Chapter 82
Chapter 82 The so-called first lady of New York
Manhattan, Upper East Side.
A black Maybach 62 parked on the side of the road, Abel sat in the back compartment.
He watched Ikana take the Mercedes-Benz S sedan and slowly walk towards her Maybach 62.
Ikana rolled down the rear window of the Mercedes-Benz and waved at him.
Abel also lowered his glass and smiled back. While waiting for the Mercedes-Benz to leave, he rolled up the window.
Then lie down on a soft and comfortable chair in the most comfortable position.
He looked up, looking at the ceiling of the car with beautiful glass stars.
"Oh, fishing."
"I just don't know who is caught and who is fishing. Who is the prey and who is the hunter."
He shook his head in amusement. As far as he knew, Ikana was definitely not as calm as she was now.
YKM's failure in the second round of funding was not as simple as she just described.
YKM's second round of funding failed.
The real reason is that YKM's current funding round and valuation are extremely inflated.
It may even involve cheating. If an organization interferes with the investigation, it can even become fraudulent!
YKM is a clothing brand.
The growth rate is not bad.
It was only three years old and was valued at $300 million in its first year.
700 million in the second year and 1.1 billion US dollars in the third year this year.
It seems like there's nothing,
But you should know that YKM is no longer just a company without a factory. It is just a mid-sized clothing brand with 50 chain stores in several major cities such as Los Angeles and New York.
Valuation at an inflated $1.1 billion.
L Brands, which owns the Victoria's Secret brand and has more than 300 stores in the United States, is valued at about $1.5 billion.
YKM He De He Neng, worth 1.1 billion VND?
Just because it's more popular in the media? Or does she sell a lot of clothes?
Clearly not, and investors are not stupid.
The bank offering this valuation is not stupid either.
The reason ykm is really valuable is because it has 50 stores.
Nearly half of them are independently owned, meaning these businesses are not rented. But that's YKM's.
YKM is valued at $1.1 billion thanks to its own assets worth more than $600 million.
Plus Ikana's brand value and marketing capabilities.
The valuation would reach an exaggerated $1.1 billion.
However, this valuation is clearly inflated. For Ikana's second round of funding, the company wants a valuation of at least $1 billion.
Investors are not stupid, of course they don't want to be.
Its second round of funding has been suspended.
As far as Abel knows, the valuable properties of YKM.
is actually Ikana's father, who belongs to D. Ted Lerner.
D·Ted Lerner used these assets as investments and invested in a round of YKM.
Among YKM's current shareholders, Ikana herself owns only 26% of the shares.
His father's share ownership ratio is 48%.
So the name of YKM is "Miss Ikana", and Ikana is also the founder and CEO. But in fact, we can know who is the boss of this company by looking at the share ownership ratio.
Lerner's methods are not smart and investors are not stupid either.
This caused YKM's second round of funding to fail.
Now I'm having trouble with YKM and Ikana.
The media and the public pursue and brag about the young, beautiful and successful Ikana. And in the eyes of a sane person discovered all this.
Everyone knows it's just D. Ted Lerner, a guy who's super good at exaggeration, using his daughter to gain some temporary hype.
It's just that her daughter is truly capable, and has great looks and figure.
This time the hype was relatively successful, and the reputation of New York's leading socialite was suddenly announced. This makes other wealthy New Yorkers jealous.
Because their daughters or descendants,
Even if they wanted to be fired this way, they couldn't be fired as successfully as Ikana.
Forging iron must be difficult, no matter how good the blacksmith is.
If the iron itself were waste then it would not be possible to make good iron.
The situation of the father-son duo Ikana and Ted. That is, iron is a good material but the skill and strength of the blacksmiths who forge it are not enough.
Ikana is therefore still worthy of the two titles "another person" and "first lady of New York".
This is after the last day.
Abel through David and other channels.
Meet D·Ikana Lerner and D·Ted Lerner. These things,
Time and space are parallel, far away from Thien Vuong, no one knows.
Even local people and the media know little about it.
Abel is also second generation to have a network around him like David, along with the specificity of his own field.
was able to understand it so clearly.
Otherwise, he would be considered an ordinary rich person in New York. It is impossible to know details about her and her family.
"If she doesn't directly ask me for help now, it means things haven't reached the point where a fire is about to break out."
"Then let it go."
Thinking like that, he took out a small piece of paper from his pocket, handed it to the driver Dex, and said: "Let's go here."
Driver Dexter picked it up, looked in and saw it was a row of houses in Uptown.
"Okay. BOSS." After agreeing, Dex left.
A convoy of three cars slowly entered the streets of Manhattan. Half an hour later, the car arrived.
This is Upper Manhattan, a 20-story apartment building.
The location of this apartment is very good, with roads on both sides.
The north side is also separated by a main thoroughfare on the side of the Hudson River facing Queens.
Homes here are cheaper than those in the Upper West and Upper East. But if you can actually buy real estate here, even just a small apartment.
This person can definitely be considered upper middle class in the United States.
After arriving, Abel did not get off the bus immediately.
Lincoln and the car bodyguard were behind, three people got out of the car first to check around.
Minutes later,
Lincoln turned back to Abel's car window and Abel rolled the window down a bit. "BOSS. It's okay, level 1 security environment." » Lincoln's black bodyguard said.
Abel nodded, picked up his cell phone and called.
"Hi Liv. I live on the same street as you."
"Oh ~ I'll come down to pick you up!"
On the other side of the phone,
In an apartment on the seventh floor of a building. Liv Tyler, who was watching a talk show with a teddy bear in her hand, quickly stood up.
"Alright."
Abel's voice rang out on the phone, he quickly hung up.
Liv stood up, she intended to wear pajamas and go out immediately.
But she suddenly stopped, turned around and went into the room.
Ten minutes later,
Liv Tyler, who had also changed clothes and put on makeup, returned to the living room. She found the giant floor-to-ceiling window in the living room and looked at herself, tall and beautiful, inside.
Then he nodded in satisfaction, then put on glasses and a top hat.
He then turned around and left the house and went downstairs to find someone.
(end of this chapter)