Ace Hollywood

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

In Daniel's new house, Andy is busy in another place, and only Cusa and Daniel are sitting in this exquisite bar.

Finn Collins, president of the Coalition for Equal Rights, an activist with a strong influence in social affairs.

"Celebrities have their own ceilings. Hollywood actors may be able to keep increasing their salary. Now I can get 12 million. In two years, maybe I can enter the 20 million club. Then there is a 20-point split. Then what? Expanding DD Pictures, being behind-the-scenes, at that point we won’t just have to deal with studios, we’ll 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 blogger and Mircoblog?" Kusa looked at Daniel with complicated eyes. This young man of only 22 years old already has an unknown amount of wealth. He has invested in Daniel, Google, David, etc. After Wen's blooger, David wanted to focus on movies, which was his dream, so he transferred the relevant equity to Daniel. The corresponding price is that the equity of both parties in DD Films is adjusted to half, and Daniel needs to invest 15 million in the next three years-the 10 million investment in "Rwanda Hotel" is from Daniel's part. from obligation.

In this way, in the new blogger company, Daniel owns 40% of the shares, Google 30%, and Evan and the management team get the rest. Subsequently, in the MircoBlog idea proposed by Daniel, Daniel transferred 20% of the blogger shares to Google and Evan in exchange for a 70% stake in the new MB subsidiary, and the remaining part was occupied by the parent company.

After the launch of MB, it was quickly recognized. The number of users exceeded 500,000 within a month and 3 million within three months. After connecting with the users of the parent company, it currently has more than 10 million active users. It has launched celebrity accounts, politicians accounts, social celebrity accounts, and many accounts with special categories and functions to refresh the classification of online communities, greatly developing the voice of the people, and film distribution companies, online stores, regional brands and electronic goods. And so the company's cooperation will naturally develop vigorously.

In just half a year, MB's valuation has increased 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 method, as well as the accuracy of capital consumption, so far, it has not started the first round of financing, and its business income and initial investment are still maintaining its development. What's more, among MB's investment companies, there is a well-developed company like Google. After Yahoo decided to support Google, it became the mainstream of search engines. It has only been three years since its establishment, which shows the crazy growth of the Internet.

Although the rapid development has occupied the investment cash flow obtained by Google, the good prospects of MB make it ready to inject more funds at any time. In fact, Google and Daniel's investment team have discussed the capital injection many times, and Daniel is unwilling to invest in this Time to give up - no one understands the prospect of this social media model.

So just MB's shares are worth more than 100 million, not to mention 20% of blogger's shares. If MB is a fast information participation platform, then blogger is more like a community with a long history and rich heritage. Here, people learn The in-depth presentation of opinions, the establishment of like-minded contacts, the encyclopedia service based on massive content, and the data recommendation of its unique viewpoints make blogger also popular with investors. Its valuation is much higher than MB. Page and Brin were praised by investors for the Google investment.

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

Cusa Damon, who knows all of this, certainly understands Daniel's intentions as he tries to move toward a broader future, and in fact, aside from Daniel's investment manager, Cusa is the person who knows best what Daniel has done over the past year or so. In the public itinerary, these records have never been recorded, and the media and capital circles know nothing about it.

In the process of inflating and bursting the Internet bubble in 2000, Daniel relied on the memory of a point in time. The Nasdaq index reached an all-time high on March 10, thinking that a few capitals had obtained dozens of times of returns. The funds were then used to buy slumping shares of Apple and Microsoft, as well as stocks suggested by some investment managers—industrial companies outside the Internet.

Not long ago, he sold stocks other than Apple and Microsoft, and he made a lot of profits.

Even though Cusa understood Daniel's inconceivable, he still couldn't understand his decision to participate in the Anti-War and Peace Committee.

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

"But also less power." Daniel was wearing a slouchy shirt that was comfortable in linen. "If I'm just trying to make a name for myself, these options are fine, but if I'm trying to gain influence, they're not enough."

"Do you think there will be a war soon?"

"I think compared to the education crisis, poverty crisis, or AIDS, at least war is an unpredictable thing, and the possibility of the United States being involved in war is too great, those people in the White House almost care what other presidents use Paper wipes ass."

