Hollywood Domination Chapter 448: For a moment

"Delete the third item on the fourth page, and write a new version for me." Cesare took off his glasses, twisted the bridge of his nose, and handed the ipad in his hand to the secretary. Expected data——Starting from China’s film market in 2015, every data has to be calculated——Jane, have you read this document in hand?”

"I'm reading." Jenny said without raising her head, she tapped her forehead to concentrate her energy a little more, "Why are these words always twisting and turning—why don't they want me to read them? "

Although he was shivering cleverly, this joke did not get any response from anyone. The whole office was immersed in a busy atmosphere. For the two big bosses, Jenny and Jenny, all the privileges they can get are a small meeting room and two more comfortable chairs. Cesare was still constantly reviewing the documents, his expression was a little fanatical, and he turned a deaf ear to Jenny's words, while everyone else was completely immersed in their work, unable to listen to her sparks of humor from a distance. Jenny glanced left and right, sighed, and forced herself to focus on the documents—without her review, these speeches and even memos could not really be sealed and finalized.

Generally speaking, the expansion of a company is always accompanied by numerous financing activities. Before the final listing and financing, it is not uncommon to have 3 or 4 rounds of financing. Except for the first round, it usually determines the life and death of the company. In addition to the angel investment, on the basis of the company's own good operation, whether the financing is successful or not will not affect the life and death of the company, and it is not necessary to keep the whole company busy like this. Big bosses like Jenny and Cesare, Check to see whether the materials under his command are in place, whether the final ptt and other lectures are exquisitely produced, and of course, whether some internal reports of the company can reflect the value is enough. Their main skills are still used in 'fooling', how It is their job to tell a good story and impress investors.

However, this kind of deception is more common in sunrise industries such as the IT industry, such as the media industry where the market is already very mature. In an investment, the role of 'fudge' is not so great anymore. Big Dream is only putting the exaggerated and exciting part of this story in the Chinese market. As part of its development strategy, it wants to really convince GE that Big Dream is more important than Lions Gate, Legend, Dune, DreamWorks, etc. Entities worthy of investment still need to come up with some real materials - after getting the investment, how to deal with peer competition, how to gradually expand, build a media empire, how to prove that the ge investment dream will be more important than investing in News Corporation, etc. wise? How to ensure that ge will be profitable in a few years?

These things cannot be fooled by telling stories. A mature market is here, like an equation, all variables have been determined. If you want to give a result that satisfies investors, the derivation process must indispensable. And the whole process will eventually be put on paper, reflecting the competitiveness of the big dream. What Cesare and Jenny want to make is an impeccable report, which can defeat potential opponents in terms of data and logic. Competitors are also invisibly showing their advantages in personnel. Although the company is not big now, they have the most elite talents in the industry to make such a report. After all, in a situation where confidentiality agreements must be strictly observed Under the circumstances, not every company can have such a famous data analyst as Paul Dergarabidean, and the generous dividends and equity incentives also make it qualified to sign a non-disclosure agreement and prepare materials for this financing All the employees were secretly excited and frantically prepared materials, even more enthusiastic than Jenny.

"I've finished watching." After reading the report in her hand in 30 minutes, Jenny couldn't help imitating Cesare and rubbing the center of her brows. Basically, I have no experience—it seems that I can only be the chairman of the board.”

"It is not necessary to understand every business of the group to be a CEO." Cesare also closed the ipad in his hand, "Tell me, what is the most critical information in the whole report?"

"Oh, I thought our class was over very early." Jenny leaned back for a while, raised her hands and stretched her waist, and said jokingly, but in the end she returned to Chesa Lei Saolai spread his hands in his eyes, "I guess it should be the funds it will take up? If you want to completely introduce a TV station to the market within five years, it will definitely require a lot of cash flow..."

Judging from Cesare's expression, she guessed that she had bumped into the correct answer, but her guilty tone seemed to fully expose her true nature—Jenny threw the document in her hand on the table At the meeting, he simply laughed at himself, "Looks like, maybe I should sign up for a few years of MBA courses, or that kind of executive class, and then come back to talk about financing cooperation, right?"

"There are always a few people who know how to manage an enterprise, but people with core competitiveness have always been a scarce resource." Cesare also showed a smile, and he looked at his watch, "It seems that tonight It's hard to finish before 12 o'clock - sushi?"

"I'd better eat my pasta salad." Jenny said wryly, she pushed away the documents, walked to the glass window and looked down at the traffic flow after work, and touched her cheek again, "It should be Marie brought me another bottle of hydrating mist—I've never had such a long night in an air-conditioned room.”

"I thought you were already satisfied with the humidity." Cesare said sarcastically. He looked around with obvious intentions. There were several humidifiers lined up in this small meeting room. Almost surrounded Jenny's seats - one of them just sprayed a wisp of white mist at him, Cesare ignored Jenny's protest, reached out to turn it off, stood up and stretched his body, walked to the window and stood with Jenny Together, looking at the sunset in the distance. "What are you thinking?"

"I'm not thinking about anything." Jenny said, and she laughed under Cesare's stare, "What are you doing? Isn't this okay?"

