Small Vacation at Home
"I'm coming home, this year's games are over and next year we'll have a sequel of over 3 months of nonstop games and I won't have a chance to visit my mother."
Jake had to tell his roommates that he would be coming home even though it wasn't for long, that's because they were his friends who stayed at the university to keep him company, even though some just didn't want to go home he Liked the consideration of his friends.
"Of course we knew you'd go home when you had the chance, you only talk about your mother and how much you miss her Hahaha."
"Zack's right, we all knew you'd go home in less than two weeks you'll have to come back even, bon voyage."
His friends naturally knew Jake well and knew that he did not see the time to have time to return home, In fact, Jake even says that he regretted not missing a week of classes at the beginning of the semester to go to Miami before starting the games with the basketball team.
Of course, everyone knew that Jake was just joking, he would really miss classes if he could and just go home, but he can't do that this semester because he wanted to show commitment and gain the confidence of coach Smith to play more time.
It turned out to work and now Jake played more than 30 minutes per game, but he can't go home ever since he arrived at the university as he had previously promised his mother, so Jake sacrificed a few things to have more game time.
"I know you guys already expected me to go home as soon as I had a chance, but I wanted to say that you guys should take advantage of going home for a few days at least, I'm sure your family will like it."
Jake still wanted to convince his friends to spend more time with their families while they had the chance, but their friends said they didn't want and that a few days did not make difference, just Zack who did not care because he could see his family whenever he wanted how his parents lived nearby.
So Jake ended up quitting convincing his friends and packed his bags, he'd travel to Miami on the first plane in the morning in a few, hours, even if the coach got mad he was determined not to come back in at least 1 week and a half.
He knew that it was now important to the team and wanted to just spend more time at home even if it ended up irritating coach Smith because of this, after all, Jake could not even spend his birthday with his mother because of the games.
The other day Jake left early to travel and was soon in Miami again, he ended up even missing the city after a few months out, so he asked for a taxi and went to the restaurant.
He knew that Eva should not be at home as he had not warned that he was going home, so it would be a good surprise for his mother and the others at the restaurant when Jake entered the restaurant the first person he saw was Lola.
It's been a long time since he'd seen or talked to her, the many times he called the restaurant or his mother Lola never showed up, Jake thought it was better for them not to have any kind of misunderstanding between them.
"Hi Jake, how have you been?"
"I've been fine, a little homesick for my mom and my friends these months, but it went well at university, and with you?"
"With me is fine too."
The two were staring at each other while they were in awkward silence, Jake did not know what to say to Lola that he hadn't seen in a long time and Lola did not want to lose more pride trying to show Jake that he liked him.
In those months she tried to forget Jake, she tried not to talk or think about him and even when she knew that Jake was communicating with Eva, she didn't even come near the kitchen, she couldn't forget Jake these months, but at least she didn't feel another Feeling so strong, until he saw him again that day.
When Jake suddenly appeared in front of her Lola felt as if she had gone back four months before he went to college, she felt a dereliction at that moment as if everything she had gone through was for nothing.
Jake didn't understand what Lola was feeling at the time, he also thought that Lola was trying to forget him and so he didn't want to talk to her much, so in this situation, the two could only remain silent.
Fortunately soon Julius came to talk to Lola and realized the situation in which the two were, Julius was very happy working in the restaurant of Eva, at first he was very tired of both making sweets and cakes besides several desserts.
He was very happy that his work was being recognized and soon he and the restaurant were popular and were always crowded, besides the hotels that were the place where they received most customers the restaurant also began to have frequent customers of the city of Miami.
So Julius naturally thought that his work would always be the hardest as he the main reason for the success of the restaurant, even tired he did not care because he was happy with the work and liked to cook and see satisfied customers eating the desserts he made.
But he was wrong about that, after a few months Eve and Anna organized and divided the schedules and some employees could work less time, even if Anna hadn't arranged a right time for Julius at that time because he was very important to the Restaurant she managed to organize a timetable that Julius could rest much more hours than before.
Julius was already satisfied with it, but just as Anna had promised she succeeded with a few more changes in the menu to maintain the quality on the menu and give more time for Julius to rest and an almost fixed time to work.
