"Are you sure you want to accept Finn's invitation?"

In Daniel's new house, Andy is busy in another place, with only Kusa and Daniel sitting in the neat bar room.

Finn Collins, president of the Equal Rights Coalition, is a powerful activist in social affairs.

"Stars have their own ceilings, Hollywood actors may be able to increase their salaries, now I can get 12 million, maybe in two years I can still enter the 20 million club, then 20 points of share, and then what? Expanding DD Pictures and going behind the scenes, then we will no longer have to deal with the studios, we will also have challenges in other directions, and as long as I don't want to stop, I have to get out of Hollywood. ”

"So you invested in bloggers and Mircoblog?" Kusa looked at Daniel with complicated eyes, this young man who was only twenty-two years old and already had a huge amount of wealth that no one else knew, after Daniel and Google, David and others invested in Evan's blooger, Davy wanted to focus on movies, which was his dream, so he transferred the relevant equity to Daniel. The corresponding consideration was that the two companies' shares in DD Pictures would be adjusted to half of each, and Daniel would need to inject 15 million over the next three years - the $10 million investment in "Hotel Rwanda" came from Daniel's part of the obligation.

As a result, Daniel owns 40% of the new Blogger company, Google 30%, and Evan and the management team get the rest. Subsequently, in Daniel's MircoBlog idea, Daniel transferred 20% of the blogger shares to Google and Evan in exchange for a 70% stake in the new MB subsidiary, with the parent company owning the rest.

After the launch of MB, it quickly gained recognition, with users exceeding 500,000 within a month and 3 million in three months, and now it has more than 10 million active users after docking with the parent company's users. Its celebrity accounts, politician accounts, celebrity accounts, and many other accounts with special categories and functions have refreshed the classification of online communities, greatly developed the voice of the people, and naturally developed cooperation with film distribution companies, online stores, regional brands, electronic goods and other companies.

In just half a year, MB's valuation has risen tenfold from the initial share capital of 20 million to 200 million, and the venture capital company has been in contact with the management team. However, benefiting from the inheritance of the parent company's mature profit system and methods, as well as the precision of capital consumption, so far, it has not started the first round of financing, and the commercial income and initial investment are still maintaining its development. What's more, MB's investment company also has a well-developed company like Google, after Yahoo decided to support Google, it became the mainstream of search engines, which is only three years after its creation, which shows the crazy growth of the Internet.

Although the rapid growth has taken up Google's investment cash flow, MB's good prospects have left it ready to inject more money, and in fact, Google and Daniel's investment team have discussed funding many times, and Daniel is reluctant to give up at this time - no one knows the prospect of this social media model - no one knows the prospect of this social media model.

So just MB's shares are worth more than 100 million, not to mention blogger's two percent shares, if MB is a fast information participation platform, then blogger is more like a long history, rich community, here, people learn to show their views in depth, establish like-minded connections with each other, based on massive content encyclopedia services plus its unique views of the number of jù recommendations, so that blogger is also favored by investors at present, its valuation is much higher than MB, Google's investment has earned Page and Brin praise from investors.

Daniel's investments in Silicon Valley are carried out in a very secretive way, and the investment company is not registered in the United States, so except for Daniel's core team members, no one else knows who the owner is.

Kusa Damon, who knows this qiē, is certainly able to understand Daniel's intentions as he tries to move towards a broader future, and in fact, apart from Daniel's investment manager, Kusa is the person who knows best what Daniel has done over the past year or so, and there has never been any such record in his public journey, and the media and capital circles are ignorant of it.

In the process of the dot-com bubble in 2000, Daniel relied on a point in time when the Nasdaq index reached an all-time high on March 10, and he obtained dozens of times the return with a small amount of capital, which he then used to buy the sharply falling shares of Apple and Microsoft, as well as the shares of some investment managers, industrial companies outside the Internet.

It wasn't that long ago that he made a lot of money by selling stocks other than Apple and Microsoft.

Even though Kusa knew Daniel's incredibleness, he couldn't figure out his decision to join the Anti-War and Peace Committee.

Poverty, AIDS, and education are more appropriate and less risky.

"But again, there is less power." Daniel wears a casual shirt made of comfortable linen, "If I'm just going to make a name for myself, these are good options, but if I'm looking to make an impact, that's not enough." ”

"You think there will be a war soon?"

"I think war is an unpredictable thing compared to the education crisis, the poverty crisis, or AIDS, and the likelihood that the United States will be drawn into the war is so great that the people in the White House are almost going to care about what paper other presidents use to wipe their butts."

Kusa let out an incomprehensible scoff, and generally had no good impression of the owner of the White House, the American people. Bush now, Clinton before.

"Okay, okay, but it's a dangerous attempt."

