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"The share price rose 43% on the first day, and the market value reached $5.9 billion. After experiencing it for myself, I found that sometimes it was really so easy to make money."
"It's just that we're just in time for a new round of wealth distribution. However, Mike, I have read a report on the operation of LinkedIn in recent months. Frankly speaking, I feel that you are more and more suitable to transfer to be in charge of this company. After all, LinkedIn and CAA are actually the same in some aspects. In the future, the core business is to sell people to customers. As for Eisner, it was not a problem when Lingying was very small. With the increasing scale of users in the future, his thinking of operating a content-based enterprise will only limit the development of this company. "
"Simon, you know it's very troublesome. Mike and I have been good friends for so many years. He is the one who started Lingying. I'm only a partner and give some advice occasionally."
"At present, the number of registered users of LinkedIn is 27 million, which is just the beginning. In the future, it may be 270 million or more. Mike, compared with the CAA with less than 2000 customers and 1 billion customers, which one can give you more space to show
"Simon, I don't think we should talk about it."
"Well, there's a long way to go anyway."
Park City, Utah.
Simon is located in the villa at the top of the mountain in the south of the city on Saturday afternoon, January 18.
The waiters in the villa are busy preparing for the annual party in the evening. Simon and visiting Michael owitz are hiding in a reception room overlooking Park City on the west side of the villa, drinking coffee and chatting. The topic is LinkedIn, the workplace social networking site just launched yesterday.
Two years ago, Michael Eisner left the company after Disney's acquisition. Together with his good friend Michael owitz, he found out the idea of a workplace social networking site. By chance, he chatted with Simon and Simon remembered a Lingying name.
The project was initiated in February 1995 and launched in June of that year. Until now, about a year and a half ago, through close cooperation with westero system and under the marketing guidance of igritte, the number of registered users has reached 27 million. Unlike Facebook, a popular social tool, LinkedIn, as a professional workplace social networking site, has a large number of users Ride away the dust.
In the newly completed IPO, Lingying issued 15% of the new shares, raising US $600 million. The company's valuation reached US $3.5 billion, and the share price rose 43% on the first day. After the issuance of new shares, the total stock market value was US $5.9 billion.
Although it can't be compared with the previous instagram listing, the accumulated investment before and after the listing is only 120 million US dollars, and the market value of a website with an estimated annual revenue of less than 10 million US dollars is as high as 5.9 billion US dollars in a year and a half, which makes people feel the miracle of making wealth in the Internet industry once again.
After two rounds of financing and this IPO, the shares of two Hollywood born "Michael" with similar shareholding ratio were reduced to about 18%. They were listed yesterday. According to the closing stock price of that day, their personal wealth directly reached the level of 1 billion US dollars, becoming the new "billionaire". This is also the key reason why owitz just said with emotion.
Even if you understand that it's only book wealth, it's still a little easier to make money.
Simon doesn't have the same feeling as owitz. The initial direct investment and the subsequent shares obtained by igritte's investment in Lingying are of no importance to Simon's current wealth. What he sees is the hidden worries under Lingying's scenery. After the listing, Michael Eisner took the position of chairman and CEO of the board of directors, while owitz, as a large shareholder with a considerable proportion of shares, had only one seat on the board of directors.
In Simon's view, if Lingying wants to develop better, they should actually swap.
If owitz wants to, Simon can come forward and say something in person. Of course, if the talks fail, it will be easy to replace the management with nearly 30% of the shares held by the westrow system. Think about the last chicken feather between two Michaels in history, this time it will be the same.
Now, since owitz is still interested in his friendship with Eisner, Simon is not reluctant.
No hurry.
There's a long way to go.
If Eisner can take the initiative to quit in the future, it will be better.
In the reception room.
Michael owitz took a sip of coffee, looked at the beautiful town surrounded by the snow and mountains, and asked, "by the way, Simon, are there any new people you like this time?"
"Yes."
"Well?"
Simon held his warm coffee cup in his hand and shook his head with a smile: "I won't tell you, so as not to be robbed by CAA and sit on the ground."
"Well, all right."
Michael owitz had to smile bitterly until Simon was joking.
Now in Hollywood, the rise of the blockbuster continues to weaken the position of big directors and stars. In addition, danelis entertainment has more and more control over the entire entertainment industry. Where there is any brokerage company that can start in front of Simon, they are all fighting for opportunities.Thinking of this, owitz can't help thinking of Simon's proposal.
Even though owitz has made great efforts to expand the business scope of sports brokerage and CAA in recent years, it is impossible for this company to have great development. If owitz can jump out and get a more open platform, he is willing to try.
The problem is that there can only be one leader in Lingying.
If he forces his way, owitz doesn't have EQ either. He knows very well that the result is that he and Eisner will be friends from now on.
Simon just arrived in Park City in the morning and didn't watch a movie. He just looked through the information of the shortlisted films on the plane. Under normal circumstances, it's impossible to find any outstanding new people.
