Reborn Millennial Gamer

In the early morning, the morning breeze gently blew the lawn of Dong Wang's Palm Beach Manor, the huge open-air parking lot was full of luxury cars, and guests walked into the auditorium in twos and threes.

Lu Fei was wearing a suit and leather shoes, with Ivanka holding his arm.

She was wearing a white skirt with slanted shoulders and hips, showing her bumpy figure to the fullest, refreshing and generous.

"I went to the front first."

The two parted ways at the door, and the seats of relatives and children were completely different from those of important VIPs. Lu Fei easily found Bill Gates and greeted him familiarly.
"Hey, buddy."

Bill Gates winked and said, "If I'm not mistaken just now, the one accompanying you is the daughter of the king, right?"

Lu Fei sat down, "That's right."

"Wow! Are you serious?"

Bill Gates had a smirk on his face: "You don't really intend to date the eldest daughter of his family, although she is indeed sexy."

"She's my secretary and I'm her boss."

Lu Fei shrugged, perfunctory.

Bill Gates said: "That's good, don't get too involved with them, especially be careful that Dong Wang asks you to borrow money."

Lu Fei raised his eyebrows: "His reputation is very bad?"

Bill Gates said: "That's not true, but Warren reminded me to beware of him. He is very good at borrowing money, but his assets, and the money he borrowed to buy assets, have no net worth at all. He Gets mesmerized by the money he can borrow without thinking carefully about how much he can pay back."

"Thanks, I'll take care of my pocket."

Lu Fei patted his trouser pocket and smiled slightly.

Bill Gates said softly: "Indeed, you have to watch your pockets carefully. I heard that you invested in a fund that shorted CDOs and wanted to short subprime mortgages. Is there such a thing?"

"Even you know?"

Lu Fei was very surprised. It has only been a week since the celebration, and the news of investing in John Paulson has already become known to everyone. No wonder all kinds of people cast strange glances along the way.

Bill Gates said: "Of course, you are as famous as Michael Berry now, no, you are more famous than him."

"How famous?"

Lu Fei grinned indifferently. Michael Berry is the prototype of "The Big Short", that is, he found a bank to customize credit default swaps (CDS). In the current Wall Street, it is a complete joke.

"Warren said that you made Wall Street investment banks such as Lehman and Bear Stearns pause for a few minutes, and reconsider whether the subprime crisis is really coming."

"The results of it?"

"The result is that Bear Stearns has set up two new hedge funds, all invested in P2P and CDO, and they think that subprime mortgages cannot collapse now."

"That's right, so the fund didn't execute the operation immediately, but waited until next year to start. How about it, there is still a share of 5000 million US dollars, do you want to try it?"

Lu Fei was able to poke his elbow playfully.

"No no no! I'd rather put all $5000 million in farmland, Warren's good long-term investment advice."

Bill Gates laughed and said, "Do you want to buy a few dollars? Even if you are not American, you can buy it. Then we can still be neighbors."

"I will consider."

Lu Fei currently does not include stocks on hand, and counting the gold contract due for delivery next year, the maximum cash that can be moved is more than 30 billion US dollars. This property is a bargaining chip for stud subprime mortgages.

Don't dare to waste a penny!Chinese people are afraid of poverty!

"Agriculture is the industry with the highest tax breaks and financial subsidies in the United States." Bill Gates blinked his right eye and clicked.

"Warren recommended that too?"

Lu Fei can communicate with one click, nnd, tax avoidance and cheating, right?
Fuck, I didn't expect that besides the charity foundation, there is such a hand, no wonder every rich man in the previous life was keen to buy land, but I have to say that Chinese people also love land, there is no way, they are racially gifted.

Once the subprime mortgage is over, you can buy land.

"No, that's Munger's opinion."

Bill Gates was referring to the partner and partner of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment bank run by Buffett.

Lu Fei's eyes lit up, and he raised his lips: "Gates, do we want to make a bet? Just bet on the short fund this time. Am I going to lose or make money?"

Bill Gates asked: "What's the stake?"

"If I win, you can sell me some shares of Berkshire Hathaway at the market price."

"Lu, do you want to join Berkshire Hathaway?"

"Hmm, but we are friends, and I want to respect you." Lu Fei nodded unabashedly.

In name, it was just a gamble between the two, but it actually involved Buffett. Without his consent, even if he bought Berkshire Hathaway's common stock, he would not be able to get admission into the inner circle.

