MTL - I’m in Hollywood

Although it was Saturday, Carmen Kass woke up very early because Eric promised to go to the company today.

Leave the man's arms lightly, get dressed, and start preparing breakfast.

In recent days, after discussions with Paul Roland, Carmen Kass successfully bought 30% of the company's shares and became the major shareholder of the famous model agency in New York. Eric also bought it in private. Another 10% share.

The size of the m company is far from being comparable to the industry giants such as elite and img, but after many years of operation by Paul Roland, the foundation is not bad. The company has a fixed contract model team of more than 300 people in North America and Europe. In recent years, the profits have ranged from $5 million to $7 million.

Considering that the firefly system may contribute to the further development of m company, Paul Roland agreed with Carmen Kass and Eric's shareholding proposal with almost no hesitation, and only evaluated m company at 10 times P/E ratio. 60 million US dollars.

The valuation of 60 million US dollars, the price of 30% shares is 18 million US dollars.

Carmen Kass now owns two contracts, Wei Mi's endorsement costs are five years and $10 million, and Dior Zhen's endorsement costs are five years and $5 million. For a model like her who has just started to take the lead and has not yet officially boarded the Wei Mi station, the two contracts are absolutely generous.

However, even if the two moneys are all paid, minus the high taxes and brokerage companies, she will only be able to get around $8 million.

The $8 million obviously couldn’t pay for the 30% stake in m. She didn’t mean to ask Eric for help. Although $18 million was not worth mentioning for him, she negotiated a staging with Paul Roland. The contract paid.

So, signing my name on the equity transfer book, I feel a little more practical in my heart. Even if he is not interested in himself in the future, she can get a support from both the mind and the material. The model can never be done for a long time.

I always feel that even if I don't get a lot of love, it is good to get a lot of money.

People can't be too greedy.

Being busy in the kitchen, behind her arms, she stopped her movements and kissed the man from the side and said, "I made a ham sandwich."

Eric chin arrived on the girl's shoulder and said, "I taste it."

So I picked up a piece of freshly cut ham and handed it over.

Eric bit his mouth and tasted it: "Is it good to eat ham?"

She bent her lips: "Not good."

"That's it," the man looked very good and kissed Carmen Kass on his cheek. He didn't bother her to make breakfast and turned out of the kitchen.

After a while, she came out with a good breakfast, and he was already sitting in the restaurant reading the newspaper.

Two breakfasts, he was very rich, but she was just a fruit salad, because he was, he prepared a cup of milk for himself.

Set up two plates, she sat down oppositely, watching the man put down the newspaper, began to eat, inexplicably there is a feeling of home, so like a little woman whispered to ask the man's work: "The recent technology stocks Is it falling badly?"

Eric habitually took a sip of milk at hand and nodded. "Yeah, I have only $450 billion left. In two weeks, I lost a Bill Gates and a Warren Buffett. ""

She naturally knows Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, and it is clear that Eric has shrunk more than $170 billion in two weeks.

170 billion US dollars, enough to buy Estonia. Or, to be more accurate, enough to buy several Estonia.

Privately, I secretly sneaked out for so much money and suddenly I was distressed. I also imagined how to spend if I had so much money, but I couldn’t think of the answer.

Learning the man's appearance also took a sip of milk, she said: "That is also a lot of money, you can't spend all your life."

Eric listened to the girl and suddenly realized that she rarely yelled directly at his name. When talking to him, she used the name ‘you’, or she would look directly at it, and it would not be used.

Noticing the man's eyes, she was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

“I found a problem,” Eric said with a smile. “What should you call me?”

She misunderstood the man's meaning, her face was a little rosy, and she picked up the acquaintances of the common Americans in her mind. In the end, she only said: "Ai, Eric."

Eric nodded and was about to speak, but suddenly realized that he himself seemed to have the same problem.

In public, Eric has become accustomed to the dialogue mode of Westerners, but in private, Eric also does not like to directly call the names of people around him, nor the names of relatives.

It seems that after all, he has not completely integrated into the world.

Notice that Eric blinked and shook his head slightly. She was a little embarrassed and whispered: "Eric, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, suddenly found that we are a class of people," Eric noticed the girl's expression, explained the sentence, and said: "Come on, let's go to m."

m company's headquarters is in the East Village area of ​​Lower Manhattan.

Although it is a weekend, today's m company headquarters is much more lively than ever. The few other partners who usually show up are all gathered today. The interior of the office building is even Yan Yan, Paul Roland All the models that the company was able to get all the hands of were summoned, even if they were abroad, they flew back to New York in these days.

Except for a few company partners and executives, everyone still doesn't know what happened. Carmen Kass’s shareholding in m has not yet been officially announced.

Therefore, when Eric appeared with the Carmen Kass in the company, it even caused a little chaos.

When I entered the door, I first met Carolina Kokova and Eugenia Volodyna, who had a good relationship with Carmen. Eric took the initiative to say hello to them.

Other girls didn't understand the inside story. They were quite reserved. Even if they heard some rumors from Carmen Kass and Eric Williams, but when they were Eric Williams, this super Riche appeared in his own company and still feels incredible.

Then, I saw Eric’s performance in front of several girls in Carolina, so I immediately got together, signed up, introduced myself, and even had oil, so the scene suddenly became messy. stand up.

Paul Roland rescued Eric from a group of small mad madmen. Everyone came to a conference room and ran out to rush the girls who had probed their brains before returning. It was apologetic. To Eric said: "I am sorry, Mr. Williams, they don't know that you are coming today."

Eric looked helplessly at the shirt sleeves that had been taken away by a button. He could only smile and shake his head. He said to everyone: "It doesn't matter, let's sit down."

Paul Roland took the initiative to introduce Eric to several other partners and executives of the company, and everyone sat down together.

