Charlie Brown's Pizzeria.

The owner, Charlie Brown, walked to the window seat of the restaurant with a ten-inch grilled chicken pizza.

Americans' favorite pizza flavor is grilled chicken pizza.

In the shops that sell pizza, this is often the best-selling variety.

It is definitely a standard configuration in many fast food restaurants, just like the egg fried rice or fried noodles of the Celestial Empire.

Put the grilled chicken pizza when placed on the guest's table.

Charlie Brown heard the youngest and handsome of the four guests say thank you.

It was his regular customer, Charlie Brown shrugged, "You're welcome." ”

After saying that, the old man left.

It's 10 a.m., which is one of the busiest times for the store.

The shop hired four workers.

When it comes to baking and making pizza, Charlie Brown is still used to doing it himself.

He didn't want to ruin the reputation of his store.

The young and handsome guest was Abel, who brought Anne Hathaway, Michael Levine, and another old white man to eat here.

“.... Two Mr. Michael. Abel smiled and said:

"You should be familiar with each other.

So I'm just going to introduce myself, I'm Abel Smith. ”

Michael Levine glanced at the old white man sitting next to him.

Michael Levine is certainly familiar with this old white man.

The old white man's name is Michael Ovitz, more than ten years ago, when Michael Levine first joined CAA.

Michael Ovitz is not only his boss, but also the teacher who nurtures him.

It can be said that Michael Ovitz is Michael Levine's guide on the road of agent.

"Levin, long time no see, hello."

Michael Ovitz, founder of CAA, former president of Disney and current founder and chairman of the Artist Management Group, greeted his former subordinates with a smile.

Michael Levine hurriedly responded: "Hello, Mr. Ovitz. Long time no see. The last time I saw you was last Christmas. ”

"Do you remember that quite clearly..... Michael Ovitz replied with a smile, and then looked at Abel curiously:

"Mr. Smith. I'm curious now, did you call me and Levin here, did you have any business to us? ”

Michael Ovitz would have come over, and it was David Mellon who had found him.

Said that there was business to do with him.

Three years ago, Michael Ovitz was kicked away from Disney and CAA.

He was very upset.

This was followed by the creation of his own new company, the American Artist Management Group.

Abbreviated as AMG, the business completely overlaps with CAA.

It's an art agency.

But this time and that time.

Today's Hollywood entertainment industry is very different from when he founded CAA.

The artist management group has been established for three years, and its business has not been very good.

Not to mention challenging CAA to become one of the top five brokerage firms in the United States, or the sixth largest.

It's been three years, and I can't even rank in the top ten.

Clearly, Michael Ovitz can't replicate the rise of CAA.

It's just like he said, "The entertainment industry is my favorite place, and I'm willing to give everything for it." ”

He became a billionaire and made investments in other industries, all of which suffered serious losses.

Although AMG, the artist management group, is not in a very good situation at the moment.

But at least you won't lose money, and there is still a little hope.

The entertainment industry is an industry he is familiar with.

He is in his fifties, and he can't change his career if he wants to.

He didn't want to retire.

I can only continue to work hard to run AMG.

At this time, he was approached by Wall Street (David Mellon).

Michael Ovitz, who is looking for investment everywhere and wants to expand his artist management group, is naturally tempted.

And he came.

Looking at the young man in front of him, Michael Ovitz is not in the financial circle.

But he also knows that the young man in front of him is a rising star on Wall Street.

Wall Street has been cheated by Hollywood, and there is basically no interest in Hollywood anymore.

Now Abel has found him, and he wonders, is it Wall Street that has regained interest in Hollywood?

"That's right.

Please come over, I really want to do business with you. ”

Abel said with a smile.

"But strictly speaking, I want to hire you two to work for me."

Hearing him say this, Michael Levine's reaction was okay.

A little surprised, but not huge.

Michael Ovitz laughed straight away.

More than 20 years ago, he was already a pivotal figure in Hollywood, and said with a smile:

"Hahaha~ Mr. Smith, are you kidding me?

I don't know much about Wall Street, and my financial knowledge is limited to IPOs and funds.

Even if you are willing to hire a layman like me, I personally do not want to delay your business.

I'm going to let you lose even your underwear in the stock market. ”

This is actually very polite.

If it were before, when he was still the chairman of CAA, or the president of Disney, it is estimated that he would reply -

"Are you worthy?"

Back then, he was also one of the top giants in Hollywood, or the entire American entertainment industry.

Now it has fallen, but the connections, property, and ability are still there.

His previous experience made him a billionaire with a net worth of more than one billion dollars, strictly speaking, not bad money at all.

Why work for a young man?

Or Wall Street, which he is not familiar with.

Unless.... Add money!

"When did I say I was going to hire you to work on Wall Street?"

Abel said, "Don't you listen, what is the name of the company I want to hire you for?" ”

Michael Ovitz frowned, and he couldn't help but look at Michael Levin.

The latter shrugged, saying that he didn't know what medicine Abel was selling in his pocket.

"Let's take a look at this first."

Abel took out two folded pieces of A4 paper from his pocket and placed them on the table.

Michael Levine and Michael Ovitz took one and unfolded it.

Michael Levine whispered, "Share conversion agreement? what？ Mr. Barry Krone, who sold his 4.5% stake in CAA to Smith Capital? ”

He looked up in surprise and looked at Abel.

Michael Ovitz put down the A4 paper in his hand and picked up the one Michael Levine had just looked.

After reading it, Ovitz raised his eyebrows, "4.5% for Barry Krona and 3.36% for TGO Capital."

Mr. Smith, you now own a total of 7.86% of CAA. ”

Hearing him say this, Levin hurriedly picked up another one and looked at it, which was also a copy of the equity conversion agreement.

"That's right. In addition to this, I am also seeking a 1.5% stake held by GM, which is already interested in selling and is currently negotiating a price. ”

"And 4% of Williams Capital, which is in contact."

"If all of them are successful, the shareholding ratio will exceed 10 percent."

Abel said lightly.

Michael Ovitz, who had been in the mall for a long time, was silent for a few seconds, and he looked at Abel:

"What do you mean, Mr. Smith?"

"Help me acquire CAA."

Abel finally got straight to the point and said the real purpose of inviting these two people over today.

"After success.

Mr. Michael Ovitz, I would like to hire you as President of CAA.

And Mr. Michael Levine, is the general manager. ”