Chapter 109: I've never seen anyone so brazen
Donald is not yet 60 years old, his blonde hair is in the most decaying period of his life, and his whole image is a little declining. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
More than a decade ago, when he was received by President Reagan at the White House, his natural blonde hair looked very healthy, and he looked as energetic as the classic Georgia red-necked white-right.
In the next ten years, after he became president, his hair fell out in a big way, and it was okay to wear a wig completely.
And now, it is the embarrassing age of "green and yellow". So much so that Donald had to devote more energy to words in order to strive for greater expressiveness.
This is the so-called blind people have good hearing, and fat people have high IQs.
After the initial introduction of the opening statement, more routine questions were given to his daughter Ivanka to ask according to the outline, while Donald began to improvise to "make trouble" Gu Cheng.
"Gu, as far as I know, you and I are in a sense a double companion - both a wealthy businessman and a public figure in the entertainment industry. I heard that you have been acting in TV dramas since you dropped out of school at the age of 16, do you have anything to say about this life experience?"
Not all wealthy businessmen are indifferent to young maniacs, and it is better to use this question as a difficult starter.
When Donald spoke, he also took out a few large stills, and turned the big screen behind the studio into the trailers of the three TV series that Gu Cheng had starred in.
If this scene falls into the eyes of the old-school financial circles in the United States, Gu Cheng will definitely be deducted points.
Gu Cheng's answer was very cautious, but he didn't think about it for long: "It was just a stage of my life, an experience. Who hasn't done something profligate at the age of sixteen or seventeen?"
Donald very keenly grasped Gu Cheng's meaning: "You mean, it was just a young overwhelm, and you won't make TV series in the future?
Gu Cheng shrugged his shoulders reflexively and smiled naturally: "How come, I don't act in TV series anymore, it doesn't mean that I will be ashamed of this experience - President Reagan has been an actor in Hollywood for 27 years, and I haven't seen him be ashamed of being an actor after becoming president, isn't it?"
“Nice-job!”
“Perfect-answer!”
Even the father and daughter of Chuanpu had to sigh and admire, secretly praising Gu Cheng for answering this question so decently, it was so incisive that there was no room for refutation.
After Donald sighed, he sincerely applauded and adjusted the rhythm of the talk show:
It seems that Gu has not lost his life because of the growth of personal wealth, which is really not easy. As far as I know, a large number of Chinese merchants who get rich at the same rate as you tend to cover up their past, or make arrogant misjudgments about the future, and these situations obviously do not happen to you. ”
Gu Cheng noticed the flaw in the other party's words, and did not let it go: "I'm sorry, I want to correct you a little: First of all, what you said, 'As far as you know, how a large number of Chinese merchants who have become rich as me are', this assumption is not valid in the first place-because there is no merchant in the history of China who can make his fortune as fast as me."
At this time in 2000, well, maybe two months earlier, in April 2000, I asked my cousin to borrow 600,000 RMB as start-up capital - that money was all her assets, including her savings, the money she had saved from working at university, and the money she and his mother, my aunt, had taken out a mortgage on their own house - to start a business.
In the first three quarters of my business, I almost achieved an exaggerated increase of four times the average of my personal wealth in each quarter compared to the previous quarter, from 600,000 to 40 million, and I only took 9 months to increase more than 60 times.
Although the next two years did not grow as fast, it skyrocketed at a rate of almost doubling every quarter. It wasn't until this year that the rate of growth slowed down further, and my wealth barely doubled in the first half of the year - I don't think you can cite any of the lone evidences that the rate of growth is as crazy as mine. ”
When Gu Cheng spoke, he naturally skipped the fact that he used to withdraw from the S-M company as an exchange condition and borrowed 600,000 yuan from a colleague, and whitewashed the source of this money into asking his cousin.
Now Han Geng has no evidence in his hands, and in 2000, in a second-tier city like Qiantang, if an ordinary family was willing to press the house and smash the pot and sell iron, it was also explained that 600,000 yuan would be raised to do business.
This is also the first time that Gu Cheng has openly talked about the source of initial start-up funds in public, and from then on, this passage will definitely be widely spread with the broadcast of the show, and his deeds will be completely whitewashed.
"Uh...... We really haven't examined this problem, it's our program team's negligence. Donald was embarrassed,
"It seems that you are very proud of your wealthy status. Some people say that you are the brightest new star in the Chinese Internet circle, and when your legendary entertainment is successfully listed on the NASDAQ next year, you are very likely to become the richest man in the Chinese Internet circle. What do you think about this possible new identity?"
