Bright Future
So Jake was sweating while talking on the phone, he had to take a deep breath not to show that he was nervous over the phone, he believed the first impression really was what it was like so he wanted to be confident over the phone to Jeff Bezos.
That's why he talked about how he had invested for many years in technology companies what was true and also how $ 30 million invested does not make a big company pay attention to the investor what was also true.
But with that, he indirectly showed Jeff that he had been an investor since the dawn of the internet age and also that he had over 30 million capital to invest, if Jake could he would actually lend and invest millions from Amazon.
But he knew that Jeff would never want to give Jake such a stake, so he believed he could just leave an impression of being a big investment for Jeff Bezos, all to increase Jeff's confidence in Jake.
And the reason was that he wanted to meet Jeff in person to discuss the details of the investment, and maybe if Jake didn't do it Jeff could scorn Jake a bit for being too young at their first meeting in person.
In order for this not to happen, Jake needed to show that he was a serious businessman before that, so he could even get more stock after a trade.
"I can consider that, but for that, we need to meet in person, what do you think about me going to Miami to talk to you better?"Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
"I think that's very good, bring some detailed reports from your company and maybe we can close business on your trip here."
"I hope so, see you soon."
Jake was very happy and pleased with this first conversation so that he could talk more easily with Jeff in Miami and it would also be much easier to make a good impression on this meeting.
Jake decided to leave the details of when they could meet and also Jeff's reception for Emily to take care of, even though Jeff was in the future one of the richest men in the world, now he was just a businessman who was starting to develop the company.
So Jake would have to show that he was only interested in the company and not its owner, this business had to work out because Jake had so much advantage in this negotiation by knowing the future.
So in Jake's first week of class, he couldn't even focus much on class thinking about the upcoming meeting, Emily had talked to Jeff and he said he would come to Miami later this week.
So after a few days, they met at a restaurant in the hotel where Jeff was staying, Jeff was not surprised that Jake was young because Emily had accidentally talked about it while talking about how amazing it was that Jake was a young athlete and businessman.
Coincidentally Jeff had also seen a Jake commercial on television and some news about Jake winning the marathon, which made Jeff more willing to have Jake as an investor, after all, sports-related people generally have little interest in business matters.
So Jeff thought Jake just wanted to invest in order to make more money in the future, that's what Jeff wanted, an investor who just came in with the money and didn't interfere with the way he ran the business.
But that was very hard to find, usually, the more money one invests the more interested in giving one's opinion on the company's business, Jeff wanted to be the president of the company he created himself and would not accept anyone else for it.
"Hi Jake, it's nice to meet you, I saw you in a television commercial, amazing you're a famous athlete at your age."
"I'm not famous yet, I'm just starting out, but you had to have a lot of courage to quit a good job at a big company in New York to start a company in Seattle."
"I see you know something about me, I wanted to take this excellent opportunity to start my own company, as you said on the phone this is the best time for tech companies."
"I really believe that, with the government's new project to encourage the development of the internet in a few years, more than half of the American population and the world will be able to connect with these start-up companies."
"Everyone likes to read books, I particularly read in class, so I think your company has great growth potential, and if you want you can also expand to other products on the internet."
"I also think like you, but I would like to know why you are interested in my company and not others that are also being created now?"
"I'm interested in these companies too, I've been investing in Cisco for over three years ago and I've made a lot of money out of it, I also have a stake in a company that makes digital cameras, so I've always been looking for something that could give me more money in the future."
"I believe you are a sensible person who can grow your business and make a lot of money in a few years, and I need to see your company's business reports to be sure, but I think your company has a better foundation to develop in than others. "
So Jeff stopped asking other questions and handed in the company's earnings reports, assets, and future development proposals, just as Jake hoped the company was now valued at $ 40 million.
In the company's future development proposals they had information about starting selling electronics, software, video games, among other things, and also that the company intended to make the IPO next year.
These were things Jake already knew well, yet he spent a lot of time reading all the information, many things he was reading about the future development proposals would not be accomplished.
"How much percentage of the company are you willing to open mom for me to invest in?"
"I have 60 percent of the company now, I have other investors who have another 40 percent, next year many of these stocks will have to be diluted for the IPO next year, we have to see how much you are going to invest."
"I plan to invest $ 12 million in the company, and I can even sign a contract saying that I will always support your decisions at the company and not interfere with business, how much do you think you can give me?"
Jeff didn't expect Jake to come in with so much money at once, he could dilute the shares of the other shareholders and his own as well, so he wouldn't need any more investors until next year's IPO.
What interested him most was that Jake said he could even sign a contract saying it didn't interfere with the company's management and would still support him, Jeff hoped Jake might not have much interest in the company, but didn't expect it to be so much.
Also, it seemed that Jake had a lot of confidence in him, so Jeff decided to accept Jake as an investor, with Jake's investments he would have 45 percent of the company, but that was just the official company rating, as a technology company was worth a lot more than that.
"I can give you 25 percent of the company's stock, next year those stocks will be further diluted with the IPO and may be worthless, what do you think?"
So Jake thought through the situation, he knew that Jeff Bezos had invested over $ 300,000 in setting up the company after Jake invested and got 25 percent, Jeff must have 45 percent and other investors even less.
"I accept, but I have one condition, that my future shares may not be worth less than 12 percent, I may even add more capital to avoid further dilution."
"Alright, so let's prepare the contract for the stock purchase, no need to sign a contract promising to support me in the company and not interfere, I accept your word."
Jake knew he had not changed the future that much now, he may have at most invested in place of other investors, but as Jeff had 45 percent and he had 25 percent of Amazon he thought that as Jeff would have more than 17 percent of the company in the future he would have less.
After all Jake invested $ 12 million to have 25 percent, plus Jake had invested a lot more than other investors, not to mention that many will try to sell their shares after a few years.
Even if Jake had a condition of having at least 12 percent in the future he would be happy even if he had 0.5 percent of the shares after 20 years, after all, he would still have a bright future with that.
He had $ 500,000 before that and could borrow another $ 11 million to invest, so he would get some of Matthew's company profit last year so he could repay that loan in no time.
If he wanted he could only sell part of the stock when Amazon made the IPO and he would have the loan money back, in fact, he didn't know he would need so much to buy those stocks in 1996, he didn't know that Jeff had made a few rounds of investment and raised over 9 million before.
But he was determined not to miss this unique chance of becoming a millionaire, so they broke up to settle the contract and Jake had to prepare the loan, so after another week he signed the contract and they were both happy about it.
Now Jeff had more money to make the necessary investments in the company and Jake knew he was lucky to have gotten those shares, in fact even Jeff himself couldn't know that his company would be the most valuable in the world in a few years.
After all Jake remembered seeing in a report that Jeff told his investors that the company had a 70 percent chance of going bankrupt, it showed how well he considered the risks and so kept his company as one of the only ones that had gone through the crisis of 2000.
After a few days, John and Alan said that Jake's commercial would start airing on television, Jake was used to it and was no longer so excited about it, but both companies expected a lot from that commercial.
