America's Road to Fame

Chapter 168 Gulfstream G550
After completing the increase in the holdings of Netflix stock, William Chen was finally able to have a little free time.

After continuing to talk with Hastings about the future development of Netflix, William Chen understood that because of the rise of the Hulu website, Hollywood companies held shares in the website, thus cutting off Netflix’s purchase from Hollywood. The possibility of content playback, so now I have firmly hoped to enter the field of self-made content. This also made William Chen feel relieved. He knew that this was the right path for Netflix.

Now William Chen has become the major shareholder of Netflix, which also gives Hastings more confidence, because he has a film and television company and Marvel, and he will be a very good content provider for Netflix in the future.

Not to mention the superhero movies of Marvel, but the TV series they are preparing to produce in order to promote the Marvel universe, if they can be broadcast in Marvel, it will also attract a lot of users.

Then William Chen came to Gulfstream, accompanied by Miranda who had just returned to New York after attending a catwalk in Paris.

When buying helicopters, William Chen ordered to pay attention to the news of private business jets. Under the current economic crisis, many wealthy people are facing defaults on orders from those aircraft manufacturers. This situation is suitable for William Chen to pick up the loopholes.

It’s not that he must save money, but because the orders of these manufacturers are full before. For companies such as Gulfstream and Bombardier, the orders are all scheduled for one or two years later, which means, order now and wait until you get it. I am afraid that the aircraft will have to wait for at least two years, and if it is not a standard model and needs to be customized for interior decoration, it will take longer.

But which rich man buys a private jet without customizing the interior decoration?Therefore, taking over other people's orders now not only greatly shortens the delivery time of the aircraft, but also makes the price much more favorable. Those manufacturers have piled up so many orders, and they are already manufacturing according to the plan. Once there is a breach of contract in the middle, then I can only find someone to take over quickly.

Because as I said before, the rich often order private jets, and the interior decoration is all customized. You must not take the completed plane ordered by this person and deliver it to others.

Now is the opportunity, which is why William Chen and Miranda came to Gulfstream together today. According to the other party, they currently have four default orders that need to be processed, and William Chen can choose the most suitable custom decoration. According to your own taste, choose to take over.

However, Gulfstream had already received the deposit from the original owner of the order. Now that the other party violated the contract and refused, the deposit would naturally not be refunded, so the price to William Chen would be lower.

These four orders are all for the Gulfstream G550 business jet. Since its launch in 2003, this business jet can be said to be the most popular model at present.William Chen has also experienced this type of aircraft. When Wendi Deng went to Huaguo together, he took this business jet of Murdoch, and he thought it was good.

Although it is advertised as the first ultra-long-range business jet that can fly directly from Tokyo to New York, in reality, it needs to look at various situations. Therefore, it is often necessary to refuel in Alaska when traveling from the United States to Asia.

Of course, Gulfstream also has plans for a new aircraft at this time, that is, the G650 announced last year, which is larger than the G550 and has a longer range, but this aircraft has not yet been officially delivered, and even now it has only conducted a test flight According to the beautiful sales representative of Gulfstream, the delivery of the first G650 will take two years, and there are already many orders waiting in line.

Chen William remembers that both Musk and Amazon’s Bezos owned this aircraft in his previous life, but theirs was the upgraded G650er. Well, the G550 is enough for the time being. There is no need to wait so long to order the G650. It’s better When the time comes to order the G650er directly, and if you really want more space, you might as well learn from the local tycoons in the Middle East and buy a large airliner and transform it into a private jet.

It’s just that in that case, not only is the cost expensive, er, this is not that important, the most important thing is the trouble of taking off and landing of the plane. The private jet transformed from a Boeing or a large empty-shell passenger plane is very useful for the airport where it takes off and lands. Required, must be a large airport.

Business jets such as Gulfstream and Bombardier have a wide range of airport choices, and small private airports can fully handle it. In fact, most private jets in the United States take off and land at small and medium airports, which is more convenient. There are also more choices, and you can choose a small airport near the destination to land.

Once the plane is too big, it can only be arranged on the runway of a large airport like a passenger plane, which is quite troublesome.

So the best way is to have both big and small, depending on the situation to arrange which plane you take...

In the end, William Chen chose an order with a decoration style that was more in line with his own ideas. The order schedule for this order is relatively early. Gulfstream said that it has basically been completed and is in the later stage of interior decoration. The maximum period may be one month. can be delivered to him.

Yes, this order was originally worth more than 4200 million U.S. dollars, and William Chen only needed to pay 3500 million U.S. dollars to win it.

"Among our current G650 orders, some have been returned by the other party, and the price is very suitable. Is Mr. William interested in taking a look?" After placing the order, the salesman from Gulfstream continued to ask.

Forget it, William Chen politely declined.For example, the G550 has been launched for such a long time, and its safety must be guaranteed. Now ordering the G650 will be the first batch of aircraft. Let others try it first.

"If I want to buy a business jet again, I still hope to have a bigger and faster one, so I will wait for the G650 for now. If you have plans to upgrade this model in the future, you can let me know."

After ordering the Gulfstream G550 with William Chen, Miranda was still a little dazed. Before, she only felt that this kind of private jet was still far away from her, but now she experienced the feeling of ordering for herself.

"It's incredible, William."

She was still a little surprised when she returned to the manor on Long Island with him.

Of course, in order to help her adapt as soon as possible, Chen Weilian only needs to use some medical skills and inject a few injections to help her recover as soon as possible in the face of her symptoms.

As expected of a supermodel, Miranda's figure can be said to be the best among William Chen's women, especially watching the changes in her curves from behind is still very pleasing to the eye.

William Chen could say that he felt that he had put in a lot of effort, and he had recently entered a fast pace again. The next day, he left New York with Miranda and arrived in Silicon Valley.

This time I came here mainly because of Zoom’s business. Currently, Zoom’s warehouse system in California is under construction. Rick Walton negotiated good support conditions with the local area. They also valued Zoom’s future investment and the benefits it provided. Jobs, in the context of the current economic crisis, state governments around the world are most concerned about these.

Moreover, behind Zoom are members of the Walton family and Chen William, who has been acquiring large sums of money recently. The projects they cooperate with are always very reminiscent.

In San Francisco, after the development of Zoom's APP, it first conducted a trial run. So far, the effect is still good.Mainly taking advantage of the opportunity from Christmas to New Year's Day, Zoom distributed a lot of coupons to newly registered users. Using these coupons, you can indeed buy cheap products.

This has also been welcomed by users. During this subprime mortgage crisis, many people are struggling to live. They can save money on shopping and deliver goods to their homes. After experiencing it, many people have become loyal to Zoom. customer.

Of course, this is all based on the premise that Zoom burned money in the early stage, and it cannot be said to be completely burned. The initial coupons are equivalent to promotion, and the latter are basically not very profitable. The profit is given back to the users.

Because the warehousing system is under construction, currently Zoom mainly provides products to their partners. According to the original algorithm, zoomAPP will give users priority to recommend nearby products on the search page according to their location when they purchase products. Or the result of a more favorable price, and after the user purchases a product, the next product, the partner of the previously purchased product will also be displayed first, so that in the same shopping, the same supplier will be arranged as much as possible Come pack and deliver.

In addition, even the delivery personnel of Zoom now have a certain scale after simple training.Under the current economic crisis, the unemployment rate remains high, so for zoom, it is a good thing. Not only can there be more choices for delivery personnel, but relatively speaking, the salary is much lower than before.

Now it can only be said that Zoom is initially running, but there are many problems, which need to be solved one by one in the future. When the whole process becomes more and more reasonable, it will gradually expand to other cities.

(End of this chapter)