While he worked almost all the time he still had time to realize the situation in which his daughter was, as a father he naturally hopes for Lola's happiness, but as a man, he understood and respected Jake's attitude.
It was clear that Lola liked Jake and even Jake had noticed this a long time ago, but he had no feelings for Lola and so did not give up hopes and even diminished the interaction between the two.
Even though he was a father, Julius naturally knew that his daughter was a very beautiful woman, so if someone without character could lie that she was also in love with Lola just to take advantage of her fragility, but Jake wouldn't do that.
"Lola, I want to talk to you about something, can you come with me for a moment?"
"Sure, Dad, I'm coming."
"Welcome Jake, Eva is in the kitchen talking to Anna, I'm sure the two will love your surprise."
"Thank you, Julius, good to see you after so long."
So Lola went out with Julius and Jake can finally breathe relieved to get out of this troubling situation, it was even more uncomfortable than it was justly Julius who was Lola's father who ended this embarrassing situation.
Soon Jake went to the kitchen to meet with his mother and Anna, he hoped his mother would like the surprise when he entered the kitchen Anna was the first to see Jake coming in and making a sign that Anna did not deliver what he had arrived to surprise.
Anna smiled and nodded and returned to pay attention to Eva who had her back to Jake while developing a new recipe for the restaurant menu, she was so focused she didn't even realize that Jake was right behind her.
Even though Eva was the owner of the restaurant, she and Anna always talked about the next plans to improve the quality of care and customers in general, Eva had been Anna's student and even now she always lets Anna make the final decision for An To take.
Anna naturally likes it because it showed the confidence that Eva had in it, so Anna suggested that Eva also participate in the development of new recipes that next year would enter the menu.
Eva at first did not want to prepare new menus because she was afraid to present something less quality to the customers, but after a while, she got excited and began to work seriously on it.
Jake realized that maybe Anna was trying to prepare Eva for when she could no longer work in the restaurant because of her age and was passing her experiments to her, Jake hoped that Anna would still be well enough to do what she liked for many years.
After a few seconds still explaining about the new dish for Anna, Eva realized that someone was standing behind her a long time ago, she had noticed this before when she was explaining, but she thought it was someone from the kitchen that always passed through there.
"Jake, you're here, what a surprise I didn't really expect you to have time to come yet this year."
When he turned and saw that he was his son, Eva soon got emotional and gave Jake a hug with tears in her eyes, she was really missing her son after staying 4 months without seeing him, so when she saw him again she couldn't stand it and cried.
"I came as soon as I had a week off, I'm sorry it took me so long to come home, I said I'd come before, but I didn't have time, I wanted to surprise you, but if I knew you were going to cry you wouldn't have done it."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
"She's crying for joy, Jake, Eva has always missed you, but she didn't want anyone to be worried about her and so she held on and didn't talk to anyone about it."
Jake always felt bad about seeing women crying near him, especially when this woman was his mother, in his past life even having died of depression he never saw Eva crying near him, in this life, on the contrary, he was getting used to seeing.
At least this showed that Eva was also different in this life and trusted Jake more to show the feelings near him, which would leave Jake more relaxed because it seemed that he had no more possibility that his mother would get sick without him to know.
"Anna is right Jake, I'm just glad to see you after so many months."
"I also missed you, Mom, I hope that next year I may have more time to get home, after the basketball season is over I will definitely stay here a long time."
Jake was even thinking about it, as he more than three months straight playing nonstop he knew he would have to stay a long time without coming home, so he had to enjoy it after the basketball season ended.
Not to mention that he had a lot to do right now and these things would just get more complicated to solve if it took many months to solve, so he at least had to better organize his time since from here to front his life would always be so.
Then they talked for over 1 hour and Jake took the initiative to go home so as not to bother his mother that he had to start working at the restaurant, He knew that if Eve could, she would stay home only and not work at the restaurant during this week when Jake would be home.
But Eva also had her responsibilities and couldn't do it the same way that Jake couldn't just drop the training and classes to go home for missing his mother.
After a few more hours Eva would finish her hours at the restaurant and go home, so Jake went quickly home with the taxi and just left his stuff before entering the taxi again and going to Matthew's house.
