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Chapter 328

It's hard to say what the actual relationship is, but it seems that Song Yang and Jeff Skilling, who came here on behalf of Enron, are very close.

"How is President Kenneth doing recently? I saw the news that he was with the commander-in-chief!"

Song Yang looked at Jeff Skilling and said, I haven't seen him for a few months, and Jeff Skilling is getting more and more proud now.

Now Jeff Skilling is in charge of the "Enron Online" website. Enron Online is already the largest energy trading website in the world. Under Lin's management, the entire Enron Online trading products began to swell like a snowball.

Timber, weather forecast, broadband, environmental indicators, and more than 15 kinds of trading items are online on the Enron Online website. It can be said that there are only unexpected ones, and there is no Enron. Without Enron, the daily transaction volume has exceeded [-] billion US dollars is not as good as other exchanges, but on the Internet, even Amazon and eBay are hard to come by.

Hearing Song Yang mention Kenneth, Jeff Skilling couldn't help but smile triumphantly, and knocked the golf ball into the air. Of course, the news about Kenneth and the commander-in-chief was released by An Ran, just to show the outside world that An Ran and the commander-in-chief The commander's close relationship is also telling others that An Ran's current power is so strong that the commander-in-chief has to stay with An Ran when he arrives in Dezhou!
"Kenneth is alright, but he's a bit too busy, but it's a pity that Dole is too old and is no match for the Grand Commander, otherwise An Ran wouldn't have to show his favor to the Grand Commander!"

Mentioning this matter, Jeff Skilling couldn't help complaining to Song Yang that there was no one on the Xiangdang side who could fight, and the one who challenged the commander turned out to be a veteran congressman from Kansas. At the age of 73, Dole, who has participated in the election three times and accompanied him three times, came out of the mountain, and even this is an unknown way to deliver food?

Dole is a veteran of the Elephant Party, and the current Elephant Party whip, Tom Delay, took over Dole's original position, because he wanted to run for election, so he gave up the position of the party whip.

In fact, it doesn’t matter if you don’t give up. Dole is 73 years old. He is running for the Grand Commander this year. If he wins, he can still sit in the position of Grand Commander for a few years. It's a last-ditch effort.

But the main thing is inside the party. For this time, there is no hope. Like the insiders of the party, the cowboy family, the Adams dynasty, etc. are also very quiet this time. The "highly respected" Dole came out, and the others were obviously unwilling to be tough with the commander-in-chief this time.

Although he doesn't want to admit it, in fact, the Elephant Party has acquiesced in giving up this general election. It really can't win. The current commander-in-chief's reputation is not very good, but in his hands these days, America is in full swing. There are too many, the key is that among female voters, the support rate of the Grand Commander is too high.

In the initial survey of the general election made by the media, the support of female voters for the general is more than 50% higher than that of Dole and another general election figure who joined in the fun. Whoever comes up basically runs with them.

After playing a few balls, Jeff Skilling turned his head to Song Yang and said with a smile, "I think Dole will come to California in a short time. Song, you will also need to raise donations for Dole!"

Winning or not is not the key. The key is to raise campaign funds. For Dole and the campaign team he formed, this cannot be bad. The harder it is to fight, the more money must be raised to fight Advertising is not, and it is not their own money spent anyway.

Song Yang nodded, knowing the rules here, and the money that should be given must be given. The Xiangdang side, no matter whether they win or not, is also desperately advertising to mobilize the donors to give Xiangdang and Dole Donate money to prepare for four years later. If you can't win this time, and there are still four years to go, there is always a chance to win back. Anyway, they have been playing this game for 200 years.

"Honestly, Song, neither Kenneth nor I thought that you would implement Bill 230, which is probably being discussed on Capitol Hill now!"

Jeff Skilling joked to Song Yang, and couldn't help but look at Song Yang in front of him. The natural gas industry is an industry that often has to deal with municipal departments. He understands better the impact of a bill on an industry.

Jeff Skilling recalled the scene when he met Song Yang for the first time. At that time, Song Yang had just become a well-known "Internet genius" in Houston. Now, both he and An Ran needed to rely on Song Yang. Song Yang He even played with the Capitol Hill Act, which made Jeff Skilling feel a little bit emotional. Jeff Skilling doesn't know, and in a year or two, even Kenneth, I'm afraid he won't know whether he can suppress it. I have to live with Song Yang.

After a few words, Jeff Skilling began to say to Song Yang, "Song, I like your sentence, "Build another Enron", and now we have done it, Enron's online website makes Enron's revenue, this year Doubled!"

