The Wolf of Los Angeles - Chapter 315

Christie’s Classical Art Auction Scene in New York.

Looking at the Aztec stone sculpture placed on the booth, Hawke raised the sign in his hand and offered a price of $300,000.

No one snatched him, no one wanted to bid.

This is a piece of monkey-like granite with blurred lines.

“300,000 USD once…twice, 300,000 USD third!”

As the auctioneer dropped the hammer, Hawke successfully bought the antique.

Leonardo in the back row quietly glanced at Hawke, not understanding why he wanted to buy such an ugly stone.

The auction continues. In order to create the character of art lovers, Hawke bought another Southeast Asian jade carving and an ancient Greek pampering scroll.

The last two are not expensive, and the total is $50,000.

Hawke also paid attention to Leonardo, who bought two modern oil paintings.

As for Monet’s oil paintings that ended at the auction, Hawke just took a look. He has plenty of cash flow in his hands, but he has to use it on the blade.

This stage is impossible to spend huge amounts of money on artworks.

The oil painting was eventually taken down by BlackRock’s founder Larry Fink.

After the auction, the organizer Christie’s prepared a reception dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Considering that items would be auctioned in the future, Hock went to the dinner and chatted with a person in charge of Christie’s North America.

In the eyes of others, as the founder and chairman of Twitter, Hawke is one of the so-called upstarts in technology.

Leonardo met Hawke once at a party in Los Angeles. He came over to say hello, shook his hand, and said, “How many antiques did you buy in the auction just now?”

Hawke made a serious nonsense: “I am quite interested in these old objects, which represent the history and culture of various places.”

Leonardo asked, “Those things seem to come from overseas.”

“There is no way. The cultural relics dug out of this land in North America are all Indians.” Hawke said the truth: “I have collected enough of the Aboriginal things.”

The other party is a newly-promoted super rich man, and he also holds a public opinion tool like Twitter. Leonardo is quite pleased: “I also have a preference for antiques and artworks, so we can discuss it if I have time.”

Thinking of the special relationship between Leonardo and the Clintons, who might take advantage of it in the future, Hawke simply said, “I just entered this industry and didn’t know much about it. I also spent a lot of money to buy a lot of fakes in Los Angeles.”

He bought an ancient Greek pampering roll at auction, using it as a topic: “Especially on ancient pampering rolls, there are too many fakes. Are there any tricks that are easier to distinguish?”

Hearing Hawke’s “sincere” asking for advice, Leonardo said: “I heard a collector mention that the easiest thing is to look at the handwriting and the completeness of the scroll.”

Hawke nodded: “This kind of leather paper is difficult to keep and is not easy to keep.”

“Yes, the biggest feature of ancient Greek parchment rolls is fake.” Leonardo wanted to leave a deep impression on Hawke and further said: “In addition to whether the parchment rolls themselves are well preserved, there is also the handwriting.”

Hawke asked curiously, “Writing?”

Leonardo said in detail: “The Declaration of Independence is written on the parchment scroll. I wonder if you have ever seen it in the museum. This is the most important cultural relic in the United States. The Declaration of Independence has received the best protection since the founding of the United States, but over the past 200 years, the handwriting on it has been blurred.”

He paused a little, leaving Hawke with some time to think, and continued, “Where are most of the ancient Greek parchment scrolls discovered? After thousands of years, the handwriting on it is actually clearer than the Declaration of Independence. Is this normal?”

Hawke was a little surprised: “I didn’t expect you to be so researchy about antique art.”

“Because I’ve been fooled a lot and bought a lot of fakes,” Leonardo said with a little stunning expression, “Whenever they need something, they can always dig out of the cave and underground.”

Hawke understood: “First have a demand, and then customize the corresponding cultural relics, books and antiques according to actual needs?”

Leonardo laughed, “That’s right, that’s it.”

The two chatted for a while.

Someone came over next to him and Leonardo went somewhere else.

Hawke glanced.

Leonardo meets Gisele Bonchen, and the two have not broken up yet.

Hawke was very dedicated and unconsciously worked in his head.

If the exclusive video of Leonardo and Giselle breaking up, Twitter can win another wave of attention.

The person who came here was already close.

Hawke recognized it at a glance, BlackRock founder and CEO Larry Fink.

The latter had seen Hawke’s photos and introductions on the information sent from the San Francisco branch, saying, “I heard Douglas mention Twitter and his founder a long time ago, but I didn’t expect to see him here today.”

Hawke knew that Douglas was the president of the BlackRock San Francisco branch who had already sucked.

