Su Yehao woke up and fell asleep listening to the snoring.
Although he is the boss and can wake up all the snoring bodyguards so that he can sleep peacefully, it is not always good to do so.
It doesn't matter your status, it's purely about your quality.
When I arrived in New York, I randomly found a five-star hotel in Queens, checked in, and started to catch up on my sleep.
The biological clock is in chaos.
After waking up, I looked at my watch and saw that it was only about nine o'clock.
Su Yehao soon realized that he flew over from the West Coast and did not adjust the time difference on his watch. It was already noon in New York time.
Picking up the phone and looking through the missed calls, Xiao Nizi and Nong Qingying called, as well as Jeff Koons.
before yesterday.
This artist's work has never sold for more than $300,000.
However, today, many people have contacted Jeff Koons and learned that his "Balloon Dog" was bought by the founder of Yahoo and sold for more than one million US dollars.
Among those who contacted him, the price offered by Su Yehao was the highest, millions of dollars higher than the others. This was probably the reason why Jeff Koons took the initiative to call.
After contacting Jeff Koons first, we made an appointment to meet at an exhibition hall in lower Manhattan at 2:30.
He also sent messages to Xiao Nizi, Jiang Yu and Nong Qingying one by one, saying that he had come to New York because of something unexpected, so that they would not miscalculate the time difference and be unable to contact him.
After some tidying up.
Su Yehao took Yin Liuli out, and the fleet rented by the hotel was already waiting at the door of the hotel...
We have just entered March.
The weather in New York is still very cold, the wind in the city is howling, and there is snow that has not melted away in the shade on the streets. The rats in the sewers were so frozen that they ran to the fence of the Brooklyn Bridge to bask in the sun.
While driving slowly in a traffic jam, Yin Liuli saw black shadows on the railings of the bridge. She thought they were stray cats at first, but upon closer inspection, she realized they were several large rats. She was shocked.
Su Yehao was not surprised by this and joked:
"As expected of New York, the food is good, and the rats on the streets are a few fatter than other places..."
last time.
When I took Xiao Nizi shopping in New York, she was frightened by the black shadows running around in the alleys and parks and screamed.
The darker it gets, the more unscrupulous New York's rats become, which has become a major feature of the landscape.
Su Yehao and Yin Liuli chatted about New York City in the 1990s.
He once heard the driver say that after a study and investigation by experts, they believed that there were more rats in New York than the residents here, with an average weight of more than 330 grams, and even cats were afraid of them.
As the economic center of the United States and even the world, it cannot afford to spend millions of dollars to exterminate rats. With the garbage on the streets and the bumpy roads, the good impression of New York has been quickly shattered since Su Yehao last came here.
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It's interesting to say.
New York officials have no money to exterminate rats, but they have money to subsidize the managers of Manhattan office buildings, allowing them to leave the lights on at night to maintain a brightly lit bustling night scene. The euphemistic claim is that they cannot provide convenience to thieves.
For Su Yehao, the criterion for evaluating a city is whether he wants to live here.
Silicon Valley is quiet and comfortable, San Francisco has a high happiness index, and there are female stars in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, which all seem pretty good. However, although there are many high-rise buildings in Manhattan, New York, it is difficult for him to like it.
Looking deeper into the reason, it is probably because although New York has the highest concentration of millionaires in the world, it also houses the largest number of homeless people.
It has the highest density of skyscrapers, but it is not willing to repair infrastructure or hire more cleaners.
all in all.
The good parts are very good, but the bad parts are also really bad. The management is too over-the-top. Overall, the rating is not high.
At least living in Silicon Valley, Su Yehao dared to go out to bars and have late-night snacks at night without having to worry too much about safety issues, but here in New York, he felt a little uneasy even with bodyguards.
After chatting with Su Yehao, Yin Liuli's expectations for this trip to New York instantly dropped a bit.
Observing carefully, she found that the car bumped a lot. There were a long row of tents set up on the street in Lower Manhattan. The homeless people were wrapped in thick clothes and squatted at the door of the tents asking for money from passers-by and talking to Hollywood.
The exquisite sets in the movie are completely different.
With tens of thousands of homeless people living in New York, it’s surprising that public security has improved. It’s no wonder that in the 1990s, the media described New York as “Gotham City without Batman.”
Of course.
Su Yehao doesn't like the atmosphere in New York, but that doesn't affect the fact that it's really prosperous here.
Commercial trade is extremely developed, and affluent areas such as Midtown Manhattan and the Upper East Side have relatively good environment and security.
It's just that this so-called largest city in the world seems to be a bit unworthy of its name. It doesn't take into account the housing and living environment, public security, happiness index, etc. It's a bit money-oriented.
I took a car to the East Village in Lower Manhattan and quickly found an exhibition hall with a Jeff Koons poster hanging on the outer wall.
It looked like a newly hung promotional poster, but it had already been graffitied with a big word written on it, probably similar to Stupid X, and was accompanied by an insulting image.
The security guard at the door seemed to weigh more than 200 kilograms. At this moment, he stopped Su Yehao and his party and told:
"The exhibition hasn't started yet. Let's come back tomorrow. The artist who rented the venue this time... has some mental problems. I went in and looked at it. It was very boring. I suggest you not to go in."
