Chapter 136 Preparing to Become a Landlord
The next day.
Milo opened his slightly hazy eyes, cleared his throat, and felt the dryness on his lips.
He raised his left hand and rubbed his eyes, then looked down at Sophie Marceau, who was resting her head in his arms with her limbs entangled with him. Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, he pulled the quilt for her.
Carefully freeing himself from her grasp, Milo walked to the closet, took out a bathrobe, opened the door, walked out of the bedroom, entered the bathroom, and began to wash off the residue from farming on his body.
While taking a shower in the bathroom, the traces and memories of the battle left here last night were awakened to him.
Stunning! If Milo were asked to use a word to describe Sophie Marceau, this would definitely be the first word that comes to his mind.
In her previous life, Sophie, who was already in her forties, still had her charm. What's more, she is now at the golden age for women.
Sophie Marceau should have a little Germanic ancestry, mixed with some Celtic ancestry, and finally some ancient Roman ancestry from southern Europe.
She could be considered a mixed-race person physiologically, which made her golden age of beauty last much longer than that of orthodox Anglo-Saxon and Nordic women.
She is exactly thirty years old this year. She is sexy, mature, elegant, a little mysterious, and still has a little bit of purity left. How could she not attract men's obsession?
Milo now wanted to take her in.
It wasn't that difficult...at least for Milo.
As he said earlier, what you see in the media is what they want you to see.
Outsiders will never know what it is like behind the camera and what happens.
You said there are paparazzi?
Stop joking, paparazzi can indeed follow celebrities 24 hours a day, but is it possible to do so 365 days a year?
And given their tendency to exaggerate, it can be treated as gossip at best. It is difficult to discern meaningful information from it.
Not to mention that there are some people that paparazzi can't afford or dare to offend.
Have you seen paparazzi report on LL Island?
Milo dared the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial elite who stole his money and suffocated his dreams.
Do you think he dares to make those over-the-top paparazzi suffocate their dreams? Not to mention Milo. The couple who are still on the stage now, they are even more excessive.
More than a decade later, there was the famous "Hilary Death Wrap" rumor.
On that death shroud list were Vince Foster and Seth Rich.
The latter is the data director of the Donkey Party National Committee, which is considered a high-ranking and powerful position.
But on the streets of Washington, he was shot dead.
The reason is said to be that he took money from WikiLeaks and was their insider.
And he leaked Hillary's email data.
By that time, the couple had even been retired for more than ten years.
The former was Hillary's assistant and ambiguous object in the White House, and in fact one of his lovers.
His death has also been deemed suspicious.
Subsequently, the writer who exposed the dark side of the Zipperton Foundation, the reporter who specialized in investigating the Zipperton family, the lawyer, and others all died mysteriously for various reasons.
Most of the people here are celebrities, and some are powerful figures.
It's still the same death that can't be died anymore, and there is not even a ripple after death.
Those paparazzi who shoot entertainment news are nothing compared to these people.
Since there can be a death wrap for Hillary.
It doesn't make sense then that there can't be Blackburn's Satanic Gaze.
Now back to the women.
Monica, Zeta-Jones and others will stay with Milo.
He is aware of the existence of other women and is willing to accept or ignore them, or even serve him together with them.
Obviously not because of feelings.
Of course, there is some emotion.
After all, as long as Milo is not crazy, he is gentle and considerate to every woman. He can coax them and understand their thoughts.
Considering his identity, how could he not have any feelings?
But this is not an absolute factor. In addition to feelings, he can also give them a lot of things, simply put, benefits.
To put it bluntly, Milo gave them a good but unequal contract...
An equal contract must be based on equal strength. Now they are asking him for something, so how can they expect this?
In short, they signed the contract and they must abide by it.
Of course, this is just an analysis from the perspective of interests.
Moreover, some things cannot be discussed superficially; they can only be understood but not expressed in words.
Besides, humans are very complex creatures. Every woman around him is different in details, and these details sometimes affect the overall situation.
So, under what circumstances would this beautiful and lovely woman, Sophie Marceau, fall into his hands?
Just thinking about it makes me look forward to it.
After taking a shower and changing his clothes, Milo checked the time and it was already past nine in the morning. He returned to the bedroom and saw Sophie Marceau, who was still sleeping after kicking off the quilt because the temperature in the room was a little high. He couldn't help but smile.
His waist-length light golden-red hair spread over his wounds and his skin whiter than snow did not turn him into a farmer again. After all, the battle yesterday was too brutal and he really couldn't bear it.
