America's Road to Wealth

Chapter 82 The so-called New York No.1 Yuan
Manhattan, Upper East Side.

Abel sat in the back compartment of a black Maybach 62s on the side of the road.

He watched as Ikana drove slowly next to his Maybach 62s in a Mercedes-Benz S sedan.

Ikana lowered the glass in the back of the Mercedes and waved in his direction.

Abel lowered the glass too, and smiled back at her.

When the Mercedes-Benz drives away, he raises the glass up.

Then lie down on the soft and comfortable seat in the most comfortable position.

He raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the carriage with beautiful glazed star lights.

"Oh, fishing."

"I just don't know who is caught and who is fishing. Who is prey and who is hunter."

He shook his head amusedly.

As far as he knows, Ikana is definitely not as calm as she is now.

The failure of YKM's second round of financing is by no means as easy as she just described.

The second round of financing of YKM failed.

The real reason is that YKM's round of financing and today's valuation are too inflated.

There may even be fraud involved.

If any organization intervenes in the investigation, it may even become a fraud!

YKM is a clothing brand.

The speed of development is not uncomfortably fast.

It has only been established for three years, and its valuation reached US$[-] million in the first year.

7 million in the second year, and 11 billion in the third year of this year.

doesn't look like much,
But you must know that YKM is now just a company without a factory.

It is only a medium-sized clothing brand with 50 chain stores in a few big cities such as Los Angeles and New York.

The valuation has come to an exaggerated $11 billion.

L Brands, which owns the Victoria's Secret brand and has more than 300 stores in the United States, is valued at around US$15 billion.

YKM He De He Neng, worth 11 billion?
Just because it is more famous in the media?
Or is it because she sells a lot of clothes?

Obviously not, and investors are not stupid.

The banks that gave it this valuation are not stupid either.

The reason why ykm is so valuable is actually because of its 50 stores.

Almost half of them are self-owned properties, in other words, these shops are not rented.

But YKM's own.

YKM is valued at US$11 billion because its own assets are worth more than US$6 million.

Add to that brand value, and Ikana's marketing capabilities.

The valuation will reach an exaggerated $11 billion.

Even so, this valuation is clearly inflated.

Ikana's second round of financing, she wants a valuation of at least $10 billion.

Investors are not stupid, of course they don't want to.

Its second round of financing has been put on hold.

As far as Abel knows, YKM's valuable self-owned properties.

It was actually Ikana's father, who belonged to D. Ted Lerner.

D. Ted Lerner used these properties as an investment and invested in YKM round.

Among the current shareholders of YKM, Ikana herself only holds 26% of the shares.

Her father's shareholding ratio is as high as 48%.

So YKM's name is "Miss Ikana", and Ikana is also the founder and CEO herself.

But in fact, who is the boss of this company can be known by looking at the shareholding ratio.

The Lerner family's method is not clever, and the investors are not stupid.

This made YKM's second round of financing fail.

Putting YKM and Ikana in a bind now.

Both the media and the general public are chasing after Ikana, who boasts of being young, beautiful, and successful in starting a business.

But in the eyes of a sensible person who has found out all this.

Everyone knows that this is just D. Ted Lerner, a guy who is super good at hype, using his daughter to carry out a capital hype.

It's just that his daughter is indeed capable, and she has excellent looks and figure.

The hype was relatively successful this time, and the fame of No. 1 Yuan in New York was abruptly hyped.

This makes other New York rich people quite envious.

For their daughters or offspring,

Even if they wanted to be fired like this, they couldn't be successfully fired like Ikana.

Blacksmithing requires hard work, no matter how good the blacksmith is.

If the iron itself is a piece of waste, it will not produce good iron.

The situation of the father-daughter duo Ikana and Ted.

That is, iron is a good material, but the skills and strength of the blacksmiths who forge it are not good enough.

Therefore, the two honors of "other people's child" and "No.1 Yuan in New York" are well-deserved by Ikana.

These are all after the last date.

Abel through David, and other channels.

Find out about D. Ikana Lerner and D. Ted Lerner.

These things,

In parallel time and space, he who is far away in the heavenly dynasty doesn't know.

Even the local ordinary people and the media don't know much about it.

Abel is also the second generation who has a top network like David around him, coupled with the particularity of his own industry.

To be able to figure it out so clearly.

Otherwise, it is considered an ordinary New York rich man.

It is also impossible to know the details of her family and her.

"Since she hasn't directly asked me for help now, it means that the matter has not yet reached the point where the fire is imminent."

"Then don't care about it."

Thinking of this, he took out a note from his pocket, handed it to the driver in front of him, Dex, and said, "Let's go to this place."

The driver Dex took it, looked at it, and found that it was a block in the upper city.

"Okay. Boss." After agreeing, Dex drove away.

A convoy of three vehicles slowly drove into the streets of Manhattan.

Half an hour later, the vehicle arrived at its destination.

This is Upper Manhattan, an apartment building of about 20 stories.

The apartment is in a good location, with roads on both sides.

The north side is also separated by a main road, which is on the side of the Hudson River facing Queens.

The houses here are cheaper than the upper west and upper east.

But if it is really possible to buy real estate here, even if it is just a small apartment.

Then this person can definitely be regarded as the upper middle class in the United States.

After arriving at the destination, Abel didn't get off the car immediately.

Lincoln and the bodyguard of the car behind got out of the car first to check the surroundings.

A few minutes later,

Lincoln goes back to Abel's car window, and Abel lowers the glass a little.

"BOSS. No problem, a level-[-] security environment." The black bodyguard Lincoln said.

Abel nodded, picked up his cell phone and made a call.

"Hi Liv. I'm downstairs from you."

"Oh~ I'll go down and pick you up right now!!"

on the other side of the phone,
In an apartment on the seventh floor of the apartment building.

Liv Tyler, who was watching a talk show with a teddy bear in her arms, stood up quickly.

"Ok."

Abel's voice rang on the phone, and he hung up quickly.

Liv stood up, she was going to go straight out in her pajamas.

But she stopped suddenly, turned and went back to the bedroom.

After ten minutes,
Liv Tyler, who changed her clothes and put on some makeup by the way, returned to the living room.

She found the huge floor-to-ceiling glass in the living room, and looked at her beautiful and tall self inside.

Then he nodded in satisfaction, then put on his glasses and a peaked cap.

Then he turned and left the house, and went downstairs to pick up someone.

(End of this chapter)