Many still did not know that these two companies sponsored Jake, after all the brands even if they were in Jake's uniform were not recognized, so this commercial would serve to make the two companies known as were the companies of Tiffany and Clara.
So they thought this commercial was very important to them, this commercial would be broadcast all over the country, after that, it was certain that Jake would be famous one way or another, after all, there weren't many people who appeared in 2 commercials at the same time in the country.
The company was thinking of focusing on its sales in Miami, Chicago, and New York, which were the places where Jake was best known and the commercial would have more effect in all the country.
Jake thought it was a pity that Tiffany and Clara's companies couldn't do the same, after all, as John and Alan thought, this was a very good chance of advertising for the companies that sponsored Jake.
But he knew it was impossible because Clara was trying so hard that the company wouldn't value until she could buy more stock, she couldn't boycott the company to diminish the value because Robert and the opposing company wouldn't allow it and could even get Clara out of the presidency.
But she wouldn't make a commercial to further increase the company's sales and value the value of Robert's stock, Robert certainly didn't like it, but he had no right to complain about how his stock was practically sold.
The company that was trying to buy Clara's company, on the contrary, was happy, after all, Clara's company was competing with them and if they didn't improve in those five years it would be worth it even if the company couldn't be bought.
After a few more days Matthew had called Jake to his house, Jake could hear from Matthew's voice that it was good news, so he was excited because he wanted to know how much Matthew's company had invoiced so far.
"Hi Jake, congratulations on your birthday, you're 17 now, I never thought I'd see someone as talented as you being so young."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
"Thank you."
"I swear you're excited about it too, I confess I didn't expect us to be that successful, and it was all thanks to you."
"Glad to have helped."
"I think even you're curious how much we sold last year."
"I have to confess that not even I expected us to sell so much, but thanks to your county I made a strong investment and even a partnership with several major retail stores around the world."
"So we sell just over 2 million digital cameras worldwide, only in Europe we sell 1.5 million cameras, so thanks to your county we could sell so many cameras."
Matthew was very impressed by this too, he took out a $ 100 million loan by placing 32 percent of his shares as collateral, it was crazy that no one would normally be able to do.
But with that money he can make a commercial to advertise his digital camera and also the company's brand, he bought advertising space for television channels across the country and also in Europe.
In addition, Matthew bought some new machines and hired some temporary workers to make 1 million digital cameras for inventory, he believes Jake said they would sell this 1 million camera.
So he spent all the money and still went into debt because it would cost 500 million to make these 1 million cameras, in a few days the first sales reports excited Matthew, he used all the revenue he received from the cameras to pay for the manufacture of these 1 million of cameras.
After 1 month he had already paid the cost of the cameras and had almost no more stock, so he saw that his effort was paying off, after manufacturing the first million cameras he kept manufacturing and can repay his loan and recoup the stock.
Just as he had thought before, the more cameras he sold, the lower the total cost became, because most of the cost was technology development and employee salaries, and selling more than 2 million cameras would get lower and lower.
So by the end of the year, Matthew had sold 2 million cameras and was still manufacturing more, he expected to sell at least 4 million more cameras in 1996 and that year he didn't even think about making the new camera anymore.
With the new 1995 earnings review, the stock value will increase greatly and the value of the company will be valued at $ 4 billion, that's over 10 times the value of the company last year, just as Jake said the company would completely change if it followed the advances in technology.
This was a big hit for Matthew and the entire company, it was hard to even for the biggest companies in the world to sell this much of cameras a year if they kept selling well after they developed cameras to put their company on smartphones and notebook the best in the world.
Jake knew that Sony would have a total value of almost $ 100 billion in 2000, of course Sony does a lot of things besides selling cameras, they sell all kinds of electronics, but if Matthew's company could be worth $ 10 billion he would be very happy.
Jake was also happy and surprised by all this, so Matthew's company was completely out of danger, and with this new valuation of the company, Matthew was now a billionaire with over 70 percent of the company.
Since they made half of the sales value as a profit they made $ 1 billion this year, so Jake could get 5 percent, which was $ 50 million, so Jake could repay the loan without any interest and still have a lot of money.
Of course Jake hoped that Matthew's company would use all the profit to reinvest in the company, after all, they had the best chance of appreciating before this bubble burst in 2000, it would affect Matthew's company as well and it's market value would fall again.
"As with a loan I made I already increased the company and this year we are not going to start selling the new camera that's almost ready, I will only reinvest half of the profit I received this year."
"So we can pay for the development of the new camera and also the inventory, next year we will earn more, I will use the profit better to invest and improve our company."
Jake was surprised and happy about it, so he would receive 25 million profit distribution and still be able to easily repay his loan and the new home, he began to regret not taking a bigger loan to get more equity from the company.
Of course Jake remembered that in a few years he would have another good investment opportunity, and it was always good to have a lot of money for emergencies that had happened a lot in those years, after all, he couldn't count on the sponsorship that would be invested in cisco stocks.
After that Jake was very relaxed about having no problem to worry about this year if he got more money maybe he could even buy Robert's stock to help Clara, but maybe he had to wait a little longer for that.
So Jake went back to running his 50 km marathon run every day, he went back to running the same time he did in Chicago for 30 minutes every 10 km, so he would no longer risk another injury.
When he increased his stamina, even more, he could try to increase this time more, but he would not risk it now, after all, he had a good enough time to win any marathon in the world.
He was also training with the football team whenever he could, he was just doing the physical training, and then he would leave as promised to Coach Jim.
Also, Jake had gone back to training with the basketball team, he was just playing training because he warned coach Mike that he was doing physical training on the football team, coach Mike knew well that the physical training of the basketball team football was harder so it was not opposed to Jake's decision.
It was soon going to be the basketball team's first match in the national championship and this was the last year with this team playing together, so Jake hoped he could win after all the NCAA championship.
Now Jake no longer had to worry about his investments because he knew the future and had trusted people running his business, Emily had been annoyed with Jake when he made the $ 12 million investment in Amazon by even borrowing money from Amazon that.
After all, investing in the Cisco technology company was much safer and more profitable in Emily's vision for Jake to make, and this loan was very risky because Jake didn't know when he could afford it.
But soon after Jake would get the dividends from Matthew's company and could pay back the loan and still have 13 million, so Emily understood that Jake knew what to do and stopped meddling in his decisions.
Even though she thought Jake could earn a lot more if he invested all that money in Cisco stock, Jake also knew that this could be true in the short term, in 5 years he could invest that 25 million in Cisco stock and earn more of $ 1 billion.
But that wasn't necessarily true in the future, Jake could with that 12 million Amazon stock invested over $ 57 billion over another 20 years, and Jake could still hold on to that money by making more smart investments before 2000 and receiving many more billions of dollars more.
An example of this was Google that the creators tried to sell in 1999, Jake was just wondering how he could make the most out of it without changing the future so much so that if he bought Google the creators wouldn't just stay for work.
So Jake could end up destroying one of the biggest tech companies of the future, but if he couldn't get at least a few billion of it he would forever regret it.