Under Cesare's knowing eyes, she finally raised her hand in surrender and gave up her stubbornness, "Okay, okay, I really..."

Squinting her eyes to avoid the reflected sunlight from the opposite building, she turned around and leaned against the glass curtain wall, carefully observing Cesare's expression, "At this time the day after tomorrow, we will face GE's investment decision-making committee— —The statement has almost been finalized, and the cooperation plan has also been finalized. If there are no accidents, according to my feeling... the possibility of us winning this investment will not be less than 80%. "

She emphasized her tone, "—Cesare, we are only a little away from the investment of tens of billions of dollars."

Cesare nodded, as if reading the thoughts in Jenny's heart, he added, "Tens of billions of dollars that are completely at our disposal."

Yes, this is the most special feature of ge's investment - if according to the current valuation of Dameng, once an investment of tens of billions of dollars is injected, it will immediately show a posture of inversion of subject and object. Even if Disney, Jenny, and Cesare are completely united and adopt the abc shareholding system, so that the voting rights of c shares are ridiculously small, it will not be able to resist the shareholding advantage brought by ge's huge capital injection. Who is responsible for the company's affairs? It's hard to say to be the master. Ge can even initiate a shareholder vote immediately to kick Jenny and Cesare from the management seat. And this kind of shareholding is actually not so much an investment as an acquisition.

The most touching part of ge's investment is that ge is interested in the outstanding abilities of Jenny and Cesare. Cesare can still retain control of the company - they will sign a five-year contract with ge and become ge's agent in the shareholders' meeting of the Great Dream. Unless there are extremely special circumstances, the contract will be very short. It is difficult to be revoked, that is to say, they have five years to fully control the company and the funds that will be injected one after another, and truly become the masters of tens of billions of dollars.

The figure of tens of billions is enough for a rich man to enter the Forbes rankings. Billion is a completely different concept. Jenny looked back and forth on Cesare's face, trying to find traces of uneasiness and worry, even if it was just a hint—as for Cesare, he looked back at Jenny with no expression, as if he was with her. It was a wordless joke: he knew what she was thinking and what she wanted to find, but he just hid his true emotions and refused to resonate with her.

"Well, it's only a few tens of billions, it's not a big deal." She said angrily, and walked to her office, but she couldn't help but break down when Cesare responded with "ok". Achieved. "!—Don't tell me you're not nervous at all, **** it, even if you know you're bluffing, I can't see any flaws."

According to Cesare, when he first took over the big dream, he was also a little at a loss. Jenny knew that he must not be so sure now, and he really did a good job of taking tens of billions of dollars to operate. She was fully prepared, but she really couldn't see a clue from Cesare's face. "Don't you really have... I don't know—just before success—but you just lack energy, you don't have that kind of longing for it to be completed, but you have a faint hope..."

She didn't go on, because Jenny undoubtedly didn't want to lose this investment. Her current state of mind is very delicate, between expectation and fear, which makes her somewhat resistant to the work in front of her, but she doesn't want to put it away. Push it aside completely.

"In a completely unfamiliar field, you are not so confident, are you?" Cesare did not continue to joke with her, he walked to the desk, pulled out a chair and sat down, "Ask me if I Yes, it’s impossible to avoid, this negative trend of thoughts, self-doubt, stress—but since I’ve proven countless times that I can, why not this time?”

"Is this your logic?" Jenny asked, she was a little amused, "It's a bit like self-hypnosis—"

However, thinking of Cesare's past achievements, she shook her head and did not continue: Cesare is qualified to say that, whether it is an agent, a film company management, or a producer, he does everything Everything is going well, but for her...

"You know, managing a company has never been something I'm good at and familiar with," she changed her words. Who is in charge, but if we take ge's investment... things will be completely different."

"This is also the inevitable path after the company expands," Cesare nodded, and his expression became serious. "Founders always have to learn to let go of the details, and as the company expands, the authority of this letting go will become higher and higher-when most departments can operate on their own, the real group is fully completed. In our blueprint, sooner or later, we are going to take this step.”

Of course what he said makes sense, just like Robert, in fact, he is only in charge of the management at the bottom, and the management goes down and spreads out, which is the specific film and television projects. Indeed, many big projects will get his attention, but from an institutional point of view, as long as Robert completes strategic planning and direction control, the usual company operation has nothing to do with him. This is also the biggest difference between major companies and Dameng. Even Lionsgate does not have an example of the president personally being a producer. Dameng does have a strong small company temperament in terms of system.

"Yes, but...maybe it came too quickly, so I wasn't fully prepared." Jenny let out a breath, half-truthfully revealing her worries, "After all, this is what you are good at areas—process, quality control, personnel...to you, this might just be an upgrade, but to me...I don't know, maybe I'm just really afraid of **** up.”

"The possibility of messing up, the worry of entering a new field—of course there is," Cesare said. Shen Chang, "It's like jumping into a swimming pool. You always hesitate before getting into the water. But the point is, will failure destroy you?"

