Chapter 184: Empress Enron

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"Let's be honest. I'd love to invite you to be the chairman of the Bruce Charitable Foundation, but I'm more optimistic about your political career!"

"Oh, why?"

"No, maybe it's a gut feeling! And my instincts have always been accurate!"

Okukanhai was just about to continue, when he heard footsteps coming from upstairs, and stopped again. Guo Shouyun then turned his head and stood up after watching Michelle and Wendy come down the stairs.

"Welcome, Bruce!"

"Thank you!" After a polite sentence, Guo Shouyun took a few steps forward, looked at the little baby who was held in her arms, his hands clenched into fists, and he was looking at everything in front of him with wide eyes and curiosity, and couldn't help but praise: "It's so beautiful... Did she pick a name?"

"Sasha!"

"It's a beautiful name, who got it?"

"Of course, it is the father's right to choose a name for his child!" said Oku, who laughed.

Michelle gave him a blank look, but didn't refute it.

"Barack, Michelle, can I be Sasha's godfather?" Guo Shouyun said.

After the two glanced at each other, Michelle smiled and said, "Originally, we were worried about how to speak, but now it seems that everything is falling into place!"

Ao Guanhai nodded in agreement. Although they don't have much utilitarian ideas, if the child's godfather is a capable person, it will be a great benefit to both the Okukankai family and Sasha's future. At this time, Guo Shouyun, who rose like a comet in the American business world, is undoubtedly an excellent candidate for godfather.

"Haha, in the future, I will definitely do my best to help you cultivate Sasha into a talent!"

Guo Shouyun was very happy in his heart, Ao Guanhai's investment in future politics has finally become clear.

"That's right, Michelle. I was talking to Barack about your work. Come to my Bruce Foundation, I'll keep the position of chairman for you!"

"Bruce, Sasha is too young.... Michelle hesitated.

"I know. I've taken that into account. After you, the Foundation will assign you a dedicated caregiver to help you take care of Sasha. And in the early stage, you only need to know where the donation funds are going. As for fundraising, you can wait until you have more time. ”

After hesitating for a while, Michelle finally nodded.

"Bruce, it looks like I'm going to work for you in the future!"

"No, no, the Bruce Scholarship Charitable Foundation is not a for-profit organization. So, you don't work for me, but for the thousands of outstanding students who can't afford to go to school!"

"Well, you're always right!"

"Michelle, I'm telling the truth!" After a pause, "Sasha is so cute, can you give me a hug?"

"Of course!"

Guo Shouyun took over this slightly darkened little life from Michelle with a little care, and a strange emotion surged in his heart when he held a baby for the first time in his life. Warm, touching, or whatever.

Glancing at him, Michelle took her husband's hand and smiled: "Bruce, if you like children, you can have one with Wendy, I think she must be very willing!"

Wendy's face flushed, but her bright eyes stared at the man next to her. In the face of the 'sharp' eyes of the three people, Guo Shouyun felt embarrassed in his heart, and Guo Shouyun, who did not mention Molly Bevan in front of Ao Guanhai and his wife, said: "I'm still young, and after two years of stable career, it's not too late to think about it." … Michelle, I'm hungry, do you have anything to eat here?"

Guo Shouyun changed the topic, and everyone knows it. The loss on Wendy's pretty face flickered. And Michelle and O'Guanhai wisely did not mention it again.

"Wait a minute, I'll get it for you!"

"Thank you!"

There is no doubt that today's lunch must have been left at Ao Guanhai's house, and it was not until the evening that Guo Shouyun took Wendy back to the hotel where he stayed after leaving a platinum membership card for Ao Guanhai in the evening.

Michael Moretz, William Chang and other senior executives of the company who were summoned yesterday have basically left. They came this time to attend the company's annual meeting proposed by Guo Shouyun, and after the meeting, they naturally would not continue to stay in Chicago. After all, as direct managers of the company, they still have a lot of work to do.

Of course, Guo Shouyun himself is also very busy. After staying in Chicago for three days, and after attending Sasha's baptismal ceremony, he hurriedly flew to Seattle with Wendy and a large group of bodyguards.

Here, Qin Zhicheng, who was commissioned by Guo Shouyun, and Christopher Ritter, who is the CEO of Thorn Bird Publishing, have been arguing with the negotiating team representing Amazon for more than a week, and the focus is still on the price.

"The difficulty now is that we insist that Amazon is valued at $2.6 billion, while the other side thinks Amazon should be valued at $3 billion. At the same time, they believe that the market value of Thorn Bird Publishing is only $750 million, while we believe that Thorn Bird, which has good development prospects, should get a higher premium, so we insist on $1 billion. In order to bridge the differences between the two sides, we have been arguing for more than a week. Qin Zhicheng said with a hint of helplessness on his face.

