Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 220 Empty glove white wolf

   Thai baht?

   Quantum Fund?

  George Soros?

   Isn’t this special one a free pillow when you are sleepy?

  As early as the beginning of this year, Roland wanted to get involved in the Asian financial crisis.

   But unfortunately, he waited for five full months, but he didn't get any good news.

But this is also normal. M&A and spin-offs are Ronald Perelman's main business, hostile takeovers are Carl Icahn's strengths, hedge funds are David Shaw's field, and defeating National Bank this kind of thing...

   Only guys like Soros will do it.

  Unfortunately, Roland didn't know Soros.

  Many times, people will have this kind of self-confidence, I am born again, I know history, I can do whatever I want, but in fact, in the major financial crises, even if you know, you can’t do it.

   Is it really only 15 billion on the surface to short the Thai baht?

  Don't be kidding, the opponents in the first five minutes after the market opened can smash 3 billion.

  The total transaction volume in one day exceeds 40 billion.

  How much money can you spend playing?

   Later, when shorting the Hong Kong dollar, the two sides wiped out nearly 240 billion in one day.

  How much money can you spend playing?

  As everyone knows, four circuit breakers within ten days, shorting will definitely make money.

but…

   If you want to go short, the dealer can flip the table!

  U.S. stocks are banned from short selling, and you can only watch in a daze.

Therefore, most of the time, Roland is unwilling to do certain things himself. It's not because he is lazy, but because he knows that he doesn't have the ability to operate. Crap.

   As for finding someone who can do it?

   This kind of thing is really not as easy as picking up money with the boss!

Massive capital and financial skills are certainly the factors of success, but the root of success is actually the exchange of insider information. If you guess when someone will hit the market, it is better to just give the money to the dealer and let him do it. …

   And to be honest, Roland still remembers the Asian financial crisis in 1997.

  As for which month and which day did the Thai baht collapse?

  He also wishes he had a Google in his head!

It is precisely because Roland also remembers the Tsinghua University incident and cannot remember the exact time, so after hearing about the Quantum Fund, he agreed with the trend and became his best choice. The point is, after Paul Allen emphasized, entering the market now After only doing Thai baht, Roland felt more at ease, because he didn't want to do Hong Kong dollars either!

  Roland's heroic response also surprised Jobs, "Can you spend 200 million cash to make this thing?"

   "Then why don't you continue to buy Apple stock?"

   "You sold more than 10 million shares of Microsoft, plus 200 million in cash, now you have a veto power."

   Jobs is serious now.

   Or, after finding out that Roland really liked him, he thought Roland was actually quite cute.

  Since Roland believes in him, he doesn't mind Roland controlling Apple.

  Anyone who supports him is welcome.

"Where can I get 200 million in cash?" Roland, who was able to get Jobs's idea, cried poorly, "I believe in the money-making channel provided by Paul! As for money, if you can get credit, you can get credit. If you can't, you can get credit." Just pledge Berkshire Hathaway's stock, according to Wall Street's rating, the pledge rate is basically 60 to 70%?"

   That's right, that's what Berkshire Hathaway stock is really for.

  Now, the stocks of Internet companies are worthless at all, even if they are pledged, banks dare not approve much.

  But Berkshire Hathaway is different. It outperforms the market every year, and every year it is at the level of increasing holdings. If you use it as a pledge, even if it is troublesome to realize it, it is easy to approve 60%.

  Based on the current value of 43,000 per share, Roland can get 516 million in cash.

  After half a year, when repaying the money, even if interest and handling fees are added, it has not outpaced the rising speed of other people's stocks...

  Isn't it nice to use the public's money to do your own thing?

   This is equivalent to spending two or three points of the stock's rise in exchange for at least 1.5 billion in cash.

  With 1.5 billion already, is it still difficult to eat 34% of the apples with nearly 500 million?

oh! This is not too much for Roland!

