"Eric, Chris, let me introduce you to you. This is John Neff. To be honest, I don't agree with many of his economic views, but we cannot deny that in the past twenty years John took over the Windsor Fund, the company has achieved a growth rate of more than 3% over the Dow Jones Index almost every year."

Queens, New York, the second day after Halloween, Eric arrived at what Buffett said on time, in a villa in a wealthy neighborhood in Queens.

When Eric heard the name of "Windsor Fund" Buffett said, he raised his eyebrows slightly, but he still reached out to the old man in front of him who looked a little similar to Buffett, and even shook hands with the black-frame tortoiseshell glasses.

"Hello, Eric, Chris," John Neff shook hands with a smile on Eric and Chris, and looked at Buffett with dissatisfaction: "Hey, Warren, you scolded me in front of me again in front of young people. Maybe we need to find some time to discuss your views on the theory of effective markets."

"Of course it's okay, I have time at any time," Buffett laughed and said, "But now I'm going to take two young people to meet other old guys."

The answerer, Buffett raised the wine glass in his hand to John Neff, and took Eric and Chris to another old man in his sixties: "Another John," Buffett raised his glass to the old man in front of him and said to Eric and Chris: "John Borgle, John, this is Eric and Chris, you know him."

Chris, who was following Buffett on the other side of the country, stretched out his hand to John Bogle with some enthusiasm: "Mr. Bogle, I am Chris Hansen, I'm very happy to know you, oh, I've read many of your economics papers when I was in college."

"Hello Chris, I know you, Firefly Investment has had a great portfolio in recent years, maybe we can take the time to talk."

"Of course, if I could have this honor," Chris nodded quickly, giving Eric a feeling that movie fans felt a bit like seeing big stars.

However, this is not surprising. I won’t talk about this hall. Many other people are famous figures in the investment industry.

Just like John Borgel, Eric did some homework in advance, but even if he did nothing, the Pioneer Group founded by John Borgel was well-known enough. In my memory, this famous investment fund company once controlled nearly $900 billion in wealth at its peak. Even at this time, the assets under Pioneer Fund reached 200 billion. Although Eric's personal wealth had reached a level beyond the reach of many people, the wealth controlled by these old men far exceeded his.

From participating in Morgan Stanley Chairman Seymour Gilbert yesterday to a series of investment tycoons recommended by Buffett, Eric has gradually learned a truth: what represents a person's power is not how much resources he has, but how much resources he can control.

Although Eric had already had similar ideas before this, the series of capital tycoons he saw in the past two days made the idea in his mind clearer, just like John Borgle in front of him. Although his personal wealth is far from comparable to Eric, the Pioneer Group he controls firmly controls assets of more than US$200 billion. The large number of seats on the board of directors of the United States and even the Fortune 500 companies represented by these assets are the real strength of these large fund companies to influence the economic trend of an industry or even a country.

As Buffett walked around the hall and came to a bar, Buffett changed a glass of wine, chatted with Eric and Chris for a few more words, and then said, "Okay, Eric, you can talk to the guys you are interested in, and of course, you can also meet these young people of your age."

Chris had long been eager to try it out. He raised his glasses to Eric and Buffett and walked to other places. As a top student in finance, it is obvious that there are many master investors in the venue that he admires, and these people are definitely more talented and knowledgeable than many so-called economists who only know how to talk about.

In the hall, in addition to some old men Buffett had just introduced to Eric and Chris, there were also many young people of similar age. Judging from the situation, it should be the young juniors brought by these people. But while talking, an old man with silver hair walked towards Buffett: "Hey, Warren, good evening, oh, and Eric, let me introduce it. This is my brother's child, Nate, who is now an investment manager at the Kahn Brothers Company."

Eric knew that the other party's target was Buffett, so he smiled at the people and walked away with the initiative.

After wandering around the crowd for a while, Virginia, who was originally having a happy chat among a group of women, noticed Eric's figure and walked towards him.

"What are you talking about?" Eric raised his glass to the female guest who had just been chatting with Virginia, and asked the woman holding his arm with a smile.

"Movies, fashion, etc., it's not something you big men are interested in."

Eric smiled and said, "Oh, I'm actually very interested in these things."

As the two were talking, a male voice came from behind: "Hey, Eric."

Turning his head, Eric saw the Bill Gates and his wife, smiled and reached out: "Hey, good evening, Bill, Melinda, this is Virginia."

"Hello, Ms. Madson, when Melinda and I were dating, we happened to see your movie together, "Far Cry," right?"

"Yes, I didn't expect that it was a few years ago," Virginia shook hands with Bill Gates and Melinda Gates respectively.

Since win95 was a success, Microsoft has quickly accelerated its layout in the Internet industry in the past six months. It has not only launched its portal business, but has even begun to participate in the role of an Internet service provider, completely repeating the strategy of "when seeing a geese fly by and eat or not" in previous lives. At this time, it can be said that it has begun a close contact with Yahoo and American Online.

Eric has always been closely following Microsoft's related businesses. Therefore, judging from Microsoft's unrest in expansion achievements over the past few months, although Eric is vigilant about Microsoft's threat, he does not feel too ill-fated.

Losing the important Internet interface resource of the browser, Eric is even more optimistic about Microsoft's Internet business than his previous life. Moreover, after the success of Windows 95, Microsoft's monopoly in the operating system market was a foregone conclusion, and the disease of large companies began to gradually emerge. After the company system gradually became bloated and lost its enterprising flexibility, even if it had strong resources, it was definitely not so easy to enter a rapidly developing industry.

