Hollywood Hunter

Girl C moves quickly.

On Monday morning, February 21, the "Wall Street Journal" reported that Claire Gein, CEO of Tincobair, had an appointment with the president of Morgan Stanley's West Coast Investment Banking Division.

The media and the public usually refer to the major Wall Street financial giants as XX "investment banks". In fact, companies such as Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Lehman, and Salomon are all comprehensive financial service companies. Investment banks are precisely these financial companies. One of the giant's many businesses is mainly responsible for the underwriting of corporate IPOs and various types of stocks and bonds.

Therefore, it is self-evident that Girl C met with the head of Morgan's West Coast investment banking department.

In the morning of the same day, on the financial section of the Eaglet portal, an'inside source' immediately gave a positive revelation that Tinkobair is considering an initial public offering (IPO). The rapidly emerging electronic product companies have quickly become the focus of outside attention.

Established in 1991, in June of that year, it was a blockbuster relying on an affordable digital camera product. In the second year of its establishment, the sales exceeded 300 million US dollars.

As if in order to create momentum for the IPO of Tinkobair, on February 22, Tinkobair announced its 1993 financial report through the Eaglet portal.

Throughout 1993, Tinkobair sold 2.76 million iCam series digital cameras, with a turnover of 1.39 billion US dollars and a net profit of 1.2 US dollars. An electronic product company has achieved sales of more than $1 billion and a net profit of over 100 million in just three years after its establishment, which is quite rare in the entire business history. This data also proves once again the vast development space of a blue ocean Internet industry.

Simon's 26th birthday is February 22.

Still low-key.

If you don't count the C girl publicly wishing her boss a happy birthday on the "Tonight Show".

After logging into the important pages of the newspaper for two consecutive days, Claire also accepted an interview with NBC's "Tonight Show" on Simon’s birthday. The C girl, who is a popular business woman, had no less temperament than any other female star in the interview. Jay Leno talked freely, talked about his idea of ​​founding Tinkobair, talked about the development of iCam cameras in the past few years, talked about his vision of the company.

Of course the question about Simon is inevitable.

Girl C was very calm about this, saying that she was one of Simon’s ABCD, and she boldly expressed her admiration for her boss during work and Simon’s infinite support for her founding of Tinkerbair, and occasionally some ambiguity was inevitable. Although the topic was lightly skipped by Girl C, the girl's inconceivable faint aftertaste seemed to be completely self-asserted, causing the audience to booze.

Finally, wishing Simon's birthday, I also don't forget to continue to advertise the fourth-generation iCam-40 digital camera that Tincobair will release during Easter. It fits the theme very well, and it feels like this fairy is going to promote its own products.

Naturally there is no shortage of doubts.

An article in the "San Francisco Chronicle" on Wednesday mocked the singularity of Tincobel's products and the gap between iCam and professional digital cameras. It also analyzed that iCam is facing a joint siege by major electronics manufacturers, claiming This small company whose market share has been'declining all the way' may be marginalized within three years, just like Apple, which is rapidly declining.

After the market value reached a peak of US$7.6 billion in 1992, affected by factors such as the rise of Microsoft and the stagnation of its own product innovation, even though the previous fiscal year 1993 still achieved a net profit of more than US$500 million, Apple’s stock price continued to fall, and the current market value has fallen. To around $4.3 billion, a drop of 43% compared to the peak period.

At first, Tinkobair, which only relied on the procurement of components from other manufacturers to assemble the first-generation iCam-10, was obviously inferior to Apple. Whether it was a Japanese-German or a strong American electronics manufacturer, it relied on years of technical accumulation. Able to produce even better products than Tinkobel.

On the same day, Tinkobair rebutted the argument of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Simon even sneered at this report.

According to this view, Motorola, Nokia, and other mobile phone giants with profound technological accumulation cannot be surpassed by a ‘layman’ Apple.

In three years, Tinkobair already has its own technology accumulation, marketing model and sales network. This is the basis for the company to continue its rapid development, not just product technology.

Compared with the bad news of the "San Francisco Chronicle", many professional media are more optimistic about the prospects of the IPO of Tinkobair. According to the 1993 financial report and the company's upward momentum, the industry generally predicts that Tinkobair's IPO price-earnings ratio will not be less than 20 times, which means the company's valuation of 2.4 billion US dollars.

Relying on 15% of Tinkobair's holdings, Girl C's net worth is therefore estimated at 360 million US dollars. 360 million US dollars have basically stepped on the threshold of the US 400 rich list. After the official IPO, the stock price rose slightly, and the former Simon Westeros personal maid may become one of the 400 richest people in the United States on this year's "Forbes" list.

When the media and the public were envious of Lady C’s life experience, Westeros’ team both exposed and secretly operated in the UK regarding the ‘mysterious Luoli Corps’.

If it can not be exposed, of course it is best not to be exposed.

After News Corp refused to publish a report, the public relations team of the Westeros system also successfully intercepted the two mainstream newspapers of the British "Guardian" and "Daily Telegraph" trying to report on this matter, but since there are some things If you want to poke it out, you can't stop it after all.

On February 25, the Daily Mirror, another gossip newspaper similar in nature to the News of the World, published the same ‘mysterious Luoli Legion’ article.

At the same time the news appeared in the newspaper, the London Police Department also received the report.

The storm started.

A group of mysterious Russian girls hiding in the city of London who were suspected of being abducted or trained by agents, this news is really worth digging.

On the day that the "Daily Mirror" report was published, the villa next to Burton Park in Chelsea was blocked by paparazzi reporters who heard the news, including the private girls' school where girls went to school and other people around it. The object of media mining.

Public opinion was fierce, and the London Police Department immediately announced its formal involvement in the investigation.

