"Delete the third clause on page 4 and write a new version for me," Cesare took off his glasses, twisted the bridge of his nose, and handed the iPad in his hand to the secretary, "Finally, confirm the data expectations we have given - starting with the Chinese film market in 2015, every data will have to be accounted for - Jane, have you read this document in hand?" ”

"Watching." Jenny said without looking up, tapping her forehead to concentrate her energy a little more, "Why do these words keep twisting around—why won't they let me read them?" ”

The joke was not reciprocated, and the whole office was immersed in a busy atmosphere, with the entire secretarial team constantly moving back and forth and whispering, and all the privileges of Cesare and Jeanne, the two big bosses, were a small conference room and two more comfortable chairs. Cesare was still reviewing the papers, his expression a little fanatical, deaf to Jeanne's words, and all the others were completely immersed in their work, unable to cross some distance to listen to her spark of humor. Jenny glanced left and right, sighed, and forced herself to concentrate on the documents—these speeches and even memos could not have been truly sealed without her review.

Generally speaking, the expansion of a company is always accompanied by countless financing activities, before the final listing financing, it is not uncommon to have 3 or 4 rounds of financing, and in addition to the first round, which is usually the angel investment that determines the life and death of the company, on the basis of the company's own good operation, the success of financing does not affect the life and death of the company, and it is not possible to make the whole company busy like this, such as Jeanne and Cesare, big bosses, to see if the information under them is in place, Whether the final PTT and other speech items are exquisite, of course, and whether some internal statements of the company can reflect the value is enough, their main skill is still used in 'flickering', how to tell a good story, so that investors are excited, this is their job.

However, this kind of flickering is more likely to appear in sunrise industries such as the IT industry, such as the media industry, where the market is already very mature, in an investment, the role of 'flickering' is not so big, and Big Dream is only to put the exaggerated and exciting part of this story in the Chinese market, as part of the development strategy, if you want to really convince GE that Big Dream is a more worthy investment entity than Lionsgate, Legend, Dune, DreamWorks, etc., or to come up with some real materials - after getting the investment, How to deal with peer competition, how to gradually expand and build a media empire, and how to prove that GE's investment dream is more sensible than taking a stake in News Corporation? How can you guarantee that GE will be profitable in a few years?

These things can't be fooled by telling stories, the mature market is here, it's like an equation, all the variables have been confirmed, you want to give a result that satisfies investors, the derivation process is essential. Cesare and Jeanne want to make an impeccable statement that beats potential competitors in terms of data and logic, and also invisibly shows their advantages in personnel - although the company is not big now, they have the most elite talent in the industry to make such a report, after all, not every company can have a report like Paul in the case of strict non-disclosure agreements. Degara is a well-known data analyst like Dean, and the generous dividends and equity incentives have also made the employees who are qualified to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and the materials prepared for this financing are secretly excited, and they are even more enthusiastic about preparing materials like crazy, even more than Jenny.

"I'm done." After reading the report in her hand in 30 minutes, Jenny couldn't help but rub her eyebrows as Cesare rubbed her eyebrows, "I don't have any big opinions...... Seriously, I have little experience in the TV business - it looks like I'm going to be the chairman. ”

"You don't have to know every business of the group to be a CEO." Cesare also closed his iPad, "Tell me, what is the most critical message in the whole report?" ”

"Oh, I thought our class was over early." Jenny leaned back relaxedly, raised her hand and stretched, a little jokingly, but finally spread her hands in Cesare's sweeping eyes, "I guess it's going to take up the money?" Bringing a TV station to market in five years is definitely going to require a lot of cash flow......"

Judging by Cesare's expression, she guessed that she had bumped into the correct answer, but her weak tone seemed to be violent about her own background. Jenny threw the papers in her hand on the table and simply smiled self-deprecatingly, "It looks like I should probably sign up for an MBA program for a few years first, or that kind of president class, and then come back to talk about financing cooperation, right?" ”

"There have always been many people who know how to manage enterprises, but people with core competitiveness have always been scarce resources." Cesare also smiled, he looked at his watch, "Looks like it's hard to finish tonight before 12 o'clock - sushi?" ”

"I'll eat my pasta salad." Jenny said bitterly, pushing away the papers, walking over to the glass window and looking down at the traffic at the end of the day, touching her cheek again, "I should have asked Mary to bring me another bottle of moisturizing spray - I've never stayed up so long in an air-conditioned room." ”

"I thought you were happy enough with the humidity." Cesare said with some sarcasm, and he looked around with obvious intentions, and several humidifiers were placed side by side in this small conference room, almost encircling Jeanne's seat - one of them just spewed a wisp of white mist at him, Cesare ignored Jeanne's protests, reached out his hand to turn it off, stood up and stretched, and walked to the window to stand with Jenny, looking at the distant sunset. "What are you thinking?"

"Didn't think about anything." Jeanne said, laughing as Cesare watched, "What? Isn't that okay? ”

In Cesare's seemingly knowing eyes, she finally raised her hand in surrender, giving up her hard mouth, "Okay, well, I do ......"