He covered her with the quilt, picked up the remote control to lower the temperature of the air conditioner, leaned over and kissed her on the forehead again, put the written card next to her pillow, and then turned and left without any further delay.
Ten o'clock in the morning.
Milo appears inside Yahoo headquarters in Silicon Valley.
One of his current identities is the chairman of Yahoo!
Yahoo's headquarters is located here, so a chairman's office is specially reserved for him.
The office used was a larger chairman's office created by connecting the original offices of Jerry Young and David Filo.
Ever since David Filo, one of the co-founders of Yahoo, passed away.
As the remaining founder, Jerry Young seemed determined to continue the work that David Filo had not completed.
Since then, Jerry Young has become a workaholic.
Spending day and night in Yahoo's R&D department has greatly accelerated the development of Yahoo's various technologies and applications.
What a great founder.
At this moment, in the chairman's office at Yahoo headquarters.
"So, ITY is established. Elon, you did a great job."
Looking at Elon Musk with a humble smile on his face, Milo put his strong body on the boss chair and started to praise him.
"Oh, Boss. That's what I should do. And before I took over, you have prepared everything for me."
Elon Musk did not take credit for it. He smiled and said, "Vesig, Vardy and Gold have already laid a foundation. I just hired some people to continue the original research and development based on their foundation."
"In comparison, your suggestions are of greater help to ITY. My God, a communication software with many functions, and an instant messaging software at that! Once it is released, I wonder how many people will go crazy for it!"
Musk's subsequent remarks were not simply to flatter his boss.
Milo did make a lot of very groundbreaking content suggestions on ITY's instant messaging app.
For example, the voice chat function that Visig, Vadi and Godd had not thought of before will now be added.
In addition, Visig, Wadi and Godd are the founders of the instant messaging software ICQ in a parallel universe.
Without Milo, the three of them would have launched ICQ at the end of the year and sold it to AOL two years later for nearly $300 million.
Have you ever heard of ICQ? But have you heard of OICQ?
Not yet? You must have heard of QQ and Penguin, right? The company founded by Visig, Wadi and Goddard developed ICQ, which was the original version copied by Pony Ma.
Milo took a step ahead and directly bought the companies of Visger, Wadi and Godd.
He reinvested money and developed the more complete ITY based on ICQ.
Because he remembered that the foundation of Penguin Empire was QQ, Milo attached great importance to ITY.
He told Visig, Wadi and Godd about some of the future features of QQ in advance and asked them to add them.
These creative ideas of his may seem commonplace to people in the future.
But in this era, even instant messaging software is not yet popular.
It can be said that his creative ideas are at the forefront of the times.
Musk's flattery was sincere.
Milo smiled and shook his head, then said:
“That’s all for ITY. Elon, I am appointing you as the Chief Marketing Officer of both ITY and Yahoo.”
"But... you are very good. So good that I have another job to give you."
"I want to ask, can you do it? That might keep you so busy that you won't even have enough time to sleep every day."
"I can totally do it. I can even only sleep three hours a day!" Elon Musk said excitedly.
Yes, he does have a lot of work now.
He had to work at Yahoo and ITY at the same time, and even had to keep an eye on his own startup Zip2 from time to time.
One person doing three jobs and doing them well at the same time.
This guy can do it with ease.
This made Milo involuntarily want to add another burden to him.
And Musk himself is happy about it.
After all, three jobs mean three salaries.
If all three companies can be listed in the future, he will receive corresponding bonus shares from the three companies.
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Even when Elon is sleeping, he wakes up with a smile when he thinks about that future.
On the one hand, there is the workaholic personality and hobby here, and on the other hand, there are huge benefits ahead.
Elon Musk now just wants more, more, more.
Whether it's work or profit.
"That's right."
"I set up a company with a real estate businessman in New York."
“A real estate company, but I want to add an Internet pedigree to this company.”
Milo smiled and looked at the young Elon Musk.
Milo thought about his interactions with Gimp in the parallel universe.
I wonder what kind of sparks the two would have created if they had worked together more than 20 years in advance.
"This company is called Fangduoduo and it will operate both online and offline. It will be the world's first online real estate consulting service platform and also the first real estate company on the Internet."
“A brand new, mind-blowing, breathtaking Silicon Valley story.”
“Elon, will you help me tell this Silicon Valley story?”
Elon Musk pondered for a moment, not knowing whether he was pretending or real.
He looked as if he had finished thinking, and then his face showed great surprise and an expression of great admiration for Milo.
"Internet + real estate? Boss, what a genius idea! This will definitely shock everyone!"
"Boss, I am willing to help you create this great idea!"