Of course, the opposite is true.
In this year's shortlisted films, Denise Entertainment's high gate film industry has two main projects: Christopher Nolan's first feature film "follow" and Guy Ritchie, also from Britain and also the first feature film "two big smokes".
These two films and related creators need not be mentioned.
In addition, Simon saw other familiar names.
For example, a big bald man named van diesel, who wrote, directed and acted in a film "lost", was shortlisted in the main competition.
For another example, a young Asian director, Lin Yibin, brought his own work, which he co wrote and directed with his classmates, called "rush to buy tusks". It cost 100000 US dollars to shoot. Unfortunately, he didn't get the judges' attention. He just entered the non competition exhibition unit set up by Sundance in recent years.
Just this couple, Simon is worthy of this trip, after all, "speed and passion" series is a direct live together.
However, Simon's arrangements for van diesel and Lin Yibin are different.
Because he doesn't plan to start the "speed and passion" series in the short term, van diesel plans to hang it out for a few years, and Simon will take a little control of the big male star's career line, so as to avoid the other side's going too high before the "speed and passion" series starts, including Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" which is under preparation, and this time a soldier's role, Simon Although he promised that he would not interfere at all, it was still easy not to let a person get the chance.
Lin Yibin is a direct start to further polish.
The 23-year-old director of the film department of the University of California has made two long films, including "rush to buy fangs". Although they are small films with very low cost and can only find cooperation with friends and relatives, compared with many new people in the circle with high vision and low hand, they are quite good achievements. They can be directly sent to the new world film industry to direct some low-cost small projects .
Simon and owitz chatted casually, and the time soon came in the evening.
Winter days are short. When the twilight begins to fall, the bright lights on the villa at the top of the mountain become the most yearning place for all people in the small town this night.
"Simon, I'm so pitiful that paramount messed up such a good film as" Mrs. baron. "
In the villa hall.
Madonna, who had just arrived, saw Simon, who was chatting with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, and rushed over, taking advantage and complaining.
When Robbins and Sarandon saw this, they raised their glasses with a smile and took the initiative to walk away.
Simon just hugged the woman and pushed it away, but he still said: "there are at least 50 million in North America. That's good. Moreover, Paramount will not make the same mistake overseas. It's no problem to sell well. In short, this project will make a lot of money, and you can continue to struggle in Hollywood."
Madonna, of course, understood this. She leaned over and hugged Simon's arm. "In that case, Simon, do you have a role for me?"
Simon is very decisive: "this is really not."
The queen opened her mouth discontentedly, bit Simon on the shoulder, and then gave him a wink: "otherwise, I'll stay tonight and we'll talk about it alone. You must have some, don't you?"
"No more."
Simon mercilessly refused again. Seeing Robert Redford coming over and taking the initiative to greet her, Redford obviously misunderstood the relationship between Simon and queen McGregor. He looked at them with ridicule and just chatted casually. Then he motioned to Tommy Lee Jones, one of the judges of the festival not far away, to say: "I have something to talk to Tommy, wait See you next time. "
Robert Redford said, nodding to Madonna and turning to Tommy Lee Jones.
When Redford left, Simon noticed that Madonna rubbed over again and raised his hand to draw a note in a woman's place: "well, sweetheart, even if you love me heartbroken, we will never have a result. Since we don't have a boyfriend, let's go and find out if there are other interested little men."
Queen Mai pretended to eat painful Jiao voice for a while, but her eyes were toward the two tall Miaoman figures in the crowd and motioned: "do you mind if I look for a little woman?"
The queen is a man and a woman.
Simon looked at Roberta chilco and annilis selbert, who Madonna indicated, and then looked down at Queen McGregor, who was only over 1.6 meters old: "go and have a try, as long as you can seduce me, I won't stop you."Queen McGregor looked at the crowd in the hall and said, "there are so many models tonight, Simon. Can you stand it?"
Nowadays, Sundance is not only a movie, but also a gathering place for music and fashion activities, which will attract a large number of musicians and fashion models.
As for tonight, it's a little bit more.
It's mainly Cindy Crawford, Carla Bruni, Trish Goff, Fernando Lima and so on from elite side, vs a batch of Ford columns from Roberta chilco and annilis selbert from Ford side.
The total number is close to 30.
If Simon can't stand it, of course.
However, Simon didn't think about 1v30, which is too cruel, but the villa is full of these big goblins, which is more and more pleasing to the eye.
Madonna continued to Barra a few words, finally converged a little, talking about the business: "Simon, tomorrow night's Golden Globe Award, do you think" Mrs. Baron "has hope, and my heroine nomination?"
"You should ask paramount about that," Simon shrugged. Seeing the Queen's gaze, he had to say, "my focus this year is the English patient, and there is no dispute about anything else. So, as long as you are not too incompetent, you have a great chance."