   This is to meet Jobs' personal needs!

  He's really not interested in apples! All he was interested in was Pixar!

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   And the remaining one billion, there are many things that can be done.

  First acquire Naughty Dog from Universal who will produce Crash Bandicoot, Uncharted, and The Last of Us in the future;

   Then, after acquiring the small studio directly opposite Naughty Dog, which is the future Santa Monica, I took God of War into my arms;

   Immediately afterwards, it bought SuckerPunch from the ignorant Microsoft, and gave away "Sly Fox Adventure" and the future "Notorious" in the "Three Musketeers of Sony Platform";

  Then ran to Oregon and copied the Bender studio that produced "Siphon Warrior";

  Finally, let people stare at Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where the future Rangers studio was born, and "Killzone" and "Horizon" will not be left to Sony.

  Since Sony is going to be killed, he can't let him stand up with the cash cow of the game!

   "GTA" + "Call of Duty" + "Battlefield" can indeed compete with Sony.

   But if you hit someone, you have to kill them with a stick, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

   It's also thanks to Roland's previous life that he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on games.

   Otherwise, he really doesn't know where Sony's first-party studios are acquired from.

  Of course, raising Microsoft's Xbox will actually lead to a situation where Windows dominates and one company monopolizes prices.

   It would not be of much benefit to Roland to let Bill Gates, who is always thinking about monopoly, develop.

  However, for Roland now, trying to kill Sony is the current focus.

   What's more, if you have already invested in Apple and Amazon, you want to invest in Google.

  Microsoft will always fight with him in the future.

  Since this is the case, it is better to accumulate some experience first, so as not to start to catch up when encountering problems in the future.

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   Avoiding the problem will only make the problem bigger and bigger.

   Shout out to Aoli!

  Maybe just go straight ahead?

   After talking about investment in a child's play tone, everyone tacitly stopped talking about work, and instead talked nonsense. In short, no one felt that this kind of behavior was a waste of time.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Steve Jobs not only discovered Roland's ideas, but also discovered the advanced concepts in his mind; Roland really wasn't investing blindly; it was also related to the fact that Steven Spielberg, who had contacted the four parties, finally knew who his most beloved apprentice was.

  The chatter lasted until after twelve o'clock at night, and the old men who couldn't stand it shouted to break up.

  Spielberg drove home directly, but when he left, he patted Roland on the shoulder; while the other three lived in the clubhouse tonight, and they would take the next day's flight to return to the company.

   When they returned to the courtyard to rest, Bill Gates and Paul Allen did not rest immediately.

   Instead, they got together and quietly talked about some private topics.

"Am I right? 'Some people are born to interpret success', Roland must have discovered the growth point of Apple, otherwise, Steve wouldn't just stop, and he also agrees with my Internet of Everything. Thinking about it, and judging from his current operation, he must have discovered that the Yahoo portal may not be a content interface, so he chose to cash out."

   "Even if what you said is right, what's the use? We still don't know what Roland found."

   "It doesn't matter if you don't know, just watch him do it, and then follow the investment, wouldn't it be enough? If you can spend money to buy it, don't do it yourself."

   "You mean, my baht proposal is wrong?"

"How is it possible? I think it's very good. What can he do with that money? There are no billions of funds. In the field of technology or the Internet, he can't even see a splash. Let him use the start-up funds to develop himself. If we think it is good, we will follow up directly, if it does not meet the company's positioning, then we will give up."

   "Is Yahoo still buying?"

"Of course the acquisition. Although Roland thinks that the portal website may not be a content interface, what if he is wrong? I think he is interesting, but this does not mean that I agree with every approach he makes, just like Pixar and Marvel, then I don’t agree with this kind of thinking, I insist on myself, he has no money to carry out several projects at the same time, but Microsoft has money to bear billions of mistakes.”

   "Okay, so this time, that's it?"

   "That's it, you can help him lead the way."

