Chapter 195: Tricks [Part 2]
"You mean those outsiders?", Ivan stood up in surprise, his face suddenly stiffened, and he shook his arm hard, and the lobster's pincers clamped his fingers when he didn't notice to take it off. Albert couldn't help but laugh and nod his head as he walked around the oven to help him get his fingers out of the pliers. Evan took a breath, in his estimation, this rich man from a foreign country was worth at least two million or more, but he didn't expect to be caught up by Albert.
He couldn't help but look Albert up and down, and patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, I knew you guy would definitely be able to do it, tell me, how did you get on the line with him?"
Albert briefly talked about his indomitable deeds in the past half a year, and Evan looked at Albert again, he may have said that he couldn't be Albert's teacher, but in his heart he felt that Albert still had a lot to learn from himself. But today he realized that in the short time it had been, Albert had grown enough to surprise him.
Through a three-dollar cup of coffee and a one-dollar burrito, as well as a stable schedule, it took him half a year to catch this customer, not only with enough eyesight, but also enough patience and thick skin. In Ivan's eyes, Albert already had all the ingredients for success, all he lacked was a chance he had taken, and it was his own.
He agreed to Albert's request without much hesitation, "I am grateful that you can think of me at this time, you know that it is also very important to me, now tell me what you need to do, what I need to do." ”
The two of them sat on the edge of the oven, playing with the seafood that was sizzling on the oven, as Ilian locals, they didn't need to eat seafood in a complicated process, often only needed a fire and a grill, no condiments and sauces, the seafood just fished out of the sea itself has a light salty taste, with a strong umami is already the perfect cooking method. A veteran top chef once said that the more perfect the ingredients, the easier the cooking method.
"Do you know about East Coast Entertainment?" Albert poked the abalone that had begun to shrink with an iron fiber, and the abalone writhed violently but there was no way to escape the scorching hell, "The boss is going to invest in that company, but he thinks there is something wrong with it, and he sends me this task, I need to find out if there are any traps or traps in this company's financing." What's your solution, Ivany?"
Evan pressed the lobster that hurt him on the baking tray with a clamp, watching the shrimp shell gradually turn red, he raised his head and said slowly: "Albert, if you want to know if there is a problem with these people, it's actually very simple, let's just take shares!", he used his strength, and the clip cut between the lobster's head and body, and the fat gravy suddenly splashed out and poured on the charcoal, burning a trace of green smoke, "Let's go directly to the shares, and then we will know if there are any traps." ”
It dawned on Albert that this was a good idea, but he quickly hesitated again, "But the question is where did the money come from? I read the prospectus, and it would take at least five thousand dollars, and the problem is that I don't have that much." ”
"Houses, cars, jewelry, valuable things, there's always a way. I'll take three thousand dollars out, and you'll figure out the rest. ”
The two no longer thought about money, and immediately separated after discussing the details.
Early the next morning, Albert and Evan met at the appointed place, he handed the briefcase in his hand to Evan and patted his hand vigorously, "I thought, five thousand yuan may not be able to test any problems, here is twenty-five thousand, it should be enough." ”
Evan was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Where did you get so much money? I tell you, opportunities come every day, but if you do something you shouldn't do, no matter how many opportunities you have, it won't be possible!"
Albert smiled, patted his buttocks, and said a little freely: "I mortgaged the house to the bank, you know, I know people in this area, so it only took ten minutes to get the money, although it was a little less." ”
Ivan didn't speak, he patted Albert on the shoulder, turned and got into a car on the side of the road, and when the car started, he said to Albert through the window, "Don't worry, I won't let you down!"
Soon Evan and a friend of his came to the lobby of the East Coast Entertainment Company, for today's scene, he specially rented a high-end suit and a luxury car, the rent cost sixty yuan a day, if it wasn't for Albert and his own future, he wouldn't have the courage to do such a luxurious thing. Miss Lilith, who was in charge of reception on the first floor, ushered them into the second floor, and soon Evan met the bearded Eric that Albert had mentioned, and the same tone and tone did not change in the slightest, but this time the difference was that Evan decided to buy a stake on the spot.