"Oh, that's good news."
"Mrs. Baron" applied for the Golden Globe Award for musical comedy. On the musical side, danilisi Entertainment's nominated film is "ice blood storm". The Cohen brothers, a crime thriller, applied for the musical comedy to make room for "the catcher of the soul" and "the British patient". However, paramount did not necessarily think that it was danilisi Entertainment public relations strategy in disguise.
Although the Cohen brothers have not been favored by the award season, if danielis entertainment makes efforts to "ice blood storm" and "Mrs. Baron", it will be difficult to stop them, and they will not win the Golden Globe Award, and the subsequent Oscars will be even worse. The overseas distribution of this film will inevitably bring a layer of haze.
So Simon's understatement is that it's a blessing for Queen Mack.
Queen Mai sighed excitedly on her face. When someone didn't pay attention, she suddenly hugged Simon again and gave him a kiss on his face. Then she finally let go of the little man who always couldn't eat.
As soon as Madonna left, before Simon moved, Cindy Crawford and Carla Bruni in a black low cut dress came over and said, "good evening, Simon. It's not the first time, but every time I come here I feel great."
"Thank you," Simon said, nodding to Carla Bruni, then turning to Cindy with a smile. "I hear you're getting married soon?"
"Yes, you've met Rand jeber," Cindy said, with a little complaint in her eyes. "I'm an older model, but I can't turn it into a model. You turn off the show again. You have to get married and retire."
Simon made a gesture and covered his chest. "Come on, I feel guilty."
Cindy took advantage of the situation to pursue: "then why don't you take responsibility for me?"
"Well, it seems that I can only admit that I'm a bad man and I'm never responsible."
“……”
Carla Bruni, with a glass of red wine in her hand, looked at the interaction between the two people. Seeing that Cindy was speechless for a moment, she just said, "Simon, can I stay this time?"
"Of course, it's just about safety. I can't guarantee it."
Carla Bruni grinned and frowned, "why?"
Cindy grabs the lead again: "because there's a bad man here."
Simon nodded regretfully, "that's right."
Carla Bruni chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid of bad men, and, in fact, I wish I could stay here a few more days?"
"In that case, of course."
"In fact, this small town makes me feel great. I plan to stay here for a few days and write songs. I'm preparing my next record. Simon, can you help me?"
Before Simon could answer, Cindy said, "tomorrow night is the golden globe. Simon should go back to Los Angeles."
Then he looked at the man in front of him.
Simon shook his head: "I won't take part in the Golden Globe Award. There are still things here. I will leave next Monday. As for Carla, I still have to write my own records. However, it's OK for you to stay here for as long as you want."
"Oh, thank you so much."
"You're welcome," Simon said, looking at Cindy again. "By the way, are you going to stay tonight?"
Cindy hesitated a little: "how many people are you going to keep?"
"If you want to stay, you can stay. After I leave, you can continue. It has been empty for a long time, but it's better to live here."
"Forget it."
Cindy refuses. After all, she's engaged. It's ok if something happens to Simon westrow quietly. It's not appropriate to have too many eyes around her. After all, she has to save face for her real fiance, which can't be passed on to everyone.Simon also not reluctantly, toward two women raised a toast, way: "that tonight happy some."
The two women knew that the man had to entertain many guests, and they didn't get entangled. They left and turned to other places.
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"The share price rose 43% on the first day, and the market value reached $5.9 billion. After experiencing it for myself, I found that sometimes it was really so easy to make money."
"It's just that we're just in time for a new round of wealth distribution. However, Mike, I have read a report on the operation of LinkedIn in recent months. Frankly speaking, I feel that you are more and more suitable to transfer to be in charge of this company. After all, LinkedIn and CAA are actually the same in some aspects. In the future, the core business is to sell people to customers. As for Eisner, it was not a problem when Lingying was very small. With the increasing scale of users in the future, his thinking of operating a content-based enterprise will only limit the development of this company. "
"Simon, you know it's very troublesome. Mike and I have been good friends for so many years. He is the one who started Lingying. I'm only a partner and give some advice occasionally."
"At present, the number of registered users of LinkedIn is 27 million, which is just the beginning. In the future, it may be 270 million or more. Mike, compared with the CAA with less than 2000 customers and 1 billion customers, which one can give you more space to show
"Simon, I don't think we should talk about it."
"Well, there's a long way to go anyway."
Park City, Utah.
Simon is located in the villa at the top of the mountain in the south of the city on Saturday afternoon, January 18.
The waiters in the villa are busy preparing for the annual party in the evening. Simon and visiting Michael owitz are hiding in a reception room overlooking Park City on the west side of the villa, drinking coffee and chatting. The topic is LinkedIn, the workplace social networking site just launched yesterday.
Two years ago, Michael Eisner left the company after Disney's acquisition. Together with his good friend Michael owitz, he found out the idea of a workplace social networking site. By chance, he chatted with Simon and Simon remembered a Lingying name.