While Bill Gates and Paul Allen were muttering secretly, Jobs didn't wash up and go to sleep, but sat on the floor and meditated for more than an hour. After he opened his eyes, he didn't care about the current time, but directly dialed Got a call from the CEO of Pixar.

   "You guys did a good job, Roland likes you, keep working hard."

  What?

  The nonsensical words woke up the CEO of Pixar who was already in a daze.

   After glancing at the number of the caller, ten thousand drafts rushed through my heart in an instant.

   Grab the grass!

  Boss, are you crazy?

  Calling at night, just to praise us for doing a good job?

   When Toy Story was a hit, none of us were treated like this!

   Also, who is Roland?

   Could it be...Roland Allen?

  Just when the CEO of Pixar was stunned by Jobs’s crazy behavior, Jobs didn’t care so much, and continued to order, “I remember the toy figure of “Toy Story” is out?”

   "Give him three sets of full versions."

   "Attention, get all staff members to sign on it."

   "The role corresponding to the voice actor should also sign."

   "I'll go and get things done tomorrow."

   "You send it there yourself."

   "That's it, hang up."

are you crazy?

  When the CEO of Pixar heard the beeping sound from the receiver, he seemed to be possessed by an ugly monster.

  Old Ning called in the middle of the night, just because he wanted me to give gifts to others overnight?

who are you?

  You are Steve Jobs!

   Doesn’t matter if you start Apple, get kicked out, or buy Pixar and come back to Apple…

  Wherever you go, don’t you always hate the air?

  Why did you suddenly remember to give someone a gift today?

  The point is, your old man hasn't made it clear yet, which Roland is that Roland!

  If Jobs really heard such complaints, then the CEO of Pixar should be replaced tomorrow.

  Besides Roland Allen, do you know any Roland worthy of my gift?

   I have no eyesight at all!

   As for why the gift...

   This is actually very simple.

   It’s not that Jobs likes Roland so much, nor does he want to please Roland, and it’s not that he wants to use Pixar to seduce Roland, but that he is very interested in Roland’s ideas...

  Roland saw that the audio concert is Apple's new growth point?

  This kind of thinking that heroes see the same thing is the basis for wanting to communicate with Roland seriously.

   Just like when you asked Bill Gates and Paul Allen to help with Apple's graphics problem.

   The same topic is the prerequisite for Jobs to make friends.

  Of course, appreciation is appreciation, curiosity is curiosity, want him to take the initiative to ask the guy who has only met once?

it's out of the question!

   When I give gifts now, it is just for the elders to fulfill the wish of the younger generation.

   As for others?

   After you received the gift, shouldn’t you come to Apple and thank me in person?

   Then let's talk about other things by the way...

   To put it bluntly, he is what Bill Gates called an aggressive genius.

  He has a lot of unconstrained ideas. When dealing with products, he is focused, and when dealing with friends, he is cautious.

   Guards his territory cautiously and does not trust anyone.

  Because he was, was lied to.

   And that deception made him lose his son—Apple.

Whether it's a simple conversation between Bill Gates and Paul Allen, or a nervous phone call from Steve Jobs, Roland doesn't know about these things. On the way home, leaning on the seat He's been laughing, laughing all the time.

  He hasn't been this happy in a long time.

  The last time was last year, when I had dinner with those Wall Street bigwigs.

  The last time I finalized the script of the "Spider-Man" trilogy with the truck driver and got "Titanic" by the way.

  In fact, with the accumulation of wealth and the improvement of status, the things that can make him happy are gradually decreasing.

  In the beginning, he was going to be happy to get Home Alone, he was going to be excited to get Terminator 2, he was going to talk about getting to know Spielberg and Trucker, but now...

  What project is no longer important to him.

   I make movies, that's just what I want to make.

  In the beginning, he would be happy to meet Ronald Perelman, he would be excited to meet Carl Icahn, and he would regret that Buffett didn't come to the party, but now...