Jenny didn't say a word——obviously, even if she messed up this time, her personal life would not be affected. Even if Dameng went bankrupt, liquidated, packaged and sold, her personal property would still be tens of millions. Even hundreds of millions, besides, with her current status, is it not easy to get money?

"So, it's just a game," she said, showing a complicated smile, "a harmless gamble—"

"Gambling with other people's money, is there a more relaxing game in the world?" Cesare said, the corners of his lips raised, and he just looked at Jenny like this, "So Tell me, what are you still nervous about?"

The setting sun was shining directly on his face, making his cheeks seem to be inlaid with a layer of gold, and Jenny just stared at him like this, for a moment, for a moment——

She shook her head and continued to laugh, all the shaking gradually disappeared, and her laughter also became louder, "Then why are you nervous——, all the details have been prepared, but you still Don't let me go home, pull me to check again and again—"

"It's not the same," Cesare paused, an expression of 'Oh, you got me' flashed across his face, but only for a moment, and later he argued solemnly, "You You can not care about the result, but you must play it seriously, this is the respect for the game itself—"

How could Jenny pay attention to his defense? It was with great difficulty that she defrauded the truth—it was because of nervousness that Cesare kept arresting her to work overtime. To be honest, if she hadn't acted suddenly, she might have been fooled by him again. She laughed for two minutes before stopping, "Okay, okay, let's play this game respectfully - what else do I need to watch?"

Cesare glared at her, opened the door and took two lunch boxes from the secretary. "Forget it, why are you in such a hurry? Since you say it's just my nervousness—"

In Jenny's hopeful eyes, he continued, "Then I will give you a task after dinner."

Jennie's face fell down, and she muttered as she walked towards her dinner, Cesare also sat down opposite her, "I know you may not be able to check anything, but it's not useless—you are the core person in Ge's eyes , I hope ge feels that you know the whole plan like the back of your hand, and that you are in control of the company—"

"So, I should be very familiar with every document and every data." Jenny said, "yep, got it, tutor, now let's eat first."

She opened the lunch box, picked up a piece of lettuce and put it in her mouth, Cesare also picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of tuna for herself. For a while, they all chewed their food intently, and then Cesare broke the silence , chatted, "When I called you just now, did you just finish an interview?"

"Yes." Jenny said, "A little compensation for the Oscar of "Life Journey", what's the matter?"

"You look a bit too happy." Cesare glanced at her, "This is a bit suspicious."

"...You can't hide anything from you, can you?" Jenny muttered, "Something suspicious? It's kind of scary..."

Under Cesare's questioning eyes, she suppressed her thoughts, and thought of the interview just now, she couldn't help sniggering triumphantly. "I guess Judy is going to go nuts - the whole interview is out of her control — yeah, I'm basically just babbling and saying whatever comes to mind, oh Judy is going to absolutely go nuts."

Cesare raised his eyebrows at her, and said cautiously, "okay——"

"What?" It was Jenny who was surprised, "Aren't you going to scold me—I thought you would teach me another lesson right away, sensei."

"It's enough to be your teacher in the field of the company. Do you still need other people's guidance in your own acting career?" Cesare asked back, and Jenny couldn't help but smile a little more very proud. "Then again—for you now, it doesn't matter what personal image you provide to the public, as long as you don't deliberately discredit yourself, or reveal secrets that are not suitable for the public—— "

He gave Jenny a look, and after Jenny shook her head, he continued, "Maybe there is nothing wrong with introducing the real you to everyone. After all, a fake is always a fake, even if there is media distortion It’s a distorting mirror, the public still has a perception of the true and the false, and maybe your true feelings will have unexpected good effects—at least it’s not too bad to be on the stage.”

"Barely not to be rude?" Jenny said, Cesare's approval of her made her feel relieved, but this evaluation made her raise her voice again, and at the same time couldn't help laughing, "This is how you treat me. evaluation? Barely considered rude?"

"Don't you expect any other good words?" Cesare said, "On the eve of tens of billions of investment, as the chairman of the board, he resisted working overtime——"

He couldn't help laughing too, and Jenny snatched the sea urchin from his lunch box, "Hey! It's just a small complaint-by the way, about the Sunday party, you sure Netflix's Will Michael Kyle also go, if not, I really can't think of why we are in such a hurry."

"Netflix is ​​also an investor in Tikt, and he will definitely attend." Cesare said, "Of course, the premise is that our financing talks can go smoothly..."

The sky outside the window quickly darkened, but the lights in the office were already on. Paul Dergarabidean was typing on the keyboard quickly, and at the same time he was arguing with Jim. Behind him, the entire information department was busy speeding up, and under the night, Mary, holding a whole bag of moisturizing spray, hurriedly ran into the building from the nanny's car, and quickly rushed out of the elevator all the way. He ran to the front of the small meeting room.

Through the glass door, the scene of Jenny and Cesare eating and talking unreservedly fell into her eyes. Mary froze for a moment—or several times, she looked at the scene thoughtfully. After a while, he stepped forward and carefully knocked on the door. "Jane, here comes your moisturizing spray..."