Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1688

Simon didn't have the leisure of a group of girls. There was an important video conference in the packed schedule this morning. The paeX team, the Fu private onTime team, and the Westeros system participated in the cooperation with some official cooperative advisory teams of the Federation, and the discussion was about the lunar exploration plan.

The brand-new SpaeX company has had many successful launches of various types of rockets. It stands to reason that the next step should be manned flight.

This plan is also progressing.

The lunar exploration program is a brand new mission branch.

Simon did not immediately copy the idea of ​​Apollo's manned lunar landing plan. It is far from the time. This lunar exploration plan, in short, is to develop a set of space plans to reach the moon and return at the lowest cost. The goal is to retrieve the lunar soil.

If it could go a step further, extract helium-3 from the moon directly via a remote-controlled robotic device and bring it back.

Compared with the lunar soil, the extremely light helium 3, the cost of bringing it back from the moon will obviously only be lower.

On the other hand, the further extension of this lunar exploration plan is to connect with Fu Private onTime's controllable nuclear fusion research and development team.

People who know a little about these two fields probably know that through the estimates of human exploration of the moon many times, there is a huge reserve of helium-3 resources on the moon, which is completely beyond that of the earth by countless orders of magnitude. This is because the earth's atmosphere blocks it. Helium 3 radiated from the sun, but the moon does not have this barrier. As a result, hundreds of millions of years of continuous erosion have accumulated.

Yes, the helium 3 on the moon still comes from the sun.

Just some radiated corners, theoretically enough for humans to use for tens of thousands of years.

This is the case, ten thousand years later, as long as human beings are not destroyed, and on the basis of existing technology, tortoises will at least be able to travel the entire solar system.

Then there's helium-3 itself.

The current mainstream tritium fusion, relatively speaking, can be said to have many shortcomings, low energy release, neutron radiation, low controllability, and so on.

As a counter-example, the fusion reaction of helium 3 has higher energy release, no radiation, and the conditions required for fusion are also milder. In short, they are all advantages.

Or the biggest disadvantage is that the reserves of helium 3 on the earth are too small and too small.

In fact, the human lunar exploration program has been launched for nearly half a century, and enough data has been accumulated. It is still Simon's original idea to digest and then develop. This time, it is still based on the results brought by the Apollo program. The Luo system team has reached an agreement with NASA and other parties, and the exchange is that the research results here are open to the government.

As for this time, the ultimate goal of official cooperation teams such as SpaASA is to try to establish an unmanned helium-3 mining base on the moon.

This is mainly due to cost considerations.

Manned moon landing, the cost is too high, and it is not necessary in the short term, and Simon's personal requirement is that each plan, no matter what, must have some output, rather than planning for the plan, just like in the past, completely. It is the two hegemons of the United States and the Soviet Union who are fighting for science and technology.

Practicality still comes first.

Therefore, the requirement of the overall scheme is that the cost should be as low as possible.

For example, the various processes of landing on the moon do not have to be done in one go at all. You can separate the round-trip and other processes. Or, go two or three times and come back once. You don’t need to pursue speed during the round-trip process. If you can use the gravity of the earth and the moon to fly automatically, then slowly Fly too. After returning, or you don't need to land directly on the earth, you can put the collection results on the space station first, and then deliver them back after adding up. In short, how to save money.

Of course Simon is not short of money, but the fundamental purpose of this is to pursue efficiency.

Human social resources are still limited for the time being.

If you can do more with limited resources, there's no reason to splurge.

Even if the space exploration industry becomes a real commercial activity in the future, it is obvious that, just like the current enterprises, whoever is more efficient, whose cost is lower, who can generate more profits, will be able to defeat the company. competitors and survive.

At the same time, in the planning of the project, this lunar exploration program will also bring various 'by-products'.

For example, new materials.

For example, robots will be further developed.

For example, the photovoltaic technology that the Westeros system is also focusing on will also be applied in space this time.

Another example is space communication.

Etc., etc.

As long as it works properly, many of these "by-product" technologies can be applied to a wide range of private fields in the future.

The meeting lasted until 12 o'clock, and the heads of all aspects in the video reported completion. After some discussion, Simon personally made the final decision and approved the plan.

The first stage is 3 years. Budget, $2 billion.

Time aside, 2 billion US dollars is actually a figure that is neither too high nor too low.

If you only talk about the equipment required for simple processes such as launch, arrival, and return, $2 billion is too high. However, when it comes to the research and development of many of these technologies, $2 billion is far from enough.

Simon's attitude is that every expense over $100,000 has to be sent to him for signature before it can be approved.

Don't be afraid of the team spending too much money, but never allow the team to spend money indiscriminately.

Of course, Simon does not understand all kinds of professional details, but he has a professional evaluation team by his side.

In the final analysis, it is still efficiency, doing the most things at the lowest cost.

To end this video conference, the time is exactly twelve noon.

When I came to a small restaurant dedicated to Building 1, Amy Pascal was already waiting.

The topic at lunch was about dividends after this annual report.

At present, most of the super-rich, well, remove Simon, other super-rich in the traditional sense are generally only worth tens of billions of dollars. Daenerys Entertainment, which netted more than $10 billion in one year, is definitely a very large sum of money.

Dividends, naturally many people are also watching.

Even if the various reductions have been diluted over the years, Simon personally still holds up to 76.2% of Daenerys Entertainment's shares. Once the dividend is started, it is obvious that he is also the one with the greatest profit.

The problem is that the current Westeros family is really not short of money.