  An old man is just a person to him.

   If you hold too many thighs, you will become thighs.

   For a long time, Roland in the eyes of outsiders was actually a salted fish.

  Even he himself thinks so.

  Different from those actors who seek to make progress, Roland does not ask for awards.

  Different from those entrepreneurs who have dreams, Roland only has acquisitions in his eyes.

  Different from those traversers who wanted to compete with the God of Heaven, Roland wished he could go through all of this step by step.

   Having the memory of his previous life and starting the game with Tianhu, Roland felt that he was already very salty, but now...

   The idea of ​​dismembering Sonny thrills him...

  If you ask the Sixth National Congress to help Kate compete for the Olympic Games, that is the simplest exchange of benefits.

   Now, he feels that his idea is worthy of being called a combination of vertical and horizontal.

  Although I don't know if all this can be realized.

   But just thinking of all this, he felt very refreshed.

   It turns out that he is not a salted fish, he can still think about things seriously!

   This discovery of himself excites him more than anything else!

   It was in this state of 'we ordinary people, I'm so happy today', even though it was already three o'clock in the morning after returning home and washing up, Roland still played happily for nearly an hour.

   After he fell asleep with an excited smile on his face, Kate carefully got up from the bed, poked Roland's cheek with her index finger to confirm that he was asleep, then wrapped her pajamas and left the bedroom.

  Take a light step, go downstairs slowly, open the door of the house, and the cold moonlight shines on the earth.

   Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning, the sky is full of stars.

   Few lights, few pedestrians.

  The oncoming breeze blew her hair, and made her restless heart even more restless.

Looking at the familiar street scene, she sighed with her hands in her pockets, and turned her head to look at the room. The experience of the past year and a half made her feel a little unreal. Sitting on the wicker chair in the yard where the sun usually shines, she felt strange. flooded my mind.

"Why…"

"who are you?"

  Mumbling words came out quietly, looking at the villa towering in front of her, her eyes gradually blurred.

   When I first knew Roland, he was an actor.

   When I got to know Roland later, he was a student of Spielberg.

   When "Jurassic Park" psychoticly made history, he was the youngest A+lister in Hollywood.

  After the release of "The Seven Deadly Sins" and "The Shawshank Redemption", he was the most successful boss in Hollywood under the social turmoil.

   When "Titanic" was in preparation, he was the father of News Corporation.

  Berlin Film Festival, he is the father of the uncrowned king.

  When Yahoo went public, he was the most successful Internet business investor.

  After "Spider-Man" broke the record, the financial predators who turn their hands into clouds and rain will also call him dear.

  I thought that a net worth of a few hundred million was the limit, but a net worth of two billion has already made him one percent.

   Originally thought that the 400 million investment was just for fun, but half a year later, the world's richest man had already sat with him and talked about it, and the other party estimated Roland's company to 5 billion.

   If it is said that her childhood dream was to be an actress, when she grows up, she only knows how to act and hopes to be recognized by the world.

  Now, she finds that everything she pursues is so insignificant.

  A-level script?

   To Roland, this thing is like Chinese cabbage, so you can take it if you want?

  Recognized by the world?

  As long as she is still standing with Roland, others dare not say No.

  Those powerful film critics are grandchildren in front of Roland.

  Because of the funding channels that film critics rely on for their survival, he also needs to be called Dad.

  She had always felt that Roland had no spiritual pursuits.

   Or in other words, his level is limited, and he is still at the stage of public satisfaction, and he doesn't even think about being recognized by his peers.

   And now...

  She has already seen clearly that it's not that Roland doesn't want to be recognized by his peers, but that he can decide whether his peers recognize him or not.

  What is peer recognition in the context of 'I said you gotta like me, you gotta like me'?

  No spiritual pleasure at all.

   It might as well kill a few companies to be more comfortable.