Carmen Kass sat quietly beside Eric, noticed that the man opened his cuffs, and felt a little funny, but there was some worry in his heart. In any respect, he was a man who could attract women. In comparison, she does not feel that she has any advantage to be able to hold him back.

Paul Roland is quite excited, as long as Eric Williams can appear here, it is a great opportunity for m company.

Model brokerage companies want to grow and develop, in the final analysis, the expansion of resources and connections.

To promote the models in your hands, you must have the resources and contacts of the media industry. To find a job for a model in the company's name, you need resources and connections from major corporate brands.

In either case, the firefly system is definitely a super big back at any point.

In terms of model promotion, the media resources owned by the Firefly System are even enough to kill a small m company.

In addition to Wei Mi, this is a super promotion platform that can bring brand contracts to models when you go to the stage. The huge TV media network, Internet media network and even the associated paper media network of the Firefly system, as long as they give some opportunities, It is enough to make the model that m wants to introduce become a household name.

On the other hand, the entire firefly system can provide jobs for m companies.

Originally, I was worried that Eric would be absent-minded because m company was only a small shrimp relative to the firefly system. However, I noticed that Eric was quite focused on listening to his general introduction to the company, and Paul Roland became more serious, even dragging out some of the company's business details that he wanted to hide from Eric.

Paul Roland is keenly aware that in this respectable young man who holds a huge economic empire, he can be trusted to gain more trust.

However, when Paul Roland said that more than a quarter of the more than 300 contract models of m company were ‘illegal laborers’ without a US work visa, Carmen Kathy’s face suddenly showed a worried expression.

In this circle for so long, Carmen Kass is naturally clear about some industry rules, but I did not expect that m company's problems in this area would be so serious, even thought that they might be cheated.

Noticing that the girl around her eyes looked at her blinking eyes, Eric patted her on the sigh of relief and said, "Do you know how many work visas are issued in the US each year?"

Carmen Kass shook her head. Because she was a special training object of m company, she had already obtained a work visa with the assistance of company m before she came to the United States. Naturally, she was not sure about this problem, and she didn’t even care too much about other girls in the company. The situation.

"About 200,000, the United States will only issue about 200,000 work visas per year to overseas workers," Eric said, turning to Paul Roland again. "Paul, is that the case?"

When I heard Eric say this number, Paul Roland realized that Eric had some understanding of the status of m company, otherwise he would not pay attention to the issue of US work visas without any reason.

Some are fortunate to be honest today, Paul Roland nodded with a smile, and explained to Carmen Kass: "Carmen, this is indeed the case, but this is not the most critical. The United States will only issue 200,000 jobs a year. Visa. But in fact, the total number of non-permanent immigrants who have long stayed in the United States and even the number of illegal immigrants without visas exceeds 50 million. A large part of these people need work to support themselves. Therefore, the number of illegal workers in the United States exceeds the official level of the government. More than 200 times the number of issued work is issued. Moreover, the federal government has already acquiesced in this fact, and there is no trouble. Most of the model agencies in the industry, even elite, are similar to ours."

Carmen Kass listened to Paul Roland's explanation, but looked at Eric again, until the man nodded in recognition, she was relieved.

Illegal labor is indeed a big problem in American society, and even has formed a stable existence that is stipulated by the US government.

Compared with the expensive labor costs of local labor, illegal workers will not only increase the burden on the already very heavy social welfare system of the United States, but also provide the United States with a large amount of cheap labor. Many small businesses in the United States use a large number of illegal workers. As long as there are no problems, no one will ever ask questions.

If the federal government really wants to solve the problem of illegal labor, it will even cause many industries to lack sufficient labor, which will lead to a series of chain social problems.

The model industry happens to be an industry where illegal labor phenomena are more concentrated.

Compared with those overseas talents with high academic qualifications, it is simply harder for girls who have a good skin to apply for a visa. Moreover, most girls are not old enough to get them officially. Work visa.

Therefore, many models only start their own business in the United States with a travel visa. This short-term travel visa is very easy to obtain between Western countries. It is only necessary to return to your country every three months and renew the visa. Even if the immigration department finds that it is greasy, it will often close one eye.

Although the holding of m company is only the most inconspicuous investment in the huge industry under Eric's name, Eric is very cautious in conducting a detailed investigation of the status of m company to ensure that the company does not What will happen.

Since the use of illegal workers is a hidden rule in the industry, Eric is not too concerned about it. He has always believed in the principle that there is no fish in the water. Even if this matter is taken out by someone with a heart, it will not have any effect on him.

After discussing the operation of m company, everyone began to turn the topic to the future development of this company.

Model brokerage companies, when they reach the peak, there are often two modes. One is to consistently adhere to the model economy business and to achieve the ultimate. The other is the gradual diversification.

The industry's elite and img, which are the most representative of the two models.

Elite has the largest number of model contractors in the industry. It also selects newcomers every year in the form of the elite model contest. It can be said that the single model brokerage business has achieved the ultimate, and the elite company is about 90% per year. The income is also derived from the commission income of the models.

Img's simple contract model team is only about 300 people, and the scale is even similar to that of m company.

However, img is taking the elite operation route. The overall quality of the 300 models in the other hand is far from being comparable. Moreover, the model agency is completely a branch of img, and the business scale only accounts for about 10% of img.

In addition to the model economy, img also represents a large sports star, pop singer team, as well as img media companies that produce hundreds of fashion and sports documentaries every year, as well as img with franchises for countless universities or companies from all over the world. College company.

This comprehensive operation mode will undoubtedly maximize the benefits of the artist team in the hands. The reason why img can take the elite route is because it has sufficient channels to provide enough promotion for all types of artists.

Compared with the two models of elite and img, the business prospect of the second model is obviously more stable, and Eric himself is more inclined to the latter.