"Your job is to meet my needs, so happily decided," Eric snapped his fingers, then waved his hand at the two women, "Go and rest, I can see these things for myself." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Before they met, Caroline had never shown similar little emotions in front of Eric.

However, after confirming the relationship between the two, Caroline, who is innocent, directly regards Eric as her own relative, so she no longer buries everything in her heart as before. It's just that she made a little effort and expressed her inevitability, but when she heard Eric's words at this time, Caroline's little brain spun around, and she couldn't find a reason to refute it for a while.

Looking at the stack of folders that she had just deliberately piled up in front of Eric, Caroline suddenly felt that she was a little too much, and her toes in small high heels were rubbing on the carpet, so she lowered her voice to avoid Eric's eyes on the other side, and said, "Then, Eric, do you want coffee?"

Mayer stood next to him and rolled his eyes directly when he heard Caroline's words.

Little Carly, you have to remember that you were angry.

Eric couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth, he really wanted to reach over and pinch Caroline's face, of course he didn't do it rashly, otherwise he would have to be chased by Caroline to apologize: "Well, pure water is fine." ”

Noticing the reaction of the two people next to her, Caroline was even more embarrassed, and fled from the study with her little head down.

Eric watched Caroline flee in the wilderness, remembered something, stopped Mayer, who was about to leave, motioned for her to sit down on the sofa opposite, and asked, "How are the project materials of Nokia's major R&D centers that I asked you to compile?"

Mayer sat down on the sofa and said, "Carly and I contacted Nokia last week, but Nokia currently has a total of 17 technology research and development centers of different sizes around the world, and there are hundreds of various types of technology research and development projects. ”

Eric nodded, but with some emotion in his heart.

Nokia is not yet at its peak, with 17 R&D centers. It is conceivable that in its heyday, Nokia's technical strength would be so strong. Such an aircraft carrier-class industry giant collapsed in just a few years, and the reason is absolutely impossible to be technical.

After a moment's sigh, Eric looked at Mayer and said, "Have you thought about what to do in the future?"

Hearing Eric's question, Mayer's mind immediately came to mind the figure of Melanie, who had just joined Firefly Electronics.

The focus of Firefly Electronics' development this year is overseas business, Melanie left Eric and was directly placed in the position of vice president of the newly established overseas operations department of Firefly Electronics, which is almost equivalent to going through many people at least ten years at one time to reach the power level.

Some time ago, Eric suddenly transferred himself to his side, and although Mayer had been a little confused, he could also realize that the opportunities he faced were definitely not much worse than Melanie.

Fingers twisted the corners of the professional tube skirt without a trace, but Mayer's thoughts were very clear, and he said seriously: "Eric, I have recently started to do a graduate thesis in artificial intelligence, and the topic content is related to the 'Google' search engine just launched by Yahoo, and I think I will be more suitable for this technology research and development work in the future." ”

"I originally wanted you to go to Yahoo too," Eric said with a smile, "However, many of Yahoo's businesses are now on the right track, and although the technology research and development will never stop, the basic development route has been finalized." What Yahoo wants to do in the future is to expand as much as possible, even to globalize, and if you go to Yahoo again, there is not much room for you to do so, so I want you to come to Nokia. ”

Eric suddenly talked to her about his future plans at this time, Mayer had already faintly expected it, and when he heard Eric's confirmation, Mayer's expression was a little hesitant: "Eric, I, I didn't think about going to Finland to work." ”

"No," Eric shook his head, saw Caroline walk in with a glass of water, paused, took the glass of water handed by Caroline, and motioned for her to sit down across from her before continuing: "You only need to work in the United States in the future, and the location is probably in Silicon Valley." I hope you can gather the technical resources of Nokia, Yahoo, Qualcomm, Firefly Electronics and other companies to develop a smartphone, smart phone, you should know this concept, right?"

"Well, in my year in the assistant office, I have been exposed to some relevant information, but it is not very detailed. ”

Mayer nodded immediately, a little excited in his heart, integrating the technical strength of several major technology companies under Firefly Investment to develop a product, then the position of this product in Eric's heart is absolutely very important, think about the current Fireflyer player, as long as this product can be successful, his status in the Firefly system should not be much worse than several executives of Firefly Electronics.

"Detailed information, I will give it to you slowly in the future, what you have to do next is to fully understand Nokia first. I've asked you to gather information about the Nokia Technology Development Center project, which is what I want to see, but I also hope that you will be able to understand it in detail in a few days. ”

Mayer nodded and promised, "I will, Eric." ”

Having said more or less the same thing, Eric was just about to let Mayer and the others leave, and feeling Mayer's excitement, he added: "Another point is that Nokia is not the only one who is going to develop my planned smartphone, Firefly Electronics will also start this project at the same time, and I don't plan to put all my eggs in one basket." If you don't do well in the future, you will still get nothing. Of course, if you do it well, your advantage is also very obvious, Nokia already has a very strong global mobile phone sales network, and the products you make can easily occupy the market. ”

Mayer was a little disappointed when he heard this, but he was relieved in a blink of an eye.

It's rare for Eric to be able to put a lot of responsibility on her, and if he puts all his chips on himself, that's not the right thing to do.

After talking about things and sending the two girls away, Eric turned his attention to the pile of papers in front of him.

The first thing to pay attention to is last week's box office information.

The box office performance of "The Day After Tomorrow" is still strong, and for a commercial blockbuster with a high box office in the first week, it is still very rare to maintain a box office drop of 42% in the second weekend.