Jake had seen many stories of people who knew about the future and used the best first ideas and became millionaires from it, some even hiring the original owners of the companies to be the presidents.
But Jake knew this wasn't real, even if he created a lot of things ahead of time and created patents for it didn't mean it would work because he wasn't aware of it as the original creators would have.
Not to mention that these big companies often had too much luck to earn so much in the future, and hiring the original creators to work was even more impossible unless he gave them a large percentage of stock.
After all, they created these companies with these ideas because they had talent as entrepreneurs and for technology, so even if they didn't have that idea they would have other ideas to be independent, not so successful anymore these people liked independence.
So Jake knew he had to deal with this opportunity to buy Google very carefully, it was best that he just come in as an investor, but he couldn't wait a few more years and pay many millions, so that would be his opportunity.
Besides, he remembered the many investment opportunities he could make if he could seize all these opportunities it would not be impossible for him to become the richest man in the future.
After that Jake got another good news, her mom could finally organize her work schedules and stay less time in the restaurant, she would come in at 5 am as usual and leave at 6 pm so she would work 5 hours less.
Julius also had a similar work schedule, but he would have to work harder to make various desserts and cakes and prepare before leaving for dinner time, the less important restaurant staff were lucky to have more time to rest.
After all, the restaurant could hire employees to work both shifts, who would have to work the most was Anna who was the person who best understood how to take care of the restaurant, she would come in at 10 am and stay until 11 pm to close the restaurant.
So Eva and Anna would work for a few hours together and take care of lunchtime, which was one of the periods when the restaurant was getting fuller, the restaurant was now almost completely prepared for the new routine that was supposed to last for many years.
Anna and Eva did not think of opening other branches and even if they would open it would be in the franchise system, after all, Jake bought a great spot for the restaurant and the restaurant was very large in space, and now that it was completely full there was nothing else to develop.
Eva just wanted to fulfill her dream of having a restaurant and not being out of work, Anna was paid a very high salary at Eva's restaurant and was like a restaurant partner, so she just wanted to work for a few more years until she couldn't take it anymore when I got older.
Since he had no rent to pay the restaurant income was very high and he could quietly pay good wages for all the employees and there was still money left for Eva to keep and use as he pleased.
Perhaps this was one of the only places in Miami that had good quality service and happy employees, Eva and Anna always came up with ideas for improving customer comfort, which in turn increased the restaurant's popularity and income.
Jake also knew that the new menu was almost done and he promised he would try their new dishes soon, Jake was glad that everything was going well for his mother, now he didn't think he had to worry about her getting depressed again.
Her other friends were fine too, Joseph was still dating Liza and they both seemed to be thinking of getting married after graduating from college, luckily it seemed that Matthew was so busy with the company that he had forgotten to demand that Joseph break up with her.
Now only Clara's situation that could not be resolved in a short time, but Clara had recovered somewhat from the shock of divorce that her ex-husband was trying to end with his company selling to the competitor.
On the subject of Robert's actions, Jake was sure he could buy a share within five years, but he didn't know if Clara would be happy about it, after all, she seemed to want to put all the actions she could in her name, not even Tiffany It was different.
After all, Clara asked Tiffany to lend the money so she could regain Robert's stock and control of the company, but she never talked about Tiffany buying the stock and keeping it for her that Tiffany would surely do.
If something like this were to happen when Jake decided to buy the stock to help Clara, he would not lend them money so easily, after all, it would be as if Clara was saying that she didn't trust the people who were trying to help her.
So Jake was just concentrating on his training now, he went back to doing his training easily running 50 km every day, he felt that he was fine and that this training was very easy for him.
But since he knew it was not a good idea to risk increasing his running speed before increasing his Resistance after what happened in New York, he decided to try to increase his training load in a different way.
Now he decided to increase the distance covered in his daily training, first he increased this distance to 55 km to see if he could run just as easily after all this would not disturb the official marathon even if his condition was not well on race day.
After all, he needed to run just under 43 km anyway, after trying he saw that although it was possible he was still tiring him more, so he decided to continue this same training routine and if he thought it was too easy he would increase some more km.
This training was only temporary, after all, Tiffany had been looking for some time for a coach like Jake had requested, it was not easy to find someone with the necessary qualifications and was still reliable in a short time, so Jake would have to wait.
After a few more weeks the first game of the national championship was getting closer, nothing had happened at that time for Jake.
But that day he had received the money from the distribution of profits and repaid the loan to the bank, at the same time Oliver texted Jake that he had found some homes in Miami that were in safer neighborhoods.
Since he had been living in Matthew's borrowed house for a while, he was eager to buy and move to his new home, as it was more to his mother than to him, so Jake called Eva to choose the house he wanted to live in.
All the houses were mansions and were two-story thousands of square feet in size and dozens of rooms, the houses also had large space near them where Jake thought of making a field for his running training and also a basketball court.
Even though he knew that soon he would have to move. Jake thought that since his and his mother's house was, he would always live there whenever he had free time, so it was better to have a house that would meet all his needs.
The houses also had large pools and other special things that even Eva might like, so it took longer for Oliver to find some houses for Jake and Eva to live in.
Even though she thought all these houses were big and very exaggerated, Eva knew that this house would be bought by Jake because that was what he wanted so Eva didn't complain as always that Jake was spending a lot and just focused on choosing a good house.
After all, even though Eva wasn't sure what Jake was investing in, she knew he was making a lot more money than she could imagine, so she was just so proud of Jake who did all the things she dreamed for her son's life.
Eva chose a beautiful white house that Jake had liked a lot too, so all that was left was to wait for Oliver to prepare all the contracts and the house would be theirs, yet Jake would still have to stay at Matthew's for a while longer.
Because he would have them put an athletic field and a basketball court on the grounds of the new house, Jake also asked his mother to take care of the decoration of the house and buy all the missing furniture.
Meanwhile Jake asked Clara to send a team to set up a small gym in one of the employee houses so that he could do his exercises without worrying, even if he received the free products for sponsorship Jake decided to pay for it.
So they would still have to spend more time at Matthew's house, Jake didn't want Eve to know more about the house cost more than $ 2 million and hundreds of thousands more dollars would have to be spent on decorating the house and renovating what Jake authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Jake also asked Emily to take care of hiring new trusted employees for her new home, he had already asked for a security team to be hired after the new home was ready, so Jake would make the excuse that they were new home employees for his new home mom.
So Jake would send a driver and a security guard who would always be protecting Eva when she was away from home or in the restaurant, other security guards would take care of the new home and some would take care of Jake himself when he was out of school.
So he could rest assured that nothing bad happened to him or his family, while Jake also took the opportunity to make a new purchase, he would need to set up a better office for Emily and her investment firm employees to work with.
Jake chose one of the places he had set aside to make Eva's restaurant to buy and make his new office, this place was actually a well-located office building that would serve as a small restaurant for Eva's business expansion.
But since his mother didn't seem to want to do that in a short time Jake decided to buy to make an office for his company, but after a few more years this great place could be sold to someone else.
