Hollywood Hunter

Manhattan, inside a red brick apartment on Morton Street, Greenwich Village.

The time is Friday, June 24.

During the breakfast time of the Spurt family, Grace Spurt and the nanny Hannah shared breakfast with her husband and the children before sitting down at the table.

Bill Spoult put down the "New York Times" in his hand, picked up the tableware, and listened to the two children excitedly discussing how to spend the weekend, but his expression was a little more worried.

It's summer vacation time. If it was in previous years, the couple should be able to send the two little guys to some summer camps, and sometimes they would also have to spend their annual vacations to travel together, but this year they had to cancel all plans.

Credit Suisse’s integration of First Boston’s layoffs has been officially launched. During this period, employees were called out for interviews and then left. Some departments were even cut off. As a 43-year-old grassroots supervisor who has not yet made his mark, Bill Spoult knows very well that he may be called out to talk for at most half a month in the future.

Wall Street is a world of young people who are as energetic as wolves.

At his age, once laid off, it is difficult to find the same type of job on Wall Street. What's more helpless is that he has no other skills.

Maybe you can drive a taxi.

It seems that the income of a New York taxi driver is good. Although it will be very tired and has no status, but if it reaches that point, it may not care about other things. As a man with a little bit of macho, he cannot let his wife Go alone to make money to support the family.

According to the past expenses of the family, it seems that he can't afford it.

Grace Spur allowed her two children to go swimming on Long Island Beach on weekends. She noticed the worry on her husband’s face, glanced at the copy of the "New York Times" placed next to him, and asked for a topic. : "Bill, is there any news today?"

Bill Spoort smiled reluctantly when he heard his wife's voice, but shook his head and didn't respond as usual.

I have been exhausted recently.

This time layoffs and integration, some people will of course be eliminated, and some people can get promotion opportunities. During this period of time, Bill Spoult has been using his few resources and contacts to do his best to operate, but unfortunately the results have been minimal, which made him feel more and more about the end he is about to face.

Although he did not respond, hearing his wife’s question, Bill Spoult’s mind came up with a headline in the economics section of the New York Times: “Daenerys Entertainment Group’s IPO was 37 times oversubscribed”.

For many popular companies, it's actually very common to get a dozen or even dozens of times oversubscription during the IPO process.

Daenerys Entertainment Group's IPO is quite different.

The fast-rising Hollywood entertainment giant's IPO price was officially set at US$22.5, which was US$2.5 higher than the initial announcement of the range of US$18-20. Based on its 250 million new shares issuance volume, the overall valuation of this IPO is 53.1 billion U.S. dollars, and the financing scale reaches 5.625 billion U.S. dollars.

Both the IPO valuation and the scale of financing have set a record high on Wall Street.

Therefore, compared with those companies whose IPO financing scale is only tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, Daenerys Entertainment Group has involved 37 times oversubscription of more than 1,700 investment institutions around the world, which is definitely a pioneering move.

Over-subscription means that many investment institutions are unable to finally obtain stocks, which also means that the market has a strong desire to buy after the company is officially listed. It is conceivable that Daenerys Entertainment will be officially listed next Friday, what a grand occasion it will be.

As the number one listed company in the United States by market value, IBM has recently been in danger under the close pursuit of Cisco and AOL. Now, there is no need to wait for Cisco and AOL to overtake. Daenerys Entertainment is expected to be listed easily. Sweep to the second place.

Recently, various financial media and Wall Street analysts are speculating whether Daenerys Entertainment will go further and become the first corporate giant with a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars in American history.

Based on Daenerys Entertainment’s recent financial report data for the first half of 1994 and this comprehensive entertainment group has maintained a strong upward momentum of continuous growth in all aspects, the market value has reached 100 billion US dollars, and the price-earnings ratio is only about 40 times. Too much.

Therefore, this possibility is really great.

The lead underwriters of Daenerys Entertainment’s IPO are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. However, other investment banks can actually get a share of other cooperations. As one of the old Wall Street investment banks, the first Boston has also done it before. Similar efforts.

