Vol 2 Chapter 520: Google listing

Before the second audition began, Duke struck out Scarlett Johansson. In the subsequent auditions, he took the lead in identifying several supporting roles.
After Duke watched the auditions, he was basically sure that Michael Caine played Alfred, Gary Oldman played Inspector Gordon, Lawrence Fishburn played Lucius Fox, and he was confirmed to play Henry. Ducat’s Liam Neeson, the main supporting role is basically in place, but will not enter the crew for the time being, and Charles Rowan has to negotiate an actor contract with their agent.
The most important aspect of the leading actor and actress, after Christian Bale showed his strong interest, Duke no longer considered other candidates and determined that he would be Bruce Wayne's actor candidate.
In fact, in Iceland, Duke almost rejected Christian Bale for the simple reason that he only accepted the audition invitation on the last day of the crew deadline.
Originally, Duke had planned to use Ben Affleck when he didn't receive news about Christian Bale on the last day of the invitation period, but the other party still caught the last train.
Christian Bale is not only interested in independent films as many people think. For example, as a member of the Warner Board of Directors, Duke knew that he had participated in Robin’s trials in the 1990s, but was The crew was eliminated.
After all, every actor who mixes in Hollywood knows the importance of opportunity.
As for the heroine, Duke hesitated. Although he saw Katie Helms in the audition, he would not consider him at all. The remaining Jennifer Garner, Amy Adams, Anne Hathaway and Rachel? Each McAdams has its own advantages and disadvantages.
He personally prefers Anne Hathaway, the actress who became famous because of "The Princess Diaries". In recent years, she has been at a low point in her life. Although her performance in the audition did not reach the later level, she started to cope with the heroine in the film. Still enough. And as long as she doesn't open her mouth and laugh, she is a qualified vase.
Indeed, the other party is relatively sturdy, in the words of Duke, it is a long five big three thick, but this is a typical American girl. It also fits the aesthetics of this country.
Several of his deputies also unanimously suggested using her.
"I think her audition is the best."
In the filming room, after just watching the audition videos of several actresses, Anna Prinz expressed her opinion, "Anne Hathaway has a very special temperament, and the performance always makes her eyes look innocent. And persistence, this is very similar to Rachel Dawes in the first part."
Charles Rowan also nodded, "I agree with Anna."
Duke thought for a moment, "Then Anne Hathaway is fine."
As for the catwoman in the future. Hollywood is full of actresses with similar conditions, and there are countless suitable people.
Charles Rowan’s work efficiency is very fast. It took about ten days to basically settle the issue of the actor’s contract. Other actors can figure out the role relatively easily, such as Christian Bale and Liam Neeson and many others. The stuntman was summoned by Duke to the training hall of Warner Studios to receive Jimmy Carter's endurance and combat training for three months.
The preparatory work is proceeding step by step. Time also turned to August, Duke's energy. It is inevitable to be dispersed by firms from Silicon Valley. One of his most important investments in his life, Google is about to go public for financing.
According to founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the earliest idea is that Google is not in a hurry to go public.
The reason why they want to conduct ipo this month is mainly because some requirements of the US Securities Regulatory Commission prompted it to make a decision as soon as possible.
According to the regulations of the US Securities Regulatory Commission, companies with more than 500 shareholders and assets of more than US$10 million must disclose their business information. And they should disclose their financial status within 4 months after the end of the fiscal year.
This clause has inspired many American companies to simply start the enthusiasm of Ipo, and Google also meets this requirement-he has more than 1,000 employees who have the company's stock options, and the assets have already exceeded 100 million.
Before going public, Larry Page and Sergey Brin had done enough preparations to still be able to control the company in the future. Google carried out a share split in April, allocating one non-voting Class B stock for every Class A stock with voting rights, and Google's stock price was halved as a result, which provided opportunities for small and medium investors to participate, but also weakened The voting rights of some major shareholders are guaranteed, thereby ensuring the power of the two founders.
This is a move that every normal businessman will make. No one wants to see the company he has worked so hard to create and end up in the hands of other people. Duke doesn’t care too much about it. He doesn’t know how to run a company. Investing in Google just Just asking for money.
On August 19, Google, which was founded only six years ago, went public in a highly anticipated initial public offering. For a company that has only been established for six years, Wall Street has a very high valuation of $23 billion!