To buy this place Jake had Emily prepare everything, he even let her decorate her new place of work, so Jake would spend a few hundred thousand dollars, along with the house he bought Jake had spent close to $ 3 million.
Soon Jake received another news, it was Coach Bill who had made a call to advise that the university and the NCAA had accepted that Jake would maintain their sponsorships as long as he did not carry any marks for college basketball games.
Everyone understood that Jake's case was really very special and was really unique and would probably never happen to another player, not to mention that Jake was very talented in basketball and also talented in athletics.
So the university understood that it would lose a lot if Jake gave up entering university and went straight to the NBA because of a little sponsorship, not to mention that the university didn't have to pay Jake anything.
So the NCAA could also use Jake's example to soothe the media that was complaining that it was unfair for students not to receive sponsorship while playing for their university teams, they would show that a player would have other means to earn money.
If Jake could participate in this year's Olympics it would be even better for the university to have a national example as a student, it was less than Jake expected, so he was in such a hurry to win a marathon so he could show that he was a Talented athlete too.
In fact, Jake no longer needed the sponsorship money, but he was thinking of continuing this contract to help Tiffany and Clara who can't invest in Clara's companies until they buy Robert's stock.
In addition, Jake already planned to use this money to invest in cisco shares and also pay the salaries of employees of his new home, he did not want his mother to even think of taking her money that Eva now earned in the restaurant.
Other than that Jake had no income coming in every month, so even though he had millions invested in three companies, he didn't receive dividends every quarter from any of the three.
And as far as he remembered, Amazon would never pay dividends until the time he lived in his past life, so the money he received with sponsorship and winning the next marathons would make it unnecessary for him to sell his cheap shares for little money.
Because of this, he thought he would have to invest in a company that paid dividends after receiving the money when he sold the cisco shares in 2000, of course, he didn't need money now after receiving his profit share from the company. from Matthew.
Jake was also curious that Matthew could spend the money he received from profit sharing this year, since if Jake had received 25 million taking 5 percent, Matthew would have received more than the company's former cash value.
Jake knew that Matthew would not use this money to invest this money and was curious if Matthew would consider investing this money, after all, Jake has offered several times to offer an investment suggestion to Matthew, but Matthew always said he was broke.
Now Jake didn't have the heart to talk about investing with Matthew again, not to mention that now Jake's investment company was already best known for taking care of over $ 30 million in the capital.
While Jake thought about it Matthew asked to talk to him again, even though he didn't know what it was Jake went to Matthew's house to talk to him again.
"Jake, I called you here because I have an important subject to deal with you."
"Say, Matthew, if it's something I can help, I'll do it."
"You had talked to me about investing a few months ago, at the time I couldn't do it, but now with this money I received I can take a part to make some investments, and as you and Oliver have been talking, I think I can make a lot of money from these internet companies."
Jake was very happy to hear that Matthew had finally decided to invest, Jake's biggest fear was that he would get rich and his friends would lose the chance to invest in that time and later criticized him for not encouraging them to invest.
So whenever he could he could tell his friends to invest Tiffany and Clara were in trouble and didn't believe Jake much, and Matthew always said he couldn't invest so Jake was worried and at least knew he had tried.
"I think you do very well Matthew, you can talk to Oliver about it, he knows my company's investments right now are all in cisco stock, tell Oliver you want to invest that he buys the stock for you."
"I want to invest for your investment firm Jake, I heard that you and a lot of investors are making a lot of money from your company and I wanted to join in as well."
"I don't think it's a good idea, Matthew, my company charges 10 percent of all the profits our company makes for you on investments, so I think Oliver better make it for you and you get all the profit."
Jake understood that Matthew and maybe his other friends misunderstood him, he was not interested in profiting from his close friends, he just wanted to help them make money after all this was the best time to invest that Jake knew.
Even if his friends started investing now and sold the stock in 1999 to be safe they could still make a lot of money out of it, so Jake wanted everyone around him to make it.
But Matthew did not know this and found it strange that Jake would reject him in his investment firm, in fact, Matthew was a little suspicious if he could make money even with these technology companies and knew that investing in stocks was very risky.
But after several years Oliver had told him that Jake's company had several times earned the initial investment, and now they had several investors who invested 30 million and were making a lot out of it in no time.
Besides, Matthew knew well that Jake was very good at making money and besides having good ideas he seems to be very lucky, so now that he had money he decided to trust Jake and see if he could make even more money.
But he didn't expect Jake to refuse his participation and ask him to talk to Oliver, Matthew well understood that Jake's company could charge 10 percent of the profits and that could be a lot of money.
But Matthew saw it differently, the investment firm charges 10 percent of the investment's profits, and Jake still said he thought Matthew could lose a lot by giving that 10 percent.
This was to show that Jake was very confident in his firm that would work for several years taking care of the investment just to earn 10 percent of a possible profit, plus when Matthew and other investors handed over the money to an investment firm if they lost it would all be Jake's and his company's reputation that would be damaged.
So for Matthew that 10 percent of a possible profit was more than fair to pay the company that would give him many millions if he gave this money to Oliver he knew that his son could not be all the time paying attention to sell the actions at the right time and earn more.
"But did you talk a few years ago to leave with your company to take care of my investment?"
"That was because as you are my friend I wouldn't ask for anything to take care of your investment, but now I can't take care of it without asking anything because I covered 10 percent of Emily's acquaintances."
"No problem, I think 10 percent is very fair, I trust your company can take better care of my investment than my son who is worried about many other things."
"If you think that's okay, I promise to take good care of your investment, how much do you intend to invest?"
Prior to this conversation Matthew intended to invest giving 50 million for Jake's company to invest after all he had to count on losing all that money by investing in stocks, but now he had changed his mind after seeing how confident Jake was in his company, his entrepreneurial instincts said he would regret not investing much authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Also, next year his company would earn a lot more and he didn't have to worry about running out of money, so he decided to invest almost everything he had received and would get only part of that money, if he made a lot he would be just happier than Oliver and Joseph's future was guaranteed.
"Then I'll give you 300 million dollars to decide how to invest Jake if I make at least a tenth of that I would be very happy."
Matthew knew it was very difficult to make money from stocks, so he also knew that the more he invested the more he could earn in a short time, Jake knew it too and was surprised when he learned that Matthew would invest 300 million, but was soon happy knowing that his friend would make a lot out of it.
When Jake told Emily that she had a 300 million investment in the company she almost went crazy, she was very stressed about taking care of buying and organizing the company's new office and still seeing the 30 million investments.
But now she probably couldn't even sleep with stress knowing she was working so hard, especially in a business that was too risky and uninsured.
She didn't even want to imagine what would happen if Jake's company made a mistake and lost those over 330 million now, so she had to make sure she was doing a good job in the next few years.
The person who was most at ease with all of this was Jake himself, after all, he knew the future and didn't have to worry about any mistakes or falling stocks, he was just thinking of selling these stocks first to make sure it wouldn't be his company that would accelerate the bubble burst.