He wanted to talk to Matthew because he was sure that they had a lot to talk about after almost 4 months, he didn't have time to know the business progress of the company, but he knew that before he went to university the sales of digital machines already Had surpassed the value of the previous year.
As soon as he arrived at Matthew's house the housekeeper opened the door and let Jake in to go out to warn Matthew that he was here, Matthew had already warned his employees to treat Jake as they treated his own family.
"Jake, what a pleasant surprise, I didn't expect you could still come that year, I've been hearing about how you've been busy at the university, it looks like you're really going to be an NBA player from here a few years."
"Oliver, I'm glad you're here at your father's house, I was going to spend later in your house, you seem to have been doing well in those months."
"You also look very well."
Oliver was really impressed with what Jake had done that year, he used to think that Jake was going to pursue a career as an entrepreneur and just play basketball and run for a hobby while he was studying.
But that year the things Jake did change Oliver's thought, Jake had totally shown his talent running in marathons winning many marathons that year and even won the Olympic gold medal and broke the world record.
After that Oliver knew that Jake would not stop running even after graduating from the university and would continue as a professional runner, this was normal after all he was already at the height of the sport even being so young, so he could continue his whole life Running and winning and creating a legend.
Shortly after Oliver learned that Jake was also playing very well basketball at the university, and still played well on the UNC's Tar Heels team that was where Michael Jordan played a few years ago, so Oliver understood that Jake could actually also become a professional and get into the NBA if you want.
This made Oliver quite confused, other people did not know, but Oliver knew well how successful Jake was in the business world even before he was 17, now with almost 18 years Jake could be considered a successful entrepreneur.
In addition to the stock market investments that Jake's company made that had given many profits, Jake still had a 5% stake in his father's company that thanks to Jake's counties not only fled from bankruptcy as he also gained more than 2 billion of sales last year and won, even more in that year.
So it was normal for Oliver to think that Jake would follow a career as an entrepreneur, he was even doing a course at the university related to administration and economics, now Oliver was confused about what Jake wanted to do when he was successful in everything he did.
"And Joseph? Did you come home for the holidays? "
"He showed up at home for a few days just to visit, but then went on a trip with his girlfriend, I didn't like any of this because they're not married yet, but even Liza's parents didn't care so I couldn't say anything against this trip."
"I went to Joseph's university to play a game a few days ago, but they said he had gone out for the holidays, so I thought he might be here."
It was like Jake thought, even though Joseph spent some time at home on vacation he was now traveling with Liza, Jake knew that Liza was not with Joseph because he was interested in his family's money and really liked Joseph.
But her family was more interested in the money that had Joseph's family than in his personality, so they wanted Liza not to lose the opportunity and stay as much as possible with him, after all, they wanted Liza to have a good marriage and had an easy life after getting married.
As Liza also loved Joseph it was clear that she would not refuse what her family was thinking to her, Joseph was not dumb and should also know about it, but how he loved Liza he did not care and wanted to stay with her on this vacation after spending a few months long and hers.
Even though Jake was a little sad about not being so close to his childhood friend he knew that after a few years they would have to get close again anyway because they would work together for Matthew's company.
After Joseph mature and married Liza, he would think more of his friends and see what he had only Jake as a close friend, so naturally, they would be close again.
As they walked into Matthew's office they talked about several things, it seems that in those months Oliver was working more with Matthew in the company than in his own law firm that he left in the hands of some competent officials.
After all, Matthew's company was also a client of Oliver's law firm, and after Jake gave some advice and Matthew's company was growing and selling a lot in those months it was natural for Oliver to be busier.
After Jake warned him about the time that Matthew's company was at risk of failing, Oliver was more concerned about the company's progress that his son would assume in the future, and Matthew was happy now that Oliver was a lawyer, because Oliver's firm helped Matthew in many judicial matters that Matthew understood nothing.
This included some patents on the company's new products that they were creating after Jake's tips, this digital camera business was a market that Jake had not researched much in his past life.
So he could give only a few counties about technology and product development, Jake also talked about future market projections as he knew well the future was very useful to Matthew.
