"Honey, are you ready?"

Pushing open the door of the dressing room, Duke walked in. The top stylist from Hollywood had already helped Ivanka change her clothes, greeted Duke, and hurried away with his assistant.

"Am I pretty?" Ivanka asked, turning her head.

Duke laughed, "Very beautiful."

Ivanka's blond hair is coiled behind her head, without any ornaments on it. She just wears a string of diamond-encrusted platinum necklaces on her smooth and slender neck. Below the necklaces is a handmade off-the-shoulder white evening dress from Chanel. The design highlights her proud capital.

"Is the dress a little tight?" Duke walked over.

Ivanka looked in the mirror and said, "I think it's just right."

She probably understood Duke's meaning, rolled her eyes slightly, leaned into his ear, and whispered, "I have prepared another tighter gauze dress, and I will show you to wear it tonight."

Duke's eyes lit up immediately, "Okay."

Smiling, Duke handed the box in his hand to Ivanka, "Your birthday present, dear, happy birthday."

"Thank you." After receiving it, Ivanka picked up the gift box and shook it, "Is it okay?"

Duke made a gesture of invitation, and Ivanka opened the gift box, which contained a beautiful watch.

"very beautiful."

Ivanka took a closer look. This should be a top-notch Patek Philippe watch, obviously hand-made. No matter from which angle you look at it, you can see the outline of her head on the dial inlaid with sapphires.

"I like it very much," she added.

The watch is elegant and restrained, much like herself.

Ivanka took off the bracelet, handed the watch to Duke, and then extended his wrist, "Will you put it on for me?"

"Happy to oblige." Duke stroked her wrist lightly. "My. Lady."

"Am I that old?"

Duke shrugged, put on his watch for Ivanka, looked at the time again, pulled her up and walked out, and reminded, "It's almost time. We should go down."

Walking to the spiral staircase leading to the banquet hall, Duke went down first. The music in the banquet hall stopped abruptly. The eyes of countless guests looked at this side. He raised his hand upwards and led the protagonist of today's banquet down. When Ivanka turned the spiral staircase.When he appeared in front of everyone, the banquet hall burst into warm applause.

Ivanka's style is mainly sweet, and she walks down the spiral staircase with Duke on her arm, and greets the guests who came to say congratulations in a generous and polite manner, no matter the etiquette.Or the temperament and demeanor are impeccable.

"Evie, you are so beautiful."

Doug Walter walked over with his girlfriend and greeted Ivanka.He also deliberately made a joke, "Duke. You have to pay attention tonight, and be careful that other people are eyeing Ivanka."

"If someone dares to snatch it from me..." Duke replied in a timely manner, "I will definitely throw him into the sea."

"What if it was me?"

A resounding and somewhat unruly voice sounded from the side, and Duke smiled apologetically at Doug Walter.Turning around, "Hello, Donald, you're late."

Donald Trump seemed a little unhappy, "There was a traffic jam on the way here."

"dad……"

Ivanka let go of Duke's arm, and walked over to hug Donald Trump. Donald complained in his tone, "I was ready in New York, but you refused to go back."

Turning to look at Duke, Ivanka said softly, "My business is in Los Angeles. This is a good opportunity to expand my social circle."

As Ivanka said, although this is an extremely important 21st birthday in the United States, after the cake cutting and other ceremonies, it inevitably turned into a social party.

Duke's face is big enough, not only Hollywood celebrities and executives of some large companies, but even many celebrities from Silicon Valley also participated in the birthday party he carefully organized for Ivanka.

Just like Ivanka always accommodates him in public, Duke will also consider her. Ivanka is obviously a very ambitious woman. Duke invited people from the IT industry, more for Ivanka Considering the actual effect, Ivanka is also very happy to be able to make friends with successful people in Silicon Valley.

Many of them, in a sense, can be or have been Duke's partners.

Such as Yahoo's Jerry Yang, the two founders of Google, and the famous Steve Jobs from Apple.

"I'm also very bullish on the future of virtual social networking."

After a brief understanding of Ivanka's company, Jobs began to use his eloquence again, "It's just that Apple is currently in a critical stage of transformation, and we can't disperse our energy on this aspect."

Ivanka said with a smile, "I heard that Apple is preparing to reorganize resources?"

"That's right." Although Jobs was talking to Ivanka, his eyes continued to glance at Duke, and he said suddenly, "Evie, social networking sites need a lot of money to expand, are you interested in accepting Apple's investment? "

"If necessary, I will take the initiative to contact you." Ivanka is not very old, but it is not difficult to deal with these.