Cusa made an unintelligible laugh, and generally did not have a good impression of the owner of the White House and 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 Committee at the Coalition for Equal Rights' annual public meeting on August 21, and was formally presented to him by Finn Collins, followed by a presentation of his own in New York. The first public speech on social issues.

The speech started with his next two films - "The Pianist" and "Hotel Rwanda".

World War II and the millions of massacres in far-flung Africa were shocking.

"...when I get into these areas I've never been aware of before, I think something needs to be done to show an American, a living, respect for the dead. Wars, maybe we have reasons and motives for launching them , but take into account that they will always cause the most harm to civilians and innocents...I am not a pure no-warist, but I call on policymakers to consider the need for war more before deciding to deploy the military , the right to life of the civilian population, and the common will and values ​​of the American people.”

"Successful speech." Finn extended his hand to Daniel, congratulating him on the complete success of his speech.

As they thought, the speech quickly spread in the media world.

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

"A great speech by a high school graduate"

"The next buzzword: anti-war?"

This time, there were more sarcastic voices.

"This is to be expected, isn't it?" Daniel didn't pay attention to the voices of the world, when Andy reported the routine media to him, he said to Andy, "I just need to maintain a positive influence on my job. It's enough to support my commitment to the anti-war cause until it's recognized."

Later, when he attended the celebration banquet of "Legal Blonde", he responded to the media with a sincere tone.

"Young people will always be ridiculed for doing these things. It's okay, because I'm also young people. We have the right to work hard for the world to be better. As for the other things, I don't care, and I don't feel discouraged. , I will do more."

"Excellent speech."

It was rare for Melissa to come back home to accompany the old Drake. When the two saw the TV news report, he affirmed Daniel's response, but asked Melissa in confusion, "Why does he intervene in social issues at this time?"

"He has made some progress in other areas, commercial, so I hope to make some preparations for the greater development in the future." Melissa did not say clearly, "The higher you go, the more you need to consider forces outside Hollywood."

I don't know if Drake 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 negotiating the release strategy for Eleven.

The conversation between the two spread to Daniel.

"How about it, Pete, do you have a special feeling in your heart?"

This question is not groundless, Tom Cruise and Pitt should have the same idea. Because, recently, the media has begun to discuss intensively that Daniel succeeds Cruise and Pitt as the new American lover. Of course, Pete may be a little more tragic. It has only been two years since he was said to have succeeded Tom.

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 Alliance, and this is not a moderate issue."

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

"Hollywood is never short of lucky people, you are, and so do I, as for Daniel, he is now, and who knows in the future?" Pete shook the whisky in his glass, "Matt was also said by the boring media that he was going to replace him. I."

"But, he lost to Daniel **** in The Bourne."

The two were silent for a while, and stopped discussing this point. In fact, they can do a lot, but they also need to pay a lot. After all, the current Daniel is no longer such an easy person to deal with.

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Time has entered September~www.novelmt.com~ Legally Blonde's box office has officially exceeded 150 million after a month and a half of accumulation, but the single-day box office has dropped to about 3 million, basically at the end, after all There have been so many blockbusters that have been released intensively in the past month, and the current results of "Pretty Beauty" have been shocking.

Daniel is going through the job offer given by Andy.

"Vogue?" Daniel asked in a low voice.

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

Daniel rolls his eyes, it's true, Vogue has only had two men on the cover in the last hundred years, Richard Gere and George Clooney, and both are supermodels, Cindy K. Lawford and last year's Gisele Bundchen. Daniel certainly doesn't have that privilege.

"The theme is 'center', shot in Manhattan?"

"Yes, isn't that two buildings, New Yorkers always think they are the center of the world." Andy replied indifferently.

Daniel was silent for a while, then looked at the shooting time, September 9th.

Center, this is the theme set for him, if he doesn't accept it, the other plan will definitely be different from this one.

"Tell them, I took this job."

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

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It's almost 10,000 words. I hope I can write this much every day. Thank you for the encouragement from Mufu and Anonymous.