"It's not that exaggerated."

……

Daniel was elected the youngest member of the Anti-War and Peace Commission at the annual public meeting of the Equal Rights Coalition on August 21, and Finn Collins formally presented him with a letter of appointment, after which Daniel gave his first public address on social issues in New York.

The speech began with his next two films, "The Pianist" and "The Rwanda Hotel".

World War II and the million-dollar slaughter in distant Africa were shocking.

“…… As I touched these areas that I had never been aware of before, I felt that something needed to be done to show that an American, a living person, would pay homage to the dead. Wars, we may have reasons and motives for starting them, but we need to take into account that they always cause the greatest harm to civilians and innocent people...... I am not a pure non-war activist, but I call on policymakers to think more about the necessity of war, the right of civilians to live, and the common will and values of the American people before deciding to send in the military. ”

"Successful presentation." Fein extended his hand to Daniel and congratulated him on the success of his presentation.

As they expected, the speech quickly spread through the media.

"Who wrote Daniel's speech, you have to stand up."

"A Great Speech for a High School Graduate"

"The next buzzword: anti-war?"

This time, there was more of a mockery.

"That's to be expected, isn't it?" Daniel was not a voice in the world of accidents, and when Andy reported to him the routine media, he told Andy, "I just need to maintain a positive influence in my job, and that will be enough to sustain my commitment to the anti-war cause until this qiē is recognized." ”

Subsequently, when he attended the celebration banquet of "Legally Blonde", he responded to the media in a sincere tone.

"Young people are always ridiculed for doing these things, and that's fine, because I hear that I'm also young people, and we have the power to work for a better world. As for the rest, I won't care, I won't be discouraged, I'll do more. ”

"Wonderful presentation."

Melissa rarely returned home to accompany the elder Draco, and when the two saw the TV news report, he affirmed Daniel's response, but asked Melissa in confusion, "Why is he involved in social issues at this time?" ”

"He's made some progress in other areas, commercially, so hopefully he's going to be ready for bigger developments later." Melissa did not explicitly say, "The further you go, the more you need to consider forces outside of Hollywood." ”

I don't know if Draco understood, but he decided not to ask the subject again.

……

And in another corner of Los Angeles.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt found a place to have a drink after discussing the distribution strategy for Ocean's Eleven.

The topic of the two people spilled over to Daniel.

"How's it going, Pete, do you have a special feeling inside?"

This issue is not unfounded, and Tom Cruise and Pitt should share the same idea. Because, recently, the media has begun to intensively discuss Daniel to succeed Cruise and Pitt as the new American lover. Of course, Pete may be a little more tragic, he was said to succeed Tom for only two years.

Pete didn't answer, he knew George had something to say.

"This is an ambitious young man, the Anti-War and Peace Committee of the Equal Rights Coalition, and this is not a moderate subject."

George has always been interested in politics, so it's not surprising that he would pay attention to Daniel, not to mention that their "Ocean's Eleven" was stolen by "The Fellowship of the Ring" in the early publicity.

"There's no shortage of lucky people in Hollywood, you are, so am I, and as for Daniel, he is now, and in the future, who knows?" Pete shook the whiskey in his glass, "Matt was also said to be replacing me by the boring media. ”

"However, he lost to Daniel Sandler on 'Spy.'"

The two of them were silent for a moment and did not continue to discuss this, in fact, they could do a lot, but they would have to pay no less. Now Daniel is no longer such an easy person to deal with after all.

……

Time entered September, and the box office of "Legally Blonde" officially exceeded 150 million after a month and a half of accumulation, but the single-day box office has fallen to about 3 million, basically in the end, after all, there are too many blockbusters that have been intensively released in the past month, and the current results of "Pretty Woman" are already shocking.

Daniel is looking through a job offer from Andy.

“《Vogue》？” Daniel asked in a low voice.

"Yes, they're invited for the third time, but don't worry too much, they can't give you a cover."

Daniel rolled his eyes, and it was true, only two men had been on the cover of Vogue in the last 100 years, Richard Gere and George Clooney, and both were supermodels, Cindy Crawford and last year's Gisele Bundchen. Daniel, of course, does not have this privilege.

"The theme is 'the center,' filmed in Manhattan?"

"Yes, aren't there two buildings, and New Yorkers always think they're the center of the world." Andy replied disappreciatively.

Daniel was silent for a moment and looked at the shooting time, September 9.

center, which is the subject set for him, if he does not accept it, the other scheme and this one will certainly be different.

"Sue them, I took over this job."

Andy was just a little surprised, "It seems that the theme in the center is good." Okay, I'll tell them. ”

……

Almost 10,000 words, I hope to be able to write so much every day, thank you for the encouragement of people like Muslim and Anonymous