The project was initiated in February 1995 and launched in June of that year. Until now, about a year and a half ago, through close cooperation with westero system and under the marketing guidance of igritte, the number of registered users has reached 27 million. Unlike Facebook, a popular social tool, LinkedIn, as a professional workplace social networking site, has a large number of users Ride away the dust.
In the newly completed IPO, Lingying issued 15% of the new shares, raising US $600 million. The company's valuation reached US $3.5 billion, and the share price rose 43% on the first day. After the issuance of new shares, the total stock market value was US $5.9 billion.
Although it can't be compared with the previous instagram listing, the accumulated investment before and after the listing is only 120 million US dollars, and the market value of a website with an estimated annual revenue of less than 10 million US dollars is as high as 5.9 billion US dollars in a year and a half, which makes people feel the miracle of making wealth in the Internet industry once again.
After two rounds of financing and this IPO, the shares of two Hollywood born "Michael" with similar shareholding ratio were reduced to about 18%. They were listed yesterday. According to the closing stock price of that day, their personal wealth directly reached the level of 1 billion US dollars, becoming the new "billionaire". This is also the key reason why owitz just said with emotion.
Even if you understand that it's only book wealth, it's still a little easier to make money.
Simon doesn't have the same feeling as owitz. The initial direct investment and the subsequent shares obtained by igritte's investment in Lingying are of no importance to Simon's current wealth. What he sees is the hidden worries under Lingying's scenery. After the listing, Michael Eisner took the position of chairman and CEO of the board of directors, while owitz, as a large shareholder with a considerable proportion of shares, had only one seat on the board of directors.
In Simon's view, if Lingying wants to develop better, they should actually swap.
If owitz wants to, Simon can come forward and say something in person. Of course, if the talks fail, it will be easy to replace the management with nearly 30% of the shares held by the westrow system. Think about the last chicken feather between two Michaels in history, this time it will be the same.
Now, since owitz is still interested in his friendship with Eisner, Simon is not reluctant.
No hurry.
There's a long way to go.
If Eisner can take the initiative to quit in the future, it will be better.
In the reception room.
Michael owitz took a sip of coffee, looked at the beautiful town surrounded by the snow and mountains, and asked, "by the way, Simon, are there any new people you like this time?"
"Yes."
"Well?"
Simon held his warm coffee cup in his hand and shook his head with a smile: "I won't tell you, so as not to be robbed by CAA and sit on the ground."
"Well, all right."
Michael owitz had to smile bitterly until Simon was joking.
Now in Hollywood, the rise of the blockbuster continues to weaken the position of big directors and stars. In addition, danelis entertainment has more and more control over the entire entertainment industry. Where there is any brokerage company that can start in front of Simon, they are all fighting for opportunities.Thinking of this, owitz can't help thinking of Simon's proposal.
Even though owitz has made great efforts to expand the business scope of sports brokerage and CAA in recent years, it is impossible for this company to have great development. If owitz can jump out and get a more open platform, he is willing to try.
The problem is that there can only be one leader in Lingying.
If he forces his way, owitz doesn't have EQ either. He knows very well that the result is that he and Eisner will be friends from now on.
Simon just arrived in Park City in the morning and didn't watch a movie. He just looked through the information of the shortlisted films on the plane. Under normal circumstances, it's impossible to find any outstanding new people.
Of course, the opposite is true.
In this year's shortlisted films, Denise Entertainment's high gate film industry has two main projects: Christopher Nolan's first feature film "follow" and Guy Ritchie, also from Britain and also the first feature film "two big smokes".
These two films and related creators need not be mentioned.
In addition, Simon saw other familiar names.
For example, a big bald man named van diesel, who wrote, directed and acted in a film "lost", was shortlisted in the main competition.
For another example, a young Asian director, Lin Yibin, brought his own work, which he co wrote and directed with his classmates, called "rush to buy tusks". It cost 100000 US dollars to shoot. Unfortunately, he didn't get the judges' attention. He just entered the non competition exhibition unit set up by Sundance in recent years.
Just this couple, Simon is worthy of this trip, after all, "speed and passion" series is a direct live together.
However, Simon's arrangements for van diesel and Lin Yibin are different.
Because he doesn't plan to start the "speed and passion" series in the short term, van diesel plans to hang it out for a few years, and Simon will take a little control of the big male star's career line, so as to avoid the other side's going too high before the "speed and passion" series starts, including Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" which is under preparation, and this time a soldier's role, Simon Although he promised that he would not interfere at all, it was still easy not to let a person get the chance.
Lin Yibin is a direct start to further polish.
The 23-year-old director of the film department of the University of California has made two long films, including "rush to buy fangs". Although they are small films with very low cost and can only find cooperation with friends and relatives, compared with many new people in the circle with high vision and low hand, they are quite good achievements. They can be directly sent to the new world film industry to direct some low-cost small projects .