It's a pity that I didn't get what I wanted for various reasons.

The parent company Credit Suisse is determined to integrate First Boston, and the inaction of the management of First Boston during the Daenerys Entertainment IPO is actually a reason that cannot be ignored.

In recent years, the Westeros system, which has rapidly emerged as a super monster, is now the focus of all financial giants on Wall Street.

Bill Spoult could not help but imagine that it would be great if he could get some business from this Daenerys Entertainment IPO, so that not only would he not leave this time, he would definitely be able to go further.

It is a pity that the business contact with Daenerys Entertainment is mainly the work of the investment banking department, and it is not yet their turn to intervene in the sales and trading department. What's more, even if he can intervene, this work will not fall on him.

Now, that group of wastes failed to take over the business, but the entire company fell into a situation of being laid off.

The husband was not interested in speaking, Grace could only turn her attention to the two children, and occasionally glanced at her husband with frowning eyebrows. Grace decided that she would talk to her husband frankly and openly this weekend.

Relying on the recently acquired resources, Grace has talked several times with Elite President John Casablanca and voluntarily demanded that she should be promoted.

Certainly she would not be stupid enough to reveal the final plan of a certain young man to Casablanca.

Therefore, in the eyes of John Casablanca, she caught Simon Westero's thick thigh, which obviously can provide more assistance to the further development of Elite, and the requirements for promotion are very reasonable.

Not surprisingly, she will soon become the vice president of Elite North America.

Although it is only one of the three vice presidents, and it is limited to the North American branch, although there is only one more "vice" from the position of John Casablanca, it is actually several levels different, but compared to the past, she has also considered a lot Take a big step and formally become Elite's management.

The original income levels of the couple were similar.

Now, even if her husband is unemployed, with her salary that will at least double in the future, there is no problem at least maintaining the current standard of living.

In fact, it was not that she did not consider helping her husband through the channels of the young man. However, since the last time she met in Greenwich, during this period of time, whether there was an order from there, she never saw each other again.

Some of the thoughts she had originally raised also completely disappeared.

It's hard to say whether it will be counterproductive to talk about something that is too small for that young man to work for her husband.

Although there is only a very short time together, although he always behaves very gentle in the process of getting along, because of a woman's keen sixth sense, she can feel the indifference and alienation under this gentle appearance, the kind of even the whole world casual.

Thinking of this, Grace, who was sitting at the dining table, couldn't help but took a small deep breath.

The mysterious temperament of that little man, which is like a dark abyss, actually does not make women resist. On the contrary, this temperament makes it easy for a woman to step in, then be trapped in that world, and can't climb anymore. come out.

Suddenly the voice of his son Lei sounded at the dining table. The child asked if the family could go to the cinema to watch "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" again tonight. Grace was interrupted in her mind, so she woke up, thinking that there was no other arrangement for the night. After looking at her husband again, he nodded in agreement.

After breakfast, she sent her husband out first. Grace explained that the nanny's family needed to purchase some daily necessities, and then drove her two children out of the Morton Street apartment.

It is 8:20 in the morning.

Drive fifteen minutes to a private training center in Midtown, where the two children will take French courses three days a week during summer vacation. This is to prepare for the children to enter a better private high school in Manhattan. French has always It is regarded as the language of the upper class. In Manhattan, French is a necessary foundation for entering some top private schools.

The campus students in Hollywood film and television works are always "carefree", love, drag racing, drug abuse, fights, parties, carnivals... frivolous and squandering youth. This is indeed the life state of many American middle school students, but basically it is also All are public high schools.

Most of these people will enter society in ‘carefree’ and become the bottom of American society. They are destined to be like ants all their lives, doing nothing, and often becoming the most direct victims of the economic downturn in the United States.

The United States is an elite country.

If you are not a born elite and want to enter that circle, you are destined to give up the carefree. Even so, many generations of climbing are not necessarily accepted by a certain circle.

