I’m in Hollywood

Your job is to meet my needs, it's such a happy decision, Eric snapped his fingers, then waved his hands at the two women, and said, Go and rest, I can see these things myself. already.

Before meeting each other, Caroline would never show similar little emotions in front of Eric.

However, after confirming the kinship between the two, Caroline, who was pure and innocent, directly regarded Eric as her relative. Therefore, everything is no longer buried in the heart as before.

It's just that she made a little temper and expressed her dissatisfaction, but when she heard Eric's words, Caroline turned her head around, but for a while she couldn't find a reason to refute.

Looking at the stack of folders that she had just deliberately piled in front of Eric, Caroline suddenly felt that she was a little too much. She slammed her toes on the carpet with her small high heels, and she lowered her voice to hide from Eric. with his eyes, and said, Then, Eric, do you want coffee?

Mayer stood by and rolled her eyes when she heard Caroline's words.

Little Carly, remember that you were angry just now.

Eric couldn't help but smile at the corners of his mouth. He really wanted to reach out and squeeze Caroline's face, but of course he didn't do it rashly, or else he would be chased by Caroline and apologize: Well, pure water That's it.

Noticing the reactions of the two beside her, Caroline was even more embarrassed, and fled the study with her head down.

Eric watched Caroline flee, remembered something, stopped Mayer, who was about to leave, motioned her to sit down on the sofa opposite, and asked, I asked you to sort out the major Nokia R\u0026D center projects. How's the data preparation going?

Mayer sat down on the sofa and said: Last week, Carly and I contacted Nokia. However, Nokia currently has 17 technology R\u0026D centers of various sizes around the world, with various types of R\u0026D projects as many as Hundreds of them, they said it will take a week to sort out the project data, and it will probably be completed this Thursday.”

Eric nodded, but felt a little emotional in his heart.

Nokia has not yet reached its peak state, and it already has 17 technology R\u0026D centers. It can be imagined how strong Nokia's technical strength will be in its heyday. Such an aircraft carrier-class giant in the industry has collapsed in just a few years, and the reason is definitely not technical.

After sighing for a moment, Eric looked at Mayer and said, Have you thought about what to do in the future?

Hearing Eric's question, Mayer immediately thought of Melanie, who had just joined Firefly Electronics.

The focus of Firefly Electronics' development this year is overseas business. Melanie left Eric and was directly placed as the vice president of the newly established Overseas Operations Department of Firefly Electronics. Workplace power hierarchy.

Some time ago, Eric suddenly transferred himself to his side. Although Mayer had always been a little puzzled, she gradually realized that the opportunities she faced were definitely not much worse than Melanie's.

Twisting the corners of the professional skirt with his fingers, Mayer's thoughts were very clear, and he said seriously: Eric, I have recently started to do a graduate thesis in artificial intelligence, and the subject content is the same as the 'google' that Yahoo has just launched. Regarding search engines, I think I am more suitable for technical research and development work in this area in the future.”

I originally wanted you to go to Yahoo, Eric smiled and said: However, many of Yahoo's businesses are now on the right track. Although technology research and development will never stop, the basic development route has been finalized. Yahoo! What we need to do in the future is to expand the scale as much as possible, and even realize globalization. If you go to Yahoo, there is not much room for you to perform, so I want you to go to Nokia.

Eric suddenly talked to her about future plans at this time. Mayer had already vaguely anticipated it. Hearing Eric's confirmation, Mayer's expression was a little hesitant: Eric,

Me, I didn't think about going to work in Finland.

No, Eric shook his head, saw Caroline walk in with a glass of water, paused, took the water glass that Caroline handed over, and motioned for her to sit down opposite, before continuing: You In the future, you only need to work in the United States, probably in Silicon Valley. I hope you can gather the technical resources of several companies such as Nokia, Yahoo, Qualcomm, and Firefly Electronics to develop a smart phone. You should know this concept. ?

Well, I have been in the assistant's office for a year, and I have come into contact with some relevant information, but it is not very detailed.

Mayer nodded immediately, feeling a little excited. He developed a product that combines the technical strength of several major technology companies under Firefly Investments. This product is absolutely very important in Eric's heart. Think about the current fireflyer player. I know that as long as this product can be successful, my position in the Firefly system should not be much worse than that of several executives of Firefly Electronics.

I will give you the detailed information in the future. What you need to do next is to fully understand Nokia. I asked you to collect the information about the Nokia Technology R\u0026D Center project. This is what I want to see, but I also I hope you will be able to understand these things in detail in a few days, so that you can understand them clearly.

Mayer nodded and assured, I will, Eric.

The matter is almost the same, Eric just planned to let Mayer and the two leave, feeling Mayer's excitement, he added: One more thing, it is not only Nokia who will develop the smartphone I plan to do. , Firefly Electronics will also start this project at the same time. I don't plan to put all eggs in one basket. If you don't do well in the future, you will still get nothing. Of course, if you do it well, your advantages are also very obvious. Nokia You already have a very strong global mobile phone sales network, and your products can easily capture the market.”

Mayer was a little disappointed when he heard the words, but he was relieved in a blink of an eye.

It is very rare for Eric to entrust her with a heavy responsibility. If he puts all the chips on himself, it is not normal.

After talking about things and sending the two women away, Eric turned his attention to the pile of documents in front of him.

The first thing to pay attention to is last week's box office information.

The box office performance of The Day After Tomorrow is still strong. For a commercial blockbuster with a high box office in the first week, it is very rare that the box office drop in the second weekend remains at 42%.

The subsequent The Mask of Zorro, although the film received good reviews from the media, the box office in the first three days of the first weekend was only more than 18 million US dollars, which did not pose any threat to The Day After Tomorrow. Several other films, The Truman World , Patriot and Lethal Weapon 4 were left far behind.