There was a fire between the two sides, and he was lucky and successfully killed the counterattack.

Douglas was unlucky and was hit with several transparent holes. Hawke was not polite and said directly: “Although we don’t have much dealings between us, BlackRock has taught me a lot.”

Larry Fink was just over fifty and was full of ambition. He pretended not to understand, but said, “It’s a pity that I missed investing in Twitter.”

But Hawke said: “Originally we were able to reach a cooperation in the business world. Twitter last year needed funds, but you made a not-so-wise choice.”

When talking about cooperation last year, BlackRock valued Twitter less than $2 billion, but by the end of the year, the valuations of several institutions in Silicon Valley exceeded $8 billion.

Now Twitter has accepted investments from Silicon Valley funds, and its most conservative valuation is more than $10 billion.

BlackRock’s current market value is less than US$20 billion.

The paper strength on both sides looks similar.

But Hawke knew very well that behind BlackRock, there were Jewish investors, which were quite difficult.

Larry Fink added: “Douglas is really not wise, but that was his decision alone, not BlackRock’s choice.”

Hawke didn’t believe a word of this kind of nonsense: “I hope so.”

Seeing a high-quality company like Twitter, Larry Fink doesn’t want to let it go: “With the development speed of Twitter, we will consider going public soon. BlackRock can help you and make your road to listing smoother.”

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Hawke asked directly, “What are the conditions?”

Larry Fink doesn’t need to hide it: “In the second round of financing, BlackRock investment will be accepted.”

“Yes.” If the other party simply invests money, Hawke will not refuse: “A dual-share structure, you invest in Class A shares, only dividend permissions and no voting rights.”

Larry Fink remained silent, but couldn’t help but curse. The bastard’s heart was as dark as BlackRock.

Hawke’s words are not over yet: “You must not interfere with the daily operations of Twitter.”

Larry Fink knew it was no different from rejection.

But he said something else: “I can consider these things. BlackRock’s investment only requires a little, and the number of female employees is as close to half as possible.”

“Women’s employees account for half?” Hawke smiled, “In this way, BlackRock will achieve this first, and then stick to it for two years, and Twitter will follow up, how about it?”

Larry Fink looked at Hawk in surprise.

Since the formulation of the marginal crowd plan last year, BlackRock and Pioneer International have formulated corresponding investment assessments, one of which is the so-called freedom and equality.

In this item, the proportion of female employees and their attitude towards homosexual employees are the most important scoring criteria.

Most companies can accept it.

Companies that are in urgent need of money will not be unable to get along with investment.

“If BlackRock can do it, Twitter can also try it,” Hawke said.

Unlike other companies, BlackRock is a pure investment company, with the most positions being market investigators and investment managers.

In these positions, if women account for half of the proportion, the results will definitely be outstanding.

If the time is a little longer, BlackRock’s chance of going downhill is more than 90%, and there is no longer any threat.

The two sides could not reach an agreement on this aspect, and after a brief conversation, they ended up in an unhappy manner.

When leaving the Waldorf Assistant Hotel, someone suggested to Larry Fink to launch another high-end business war.

But Larry Fink was very cautious because he had asked someone to investigate carefully. Not only did Hawk take the bodyguard at any time, but his own abilities were also outstanding.

If Hawk cannot be defeated, what awaits BlackRock is not only the revenge of a powerful family involving police, politics and business, but also Hawk’s own cruel means.

Douglas Cost is the best example.

On Hawk’s side, everyone riding in New York is bulletproof sedan.

Back at the Four Seasons Hotel he checked in, he prepared Betty and the group prepared to head to Boston.

Hawke would not directly contact the two talents hired through Campos, nor would he show up in front of Zuckerberg.

He wanted to see with his own eyes whether he could change a person’s path through long-term efforts, as well as the temptation of money and women.

Rejecting money and women is easy to say, but few people can do it.

In Cambridge City, Bart and Neville are also using the drinking party again and again, and the three of them have a group carnival again and again, exerting influence on Zuckerberg, allowing Zuckerberg’s entrepreneurial ideas about computer programs to change unknowingly with the direction proposed by Hawke.

The three of them discussed and invested together this time.

Bart and Neville registered a new company before Hawke came to New York.

The company is registered in the Cayman Islands. In addition to two small shareholders, Bart and Neville, the controlling party is Hawke’s overseas bag company.

Bart and Neville hired more than a dozen girls in Cambridge City in the name of the new company, and copied some of the school’s tags and badges, conducting front-line research on female students from Haval University, MIT and other nearby schools. (End of this chapter)