Duke raised his eyebrows lightly. He could tell that Steve Jobs wasn't joking, so he was very optimistic about the future of Ivanka's company?

These true business geniuses and successful people naturally have their own unique vision.

Finishing his conversation with Ivanka, Jobs turned this way, "Duke, can we talk?"

"of course can."

Duke would also love to talk to this guy, and he and Warner Bros. haven't forgotten about Pixar Studios.

Ivanka was very smart, and immediately said to Duke, "I'm going to introduce my friends on the West Coast to Dad."

After Ivanka left, Duke and Jobs walked to the French windows facing the sea, where it was relatively quiet and they could talk about work.

"Duke, I need your support."

Steve Jobs didn't go around in any circles, and said directly, "I am promoting Apple's reform, but I have encountered a lot of resistance..."

Duke nodded lightly. Whether it is a country or an enterprise, every reform will touch the interests of established forces. Although a company like Apple has a deep brand of Jobs, it has not yet reached the level of the future. Jobs' own shares are not Not much, and not without opposition on the board.

"What do I need to do?" Duke spoke equally directly.

"At the shareholders meeting, fully support me!"

Hearing what Jobs said, Duke laughed. Most of the Apple shares in his hands are the kind with voting rights.

If it weren't for Apple's once-deep quagmire, he couldn't have gotten this part of the stake.Of course, it is impossible for Steve Jobs to return to Apple.

Duke knows a little bit about what kind of person Jobs is. After returning to Apple, he has been eliminating dissidents, but the current Jobs is not the future Jobs after all, and some enemies cannot be easily defeated by him alone.

After a few seconds of contemplation, Duke looked at Jobs and asked naturally, "What about the conditions?"

"In the future, Apple will inevitably raise funds to expand its shares." Jobs was well prepared, and said slowly, "I promise that within the next five years, you will have priority investment rights and can guarantee the share of Apple shares you currently hold."

The promise is tempting, especially to someone like Duke who understands how dire Apple's future can be, but in reality?

Duke shook his head and said, "Steve, since 2000, Apple's stock price has been declining, and its market value has shrunk from nearly 100 billion US dollars to the current 60 billion US dollars. How can I be sure that my investment will not go to waste? ?”

Jobs only gave one answer, "Because Apple's leader is called Steve Jobs!"

"That's no reason for me to support you."

In some respects, Duke really admires the other party, but he will not make some decisions that do not meet his own interests because of this. This is a business negotiation, and interests are the criterion that determines everything.

Moreover, talking about friendship with people like Steve Jobs is all false. Which of these business giants will casually bring personal emotions into business negotiations? Steve Jobs needs support now, but Duke believes that As long as the time is right, Jobs can definitely turn around and sell him.

Think about it, in order to re-emerge, Jobs can let go of his prejudice with Bill Gates and accept high investment from the other party.

Make friends with these people, build relationships, and be friends?Even if Duke wanted to, I'm afraid Jobs and his ilk would question the real purpose of his approach.

Duke looked at Jobs. He knew very well that this was just the first condition Jobs threw out. Even if the other party was arrogant, they would not naively think that this would impress him.

After a few seconds of silence, Steve Jobs turned his eyes slightly to the direction of Ivanka, and said, "Pixar Studio and I will be stationed on Miss Trump's social networking site and promise to update every three to five days. Some information about Apple and Pixar cartoons.”

Although when it comes to personal assets, the current Steve Jobs may not be comparable to Duke, but when it comes to influence and appeal in the business world, it is much stronger.

His presence in Instant Sharing will undoubtedly attract the attention of many business people.

After thinking about it for about half a minute, Duke offered to extend his hand, "Have a nice cooperation, Steve."

"Happy cooperation." Jobs gently shook his hand.

The meeting ended, but Duke did not intend to let Jobs leave. "Steve, I heard that the contract renewal negotiations between Pixar Studios and Walt Disney are progressing slowly. Michael Eisner doesn't want to make any concessions?"

When Duke and Jobs were talking about the Pixar studio, a Latino drove to the entrance of the Duke’s manor, took out the invitation card and handed it to the security guard, entered the manor, parked the car and walked towards the banquet hall.

His eyes are bright and energetic, and his fluffy and messy mid-length hair has a unique artistic atmosphere of the independent film industry. (to be continued~^~)