But Jake did not know who owned the patents of the products he suggested that Matthew's company would develop, so he gave a county so that Oliver would try to get as many patents as they could to prevent competitors from imitates them and also to win some money in case the competitors broke their patents.
Incredible that it was many things that Jake had given counties and the company Matthew had developed had no patents about it, and the few things that had patents did not affect the United States, so they could produce their products quietly.
"Jake, what a great surprise you were showing up around here, I didn't expect you could still come that year. "
"Hahaha Many said the same thing as you Matthew, it seemed that no one expected to see me that year, and how have you been?"
"I have been good thanks to you, you should also be very well, I heard everything you conquered in that no, I was very impressed to see how you have grown since you were a child, your mother must be very proud of you."
"Thanks for the compliment, so Matthew, I've come all the way here because I'm curious as to the sales of the year, you should be almost closing the financial statement this year, I have to go back to college in a few more days, so tell me Sales that year. "Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
"Hahaha I imagined that you would be curious about it, it was all better than we expected, it seems that these two years were the turning point for the fate of our company, already gave to pay the shares that I rewarded you dozens of times."
Matthew was really happy to have trusted Jake, he was selling this digital camera just to take care of the company for a while and Jake always said that what they could earn more and longer was when they sold the cameras along with the companies that make mobile phones.
Not to mention that these cameras that they were selling were just a pre-sale to gain more resources, it was the most modern in the market because Jake passed a very advanced technology to them.
But the next camera that was already ready is that it would truly be the most modern digital camera, so Matthew had much more hope for the sales of this new digital camera.
"I'm seeing that you're really curious to talk about sales so I'm not going to do any more mystery, first I'll talk about the sales of the webcams you recommended we do."
"We started only a few months, with higher quality than the webcam that is currently best sold in the market we achieved some good results in sales."
"We still sell for a price similar to the current camera, we got 100 million dollars in sales in those few months, and nearly 40million dollars in profit in those sales."
Were really good sales figures, analyzing that the internet was not well known yet and only a small part of the population had computers at home, the first camera sold in the world had only 500,000 sales in almost 3 years.
Matthew had already achieved twice that in just a few months, of course in 1996 many more people had computers compared to three years ago and the webcam of Matthew's company had much more quality than the competitor in the market.
Especially since Matthew's company began to become internationally known as a quality camera brand after these two years of digital camera sales, it was normal for them to get more sales.
"It's really good Matthew, this webcam can continue to be sold for up to 4 years, close to the 2000 years we have launched another line of webcam with better quality in the market, at that time the number of people with computers here will overcome 50%"
"The important thing is to try to make the public aware of our product, do some propaganda, the ideal is that the sale of webcams can pay for the development of technologies that we will work with mobile companies."
"Let's try to do this, now let's talk about the main point, our sales with digital cameras in 1996 reached 4 billion dollars, with more the 2 billion in 1995 we sold 6 billion with this camera."
Jake was very happy about it but knew that this was just the reality of the time, a camera costing a thousand dollars could yield this much, but they would have to sell two or three times as much as they sold now to win that much in a few years.
Not to mention that the profit would be much lower because the cameras would need the constant development of technology, so Jake told Matthew that partnering with a mobile sales company would be much more profitable.
After all, when smartphones start selling hundreds of millions of people can buy, even billions of people in a few years, after all, the smartphone will serve people to talk on the phone, access the Internet and still take pictures and even play games.
If with a partnership they get $20 of profit per smartphone sold they would get more than 14 billion if the phone has good sales, with 14 billion profits even if they are with 10 different mobile models would be worth it.
The hard thing is to convince the company not to start producing the cameras themselves, so a long contract of several years with a fine millionaire resizable could make it happen.
After more than 20 years the sales of all companies would fall a lot, so he could promise that Matthew's company would grow and improve from the beginning of 300 million that was worth a few years ago.
In the future, it can be worth more than that, many of the big companies of the future would be worth 10 billion at least, Matthew's company could be worth up to half that value if it continued with those sales.
It would already be much more than 10 times the current value of the company, not to mention that the profits would be high every year like this, the Canon, for example, came to be worth almost 70 billion at the height of the company, so if Matthew managed to manage the company he would have much to gain.
