Chapter 14: No Big Ambition

Night falls and the lights come on.

San Francisco.

Back at the InterContinental Hotel where they were staying, Wendy looked at Milo speechlessly. After returning, he immediately curled up on the sofa, yawning out of boredom and constantly changing TV channels.

Wendy said unhappily, "My dear boss, I can understand your investment in Yahoo, after all, Sequoia Capital has already invested in it."

"but……"

The fat man changed his tone and continued, "I don't quite understand your venture capital investment in other Silicon Valley companies."

"for example?"

"Delicious and Auctionweb."

"The former now has only three people and doesn't even have an office. The latter is even more outrageous. It's just a website for auctioning candy boxes that the founder set up to please his girlfriend..."

"You actually wrote them a check for $50,000 and a check for $100,000 for these two companies!"

Milo didn't bother to explain.

"Just do it. Believe me, my dear Wendy, you will think me a prophet."

Did he have to tell Wendy that he was a time traveler?

Now I can get 60% of Delicious's shares for $50,000.

In three years at the latest, you can get hundreds of millions of dollars in returns.

Auctionweb is even more powerful.

Its founder, after receiving investment, is seeking to change its name to "Echo Bay Technology Group".

Abbreviated as Ebay.

One hundred thousand dollars, also for 60% of the shares.

Similar companies include Geocities, Lycos, etc.

Including Yahoo, Milo launched a long-planned big money-spending campaign in Silicon Valley.

He invested $15 million of his own $20 million family credit line.

In total, it acquired more than 50 Silicon Valley Internet startups, with shares ranging from 20% to 70% in each.

And we have signed priority investment agreements with them to guarantee the rights for additional investment in the future.

Milo was very satisfied with this and felt it was a great success.

Wendy had a terrible headache.

Placed beside Milo as the Blackburn family.

A peripheral family member with multiple identities such as "guardian", "steward", and "scapegoat".

Many times, Wendy was powerless to stop Milo's reckless behavior.

In the past, there were only two and a half people who could really stop this reckless man.

They are John Blackburn and Paladin Blackburn.

The remaining half is Robin Bush Blackburn.

But now, Paladin is dead.

Robin only has this one son left, and he probably won't be willing to take care of him anymore.

Wendy knew very well that perhaps only the old patriarch could control the little ancestor in front of him.

He could only comfort himself that the money was given by the old patriarch.

Plymouth was also aware of Milo's investment plan and acquiesced to it.

In the future, the losses will be cleaned up and have little to do with you.

The worst that could happen is that I'd be called back and scolded.

If I'm lucky, maybe I can be transferred away from this little ancestor.

Mary bless you, I hope so!

Thinking of this, Wendy reported to Milo how much money was left in his little treasury.

"If you insist on doing this, I can't do anything about it. But I think I should let you know how much money we have left."

Milo also wanted to know, "Hmm? How many more."

"The line of credit that the family gave you at Wells Fargo. Five million dollars remaining."

"Your personal account at Citibank currently has $3.85 million left."

"In addition to this, there are also various cash and scattered funds, totaling approximately two hundred thousand dollars."

"That is to say," Wendy concluded, "Dear boss, you still have a little over nine million in cash available for use."

Milo smiled: "There are still so many left? Then I feel relieved."

The fat man rolled his eyes at him and turned to lie down on the sofa on the other side.

Seeing Milo's tired look, Wendy felt that it was pointless to be anxious.

The Blackburn family is large and powerful, and the respected Joseph has a bright future.

It doesn't matter if he gets more ridiculous, since it seems the family doesn't expect Milo to continue on the Paladin's path anyway.

Wendy said nothing, and neither did Milo.

For a moment, in the living room of the InterContinental Hotel's executive suite.

The master and the servant were each lost in their own thoughts.

Lazily lying on the sofa, Milo was now very relaxed.

It can be said that this is the first time he has been so relaxed since his rebirth.

Because he successfully achieved the first goal he set for himself after traveling through time—

Invest in the Internet and take advantage of the upcoming Nasdaq craze to gain financial freedom!

First, he relied on the Blackburn family's connections to grab 200,000 shares of Netscape before it went public.

These 200,000 shares cost him $4 million, which exhausted all his original funds.

But it's worth waiting another month.

As soon as Netscape went public, its stock price remained stable at over $70.

At that time, you can either wait half a year before selling it or use it as collateral in a bank.

They can easily cash out tens of millions of dollars.

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He successfully persuaded his grandfather and obtained the initial investment from the family.

He has now successfully acquired shares of more than 50 Internet companies, including Yahoo.

Milo was sure that as long as he followed up.

An investment of nearly 20 million US dollars now can bring you a return of more than 10 billion US dollars within five years.

Let alone Yahoo, the return could exceed 5 billion.

By then, even if you do nothing, you will still have such a huge fortune.

With the protection of my family, I can do whatever I want for the rest of my life.

I am only 22 years old now, and I will be almost 60 by the time the empire reaches its twilight years.

At that time, I had eaten, seen, played and had fun, so it didn’t matter even if the empire failed.

Thinking of this, Milo shrugged, then stood up, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and stretched.

In front of him was the beautiful and glorious night view of San Francisco.

So, what can I do now? What can make me happy?

The sound of laughter came from the TV behind him. It was Disney's Family Channel.

An all-ages TV movie is playing.

Milo, who was still thinking, couldn't help licking the corner of his mouth.

Hollywood! He squinted his eyes and said the word silently.

Suddenly, Wendy heard Milo in front of the French window say, "Dear Wendy, what do you think of me going to make a movie?"

"Making movies? We are making movies. After the family funds arrived, the follow-up investment for the two movies we cooperated with Miramax has been made. So nominally, Paladin Films is now shooting two movies."

"No, that's not what I meant."

Milo laughed and said, “I mean, we’ll make our own movie!”

"Hmm?" Wendy sat up on the sofa. The fat man frowned and looked at Milo. "You mean..."

"I'll be the director, screenwriter, producer, and make movies!"

Wendy opened her mouth, not quite sure how to start.

Thank you for your generous gift!

Is this reasonable?

That doesn't make any sense! You New England Mayflower descendant.

The grandson of a former senator and the son of a current congressman, he is a descendant of the Blackburn family, which has produced five members of Congress.

There is also my grandfather who once lived in the White House, and my uncle who is now the governor...

People like this should just not play House of Cards with their ancestors.

You can barely say that he has self-awareness, but he lacks the ability to play a high-end House of Cards.

But at least you can use these connections to become an easy stock god on Capitol Hill.

Or maybe even more simply.

Start a company, keep starting a company, and take on various money-making projects.

This is also an easy way to make money, and everyone does it this way.

But you don’t do any of these.

He just came to Los Angeles to play with women.

This is already looked down upon in the circle.

It's ok now.

It's not enough to play with women, you also have to be a part of Hollywood yourself.

Wendy opened her mouth.

But in the end he couldn't say anything.

The protagonist is set to grow up gradually, and apart from his family background, he doesn't have much else to offer, so he will follow the art entertainment route in the early stages, turn to business wars and consortiums in the middle stages, and only start the House of Cards plot in the late stages.

New author, new book. Even after signing the contract, I feel like no one is reading it. If anyone is willing to read it, please let me know. (End of this chapter)