Simon and owitz chatted casually, and the time soon came in the evening.
Winter days are short. When the twilight begins to fall, the bright lights on the villa at the top of the mountain become the most yearning place for all people in the small town this night.
"Simon, I'm so pitiful that paramount messed up such a good film as" Mrs. baron. "
In the villa hall.
Madonna, who had just arrived, saw Simon, who was chatting with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, and rushed over, taking advantage and complaining.
When Robbins and Sarandon saw this, they raised their glasses with a smile and took the initiative to walk away.
Simon just hugged the woman and pushed it away, but he still said: "there are at least 50 million in North America. That's good. Moreover, Paramount will not make the same mistake overseas. It's no problem to sell well. In short, this project will make a lot of money, and you can continue to struggle in Hollywood."
Madonna, of course, understood this. She leaned over and hugged Simon's arm. "In that case, Simon, do you have a role for me?"
Simon is very decisive: "this is really not."
The queen opened her mouth discontentedly, bit Simon on the shoulder, and then gave him a wink: "otherwise, I'll stay tonight and we'll talk about it alone. You must have some, don't you?"
"No more."
Simon mercilessly refused again. Seeing Robert Redford coming over and taking the initiative to greet her, Redford obviously misunderstood the relationship between Simon and queen McGregor. He looked at them with ridicule and just chatted casually. Then he motioned to Tommy Lee Jones, one of the judges of the festival not far away, to say: "I have something to talk to Tommy, wait See you next time. "
Robert Redford said, nodding to Madonna and turning to Tommy Lee Jones.
When Redford left, Simon noticed that Madonna rubbed over again and raised his hand to draw a note in a woman's place: "well, sweetheart, even if you love me heartbroken, we will never have a result. Since we don't have a boyfriend, let's go and find out if there are other interested little men."
Queen Mai pretended to eat painful Jiao voice for a while, but her eyes were toward the two tall Miaoman figures in the crowd and motioned: "do you mind if I look for a little woman?"
The queen is a man and a woman.
Simon looked at Roberta chilco and annilis selbert, who Madonna indicated, and then looked down at Queen McGregor, who was only over 1.6 meters old: "go and have a try, as long as you can seduce me, I won't stop you."Queen McGregor looked at the crowd in the hall and said, "there are so many models tonight, Simon. Can you stand it?"
Nowadays, Sundance is not only a movie, but also a gathering place for music and fashion activities, which will attract a large number of musicians and fashion models.
As for tonight, it's a little bit more.
It's mainly Cindy Crawford, Carla Bruni, Trish Goff, Fernando Lima and so on from elite side, vs a batch of Ford columns from Roberta chilco and annilis selbert from Ford side.
The total number is close to 30.
If Simon can't stand it, of course.
However, Simon didn't think about 1v30, which is too cruel, but the villa is full of these big goblins, which is more and more pleasing to the eye.
Madonna continued to Barra a few words, finally converged a little, talking about the business: "Simon, tomorrow night's Golden Globe Award, do you think" Mrs. Baron "has hope, and my heroine nomination?"
"You should ask paramount about that," Simon shrugged. Seeing the Queen's gaze, he had to say, "my focus this year is the English patient, and there is no dispute about anything else. So, as long as you are not too incompetent, you have a great chance."
"Oh, that's good news."
"Mrs. Baron" applied for the Golden Globe Award for musical comedy. On the musical side, danilisi Entertainment's nominated film is "ice blood storm". The Cohen brothers, a crime thriller, applied for the musical comedy to make room for "the catcher of the soul" and "the British patient". However, paramount did not necessarily think that it was danilisi Entertainment public relations strategy in disguise.
Although the Cohen brothers have not been favored by the award season, if danielis entertainment makes efforts to "ice blood storm" and "Mrs. Baron", it will be difficult to stop them, and they will not win the Golden Globe Award, and the subsequent Oscars will be even worse. The overseas distribution of this film will inevitably bring a layer of haze.
So Simon's understatement is that it's a blessing for Queen Mack.
Queen Mai sighed excitedly on her face. When someone didn't pay attention, she suddenly hugged Simon again and gave him a kiss on his face. Then she finally let go of the little man who always couldn't eat.
As soon as Madonna left, before Simon moved, Cindy Crawford and Carla Bruni in a black low cut dress came over and said, "good evening, Simon. It's not the first time, but every time I come here I feel great."
"Thank you," Simon said, nodding to Carla Bruni, then turning to Cindy with a smile. "I hear you're getting married soon?"
"Yes, you've met Rand jeber," Cindy said, with a little complaint in her eyes. "I'm an older model, but I can't turn it into a model. You turn off the show again. You have to get married and retire."
Simon made a gesture and covered his chest. "Come on, I feel guilty."