After all, now Jake's company would be directly involved with a few billion dollars in the next few years If Jake's investment in Amazon were to be counted, that number would only increase.
Of course, not everything was guaranteed, because when Matthew greatly increased his investment he might not want to continue to risk and ask Jake to sell the shares, after all now Matthew would invest 300 million dollars, but when that amount exceeded 1 billion he might not want to but keep on risking.
Jake could be sure that anyway, he would make hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years with his company, even though Emily would be a millionaire with her stake in the company, Jake just had to wait and see how things would change.
After that Jake no longer had to worry about business until the end of the year, only Emily would be busy at the time, yet he would be much busier with basketball and marathon than ever.
Also, this year Jake would still have to worry about college in the middle of the year, with so many things to do he was glad his mom had more time to stay home so he could talk to her more to relax.
This year because of the Olympics the national championship would start a few weeks ahead of time, and in February Jake had to participate in the qualifying test for this year's Olympics.
That would not normally be a problem for Jake, but this year at the Olympics from what Jake remembered the three marathon medalists were from the United States, so he would be practically playing an early final, if he could win he could win at the Olympics as well.
Luckily Jake had decided to control himself at marathon running speed, so it should not be a problem to run the Olympic qualifying race in 2 hours and 6 minutes, plus he remembered that the final race time of first place It was more than five minutes longer than that, so it was good news for Jake.
In the training of the basketball team Jake saw that Nathan and Lucas had improved a lot again, they had grown in height too, even though David and Harrison had also improved could not compare.
After all, Nathan and Lucas were still in their first year of high school, it was normal for them to quickly improve their skills after doing better training and facing stronger opponents.
While David and Harrison were already in their senior year of high school and used almost all the growth potential they could have in high school with their skills, even Coach Mike thought they were both far more talented than other players of the same authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Even though Coach Bill, who worked with the top players at the university, was interested in their talent, they had no greater prominence at Elite school because everyone on the basketball team was used to Jake who was a much more amazing talent than the two.
Of course, Jake should not be used as a comparison, after all his skills were at the university level, so Jake who knew this considered the two even more talented.
So after a few more days the day of the first game of the national championship arrived, Jake woke up very early and went down to eat breakfast prepared by his mother who today had exchanged times with Anna to prepare breakfast for Jake.
Jake could see that her mother was much healthier and happier now than before, Eva had fully recovered from the shock of having her home broken into and working less than before had more time to rest.
How are you feeling for today's game, Jake?"
"I'm feeling it will be good, this year's teams seem to be stronger than last year, but we have Nathan and Lucas on our team, so our team is also stronger this year."
"I also think you'll win again, this time I will try to go to the final game cheering for you again."
"So I have to work harder to reach the end of this year."
Jake was happy to hear that his mother could go to this year's national championship final again, Eva was busy with the restaurant and so couldn't go to the regional and state championship finals, but most importantly he was happy to have his mother over there.
Jake also knew that Eva was struggling to go because it could be Jake's last high school game and also in the next few years she wouldn't have been able to go to other cities to watch Jake's games as she had before in Miami.
After chatting with his mother for a while Jake went to the game site, he got there after everyone on his team and after getting ready to talk to Mark while doing warm-up exercises and waiting for the game to start.
Unlike Jake who was given a break from training because Coach Mike was worried about him, the other players trained normally, without a quality PG like Jake training was difficult to simulate a real game.
And no one wanted to try to play in the impromptu PG position because they would miss the opportunity to fight for the vacancy in the team, Coach Mike was the one who was most satisfied with that, because David and Harrison were already good players, with Nathan and Lucas running for the job all improved and the team just had to gain from it.
In the absence of Jake who led the team in training was surprisingly Mark, after all, he was now the best player in the team and what improved best after Jake, Jake himself told his teammates several times that without Mark to catch the rebounds they could miss several important games.
The adversary in this first game was the Cats team that made it to the national championship every year, but this year they didn't think they could go any further after facing Jake's team.
The best players of the Cats team were PG King and SF Amir after a few minutes began the first game of the Elite team in the national championship.
Mark climbed higher and got the first possession for the Elite team, Jake received the ball and began to organize the first attack, after advancing a little he passed the ball to David, David advanced even before the three-point line and passed the ball to Lucas on the left.
Lucas made a feint and managed to trick Amir into the left, Lucas continued to advance into the area and the opposing Center came on the cover, so Lucas passed the ball to Mark who was free.
Mark received the ball and made the dunk to score the first 2 points for the Elite team in the match. In this match as Amir was good in the attacking team coach, Mike decided to put Lucas who is better in defense in the starting lineup.
But he still put David on the starting lineup and left Nathan as a substitute, it was the first time Coach Mike had put just one of the two on the starting lineup, usually, he always put Nathan and Lucas together.
PG King received the ball and advanced to the attack line, before the middle of the court he passed the ball to his team's SG, SG advanced to before the three-point line and David arrived to press in defense.
SG did not hold the ball and passed to their team PF, PF received the ball and Carter was firm in defense, PF still tried to get rid of Carter, but Carter was firm in defense, so PF turned the ball to King again who was behind him.
King tried to make the move, but Jake was firm in defense, King tried several times to get the trick and passed the ball to his team SG when he saw that he could not get past Jake.
The Cats SG received the ball and attempted a mid-range shot as the possession time was running out and managed to score 2 points and tie the game.
Jake received the ball and started another attack for the Elite team, he advanced until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Lucas on the left, Lucas advanced until after the three-point line and passed the ball to Carter who was on the right.
Carter received the ball and soon the opposing PF arrived in defense, so Carter held the ball a little and passed to Jake, Jake received the ball and passed to Lucas who was free to the left, Lucas received the ball and tried a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
And so the game continued until the end of the first period, the Elite team was winning by 4 points, Jake had only 4 points, but got 5 assists and 2 rebounds in that first period.
After so many things that had happened in those months without playing, Jake had even forgotten about his psychological problem, but his subconscious seemed to be making Jake hold on and not push himself so hard.
Lucas was also fine and had 8 points and 2 assists in this first period of play, early in the second period the Cats team advanced to make the first play of the second period with King.
King advanced until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Amir, Amir advanced on the right and went past the three-point line and passed the ball to his team's Center, Mark was inattentive and the opposing Center managed to spin and make 2 more points for the Cats team.
Jake received the ball and advanced to before the three-point line with the ball and passed Lucas to the left, Lucas held the ball a while and passed to Carter who was open on the right, Carter got a shot at the opposing PF and ran to the left bottom of the court to pass the ball to Mark.
Mark tried to spin on the opposing Center, which was in defense and didn't allow it. Mark passed the ball back to Jake, Jake got the ball and stepped back and tried the shot from outside to make 3 points for Elite.
In the second period, Jake was more active in the game as he always was and the players got good plays, so the second period ended with the Elite team leading the way with 10 points more than the Cats team.
Jake had scored 10 points in that period and had also made 4 assists and got a rebound, so Jake was now 14 points and 9 assists and 3 rebounds, the trained Mike who was worried about Jake thought he was doing very well so far.