Still, it was incredible to sell 4 million digital cameras in a year even though it was sold worldwide, so in total the first digital camera sold by Matthew's company sold 6 million units worldwide.
"Of course these were the approximate values, in profit, we achieved 2,095,300,000 dollars for the company, again we will invest half the value and the rest will be given as profit share for the shareholders here a few months ago."
For a company like that of Matthew so much investment would not have felt, they produced few products and were not prepared for such a big growth, even if the company had increased in value and in profit, the company itself had little change plus a few more assembly lines, machines, and employees.
The reason for this was that Matthew was cautious and did not expect the company to sell billions of dollars every year, a few years ago if the company sold could get a few million dollars would be great.
Jake thought that Matthew was right in doing this, he always invested half of his profits in the company and so had a lot of cash flow if he didn't invest in many things, so the company wouldn't have trouble lacking money to produce more machines to sell it.
In addition, the company of Matthew increased so much in the value of shares because the shareholders were receiving dividends that exceeded the value of shares in many times, if Matthew wanted to invest after a few years he could simply sell his The actions.
After all, he still had more than 70% of the company's shares, he could sell over 18% and still have the absolute majority of the company and raise hundreds of millions of dollars for the company, it was the best time for Matthew's company.
This time Jake would receive more than 104, 7 million dollars in his shares, as Matthew would invest half of that value Jake would get 52.3 million dollars, it was more than double what he received the last year.
Jake still had over 10 million dollars that he had left out of last year's earnings share plus the sponsorship he received in those 4 months and that profit share Jake had now 62,982,500 dollars in the bank.
Apart from all the money he had invested in the stocks, it was a lot of money even thinking normally, but the amazing thing was that Matthew was much richer thanks to Jake's counties, with this profit share that each would receive half Matthew would have more than 785.7 million dollars.
More than twice as much as he could with the sale of his company two years ago, the most incredible was that he had almost the same both in shares of the Cisco company that Jake invested last year he had now 717 million dollars After having invested only 300 million dollars in the beginning.
Taking away his shares of the company Matthew had a patrimony of more than $1 billion after listening to Jake's counties in just a few years, Matthew even believed that this value would still multiply in the coming years.
"I just have to thank you, Jake, I saw that my investments had almost doubled in value in just 1 year in the stocks that your company invested, I won almost the same as half the profit received from the company."
"Then you should invest the same much that year, in a few years you would be much richer."
Jake was thinking of Matthew's good when Jake sold all the shares he had and that the investment company had they would often get the amounts invested, if not for Jake investing in Amazon that in more than 20 years would be worth billions of dollars he would have invested in the company.
"I think better not, do not need to get too rich, the money I have invested already makes me very happy."
Matthew refused with this excuse, but Jake knew well why Matthew did not want to invest more, he relied heavily on Jake and Oliver and so gave them 300 million dollars to Jake's company investing in stocks, but Jake insisted that they could not sell before they Jake wanted to.
Matthew at first did not care and accepted this as well as Emily's father and the other investors a few years ago, but after little has these actions valued twice the value if it were not for this agreement Matthew would have sold his shares right now.
Emily's father and the businessmen who invested first also wanted to sell the shares they had, but the deal didn't allow it, they even tried to talk to Emily privately to convince Jake to sell the shares.
Fortunately for Jake, Emily was very honest and totally believed in Jake and even told what the entrepreneurs were wanting, Jake had made this deal for their good and for them not to lose money and even for the bubble not to burst Before the hour if they sold billions of dollars in stocks ahead of time.
They were not afraid of losing a few million, but when that value was valued for hundreds of millions of dollars they were increasingly afraid of losing, the same happened to Matthew.
Another point that neither Matthew nor the initial investors were happy was that Jake would stay with 10% of the stock sale, at first they accepted it and found it fair, but the more the stocks valued less they liked to divide 10% with Jake.
Jake knew that and would not insist on this matter anymore with Matthew, he found it a waste that his friend stopped earning billions of dollars for fear but also understood how risky the stock market looked to people who did not know the future as Jake.
And Matthew was right to think so, after 2000 he would have billions of dollars in stocks and would be too rich to spend all his life, he probably would regret not investing more with Jake when he had the chance.