  When she felt that Roland was on the first floor, Roland was already on the fifth floor looking down on all living beings.

  The reason why he is still filming is because he still likes movies, not for some pursuit.

   Actually, this fact is quite scary.

   It was so scary that she felt that she was not worthy of Roland at all.

  If it is said that the members of the old money family she knows also have emotions and desires, and also have their own pursuits, then their realm and methods are simply different from Roland, who was born as a commoner.

  Although they are both banknote abilities, those old money will only use money to conquer everything.

  As for Roland, the opponent had already surrendered before throwing the coin.

  Kate thought she had found a treasure boy, but now...

   She felt as if she had found the next Bill Gates.

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  Yes, she wants an Oscar, but that thing is nothing compared to the possible tens of billions of assets.

   It was this insurmountable gap that gave her a sense of powerlessness.

  Although Roland was alive in front of her, all of this was too unreal.

   While she was thinking wildly, she shouted continuously, and suddenly came from the house.

   "Kate~"

   "Kate?"

   "Kate?!"

The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded, and at the same time Kate woke up, Roland, who was only wearing a pajamas, had already appeared at the door, looking at the guy next to the rattan chair, his brows were frowned in a troubled face, Puzzled: "What's wrong with you?"

   "Why did you run into the yard at night?"

   "Ah..." Kate, who didn't want to confide in her thoughts, waved her hands slightly, her gaze dangling.

When she saw the lawn cutting tools placed at the door of the house, she immediately said: "...uh... I heard some strange noises when I went to the toilet, and then I followed the sound into the kitchen and found a mouse. The rat ran wild when it heard me, and I wanted to drive it away, so... I'll be here now..."

   "What?" Roland became more confused, "Rat?"

   "But our house doesn't open fire..."

"Ah... that might have come from David? I just watched it run towards that side..." Kate's words were a little unnatural, but before she finished speaking, she thought of something else and quickly Added: "But it doesn't matter if we don't open fire and the mice come or not? Don't you keep a lot of snacks in the kitchen? Lizzie likes the refrigerator in our kitchen the most."

   "Is that so?" Roland was still a little surprised, and glanced towards David's house.

   Such a situation also made Kate want to quickly discuss this topic. When she came to Roland, she naturally pushed Roland into the room and closed the door behind her. "Why are you awake?"

  As soon as he mentioned this, Roland stopped thinking about the mouse, "Did I fall out of bed because you weren't here?"

  As Teacher Xu-Zha-Fei said, if you share the bed with your boyfriend/girlfriend for a long time, your posture will change.

  Although a year and a half have passed, Roland and Kate are still in the first stage that Mr. Xu said, like a 'day'.

  Because of this, every time Roland, who was sleeping dishonestly, turned over, Kate would hold him.

  As long as Kate is not around, Roland, who is squeezed to sleep on the edge of the bed, will probably fall to the ground with a bang.

   And this planting, people wake up.

  Kate, who also knew the situation, was a little embarrassed.

After playing in Greece last year, she forced Roland to sign a series of unequal treaties with herself. If your hair is pressed, it is your fault. If the quilt is gone, it is your fault. Just put it there as a pillow for me... At that time, she also regarded Roland as a powerful insider, and she didn't think about it that much at all.

   And now...

   "How about you sleep in the middle?" Kate asked in a strange way.

   Roland, who was pushed into the room by him, didn't think much, and instinctively replied: "It's okay, isn't today just an accident?"

   "If you ignore that mouse, I won't fall out of bed..."

   "I'm just afraid that you will fall out of bed in the future..." Kate continued.

   "Then it's better for me to fall than you..." Roland was pushed upstairs.

   "I am the one who hurts when I bump it, but if you bump it, it hurts, and you make me hurt too..."

  The aggrieved and natural words made Kate startled, she knew what Roland meant.

   Regardless of what happened to her, Roland had to go into the water in the end anyway. When Roland followed her heart, she would pat Roland a few times, and if Roland dared to talk back, she would pinch Roland a few more times.

