Back To 1995

  Chapter 328

   Actually, it's hard to say how the relationship is, but it seems that Song Yang is very close to Jeff Skilling, who came to represent Enron.

   "How is President Kenneth doing recently, I saw the news about him and the commander together!"

   Song Yang looked at Jeff Skilling and said, after a few months of absence, Jeff Skilling is now more and more proud of himself.

Now Jeff Skilling is in charge of the "Enron Online" website. Enron Online is already the world's largest energy trading website. At the beginning, it only traded bulk energy futures such as natural gas, oil, and coal. Under Lin's control, the entire Enron Online transaction began to swell like a snowball.

More than 700 kinds of trade items such as wood, weather forecast, broadband, environmental protection indicators, etc., are all online on the Enron Online website. It can be said that it is only unexpected. There is no Enron that will not play. Now Enron Online, the daily transaction volume has exceeded 1.5 billion US dollars is not as good as other exchanges, but on the Internet, Amazon and eBay are hardly comparable.

Hearing Song Yang mentioning Kenneth, Jeff Skilling couldn't help but smile proudly and slammed the golf ball into the air. Of course, the news that Kenneth and the commander were together was released by An Ran, just to show the outside world that An Ran and the boss were together. The commander's close relationship is also telling others that An Ran's current power is prosperous, and when the commander arrives in Texas, he must be with Anran!

   "Kenneth is okay, he's just a little too busy, but it's a pity that Dole is too old to be a match for the chief commander at all, otherwise An Ran doesn't have to go to show his sympathy to the chief commander!"

When it came to this matter, Jeff Skilling couldn't help but complained to Song Yang. Like the party, there was no one who could fight. The one who came out to challenge the commander turned out to be a veteran congressman from Kansas. 73-year-old Dole, who has run for election three times and accompany him three times, has come out of the mountains, and even this is not obvious to send food?

   Dole is a veteran of the Elephant Party. The current Elephant Party whip, Tom DeLay, took over Dole's original position. Because of the election, he gave up the position of the party whip.

In fact, it’s impossible not to let it go. Dole is 73 years old. He is running for the general commander this year. If he wins, he will be able to sit for a few years. Otherwise, he will have to retire from the Senate. This time basically Last shot.

But the main thing is the inside of the party. There is no hope for this time. The people inside the party, the Cowboy Family, the Adams Dynasty, etc. are also very quiet this time. The "respected" Dole came out, and the others obviously did not want to be tough with the commander this time.

Although he is reluctant to admit it, in fact, the elephant party has acquiesced in giving up this election. It is really hard to beat. The current commander's reputation is not very good, but in his hands these days, America is in full swing. There are too many. The key is that among female voters, the support rate of the commander-in-chief is too high.

In the preliminary election poll conducted by the media, the support of female voters for the leader was more than 50% higher than that of Dole and another general election figure who joined in the fun. This basically shows that whether it is like the party Whoever comes up, basically accompanies the run.

   After playing a few balls, Jeff Skilling turned his head to Song Yang and said with a smile, "I think Dole will come to California soon, and Song, you will also need to raise money for Dole!"

Winning or not is not the key, the key is to raise campaign funds. For Dole and the campaign team he formed, this cannot be bad. The more difficult it is to fight, the more money must be raised to fight. Advertising is not, it is not their own money spent anyway.

Song Yang nodded, knowing the rules here. The knife that should be given should definitely be given. On the side of the elephant party, no matter if they win or not, they are also trying their best to advertise and mobilize the sponsors to give it to the elephant party and Dole. Donate money to prepare for the next four years. If you can't win this time, you won't be able to win in four years. There is always a chance to win it again. Anyway, they have been playing this game for a hundred or two hundred years.

   "Seriously, Song, neither Kenneth nor I thought that you would actually implement Bill 230, which is probably being discussed on Capitol Hill now!"

  Jeff Skilling teased Song Yang, and couldn't help but look at Song Yang in front of him. The natural gas industry is an industry that often has to deal with municipal departments. He understands more about the impact of a bill on an industry.

Jeff Skilling remembered the first time he met Song Yang. At that time, Song Yang had just become a well-known "Internet genius" in Houston. Now, he and An Ran both need to rely on Song Yang. Song Yang He even played with the Capitol Hill Act, which made Jeff Skilling feel a little emotional. Jeff Skilling didn't know. In another year or two, even Kenneth would not know whether he could suppress it. I have to live with Song Yang.

After a few words, Jeff Skilling began to say to Song Yang, "Song, I like your words, "build another Enron", and now we have done it. The Enron online website has made Enron's revenue this year. Doubled!"