"And when will the new camera be sold next year?"
"It will be sold in February, the price will be only 100 dollars more expensive than that was, but the overall quality of the camera will be much better, we can also better fix the display screen of the photos, the zoom, and the memory of the camera will be better."
The digital camera of Matthew's company was already the best in the whole stock market, with these new improvements and many others that Matthew did not need to say the camera sold next year would be much better.
While the other companies were studying Matthew's cameras to create a better product, Matthew's company would launch another much better camera on the market, just as Jake said this was the time to make money and leave the company brand well known.
After all, in a few years, they can no longer be in the market leadership of digital cameras, if they could possibly enter the smartphone market too, but it would be a risk that Jake would not advise Matthew to take.
"Matthew, you know well that I have little time here in Miami before I have to go back to university, so if you can get me the money I have to get, I appreciate it."
"Of course, I know you're busy this time, I'll deposit it to your account today.
"Thank you, then."
It wasn't normal to do something like that, but Jake knew that Matthew could do something for him, not to mention that it would be Matthew's company that would pay the profit share anyway, he just had to send the money to his own account later.
After talking a few more things Jake left home, he wanted to be with his mother today because the week would be very busy for Jake.
Jake stayed up later talking about everything that happened at the university in those 4 months, they talked on the phone, but speaking in person was different, Eva was happy to hear that Jake had made several friends.
She was worried about Jake who usually didn't have many friends, he only had Joseph at school as a friend of his age, he was also friends with the players on the basketball team and on the American football team.
But it was different from the friendship he had with Joseph, not to mention that Jake since his last life when it was easier to communicate with people wasn't much of a telephone or internet talk.
Jake was the kind of person who believed that just face-to-face conversation was a real conversation, so when his friends traveled far away they usually stopped being friends, in this life, it would probably be the same.
Eva was also happy to know that Jake was playing normally on the basketball team and was happy there, she knew Jake had the ability and could choose from several universities to go to play in one so she could not accept if the coach did not give opportunities to Jake play.
As for the marathons she can watch Jake's races on television, she was thinking of setting up a television in the restaurant just so that customers could watch her son's races, Eva also learned that some of Jake's basketball games would be televised.
The other day Matthew had already sent the money to Jake, so he wasted no time and took advantage of his had to go to the restaurant to call Clara with whom he had not spoken for many months.
He thought about calling Tiffany too but thought it better to talk to Clara first and if things went well it wouldn't be too late to call Tiffany, Clara said she was busy for Jake, but when he said it was important she had to go to the restaurant.
As it was Jake who invited him he first arrived at the restaurant, so he saw when Clara arrived, she was much better than before and didn't look any pale and looked the same way he first saw her.
Even though Jake could see that there was something different about Clara, she didn't look as happy as she was before, even though she had recovered from the shock of separation and what Robert had done to her, Clara's heart didn't seem to have recovered from it.
"Jake, how long we haven't seen each other."
"Yeah, it seemed like you had ignored me in the last few months, did I do something you didn't like?"
"No, you didn't do anything wrong, I really have been really busy trying to sort out the company situation and I'm not as excited to talk anymore."
The situation of the company to whom it saw the reports seemed great since Clara was avoiding investing in the company in those years and yet the company's revenue kept increasing, they sold a lot more since Jake became known across the country.
Even though she was having a lot of problems because she didn't want the value of the company to increase but the revenue could increase, by the end of the year she was finishing the balance sheet, even if they had the biggest profit in the company's history in 1996. not even close enough to buy Robert's stock.
She didn't have a company like Matthew's where she could just have a popular product that with new technology and high-profit margins could make her a millionaire, the most expensive products she had were gym equipment.
But even with this equipment, she had to pay most of it to the company that creates the product and she couldn't put the price she wanted because her company had several competitors selling for the same price margin.
So business was different between companies, she had to rely on a line of tens or hundreds of products that had to sell hundreds of thousands of units for her to make a good profit as she had this year.
It was as Jake had thought before, maybe in her past life, the same thing had happened with Clara's company, as she wasn't sponsoring someone like Jake even though paying so little Clara must have given up on her company and sold it to the competitor.
