【Anti-theft Sticker Chapter】

Considering that Eric and his party arrived in the dust and needed to rest, the barbecue party didn't last long.

In less than ten o'clock, calm quickly returns to this private resort in the valley.

In a villa in the center of the resort, Eric sent the girl who wanted to be by his side tonight to rest, and personally put the three little ones to sleep before coming to Virginia's bedroom.

The woman was making the bed, and when she saw Eric come in, she only glanced at it slightly, ignoring it in the slightest.

Eric took off the shell bracelet that Emma had just tied to his wrist and put it on the dresser, and said to the woman: "Next, Fireflies will set up a batch of bursary funds around the world, I won't tell you the specifics, the purpose is not so simple." However, if it is known that I donate overseas but am indifferent to my domestic country, it will definitely cause criticism. So, there will also be a local one, which is purely charitable, how about you and Joan take care of it together?"

Virginia paused as she sat on the edge of the bed and changed the pillowcase, and said with some relief: "Joan and I are very busy, you let Crawford do it." ”

Eric nodded seriously, "Forget it, I'll talk to Cindy next time." ”

Then a pillow flew over.

Eric smiled and reached out to catch it, and said, "Just call Virginia and Joanna the Fund, okay?" Put your name in front." However, I have been short of money recently, so I can only donate $200 million a year for the time being. The two of you decide on your own charity projects, and of course, you can sneak it up if you want to, just be careful not to get caught. ”

In the West, it is a common phenomenon for husbands to run business and politics and for their wives to manage the family charitable funds. Eric's setting up such a charitable fund is equivalent to completely putting the two women on the table.

The man kept talking gently, and Virginia was not embarrassed to continue to play petty, she understood better what this charity fund meant to herself and Joanna. Hearing Eric say the end, the woman rolled her eyes slightly, and then whispered, "Joan is older than me, she must be in front, but what about you?"

Eric fiddled with the pillow in his hand, leaned back on the dresser and smiled, "I'm fine, but if it's called the Eric Joanna Virginia Williams Foundation, isn't the name too long?"

Virginia nodded immediately and said, "That's the name, I'm not too long." ”

"That's it, go to sleep, there's a whole bunch of things to do tomorrow. ”

Eric threw the pillow back on the bed and unbuttoned his trench coat, intending to take a shower first.

Virginia got up and walked over, bowed her head to help Eric unbutton, didn't look at the man's expression, and said softly, "In the next few days, will Kevin follow you?"

Eric took off his trench coat and stuffed it into the woman's arms, and said, "Okay, it's time for the little guy to learn how to take care of the company, and let him follow me to the meeting in the next few days." ”

Virginia folded Eric's trench coat and hugged it in her arms, listening to the ridicule in the man's tone, and said with some grievances: "I didn't mean that, I, Kevin is your son, you ......"

Eric loosened his tie and pretended to be impatient and casually twitched Virginia's plump buttocks, interrupting the woman's support and saying, "That's a lot of nonsense, help me put the water out, didn't you see that your man wants to take a bath?"

Virginia snorted, glared at Eric hatefully, and headed for the bathroom.

After putting the hot water on, Virginia helped Eric find clean underwear and walked into the bathroom, where the man was already comfortably immersed in the bathtub.

Seeing that the woman had put down her clothes and was about to go out, Eric reached out and pulled it, and Virginia sat down on the edge of the tub.

"I know what you're worried about," Feeling Virginia reach over to help him scrub himself, Eric pressed the woman's hand and said, "Xia Xia is indeed more likable to them than Kevin, but, have you ever thought that with Xia Xia's temperament, she will be interested in inheriting the family business and managing the company in the future?"

In many cases, the smarter people tend to look at wealth more lightly, and Hawaii's intelligence is beyond the comprehension of many people. According to Eric's observation of his daughter, the little one may be interested in many things in the future, but he will definitely not compete with Kevin and other siblings for the inheritance of the Williams family's wealth.

In fact, although he plans to pass on his wealth, Eric will not let his children get into the immediate situation of fighting for the family in the future. The purpose of setting up the trust in advance is to plan that like Rockefeller and other families, all children can enjoy the support of the family trust in the future, and if they want to enjoy this wealth and glory for a long time, they must work together to make efforts for the continuation of the entire family.

Virginia is also concerned, listening to Eric's words, she also gradually realizes that Hawaii is more likely to become a genius scientist in the future, but it is difficult to become an entrepreneur.

However, the woman refused to admit defeat on the surface, saying: "The movie you're still releasing is Tony Stark, he's a genius." ”

"You said it was a movie," Eric slid up Virginia's arm, scratching at her softness that was richer than all the other women, and said, "Okay, I'll just advise you this time, and I won't worry about it later." Actually, you should understand that as the eldest son of the Williams family, he is destined to take on more responsibilities than the other siblings in the future, so what you have to do is to teach Kevin well instead of worrying about these messy things all day long. ”

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The next day, the accompanying family members began to organize a variety of activities, and in addition to taking time to participate, the core executives of the Firefly system mainly focused on exchanges and meetings one after another.

The theme of this gathering is the discussion on 'Sustainable Business Models for the New Technology Industry'.

In addition to the serious bubble factor, the most important reason for the collapse of the NASDAQ index is that most of the new technology companies have failed to form a complete and effective business model. So, just like the Barron's analysis, once these new tech companies that only know how to burn money are exhausted and have no revenue model to feed the company, the only way to end up is to die.

Of course, although this theme is at the heart of this gathering, in fact, it is more of a pretext for the outside world.

After all, even though the Nasdaq bubble burst and the scale of assets controlled by the Firefly system shrank significantly, the gathering of the core executives of the Firefly system still attracted strong attention from the outside world, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard even took time to come over to dine with everyone at noon on Tuesday. Media outlets around the world have also reached out to Firefly Systems companies for the opportunity to cover the event.