But I couldn't tell if Jake thought he was playing badly because his standard is too high, at least he was playing a lot better than in the last state championship game, it was better for Coach Mike if Jake was healed, because otherwise, it would be hard for them to win the national championship without it.
Jake who had forgotten his problems had also played well in the third period and the Elite team increased the advantage even further, by the end of the first game the Elite team had won the game by 30 points.
Jake had 38 points and 15 assists plus 5 rebounds, Lucas also had a good game and Harrison didn't even get into the game, David had a modest game and was replaced by Nathan in the fourth period.
Coach Mike was very happy with the outcome of the game and figured that even if Jake had a problem before he should have healed after seeing him play so well today, so Jake picked up his things and left after saying goodbye to his teammates.
After arriving home Jake took a shower and rested and just got up when his mother came home and told her that they had won the game again, Eva was happy with it and made a special celebration dinner for Jake.
After working in a restaurant for several months, Eva had improved her cooking a lot, but what she improved, even more, was the speed at which she prepared the food, she just had to wait for the fire, because her cooking skills made her finish the dishes quickly.
This was normal considering she saw the same dishes being made hundreds of times and even observed the chefs 'techniques for preparing the fastest dishes, as Anna had said, years of experience only improve chefs' skills.
Even now that Jake could cook better than his mother, he was much slower than she was to prepare the dishes, but that only made Jake happy to see Eva cooking so well.
At school during the week the tension was increasing as the last semester progressed, Jake was the most relaxed about it because he had high scores on both ACT and SAT tests, and Jake already had a university scholarship guaranteed.
Joseph had also gotten a very high score, but he wanted to get even better before entering college, with Jake teaching when he had time all of Jake's classmates had gotten good grades.
The teachers now loved Jake and could not even believe how some teachers in the past might not like him, after all, they earned great bonuses from the Elite school on the higher their students' grades.
Jake even found time to teach some players on his basketball team and some close friends he had made on the football team, everyone who studied with Jake got great scores.
But that was because no one who could get into a private school could be stupid, besides, the classes were always good no matter which teachers gave the classes, Jake had gotten a good grade even on the GMAT he did.
Even if it wasn't for the sports scholarship Jake could easily get into any university, Jake had also overcome his fear of another accident and could no longer walk, now he was convinced that his future would be great.
Jake was in such a good mood that he even helped Liza with her studies, Joseph was smart, but unlike Jake, he was terrible at teaching and couldn't help his girlfriend.
In his last semester of high school even Lola came to talk to Jake, she offered to teach him how to do well on exams, he thanked him and said he didn't need to be the best student in his class.
He was grateful and didn't want Lola to waste her time, and Lola ended up being embarrassed and embarrassed for it, Lola had to blame Eva who always bragged about everything Jake did and forgot to say that he was the best student of the school.
This week Jake was a little tense too because on Saturday this week would be the qualifying event for the Olympics, so he had to train well during the week, he still ran the 55 km with a speed of 30 minutes for every 10 km.
Jake wanted to make sure he could handle the entire race at his normal speed that would win the marathon, the second game of the Elite national championship would be on Friday, so he would have to go to Charlotte, NC where he would be the night of classification.
This time he didn't want anyone to go with him there, so John wasn't happy anymore but he understood that Jake needed focus right now to try to win, there would also be a $ 100,000 prize for the first place Jake wanted to win.
Tiffany had said he had not found any suitable coach for Jake, so Jake said he didn't want any now until the Olympics were over so he could get a better coach and a coach now could hurt his training.
After a week of training was the day of the second game of the national championship, this game was easily won by the Elite team, in the first period of the game they were 10 points ahead of the opponents.
In the second period, they were winning by 22 points and at the end of the third period, they won by 32 points, as the opponent practically gave up the last period they won by 38 points difference because they held on.
The opposing team was good and all their players played regularly, unfortunately at that time only opponents with high-level players could go through the defense of the Elite team and bring danger to them.
Jake also played very well and scored 34 points, 12 assists and 4 steals in the game, so Coach Mike was sure that Jake had no more problems, the same day Jake went to Charlotte, NC to prepare for the marathon the other day.
Even though he had forgotten this during the games Jake had already realized that he had gotten rid of his psychological problems, in the classification marathon he could be sure if he was completely healed.
In fact, according to Jake had realized he should have no problem winning even though he still had the psychological problem, yet he was good at giving more confidence during the marathon to know that he was fine.
During the race he would have to watch out for Bob Kempainen who was the one who would win the marathon today and also win the gold medal in the Olympics after a few months, Jake even knew that Bob Kempainen would win this marathon after getting sick at the end of the test.
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On race day Jake did his warm-up exercises as he prepared to start running, in his after-marathon training he had learned how to get water at various points in the marathon without disturbing his running pace.
Jake had also decided to run a portion of the group marathon to avoid wear and tear by facing the entire draft, but as he knew it would be at a much stronger pace than other runners it was better that he run alone again today.
So began the qualifying race for the Olympics, Jake was again relying on the dashboard the system had given to mark his speed and average race time, he learned from mistakes in the past marathon and would also change by running stronger in the decides and more slowly uphill.
Even if he didn't make the best time he would tire less in the marathon and still gain experience to learn the best way to run, it was these little things that could often guarantee victory in a high-level competition.
In the first few miles of the marathon he sought to run in groups as he had planned, he was always changing groups as one accelerated and another slowed if he did not see a very large climb, curve or descent along the way he would not change the racing pace.
At one point in the race, Jake was recognized by some members who were running in a group, Jake was much more famous after appearing in two television commercials this year and participating in getting a good placement in some major marathons.
Who recognized Jake was a pro too but didn't plan on getting a test placement, so they decided to run at the same pace as Jake and always taking turns with someone in the group leading to block the wind and help Jake in the marathon.
Jake was happy with that, but with the consideration of these people than necessarily with the help they would give him in this marathon, but what this group did not know Jake had the system and also this was the third marathon he would run.
So this was meant to be Jake's best performance in all the marathons he has run so far, so while the people in the group were intent on helping Jake in the marathon they would be helped and would be able to arrive with much shorter time at the end of the marathon.
After all, everyone in the group was professional runners and had good stamina to run, keeping pace was their only difficulty, and with the help of the system, Jake was an expert in keeping pace.
So only when km 25 passed did the people in the group fail to keep up with Jake's pace and had to part with him in order to finish the race, even though it was helped Jake served as a rabbit for those runners who would get a much better time running.
Jake, while he was with the group, managed to save a lot of stamina and even by slowing down the corners and turns and increasing the speed in the decides he was still able to keep up with his planned running pace, Jake was also stopping properly at the back stations to drink some water and cool off.
This was by far Jake's best performance in marathons and the more he ran the more confident he got.
Race commentators had also realized that Jake was running at a high level, now Jake was no longer a stranger and was respected in the world of professional marathon athletes.
So this was the third time Jake had been running fast and commentators had already realized that this was Jake's racing strategy, he won in Chicago and was second in New York and only lost because he had an injury after almost beat the race record.