The first negotiations he participated in after returning from Huaxia made it difficult for him.

"Bruce, it seems that if you want to reach a cooperation, you and Jeff Bezos are the only ones who want to talk!" said Christopher Ritter.

"I'm here for this matter this time, don't worry!" Guo Shouyun nodded.

"By the way, Rowling and Neil's wedding date is scheduled for April 7th, in Hawaii!"

"Really? I envy them. ”

"Hehe, if you really want to get married, I think many beautiful girls would like to be your bride!"

"I'm not as attractive as you say!"

After a pause, Guo Shouyun stood up, "Let's eat, I'm in for a treat today!"

"I can't ask for it!"

Christopher and Qin Zhicheng stood up, and the three of them came to the hotel's restaurant together. After dinner, Guo Shouyun, who said goodbye to the two, just returned to the room, Wendy walked over with a laptop. Looking at her slightly frowning brows, Guo Shouyun was surprised: "What's wrong?"

"Look!"

Wendy turned the computer screen around, and the content on it suddenly changed into Guo Shouyun's eyes. On the familiar Yahoo News page, there is a news item at the top.

"Jeffrey Jilin will succeed Kenneth Lee as CEO of Enron!"

Accompanying the blacked headline is a photo of Jeffrey Jilin in a black suit and staring into the distance with his arms crossed on the cover of the latest edition of BusinessWeek. No matter from which angle, the other party in this photo reveals infinite domineering.

Click on the headline, the content is full of praise for Jeffrey Jilin, and there are also praises from executives of a series of financial giants such as ******, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Bank of America, and ING Bank. Reading through the entire article, Jeffrey Jilin has simply become one of the most successful managers in the United States today, beating Oracle's Larry Ellison and Cisco's John Chambers and other business giants, second only to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

"Boss, as soon as the market opens tomorrow, Enron's stock price will probably rise very much!" Wendy said in a worried tone.

"The Wall Street guys have been planning for so long, and it's not just a one-day increase. But it doesn't matter. As long as Enron's stock price doesn't exceed $80, we don't have to worry about it. ”

Except for a few high-level officials of Enron, no one knew the situation of this clay-footed giant at this time better than Guo Shouyun.

In addition to the pipeline business, a handful of power plants in the United States and Europe, and the energy trading sector are still profitable, water, steel, fiber optics, paper, lumber, and Enron as a whole are all losing money. If it is still a bull market in the 90s, then relying on Jeffrey Jilin's hype about the concept and Andrew Fasto's superb capital management skills, then Enron can continue to support it for a while.

But now after the NASDAQ crisis, the entire U.S. economy is turning to a bear market, and Wall Street's capital is shrinking. The monetization of Enron's assets, as well as off-balance sheet financing, prepayment transactions, and extravagant administrative spending at Enron's mid-level and senior management, have long hollowed out the energy giant's interior. Aside from going out of business, Guo Shouyun really couldn't think of any other way to save her.

Oh yes. If Enron's $38 billion debt is cut in half, and then 80% of the top management is fired for a top-down major operation, Enron may still be saved. But this disproportionate investment and return, almost no one wants. Anyway, Guo Shouyun is unwilling.

After returning the computer to Wendy, Guo Shouyun sat on the sofa in the living room for a while. Now that Enron and Morgan's actions have begun, he can't sit still.

"Wendy!"

Guo Shouyun beckoned, and after the beautiful woman came over, "You call Will for me, I want to know Rebecca Mark's whereabouts." ”

"Rebecca Mark?"

"She should now be the CEO of Enron's subsidiary, Azurix Water!" Guo Shouyun nodded and said with a quiet gaze.

Rebecca Mark, known as the 'Empress' within Enron, is a shrewd, hard-working, and energetic super strong woman. She is away on business for 300 days a year, but she still fulfills her duties as a mother perfectly, and almost never misses her children's parent-teacher conferences and performances. What's more, it took her less than a decade to grow Enron International from a penniless small company to an energy giant with assets of more than $7 billion.

To be honest, Guo Shouyun admires such achievements very much. However, it is a pity that Rebecca Mark and Jeffrey Jilin at their peak lost in the process of competing for Enron CEO and were directly driven out of the core layer of Enron.

The office was changed from Houston to London, and he became the CEO of Azurix Corporation, a subsidiary of Enron that was reorganized after the acquisition of Wessex Water in the United Kingdom. Because Jeffrey Jilin's financial clamping on Azulix restricts Rebecca Mark's series of operational plans, the conflict between the two is almost public.

Therefore, when Guo Shouyun planned to look for allies within Enron, the first thing that came to mind was Rebecca Mark.