Therefore, under this strong attention, sensitive issues involving strengthening cooperation between enterprises within the Firefly system and jointly excluding competitors from the industry must not be disclosed to the public.

In addition, the next development goals of the Firefly system, the upcoming new business of core companies such as Yahoo, and some important personnel adjustments between companies are all within the agenda of this gathering.

Eric also took advantage of this gathering to preliminarily determine the list of members of the upcoming Williams Trust Board of Directors, and the core executives of the Firefly system are basically all listed.

As a living trust, Eric can make changes to the board of directors at any time, and even completely cancel the entire trust fund if necessary, so there is no concern about the risk of these executives leaving the Firefly system in the future.

The members of the Trust Board of Directors determined that if something unforeseen did happen, the group could quickly preserve the Firefly system. In the future, changes in the membership of the Board of Trustees will naturally operate in accordance with the established rules of the Trust Fund.

Although only two media outlets, the Herald Sun, Yahoo Portal and ABC Group, which are affiliated with News Corp. in Australia, have been granted limited access to the event, the topic of the party's 'sustainable business model for the new technology industry' has aroused heated discussions among countless media around the world.

Stimulated by this topic, the soaring Nasdaq capital market also began to calm down.

After the opening of the session on Monday, the downward trend of the Nasdaq index began to slow down significantly.

Moreover, with the discussion in the media and the optimism of industry analysts about the upcoming financial reports of Yahoo, Cisco, Amazon and other companies, the stock prices of several new technology companies in the Firefly system have even stopped falling and rebounded.

And so on until Thursday, August 12th.

After a four-day gathering, the company of the Firefly system finally broke out the first real good news.

At nine o'clock in the morning local time in New York, just after going to work, Amazon suddenly announced that Firefly Investment will once again provide Amazon with $500 million in convertible bond financing with an annual interest rate of only 2.5% for the further expansion of Amazon's online mall and logistics system.

Convertible bonds mean that Firefly Investments can choose to convert this bond into Amazon stock at any time within a certain period of time.

With the collapse of the Nasdaq, the least optimistic about the market in the entire firefly system is Amazon.

Compared with Yahoo, which has a market share of more than 70%, or Cisco, which has formed stable profits, and even Qualcomm, which is destined to shine in the 3G era of mobile communications, Amazon does not have too obvious advantages in all aspects.

As a result, Amazon's stock price has fallen by more than 67% since the crash, and its market value has slipped all the way from its peak of $35.7 billion to $11.7 billion at the close of trading last week, and many analysts on Wall Street believe that Amazon's stock price may eventually fall by 90%.

Moreover, due to Jeff Bezos's aggressive expansion strategy, Amazon's cash flow is on the verge of drying up, and some media outlets have even thought that the Firefly system is likely to abandon Amazon completely in the near future.

In this one-sided bearish situation, Firefly Investment suddenly announced that it would inject another $500 million into Amazon, which is enough to overturn many pessimistic arguments in the industry.

Stimulated by this good news, the Nasdaq stock market just opened on Thursday, and Amazon's stock price, which was already hovering on the edge of a $10 billion market capitalization, rebounded 5.6% directly, and the stock price rose 11.3% throughout the day.

While the entire new technology market is closely watching what good news the core high-level gathering of the Firefly system will bring to the Nasdaq market, on Friday, another announcement that suddenly made countless people did not react again.

On the afternoon of August 13, an hour before the close of the Nasdaq, the U.S. Department of Justice held a press conference.

In view of federal Judge Thomas Jackson's violation of judicial process and his brazen disclosure of Microsoft's antitrust information to the media, Clinton personally issued an order to remove Thomas Jackson from his position as a judge in the Microsoft antitrust case.

At the same time, considering Microsoft's active cooperation in the antitrust investigation phase, the Federal Department of Justice decided to temporarily suspend the investigation into Microsoft's antitrust behavior and restart settlement negotiations with Microsoft.

In recent years, Microsoft has been clouded by the prospect of a forced breakup.

If the operating system platform is separated from the company, Microsoft's advantages in software applications, network services, enterprise services, etc. will be lost.

Now, the Department of Justice has abruptly stopped the antitrust investigation into Microsoft, which has reached the final stage, and restarted settlement negotiations, which is tantamount to directly abandoning the decision to split Microsoft.

While many are aware that the Justice Department made this compromise most likely to avoid further stimulating the new tech market, which continues to plummet, the strong positive news did have an immediate effect.

As soon as the press conference ended, the Nasdaq index jumped out of a significant upward curve at the end of the day, and the Nasdaq index rose by 39 percentage points in just half an hour.

Two shots of boosters for two consecutive days have finally stabilized the Nasdaq index, which has plummeted for nearly a month.

However, the following weekend, a series of good news announcements from the Firefly system brought tears to the eyes of many Wall Street investment institutions.

Everyone is aware that with the announcement of this series of positive news, the Nasdaq will soon enter a period of rally.

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While many are aware that the Justice Department made this compromise most likely to avoid further stimulating the new tech market, which continues to plummet, the strong positive news did have an immediate effect.

As soon as the press conference ended, the Nasdaq index jumped out of a significant upward curve at the end of the day, and the Nasdaq index rose by 39 percentage points in just half an hour.

Two shots of boosters for two consecutive days have finally stabilized the Nasdaq index, which has plummeted for nearly a month.

However, the following weekend, a series of good news announcements from the Firefly system brought tears to the eyes of many Wall Street investment institutions.

Everyone is aware that with the announcement of this series of positive news, the Nasdaq will soon enter a period of rally.