   To put it bluntly, in the lives of the two of them, it will always be Roland who suffers, and this kind of disadvantage is placed before, Kate thinks it is normal, but now—"Roland, I will not pass other responsibilities to you in the future."

  What?

   Roland with a confused face didn't understand what Kate was talking about at all. When he returned to the room, he also pulled Kate to bed. After hearing such words, he said directly: "What is irresponsible?"

   "Are you blown away and confused?"

   "What kind of responsibility should we have between the two of us? Whoever wants to take it can do it, as long as both of us are happy."

   "That's enough, let's go to bed, and don't go out even if you hear rats in the future."

   "Especially at four in the morning, in Los Angeles."

   "Your behavior makes me think you want to play basketball."

The inexplicable words made Kate confused, but when Roland lay down on his side and hugged her into his arms, the solid arms pulled back the flying thoughts, looking at the familiar face, the distant strangeness gradually faded.

  When the words that it is good to be happy penetrated into her ears, a touch of satisfaction welled up in her heart.

  He raised his head, leaned forward, and lightly pecked Roland on the cheek.

   Just when Roland frowned and felt that Kate's behavior tonight was very strange, Kate took the lead to shrink back, and raised her hand to climb Roland's back, putting her thigh on Roland's waist, "Sleep."

   Oh... goodnight kiss...

  Hearing this, Roland closed his eyes again, and when his breathing gradually stabilized, Kate, who was not asleep, opened her eyes again.

  Looking at the sleeping man, she bit her lower lip with white teeth and laughed.

  Oscar is just a career, Roland is life.

  If Roland is a bigwig in the industry, then giving up would be regret at most.

  But he, no.

  Although the outside world still thinks that Roland is just a Hollywood superstar, Kate thinks he is the next Bill Gates.

  The future richest man in the world is lying next to her. She gave up. This is not regret, but madness.

   Many people say that love is everything.

   But with money, there is also love.

  The point is that she didn't take a fancy to Roland's money before she took a fancy to him.

   Instead, he first set his sights on Roland before discovering that he was rich.

   And when the two are in love, she feels that the current state is already perfect that everyone envies.

Roland does have some 'bad habits', he can't control his mouth, sometimes he wants to smoke and drink, but when he really smokes and drinks, it's always in front of her; he can't control his eyes, sometimes he just wants to see Beautiful women, but when he really sees beautiful women, he is not interested in flesh and blood; he can't control his mind, and sometimes he likes to complain, but when he really complains, as long as she deliberately kills him a few times, Roland will Shut up already...

   It looks like Roland is a victim.

   But Kate knows that this is the most casual indisputable.

   Seems boring, but—

"It's so kind of you."

  Looking at Roland who was sleeping soundly, she said something quietly, and then Kate lowered her head and put her little head into Roland's arms, "I love you."

"I'll listen to you."

   "I'm not an actor anymore."

Note: ① Naughty Dog developed "Crash Bandicoot" for Sony in 1996, but it was acquired by Sony in 2001, and the reason for the acquisition was simple. At that time, Universal did not make console games, so the preemptive acquisition was No problem, the company is owned by Universal. ②Santa Monica was indeed founded by old Sony employees, but at the beginning of its establishment, it was opposite Naughty Dog. When Sony contacted Naughty Dog, it found that the old employees had opened a studio, so they also bought it, and then Santa Monica The card just moved to Santa Monica, and it wasn't Sony's own organization. ③SuckerPunch is indeed a Microsoft studio that develops applications for Microsoft, but Microsoft does not pay much attention to content, and was acquired by Sony. ④ Except for Sony Japan Studio, Sony’s first parties are basically obtained through acquisitions after the millennium. From the perspective of the timeline and the ownership structure of the studio, the idea of ​​drawing salary from the bottom of the pot is established.

  

  

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