Chapter 111: Anger
"George, we found that you have more than ten years of investment experience, and except for the initial failure due to an inaccurate grasp of the market, all the investments in the later stage have maintained a fairly stable profit.
Can you tell me a little bit about your investment secret? I think a lot of people are really curious to know how you can find the ones that are going to give you the benefit of renting out of the thousands of codes? I promise not to tell you. ”
Putting the last piece of five-ripe and blood-streaked beef on the plate into his mouth and chewing it, and taking a sip of red wine, Michael Swell looked at George, who had long since stopped his knife and fork and was now munching on an egg tart regardless of his image, and said with a smile on his face.
He was very surprised in his heart, Jamie Dimon once proposed to introduce George into First Bank on the board of directors of First Bank after knowing George and his experience, and cooperated with him to create a fund, although it was not resolved because of the concerns of shareholders, but he knew how proud Jamie Dimon, who was swept away by Sandy Will, and re-joined First Bank in just a few days, can make him say such things, which shows how much he values George.
can make Sandy and Jamie Dimon, two Wall Street power center bigwigs at the same time, you can imagine how attractive George's experience is to them.
It's just that the Watt family and the California consortium behind George have made them a little jealous, for fear of luring the wolf into the house, and a careless multi-year hard work may be ruined and make a wedding dress for someone else.
"Mr. Will has won the prize, I'm just an ordinary kid, it's not so magical, my investment is losing money a lot of the time, it's just that you don't see it, it's just luck now, compared to you, the gap is too big, it's not worth mentioning.
Mr. Sandy is a true master of this, and under his leadership, Citi has grown from a commercial bank to a large Citigroup with the power to dominate the market, and that's what I need to learn. ”
After stuffing the last egg tart into his mouth and swallowing it, George's gobbling appearance finally disappeared, and he regained his calm image, raised the wine glass in his hand, slowly took a sip, and shook his head with a bright smile.
"Sandy would be very excited to hear you say that, there are so many people who have made him a target, and you are the most promising one I can see right now.
It's just a pity that I see in your investment that your heart is no longer on Wall Street, you have set your sights on Silicon Valley, and the new technology has developed wildly after a period of time, which has created the current crisis, and then they will develop in an orderly manner, but after this battle, they want to restore the previous scale, and it is impossible in a short time.
Are you transitioning into a venture capitalist?"
After seeing that George was always answering left and right, and secretly scolded "little fox", Michael Swell finally began to move towards the topic.
"Mr. Will, you're wrong, venture capital is not in my investment plan, and I don't have much interest in venture capital.
Being scolded by the founders in the office with the door closed and pointed at the nose, I prefer to get their thanks, anyway, what I have now is all from them, and it doesn't matter if I lose something compared to getting their gratitude, I can afford to lose something. ”
"Well, with all due respect, is the San Francisco Chronicle also in the ranks where you want to be grateful?
It's better to know that owning a stake in Citigroup, even though it's not a Class A stock, still means that you've been accepted by Wall Street, which is much better than getting gratitude. ”
Michael Swell was not breathless, but in the face of a man who was more talkative than the old fox he had ever seen, and he took care of him left and right, he changed the topic at every turn, giving him the feeling that he had nowhere to put his mouth when he ran into a hedgehog.
In that case, he had to get straight to the point.
"No, no, no, Mr. Will, I'm San Francisco, and that can't be changed, and now that I can, I have to do something for them.
I like their gratitude, you get tangible benefits, there is nothing like this tacit cooperation, you say?"
George looked at Michael Swell, whose face was a little ugly, and smiled secretly in his heart, the benefits of owning Citigroup's shares are predictable, but are Citigroup's shares really so safe, who doesn't know that the group of sharks on Citi's board of directors who rushed up when they smelled fishy.
Dry up and fish, but there is no less to do, Sandy Will is not Jamie Dimon from time to time Paulson is not Jobs, Jobs finally cleaned up the Apple board of directors obediently, so that they are unwilling to short their own stocks at will, Jamie Dimon directly controlled the board of directors after the merger of First Bank and ****, but Sandy Weir is not good, and neither can Cook later, every time a new product is released, isn't it often gossip that is harvested all over the sky.
"George, you know, the San Francisco Chronicle is not going to make a move, and if you can't hold it in your hands in the face of a media that is very unfriendly to you, then it can only be ruin.
Sandy wouldn't allow a company that was cursing it all the time and time to be endlessly abused, treating it as if it were her own child.
We can exchange the shares of the Los Angeles Times, although you were born in San Francisco, but San Francisco left you with endless humiliation, strictly speaking Los Angeles is your real home, which is probably the reason why you left San Francisco and never returned to that city.
As an Angelen-Los Angeles-owner of a stake in the Los Angeles Times, you can send two people to the board to replace us, and you should know what that means, and Sandy asked me to tell you, it's his sincerity. ”
When Michael Swell heard George's words, he said with a very serious face, San Franciscans, this word completely stung him, San Franciscans don't have a good thing in the eyes of Citi people, they are all hateful guys who should be taken away by God.
Don't you know what this little fox in front of him, who claims to be a San Franciscan, is pushing himself against them.
"I need to think about it, and I'll let you know when it's done. ”
George's face became strange, without any warning, and he threw down this sentence and left, not because of the shares of the Los Angeles Times, but because of Will's words, which could not be held in his hands and destroyed, from this sentence it can be heard that their disgust with the San Francisco Chronicle has reached its peak.
What's more, although he knew that there were no secrets in the United States, and that he was not protected by the Watt family in his childhood, many things were not secrets at all, but he didn't expect them to investigate in such detail, which made George feel that he was stripped naked and stood in front of everyone, and this feeling made his anger instantly fill his body.
Looking at George's departing back, Michael Swell fell into deep thought.