Chapter 161: Professional Internet Celebrity (2/4)
Richard Rockefeller valued Ye Dongqing, not only because of his growth potential, which may help his future, but also because of his temperament.
So at the end of April, he called Ye Dongqing and invited him to go golf together on the weekend, and the course was in their family's home base of Witterschester County, and he had been curious about that land for a long time, Ye Dongqing did not refuse, and agreed to come down.
There are still three days to pass, don't worry about the gift, I bought so many watches when I ran to Xiangjiang last year, and now I still put them in the safe, or you can also bring a bottle of good red wine to the past, and you will not lose your identity.
After putting down the mobile phone, Ye Dongqing continued to look at the financial statements to learn about the specific transactions of Tamsui Investment Group this year.
In the first quarter alone, a total of more than $280 million was raised from investors, and if you don't count the profits made from crude oil futures, there was actually a small loss, mainly because the handling fees of warrants, employee expenses, and dividends that need to be returned to customers add up to too much.
This is the disadvantage of the high rebate model, the cost of raising funds is too high, forcing him to keep making money, otherwise the amount of loss is much larger than that of ordinary fund companies.
The situation improved slightly in April, but the trading volume of the NASDAQ Internet sector is still sluggish, Ye Dongqing regards it as a good thing, and the current rise is too slow, which means that the starting price is also low, which is very in line with his long-term interests.
It is more important to lay a good foundation in the early stage, Ye Dongqing has been looking at these companies with a vigilant eye, but whenever he encounters a problem that he is not satisfied with, he will deal with it decisively as soon as possible, and he is quite satisfied with Tamsui Investment Group so far.
Although the amount of funds raised is not much, a large number of investors who can buy short-term wealth management products will choose to continue to buy them after maturity, indicating that they are more recognized by these wealth management products.
When he heard the quarrel outside, he got up and went out with a frown, only to see an executive named Will, the deputy financial officer of the company, who was drunk and arguing, and then crouched there and vomited.
He beckoned to Ms. Vigo from afar, called her over and asked, "What's going on, why did that guy come to work after drinking?"
"I heard about Will's divorce the other day, maybe I'm not in a good mood, I'm going to have someone send him home to rest now, and I'll find time to talk to him next. "Ms. Vigo and Will know each other, and they can see that the small boss is quite unhappy and is deliberately avoiding a worse situation.
"It can only happen once, and the next time I let him leave, I don't want to have more alcoholics in my company. ”
"I understand and promise that it won't happen again......"
Soon after closing the door and returning to the office, Ye Dongqing saw a security guard come and pull Will away, a small number of Americans are serious alcoholics, and when they go out, they can always see drunk homeless people lying on the side of the street, these belong to drinking and losing their home.
Continuing to sit in the large leather chair, he turned on the computer and logged in to his Facebook account, there were many strangers who followed him, and the strangers he followed were just that, and he was going to see how many celebrities opened their Facebook accounts, but he accidentally saw Laura post a few photos, a photo of another white girl shopping.
typed a message to ask who she was, and then continued to look down, and suddenly saw that Miss Mahi had also posted a few photos of herself drawing, and after clicking in, she saw that the number of fans who followed her had more than 1,000 people.
This made him think of more things, such as promoting the two of them to become the first batch of Internet celebrities on Facebook, especially Laura, it is said that after the number of fans increases, the income will be very good, and the fat water will not flow into the fields of outsiders, and a group of online social celebrities will definitely emerge next, with Laura's appearance and figure, it is not difficult to become famous.
I hadn't called Laura in a few days, so I picked up my phone and called her, and when I got through, I asked, "Hey, what are you doing?"
"Lying on the couch in a daze, today's part-time job is the evening shift, I'm going to tutor a little girl with math problems, what about you?" Laura's voice came.
"I'm busy in the company, I just thought of a very good career, maybe the kind that can make you a little rich woman worth tens of millions of dollars, if you are interested, I can help you. ”
Laura immediately came to her senses, and after working for a period of time, it was enough for her to realize that the money was not so easy to make, and when she heard tens of millions of dollars, she immediately pricked up her ears and asked: "What kind of work, is it to help you shoot advertisements?"
“...... Where do you get the confidence that makes you feel like you can be a model? It's Facebook, recently you went to buy a high-definition digital camera, and then you went to the gym more, and you learned to exercise, and you did yoga or something, and it was better to wear something sexy, and occasionally show off your financial resources, as long as the photos were beautiful enough, and I will take care of the rest. ”
"My wealth, are you sure I have it?"
"Take a few more photos of the London Eye Ferris wheel through your window, change more famous bags, expensive clothes or something, and now attract more fans, I swear that you will be able to earn back your investment in the future, believe me yes, you will become one of the main online social stars promoted by Facebook, and there will definitely be businesses willing to spend money to ask you to help do promotion."
I wanted to give you a job, but you can't do anything, this is the most suitable job for you I can think of, you must ask a professional photographer to take it for you, they will make the picture look better, understand?"
Ye Dongqing was just pushing the boat down the river, and suddenly thought of such a relaxed and comfortable career, of course, he had to pull a friend, not to mention that the relationship between the two was not just a friend.
"I don't understand, but my friend Renee will accompany me back to New York tomorrow, and I was going to surprise you, so I'll tell you when we meet, and I'll be back in London in about two or three days. ”
"Send me the flight number and pick you up at the airport when the time comes, so Renee is the new friend you sent the picture of, right, congratulations on starting a new life. ”
"Don't, I'd rather have a cat or something than be friends with her......"
I don't understand why I said this, but Will broke into the office area again, Ye Dongqing couldn't bear it, and after hurriedly ending the conversation, he walked out of the office and shouted: "You have been fired! Quickly pull this guy away! If you really don't want to go, call the police!"
Ms. Vigo sighed deeply when she heard this, and came to ask Ye Dongqing for leave, saying that she wanted to send him home safely.
There are many employees under his hands, there will always be some strange things, where to make trouble, if you have to come to the company to mess around, it is normal to be fired.
Mr. Alfred, who is far away in Silicon Valley, called Ye Dongqing and said that he should log in to the official Facebook website and download a new program called Skype-Beta (beta version) from it, and he can directly bind and log in with his Facebook account......