"And we see that as speculated Jake is really trying to participate in the Atlanta Olympics this year, this year he is 17 years old and everyone thought he was too young for that."
"I don't think so, this is the third marathon he runs, he got great results in the first two and has been keeping a very strong pace for this one too."
"True, we can't just see Jake as a young man, he is a pro and a favorite to get a place at the Olympics, but he forced a lot in the last New York marathon and ended the race with an injury, will he can you go well today?"
"From what I've seen he's running at a much slower pace than he did in New York, he also ran a portion of the group race preserving endurance and is preserving well-controlled running energy."
"Now all that remains is whether he is doing this because he has learned to run more efficiently or because he has not yet fully recovered from his injury in the last marathon."
While Jake was running commentators were trying to figure out what was happening to him, after all, athletes usually make mistakes and learn from experience by competing in multiple marathons before improving.
But even with all the flaws, Jake had won since his first marathon, so he was a rarity that everyone liked to talk about, not to mention that Jake was only 17 now which made him even more interesting to commentators.
Jake kept running at the same pace as he avoided wasting energy by slowing down the climb, so after 30 km of the marathon, he was still fine as usual.
Jake could feel that he was clearly much better than in the first marathon that ran in Chicago and much better than when he ran in New York, now Jake was finally realizing the advantage of getting two stat points after winning in Chicago.
Jake had a great advantage for the other participants while maintaining the same running pace as he went 35 km, only after that did Jake begin to feel his body heavy and authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Now with less than five km of the marathon left to win, Jake could feel that stopping for water at the support stations and other things he did differently this time helped a lot to make him run more comfortably this time.
"It looks like Jake is really in great shape in today's race, about five km to the end of the marathon and he doesn't look exhausted like other competitors at this point in the marathon."
"We can see that Jake seems to have found the right race pace and has run the same way as the other runners, he really seems to be our greatest hope for winning the gold medal at this year's Olympics."
"It's true, the fact that Jake is so young and so stable in his marathons makes him one of the best marathon athletes in the world today."
After driving the 38 km Jake slowed his pace a bit, after all, he had a huge lead for second place and was still afraid of what happened in the last marathon to repeat again.
After all, he was still not very confident that he was completely healed of the psychological problem he had and could still win even if he held on to the final part of the marathon.
After going through 41 km Jake finally relaxed and realized that he could win today's marathon smoothly and get a seat at this year's Olympics, he was even dreaming about the gold medal.
"It looks like we already have a winner for this marathon today, Jake is almost entering the last mile of the race and has a huge advantage of over 3 minutes for the other competitors."
"Second place finisher Bob Kempainen was ill at the last moments of the race, but he still stands firm in second and is well ahead of third place in the race."
"So we will have our main representative for this year's marathon Olympics a 17-year-old Jake Smith is his name."
This time Jake had no problem at the end of the race and can easily win and secure a place for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Jake was relieved that it seemed his problem had been healed.
He finished the race in 2 hours, 8 minutes and 30 seconds earning $ 125,000, $ 100,000 to win and $ 25,000 for breaking the race record, so he was pleased with that, then Jake made a point of greeting Bob Kempainen that it would be the winner if it wasn't for him to participate this time.
After talking with some reporters and saying that he felt very good to be able to represent his young country in an Olympics, especially this one being in his country.
This was also the first time Jake had not eaten a stamina bar after finishing a marathon, he felt less tired today than in his training, Jake had decided that this year would only train for the Olympics and not participate in any marathon until the Olympics.
So Jake would have to wait a few years before he could compete in all major marathons in the world, Jake was a little disappointed to earn no reward statistic points after qualifying for the Olympics.
But that was normal, after all for the system this was just a qualifying competition and the Olympics was the real challenge they would have to face, Jake just thought it would be nice to have a few more points in the Resistance statistic before the Olympics.
The same day Jake returned to Miami, he thought it was much better to rest at home than to stay in a pewter hotel, Jake told his mother when he got home that he had won the race and qualified for the Olympics.
He hoped that as last time she wouldn't mind much, but Jake was wrong this time, Eva knew the Olympics very well and cheered for the United States in all competitions.
So she was very happy and congratulated Jake so much for being able to compete at the Olympics, Eva even said that it was for Jake to do everything possible to get a gold medal to bring home.
Jake had many awards and medals at home, but an Olympic gold medal would be completely different from what he had now, Jake agreed with his mother about it, which is why he wanted to get several gold medals after a few years.
Jake was seriously thinking that after this Olympics, in addition to trying to win the major marathons, he would start training for other sports as well, with his agility and Resistance now Jake thought the 5,000 and 10,000-meter race would be easy to beat here 4 years ago.
But the 1,500 and 800-meter races would be much more difficult, the smaller the distance from the races the greater the difficulty for Jake to try to win, he thought he would have to have at least 42 stats in agility to try to win and that wasn't easy to achieve in 4 years only.
After winning 5 more marathons major Jake would get 5 more agility points and 5 Resistance points, it was a pity that Jake didn't know if he could achieve more with the athletics world championship and the Olympics.
Even though Jake knew he could not count on the agility points he would get from his normal training after all the system warned that Jake only got many points because his body was developing, but after this year he would not improve that easily.
That was why Jake was thinking about how he could improve his strength statistics, after all, he could not increase running in marathons and it would take several years to think of earning any points with basketball.
So Jake would have to see his Agility and Resistance is much higher than his strength statistics, and Jake knew from the system that he would need strength statistics to be able to improve accuracy on off-range and mid-range shots as well.
The other week Jake decided to rest his body and did no training other than the training of plays with the basketball team, after all, would soon be the third game of the Elite team in the national championship.
Now that Jake had recovered from his psychological problem nothing could hinder his team from getting another national championship trophy, then he would just have to think about university.
Jake called John and Alan during the week telling him that he had won and qualified for the Olympics, they were happy about it and their companies would be even happier. John was a little worried after what happened in New York and was happy to know that everything went well.
Jake also called Tiffany and Clara, but Tiffany was out of the country solving some problems with European stores and Clara said she wanted to have lunch with Jake to celebrate the good news.
When Jake saw Clara at the restaurant he was glad to see that she looked much healthier than before, she still looked a little pale and thin but was much more alive and happy than before.
She managed to recover faster after eating better and taking some vitamins, but especially after getting out of the depression that was due to the many problems, Clara realized that she had real friends by her side like Jake and Tiffany.
"How are you doing, Jake?"
"I'm fine, much better than before, things seem to be working out well now and I'm back to playing well and qualifying for the Olympics, plus my mom seems to be very happy and doesn't have to work so much in the restaurant anymore."
"And you look so much better than before, Clara, I hope you'll be happy and confident again as it was the first time I met you."
"Thank you, Jake, thanks to you and Tiffany that I am recovering so well, but I can only be happy again after I recover my actions from Robert's hands."
Jake realized that the reason Clara recovered so quickly and accepted well what happened in her company and divorce was that she finally accepted that her ex-husband Robert was a scoundrel and was not worthy and did not deserve her love.