After roughly scanning the box office data, Eric put the table aside, omitting less important documents such as the character list of Sleepy Hollow, and Eric directly opened a group's bond financing plan.

The Nasdaq index is getting closer and closer to 2000 points. In Eric's plan, when the Nasdaq index reaches 2000 points, the Clover Fund will completely stop the buying operation of technology stocks.

In the past six months, the size of the funds that Clover Fund has withdrawn from Firefly Group for the purchase of technology stocks has still reached 2 billion US dollars. In three years, the total amount of funds invested by Clover Fund in the Nasdaq stock market has reached 7 billion US dollars, which is 1 billion US dollars more than Eric's original plan.

In three years, US$7 billion in cash was withdrawn for stock investment. Even though the Firefly Group has a great business, its profitability far exceeds that of other Hollywood media groups. The production of the episodes, the implementation of the '4200' plan and the construction of the Firefly Studios theme park and other cash-burning projects have also tightened the Group's cash flow.

Although it invested 7 billion US dollars before and after, the total value of all the stocks held by the Clover Fund has reached 16 billion US dollars. Compared with the invested principal, the return rate has exceeded 100%, even if only a part of the stock is sold, Firefly Group's Cash flow hunger is instantly relieved.

However, Eric did not intend to do so, but chose to issue bonds, the most common financing method used by many companies when faced with a shortage of cash.

At the end of May, the management had already begun to draw up the financing plan, and it was finally finalized at this time.

Firefly will issue $2 billion in five-year corporate bonds in early July.

The current corporate credit rating of Firefly Group has reached the highest level of 3a. Therefore, the annual interest rate of the bonds raised this time is only 4.2%, which is a full 1.3 percentage points lower than the annual interest rate of the bonds issued when Firefly acquired abc Group. It seems inconspicuous, but it can save Firefly $26 million in interest expenses every year, or $130 million in five years.

Although the annual interest rate is low, the bonds of Firefly Group are still very popular. Documents in hand show that Morgan Stanley, which is in charge of the bond offering, has secured a distribution share of more than 50%.

The reason for this is that in addition to the safety and profitability of the Firefly Group's bonds, many Wall Street investment institutions want to become the creditors of the Firefly Group, which is also a large part of the factor.

As a non-listed company, the only opportunity for Wall Street capital to intervene in Firefly Group is to buy the company's bonds.

In this way, once the operation of Firefly Group is in trouble, Wall Street capital as a creditor will have room to operate.

Of course, although the performance of the Firefly Group's film business will not be as bright as before this year, Eric will not easily give some people a chance.

Even excluding the stocks held by Clover Fund, in addition to the film business, the company's TV business, theme parks and toy peripherals, and even the increasingly powerful digital field, are operating very well and have very stable profitability. What's more, after a short trough, from next year, Firefly's film business will still be very strong.

Two Boeing 747-400s ordered by Eric will have communications systems installed, but the current Boeing 767 does not.

It took a few hours to process the documents in front of me. Although I had some doubts, I couldn't immediately discuss it with the Los Angeles side. I had to wait until I arrived in Helsinki.

Although the private plane flies from west to east, because it is flying towards the Arctic Circle, which is in a state of extreme day, it only experienced a very short dark night, and the outside of the porthole lights up again.

Eric and Caroline had a special 'dinner' on the plane together, rested for a few hours, woke up again, and the Boeing 767 had arrived over Helsinki, Finland.

Looking through the porthole, Eric found that the Vantaa Airport in Helsinki was very conspicuous, occupying a large area in the north of the city. At first, I was a little confused, but I soon realized that it is not that Vantaa Airport is too big, but that Helsinki is too small.

The size of Finland is not much different from that of California. However, the total population of California is close to 40 million, but the population of Finland is less than 5 million. As the capital of Finland, Helsinki has a population of only more than 500,000. Boeing 767 crossed over Helsinki, Overlooking the city from a close distance, it feels even more empty, even in the city center, many places are large tracts of woodland.

As soon as Eric got off the plane, Nokia CEO Yoma Ollila warmly greeted him with a few people.

Eric, welcome to Finland, Yoma Ollila hugged Eric warmly, and then began to introduce him in English to the following Nokia executives.

Eric shook hands with several people one by one. Among them, he was more familiar with Oli Krassoou, the current chief financial officer of Nokia. The other party was an authentic Finn, so the name was a bit awkward. A very interesting Chinese translation is called Kang Peikai.

Kang Peikai is the next ceo candidate recommended by Joma Ollila for Eric. As for Joma Ollila, in the plan, after the other party leaves, he will still serve as a director of Nokia's board of directors, but he will no longer hold an actual position in Nokia. , It is said that the other party intends to run for the president of Finland next, but Eric does not know much about the specific situation.

In fact, if he wanted to keep it, Firefly could still keep Joma Ollila at Nokia, but Eric didn't do it.

Accelerating the turnover of Nokia's management will also help Firefly take control of the company faster. Once Joma Ollila is allowed to stay on, the influence of the other party in Nokia will only become more and more ingrained, and it will become more and more unfavorable for Firefly to take back Nokia's management rights.

Of course, although he will leave office next year, the two sides can be regarded as a good time to get together.

Eric does not want Jorma Ollila to continue to serve as Nokia's CEO, but he will never deny Jorma Ollila's contribution to Nokia over the years.

If it wasn't for the discovery and vigorous promotion of Nokia's gsm communication technology led by Jorma Ollila, this small company in a corner of northern Europe would not have developed into the international mobile communication equipment giant it is today.