After all, right now having such good sales, Clara seemed to be starting to get discouraged about her business situation, of course, Jake couldn't question Clara's willpower, many in the same situation she was in would have given up and sold the company.
After all, she would be profiting a lot if she sold only her share of the company compared to how much she initially invested and over the years, not to mention that in those years she was receiving her share of the company's profits.
"That's why I thought I had done something you didn't like, it's usually during the tough times you can count on more friends, you can always come to me to let off steam."
"Thanks, Jake, I know that you and Tiffany have always been my great friends and are helping me a lot in my difficult time, it's thanks to your support that I can keep fighting, but this is a subject you can't help me."
Jake couldn't say anything about it, Clara's company really was in a situation where only money could help her, and Clara thought Jake couldn't raise that money on her own in the next 4 years until the deadline to buy her actions are over.
Also, with the profits that Clara and Tiffany's companies made this year, they knew they could raise enough money to buy the stock from Robert's hands in a few years, so Clara was tired but motivated to keep working if she didn't see no hope could have given up.
Jake naturally knew what situation Clara was in and after so many years finally had another opportunity to help her, so he had asked for this advance to Matthew, Jake knew that could end up losing hundreds of millions with this act, but he would just be pleased doing this.
"So I think now I can help you, Clara."
"What do you mean, Jake?"
"I received my share of this year's Matthew company profit distribution and I don't intend to do anything with that money, so I thought about buying those shares from Robert's hands."
"So you can re-invest in the company without having to worry about losing most of the company's equity stake, it won't solve the whole problem because the competitor will still have part of your shares, but you will no longer be in one such a difficult situation."
For a while Clara had no reaction because she didn't expect Jake to talk about it, she even thought Jake was joking, but knowing his personality she knew it was impossible.
She never thought it would be Jake who would eventually help her buy these stocks, she even thought her father would end up doing something about it even if it annoyed his brother, but never thought Jake would buy those stocks.
"Jake you know I need at least $ 32 million to be able to buy that 10 percent stock from Robert's hands."
"Of course I know, I've talked about this several times with you and Tiffany, I have the necessary money."
Clara trusted Jake but was worried that something like what happened to Robert would eventually happen to Jake, with Robert she was lucky that his father had placed a restriction that she had 5 years to buy the stock.
But with Jake she couldn't do the same as she knew he was doing her a favor, so she had no choice but to accept that Jake bought these shares so that her company and Tiffany's company that was also impaired could invest and develop again.
Jake also knew what Clara should be thinking, so much so that he noticed how Clara just lent Tiffany's money to buy the stock and never suggested that Tiffany buy the stock, it was only natural that she was suspicious after her own husband cheated on her.
He would only be annoyed if she suggested that he lend her the money or suggest a restriction, but it seemed that even thinking about it would rather trust Jake than suggest something like that, it made Jake more relaxed and pleased with Clara's actions.
"Don't worry Clara, I wonder what you're worried about, I had thought of signing an agreement that I will not sell the shares to anyone other than you and give you all the voting rights."
Jake had suggested making a similar deal when he invested in Amazon, but Jeff Bezos eventually said it wasn't necessary, of course, because he didn't know what the company would look like in the future, or he would regret that decision.
Clara was embarrassed by Jake suggesting what she thought, she was suspicious of everything in the last few years after what Robert did to her, so when Jake suggested it she realized that her friends had already realized she was suspicious of them and realized that what was Doing was wrong.
Of course, she didn't know about Jake's investments, if she did, she wouldn't think Jake would be interested in hurting a small business like hers, after all, Jake would only have 10 percent of the stock and couldn't hurt the company in a few years.
"You don't have to sign any such deal, Jake, I know you're just doing it to help me, I just ask that when I can afford to buy the stock you can sell it to me . "
Clara understood that it was not right to do a friend who was doing her a favor by signing any kind of contract, yet she was determined to buy all the stock she could back to not have that kind of problem .
Even though she understood that she would first have to raise money to buy her rival's 34 percent, it would take her many years to succeed, not to mention that after this crisis had passed she would have to re-invest in her business properly .
