Chapter 659

Manhattan, in a red brick apartment on Morton street in Greenwich Village.

It's June 24, Friday.

At the breakfast time of the spotters, grace spatter and the nanny Hannah shared breakfast for her husband and children before sitting down at the table.

Bill spotter put down the New York Times, picked up the tableware and listened to the two children's excited discussion about how to spend the weekend, but with more anxiety in his expression.

It's summer vacation time. In previous years, the couple should be able to send their two kids to some summer camps, and sometimes they have to use their annual leave to travel together. This year, they have to cancel all plans.

Credit Suisse's integration and layoff of First Boston has officially started. During this period, some employees have been called to interview and then leave. Some departments have even been cut off as a whole. As a 43 year old grass-roots executive, Bill spotter knows very well that he may be called to talk in the next half month at most.

Wall Street is the world of young people who are as energetic as wolves.

At his age, once he is laid off, it is difficult to find the same type of job on Wall Street. What's more, he has no other skills.

Maybe you can take a taxi.

It seems that the income of New York taxi drivers is good. Although they will be very tired and have no status, if they really get to that point, they probably can't care about others. As a man with some male chauvinism in his heart, he can't let his wife make money to support his family alone.

According to the family's past expenses, it seems that they can't afford it.

Grace spatter promised that her two children could go swimming on Long Island Beach at the weekend. Noticing the sadness on her husband's face, she glanced at the nearby New York Times and asked, "bill, what's the news today?"

Bill spatter, hearing his wife's voice, reluctantly smiles, but shakes his head instead of answering as he used to.

I've been really exhausted recently.

This time, some people will be eliminated, while others will get promotion opportunities. During this period of time, Bill spotter has been using his limited resources and contacts to try his best to operate, but with little success, which makes him feel more and more the outcome he is about to face.

Although he didn't answer and heard his wife's question, Bill spotter had a headline in the economic section of the New York Times: "danilisi Entertainment Group's IPO was 37 times oversubscribed.".

For many popular enterprises, it is very common for them to get more than ten times or even dozens of times of over subscription in the IPO process.

The IPO of Denise Entertainment Group is quite different.

The IPO price of the fast-growing Hollywood entertainment giant was officially set at $22.50, which is $2.50 higher than the initial range of $18 to $20. Based on the IPO volume of 250 million shares, the overall valuation of the IPO is US $53.1 billion, and the financing scale is US $5.625 billion.

Both the IPO valuation and the financing scale have set a new record on Wall Street.

Therefore, compared with those companies whose IPO Financing scale is only tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, Denise Entertainment Group has involved 37 times over subscription of more than 1700 investment institutions around the world, which is absolutely a pioneering undertaking.

Oversubscription means that many investment institutions are unable to obtain shares, which also means that the market has strong desire to buy after the enterprises are officially listed. You can imagine what a grand occasion it will be when Denise entertainment is officially launched next Friday.

IBM, as the No.1 listed company in the U.S. market value, has been in danger recently under the hot pursuit of Cisco and AOL. Now, there is no need to wait for Cisco and AOL to surpass each other. Denise entertainment is expected to easily sweep IBM to the No.2 position when it comes to the market.

Recently, a variety of financial media and Wall Street analysts are speculating that Denise entertainment will go further and become the first corporate giant with a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars in the history of the United States.

Based on the general financial report of the first half of 1994 recently disclosed by Denise entertainment and the strong upward momentum of continuous growth in all aspects of this comprehensive entertainment group, the market value has reached 100 billion US dollars, and the P / E ratio is only about 40 times, which is not excessive at all.

Therefore, this possibility is really great.

The main underwriters of danielis Entertainment's IPO are Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. However, other investment banks can actually get a share through other kinds of cooperation. As one of the old Wall Street investment banks, First Boston has made similar efforts before.

It's a pity that it didn't work out for various reasons.

The reason why Credit Suisse, the parent company, is determined to integrate First Boston, and the inaction of the management of First Boston in the IPO process of danielis entertainment, is also a reason that can not be ignored.

In recent years, the westrow system, which has rapidly emerged as a super giant, is now the focus of all the financial giants on Wall Street.Bill spatter can't help but fantasize that if he can get some business from this IPO of danielis entertainment, he will not leave this time, but will certainly go further.

It's a pity that the contact business with danielis entertainment is mainly in the investment banking department. It's not their turn to get involved in the sales and trading department. What's more, even if they can get involved, the job won't fall to him.

Now, that group of waste failed to take over the business, but led the whole company to be laid off.

Her husband has no interest in speaking. Grace can only turn her attention to her two children. Occasionally, she glances at her husband with a slight frown. Grace decides to have a frank talk with her husband this weekend.

With her recent resources, grace has talked to elite President John Casablanca several times and asked herself to be promoted.

She's certainly not stupid enough to tell Casablanca about a young man's final plan.

Therefore, in the eyes of John Casablanca, her thigh is so thick that it can't be thicker. Obviously, it can provide more help for elite's further development, and the requirement for promotion is very reasonable.

Not surprisingly, she will soon become vice president of elite North America.

Although she is only one of the three vice presidents, and is only limited to the North American branch, she is only one "Vice" away from John Casablanca's position, which is actually several levels different, but compared with the past, she has made a big step and officially become elite's management.

The couple's original income level is equal.

Now, even if her husband is unemployed, with her next salary at least doubled, at least there is no problem in maintaining the current living standard.

In fact, it's not that she didn't consider helping her husband through that young man's channel. However, since she met her last time in Greenwich, she hasn't been able to see her husband again.

Some of the thoughts that she had raised disappeared completely.