Even if there is no cash in hand, just contact the bank, and it is easy to raise funds in the tens of billions of dollars. In addition, the final stage of the current election is time-sensitive. After a brief discussion, it was decided to only pay dividends according to 30% of the quarterly income. , and the rest, all as reserve funds for Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Even if Simon occupies the majority of the equity of Daenerys Entertainment, it is still a big one. After all, there are still many small shareholders. Dividends based on 30% of the quarterly earnings will inevitably cause some shareholders' dissatisfaction. However, if the dividend ratio is too high, then Those who are dissatisfied may be the many media that use the theme to provoke public emotions.

It's easy to tell which is more important on both sides.

In any case, find some reason to perfunctory other shareholders.

After the discussion was over and the lunch continued, Amy followed the question about the financial report and brought up another thing: "It's easy to find reasons, Simon, but we really need to try to develop new growth points, otherwise, even if the game No matter how strong the business is, it may be difficult to last for too long, not to mention that the Internet bubble has reached its peak. I have recently been worried that after this bubble burst, Daenerys will become one of the kind, very profitable, but There is a lack of growth, so it is difficult for the stock price to go too high, the kind of old-fashioned corporate giant."

What Amy was talking about was obviously an old-fashioned company like Boeing and Chevron that made good profits every year, but was not favored by the capital market because of its low growth potential.

Simon listened to Amy's words, but he had no anxiety, and said with a smile: "This is an inevitable trend. Any company develops to the extreme, and it is the same in the end. There is nothing to worry about."

Of course Amy also understood this truth, but she was still a little unwilling: "Simon, do you think that Daenerys' market value can break through trillions this time?"

If his predictions come true, then this big bubble may be the peak of Daenerys, and there is probably not much chance of reaching such a high stock price in the future.

There is still more than a month before December. Simon considered the recent trend. Although it is quite gratifying, whether the market value can finally break through a certain threshold still depends on luck.

Shaking his head, Simon said, "We can just do our own thing."

Amy shrugged: "It seems that it can only be so."

In fact, thinking about it, after all, she is still working for the young man in front of her, and her boss is not so eager, what can she do?

However, at the beginning, she founded this company with her own boss. To use a more cliche, Daenerys Entertainment is also similar to her child. This time, it is obviously very close. If it can't break through 1 trillion US dollars, It's a big pity.

After all, 1 trillion is really achieved. For a company, the meaning is equivalent to a soldier who has won a top medal. Even if the market value falls again in the future, this medal will forever accompany the company and even be recorded in the business history of mankind.

Seeing Amy looking very unwilling to be disappointed, Simon smiled and said: "Amy, if you have any arrangements, you can implement them, but there is a premise, such as financial reports, don't make false ... well, Let me give you an inside story, never say it out, probably in the next period of time, there will be a bomb of corporate fraud, and it will explode. At that time, I don’t want to be implicated in us because of a false name.”

Amy was still a little excited when she suddenly got permission from her own boss, but when the topic changed, she was a little surprised, and even instantly understood a series of things.

A corporate fraud bomb is about to go off, so what's the result?

Of course, the federal stock market will also explode.

That is to say, Daenerys wants to hit the trillion-dollar market value, so there is not much time left.

Thinking about it this way, even though she knew that this was a little inside story that her boss believed in herself, Amy subconsciously wanted to know more: "Simon, what's going on?"

"I won't tell you more, and, I remind you again, don't reveal it, it's very important to us," Simon said, thought about it, and added: "You just need to remember, probably still Two months."

Amy nodded solemnly after hearing what her boss said.

As for using this news for profit, my thoughts flashed, and Amy just skipped it. With the shares of Daenerys Entertainment and other investments accumulated over the years, Amy is now worth more than 20 billion US dollars, which is really unnecessary. Use this kind of inside information that her boss tells her out of trust to make a profit.

Even, in her heart, Amy didn't even plan to tell her husband. After all, her man is a journalist and is too closely connected with the media circle. If she leaks the word, the result will be bad.

In any case, now that I know the news, the fake data will definitely not be used. In fact, Amy has no plans to use it. After all, he has missed the best opportunity of this year's financial report, and if he comes up with some other fake data, will he? Not to mention that it will work, in case... it will really be troublesome.

Still, there are of course many ways to push up a company's stock price, even without lying.

Amy also thought about it in advance, probably, a new year's corporate planning idea to further promote Daenerys Entertainment's turn to informatization to meet the arrival of the information age.

In fact, Daenerys Entertainment has been doing things like embracing the Internet in recent years, such as the online membership plan of the whole business system, such as the online rental business of its Blockbuster chain, such as the online game business, such as its own theater. The system's online ticket purchase attempts, and so on and so on.

This time, such a plan is just a summary of what Daenerys has been doing all the time. By the way, of course, some new network business development plans that may or may not be realized will be mentioned.

Anyway, now is an era of hyping the concept of the Internet.

Just like the old industrial giant General Electric, in the past two years, Jack Welch personally took the lead in promoting e-commerce. GE can break through the market value of 400 billion US dollars as a traditional enterprise. In addition to its own size, it is as accurate as Welch. Being in the 'pulse of the times' is inseparable.

Just hype.

At most it can only be counted as falsification, not fake.

Simon listened to Amy's brief description without hesitation, and agreed with a smile.

I also reminded that the reason for the reduction in dividends happened right away this time. In order to promote the new plan for the new year, we need to spend money.

Of course, this is just an excuse.

When the bubble bursts, Daenerys Entertainment's huge profits will still stay in her own account. At that time, other shareholders will probably be thankful that Daenerys Entertainment did not squander the money.

After lunch, Simon returned to the office.

Girl A followed in the door, reported some minor adjustments and precautions in her boss's schedule in the afternoon, and then mentioned that there are still a group of little girls in the studio, do you want to meet?