Grace still remembers how the two children went to kindergarten.

At that time, the couple wanted to send their children to a famous private kindergarten with a long history in the Upper West District. They thought it would be possible to do it with a little more money. As a result, the children had to be interviewed when they entered the kindergarten, and it was definitely not a symbolic interview. For this reason, she even took her daughter Rita, who was only 3 years old at the time, to attend preschool training, and then watched her daughter be directed and manipulated like a small animal by an arrogant kindergarten interviewer.

As a result, thousands of dollars were spent on training fees, and they were still turned away after the interview.

Grace was not reconciled. A year later, her youngest son Lei tried to sprint again, but still failed.

At that time, the couple could still get tickets by donating a sum of money to that kindergarten. They gritted their teeth and offered a $100,000 donation, but they were still rejected.

Then understand that this is the threshold.

It is a barrier that blocks the upper class of American society and the ordinary elite.

A small Manhattan, just ten kilometers in depth, the Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Midtown, and Lower City are distinct.

Grace later learned that the main reason for their children being rejected was that they were not residents of the Upper West Side. This condition does not mean that you can rent a house in the Upper West Side. You must also own fixed real estate. Corresponding social status.

Otherwise, families with rich net worth and certain status do not want their children to get along with some inexplicable children. Therefore, even if they write out a check for $100,000 that is definitely not insignificant, they will still be rejected.

Since then, the husband and wife have actually held a sigh of relief in their hearts.

However, as her husband’s career has not improved over the years, it is impossible for her as a woman to do much in the modeling industry. The injustices and ambitions in the past have all faded unconsciously, and some remain It is pinned on the two children.

After sending the two children to the training center, Grace hurried to the Elite headquarters a few blocks away.

Although her promotion application has not been approved, the number of personal assistants during this time has increased to three, helping her deal with the sudden increase in various matters.

During this period, many models who heard the news, whether they are within Elite or other company customers, also hope to be transferred to her name.

Grace didn't have much greed, she just accepted five or six in a selective manner, but cut off more than half of the original 30-odd customers, and directly gave up those girls who had little potential and were destined to waste her energy. In the past, these customers could bring her some income. Now, if she continues to hold her hands, the effort and meager income will become very different.

In the process, there are many girls who are begging to stay with her, but Grace has no relentless heart.

The world is like this.

After the adjustment, in addition to the three of the Gralf family who had been quietly removed from the bottom of her heart, Grace still has 21 models in her hands, and the overall quality has risen a lot.

Among them, the baby-faced girl named Qusi Goff has been confirmed as the new Victoria's Secret Angel, and the other two places have not been confirmed yet, and Grace also believes that the little man will not go back on her word. After careful selection during this period, Grace will pass another list to Westeros' assistant today.

At least one more quota can be confirmed this time.

Arrived at the company and was about to start the day's work, John Casablanca's assistant came to call her.

When he came to the president's office, John Casablanca was calling behind his desk, and another model, Karen Mudd, was sitting in the reception area of ​​the office.

Seeing Grace enter the door, Karen Mudd stood up obviously with some kindness.

Grace smiled and shook Karen Mulder, then nodded to Casablanca, and temporarily sat down on the sofa in the reception area, and chatted casually with Karen Mulder in an unobtrusive manner.

Although it is not as good as Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangolinsta's pillars, Karen Mudd is also one of Elite's supermodels since the 1980s. Unfortunately, since the first Victoria's Secret show, this supermodel with great momentum was shaved off, and the same was true for the second edition last year.

Missing the strong exposure platform of Victoria's Secret and the rapid rise of so many backward girls, Karen Mudd soon showed a tendency to die on the beach. The girl has lost three endorsements in the past two years. No improvement this year, it is estimated that the last two niche brand endorsements will leave her.

At that time, there will be no chance of turning over.

As for the reasons for all this, it is now well known in the circle.

And simple and rude.

Simon Westero doesn't like girls with thick lips.