Cindy took advantage of the situation to pursue: "then why don't you take responsibility for me?"
"Well, it seems that I can only admit that I'm a bad man and I'm never responsible."
“……”
Carla Bruni, with a glass of red wine in her hand, looked at the interaction between the two people. Seeing that Cindy was speechless for a moment, she just said, "Simon, can I stay this time?"
"Of course, it's just about safety. I can't guarantee it."
Carla Bruni grinned and frowned, "why?"
Cindy grabs the lead again: "because there's a bad man here."
Simon nodded regretfully, "that's right."
Carla Bruni chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid of bad men, and, in fact, I wish I could stay here a few more days?"
"In that case, of course."
"In fact, this small town makes me feel great. I plan to stay here for a few days and write songs. I'm preparing my next record. Simon, can you help me?"
Before Simon could answer, Cindy said, "tomorrow night is the golden globe. Simon should go back to Los Angeles."
Then he looked at the man in front of him.
Simon shook his head: "I won't take part in the Golden Globe Award. There are still things here. I will leave next Monday. As for Carla, I still have to write my own records. However, it's OK for you to stay here for as long as you want."
"Oh, thank you so much."
"You're welcome," Simon said, looking at Cindy again. "By the way, are you going to stay tonight?"
Cindy hesitated a little: "how many people are you going to keep?"
"If you want to stay, you can stay. After I leave, you can continue. It has been empty for a long time, but it's better to live here."
"Forget it."
Cindy refuses. After all, she's engaged. It's ok if something happens to Simon westrow quietly. It's not appropriate to have too many eyes around her. After all, she has to save face for her real fiance, which can't be passed on to everyone.Simon also not reluctantly, toward two women raised a toast, way: "that tonight happy some."
The two women knew that the man had to entertain many guests, and they didn't get entangled. They left and turned to other places.
"The share price rose 43% on the first day, and the market value reached $5.9 billion. After experiencing it for myself, I found that sometimes it was really so easy to make money." "It's just that we're just in time for a new round of wealth distribution. However, Mike, I have read a report on the operation of LinkedIn in recent months. Frankly speaking, I feel that you are more and more suitable to transfer to be in charge of this company. After all, LinkedIn and CAA are actually the same in some aspects. In the future, the core business is to sell people to customers. As for Eisner, it was not a problem when Lingying was very small. With the increasing scale of users in the future, his thinking of operating a content-based enterprise will only limit the development of this company. " "Simon, you know it's very troublesome. Mike and I have been good friends for so many years. He is the one who started Lingying. I'm only a partner and give some advice occasionally." "At present, the number of registered users of LinkedIn is 27 million, which is just the beginning. In the future, it may be 270 million or more. Mike, compared with the CAA with less than 2000 customers and 1 billion customers, which one can give you more space to show "Simon, I don't think we should talk about it." "Well, there's a long way to go anyway." Park City, Utah. Simon is located in the villa at the top of the mountain in the south of the city on Saturday afternoon, January 18. The waiters in the villa are busy preparing for the annual party in the evening. Simon and visiting Michael owitz are hiding in a reception room overlooking Park City on the west side of the villa, drinking coffee and chatting. The topic is LinkedIn, the workplace social networking site just launched yesterday. Two years ago, Michael Eisner left the company after Disney's acquisition. Together with his good friend Michael owitz, he found out the idea of a workplace social networking site. By chance, he chatted with Simon and Simon remembered a Lingying name. The project was initiated in February 1995 and launched in June of that year. Until now, about a year and a half ago, through close cooperation with westero system and under the marketing guidance of igritte, the number of registered users has reached 27 million. Unlike Facebook, a popular social tool, LinkedIn, as a professional workplace social networking site, has a large number of users Ride away the dust. In the newly completed IPO, Lingying issued 15% of the new shares, raising US $600 million. The company's valuation reached US $3.5 billion, and the share price rose 43% on the first day. After the issuance of new shares, the total stock market value was US $5.9 billion. Although it can't be compared with the previous instagram listing, the accumulated investment before and after the listing is only 120 million US dollars, and the market value of a website with an estimated annual revenue of less than 10 million US dollars is as high as 5.9 billion US dollars in a year and a half, which makes people feel the miracle of making wealth in the Internet industry once again. After two rounds of financing and this IPO, the shares of two Hollywood born "Michael" with similar shareholding ratio were reduced to about 18%. They were listed yesterday. According to the closing stock price of that day, their personal wealth directly reached the level of 1 billion US dollars, becoming the new "billionaire". This is also the key reason why owitz just said with emotion. Even if you understand that it's only book wealth, it's still a little easier to make money. Simon doesn't have the same feeling as owitz. The initial direct investment and the subsequent shares obtained by igritte's investment in Lingying are of no importance to Simon's current wealth. What he sees is the hidden worries