Squinting to avoid the reflection of the sunlight from the building opposite, she turned to lean against the glass curtain wall and carefully observed Cesare's expression, "The day after tomorrow, we will have to face GE's investment decision-making committee - the statement is almost finalized, and the cooperation plan has been finalized, if there are no surprises, according to my feelings...... The probability that we will win this investment will not be less than 80%. ”

She accentuated her tone, "Cesare, and tens of billions of dollars in investment, we are only a little bit away. ”

Cesare nodded, as if reading Jenny's thoughts, and he added, "Tens of billions of dollars at our disposal." ”

Yes, this is the most special thing about GE's investment - if according to the current valuation of Big Dream, once an investment in the volume of tens of billions of dollars is injected, it will immediately present a reversal of the main and guest posture, even if Disney and Jeanne and Cesare are completely united, adopting the ABC share system, so that the voting rights of C shares are ridiculously small, and it is impossible to resist the shareholding advantage brought by GE's huge capital injection, and it is difficult to say who will be in charge of the company's affairs. GE could even call a shareholder vote immediately to kick Jenny and Cesare out of management. And this kind of investment is not so much an investment as an acquisition.

The most touching thing about GE's investment is that GE is interested in the outstanding ability of Jenny and Cesare, and many high-quality IPs of Big Dream are still secondary, so in the cooperation plan, Jenny and Cesare can still retain control of the company - they will sign a five-year contract with GE to become GE's agent in the Big Dream shareholders' meeting, unless there are extremely special circumstances, it will be difficult for the contract to be revoked, that is, They have five years to take full control of the company and the money that will be injected one after another, and they will truly become the owners of tens of billions of dollars.

The number of tens of billions is enough for a rich man to enter the Forbes list, of course, this is still very different from his own net worth, but in terms of the wealth in charge, this volume is a completely different concept from the current billions of big dreams. Jeanne's gaze wandered back and forth over Cesare's face, trying to find any hint of unease and worry, even if it was just a hint - and Cesare, he looked back at Jeanne expressionlessly, as if he were playing a wordless joke with her: he knew what she was thinking, and he knew what she was trying to find, but he just hid his true emotions and refused to empathize with her.

"Well, it's just a few billion, it's not a big deal." She said with some anger and walked towards her office, but in Cesare's "ok" response, she couldn't help but break the score. “！ - Don't tell me you're not nervous at all, damn it, even if I know you're bluffing, I don't see any flaws. ”

According to Cesare, he was also a little overwhelmed when he first took over Big Dream, and Jenny knew that he was certainly not so sure now, and he was really ready to take tens of billions of dollars to operate, but she really couldn't see the slightest clue from Cesare's face. "Don't you really have ...... I don't know - on the eve of success - but I just don't have the energy, not the desire to see it done, but the faint hope......"

She didn't say any more, because Jenny undoubtedly didn't want to lose the investment, and her current state of mind was very delicate, between expectation and fear, which made her a little resistant to the job in front of her, but she didn't want to push it aside completely.

"Not so confident in a completely unfamiliar field, are you?" Cesare didn't continue to joke with her, he walked to the desk, pulled out a chair and sat down, "Ask me if I'm in such a mood?" Yes, it's impossible to avoid this negative current, this self-doubt, this stress - but if I've proven myself to be able to do it countless times, why not this time? ”

"That's your logic?" Jenny asked, a little amused, "It's kind of self-hypnosis—"

However, thinking of Cesare's past achievements, she shook her head and did not continue: Cesare is qualified to say so, whether it is an agent, the management of the film company, or the producer, he has done a good job, and for her......

"You know, managing companies has never been something I'm good at and familiar with," she said, "but in the past, I always knew how the company was working, what movies we were doing, what TV series we were doing, I knew who was in charge of it, but if we took GE's investment...... Things are a different story entirely. ”

"That's the way the company grows," Cesare nodded, his expression becoming serious. "Founders always have to learn to let go of the details, and as the company grows, so does the authority to do so – a true group is fully completed when most of the departments can run on their own. In our blueprint, sooner or later, we are all going to take this step. ”

Of course, what he said makes sense, just like Robert, in fact, he is only in charge of the management below, and the management is scattered down, which is the specific film and television project. It is true that many big projects will get his attention, but from a system point of view, as long as Robert completes the strategic planning and direction control, the usual operation of the company has little to do with him. This is also the biggest difference between major companies and Big Dream, even Lionsgate does not have an example of the president being the producer himself, Big Dream does have a strong small company temperament in the system.

"Yes, but ...... Maybe it came too quickly and I wasn't fully prepared. Jenny exhaled, half-truthfully revealing her concerns, "After all, this is your area of expertise - process, quality control, human resources...... For you, it may just be an upgrade, but for me...... I don't know, maybe I'm just really scared of messing up. ”

"The possibility of screwing, the worry of entering a whole new realm -- of course," Cesare said, looking at Jeanne with a deep gaze as if taking in her unspoken considerations, and his tone was meaningful, "It's like jumping into a pool, and you always hesitate before getting into the water." But the point is, does failure destroy you? ”

Jenny didn't speak - obviously, even if she messed up this time, her personal life would not be implicated, even if Dameng went bankrupt and liquidated, packaged and sold, there would always be tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, and besides, with her current status, it would not be easy to get money?