"Well, if you really hit the mark, even if you don't need me, Warren will definitely invite you to join as an investment consultant or even an independent director. I know him very well."

Bill Gates squinted his eyes and showed a cunning smile: "But the premise is that you must succeed."

.........

"Short CDOs, Haney, you heard me right?"

In the wedding lounge, Dong Wang stood in front of the long mirror, smoothed the bright red scarf on his chest, and put on various smiles on his mouth.

"no!"

Ivanka's tone was firm, "He seems to be very sure that there will be problems with the subprime mortgage next year."

"What's the situation? Can the housing market crash?"

Dong Wang curled his lips, "I'm in real estate, can he understand better than me? Hehe, Hua Xialu doesn't understand the real estate market in America at all!"

"Dad, why don't you try?"

Ivanka pursed her lips: "It's like doing long gold, we just followed his operation and made more than 1000 million yuan,"

Dong Wang spread his hands, "What is your relationship with him? Many gossip tabloids took pictures of you going in and out together."

"Boss and subordinate, I'm his secretary."

Ivanka watched her nose with her eyes and her heart with her nose.

Dong Wang actually showed a little disappointment, "Haney, if you really like it, don't worry about my feelings, just like I make no secret that I like beautiful women."

"Dad, don't you hate kicking?"

Ivanka couldn't help but be surprised, isn't this temperament change too fast?

"How come, I love kicking! I like Chinese people."

Dong Wang said as he walked, "Okay, Hani, let's take another risk, believe in Huaxia Lu's vision, and invest $100 million in that fund called 'John Paulson'."

Ivanka looked stunned, standing in a mess alone in the room, staring blankly at the golden retriever father striding towards the wedding scene.

On the red carpet extending from the doorway, Melania, as the bride, was smiling prettily, while he, who was already married for the second time, was very familiar with it. He couldn't see any excitement on his face and kept waving his hands.

In the line of sight, Master Lu's face appeared inadvertently, his eyes were full of sour lemons, and he was envious and jealous. After only a few days of not seeing him, his net worth skyrocketed by more than 70 billion dollars.

Huh, but that's it!

At the same time, David Solomon, who was not far away, and Richard, the CEO of Wells Fargo Bank, who was also Jewish, looked at Lu Fei's silhouette through the crowd without squinting.

David Solomon said: "My informant has reported that Huaxia Lu has plans to short CDOs. Do you think the current subprime mortgages are still safe?"

"Of course it's safe."

Richard said solemnly: "Bear Stearns charges 1% to 1.5% for each CDO. Do you know how much commission he received in three quarters? 5 million! Not counting the benefits brought by P2P, Goldman Sachs Are you not interested?"

David Solomon shook his head and laughed: "Of course we are doing it, but Goldman Sachs is an independent investment bank, not a universal bank, and its scale is definitely not as good as Bear Stearns, UBS and Citigroup..."

"We got off to a slow start!"

Richard said: "Look at Lehman, the first to eat crabs, eat a mouth full of oil, Goldman Sachs wants to regain the third place on Wall Street from it, or follow Merrill Lynch."

"Merrill?"

David Solomon frowned, "Merrill Lynch can't even make it into the top 15 in the mortgage bond market rankings."

Richard said: "That's why we have to desperately catch up. The current CEO is O'Neill. He has issued two death orders. Merrill Lynch not only wants to seize the subprime debt market, but also to be the boss!"

David Solomon asked in surprise, "Huh? Since Merrill Lynch has put all its efforts into CDO, does it still have the energy to short Baidu?"

"Of course, but we don't need to do it."

Richard laughed and said: "Baidu's mp3 search engine has infringed upon the copyrights of seven record companies including Warner, Sony, and EMI. Now Edgar Bronfman Jr. is connecting with other companies and plans to initiate a class action against Baidu. Baidu The stock price has plummeted!"

David Solomon was excited and said excitedly: "Where is the penguin! I remember that there are music players and search engines under its banner. If there is no accident, there must be acts of copyright infringement and piracy."

"Well, I heard that the record company only targets Baidu."

"why?"

"Maybe it's because of Lu. After all, logic has saved the sluggish traditional record industry. The lmusic spotify model has allowed Warner to follow the lead of logic willingly, and they don't dare to offend Huaxia Lu too hard."

"fuxk! He clearly claims to be the patron saint of legitimate music, but he allows pirates to run rampant in China..."

David Solomon was secretly unhappy. Compared to shorting Baidu, Goldman Sachs valued Penguin more. Revenge on Lu Fei was great, but the key was hundreds of millions of delicious Huaxia user information and data.

