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Another interesting scene was filmed in a location that almost no one would have thought of: the Donald Building.

Unlike the original version which redesigned a Stark Tower, when Donald heard from Ivanka that Gilbert Jr. needed a tower, he provided Donald Tower.

In some ways, Donald's personality is quite similar to Tony Stark's, and his presence in the building is consistent with Tony Stark's flamboyant personality.

In addition, Donald also made a cameo appearance in this movie as the policeman who follows the command of Captain America.

Not only Donald, some of the scenes shot in the film also include FOX News host Robert, NBC TV's leading actress Rebecca, and players of the Seattle Thunder.

Once these people are satisfied, they will naturally help with some publicity. It is a very worthwhile deal.

Christmas happened to be spent in New York, where Gilbert Jr. had real estate, a villa on Long Island and a mansion near New York's Central Park.

Since he was in New York, he naturally had to attend some social events, and Gilbert Jr. received invitations to parties of New York's wealthy and famous people.

New York is the headquarters of Wall Street. The conflict between Gilbert Jr. and Wall Street is well known to everyone, but the wealthy and famous people in New York must be well aware of it.

"Look at these fake people, with their hypocritical faces, thinking they are the center of the world. In fact, they are nothing but a pile of garbage."

Scarlett complained mercilessly about the wealthy and famous people who came and went, as well as the New York socialites who kept flirting with little Gilbert.

Young Gilbert wanted to laugh, but he remained polite.

"This is a public place, Scarlett, you have to pay attention to your ladylike image."

Scarlett pouted, but when someone came over to say hello, she still smiled sweetly and accompanied little Gilbert to socialize.

"Little Gilbert, so you are here. I have been looking for you everywhere."

Larry Fink, an old acquaintance of Gilbert Jr., found Gilbert Jr. He looked at Scarlett and said, "Miss Johnson, can we talk alone?"

"of course can."

Scarlett said to little Gilbert, "I'm going to go get something to eat. When you're done talking, meet me at the bar."

"it is good……"

Seeing Scarlett coming over, Little Gilbert signaled to Larry Fink, and the two found a secluded corner where no one would disturb them to talk about some private things.

During the economic crisis, Gilbert Jr. and Larry Fink teamed up to buy high-quality assets everywhere and got a lot of good things.

Gilbert Jr.'s wealth continued to grow, and Larry Fink also occupied a more important position on Wall Street.

Both of them are ambitious. Larry Fink is unwilling to be a glove for the consortium and wants to be the master of his own house, while Gilbert Jr. wants to destroy these so-called old consortiums.

The two hit it off and reached a collaboration.

"Latest news, little Gilbert."

Larry Fink whispered to Gilbert Jr. like a secret agent: "Some people in the Rockefeller and Morgan families are already dissatisfied with you. They may take action."

Little Gilbert frowned: "Did you say how to proceed?"

“They are raising funds and are planning to jointly increase the share prices of watermelons and bananas to force you to sell your shares in the two companies.

They also contact shareholders and if your shareholding drops to a certain level, they will work together to kick you out of the board of directors.”

Like many North American tycoons, Gilbert Jr.'s wealth comes from diversified investments and is not limited to these two companies.

But just as Bill Gates' wealth mainly comes from Microsoft, the watermelon and banana companies also occupy an important part of Gilbert Jr.'s wealth.

If you lose these two companies, your wealth will shrink significantly.

"It's the same old story. How much money do you expect them to raise? Given the size of the two companies, it will probably take tens of billions of dollars."

Larry Fink replied: "There are many people who support it. I heard that they are going to raise hundreds of billions of dollars. This party is aimed at you, to make you let down your guard."

"That's not surprising." Little Gilbert stroked his chin and thought, "Just now the manager of Quantum Hedge Fund was smiling at me. I was wondering how this cold-faced man turned into a smiling tiger. His smile was so fake. It seems he wants to plot against me."

"What are you going to do?" Larry Fink asked.

Little Gilbert laughed and said, “When it comes to finance, they are experts.

I know that what they are best at is creating vague hype and making something or a concept that does not exist become popular.

But this world is ultimately material, and unless we evolve to the point where we no longer need material things, we cannot do without practical products.

Wait, there are more good things to come."

In fact, for Gilbert Jr., it is not a big problem even if both companies are shorted by Wall Street, because the nature of the company is there, and there are products.

In recent years, many so-called high-tech companies in North America have continuously launched various concepts, and then operated these concepts through Wall Street and pushed them to be listed on the Nasdaq.

This is not a technology-based enterprise, but a financial enterprise, and there is nothing practical about it.

But Watermelon and Banana are different companies. Wall Street has also overlooked one thing, that is, the habits of Internet users cannot be disturbed by the financial market.

No matter how Wall Street preaches that Watermelon and Banana are going to fail, as long as the two companies continue to operate stably, users will not leave.

Ultimately, because the two companies were established earlier and their concepts are more advanced, they have formed a Matthew effect in search engines and social networking sites.

Most companies of the same type either closed down or were acquired during the rapid expansion of the two companies.

For example, Google was acquired by Xigua in 2006, and Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook announced the suspension of its services amid the economic crisis last year.

For an Internet company of this size, the most fundamental thing is its number of users.

According to data from the Internet Association of North America last year, the number of searches on Watermelon's search engine reached 1180 billion times a year, while the number of users of Banana's social products reached 2.1 million, which is a rather exaggerated number.

This is just data from North America. If users from other parts of the world are included, the number would be astronomical.

Steve Jobs rarely cared about Apple's stock on Wall Street. He believed that as long as Apple had a large number of users, the stock would fall today but would rise again tomorrow, and even higher.

Ultimately, the Internet is about users, not finance.

So Gilbert Jr. was not worried at all that several financial groups such as Rockefeller and Morgan would be able to short the stock. What they should be considering was how to poach users.

But unfortunately they couldn't do it. Doing so would be like doing useless work and would not be able to strike a blow to little Gilbert's foundation.

After finishing the conversation with Larry Fink, Little Gilbert found Scarlett and the two left the party together.

Scarlett saw that little Gilbert looked thoughtful, so she asked, "What's wrong? Is there a problem?"

"Nothing, I was just thinking about the post-production of the movie."

"No one would believe that. Usually when you show this expression, you are planning to plot against someone."

"You know this as well?"

Little Gilbert touched Scarlett's head, but she dodged him.

"Don't touch my head. It's your fault that I can't grow taller."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

After laughing, little Gilbert took out his cell phone and called Ivanka.

"Ivanka, help me raise some money, we're going to do something big."

It is impolite not to reciprocate. Let's see who has more money and who can afford it.

Humph! (End of this chapter)