Eric's smile became vivid, he stood up and shook Evan hard, "Thank you for your recognition of East Coast Entertainment, you will find that this is the most correct thing you have done in your life." He hooked his fingers, and Lilith, who had already prepared it, took another copy of the agreement and attached two pens, "If there are no problems, let's sign it!", Eric signed his name on both agreements, and then pushed the agreement in front of Ivan.
To be honest, Evan was very nervous at this time, because as long as he signed this name, it meant that more than 20,000 yuan in the briefcase would become Eric's thing, and if the plan failed, or Mr. 350,000 was unwilling to pay for it, Albert would lose his most important thing, the house! This pen was very light and heavy, and it seemed to sense Ivan's hesitation, Eric did not urge him, but said that he could think about it again.
Ivan tilted his head to look at Eric and smiled a little stiffly, "I hope it can be as you say, this is the best decision for me!", he picked up his pen and quickly signed his name on the agreement. Eric nodded in satisfaction, and after carefully reading the two agreements, he handed one of them to Lilith, told her to keep it, and then gave the other one to Ivan.
"Congratulations, from now on you are a partner in the company, you don't need to worry about anything, and you can get a lot of dividends for every movie released. Of course I have one thing I need to ask you to ......", after Ivan made a statement, Eric continued: "This company is the brainchild of two of my friends and mine, maybe you have read the newspaper, our friend broke up with us because of a female cousin, he came to tell me two days ago that he didn't want to see the crystallization of our friendship become a company full of copper smell, and hoped that we could cancel this plan, and I agreed." Eric carefully observed the change in the expression on Evan's face, and immediately added when he frowned: "I admit that I deceived him, you know, if the company doesn't catch up with the trend at this point, it will already be abandoned by the trend, I hope you can keep the matter of the stake confidential in a short period of time, and we can reveal it to the public after we update the playback equipment in the theater." ”
"At that point, even if he comes to trouble me, it won't be of much use, so ...... Can you agree to my little request? Just don't reveal it to the public!"
Maybe that's the problem, Ivan had a somewhat inexplicable smile on his face, but he thought it should be a smile that represented the good side. Ivan nodded and stretched out his hand, "The camaraderie between you and your friend is touching, it's like what you said isn't a big deal, I promise you!"
"Thank you very much for your generosity and understanding, happy cooperation Mr. Ivan, there will be a thank you party after our theater is updated, please be there then!", Eric breathed a sigh of relief, and said good things to accompany Evan to send him away. After seeing Evan's luxury car disappear, the expression on his face changed slightly, and when he returned to the office, he glanced at the dozen or so agreements in the file basket, and kicked the document basket under the desk.
This is the seventeenth investor, and these people have generated nearly $700,000 in revenue for his East Coast entertainment company, and he would have almost stopped by now if it weren't for two other big clients who expressed willingness to invest in full but needed time to think about it.
It was a financial trick he had learned from Sherith Street, and yes, it wasn't a scam in Erik's opinion. If he takes the money from these people, he will also fulfill the promise of the agreement to give them enough shares, but the agreement also states that he will carry out a second round of expansion. No matter how much money each of them took to attract so many shareholders, in fact, only 200,000 was counted, and the rest of the funds of more than 200,000 were owned by Eric and another founder. They're going to put that money into the company as an additional investment, and they're going to be able to dilute the equity in those people's hands right away, and that's a good thing if they're willing to invest more. If they don't want to, their stake will naturally shrink.
To put it simply, they play a small trick of using other people's money to compress the equity of these shareholders in order to expand the market value of the company, as if these shareholders were slapping themselves in the face. Eric and his accomplices managed to double the company's market value without spending a penny of their own money, and took out as much or less equity as promised, which is their little trick. When they get to that point and then mortgage the company to the bank, they can leave the city with a million or two in cash and start over somewhere else.
Beautiful days are not far away!