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Chapter 471
Jeff Skilling tapped his fingers on the sofa under him. He could feel that PayPal might not be able to make a lot of dollars, but it was of great importance, even crucial.

Enron's cooperation with PayPal, it's really hard to say who will take advantage of it. In the early stage, Enron's online platform, natural gas and other businesses can indeed pay for PayPal and bring a large number of users.

But if PayPal can develop, maybe it can feed back Enron's side.

And Jeff Skilling thought more than these, but more ideas. If Enron cooperates with PayPal, or even invests in PayPal, will Enron's influence go further?
Thinking of this, Jeff Skilling suddenly understood why Kenneth let him get in touch with Song Yang. Enron had cooperated with Song Yang several times. Enron Company, got a lot of concepts!
The cooperation with the double-click company has allowed Enron to hang the banner of the Internet, not to mention Enron Online. The investment in American Telecom has allowed Enron Group to get into the concept of telecom business. These are the most popular ways nowadays.

With so many concepts, the most direct impact is, of course, that Enron Group, which is clearly engaged in traditional natural gas, has abruptly transformed into a "high-tech" company, and its stock price has also soared crazily.

Now, Enron is going to hook up with PayPal again. Don't think too much, Jeff Skilling can come up with a few new names for Enron. Enron enters the electronic payment and even the financial industry, and its market value is certain. It can soar a lot, and when Jeff Skilling and his group of executives cash out Enron stock, they can also make a lot of money.

Cashing out is only the last part, and that is the last way. When the Enron giant is crumbling, it is the time for Kenneth and Jeff Skilling to cash out their stocks and leave.

"Song, both Kenneth and I are willing to let Enron cooperate with you. I think you should be clear about this!"

Jeff Skilling said to Song Yang with an attitude of "one of us".

"Song, Enron hopes to invest in the PayPal platform. I think this should be a good thing for both Enron and PayPal!"

As soon as Song Yang heard this, he immediately asked Wen Xiange to get an idea of ​​the elegance. Song Yang and An Ran did not play this trick once or twice.

"Of course!"

Looking at Jeff Skilling, Song Yang said knowingly, "After PayPal goes online, you can accept the investment from Enron. In addition, if PayPal goes public, it will pay for you, Jeff Skilling, and President Kenneth." , all retain a part of PayPal's equity."

Hearing Song Yang's words, Jeff Skilling couldn't help laughing out loud. They had already played this trick once with American Telecom.

At the beginning, when Enron invested in American Telecom, the valuation of American Telecom soared to more than tens of billions of dollars. Everyone knows that Enron Group is playing this trick deliberately, but one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer. Enron Group is willing to be taken advantage of and carry the sedan chair for American Telecom, who can say otherwise?

The valuation of American Telecom has soared, and the value of Kenneth and Jeff Skilling, who hold shares in American Telecom, has also doubled.

Now it's PayPal's turn, and Jeff Skilling naturally wants to repeat the old trick, let Enron invest in PayPal, and raise PayPal's valuation. They are getting PayPal equity through the family foundation!

In this way, Enron got the concept of electronic payment, and Jeff Skilling and the others got the equity, which is a win-win situation. Jeff Skilling was out of his control.

When Song Yang walked out of Jeff Skilling's villa, he looked back at the luxurious villa behind him. Jeff Skilling, standing at the door of the villa, nodded to Song Yang.

Song Yang has seen Jeff Skilling's mansion and the large-scale parties of Enron's executives. The entire Enron group is basically in this state. I don't know how long it will last. .

It wasn't until Song Yang's figure left that Jeff Skilling returned to the villa. Instead of going to the party in the swimming pool, he came to the study.

After dialing one, Jeff Skilling said, "I have made an agreement with Song that Enron will invest in PayPal!"

Then the topic changed, and Jeff Skilling said into the phone, "Kenneth, Enron's revenue this year is unlikely to meet expectations. In addition to natural gas businesses, as well as overseas investment businesses, it is difficult to achieve revenue." expected……"

The person Jeff Skilling called was Kenneth. At this time, Jeff Skilling also had a worried tone in his tone. As the chief financial officer of Enron, no one was better than Jeff Skilling. Keeling understood Enron's situation better.