The subsequent "Zorro's Mask", although the film received good media reviews, only grossed more than $18 million in the first three days of the weekend, which did not pose a threat to "The Day After Tomorrow", and several other films, "Truman's World", "Patriot" and "Lethal Weapon 4" were left far behind.

After roughly scanning the box office rankings, Eric put the table aside, skimming over less important documents such as the list of characters in "Guillotine Valley", and Eric directly opened a copy of the group's bond financing plan.

The Nasdaq index is getting closer and closer to 2,000 points, and Eric plans that when the Nasdaq index reaches 2,000 points, Clover Fund will completely stop buying technology stocks.

In the past six months, the Clover Fund has withdrawn $2 billion from Firefly Group to buy technology stocks. In three years, Clover Fund has invested $7 billion in the Nasdaq stock market, $1 billion more than Eric originally planned.

With $7 billion in cash for stock investment in three years, even though the Firefly Group has a big business and profitability far exceeds that of other Hollywood media groups, at this time, with the launch of the internal Marvel Cinematic Universe, the production of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the implementation of the '4200' plan and the construction of the Firefly Studios theme park, the group's cash flow has also begun to tighten.

Although $7 billion has been invested, the total value of all the shares held by the Clover Fund has reached $16 billion, and the return rate has exceeded 100% compared to the principal invested.

However, Eric did not intend to do this, and instead chose the most common financing method used by many companies when faced with a lack of cash, issuing bonds.

At the end of May, the management had already begun to draw up a financing plan, and it was finally roughly finalized.

Firefly will issue $2 billion in five-year corporate bonds in early July.

Firefly Group's current corporate credit rating has reached the highest level of tripleA, so the annual interest rate of the bonds financed this time is only 4.2%, which is a full 1.3 percentage points lower than the annual interest rate of the bonds issued by Firefly when it acquired ABC Group, which seems inconspicuous, but it can save Firefly $26 million in interest expenses every year, which is $130 million in five years.

Although the annual interest rate is low, Firefly Group's bonds are still very popular. Morgan Stanley, which was responsible for the bond issuance, has identified more than 50 percent of the distribution share, according to the documents in hand.

The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that the security and profitability of Firefly Group's bonds are very guaranteed, many investment institutions on Wall Street want to become creditors of Firefly Group, which is also a large part of the factor.

As a private company, the only opportunity for Wall Street Capital to intervene in Firefly Group is to buy the company's bonds.

In this way, once the Firefly Group's operation is in trouble, Wall Street Capital, as a creditor, will have room to operate.

Of course, although the performance of Firefly Group's film business this year will not be as bright as in the past, Eric will not give some people a chance easily.

Even excluding Clover's shares, in addition to the film business, the company's TV business, theme parks and toy peripherals, as well as the increasingly strong digital sector, are operating very well and profitability is very stable.

The two Boeing 747-400s ordered by Eric will be equipped with a communications system, but the current Boeing 767 does not have this configuration.

It took me a few hours to finish the documents in front of me, and although I was a little confused, I couldn't immediately discuss it with the Los Angeles side on the phone, so I had to wait until I arrived in Helsinki.

Although the private jet flew from west to east, because it was flying towards the Arctic Circle, which was in the polar daylight state, it only experienced a very short period of darkness before the porthole was lit up again.

Eric and Caroline had a 'dinner' together on the plane, rested for a few hours, and woke up again to see that the Boeing 767 had reached the skies over Helsinki, Finland.

Looking through the porthole, Eric noticed that Helsinki's Vantaa Airport was prominent, occupying a large area to the north of the city. At first, I was a little confused, but I soon realized that it was not that Vantaa Airport was too big, but that Helsinki was too small.

Finland's area is not much different from California, however, the total population of California is close to 40 million, and the whole of Finland is less than 5 million people, Helsinki, as the capital of Finland, has a population of only more than 500,000, and the Boeing 767 crosses the sky over Helsinki, overlooking the city up close, it feels more empty, even if it is the city center, many places are large areas of woodland.

Eric got off the plane with his entourage, and Nokia CEO Yoma Ollila greeted him warmly with a few people.

"Eric, welcome to Finland," Joma Ollira warmly hugged Eric and began to introduce him to the Nokia executives who had followed him in English.

Eric shook hands with several people one by one, among whom he was more familiar with Ollie Karassuou, the current chief financial officer of Nokia, the other party is a native Finn, so the name is a little awkward, Eric just remembers that the other party has a very interesting Chinese translation, called Kang Peikai.

Kang Peikai is the next CEO candidate recommended by Yoma Ollira for Eric, as for Yoma Ollila, in the plan, the other party will still serve as a director of Nokia's board of directors after leaving, but he will no longer hold an actual position in Nokia, and it is said that the other party intends to run for the presidency of Finland next, but Eric does not know much about the specific situation.

In fact, if they wanted to, the Firefly could still keep Yomar Ollila, but Eric didn't mean to. Speeding up the management turnover at Nokia will also help Firefly take full control of the company more quickly. Once Yoma Ollila is allowed to continue in Liu Renxiu, the other party's influence in Nokia will only become stronger and stronger, and it will become more and more unfavorable for Firefly to take back the management of Nokia.

Of course, although they will leave office next year, the two sides can be regarded as getting together and dispersing.

Eric does not want Yoma Ollila to continue to be the CEO of Nokia, but he will never deny the contributions that Yoma Ollira has made to Nokia over the years. If it weren't for Yoma Ollila's discovery and promotion of Nokia's GSM communication technology, this small company in the corner of Northern Europe would not have developed into the international mobile communications equipment giant it is today.