Although there has been a life-and-death competition in private, neither side will show it. After the greetings, Eric remembered what happened not long ago and asked, "Bill, I heard that you went to China not long ago. How do you feel?"

Bill Gates shrugged and said, "The market environment there is, in short, pretty bad, but it's always a very large market. Maybe I'll have to go through a few more trips in the next few years."

Eric smiled. The purpose of Bill's visit to China was the same as many technology tycoons in his memory, and they were all aiming to open up the seemingly bright Chinese market.

However, Eric believes that Bill Gates will know that the market environment there is not bad, but very bad. The standard pricing of Windows 95 is converted into RMB close to 2,000 yuan. Even if the Chinese version is significantly reduced, it is definitely not something that users there can afford at this time. The only thing Microsoft can develop is the enterprise-level market, which is where you can buy genuine systems without spending your own money.

Eric actually really wants to go back and take a look, but his identity is not as simple as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are both pure entrepreneurs, but Eric has the largest media group in North America and has such a huge media channel resources. If he is too close to the other side, he is almost inevitable to be attacked by competitors. Eric can't do the faces of those politicians who just accepted the warm hospitality of others and turned against others and said bad things in a blink of an eye, so he simply doesn't cause trouble.

After chatting with Bill Gates, although both sides still maintain a polite attitude, they will not have much common language after all. Both sides separate. Eric raised his arm and asked Virginia to hold him in his arms, and said, "Let's go, since Warren deliberately brought me here, I can't let him down. It will definitely be of great benefit to have more contact with these old men."

Virginia looked at Chris, who was chatting enthusiastically with Emily in a middle-aged man wearing glasses, and smiled and said, "Okay, but you are definitely not as comfortable in this kind of occasion as Chris."

"It's okay," Eric smiled, and said, "I can talk to them about the movie."

"hehe."

Chatting in a low voice, Eric led Virginia toward the crowd.

In fact, no one will talk about too much serious things in this kind of occasion, and the most important thing is to manage personal connections.

A few years ago, Eric was always busy and he didn't like this kind of social occasion, so he didn't feel it.

But in recent days, from the videotape of Terry Semer to his daughter, Chairman Morgan Stanley invited him to yesterday's party, Buffett brought him to this party today, Eric gradually felt that the ubiquitous "big net" around him began to win him over, different ethnic groups, different forces, different industries... The common point of these "big nets" is that they all have very strong influence, and they all want to pull him into their network to expand their strength.

After this party, the end of the year gradually came, and Eric's more than two-month holiday-style life was coming to an end.

The following week, most media across the United States began to pay close attention to the matter, undoubtedly the upcoming second Victoria's Secret annual show.

This year's Victoria's Secret show is scheduled for Thursday, November 9.

The official TV broadcast time is the same as last year, and it was scheduled to be played one month later. Although this year's Victoria's Secret show will be scheduled to start broadcasting at 10 o'clock because of the age restrictions of the audience, waiting for two hours is not a big problem for viewers who have been looking forward to a whole year. After all, most of the audiences of the Victoria's Secret show are young people who are used to nightlife. Although the play time was delayed by one hour compared to last year, the ratings statistics agency still gave a conservative viewing expectation of 25 million people.

For ordinary viewers, of course, they can only silently find some pictures or video reports about the Victoria's Secret show in newspapers or TV stations after November 9 to satisfy their curiosity in advance. It will take a month to officially see the grand occasion of the Victoria's Secret show. However, for the hundreds of guests invited by the Victoria's Secret show, they can feast their eyes in advance.

Last year, after Eric's devilish tuning for half a year, the Victoria's Secret Angels are already familiar with this show. This year's Victoria's Secret show has the greatest pressure on Michael Bay, who is responsible for the director's heavy responsibility.

Since the news that Michael Bay will be the director of the second Victoria's Secret show has been released, the media has been paying strong attention to him for more than half a year. While Michael Bay's popularity has increased sharply, he has also been under great pressure without surprise.

However, Firefly Group is very happy about this, because a week after the Victoria's Secret show, the movie "The Jedi Men" directed by Michael Bay will be released soon. With the reputation of this movie in memory, it has a popular schedule like Thanksgiving and has gained a lot of attention in advance. Eric believes that the box office of this movie is far beyond the original time and space data.

Although the male lead is no longer Will Smith, it is this film that made Will Smith famous in the original time and space, rather than Will Smith. Therefore, changing the male lead will not have much impact on the movie. Moreover, there is another great benefit, that is, once "The Jedi Men" succeeds as scheduled, Fireflies can immediately start the production of the sequel. After all, if Will Smith is replaced, the sequel of this film will no longer be as tragic as in the previous life.

Inside the Lesington Avenue Arsenal, Manhattan.

On November 9, as the evening gradually approached, more and more people began to gather on the surrounding streets, and luxury cars stopped at the end of the red carpet, and the guests walking out of the car caused bursts of screams and cheers from time to time.

Compared to last year Eric left all the spotlight to Victoria's Secret Angels, this year's project team slightly changed its strategy and invited more well-known celebrities to serve as guests. With the influence of the Victoria's Secret show, these people were happy to attend.
Chapter completed!