Speaking of artists, the security guard made a "2" sign and crossed his fingers, obviously mocking him.
Su Yehao didn't know why Jeff Koons offended him. He thought maybe he didn't tip the security guard. After thanking him, he took out his cell phone and called Jeff Koons.
Soon, the artist, whose career had just turned around, went out to meet them in person, greeted each other, and walked into the exhibition hall.
I have to say that the two huge balloon dog sculptures do look interesting. They are large enough to easily catch everyone's attention.
As for other things, most of them are the same as what the security guard at the door said, which is very boring.
For example, the sculpture of Michael Jackson hugging a monkey, the yellow and white color scheme is so ugly, or the decorative paintings that randomly piece together random patterns look eye-catching.
The normal path of art has been occupied by people for thousands of years, forcing everyone to develop in abnormal directions in modern times.
For example, Picasso, the so-called Fauvism, or realist abstraction, pop art, etc. Anyway, rich people often don’t care about the quality of the work. If the creator is famous enough, the artwork has a chance to appreciate in value, that’s enough.
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Went around the exhibition hall.
Su Yehao suddenly felt that since Jeff Koons had been in the industry for so many years, he should have a relatively powerful agent, or he might be a second-generation rich man with some money.
otherwise.
With such a large number of works that seem to have no aesthetic value and are surprisingly expensive, this guy should have starved to death on the streets long ago.
Most of them are garbage, but there are treasures among them.
Soon, Su Yehao set his sights on a rabbit made of stainless steel. It was similar to a balloon dog. It also had balloon patterns on its body, which looked interesting.
In my memory, the one that fetched a sky-high price was this small sculpture. It was made entirely of stainless steel and had a unique shape.
Although the high prices in his previous life were suspected of money laundering or asset transfer, Su Yehao finally met an artist worth investing in and wanted to take a gamble. Anyway, investing in advance would not cost much money.
Touched his chin.
Su Yehao asked: "For two dogs, plus this rabbit, I am willing to pay up to 2.3 million U.S. dollars. Direct payment, no additional commission, is a good deal for you, deal?"
"They are all my masterpieces. Once you buy them, I won't be able to continue the exhibition."
Jeff Koons thought for a while and added: "At least four million US dollars are needed."
Su Yehao then asked him: "How many balloon dogs have you produced in total?"
"There are only three pieces, what's wrong? There is actually one semi-finished product, and I haven't decided what color to paint it in yet."
As soon as Jeff Koons finished speaking, Su Yehao said to him:
"Well, I know you have worked on Wall Street and your business acumen is much smarter than other artists. Now you are selling these three things to me for 2.3 million US dollars, and you will wait until the next balloon dog is delivered
At the auction, I guarantee that I will pay the bottom price of 10 million US dollars. If someone else's bid is less than 10 million US dollars, then I will buy it."
If no one else offers a high price by then.
This is equivalent to Su Yehao spending US$12 million to purchase three balloon dog sculptures.
The average purchase price of a Balloon Dog is US$4 million, but the last one will sell for US$10 million, and the orange and blue ones will also increase in value.
But if someone else offers more than 10 million US dollars.
So, Su Yehao spent two million US dollars to buy a piece of art worth 20 million US dollars. Regardless of whether it is really worth that much, the market price is anyway.
No matter how you calculate it, it won't be a loss anyway. If you use the Internet to hype it up and improve your reputation, you might be able to earn tens of millions of dollars back.
[To be honest, I have been using Yeguo to read and catch up on books recently. I can switch sources and read aloud with many sounds. www. Android and Apple are available.]
Art is often about selling popularity.
Jeff Koons' heart was beating wildly after hearing this.
He knew that he was being targeted by the rich and was ready to hype himself up.
His head started to feel dizzy. He took a few deep breaths and asked, "Can this promise be written into the contract? When will it be sent to the auction?"
Su Yehao shook his head and told:
"Of course it can't be written into the contract, but by then I will have two pieces in my hands, and Yahoo's Jerry Yang will also have one in his hands. We all hope that the last piece will be sold at a sky-high price, so that the value of our inventory will also increase. No matter what,
In this way, the whole thing is very good for you, but Balloon Dogs must not continue to be produced. This needs to be written into the contract. No one likes artists who mass-produce and ruin their own signs."
No matter what else.
Even just asking for these 2.3 million US dollars is enough to make Jeff Koons extremely happy.
The rose-red balloon dog he put up for auction yesterday was an inventory he had sold to an art dealer for US$90,000.
In other words, the money from last night's auction has nothing to do with him.
Therefore, after understanding what Su Yehao meant, Jeff agreed very readily and immediately shook hands with Su Yehao to seal the deal.
There are not many opportunities to be noticed by a super rich man. No matter what, it is important to make money first, and if these three balloon dogs are sold, the semi-finished product in the warehouse will be valuable.
As for the stainless steel rabbit, it has been produced for more than ten years and has never been sold. I just found it from the old warehouse a few days ago.
It can be sold for 300,000 US dollars, so what is there to be dissatisfied about...