Money-sharing meeting

2001.

February 20th.

Smith Capital, Smith Tower.

First floor.

Today, it was temporarily arranged as a conference room.

The area of ​​about 700 square meters is filled with many seats.

Most of the investors of Smith Capital's first private placement are here today.

Those who really didn't have time and couldn't come, also sent representatives.

Ted Lerner and Barron Hilton, two wealthy New Yorkers who were free, came together.

At the last Smith Capital investment reception.

The two of them have been together for a long time, and Barron Hilton's sense of Tedlena has improved a lot.

Barron Hilton's astute discovery.

Ted Lena's exaggerated appearance is probably just an act!

In addition to Ikana and Paris, their relationship has become better recently.

This made the relationship between the two New York businessmen also very good.

The two of them came here together as planned today.

When getting off the car.

Ted Lerner looked a little impatient and said to Barron Hilton:

"Hey, Barron. What do you think our rate of return can be today?"

Barron Hilton replied:

"Then I don't know. But it was so high last time, so it should definitely be higher this time, right?"

"Okay." Tedlena said with a smile:

"In the second and third phases, I didn't have enough funds at that time. I only invested US$10 million."

"I heard that a new three-phase private placement has been opened this time. If it is still a 180-day cycle, then even if I mortgage Ted Lena, I will put down all my positions!"

"Haha~" Barron Hilton said with a smile:

"I guess a lot of people think so today! By the way, let me tell you, I actually think so too."

Ted Lerner smiled slightly and entered the Smith Capital Building with Barron Hilton.

In the lobby on the first floor, the seats are arranged in a circle.

There is a high platform in the middle.

The seats did not have names, and the staff of Smith Capital also smiled and said that you can sit on them wherever you want.

According to Ted Lena's character, he originally wanted to sit in the front.

But in the end, Barron Hilton took him to a more remote place.

"Our investment is too little. In this period, if you sit in the front, it may become a joke." Barron Hilton said.

Tedlena thought it made sense, so the two of them sat in a relatively remote area at the back.

Both of them came earlier, so many more people came one after another.

The meeting started at half past nine, and it was almost full by nine o'clock.

"It's so lively." Ted Lerner whispered to Barron Hilton:

“The occasion is just not classy enough. Smith Capital’s building is too small!”

Barron Hilton nodded.

Although the location of this Smith Capital building is very good, it even has a dedicated parking lot.

But it used to be a medium-sized supermarket, and it was located in Queens, close to the East River in New York.

The overall area is actually not very large.

For ordinary small and medium-sized companies, they can have such an office here.

It can be said that it is already very good.

But for Smith Capital, which is growing rapidly, I obviously feel that I am not worthy of it.

The company headquarters building is not worthy of a rapidly growing company!

It was almost half past nine, and more and more people came.

Many of them are people who are known to Barron Hilton and Ted Lena.

This is mainly because of Smith Capital’s first private placement.

The investors who subscribed are other than those Wall Street companies.

Most of them are wealthy people in New York City.

Because at that time, Abel's reputation was not that great.

In addition to Wall Street being familiar with him, only the wealthy in New York are aware of him.

Abel's fame truly spread across America.

That would have to wait until he acquired MGM and triggered the "Smith Storm".

Only then did many Americans know about him.

It also lets more American wealthy people know that there is a new Peter Lynch on Wall Street.

In this way, those who subscribed for the first phase of private placement were naturally the richest people in the city.

Barron Hilton and Ted Lena have both been hanging out in New York for many years.

Of course they are very familiar with these people.

It can be said that today is a gathering of New York's wealthy circles.

It’s just that Smith Capital offers nothing.

There is only one seat per person and a free bottle of drinking water.

Even the drinking water they drink most is not Evian, just a bottle of "Dasani" purified water from Coca-Cola.

Its pricing and brand in the United States are probably similar to C'estbon after China.

If the situation were different, there would probably be rich people on the spot asking their assistants or bodyguards to bring water in.

Or just leave angrily.

There were more than a hundred people in the audience, but few opened water bottles.

Most of the time, they find a few rich friends they know well and gather around to chat quietly.

Soon, it was 9:30 in the morning.

When the time is up, the elevator opens in the elevator hall.

Walking out of it were a group of Smith Capital executives headed by Abel.

I don’t know who took the lead, but among the more than a hundred rich people, some started to applaud.

Soon everyone was involved and everyone applauded.

Ted Lena and Barron Hilton, while they were applauding, they saw that Abel did not go directly to the high platform.

He just sat in the nearest seats.

The person who stepped onto the high stage was Melio, the deputy general manager with little presence in Smith Capital.

Melio did not speak immediately, but asked the staff of Smith Capital.

A thin document was sent to every investor present.

Each person has one copy, and the above is the first phase of Smith Capital’s private equity fund.

General data, and dividends that everyone can get.

After these are distributed.

Melio on the stage said very directly——

"Everyone, half a year has passed in the blink of an eye..."

Melio gave full play to his eloquence.

Each investor has a copy of the plan in hand, and tells the story passionately and eloquently about things he has already known.

The piling up of rhetoric and the use of gorgeous words give people an unclear and powerful feeling.
To be continued...