Gu Cheng pretended to be stupid: "What do you think? I don't quite understand what you mean, I am just me, just be yourself, I have no intention of comparing with anyone." ”
"But you just compared yourself to others with the rate at which your wealth is growing. Donald unceremoniously pointed out Gu Cheng's arrogance just now.
"That's not a comparison, I'm just faithfully stating an objectively existing fact. You know? There's no personal emotion. Gu Cheng came back without leaking.
Pan Jieying and Ivanka on the side who occasionally teleprompted the tricks, all of which were a little embarrassed by this obviously "over-outline" improvisational question, lest the show have to be edited at the end.
Donald slyly asked, "Well, even if you didn't mean to compare yourself with others just now, then let me ask you, if you were to compare now, would you be satisfied with the rate of growth of your own wealth? Or would you still be satisfied with the 'low rate of growth' that may only double in a year in the future, after the crazy years of 'personal wealth quadrupling every quarter'?"
Before Gu Cheng could answer, Pan Jieying felt tricky when she heard the question next to her.
The investment community in the United States likes confident young people the most, but they can't be too arrogant, and the scale is difficult to grasp. If you are not satisfied with the answer to this kind of question, others will definitely feel that Gu Chengxin is open-mouthed, and if you are satisfied with the answer, you will feel that you have no great ambition.
Moreover, NBC's program is aimed at the people of Quanmi, and if you are a little careless, it will inevitably please this batch and offend that batch, and there will definitely be continuous online controversy in the future.
Of course, there is no one who is not controversial for people with money and status, especially after taking the initiative to become public figures. The reason why Gu Cheng can maintain an excellent reputation until now has a lot to do with his lack of initiative and excessive marketing and publicity.
Gu Cheng thought for seven or eight seconds this time.
"I'm sorry, I really didn't think about this question before, so I kept everyone waiting. ”
As soon as he spoke, Donald smiled.
And Ivanka was gloomy, sighing slightly, and couldn't figure out how Gu Cheng's second half of the sentence could be twisted back: On the talk show, how can you say such a starting sentence!
"I don't know if you believe it, since I started my business, I haven't touched any money, I haven't received a salary for a month, and of course the salary has been paid to my cousin's account. Because I'm not interested in money.
I am only interested in what I want to achieve, and money is just a tool for me to achieve my ideals. In the first two years, in order to realize my layout as soon as possible, I had to seek a high growth rate of four times or two or three times every quarter, so that my money could meet the needs of technology and platform layout.
But now, the growth of the demand for money in my career has slowed down, so has my desire for money. Even if you give me $10 billion, I can't find so many ideals that I can do, I am willing to do, and that are suitable for me to do.
The richest man in China's Internet industry is responsible for the burden. The more money I have, the more I have to do......"
When he said this, Gu Cheng suddenly got stuck, because he suddenly jumped out of Chinese because of the sentence just now. So he had to explain in English the relationship and joke of this homonym.
"Well, what that sentence just said is that I think there is a high degree of binding between rich's R and responsibility's R, the-first-R-more-richer, the-second-R-more-bigger, and the greater the wealth, the greater the responsibility. ”
It is said that two years later, this sentence was subtitled by bullet friends on the Nicole Nicole barrage network as "The bigger the first R, the more forced the second R".
"Puff~cough-cough~"
Pan Jieying and Ivanka obviously don't have Sabenin's skills.
So they laughed.
Donald's professionalism is really extraordinary, and he endured it very hard, but he still endured it. In fact, inside the mouth, which the camera couldn't capture, Donald almost bit his cheeks with his teeth and bleed.
There's really no way, if you don't bite so hard, you can't stop the cheek meat from opening and closing without the control of the brain.
After calming down, his heart was like 10,000 *** rushing by.
The brother who said that he was the most capable person in the business world of the United States?
"I haven't touched money? I'm not interested in money? I earn as much as my career needs? So it doesn't matter to me if I have more money or less money?
Brother has never seen such a brazen person!
Suppressing the surging of blood in his heart, he rarely drank two sips of iced tea during the recording of the show, and smoothed out his breath, and Donald finally found the next point of attack.
"So, for you, more money and less money is just a means to achieve your 'change in the world'? So can you ask how your life's ambition is to change the world - first of all, I have read the whole book of "Long Tail Theory", and that book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States so far, and it is still selling well recently. So you don't have to say it if you repeat it. Let's talk about some dry stuff that wasn't mentioned in "The Long Tail Theory". ”