"Don't worry, I heard that Carl Icahn and those big bears have already set their sights on Penguin, and they are just waiting for the games "Plants vs. Zombies" to go online. If the results are not good..."

There was a gloomy light in Richard's eyes, "Whether it's Buffett or Bill Gates who is on his side, it's useless, hum, unless it's God who is on his side!"

………………

Dong Wang's grand wedding became the talk of New York's upper class for a while, but it was only for a while. In Wall Street and even New York, the most popular rumor was that Mr. Lu was bearish on CDO.

Originally, only Michael Berry, a stupid and stupid lunatic, was betting on the decline of the house, and everyone just took it for fun, but when the Chinese stock god entered the market, the meaning was quite different.

No one dared to underestimate Master Lu's vision, especially in the long gold game, which earned him a great reputation.

Large and small institutions and investment banks have to treat subprime mortgages cautiously and re-examine the risks. However, as investors all over the world are scrambling for CDOs, the United States has almost finished all the subprime mortgages that can be done, and they cannot satisfy Unprecedented demand.

Soon, Lu Fei's shorting of CDOs also became a joke.

The entire Wall Street fell into a subprime mortgage frenzy. Bear Stearns set up a housing loan company with a high profile, and HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and other capitals made their moves one after another. They either bought the loan company, set up a P2P website, or both.

Housing loans are not enough, so they stuff P2P loans into CDOs and pack them up. One transfer, two transfers, three transfers, four, five, and six transfers. Like a snowball, the scale of subprime loans in the United States has rolled to 8000 billion dollars.

"Sister Xin, don't sell Meilin first, and then stretch it."

Lu Fei hung up the phone, put the phone aside, looked up at Lu Huateng and Zeng Liqing in front of him, and asked with a smile:

"Okay, how's the talk over there?"

Lu Huateng said: "It's not as easy to talk about as V Agency. After all, Steam, we only invested 15.6% of the shares, but YouTube is a wholly-owned acquisition. Chen Shijun is still swaying. It can be seen that he has the idea of ​​​​being fully acquired, but he wants to be with You have a face-to-face meeting."

Lu Fei shrugged: "I don't have any problems here. We can meet as soon as "Plants vs. Zombies" is released, and we can also use the YouTube platform to promote the game."

Zeng Liqing asked: "Mr. Lu, should the release date be brought forward? September is the peak period for new games. There will be more than 9 titles of "The Sims 2: Nightlife", "NBA Live 06" and "FIFA 06". A small puzzle tower defense game like "Plants vs. Zombies" is quite stressful."

"Just follow the original plan, September 9th!"

Lu Fei was not worried, "It will be released on Windows, Mac and Amazon, and Steam and Facebook will also be available on the same day. We will not only provide a free trial version, but also have a high-definition trailer. Are these all okay?"

"no!"

Lu Huateng and Zeng Liqing glanced at each other.

Lu Fei said in a serious tone that "Plants vs. Zombies" is of great significance. All departments must cooperate closely to avoid any problems in the game. It is not only Penguin's first self-developed stand-alone game, but also its first original IP .

Just like "Crazy Bird", as long as the operation is in place, it can break the shackles of the game, launch books, toys and other co-branded peripherals, and create derivative series such as animation and comics.

As soon as these words came out, although Zeng Liqing and Lu Huateng were convinced of Mr. Lu from the bottom of their hearts, they still couldn't believe it. The stand-alone machine priced at only 19.9 dollars, you tell me it is popular all over the world?

Also build a whole industry chain around super game IP?
With mixed joys and sorrows within Penguin and the eye of Wall Street bears, the promotion activities are in full swing. In addition to routine operations such as TV commercials and game release posters, Penguin Games also registered an official account on Youtube, and the first video uploaded was impressively. VS Zombies trailer PV——

"A certain virus laboratory in the United States accidentally leaked the virus, and overnight, North America became an unprecedented large-scale disaster area. A deadly plague turned the dead into zombies that ate the living.

One step, two steps, one step is the pace of the devil.

They swarmed into your uninfected manor and wanted to eat your head. Fortunately, the virus also mutated the plants! "

At this time, the number of subscriptions and clicks increased rapidly.

Dozens, hundreds...

But at the end of the trailer, Lu Fei surrounded by sunflowers, nuts and other dolls appeared on the screen, everything changed.

In particular, he personally recommended "Plants vs. Zombies"!
Youtube's first game up master was born at this moment!