under Lingying's scenery. After the listing, Michael Eisner took the position of chairman and CEO of the board of directors, while owitz, as a large shareholder with a considerable proportion of shares, had only one seat on the board of directors. In Simon's view, if Lingying wants to develop better, they should actually swap. If owitz wants to, Simon can come forward and say something in person. Of course, if the talks fail, it will be easy to replace the management with nearly 30% of the shares held by the westrow system. Think about the last chicken feather between two Michaels in history, this time it will be the same. Now, since owitz is still interested in his friendship with Eisner, Simon is not reluctant. No hurry. There's a long way to go. If Eisner can take the initiative to quit in the future, it will be better. In the reception room. Michael owitz took a sip of coffee, looked at the beautiful town surrounded by the snow and mountains, and asked, "by the way, Simon, are there any new people you like this time?" "Yes." "Well?" Simon held his warm coffee cup in his hand and shook his head with a smile: "I won't tell you, so as not to be robbed by CAA and sit on the ground." "Well, all right." Michael owitz had to smile bitterly until Simon was joking. Now in Hollywood, the rise of the blockbuster continues to weaken the position of big directors and stars. In addition, danelis entertainment has more and more control over the entire entertainment industry. Where there is any brokerage company that can start in front of Simon, they are all fighting for opportunities.Thinking of this, owitz can't help thinking of Simon's proposal. Even though owitz has made great efforts to expand the business scope of sports brokerage and CAA in recent years, it is impossible for this company to have great development. If owitz can jump out and get a more open platform, he is willing to try. The problem is that there can only be one leader in Lingying. If he forces his way, owitz doesn't have EQ either. He knows very well that the result is that he and Eisner will be friends from now on. Simon just arrived in Park City in the morning and didn't watch a movie. He just looked through the information of the shortlisted films on the plane. Under normal circumstances, it's impossible to find any outstanding new people. Of course, the opposite is true. In this year's shortlisted films, Denise Entertainment's high gate film industry has two main projects: Christopher Nolan's first feature film "follow" and Guy Ritchie, also from Britain and also the first feature film "two big smokes". These two films and related creators need not be mentioned. In addition, Simon saw other familiar names. For example, a big bald man named van diesel, who wrote, directed and acted in a film "lost", was shortlisted in the main competition. For another example, a young Asian director, Lin Yibin, brought his own work, which he co wrote and directed with his classmates, called "rush to buy tusks". It cost 100000 US dollars to shoot. Unfortunately, he didn't get the judges' attention. He just entered the non competition exhibition unit set up by Sundance in recent years. Just this couple, Simon is worthy of this trip, after all, "speed and passion" series is a direct live together. However, Simon's arrangements for van diesel and Lin Yibin are different. Because he doesn't plan to start the "speed and passion" series in the short term, van diesel plans to hang it out for a few years, and Simon will take a little control of the big male star's career line, so as to avoid the other side's going too high before the "speed and passion" series starts, including Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" which is under preparation, and this time a soldier's role, Simon Although he promised that he would not interfere at all, it was still easy not to let a person get the chance. Lin Yibin is a direct start to further polish. The 23-year-old director of the film department of the University of California has made two long films, including "rush to buy fangs". Although they are small films with very low cost and can only find cooperation with friends and relatives, compared with many new people in the circle with high vision and low hand, they are quite good achievements. They can be directly sent to the new world film industry to direct some low-cost small projects . Simon and owitz chatted casually, and the time soon came in the evening. Winter days are short. When the twilight begins to fall, the bright lights on the villa at the top of the mountain become the most yearning place for all people in the small town this night. "Simon, I'm so pitiful that paramount messed up such a good film as" Mrs. baron. " In the villa hall. Madonna, who had just arrived, saw Simon, who was chatting with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, and rushed over, taking advantage and complaining. When Robbins and Sarandon saw this, they raised their glasses with a smile and took the initiative to walk away. Simon just hugged the woman and pushed it away, but he still said: "there are at least 50 million in North America. That's good. Moreover, Paramount will not make the same mistake overseas. It's no problem to sell well. In short, this project will make a lot of money, and you can continue to struggle in Hollywood." Madonna, of course, understood this. She leaned over and hugged Simon's arm. "In that case, Simon, do you have a role for me?" Simon is very decisive: "this is really not." The queen opened her mouth discontentedly, bit Simon on the shoulder, and then gave him a wink: "otherwise, I'll stay tonight and we'll talk about it alone. You must have some, don't you?" "No more." Simon mercilessly refused again. Seeing Robert Redford coming over and taking the initiative to greet her, Redford obviously misunderstood the relationship between Simon and queen McGregor. He looked