia Pictures, Peter Cooper and Jon Peters, are undoubtedly the most typical negative cases.

Because of Sony's many promises such as not interfering with Columbia Pictures' operations, under the management of two "professional managers", Columbia Pictures' recent operating conditions have become worse.

Therefore, even if Daenerys Entertainment is split into three production and distribution networks of Daenerys Films, New World Films and Gaomen Films, Simon still holds the final power of all projects. He let go, In fact, more is the executive power of its film projects.

Moreover, the production and distribution of about 40 films per year for the three records in the plan is actually not too much.

What's more, every film project often means an investment of millions or even tens of millions of dollars.As long as the time is properly arranged according to the specific situation of the project, Simon can basically take care of it.

The time has entered mid-September, and the end-of-year schedule is no longer far away.

The final "Scream 3" of the "Scream" series is scheduled for October 10th, and there is only more than one month left from now, which will be the beginning of Daenerys Entertainment's schedule at the end of 25 .

During this period of time, not only "Scream 3", Daenerys Entertainment's "Toy Story", "Corner of Fear", "Fried Green Tomatoes", "Farewell to the Piano" and other projects at the end of 1991 have all followed suit. Finish.

"Toy Story" is undoubtedly the top priority of the 1991 year-end schedule.

The box office of this 3D animation film itself is actually second. As long as it can achieve the success of the original time and space, the sales of the film's peripherals will reach billions of dollars. This is the key.

Moreover, it is also crucial that "Toy Story" can also provide Universal Studios with an animation IP image that can compete with Disney.

If it weren't for the planned "Toy Story" and next year's "Jurassic Park" and other projects, Simon would not dare to rush to start the construction of Universal Studios in Osaka.

As a movie theme park, if it lacks the iconic big-screen image that attracts tourists like Disney, the future operating conditions can be imagined.

Compared with Disneyland, Universal Studios has always had a big shortcoming in terms of IP.

Before Daenerys Entertainment took over MCA, Universal Studios could only purchase licenses from other studios in order to build attractions in the studio to compete with Disneyland in most cases. Universal itself also tried to develop many animated films. The projects are not too successful, and there has been no IP image for Universal Studios for so many years.

In the original time and space, the lighting entertainment of popular 3D animation films such as "Despicable Me", "Minions", "The Secret Life of Pets" and other popular 3D animation films under Universal Pictures is actually due to the overall corporate strategy of Universal Pictures. The result of having to keep investing in [-]D animated movies.

Chapter 435 Trip to Europe (Revised)

With Janet pregnant, weekends were supposed to be off.

Because I left Los Angeles for almost a whole week before, I couldn't relax this weekend.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Simon finished the production meeting of "The Last of the Mohicans", said goodbye to the main creators, and returned to Cape Dume Manor.

Today is Saturday, September 9th.

When I got home, I handed the briefcase to Alison, the girl A who greeted me, and after asking a question, I walked towards the sea-facing living room of the villa.

Janet was leaning on the sofa, with her two calves resting on Girl D's thigh, being gently kneaded by Deborah, she looked like an oriental lady.Six months pregnant, while the belly is getting bigger, women will inevitably have the common edema of pregnant women, but fortunately it is not serious.

Seeing Simon, Janet hummed a few times, with a pitiful expression on her expression.

Simon sent Miss D away, sat in Deborah's position and began to help Janet's calf. Men's strength is always stronger than women's. Janet moaned comfortably before saying, "It's so annoying."

"How about going to Europe with me tomorrow, changing places, and resting in Italy for a while?"

Although he had just returned to Los Angeles for a few days, Simon still had to leave for Europe this time.

The closing ceremony of this year's Venice Film Festival is September 9, next Monday, which is the day after tomorrow.Daenerys Entertainment's "Farewell to the Piano" was shortlisted for the main competition unit of this year's Venice Film Festival. According to the feedback from Ella Deutschman, it is no accident that "Farewell to the Piano" has locked the Golden Lion prize.

Simon plans to attend some after-Venice Film Festival parties.

In addition, the opening of Milan Fashion Week this year is September 9, and Sophia also hopes that Simon can attend.

The above two are actually just incidental. The filming of "Wonder Woman" has entered the second half. Recently, it happened to be filmed at several locations in Italy. Simon followed up with the crew for a week at the beginning of the filming in July. Also follow up for another week.

As a project in the DC movie universe that is basically entirely Daenerys entertainment, "Wonder Woman" deserves so much attention from Simon.

Janet naturally knew Simon's itinerary in advance, and shook her head when she heard the words: "I don't want to go, I suddenly regret being pregnant with this little guy, and I really want to drive him out of my stomach immediately."

Simon smiled and helped Janet continue kneading her calf with one hand, and reached out to caress the woman's round belly with the other hand, and said, "It's only time, did I kick you today?"

Janet wrinkled her nose: "I kicked it, and it stopped after I scolded a few words."