   "Whether it's Kenneth or me," Jeff Skilling pointed to Song Yang, "We all love working with you Song!"

Since working with Song Yang, Jeff Skilling and Kenneth have both felt pretty good. The most important thing is that Song Yang "knows the rules". America Telecom made them both hundreds of millions of dollars at one time. In the future, America If telecommunications go public, they will be able to make a fortune.

After saying these words to Song Yang, Jeff Skilling also expressed his attitude. This time, Enron wanted to invest several hundred million dollars in ICQ just like the last time he invested in America Telecom, and then Jeff Skilling and Ken Nice and the two of them got a kickback from ICQ. As for Enron's loss, they didn't care about it.

Again, he, Jeff Skilling, is getting some salary from Enron. No matter how high Enron's stock price is, it is not Jeff Skilling's. He invests Enron's US knife. It's up to them that's the key!

"Enron is going to join forces with other natural gas, oil, iron ore and other companies in Texas and America to form a new investment company to invest in major global natural gas, iron ore and other energy production areas, and finally formulate new natural gas, iron ore and other energy production areas. Iron ore and other rules!"

   "Enron can let this new investment company reserve a spot for Songyou's North American Global Investment Fund!"

  Jeff Skilling said to Song Yang, as if he regarded Song Yang as his own person, An Ran disliked online energy futures trading, the money was too slow, and he planned to invest directly in natural gas, ore, etc., and then affect the futures price.

   This is a big investment. Enron wants to form its own energy investment consortium, invest in natural gas fields, iron mines, etc., and then influence the futures trading market!

   I have to say that An Ran's appetite is really big. Song Yang looked at Jeff Skilling in surprise. He didn't expect An Ran to play so much.

If it is really done, then it will be a day of gold. Think of the Hunter family in America in the 1970s, who hoarded billions of dollars in silver futures. In the silver futures market, there are three major iron ore traders. BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Vale have joined forces to directly control the price of iron ore. In addition to making money from selling iron ore, they are also making waves in the price of iron ore futures.

Now, Enron also wants to play this game, and play it even more. To establish Enron's own consortium is to win the pricing power of natural gas, metal, energy and even grain. If you master these mines and natural gas fields, you will be able to control the output. , in the futures market, you can naturally play tricks, which is equivalent to being a bookmaker, and you can directly take it all!

   But if it failed, Song Yang glanced at Jeff Skilling, and felt that Enron had accumulated a lot of natural gas futures if it wasn't in the futures market. Once the price fell, it was estimated that the entire Enron would have to get in!

Glancing at Jeff Skilling, Song Yang shook his head regretfully, "Jeff, you know, I have invested too much in the technology industry and Asia recently, and the capital chain has begun to get tense, Enron. This investment firm, the Americas Global Investment Fund, is difficult to reinvest."

Hearing Song Yang's words, Jeff Skilling nodded indifferently, but made a regretful expression towards Song Yang, thinking that Song Yang had missed an opportunity and wanted to throw money at Enron Investment Company. The number, Wall Street institutions, are lining up to send money.

   "ICQ can accept Enron's investment, but this time there are other companies investing, Enron may not get too much ICQ equity!"

Seeing Jeff Skilling frowning, Song Yang continued, "Of course, before ICQ goes public, there will be a second round of financing. At that time, Jeff, you and Jeff Skilling will be able to get ICQ. An investment opportunity of about 3% equity!"

   Hearing this, a smile suddenly appeared on Jeff Skilling's face, which implied that it was obvious enough that ICQ would let Kenneth and Jeff Skilling's family invest in ICQ.

With the current valuation of ICQ, if there is a hype, the future valuation of ICQ may not exceed 10 billion US dollars. At that time, Jeff Skilling and Kenneth will share the 3% equity, even if they only take 1%, then the cash out will be able to exceed hundreds of millions of dollars!

  Jeff Skilling stretched out his hand and shook hands with Song Yang, "Song, in the negotiations starting tomorrow, Enron will fully support ICQ, no matter what the cost!"

To put it bluntly, Jeff Skilling was going to let Enron raise the price for ICQ, Microsoft, Comcast, and General Electric. , and several other companies want to invest in ICQ, they must raise the price together.

  In the hotel in San Jose, the Comcast investment group led by Brian Roberts has entered.

  Bryan Roberts looked at the scenery outside the hotel window, not far from San Jose University, where Brian looked at was the ICQ office building he passed by.

   "You mean, Song has met Enron's CFO Jeff Skilling?"

   (end of this chapter)