It's hard to say whether it will be counterproductive to speak for the sake of her husband's work, which is too small for that young man.

Although she only had a very short time to get along with each other, although he was always very gentle in the process of getting along with each other, because of the woman's keen sixth sense, she could feel the indifference and alienation under the gentle appearance, even the indifference to the whole world.

Thinking of this, grace at the table couldn't help taking a deep breath.

The mysterious temperament of that little man, which is like a dark abyss, is not resisted by women. On the contrary, it is very easy for women to step in and be trapped in that world and never get out again.

Ray's voice suddenly rang out at the dining table. The child asked if the family could go to the cinema to watch Batman: the rise of the Dark Knight again tonight. Grace was interrupted and woke up. She thought that there was no other arrangement for the evening. She looked at her husband again and nodded her consent.

After breakfast, she takes her husband out first, and grace tells the nanny that she needs to buy some daily necessities. Then she drives her two children out of the apartment on Morton street.

It's eight twenty in the morning.

Drive 15 minutes to a private training center in midtown, where two children take three days of French lessons every week during summer vacation. This is to prepare the children for entering a better private high school in Manhattan. French has always been regarded as the language of upper class society. In Manhattan, French is a necessary foundation for them to enter some top private schools.

The campus students in Hollywood movies and TV works are always "carefree", love, drag racing, drug abuse, fighting, party, Carnival Wanton frivolity, squandering youth, this is indeed the life state of many American middle school students, however, are basically public schools.

Most of these people will enter the society in a "carefree" way and become the bottom of American society. They are destined to be like ants all their lives, doing nothing, and often become the most direct victims of the economic downturn in the United States.

The United States is an elite country.

If you are not a born elite and want to enter that circle, you are doomed to give up the carefree. Even so, many times the climbing of generations is not necessarily accepted by a certain circle.

Grace still remembers two children going to kindergarten.

At that time, the couple wanted to send their children to a famous private kindergarten in the western district with a long history. Originally, they thought that they could do it with more money. As a result, their children had to be interviewed when they entered the kindergarten, and it was absolutely not a symbolic interview. Therefore, she even had to take her daughter Rita, who was only 3 years old at that time, to attend preschool training, and then watch her daughter be arrogant The interviewers in the garden conduct and manipulate like little animals.

As a result, he spent thousands of dollars on training and was still rejected after the interview.

Grace is not reconciled. A year later, her little son ray tried to sprint again, but still failed.

At that time, the couple also figured out whether they could get tickets by donating a sum of money to the kindergarten. They gritted their teeth and proposed a donation of $100000, but they were refused.Then understand that this is the threshold.

A barrier between the upper class and the ordinary elite in the United States.

Small Manhattan, just ten kilometers deep, is divided into Upper East, Upper West, middle and lower urban areas.

Grace later learned that the main reason their children were rejected was that they were not residents in the upper west side. This condition does not mean that you can only rent a house in the upper west side. You also have to have fixed real estate and corresponding social status.

Otherwise, families with rich wealth and certain prestige do not want their children to get along with some inexplicable children. So even if they write a check for $100000, which is absolutely insignificant, they will still be rejected.

Since then, both husband and wife have been holding a breath in their hearts.

However, as her husband's career has not improved for many years, it is impossible for her as a woman to make great achievements in the modeling industry. Some of her former grievances and ambitions are unconsciously fading away, and the rest are also pinned on her two children.

Take the two kids to the training center and explain. Grace drives to elite headquarters a few blocks away.

Although her application for promotion has not yet been approved, the number of personal assistants has increased to three during this period, helping her deal with a sudden increase in various affairs.

During this period, many models who have heard the news, whether they are elite internal or other company customers, also hope to be transferred to her name.

Grace was not greedy. She just picked and accepted five or six of them, but cut off more than half of the original 30 customers and gave up the girls who had little potential and were doomed to waste her energy. In the past, these customers could bring her some income. Now, if we continue to hold on to them, the energy and meager input will become very unequal.

In this process, there are some girls who beg for help and hope to stay with her, but grace is not soft hearted.

This is the way of the world.

After the adjustment, in addition to the three members of the Graaff family who have been quietly removed from her heart, grace still has 21 models in her hands, and the overall quality has improved a lot.

Among them, the baby face girl named Tracy Goff has been confirmed as the new Weimi angel, and the other two places are still uncertain. Grace also believes that the little man will not break his promise. After this period of careful selection, grace will pass another list to westero's assistant today.

At least one more quota can be confirmed this time.

Arriving at the company and about to start the day's work, John Casablanca's assistant called for her.

In the president's office, John Casablanca is on the phone from behind his desk. Another model, Karen Mulder, is sitting in the reception area.

Seeing grace enter, Karen Mulder stands up with obvious ingratitude.

Grace smiles, shakes hands with Karen Mulder, nods to Casablanca, and sits down on the sofa in the reception area, chatting with Karen Mulder in a casual, low voice.

Although not as good as Cindy Crawford and Linda evangelinsta, Karen Mulder is one of elite's supermodels since the 1980s. Unfortunately, from the beginning of the first Weimi show, the super model who used to have a strong momentum was ridiculed. Last year's second show was still like this.

Having missed the strong exposure platform of Weimi and the rapid rise of so many underachievers, Karen Mulder soon showed a tendency to die on the beach. The girl has lost three endorsements in the past two years. If there is no improvement this year, it is estimated that her last two niche brand endorsements will also leave her.

There will be no chance to turn over.

The reason for all this is now well known in the circle.

And it's simple and crude.

Simon westlow doesn't like thick lipped girls.