"I'll leave that to you. Lincoln finished his chops and put down his knife and fork and said.

"Of course, your business now is my business. Doug said.

Doug watched Lincoln leave, and his time may be more precious than Doug's for the aspiring American president.

However, even if his time is precious, he still has to find Doug in this time and clearly explain his demands.

Because, not long ago, he was not ahead in the support rate, but now the support rate is far ahead of other competitors.

Although the approval rating has been skewed, a high approval rating does not necessarily lead to an election to the presidency.

However, the approval rating is far ahead, which already means that there is a high probability of being elected president.

The reason why Lincoln's approval rating has soared all the way down is that Doug's propaganda strategy has worked.

The American Press Group now has more than 300,000 newspapers in circulation every day.

The 300,000 newspapers a day represent ten or even a hundred times the number of copies he influences.

Even if it is calculated by ten times, in this era, it is already a terrifying thing to be able to directly affect the minds of three million people.

Even the federal and state governments in the United States can't even do that.

Because, whether it is the federal government or the state government, it is a small government. When it comes to publicity, they are not good at it and do not have the budget to do so.

Therefore, the force of the American newspaper group, no matter what the force, will not ignore.

Lincoln came to ask Doug for a very simple matter. Just ask Doug not to go back.

That's right, I asked Doug not to go against the water and support other presidential candidates.

Why did you come to ask for it so much?

The reason is simple, because Lincoln's conditions for Doug can also be offered by other candidates.

Anyway, these conditions are conditions that can only be practiced when you really become a president.

And now with Doug's support, it is very likely that he will actually become president.

On the one hand, there is nothing, and on the other hand, in the case of getting more, giving a little bit.

In any case, it is certainly not wrong to curry favor with Doug now and enlist Doug's support.

Of course, Doug is not the only one of these candidates to please.

In New York, there are more people to please against.

These tycoons, who can influence the economic development of the United States, are the real masters of the United States.

If the United States is a company, the board members are these business giants with a lot of capital.

As for the president of the United States, he is nothing more than an agent.

Brokers have tenures, but board members don't.

As for the ordinary workers who have the right to vote in this large enterprise. They are just ordinary workers.

Professional managers, although they seem to care about these ordinary workers, in fact, the behavior of these ordinary workers is still controlled by the board members.

Therefore, the objects that professional managers serve are ultimately the shareholders of the board of directors.

Doug, if you talk about the capital you have, you can barely be regarded as a small shareholder if you just touch the threshold of the board of directors.

However, this small shareholder has the means to get many workers to listen to him.

For such small shareholders, those who want to be professional managers, why not come to curry favor?

Even if you don't become a manager, it doesn't hurt to curry favor with such potential stocks.

As for why Doug readily agreed to Lincoln's request for continued support.

He also had two reasons, one was that he believed in the inertia of history, and in another history, Lincoln became president, and in this history, he was still very likely.

The other was because Doug felt that the other candidates might not have the courage to start a Civil War.

The war between the South and the North is not only a war of geography, but also a war of economic systems.

Although the industrial capitalists in the north seem to be more "civilized", in fact the plantation owners in the south have more wealth.

Even if the elected president is bent on serving only the interests of the North, will he worry that the North will lose in the battle between the South and the North?

After all, those plantation owners in the south had just defeated the mighty Mexico. Even, let Mexico humiliatingly cede a part of the land, establish the State of Mexico, and join the United States.

Compared with the South, the northern states and Canada not only did not fight, but did not even have the heart to fight.

In the face of such a form, in the face of such a situation.

Whether it is a duplicitous or a loyal northern lackey, it is difficult to strengthen one's confidence.

And the Civil War, for Doug, was a good time to harvest capital. Therefore, he absolutely did not allow the Civil War to disappear into thin air.

In order for the Civil War not to disappear, he had to support Lincoln.

If Lincoln is elected president, if Lincoln supports the U.S. central bank in his city, if there is a Civil War after that.

Doug was confident that with this war, he would be able to become the richest man in the United States.

Even at that time, things went back and forth with the central bank, and eventually the central bank was overturned.

What he gained was far greater than what he lost.

"Boss, it's one o'clock in the afternoon. Doug's little secretary reminded.

"Let's bring him to the conference room first, all the entrepreneurs will meet in the conference room today. Doug said.

"Yes. The secretary replied.

The entrepreneur in Doug's mouth is indeed a real entrepreneur.

As for why he became involved with these entrepreneurs.

The reason is simple, because of his Claydon Investment Bank.

Claydon Investment Bank is independent of U.S. banks, and its main business is investment.

Invest in companies that it likes and reap the rewards for doing so.

Such investment-oriented commercial banks are not uncommon in the United States in this era.

The most unusual thing is that Claydon Investment Bank, which has launched an angel investment plan.

As long as you can convince Claydon Investment Bank to invest, you can get a sum of money out of thin air, and the most important thing is that if the business fails in the end, the money does not have to be repaid.

In the eyes of the majority of entrepreneurs, Claydon Investment Bank can become the sweetest doughnut.

As long as you are convinced, you can get the investment.

If every hour of persuasion yields an investment, these entrepreneurs feel they can keep talking for ten years.

When they read the news in the newspapers, they all set off for the Claydon Investment Bank in New Haven.

Of course, they also had the idea that this was a scam company.

But what about even a scam bank?

If you don't come, you may lose $10,000!