"So, it's just a game," she said, with a complicated smile, "an innocuous gamble—"

"Is there a more relaxing game in the world than gambling with other people's money?" Cesare said, the corners of his lips raised, and he looked at Jenny like that, "So tell me, what are you still nervous about?" ”

The setting sun was shining straight down on his face, making his cheeks seem to be trimmed with gold, and Jenny just stared at him like this, for a moment, for a moment—

She shook her head and continued to laugh, all the swaying faded away, and her laughter grew louder, "So what are you nervous about-, all the details are ready, but you still won't let me go home, pull me to double-check-"

"It's not the same," Cesaret paused, an 'Oh, you got me' look on his face, but only for a moment, and after a moment he argued in a serious manner, "You can not care about the outcome, but you must play seriously, it's respect for the game itself-"

How could Jenny bother with his defense? It was with great difficulty that Cesare was nervous enough to keep catching her for overtime, and to be honest, if she hadn't started suddenly, he would have fooled her again. She laughed for two minutes before stopping, "Okay, okay, let's play this game respectfully - what else do you want me to watch?" ”

Cesare glared at her, opened the door and brought two lunch boxes from his secretary. "Forget it, why are you in such a hurry? Since you're saying it's just my nervousness—"

With Jenny in her hopeful eyes, he continued, "Then I'll wait until I'm done with dinner. ”

Jenny's face fell, and she muttered as she walked towards her dinner, and Cesare sat down across from her, "I know you may not be able to check anything, but it's not useless - you're the central figure in the eyes of GE, and I want GE to feel that you know the whole plan and feel that you are in control of the company-"

"So, I should be very familiar with every document, every piece of data." Jenny said, "Yep, understood, Mentor, now let's eat first." ”

She opened the lunch box and picked up a slice of lettuce and put it in her mouth, Cesare picked up her chopsticks and sandwiched a slice of tuna for herself, and for a moment, they both chewed their food intently, and then Cesare broke the silence and started chatting, "You just finished an interview when I went to call you?" ”

"Yes." Jenny said, "What's wrong with making a little amend for the Oscars of 'Journey of Life'?" ”

"You look a little too pleasant." Cesare glanced at her, "This is suspicious. ”

“…… I can't hide anything from you, can I? Jenny muttered, "Something suspicious? It's a little scary......"

In Cesare's inquiring eyes, she suppressed her thoughts, and when she thought of the interview just now, she couldn't help but snicker proudly. "I guess Judy is going crazy - the whole interview is out of her control - yes, I'm basically just talking nonsense, whatever comes to mind, oh, Judy is going crazy about it."

Cesare raised an eyebrow at her and said cautiously, "Okay-"

"How?" "Aren't you going to count me down—you thought you'd give me another lesson, sensei." ”

"It's enough to be your teacher in the field of the company, do you still need the guidance of others in your own acting career?" Cesare asked rhetorically, and Jenny's smile couldn't help but be a little more smug. "Then again, it doesn't matter to you what personal image you provide to the public, as long as you don't deliberately discredit yourself or reveal secrets that are not suitable for the public—"

He gave Jenny a look, and under Jenny's shake of her head, he continued, "Maybe there's nothing wrong with introducing the real you to everyone, after all, the fake is always fake, even with the distorted haha mirror of the media, the public still has some perception of the truth and the fake, maybe your true feelings will receive unexpected good results - at least it's not unexpected." ”

"Barely rude?" Jeanne said that Cesare's identification with her gave her some reassurance, but the comment raised her tone and couldn't help but laugh, "That's what you say about me?" Barely considered rude? ”

"Do you expect anything else to be nice?" Cesare said, "On the eve of tens of billions of investments, as the chairman, he actually resisted working overtime—"

He couldn't help but laugh as Jenny sneaked up and snatched the sea urchin from his lunch box, "Hey! It's just a small complaint -- yes, about the Sunday party, you're sure about Mike from Netflix. Will Kyle go too, if not, I really can't figure out why we're in such a hurry. ”

"Netflix is also an investor in TikTok, and he's going to be there." "Provided, of course, that our financing talks go smoothly......

The sky outside the window quickly darkened, but the lights in the office were already on. Degara Bideen was typing quickly on the keyboard while debating something with Jim, and behind him, an entire information department was busily speeding up, and in the night, Mary was hurrying out of the nanny's car into the building, holding a full bag of moisturizing spray, and soon rushed out of the elevator to the small conference room.

Through the glass door, the scene of Jeanne and Cesare eating and talking fell unreservedly into her eyes, and Mary was stunned for a moment, or rather several times, and she looked at the scene thoughtfully, and after a moment stepped forward and knocked carefully. "Jane, here'...... your moisturizing mist"