Start by trimming cow hooves

Back home.

Suri opened another bottle of red wine and took a bath with Daddario and the others to relax.

During the period.

He asked Yuko Hoshino:

"After watching "Arctic Love", how do you feel about the filming? We can play a little game to see who guesses the final box office closer to the real number. If anyone wins, you can make a request that is not excessive and use it as a bet."

In front of Daddario, Yuko Hoshino would be crazy to find fault. In fact, she really thinks the rhythm of the whole movie is very good, and it makes people have endless aftertaste after watching it.

She replied:

"It's just hard for me to imagine that you can point out such a delicate script. Let's not talk about other places. It should be able to get a high box office in Japan. I guess. Its global box office should be around $400 million."

Daddario spoke first:

"Then I guess about $350 million. It is not a big-budget commercial movie. As a love adventure theme, I will be very satisfied if I can reach this number."

Suri expected the result to be between $300 million and $400 million. He then said:

"Then I will compromise and set it at $375 million. I'll tell you in advance that if I win, one of you will dress up as a fox girl and the other will dress up as a cat girl, and both of them will have tails."

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Daddario said: "Then I have to work harder recently. Even if I let Youyou win, I can't let you win this bet."

Hoshino Yuko smiled and said:

"I can also reveal my request in advance. I want Suri to dress up as Santa Claus or wear priest clothes."

"???"

Almost choked.

Suri looked at Yuko Hoshino, and it was hard to imagine what strange things this girl was thinking about.

In addition to watching movies tonight, it was not without gain.

During the party, a shareholder of the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills told him that Bill Gates' family office, Cascade Investment, seemed to be communicating with many companies recently, trying to sell its shares in the Four Seasons Hotel Group.

While Yuko Hoshino and Daddario were gossiping, Suri used his mobile phone to search for relevant information.

It was learned that since the Four Seasons Hotel Group was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1997, Cascade Investment began to buy in the secondary market and soon became one of the important shareholders.

Later.

In 2007, Saudi Kingdom Holding Company and Bill Gates' family fund Cascade Investment joined forces, mobilizing a total of about US$3.8 billion to jointly acquire the Four Seasons Hotel Group and privatize and delist the company from the New York Stock Exchange.

In the end, Saudi Kingdom Holding Company and Bill Gates each held 47.5% of the shares, and Isadore Sharp, the founder of the Four Seasons Hotel, held only about 5% of the shares, which has been maintained to this day.

Many small businesses have long made Su Rui lose interest.

In addition, he originally planned to layout the high-end hotel industry and make plans for the long-term future. Large acquisitions such as buying the Four Seasons Hotel Group just meet his needs.

Although this time point is a bit awkward, the plan to cash out has not been officially launched, and many projects are still in the incubation stage of rapid growth, but the book assets in his hands are also valuable, enough to attract banks to help pay, and the cost is nothing more than paying more interest.

Once you miss such a great opportunity, I don’t know when I will have to wait for the next acquisition of a top high-end hotel brand.

Send a message first and ask Secretary Amanda to help check the relevant information.

After putting down the phone, Suri talked to them about this matter, and Daddario suddenly said: "Maybe I know the reason why Bill Gates sold the shares of Four Seasons Hotel. I heard my mother mention that their law firm is busy with a project recently, and they often travel to the Netherlands for meetings and contact with representatives of Heineken. If it is not that other world's richest people ask their law firm for help, then it should be that Bill Gates is trying to acquire Heineken." The scale of Heineken in the Netherlands is not small. It is the second largest beer producer in the world, second only to Budweiser. If Bill Gates is interested in the more profitable wine business and tries to sell the shares of Four Seasons Hotel to cash out, everything makes sense. Suri is also optimistic about the prospects of the wine industry, but he is mainly busy investing in liquor in the mainland. The total value of liquor stocks he holds has exceeded 2.6 billion US dollars, and he is still increasing his holdings. After listening. He said to Daddario:

"Don't tell anyone about this, or your mother will lose her job. Bill Gates should have made a lot of profit after investing in Four Seasons Hotel. From the perspective of return rate, running a hotel is probably not as good as selling beer."

"Since you know the profit rate is relatively low, why do you still want to invest?"

The question was asked by Yuko Hoshino.

Suri explained:

"I have my own considerations, mainly to share risks. Hotels are spread all over the world, so it is not easy to be wiped out, and the rate of return is relatively stable."

Talking about Bill Gates' family office - Cascade Investments.

The headquarters of this family office is located in an unnamed building in the suburbs of Seattle. There are few reports about it from the outside world. It has more than 100 employees. Both the asset scale and the number of employees are comparable to Suri's family office.

Su Rui subconsciously compared the two family offices and easily concluded that the assets in his own hands had greater potential for appreciation.

but.

Returns are often directly proportional to risks.

He is now being watched by many people, and Bill Gates is already in semi-retirement. Judging from his actions in recent years, he has nothing more than hoarding a large amount of manor land, acquiring some old traditional enterprises, and doing charity.

It’s hard to imagine that the powerful giants in the technology field who were wrestling with Steve Jobs and others back then would retreat so completely.

think carefully.

Back then, Bill Gates chose to quit at about the same time that Microsoft was sued for antitrust and almost split up.

The original intention of establishing the Waterfall Investment and Charitable Foundation may also be to reduce society's hostility towards him and avoid being targeted by jackals, tigers and leopards.

Bill Gates' various arrangements are obviously very similar to Suri's long-term plan.

After taking a bath.

Both Hoshino Yuko and Daddario are no longer as young and immature as they were two or three years ago. Their combined fighting power is so strong that Suri can only end up pretending to be sleepy.

The next morning, Suri was not allowed to have a peaceful sleep, so when she went downstairs she was listless and just wanted to find a place to lie down.

Secretary Amanda quickly sent the information he wanted.

Through some gossip, Su Rui determined that Waterfall Investment was indeed selling shares of the Four Seasons Hotel Group.

In just a few years after the privatization of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, this investment has brought Bill Gates a return of about 50%, including dividends over the years, and the global high-end hotel industry has encountered a development bottleneck. During this period, there is limited space for subsequent value-added.

Suri doesn't mind its low yield.

It only takes about US$2.5 billion to acquire 47.5% of the Four Seasons Hotel, which is not too expensive in his eyes.

What's more critical is that we can continue to inject capital with the help of this company and transfer large amounts of assets to various parts of the world.

At the same time, the Dubai World Island project, Jebel Ali Palm Island and other projects can be printed with the Four Seasons Hotel trademark, thus enhancing the overall brand image (end of this chapter)