It was only a matter of time before this happened and Clara woke up to realize the reality of life, Jake was afraid that after Clara lost her innocence what was left was anger and desire to take revenge on her ex-husband as it happened to many women.
Luckily it seemed that Clara was not like this and just wanted to recover her company to get her life back to normal, seeing that Jake who was fine with everything that was happening decided to try to calm Clara by telling her situation.
"I think you don't have to worry so much about getting your business back Clara, I know you don't trust my business visions, but I think I make good investments and by 2000 I could end up earning a few tens of thousands of dollars."
"I know you don't believe that, but my company is taking care of a multi-million dollar capital investment and part of that money comes from Matthew you know well."
"Is Matthew even investing?"
"Yes, I now have a small percentage of his company stock, and Matthew's company made a good profit from the sales of the new digital camera, so he and I made good money on the company's profit share."
"Just as Matthew trusts me, he decided to invest with my investment firm."
It was a pity that Jake couldn't tell Clara the details of his dealings and the company, but Clara must have realized that Jake had indeed made a lot of money as she knew the rumors about the deals being authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Clara was really surprised by this, she didn't know that Jake was that good in business, she thought Jake lived only on the sponsorships she received, but it seems she was very wrong and Jake could be richer than she thought now.
In fact, Clara couldn't be blamed for thinking that, after all, Jake was only 17 now and it was already amazing the accomplishments he had in two top-level sports like basketball and athletics, so she couldn't imagine that Jake had a talent for the stock market too.
Matthew and Oliver knew Jake a lot better and had been listening to Jake's business visions since many years ago, plus Jake gave many important tips to Matthew's company and saved Matthew's company from possible bankruptcy, so it was normal for Matthew trust Jake for the investments.
Even with the crisis that was going on in her company, Clara would not think of giving money to Jake's company to invest at a time like this, after all, she knew well that the stock market was risky and she could not risk the future of her company in that.
Matthew was with his company making a lot of money from the new product and could risk an investment of a few million, but she could not make herself, Clara could change her mind if she heard that Matthew risked investing 300 million with Jake's company, but Jake never would do it.
"I don't understand where you want to go with this Jake, it's not that I don't trust you, but I can't bet my company's future on the stock market."
"I know that well, you made it very clear last time, what I mean is that when I can redeem the money from my investment in 5 years or even before that when I get Matthew's company profit share I will buy the Robert shares of your company. "
"But you have to agree to that first, then when you have conditions I can sell that 10 percent stock back to you."
For a while, Clara was silent trying to understand what Jake was saying to her, after all, it was normal for her not to understand that if Tiffany she had known for over 10 years or her father bought these actions to help her, Clara would not be so surprised by that and would just be grateful.
But she didn't understand why Jake who until a while ago had nothing wanted to risk buying her company's stock right now, if she didn't know Jake well she might even think that Jake was buying those shares from a rival company.
But she knew Jake would never do something as bad as that to her, and even though Jake was a close friend and her company-sponsored Jake when he was younger and more needed, Clara didn't think it was enough to justify it.
"Why are you doing this for me?"
"Because you are one of the dearest people in my life, and I don't think you deserve to lose your company for a mistake that is not yours, if I have this money I will definitely buy these stocks, because even if I keep them I know you're efficient and can make my investment count."
Even though he didn't expect that question Jake just told the truth, Clara and Tiffany were very dear people in his life and helped him a lot at a time he needed, besides, Jake knew that Clara was efficient and a great company and worth the investment even if Clara didn't buy those shares from him.
After another 4 years in 2000, Jake would have billions of dollars in cash from his investments, in another 20 years, he would be close to 100 billion if all he thought worked out, so taking that 30 million to help a friend was worth it to Jake.
When Clara saw in Jake's eyes that he was being sincere as she began to cry, Jake was surprised by this and didn't know what to do, he knew it wasn't a cry of joy because he hadn't bought the stock yet and nothing had happened.
So Jake could only comfort Clara awkwardly, the crying Clara was having now was a bit of a relief, after all, she was still very stressed about everything that had happened in recent months.
Even if her health was better she couldn't be relaxed until she regained Robert's actions, so seeing that Jake also wanted to help herself by knowing him a few years ago made Clara relieved to see that she didn't have to go through this alone.
It wasn't a question of whether or not Jake could be 30 million in a few years when a few years ago he had nothing, but just the sincere intention to help make her happy.
After a while Clara recovered and was embarrassed after realizing she had cried in a restaurant again and again in front of Jake, she didn't know why, but she felt comfortable and relieved whenever she talked to Jake.
She knew it was because she was so fragile and vulnerable these past few months with everything that had happened in her life, and Jake was now a man and always confident and cheerful at all times.
It was a kind of charm and maturity that Clara had never seen in anyone, when Jake was a child he was not like that, and looked just cute, in a few years he changed a lot, thinking about it Clara can not help but smile, it made Jake more confused seeing Clara crying and then smiling.
"What's it?"
"It's nothing, I was thinking that a few years ago when I met you you looked so cute, and now that you've grown up you look very confident."
"I thought I already looked confident when I met you."
"Hahaha, no you just looked cute trying to be serious under 13."
After that, they talked for a while and broke up when Jake went home, he thought she looked better after he said he would buy these shares from Robert's hands, even if Clara didn't believe him, Jake was very confident in doing that to happen.
In fact, if Jake made a loan he could easily get the money to buy Robert's stock, but he knew well that Clara's problem would not be solved with just that, Tiffany and Clara had to think of a way to buy the stock adversary company that was 33 for sure too.
After all, it was now as if they were working with the enemy and the opposing company could know everything they were doing and doing the same, or rather, would be a hopeless competition for Clara's company.
So Jake would rather wait a few years and get that money without any debt if he says that in the next few years Jake would make even more money from the profit-sharing of Matthew's company.
After that the week spent quietly with Jake doing just the training of basketball plays while resting this week after the marathon, Jake was afraid of having another injury if he continued training as before.
After all, even though the system could warn before Jake had the injury this was only in the latter case, after all, it was only because Jake was overdoing the training that he always had the risk of an injury.
After a few more days the day of the Elite team's third national championship game came, the game was much more difficult for the Elite team than in previous games after the first national championship game Lucas always started the starting games.
It was because the whole team and coach Mike felt safer to make the plays with Lucas in defense, in this game David started as a starter again, but it happened again that he underperformed as he had not since last season.
So at the end of the first period of the game, the Elite team only led the score by 2 points because Jake was playing very well and scored 12 points only in the first period.
Seeing this coach Mike was not slow and decided to put Nathan in the game in place of David, David was very upset to have left the game but knew it was not a good day to play and could end up hurting the team if he continued playing.
In the second period the Elite team improved a lot in the game and the defense played better than in the other games and gave no chance for the attacking opponent, Jake also continued to play very well and still gave accurate passes to Mark and Lucas to score more points.
So at the end of the second period, the team won by 10 points and Jake had 12 points and the whole game had 24 points.