Chapter 295 The black swan is just your black swan
Hearing that Mahathir came to him again after more than a month, Iprasing felt very depressed and basically expected what issues would arise.
As a "child of his own" who stares at "other people's children" and plots against him every day, he is very sensitive to the dissatisfaction of "parents" against him.
If you can't hide from it, then face it.
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On Friday, September 28, in the Emirates Suite on the top floor of the Adelaide Montgomery Hotel near Dibbawan Beach, Iprasim respectfully paid homage to Mahathir of the Abu Dhabi Consortium with a heavy salute.
I was supposed to choose a day at the end of the month, but the way of the Middle Eastern aristocrats is to never work overtime on weekends, so since the 29th and 30th fall on Saturdays and Sundays, I have no choice but to postpone it forward.
Working overtime is hard-earned money, which undermines the luxurious aristocratic temperament.
The Adelais-Montgomery Hotel is one of the highest-end hotels in Diba today. After all, the Burj Al Arab Hotel here is still in the renovation stage. The location of the Adelais-Montgomery Hotel is the most rare in the southern suburbs of the city.
On an oasis with the best natural greening.
The beach in front of the hotel is also the best in the surrounding area. There are some corals offshore, so the water is clearer and bluer. In the history of another time and space, this beach should be reclaimed out of thin air to create an artificial island in the future for real estate development.
Development, which is the famous Palm Jumeirah Island.
However, now, the concept of building land and building villas on Palm Island has been snatched away by Gu Kun. Although Iprasin can still do it, his originality is definitely not that high, and the reputation value attached to the project is not that great. And because of the previous
The response to the project has not been very good, and it is unknown whether the budget for Palm Island can be fully raised in the future.
As mentioned before, investors will only invest in you to build the Burj Al Arab Hotel if the tourism projects you have spent their own funds on before doing well will be successful. The Burj Al Arab Hotel will have good performance and good reputation.
, Palm Island is only possible because of the good response of Diabata. The money spent on each project will be an order of magnitude more, and the performance of the previous order of magnitude will also be needed as investment endorsement.
If the Diba Tower and Lanfang Tower projects were completely destroyed by Gu Kun in this life, then Di Barta may be Iprasin's last entrepreneurial project with the largest funding in this life, and there will be no Jumeirah in the future.
Palm Island. (Dibata needs funds in the order of US$2 billion, while Palm Island needs funds in the order of US$14 billion)
But in any case, even if the Palm Island no longer exists, since the beach in front of the Adelaide Montgomery Hotel can be selected as the location of the Palm Island in another time and space, it is enough to illustrate the importance of this place.
The environment is so beautiful and outstanding.
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In the oasis atmosphere surrounded by the blue coral sea and palm coconuts, the two had a cordial meeting.
As soon as they met, Ibrahim was full of flattery with a smile on his face like a bright and blooming chrysanthemum: "Oh, dear Mahathir, you have been having a good time traveling outside recently, I have recently arrived here.
A group of girls will give you a good show at that time. Some are Japanese and some are Korean, they are very exciting."
Mahathir was originally here to talk about business, but after hearing this casual nonsense, he couldn't help but feel excited for a short while.
He also had a lot of fun in Lanfang, but the only thing that made him uncomfortable was that most of the waitresses were hairy girls from Hackerland and Lucia, or at least white girls from Eastern European countries.
The Chinese waitresses in Lanfang are extremely serious, while the Japanese and Korean waitresses are not at all——
Because the wages of waitresses working in serious service industry positions in Lanfang are too low compared to the national income levels of Japan and South Korea. Therefore, young girls from Japan and South Korea will not come to Lanfang to work as waitresses. Instead, they will be lower.
Lanfang Entertainment Center strictly controls the positions and does not recruit girls with East Asian faces, so Japanese and Korean gold diggers have no choice but to give up.
It’s not that Gu Kun loves everyone. Because he respects the national sentiments of the Chinese, he also respects Japan and Korea. He also does more things than less things. He is afraid that the guests will not be able to tell the difference between China, Japan and South Korea and hurt the national sentiments of the guests, so he simply
Strict management is applied across the board.
In this way, Mahathir, who has always liked to be superior to women in developed countries, inevitably has some flaws in his consumption experience in the Netherlands.
Even if he finally goes out to play on his own and meets a Japanese girl to chat, she is still a serious person who came to Lanfang to film a movie, and will not be disrespectful.
Mahathir forcibly suppressed it and declined politely: "We can discuss this kind of thing when we have time on the weekend! I came here to talk to you today about business! Iprasin, I looked at a few things that I have invested money in before.
Regarding the tourism project, some of the latest operating data this month are too miserable. Don’t you have any ideas for rectification measures?
When we do business, we can’t just think about burning money. When we burn money, we need to see the results. Parents who enroll their children in cram schools, even if they are not afraid of spending money when hiring the most expensive famous teachers, still want to see their children’s performance improve.