The smile on the corner of Simon's mouth grew stronger. After thinking about it, he said, "Or, if you don't want to go to Europe, go back to Australia and live for a while. I can send you back to Australia first tomorrow?"

Janet blinked a few times, stared at Simon and said, "You want to go back to Australia?"

Simon wondered: "Why do I want to go back to Australia?"

"Hum hum."

"What does it mean?"

Janet raised her chin, as if you knew it in your heart.

Simon steadfastly pretended to be stupid, and changed the subject: "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Janet suddenly became angry, and said in a hoarse voice, "I want to sleep."

Speaking of which, Simon has always suspected that women smoked before.

Otherwise, how could it be such a slightly hoarse voice, but Janet has never admitted it, and Simon has never seen her smoke.

Without entangled in this idea, Simon nodded immediately: "I'll carry you to the bedroom, sleep for a while, and call you when dinner is ready?"

Janet's tone was more savage and coquettish: "I want to sleep on my stomach."

"..."

Janet's tone suddenly became aggrieved again, and she repeated: "I want to sleep on my stomach."

"This is very difficult. Besides, sleeping on your stomach is really unladylike."

"Well, it's all your fault."

It's unreasonable to talk about a woman's temper when she comes.

Simon also didn't have the slightest intention to reason with the pregnant lady, following Janet's tone of words to comfort her for a while, it was only then that she dispelled her sudden whim of wanting to sleep on her stomach.

Comforting Janet, Simon went to explain the dinner in person.

Coming back again, Janet has returned to her usual appearance, as if the childishness just now did not exist.

Ask Simon to sit down on the other side, pillow on his man's lap, and watch the red sunset seascape outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, talking small things at the same time.

It wasn't until dusk fell that girl A came to help turn on the light in the living room, and the scenery outside the window was completely lost under the shadow of the light.

The dinner was ready, Janet was lazily unwilling to move, and was carried by Simon to the restaurant.

Still habitually sitting next to Simon, eating food specially prepared according to pregnancy recipes, Janet also talked about some serious business: ""Forbes" will release the new annual list of the 400 richest people in the United States next Monday, but in the afternoon I already I got the information, you can read it later.”

Simon asked directly, "How much?"

Janet made a fool of herself: "Look for yourself."

Although no detailed statistics have been made, Simon occasionally estimates his own family fortune in private.

In any case, apart from the local tyrants and royal families in the Middle East floating on the oil fields, as far as non-national individuals are concerned, there must be few people in this world who are richer than Simon.

It is always difficult to avoid the theory that 'too much money will become a number'.

Since reaching the top of the rich list last year, Simon has often had similar thoughts this year.

However, Simon also knows that the main reason for this idea is his lack of background, and his personal wealth of tens of billions of dollars has not exerted its due influence.

Moreover, for Simon, neither last year's $210 billion nor this year's amount is actually not enough.

At the peak of the Rockefeller family, private wealth accounted for 1.5% of the U.S. GDP. According to the U.S. GDP figure of 1990 trillion U.S. dollars in 5.98, Simon needs to accumulate about 900 billion U.S. dollars in personal assets to be able to equal the Rockefeller family at its peak.

Of course, the pinnacle of the Rockefeller family was already in John Rockefeller's later years.

Compared with John Rockefeller back then, Simon, who is only 23 years old this year, still has too much time. With the current expansion speed of the Westeros system, it is only a matter of time before the Rockefeller family surpasses the influence of the Rockefeller family in the United States. Not too far away.

The next day continued to be busy all morning, and Simon boarded the private Boeing 767 that flew directly to Venice, Italy in the afternoon.

There is a 10 hour time difference between Los Angeles and Venice.

The time was calculated in advance. After about 12 hours of flight, the Boeing 767 arrived in Venice. The local time was 9 o'clock in the afternoon on September 16.

Simon had no plans to attend the closing ceremony, but arranged to attend the closing dinner that followed.

As the headquarters of Gucci, Sofia will not let go of the Venice Film Festival, as she has successful operation experience in the two major film events of Oscar and Cannes.

However, in order not to steal the show from the closing dinner, Gucci's Venice Film Festival-themed party was held two days earlier on Saturday night.

Speaking of it, it is not out of the question to win the naming rights for the closing dinner of the Venice Film Festival, just to avoid suspicion, Gucci did not do so.Otherwise, the film produced by Daenerys Entertainment won an award, and Gucci, which also belongs to the Westeros system, sponsored the closing ceremony dinner, which is too easy to give people some reverie.

Even if it is to hide one's ears and steal one's ears, there are many things that have to be done on the surface.

The three cities of Venice, Florence, and Milan are very close to each other. The distance between them is only about 200 kilometers, which is about half of the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Private jets can reach them with one landing.

Therefore, Sophia also rushed over from Milan.

The woman is currently in Milan preparing for next week's Milan Fashion Week Gucci show, and the two plan to stay at Simon's mountainside villa on Lake Como in Milan tonight.