Milo nodded with satisfaction, looking at the excited Elon Musk.
"In that case, Elon. Next, we need a company with experience in website development. It doesn't have to be too big. I think there are companies like this in Silicon Valley that go out of business every day due to lack of funds. It shouldn't be difficult to acquire one, right?"
"Of course, running a website is the most expensive. There are as many companies that lack funds as there are people who come to Silicon Valley with dreams of starting a business. Boss, as long as you have money, you can have as many companies as you want," Elon Musk said easily.
He also understood what Milo meant, which was the same as ITY.
Just buy an existing website company and recruit some elites, and you can build a website quickly.
It is so much better than starting from scratch.
"That's it."
"I will have Wendy and Shabote work with you, and the funds you need will be in place whenever you need them."
"By the way, the New York real estate businessman will be here next week. He is our partner, so you can go and receive him then."
"No problem!" Elon Musk replied affirmatively.
Milo then let Elon Musk go out and asked him to help him call Wendy and Shabote in.
"Boss, what did you talk to Musk about? He looked so excited that he seemed to be flying."
After Wendy came in, she smiled and joked with Milo, "Did he fly some high-end stuff?"
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That is, many places in California are very suitable for growing DM.
Before this thing was legalized, California, especially Northern California, had already produced many families who became tycoons or even wealthy families by growing DM.
The quality of California DM products is good, which is recognized by many M friends across the United States.
“Just gave him a new job.”
"This workaholic..." Wendy shook her head. "I've never seen anyone who loves work more than him."
Compared to the familiarity between Wendy and Milo, Shabote is much calmer.
After Milo and Wendy finished chatting, the first person they went to see was their chief advisor.
"Shabote, I need a piece of land in Silicon Valley to build my own Internet park in the future and include several IT companies under my name."
Milo expressed his thoughts on the future.
He now owns numerous Silicon Valley companies.
Not to mention those things that are just investments, waiting for the IPO to go public and reap the profits in the future.
He wants to run them seriously and even become an Internet overlord with these companies.
There are companies like Yahoo, ITY, eBay, Amazon, etc.
So many companies are still renting office space, and they are scattered all over the place.
Sometimes he came to inspect the work and ran around with his motorcade.
So he thought about buying a large piece of land in Silicon Valley.
Build your own Internet park on it and move all the IT companies under your name into it.
But to be honest, now is not the right time to buy land in Silicon Valley.
Since Netscape's successful IPO, not only Wall Street has set its sights on Silicon Valley.
American real estate developers have also set their sights on Silicon Valley.
The best time to buy land in Silicon Valley was a few years ago, when land was very cheap.
But you have to buy it eventually, and the current land prices in Silicon Valley have not yet experienced the surge of the last real estate bubble in the United States.
It’s more expensive than before, but still much cheaper than it will be in the future.
In particular, the land in Silicon Valley has great potential for appreciation. Even when the real estate bubble bursts in the future, this place will be able to rise against the trend.
Just like the estates in Long Island, the office buildings in Manhattan, and the villas in Beverly Hills.
With the influx of more and more IT talents, Silicon Valley has almost reached the point where every inch of land is worth a lot of money after 2010.
There are almost no good plots of land left, especially in the Bay Area. The IT giants in Silicon Valley have almost all taken up all the land.
Bill Gates and Zuckerberg and their gang are not only Internet tycoons, but they are also big landowners in the Bay Area.
During this period, Milo felt that it was very necessary to accumulate some land.
Oh, and there are farms and stuff like that.
After purchasing a lavender ranch in Dutchess County, New York, Milo began to pay attention to this type of industry across the country.
It was fine if I didn't notice it before, but now that I notice it -
My God, how many farms and ranches seem to be cheap! Although he has not thought about becoming an agricultural giant, he has not thought about becoming ABCD.
However, you can also buy a few more farms for vacation use.
It includes large farms with various landforms, dense forests, mountains and lakes, which are all perfect places for hunting and leisure.
Thinking about the future, Buffett and others also went on a land buying spree.
So Milo thinks that we should take advantage of the current situation while the real estate bubble has not yet blown up and most land prices in the United States are cheaper than after they burst.
We should acquire as much land as possible.
In this way, even if he wants to set up other armed farm bases outside of Dutchess County in the future, there will be a place to accommodate them.
Land will always be the most valuable asset of mankind.
Then again, the Blackburn family themselves were large landowners.
However, most of the land is related to churches and Protestantism.
Milo wants to do this now, which can be regarded as returning to the family business.
(End of this chapter)