Even Abel himself didn't expect it.

An accidental suggestion of his own made David Mellon take it seriously.

Later, David Mellon even called all relevant senior executives of the company over for a meeting.

At the meeting, Abel mainly listened.

But Abel also heard it, the senior executives of Smith Capital.

They all support Smith Capital’s Internet securities business.

This should be related to the fact that this direction was proposed by the boss Abel.

In addition, the senior executives of Smith Capital are generally around thirty to forty years old.

This age group belongs to young people on Wall Street, and they belong to the most enterprising group.

What’s more, the reality is also here.

Smith Capital's foundation is too poor.

If you want to develop like investment banks like Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, with business offices and branches all over the world.

Without more than ten years of accumulation, it would be difficult to do it.

One business location and one branch, even if they are opened.

If you want to acquire certain customers in the local area, it will be difficult to do so without a certain amount of time of word-of-mouth accumulation and network building.

After all, people are always more willing to believe in things they are familiar with.

In other words, if you want Smith Capital to be similar in size to Goldman Sachs in every aspect.

If we follow their path, it will take at least ten years.

I still don’t know how many hurdles I have to pass and how much hardship I have to endure.

But if it could be like what Abel said.

If we become the first investment bank to commercialize an Internet securities firm.

It is likely that this distance can be greatly shortened and the time required is reduced.

If it is really possible to acquire a large number of customers on the Internet.

Then Smith Capital does not need to open a large number of business offices across the country or even around the world.

All you need to do is open some companies in the more important big cities to provide after-sales support.

Compared with having business locations around the world, this approach can more easily shorten time and investment costs.

And soon someone suggested that someone on Wall Street was already doing it.

Interactive Brokers has already begun this attempt, but it has not yet begun to vigorously promote it.

What's more, it has the support of the boss, it has certain feasibility, and it looks like a very good future.

Now someone is already doing it.

Smith Capital had no hesitation at all.

With Abel's approval, the senior executives determined the company's new development path for the future.

Internet brokerage!

No need to go through Buffett's shareholders.

Who knows that Abel himself is the largest shareholder, and he still has absolute control.

His will is the company's will.

As long as Abel makes the decision, he can go directly.

By the time Abel came out of the Smith Building after the meeting, it was already dusk.

In New York in May, the weather is neither cold nor hot.

As long as it doesn't rain, this can be said to be one of the most comfortable and pleasant times of the year in New York.

Looking at the sun setting in the west in the direction of Manhattan, Abel couldn't help but sigh.

I may have to sleep alone tonight.

Just now, Ikana called him.

A vicious incident occurred at a YKM store in Los Angeles.

A gangster broke into the store, shot and killed a customer, and subsequently triggered a zero-dollar purchase.

Although no one wants this kind of thing to happen.

Isn't this also YKM's fault?

But now is the rising period of this brand.

When something like this happens, Ikana, the general manager, cannot remain indifferent.

She went over there to handle the matter.

Paris, her best friend, also followed.

Abel had no choice but to call his people on the west coast and ask them to help Ikana as much as possible.

After all, Ikana is also his woman, not to mention that he is still the largest shareholder of YKM.

If something like this happened, of course he couldn't stay out of it.

Since Ikana was not there, Abel wanted to go to Carnegie Hill Mansion to rest.

This is his and Annie's love nest in New York.

Annie is filming in Queens and will come back here to rest if there are no night scenes.

However, what disappointed him was that Annie had a night scene tonight, and the crew was expected to shoot all night.

Anne won't be back tonight either.

As night fell, Abel was too lazy to go to Thirteenth Road in Royal Point, New York.

He simply stayed on the eighteenth floor of the Carnegie Hill Building.

After dinner, he came to the master bedroom.

He walked into the bathroom, took off his clothes, put on a bathrobe, and walked into the steaming bathroom.

In the large, white and smooth bathtub, Abel took off his bathrobe, stepped up the marble steps, stretched out his feet and tested the water temperature. It was just right. He lay down in the warm water, relaxed his whole body, and enjoyed the pleasure of bathing.

After taking a bath, Abel had just walked out of the bathroom wearing a bathrobe when the maid came over with a cup of fragrant coffee.

After taking the coffee and saying thank you to the maid with a smile, Abel walked leisurely to the sofa in the living room and sat down, picked up the remote control and turned on the TV.

The maid brought over a plate of fresh fruits and a plate of dried fruits for Abel to make a midnight snack, and Abel silently changed the channel to his favorite program.

He first switched to his own AMC TV station.

AMC TV station is a cable TV station and charges the same as many other TV stations.

What is being broadcast on AMC tonight is the latest TV series called "Mad Men."

Abel didn't know that in a parallel time and space, "Mad Men" was AMC's first self-produced original drama.

Before that, AMC TV stations, which did not have Abel financial support, mainly purchased products from external TV companies.

After the AMC TV station in this time and space was acquired by Abel.

Not only did it receive resource support from MGM, it also received a large amount of capital injection.

Coupled with the three new policies requested by Abel, three TV series with a single episode investment of more than US$3 million should be launched every year.

AMC TV station, which is under great pressure and rich, after Richard Plepler, a TV maniac, came to power.

The action was fast and numerous, and the first self-filmed drama was produced within a few months.

This is the "Mad Men" in front of us.

Before his rebirth, Abel didn't watch many American TV series.

He has only watched a little bit of The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Broke Girls and Prison Break.

Because he had impressions of these four American TV series, he told Richard Plepler about these impressions.

It may be that Richard Plepler is more confident and does not follow as blindly as Robert Iger.

The new TV series produced by AMC are not the ones Abel mentioned.

But the one in front of me, "Mad Men," seems to be more in line with the current market mainstream.

I have to say that the shots are really good, at least from Abel's perspective, it's interesting to watch.

After watching most of the episodes, today's TV series is over and I have to watch it again tomorrow.

Abel took the remote control and kept changing channels and watching several TV programs until he couldn't find the TV program he was interested in.

Abel walked back to the bedroom calmly, opened his arms and fell directly on the big bed, took off his nightgown, got into the warm and soft quilt, turned off the bedside lamp, and fell asleep.
To be continued...