"Whether it's Kenneth or me," Jeff Skilling pointed to Song Yang, "we all like to work with Song you!"

Since working with Song Yang, both Jeff Skilling and Kenneth feel pretty good. The most important thing is that Song Yang is quite "understanding the rules". If Telecom goes public, they will be able to make a lot of money along with it.

Speaking these words to Song Yang, Jeff Skilling also expressed his attitude. This time, Anran wanted to invest several hundred million dollars in ICQ just like the last time it invested in American Telecom. Then Jeff Skilling and Ken The two of them in Nice got a kickback from ICQ, and they didn't bother to care whether Enron was losing money or not.

Still the same sentence, he, Jeff Skilling, is getting some salary from Enron. No matter how high Enron's stock price is, it is not Jeff Skilling's. Getting to them is the key!

"Enron is planning to join forces with other natural gas, oil, iron ore companies in Texas and America to jointly form a new investment company to invest in major energy production areas such as natural gas and iron ore in the world, and finally formulate new natural gas, oil, iron ore and other companies. Iron ore and other rules!"

"Enron can let this new investment company reserve a spot for Song You's North American Global Investment Fund!"

Jeff Skilling said to Song Yang, assuming he regarded Song Yang as his own, An Ran disliked online energy futures trading, the money came in too slowly, and planned to directly invest in natural gas, ore, etc., and then affect futures prices.

This is a big investment. Enron wants to form its own energy investment consortium to invest in natural gas fields, iron mines, etc., and then influence the futures trading market!

It has to be said that An Ran's appetite is really big. Song Yang looked at Jeff Skilling in surprise, never expecting that An Ran would have such a big appetite.

If it is really made, it will naturally make a lot of money. Think about the Hunter family in America in the 70s, hoarding billions of dollars in silver futures. The silver futures market is overwhelming, and there are three major iron miners, BHP Billiton China, Rio Tinto, and Vale have joined forces to directly control the price of iron ore. In addition to making money by selling iron ore, they also make waves in the price of iron ore futures.

Now Enron also wants to play this game, and play it even bigger. The establishment of Enron's own consortium is to win the pricing power of natural gas, metals, energy, and even food. If you control these mines and natural gas fields, you can control the output. , Naturally, you can also play tricks in the futures market, which is equivalent to being a banker and taking everything directly!

But if it failed, Song Yang glanced at Jeff Skilling and felt that Enron, probably not in the futures market, had already hoarded a lot of natural gas futures. Once the price fell, the entire Enron would have to take part in it!
Glancing at Jeff Skilling, Song Yang shook his head with regret, "Jeff, as you know, I have invested too much in the technology industry and Asia recently, and the capital chain has begun to strain, An Ran This investment company, the American Global Investment Fund, is very difficult to invest in again."

Hearing Song Yang's words, Jeff Skilling nodded indifferently, and just made a regretful expression towards Song Yang, thinking that Song Yang had missed an opportunity, and he didn't care if he wanted to spend money on Enron Investment Company In fact, Wall Street institutions are queuing up to send money.

"ICQ can accept Enron's investment, but this time there are other companies investing, Enron may not get too much ICQ equity!"

Seeing that Jeff Skilling frowned, Song Yang continued, "Of course, before ICQ goes public, there will be a second round of financing. At that time, you and Jeff Skilling will be able to get ICQ About 3% equity investment opportunity!"

Hearing this, a smile appeared on Jeff Skilling's face, which implied that it was obvious enough that ICQ would let Kenneth and Jeff Skilling's family invest in ICQ.

Based on the current valuation of ICQ, if it is hyped up, the future valuation of ICQ may not exceed tens of billions of dollars. At that time, Jeff Skilling and Kenneth will jointly share the 3% equity, even if they only take 1%, cash out will be able to exceed hundreds of millions of dollars!
Jeff Skilling reached out his hand and shook Song Yang, "Song, Enron will fully support ICQ in the negotiations starting tomorrow, no matter what the cost!"

To put it bluntly, Jeff Skilling is going to let Enron stand up for ICQ with Microsoft, Comcast, and General Electric, and try his best to raise the price of ICQ. Anyway, it is not his own money, as long as Enron raises the price However, if the other companies want to invest in ICQ, they must raise their prices together.

Inside the hotel in San Jose, Comcast's investor group, led by Brian Roberts, has entered.

Brian Roberts looked at the scenery outside the hotel window. Not far away was the University of San Jose. The place Brian looked at was the ICQ office building that he passed by when he came.

"You mean, Song already met with Enron's chief financial officer, Jeff Skilling?"

(End of this chapter)