As a result, there are a lot of people who want to come to Claydon Investment Bank every day.

Therefore, Doug also made a rule that every afternoon he began to meet with the entrepreneur, and one person met for ten minutes.

If you can convince him within ten minutes, Claydon Investment Bank will invest accordingly.

If, if not.

Then I'm sorry.

Please leave.

Compared with the slow-paced business activities of this era, it is already very difficult for a person to explain what he wants to do in ten minutes.

However, such difficulties not only repelled some people who came purely to join in the fun, but also made those who really want to get investment more seriously prepared.

They were able to speak fluently for ten minutes in front of Doug, which meant that they had to prepare for at least ten times as long when they didn't meet Doug.

However, although there are some people who have prepared seriously, but the things they fancy are not good, then it still does not work.

"You...... Hello ......"

"Hello, let's introduce myself. ”

"My name is Taryn Scola from New York, I'm Chinese New Year's Eve one year old, I've been in the military for five years, and I've just been discharged this year. The project I want to start a business is military insurance...... When they were in the army, their comrades-in-arms would always have casualties, but they received very little compensation. Therefore, when we train, we always try to avoid injury.

However, avoiding injuries and training and fighting are conflicting. Therefore, our combat effectiveness has become weak.

That's why I wanted to start a military insurance.

In this way, the wounded and dead soldiers will be compensated, and the combat effectiveness of the army will be improved, which I think is a worthwhile task......"

"Have you calculated the return model for your insurance?"

"What model?"

"It's your insurance, in the case of how many people spend how much money to buy, under what probability of compensation is profitable, and under what probability of compensation is loss.

I agree with the idea of what I want to do, but there is one thing I have to point out to you.

That is, you are a kind of commercial insurance, and the primary purpose of commercial insurance is to make money.

If you can't make money, or even accompany a lot of money, Claydon Investment Bank can't invest in you. ”

"This ...... This ......" veteran Taryn began to hesitate a little, and he didn't know how to answer the situation in front of him.

Because, he has not calculated this benefit model at all.

However, we can't let the atmosphere go on like this.

He stubbornly said, "It will be earned, it will be earned! Now there is no war, and only one out of so many people will be injured during training." It's going to be earned!"

"How do you know that there has been no war recently, and what if there is a sudden war? If there are even formed casualties in the army, can your insurance still be profitable?"

"I ...... I ......"

"It's a pleasure for you to come to Claydon Investment Bank, unfortunately, your startup project has not yet been approved by Claydon Investment Bank, welcome to visit ......us again next time you have more excellent and complete entrepreneurial ideas"

Doug uttered a formulaic rejection spell that turned out the veteran, who wanted military insurance.

Are you kidding!

Engaging in military insurance?

The insurance industry, although it is an industry with great prospects.

However, the focus of insurance is on those circles with low insurance rates.

Like this idea of directly insuring soldiers, at least Doug would not dare to do it.

Especially in anticipation of the upcoming Civil War, the number of dead soldiers at that time will not be one or two thousand, nor one or two thousand, but hundreds of thousands or millions of casualties.

With such a huge number of casualties, how can they compensate for the number of insured people?

However, this was a wake-up call to Doug that he could set up an insurance company.

That's right, Claydon Investment Bank, one is to invest in potential people, and the other purpose is to learn more entrepreneurial ideas, and from these ideas, extract reliable ideas, and let Doug do it himself.

This is also the proper meaning, after all, Doug is not really a god. As long as it is human, there will be places to forget and ignore.

It's a great way to stay up to date with the latest and hottest startup ideas in investment banking.

Even, in the future, there can be a special "Entrepreneur Monthly", which gathers the ideas of entrepreneurs into a newspaper every month, and then allows those who have the ability to lack ideas and lack money to come to Claydon Investment Bank to seek investment.

Of course, Doug didn't do this because he was helpful.

It's because angel investment, although it sounds very kind, but for the investor, the price of acceptance is to sell a large number of shares in the company.

When the company really becomes bigger and stronger, and after receiving several capital injections from Claydon Investment Bank, the founder will find that this company founded by himself does not belong to himself, but to Claydon Investment Bank.

Even, if you do something that will make investors dissatisfied, you will be fired immediately.

That's a ...... feeling

It's a bit subtle.

However, this is the truth of angel investing.

Those who take angel investment, when they get angel investment, think that they don't have to pay anything.

However, the risks and benefits are always compatible.

If there is only risk and no return, why does angel investment still exist?

There are capitalists in this world, but there is no one who is truly kind.

Of course, a truly kind capitalist is no longer a capitalist.

Today's second face-to-face entrepreneur who wants to start a business is: "Hello, I would like to ask you to invest in helping me build a beverage factory. ”

"What kind of beverage factory?"

"A factory that encapsulates beverages in glass bottles. The middle-aged man in his 40s said, "Nowadays, almost all shops do not have this kind of safe drink that can be drunk immediately.

Those who sell drinks without permission, even beer, don't know if they will have a bad stomach in the next moment.

Therefore, I would like to build a beverage factory that can produce safe beverages with a safe production system as the core.

In this way, it not only meets everyone's needs for drinking drinks, but also meets the safety. I think such a beverage factory is very promising. ”

Doug nodded slightly.

In this era, the United States, like the United Kingdom, still has a difficult problem with access to safe drinking water.

He felt that the beverage factory had a future.

"You go on ......"