Hurricane Investment Company.
Located on the 16th floor of the Bear Stearns Building on Wall Street, it was a newly established investment company. Its founder was none other than Henry Jurgenberg, the former president of Gale Capital.
On this day, Henry met a man named Miller, who was around 50 years old, in his office.
"Miller, we're old friends, don't you trust me?" Henry looked at the man in front of him with confident eyes.
Miller gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice, "Of course I trust you, otherwise I wouldn't have withdrawn $30 million from Gale Capital. You know I lost nearly $2 million in profit!"
Indeed!
Unilaterally withdrawing funds before the investment contract ended meant not getting a single cent of profit!
For this, Miller was very heartbroken.
Even though he owned vast farms in Texas, Missouri, and other places, and also owned several food processing plants, it took him most of his life to accumulate tens of millions in wealth. Investing $30 million was not just liquid cash; he had also mortgaged a lot of fixed assets to the bank.
Once the investment failed, he would lose everything!
The results of years of hard work would also be lost in an instant.
Who would take it lightly?
However, the reason he went all out was because the profits brought by tech stocks and internet stocks were simply too massive!
"Haha!"
Henry laughed and said, "We are old friends, and I won't hide anything from you. There are many speculations about my departure from Gale Capital. I'll tell you the truth: the reason I left was because there were serious, irreconcilable investment differences between me and Kyle Page."
"How so?" Miller asked with curiosity.
Henry laughed and said, "The main difference is when the Nasdaq will crash! I believe it will be at least another year before it crashes, while Kyle Page believes the Nasdaq could crash at any time, perhaps in 2 months, perhaps in 3 months, definitely no more than half a year."
"Heh heh ~ Although he has good foresight, he is ultimately not an insider, but an outsider. Can he have the same foresight as me, a genius in the financial world?"
"Furthermore... even if the Nasdaq crashes,
I am confident I can turn the tide and cut losses in time."
"As long as we hold on, even if there are losses, they will be far less than the gains!"
In his words, Henry was full of confidence, glowing as if he were radiating light.
Cutting losses in time, controlling market changes in an instant, and finding opportunities—this was an area Henry excelled at.
However... When the internet bubble officially burst, everything happened so quickly, with such a collapse, like a landslide and a tsunami, crashing at a speed no one could have anticipated.
Who could react when $3 trillion was lost in a single day?!
The major client Miller left.
Henry Jurgenberg immediately issued an order, gathering all the employees of Hurricane Investment Company, more than a hundred people, for a meeting. Well, quite a few of them were from Kyle's Gale Capital Company.
Changing jobs held no shame for them.
Working on Wall Street, whoever could give them a higher return was the best 'daddy'!
"It's not glorious to be poor in this world."
"I've been rich, and I've been poor. Every time, I choose to be rich. At least, when I have money, even if I face difficulties, I'm sitting in the back seat of a luxury car, wearing a $2,000 suit, and a $14,000 gold watch..."
"If anyone thinks I'm shallow or materialistic, then go work at McDonald's. That's where you belong."
"Listen to me, can't you pay your credit card bills? Are you about to be evicted by your landlord? Does your girlfriend think you're a useless bum?"
"Well, now I'm giving you a chance!"
"I want you to solve problems with money, solve all problems with money!"
—From "The Wolf of Wall Street," starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Henry Jurgenberg, of course, wouldn't say these exact words, but what he said was almost identical.
"Money is everything, this is Wall Street!"
"I was born dirt poor, but I must not die poor and destitute. This is our life ~"
With Wall Street "star" Henry at the helm, in just over ten days, Hurricane Investment Company attracted more than 4,000 investors and raised over $3 billion in capital.
How to make money?
Of course, by heavily investing in internet and tech stocks!
"Isn't it too risky to put all the funds into this?" one person expressed concern.
"Stupid ~"
Upon hearing this, Henry immediately cursed, "This is the clients' money, not our own! Even if it's all lost, so what? If you don't take risks on Wall Street, then you deserve to be poor your whole life! Besides, I'm confident in myself, we will definitely make big money!!!"
After speaking, Henry stood in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window, spread his arms, and shouted, "This is the taste of freedom!"
Henry also had an obsession in his heart.
That was Kyle!
He wanted to make Kyle regret, to make Kyle envious ~
...Whatever Henry thought, Kyle wasn't concerned about it now. Because this morning, Kyle had already successfully returned to Los Angeles from New York on the company's corporate jet, a Gulfstream G200.
Page Pictures.
"So, you support cooperating with Disney?" Kyle looked at Bill McNick with surprise.
Mr.Bill said solemnly, "Kyle, you must know that Page Pictures has developed too quickly, and the results are very gratifying, but on the other hand, it has also attracted strong attention from the Big Six. You know their dirty tricks and methods."
Kyle nodded with a solemn expression.
The pie was only so big; how could the Hollywood Big Six allow others to snatch the most delicious piece of pie from their mouths?
No cooperation?
No acquisition?
Then they would do their best to suppress you!
Even DreamWorks, with world-renowned director Spielberg at its helm, was now in a precarious situation, facing numerous crises under the tacit suppression of the Hollywood Big Six.
If Kyle's Page Pictures and Golden Dawn Entertainment Group hadn't been so cunning, first voluntarily becoming Paramount's little brother, and then, relying on a year of dormancy, expanding into multiple industries, making Golden Dawn Entertainment Group an emerging media group, and spending a large amount of money to open up overseas distribution channels, then... Kyle's industries would have been completely swallowed by the Big Six a long time ago!
"Times have changed. If we don't want to be collectively suppressed by the Hollywood Big Six, we must win over one or two of them," Mr.Bill said.
Kyle nodded and said, "I know, otherwise I wouldn't have agreed to cooperate with Paramount. Our cooperation with Paramount on 'Tomb Raider,' with me personally serving as producer, was precisely to win over Paramount."
He caved!
That's right, Kyle agreeing to Paramount's demands was itself a sign of softening his stance.
Facing the multi-billion dollar Paramount Group and Viacom Group, Kyle's head was not that hard for now. As for the next few years... who could say?
"Just one Paramount Pictures is not enough!"
Mr.Bill said, while handing Kyle a proposal.
[Pirates of the Caribbean]
Mr.Bill explained, "As early as 1999, you registered the relevant content and character settings for 'Pirates of the Caribbean,' and Hollywood's famous producer Bruce Haimer also paid attention to this key part."
Bruce Haimer, looking across Hollywood, was one of its most famous producers.
"Flashdance," "Top Gun," "Bad Boys," "The Rock," "Con Air," "Armageddon," "Pearl Harbor," "Black Hawk Down," "National Treasure," "Pirates of the Caribbean"... At the same time, Bruce Haimer was also considered the Disney Group's exclusive producer.
Teaming up with Bruce Haimer was equivalent to teaming up with the Disney Group. Once a cooperation was successfully launched, the pressure from Disney during the cooperation period would also dissipate. Page Pictures gave up profits in exchange for the protection of a behemoth.