at them with ridicule and just chatted casually. Then he motioned to Tommy Lee Jones, one of the judges of the festival not far away, to say: "I have something to talk to Tommy, wait See you next time. " Robert Redford said, nodding to Madonna and turning to Tommy Lee Jones. When Redford left, Simon noticed that Madonna rubbed over again and raised his hand to draw a note in a woman's place: "well, sweetheart, even if you love me heartbroken, we will never have a result. Since we don't have a boyfriend, let's go and find out if there are other interested little men." Queen Mai pretended to eat painful Jiao voice for a while, but her eyes were toward the two tall Miaoman figures in the crowd and motioned: "do you mind if I look for a little woman?" The queen is a man and a woman. Simon looked at Roberta chilco and annilis selbert, who Madonna indicated, and then looked down at Queen McGregor, who was only over 1.6 meters old: "go and have a try, as long as you can seduce me, I won't stop you."Queen McGregor looked at the crowd in the hall and said, "there are so many models tonight, Simon. Can you stand it?" Nowadays, Sundance is not only a movie, but also a gathering place for music and fashion activities, which will attract a large number of musicians and fashion models. As for tonight, it's a little bit more. It's mainly Cindy Crawford, Carla Bruni, Trish Goff, Fernando Lima and so on from elite side, vs a batch of Ford columns from Roberta chilco and annilis selbert from Ford side. The total number is close to 30. If Simon can't stand it, of course. However, Simon didn't think about 1v30, which is too cruel, but the villa is full of these big goblins, which is more and more pleasing to the eye. Madonna continued to Barra a few words, finally converged a little, talking about the business: "Simon, tomorrow night's Golden Globe Award, do you think" Mrs. Baron "has hope, and my heroine nomination?" "You should ask paramount about that," Simon shrugged. Seeing the Queen's gaze, he had to say, "my focus this year is the English patient, and there is no dispute about anything else. So, as long as you are not too incompetent, you have a great chance." "Oh, that's good news." "Mrs. Baron" applied for the Golden Globe Award for musical comedy. On the musical side, danilisi Entertainment's nominated film is "ice blood storm". The Cohen brothers, a crime thriller, applied for the musical comedy to make room for "the catcher of the soul" and "the British patient". However, paramount did not necessarily think that it was danilisi Entertainment public relations strategy in disguise. Although the Cohen brothers have not been favored by the award season, if danielis entertainment makes efforts to "ice blood storm" and "Mrs. Baron", it will be difficult to stop them, and they will not win the Golden Globe Award, and the subsequent Oscars will be even worse. The overseas distribution of this film will inevitably bring a layer of haze. So Simon's understatement is that it's a blessing for Queen Mack. Queen Mai sighed excitedly on her face. When someone didn't pay attention, she suddenly hugged Simon again and gave him a kiss on his face. Then she finally let go of the little man who always couldn't eat. As soon as Madonna left, before Simon moved, Cindy Crawford and Carla Bruni in a black low cut dress came over and said, "good evening, Simon. It's not the first time, but every time I come here I feel great." "Thank you," Simon said, nodding to Carla Bruni, then turning to Cindy with a smile. "I hear you're getting married soon?" "Yes, you've met Rand jeber," Cindy said, with a little complaint in her eyes. "I'm an older model, but I can't turn it into a model. You turn off the show again. You have to get married and retire." Simon made a gesture and covered his chest. "Come on, I feel guilty." Cindy took advantage of the situation to pursue: "then why don't you take responsibility for me?" "Well, it seems that I can only admit that I'm a bad man and I'm never responsible." Carla Bruni, with a glass of red wine in her hand, looked at the interaction between the two people. Seeing that Cindy was speechless for a moment, she just said, "Simon, can I stay this time?" "Of course, it's just about safety. I can't guarantee it." Carla Bruni grinned and frowned, "why?" Cindy grabs the lead again: "because there's a bad man here." Simon nodded regretfully, "that's right." Carla Bruni chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid of bad men, and, in fact, I wish I could stay here a few more days?" "In that case, of course." "In fact, this small town makes me feel great. I plan to stay here for a few days and write songs. I'm preparing my next record. Simon, can you help me?" Before Simon could answer, Cindy said, "tomorrow night is the golden globe. Simon should go back to Los Angeles." Then he looked at the man in front of him. Simon shook his head: "I won't take part in the Golden Globe Award. There are still things here. I will leave next Monday. As for Carla, I still have to write my own records. However, it's OK for you to stay here for as long as you want." "Oh, thank you so much." "You're welcome," Simon said, looking at Cindy again. "By the way, are you going to stay tonight?" Cindy hesitated a little: "how many people are you going to keep?" "If you want to stay, you can stay. After I leave, you can continue. It has been empty for a long time, but it's better to live here." "Forget it." Cindy refuses. After all, she's engaged. It's ok if something happens to Simon westrow quietly. It's not appropriate to have too many eyes around her. After all, she has to save face for her real fiance, which can't be passed on to everyone.Simon also not reluctantly, toward two women raised a toast, way: "that tonight happy some." The two women knew that the man had to entertain many guests, and they didn't get entangled. They left and turned to other places.
