Ace Hollywood

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

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

Fern Collins, president of the Equal Rights Coalition, was a powerful activist in social affairs.

"Stars have their own ceilings. Hollywood actors may be able to keep increasing their pay. Now I can get 12 million. In two years, I may be able to enter the 20 million club. Then there will be a 20-point share. Then? To expand DD Films and work behind the scenes, at that time we will no longer only need to deal with studios, we will also encounter challenges in other directions, as long as I don’t want to stop, I have to go out of Hollywood.”

"So you invested in Blogger and Mircoblog?" Kusa looked at Daniel with complicated eyes. This young man who is only 22 years old already has a huge amount of unknown wealth. He has invested in Daniel, Google, David, etc. After Wen's blooger, David hoped to focus on movies, which was his dream, so he transferred the relevant equity to Daniel. The corresponding price is that the two parties' equity in DD Films has been adjusted to half of each other, and Daniel needs to inject 15 million in the next three years - the 10 million investment in "Hotel Rwanda" is from Daniel's part. from duty.

In this way, in the new blogger company, Daniel holds 40% of the shares, Google 30%, and Evan and the management team get the rest. Subsequently, in Daniel's MircoBlog idea, Daniel transferred 20% of blogger's shares to Google and Evan in exchange for 70% of the shares in the new MB subsidiary, and the rest was owned by the parent company.

After the launch of MB, it was quickly recognized. The number of users exceeded 500,000 in one month, and three million in three months. After connecting with the users of the parent company, it currently has more than 10 million active users. The celebrity accounts, politicians accounts, social celebrity accounts and many accounts with special classifications and functions it launched have refreshed the classification of online communities, greatly developed the public's right to speak, and cooperated with film distribution companies, online stores, regional brands and electronic products. And so on, the company's cooperation will naturally develop vigorously.

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 firm 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 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, MB's investment company also has a well-developed company like Google. After Yahoo decided to support Google, it became the mainstream search engine. It was only three years since its establishment, which shows the crazy growth of the Internet.

Although the rapid development occupies Google's investment cash flow, MB's good prospects 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. Daniel is not willing to invest in this Time to give up -- no one has the prospect of understanding this social media model.

So just the shares of MB 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 reserves. Here, people learn In-depth display of views, establishment of like-minded connections with each other, encyclopedia services based on massive content and data recommendation of its unique views, make blogger also favored by investors, and its valuation is much higher than MB, Google's investment made Page and Brin highly praised by investors.

These investments by Daniel in Silicon Valley are carried out in a very secret way. The investment company is not registered in the United States, so except for Daniel’s core team members, others do not know who the funder is.

Kusa Damon, who knows all of this, can certainly understand Daniel's intention to move towards a broader future. In fact, apart from Daniel's investment manager, Kusa is the person who knows what Daniel has done in the past year or so. In the public itinerary, there has never been such records, and the media and capital circles know nothing about it.

During the blowing and bursting of the Internet bubble in 2000, Daniel relied on the memory of a certain point in time. The Nasdaq index reached a historical high on March 10, and he obtained dozens of times the return for a small amount of capital. The funds were then used by him to buy shares in Apple and Microsoft, which had fallen sharply, as well as stocks recommended by some investment managers-industrial companies other than the Internet.

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

Even though Cusa understands Daniel's uncannyness, his decision to participate in the anti-war and peace committee still confuses him.

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

“But also less power.” Daniel wears a casual shirt in linen that’s comfortable. “If I’m just going for fame, those options are fine, but if I’m looking for influence, they’re not enough.”

"You think there's going to be a war soon?"

"I think that compared to education crisis, poverty crisis, or AIDS, at least war is an unpredictable thing, and the possibility of the United States being involved in the war is too great. Those in the White House almost control what the presidents of other countries use. Wipe your ass with paper."

Kusa let out a sneer of unknown meaning, 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 as the youngest member of the Anti-War and Peace Committee at the annual public meeting of the Equal Rights Coalition on August 21. Fern Collins formally awarded him the commission, and Daniel published his own in New York. First public lecture on social issues.

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

World War II and the massacre of millions in far Africa are shocking.

"...When I came into contact with these fields that I had never realized before, I thought that something needs to be done to express the respect of an American, a living person, to the dead. Wars, maybe we have reasons and motives for launching them , but it needs to be considered that they will always cause the most harm to civilians and innocent people... I am not a pure anti-war, but I am calling on policymakers to consider the necessity of war more before deciding to call out the army , the right to life of civilians, and the common will and values ​​of the American people.”

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

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

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

"Great Speech by a High School Graduate"

"The next buzzword: anti-war?"

This time, there were more mocking voices.

"This is expected, isn't it?" Daniel didn't care about the voices of the outside world. When Andy reported the routine media to him, he said to Andy, "I just need to have a positive influence on my job. This will be enough to support my commitment to the anti-war cause until it is recognized."

Later, when he attended the celebration banquet of "Legally 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 am also a young person who hears my voice. We have the right to work hard to make the world better. As for other things, I don't care, let alone feel discouraged. , I will do more."

"Excellent speech."

It was rare for Melissa to go home to accompany the old Draco. The two saw the TV news report. He affirmed Daniel's response, but asked Melissa full of doubts, "Why is he intervening in social issues at this time?"

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

Not sure if Draco understood, but he decided not to ask the subject.

...

And in another corner of Los Angeles.

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

The topic of the two spread to Daniel.

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

This issue is not groundless, Tom Cruise and Pitt should have a common idea. Because, recently the media have begun to intensively discuss Daniel taking over from Cruise and Pete as the new American lover. Of course, Pete may be even more tragic. It has only been two years since he was mentioned as replacing Tom Cruise.

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

"This is an ambitious young man, Equal Rights League Anti-War and Peace Committee, this is not a moderate issue."

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

"Hollywood is never short of lucky people, you are, and so am I. As for Daniel, he is now, and in the future, who knows?" Pete swung the whiskey in his glass, "Matt was also said to be replaced by the boring media at the beginning. I."

"However, he just lost to Daniel Sandler on 'Bourne Bourne.'"

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

...

Time has entered September, and the box office of "Legal Blonde" has officially exceeded 150 million after a month and a half of accumulation, but the single-day box office has dropped to around 3 million, which is basically at the end. After all, this month has been intensive. There are too many blockbuster movies released, and the current results of "Pretty Woman" are already shocking.

Daniel is reviewing job offers from Andy.

"Vogue?" Daniel asked in a low voice.

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

Daniel rolled his eyes. It is true. In the past 100 years of Vogue, only two men have been on the cover, Richard Gere and George Clooney, and they are accompanied by supermodels, Cindy G. Lawford and last year's Gisele Bundchen. Daniel certainly does not have this privilege.

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

"Yes, there are two buildings. New Yorkers always think that they are the center of the world." Andy replied nonchalantly.

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

Center, this is the theme set for him, if he does not accept it, the other plans will definitely be different from this one.

"Tell them, I took this job."

Andy was just a little surprised, "Looks like the central theme is good. Okay, I'll let them know."

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Almost 10,000 words, I hope I can write so much every day, thank you for your encouragement