Since the matter can no longer be covered up, in order to prevent London's well-developed tabloid system from concocting more unmarginal rumors, Simon also followed the original plan.

On the second day, a person in charge of the Westeros London branch convened a press conference to clarify publicly that several girls in London were special international students funded by Westeros. The purpose was to help Westeros. The Luo family trains personal assistants.

The person in charge did not hide when he was inquired by the media. The straightforward explanation is similar to an assistant like Claire Gein, the founder of Tinkobair, who is being discussed recently.

The British media, who had been digging into the details and had discovered the scales of claws, suddenly became a little confused.

Just admit it so openly, it hasn't become lively yet.

So immediately throw a lot of questions.

Why are such a group of girls?

Do the girls have a distinctive family background?

Are the girls being abused during training, and are they willing to do so?

More sensitive, did these underage girls have some contact with Simon Westeros? Are they harmed?

It was so lively for a weekend.

On Monday, February 27, a spokesperson for the London Police Department also announced a preliminary investigation report on the incident. The girls are indeed in the nature of international students funded by Westeros. All procedures are compliant and legal, and their living allowances are also very generous. Subject to any detention and abuse.

How can this be!

Let me not let you watch the excitement.

Can you believe it in official terms?

A child protection organization in the UK immediately jumped out and asked for an investigation into the situation of the girls.

The media also followed suit.

At the same time, the girls’ life experience and selection process have also surfaced under the excavation of British tabloids. Westeros has collected large-scale resumes through model recruitment. Whether this is suspected of fraud, the girls’ parents have asked to stay In the UK to accompany the caregiver, all the parents who made this request were rejected, and some girls who had been selected were even implicated in the expulsion. Is this practice of Westeros unscrupulous?

Such all kinds.

People who eat melons only think that this melon is really getting bigger and sweeter.

Then Westeros simply released another super melon.

News Corporation’s "The Times" published a statement on February 30th. In order to clarify some doubts from the media and the public, Westeros will conduct live broadcasts on the girls’ lives on March 1st. Appropriate display.

The webcast has never been heard before.

After the news was released, many European and American TV networks contacted Westeros to try to obtain the right to live TV. Rupert Murdoch personally called Simon for this.

Simon also had no objection. After a simple communication, a live broadcast team from Sky TV was added to follow up together. However, the live TV media will only have two hours instead of the whole day tracking of the webcast.

On the day of the news release, the live broadcast website address was also announced in a prominent position on the Eaglet portal. Millions of users entered in the first time and only saw a simple video display screen, and stay tuned.

The scheduled live broadcast will start on March 1st for the girls in London time, and it is still more than nine o'clock in the evening on the west coast of the United States.

Before the live broadcast started that evening, Jeff Bezos personally called Simon, with a bit of excitement and concern in his tone, saying that the live broadcast has not yet started. The number of viewers waiting to watch from all over the world in the live broadcast room has exceeded 31 million. It's too big. The world's mainstream TV stations have more than 3,000 viewers, but the programs are very few. Moreover, after the live broadcast begins, this number will definitely increase.

Most importantly, according to the calculation of 30 million viewers, Eaglet has to bear about 200,000 US dollars in server and network bandwidth costs. If it lasts for a month, it is 6 million US dollars.

This is really too expensive.

Of course, Bezos also expressed his optimism about the live webcast, and believes that if the live broadcast can be successful, Eaglet may invest in a live video website in advance.

With much anticipation, at 5:40 am London time, the live video screen lights up on time.

The lens first falls on the living room of a villa with a simple decoration but a luxurious one.

The voice-over is a very soft female voice. She simply introduced Jill and did not give her own shots, but directly said: "It's 5:40 London time. The girls are up, but we have to wait a moment. It's still private time. Oh, let me introduce you first, this is Ms. Burns, the housekeeper of the girls."

The audience in front of countless computer screens was excited when Jill was going to take everyone to see the girls getting up. They were even more impatient for Jill to introduce a certain staid woman in black.

It's just that the girls still didn't appear in the camera, but under the leadership of Ms. Burns, they briefly introduced the situation in the villa.

Even though I still expect a group of goblins selected by Simon Westero to appear as soon as possible, many viewers are still amazed by this luxurious villa. Some people who originally questioned the situation of the girls also dispelled similar thoughts. If living in such an environment is considered to be abused, I would rather be abused for a lifetime.

After ten minutes or so, the camera finally turned to the stairs, all the way to the second floor, and aimed at the nameplate on a door: "This is Natali's room."

Then he stretched out a hand outside the screen and tapped.

After a while, Natalie Vodianova opened the door and politely invited Jill to enter. The girl had put on a set of practice clothes, showing a very beautiful figure for her age, and she was generous with her. Jill said good morning and invited him in.

The camera followed, watching the girl neatly tidy up the room and occasionally asking questions.

Looking at this equally luxuriously decorated bedroom, some girls who are standing in front of the computer screen are already expecting to be abused by Westeros.

"Nata, can I call you that?"

"of course."

"Speaking of which, your English is really good."

The girl tidyed up her personal items one by one in the spacious bathroom, and smiled and said, "Thank you, I worked very hard, but other people actually said it better."

"Oh, by the way, can you explain to everyone, why is it 5:40?"

Natali finally folded a towel and hung it on the shelf, took Jill out of the room, and said, "Because the boss is used to getting up at six o'clock, we must be earlier than him."

"boss?"

"Yes, Mr. Westeros," Natali said, with an obvious little admiration in his expression: "I look forward to seeing him."

"Have you not seen Westeros?"

"If it hadn't been mentioned in the newspaper some time ago, we would still not know who our boss is."

"Oh, then, why do you think he should hide this."

"The boss must have a reason for the boss," Natali said, frowning slightly, and said: "So I think those newspapers are all nonsense. We are all doing well, and the boss is also a very good person."