Enron, which seems to be full of flowers, involves a lot of businesses, and keeps trying to figure out various concepts, but the real money is still the natural gas pipeline business. Other investments and businesses sound good, but in fact they are all good-looking. useless.

Perhaps in the future, the businesses that Enron invested in may bring huge returns, but not now, but Enron has "promised" to Wall Street and users who buy Enron stocks that Enron's annual revenue and profits will be reduced. An increase of more than 15%!

It is this "guaranteed" growth rate that makes all parties unanimously optimistic about Enron, and the stock price soars. All major Wall Street institutions and pension funds in various states have bought Enron stock one after another, thinking that the Enron stock they bought will It can continue to rise, and you can get a generous dividend, otherwise you will be full, so many leeks, buy Enron's stock.

But there is no thing in the world that can go up infinitely. Even Jeff Skilling, who is good at financial means, can move around and use some means to smooth out losses and increase revenue, making Enron "look" very Making money, but it is impossible for Enron's revenue to continue to rise like this!
The current Enron company is still making a lot of money. The Federation has loosened the restrictions on the energy industry. Enron, the oil, gas, and electric power giants, not to mention wanton price increases, at least find a reason to increase prices.

Just like the power supply company in California, in order to increase the price of electricity in the past few years, it frantically shut down 38 times within half a year, successfully creating a "power shortage", which doubled the price of electricity in California.

Although Enron is not as crazy as it did, it has also raised prices accordingly. This is also the main reason for Enron's revenue soaring in the past few years, but for Enron, this growth rate is still too slow...

"Enron's revenue this year must meet the expected target. No matter what method you use, Enron's revenue must meet the expected target, otherwise you know there will be consequences!"

On the other end of the phone, Kenneth said mercilessly, especially in the few words no matter what method is used, the tone is even more serious, if the performance cannot be achieved, then Enron will basically collapse when it comes to it.

Hearing Kenneth's hint, Jeff Skilling frowned, and finally heaved a sigh of relief, "I see!"

"However, I need Enron's board of directors to authorize the financial department to be able to review the financial affairs of Enron and all subsidiaries!"

Jeff Skilling is waiting for Kenneth's answer. If he wants to make Enron's finances look bright, Jeff Skilling has a lot of means, but this is not something he can do alone, but needs Enron's board of directors agreed that the entire Enron company should cooperate.

After a while, it seemed that Kenneth on the other end of the phone had finally made up his mind, "Enron's board of directors will authorize the financial department, Jeff, to invest in American Telecom, PayPal, ICQ, ICNC TV and other companies. accelerate!"

After hanging up the phone, Jeff Skilling sat down and poured himself a large glass of wine. From what Kenneth said just now, he vaguely heard that Kenneth was already a little anxious.

Kenneth wants to increase investment in American Telecom and other companies, certainly not to let Enron invest, but to ensure that he and Jeff Skilling's family foundation invest in American Telecom, even if Enron falls It will not affect the investment of Kenneth, Jeff Skilling and their family foundation!

The hustle and bustle in Houston continues. The ICNC TV station broadcasting the Houston Stampede has good ratings. The states in eastern America don’t like it, but the states in the west, as well as overseas regions such as Mexico and Argentina, are quite fond of this festival. Interestingly, overseas TV stations in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, etc. bought the rights to broadcast this year's Stampede from ICNC, making ICNC TV a small profit.

How much you earn is not the key to ICNC TV. The key is to increase the popularity of ICNC TV and let more users accept this new TV station. This is more important than how much money you earn right now.

Millia has been playing like crazy for the past few days, and she has to take Amber to the big stadium at the Stampede every day. If it wasn't for Dana watching, Millia probably wouldn't even want to go to school.

There was a lot of noise outside, and Song Yang was in the villa, waiting for the PayPal team who had just finished talking with the Comelica Bank.

"Comerica Bank has agreed to fully cooperate with PayPal!"

Aaron Swartz held up a thick agreement and excitedly said to Song Yang that today's negotiation was much smoother than he expected.

Song Yang looked at Greck and Marcus, who were negotiating with Aaron Swartz today, and both of them nodded at Song Yang. Obviously, they talked with the Board of Directors of Comerica today and reached the weapon, Carey Maia did a lot.

"Thank you for your hard work today. Today is the best news I heard when I came back this time!" Song Yang said to Aaron Swartz.

(End of this chapter)