At this time, Google’s annual revenue was US$2.7 billion and annual profit was US$286 million.
Unlike most public offerings, Google sells shares through auctions and reduces the cost of ipo.
According to the market situation on Wall Street, the marketer will collect 4% of the cost of the ipo, which is close to 3 billion US dollars, but Google uses this method, and the rate is only 2.8%.
In theory, auctions should provide listed companies with the highest possible issue price, while providing individual investors with the opportunity to buy stocks in the primary market.
But when Google launched the IPO, in the case of weak demand, the company had to reduce the size of the stock offering and lower the issue price.
Although it once set the issue price range between 108 and 135 US dollars, Google finally listed at only 85 US dollars, only 22.5 million shares were sold, and only 1.9 billion US dollars were raised.
To make matters worse, Google's stock price rose by 18% on the first day of listing, closing at $100.34, which shows that the auction did not achieve some of the expected goals-set the issue price as close as possible to the value investor. The value given to the stock on the open market.
Even Duke, a layman, can see that this is not a successful ipo.
But for him personally, this is not the case. Selling shares through auctions undoubtedly gave him an opportunity. The relatively weak market demand allowed his several foundations to grab a lot of shares. The amount of diluted shares returned to 25%.
If it were not for the requirement of the Securities Regulatory Commission to issue an announcement, Duke could still grab more shares, but these were enough to satisfy him.
This time Ipo was not considered a success, but Google became a star in the market and the media. By the end of the day, Google's market value had risen to 27 billion US dollars, creating hundreds of multimillionaires.
There is no doubt that Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Duke have become the three most dazzling public offerings.
Of course, shares and actual funds available are two different things. Stock trading is not about buying and selling vegetables on the market. Listed companies have many restrictions on shareholders. Many people cannot sell their shares before the lifting of the embargo period.
However, Duke is not short of money, otherwise he will not buy Google shares again. Although Google does not pay dividends, the biggest purpose of his investment is to preserve the value. The depreciation of the dollar is really too fast.
There is no doubt that with Google's official listing and fundraising, Duke has become the top group of rich people in the United States.
And after Google went public, the stock price has been rising continuously, and the value of his shares will be higher and higher.
Subsequently, Duke's work was transferred back to the preparation of the movie, just reviewing and adjusting various equipment designed for Batman, it took a lot of time and energy.
Lamborghini has set up a production line temporarily in the workshop to complete the main design and manufacturing work of the Batmobile.
Different from the four Batman movies in the 1980s and 1990s, the new trilogy is more realistic. Some equipment that is too sci-fi is not intended to be used by Duke. Just as before, the success of Marvel movies lies in its tendency to be naive. The style of all ages, this trilogy can succeed, its realistic style is undoubtedly an important factor.
Not every hero can shoot realistically, Bruce Wayne’s main setting is undoubtedly biased towards this style.
And Duke intends to start the Marvel series of "Iron Man", the situation is just the opposite of Bruce Wayne. Tony Stark's character and many black technologies determine that the film is impossible to be realistic and biased towards all ages. Duan, or children’s simplistic style, can be said to be one of the key reasons for the success of Marvel movies.
If Duke made a movie of this type like Iron Man into a realistic style, just like making Batman amusing, how terrifying would it be?
In a busy state of work, time always flies very fast. Duke spent the entire August and September in busy preparations. Although I met Ivanka once during the period, the relationship between the two did not improve.
In the final analysis, Scarlett only induced the potential differences and contradictions between the two, and Donald Trump is a corner that the two cannot go around.
Ivanka insisted on introducing Trump Group funds in the financing expansion, but Duke, who holds 45% of the shares and has the corresponding voting rights, disagrees, and it is impossible to achieve it.
There is always no limit to human greed. Duke has made enough concessions to Donald Trump before, and it is impossible to compromise without limits.
Fortunately, both of them are relatively sane people, especially Ivanka, who have invested huge amounts of money and effort in this company, and will not continue some contradictions into their work.
No matter how deep the love is, it cannot withstand the passing of time. Although the relationship between Duke and Ivanka has not broken down, it will inevitably fade. If no one makes concessions, it will be difficult to go hand in hand. (To be continued...)
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