Do you think this is true?"
Seeing that his food, drink and entertainment card failed to succeed, Iprasin immediately changed his attitude and apologized with a grimace: "Mahathir, don't you understand the current situation? This is a special industry black swan period.
The number of guests from Oceania has plummeted by 75% in the past two weeks! The number of reservations for the entire month of October fell by 84% compared with expected sales!
I can stabilize the decline in European guests to only one-third for the time being, and then recover it to only one-quarter by the end of October. This is already the best of all the surrounding countries! You are the most far-sighted investor.
, you also know that great investors take a long-term view and cannot be blinded by temporary benefits.
What we are competing for is the most wealthy tourist city in the world. This is not only a cause for our city-state, but also good for improving the business card of the entire country! If you don't support me, you are willing to watch us forever being said to be an oil seller.
Apart from oil, do people in other countries in the world know nothing about us?”
Iprasin's words were both reasonable and complaining, but in fact he had already put a lot of water into his words.
The loss he mentioned in September was actually down, because it was compared with the actual operating data last month. But the losses he mentioned in October and November were completely increased year-on-year.
Comparison with the previous expected growth percentage.
In other words, Iprasin had taken the opportunity to raise the expected growth for October and November, and then emphasized that "I suffered a lot of black swan losses due to this unexpected event."
This is a common trick used by many commercial companies when they encounter black swans. Anyway, they have already lost money, and there is no way to assume that the black swan does not exist. So, just brag and brag about the data "How strong could I have been without the black swan"
To be more serious, since there is no evidence to back it up, it would be better to let the black swan bear the blame several times heavier and take the opportunity to report all the losses and blame it entirely on it.
This trick usually works well. In the past few years of cooperation with Mahathir, this is not the first time that Iprasim has taken the opportunity to blame Black Swan.
It's like a loss-making factory, and a fire broke out by pure accident (the accident here is the original literal meaning, that is, a real fire in a natural state, not the boss setting fire to cheat the insurance), then you can't wait to talk about the burned and depreciated things.
The success is completely new, and the loss is exaggerated within a reasonable range.
It's a pity that this time he didn't realize that "other people's children" performed brilliantly at this juncture, and even bucked the market trend, completely ignoring the black swan, so Mahathir exposed him instantly.
"Don't bullshit me! I think your position is too vain, too exaggerated, and your internal skills have not been fully developed, so you can disguise your false prosperity in completely peaceful years, and no rich people will buy you if there is a slight disturbance.
Got it!
The so-called aristocratic enjoyment atmosphere you created is too false. Look at what the Lanfang people did. After the black swan incident, was their tourism market affected at all?
I couldn't believe it at first, but then I actually went back to inspect it myself, and stayed at the Lanfang Yacht Hotel. I asked my female secretaries to take turns every day to take secret photos of people at the entrance of the hotel. I was absolutely sure that Gu Kun would do it in private.
The performance data shown during the chat with me were not false at all!
Their royal suites are really constantly full. The occupancy rate of the presidential suite is 90%! The occupancy rate of the executive suite and business suite is over 80%! All the data are not lower than 80%! This is still the black swan period!"
After hearing this outrageous complaint, Iprasin almost wanted to provoke him: "This is impossible! The high-end luxury industry and high-end tourism market around the world have been hit by this black swan incident, and I am not the only one who performed poorly.
! How could Gu Kun be the only one who does well? There must be fraud here! Brother Mahathir, you must not be deceived by them. Orientals are too cunning and not as honest and straightforward as us."
His shock was heartfelt, because Iprasin had no access to the latest operating data of the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel or even the supporting Lanfang high-end tourism industry.
The most timely data he has is the situation in August, and September has not yet passed, so there is no way he can respond so quickly.
Mahathir shook his head with some resentment: "You, you still don't recognize the strengths of others! How did Gu Kun do it? He started working in advance so that the wealthy people all over the world started booking. Look at you
, is slow to do things, puts on airs and sounds, but dares not do anything practical at all.
You are asked to please the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, N and Fox, and have a drink with Playboy executives, but you can't lose face. Gu Kun drinks with the editor-in-chief of Playboy, and when others drink a small glass, he can drink a bottle.
Corporal Li Xian has no airs at all. He can work hard even for ladies from the Hilton family and other luxury and celebrity families. Can you do that?
Gu Kun is as famous and fashionable as he is today because of the number of top European and American socialites he has interacted with. Do you think he works as hard as he does? If you don't plan in advance, don't work hard, and don't make contingency plans, something will happen.
Are you still embarrassed to blame the black swan event?
I’ll leave it at that today. With your attitude, Dibata’s investment amount has been stuck at US$1.5 billion for you. You won’t be able to add an additional US$1 based on the project volume in the future! I’d rather blow up than overspend.
I’m going to play with you, the guy who wants to increase your budget!”