Manhattan, Upper East Side.

Black Maybach 62s on the side of the road, Abel sitting in the back compartment.

He watched as Ikana rode into a Mercedes S sedan and slowly drove to his Maybach 62s.

Ikana lowered the glass in the rear compartment of the Mercedes Benz and waved to him.

Able lowered the glass and smiled at her in response.

When Mercedes drove away, he raised the glass.

Then lie down in a soft and comfortable seat in the most comfortable position.

He looked up at the ceiling of the beautiful glass starlight carriage.

"Oh, fishing."

"I just don't know who was caught and who was fished. Who is the prey, and who is the hunter? ”

He shook his head slightly amusedly.

As far as he knew, Ikana was definitely not as breezy as she had appeared.

The failure of YKM's second round of financing is by no means as easy as she just described.

This time, YKM's second round of financing failed.

The real reason is that YKM's round of financing and today's valuation are too empty.

This may even involve fraud.

If any agency intervenes in the investigation, it may even form fraud!

YKM is a clothing brand.

The pace of development is not unfast.

It has only been established for three years, and the valuation reached $300 million in the first year.

700 million in the second year, and $1.1 billion in the third year of this year.

It doesn't seem like much,

But you know, YKM is just a factory now, and it doesn't even have a factory.

Only in a few large cities such as Los Angeles and New York in the United States, there are only 50 medium-sized clothing brands with chain stores.

The valuation has reached an exaggerated $1.1 billion.

L Brands, which has the Victoria's Secret brand and has more than 300 stores in the United States, is valued at about $1.5 billion.

How can YKM be worth 1.1 billion?

Is it just because in the media, it's more famous?

Or does her clothes sell too much?

Apparently neither, and investors are not stupid.

The banks that gave it this valuation are not stupid either.

The reason why YKM is so valuable is actually because of its 50 stores.

Almost half of it is self-owned, in other words, it doesn't rent these shops.

Rather, YKM's own.

YKM is valued at $1.1 billion because its own assets are worth more than $600 million.

Add to that the brand value, as well as Ikana's marketing capabilities.

The valuation will reach an exaggerated $1.1 billion.

However, even then, this valuation is clearly inflated.

Ikana's second round of funding, she wants to be valued at least $1 billion.

The funders are not stupid, of course they don't.

Its second round of financing was put on hold.

As far as Abel knows, YKM's valuable self-owned properties.

Actually, it's Ikana's father, who is D. Ted Lerner.

D. Ted Lerner used these properties as an investment and invested in YKM for a round.

Among YKM's current shareholders, Ikana herself holds only 26% of the shares.

Her father's stake is as high as 48%.

That's why YKM's name is "Miss Ikana", and Ikana herself is the founder and CEO.

But in fact, who is the owner of this company, you can know by looking at the proportion of shares.

The Lerner family is not clever in this method, and the funders are not stupid.

This made YKM's second round of financing fail.

So that YKM and Ikana are now in a difficult situation.

The media and the public are chasing and boasting about Ikana, who is young and beautiful, and has a successful business.

And in the eyes of those who understand all this.

Everyone knows that this is just D. Ted Lerner, a guy who is super good at hype, using his daughter to carry out a capital hype.

It's just that his daughter is indeed capable, and her looks and figure are also outstanding.

This hype was relatively successful, and it was hard to hype up the fame of a New York's No. 1 lady.

This makes other New York tycoons more envious.

Because their daughters or descendants,

Even if they wanted to fry like this, they couldn't be successfully fried like Ikana.

Iron also needs its own hardness, and no matter how good the blacksmith is.

If the iron itself is a piece of scrap, it will not make good iron.

The situation of Ikana and Ted, father and daughter.

That is, iron is a good material, and the blacksmith skills and strength of iron-making are not good.

So the two honors of "someone else's child" and "New York's first lady", Ikanna is still well-deserved.

These are all after the last date.

Abel through David, there are other channels.

Find out the matter of D. Ikanna Lerner and D. Ted Lerner.

These things,

In parallel time and space, he didn't know it when he was far away in the Celestial Empire.

Not many people even know about it, even the local general public and the media.

Abel is also the second generation with a top network like David around him, coupled with the particularity of the industry he belongs to.

to be able to figure it out so clearly.

Otherwise, even the average New York billionaire.

It is impossible to know her family and her details.

"Since she hasn't asked me for help directly now, it means that things haven't reached the time to burn her eyebrows."

"Then leave it alone."

Thinking like this, he took out a note from his pocket, handed it to the driver in front of him, and said, "Go to this place." ”

The driver, Tex, took it, looked at it, and found that it was a block in Uptown.

"Okay. BOSS。 After saying yes, Tex drove away.

A three-car convoy slowly drove into the streets of Manhattan.

Half an hour later, the vehicle arrived at its destination.

This is Uptown Manhattan, an apartment building of about 20 floors.

This apartment is in a good location with roads on both sides.

There is also a large road across the north side of the road on the Queens side of the Hudison River.

The houses here are a little cheaper than the Upper West and Upper East.

But if you can really buy a property here, even if it's just a small apartment.

That person can definitely be regarded as the middle class in the United States.

After arriving at the destination, Abel did not get out of the car immediately.

Lincoln and the bodyguard of a car behind him, the three of them got out of the car first to check the surroundings.

A few minutes later,

Lincoln returned to Abel's window, and Able lowered the glass slightly.

“BOSS。 No problem, level 1 security environment. Lincoln, a black bodyguard, said.

Abel nodded, picked up his phone and made a call.

"Hi, Liv. I'm downstairs from you. ”

"Oh oh~ I'll go down and pick you up!!"

On the other side of the phone,

In an apartment on the seventh floor of an apartment building.

Liv Taylor, who was watching a talk show with a teddy bear doll in her arms, quickly stood up.

"Okay."

Abel's voice rang on the other side of the phone, and he hung up quickly.

Liv stood up, and in her pajamas, she wanted to go straight out.

But she stopped abruptly and turned back to the bedroom.

Ten minutes later,

Liv Taylor, who changed her clothes and painted a little makeup by the way, returned to the living room.

She found the huge floor-to-ceiling glass in the living room and looked at her beautiful and tall self inside.

Then he nodded in satisfaction, then put on his glasses and put on a peaked cap.

Only then did he turn around and leave the house and go downstairs to pick up someone.