Also, she can't keep asking Tiffany's help to buy that 34 percent from the rival company, after all, Tiffany also had to take care of her company for years to come, she knew well that her friend lost two years of potential company growth and even risked being arrested to help her buy these stocks .
"Fine, I'll invest in your company just so you no longer have to worry about Robert selling the shares to the competitor, but I don't have much interest in continuing to be a shareholder if you can buy those shares would be better for me . "
Since Clara was his friend, Jake decided to be honest with her and to tell him that he was not interested in her company stock, after all, he would surely be losing money that could be made quickly if he invested in stocks .
Clara was really surprised by Jake's lack of interest in her company, she knew that her company could not compare with Matthew's company that Jake had invested in, but she was proud of how her company was developing .
What she forgot was that even though Jake had 5 percent of Matthew's company stock, in fact, he had not invested in it but had gained the shares, and Jake had to do some work so that Matthew's company would make the profit that it had now .
If Jake owned a larger percentage of Clara's company he could even advertise for free even after joining the NBA, so Clara's company would save hundreds of millions of dollars in a few years .
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After that, they talked about a few more things and Clara called her lawyer to immediately contact Robert to sell the shares as stated in the contract that said Robert's father, knowing that somehow Clara had gotten money to buy his shares, Robert didn't like it .
In fact, he thought that in those years Clara and his father had helped him, after all, he would have sold these shares a few years ago for less than 28 million to Clara's rival company just because he needed money to invest in his own company .
With his father's contract, he didn't know, Robert would have to wait 5 years to sell the shares he had and couldn't make any money on it when he knew that he was very angry with his father and Clara .
But it turned out that in those two years he received $ 7 million from his profit share and his shares had appreciated, so he made a lot of money on that if he continued to receive that money he would not have thought of selling Clara's company stock .
If it took 3 more years to buy his shares as stated in the contract he could receive at least 10 million more and sell his shares for much more money, unfortunately, he was forced to accept what was in the contract since deciding to sell his shares .
In fact, Robert can't even see Clara and Jake and just got his lawyer's contract and signed in to later receive the money, at the current quote he received 33 million and would soon receive his 1996 profit share .
Seeing this much money Robert was happy again, now he could invest in his company quietly and not have to get involved in these problems with Clara anymore, as he had promised Robert called the company that had thought of selling his shares and reported that Clara had bought his shares .
The other company then realized that they would no longer have the opportunity to acquire Clara's company, but they were already expecting it when they could not buy Robert's shares, anyway, they would not be losing money on it .
Just like Robert they had also made a lot of money in those two years, $ 24 million was as much as they had made in those two years, it was almost 10 percent of the stock they paid two years ago .
Even if they would no longer receive their profit share if Clara's company went back to investing, they would still receive a lot in selling their shares back to Clara in a few years, so they would only profit from that business .
Jake thus received 10 percent of the shares of Clara's company and had as much as Tiffany, he would still receive his sponsorship agreement for a few years and then no longer renew and at that time it was better than Clara could invest more in the company and prepare to keep up the good sales without Jake .
He thought about having a celebration dinner with Clara, but she had to go back to work to finish organizing the financial statement as the year was ending and start planning the investments that would be made next year .
Jake understood that Clara wanted to make up for a lost time in those two years and Clara had been very grateful to him and even wept with relief when she saw that she would no longer have this problem to think about for years to come, it was a huge relief to her .
Now she had finally severed the ties she had with Robert and never wanted to have any contact with her ex-husband again, she now had to keep working to be more successful with her company .
So Jake called Tiffany to tell her the good news, he considered calling Tiffany during the negotiation, but things have happened very quickly since Jake decided to buy the stock and he bought from Robert .
He didn't tell Tiffany what it was, but she accepted dinner with Jake because she thought he just wanted to talk to her since he hadn't come to Miami in a long time and they couldn't talk in that time .
"Hi Jake, how many months we haven't seen each other, how have you been?"
"Very well, things at university have been going very well for me, even better than I expected, and with you, all right?"
"Yes, with me everything has been great, especially in the company since you did so much this year sales have been better than ever, luckily our company sells sports drinks so even without much investment as long as we have stock we can meet market demand . "
Tiffany was really very happy with all this, her company can't invest in the last few years because she was trying to help Clara, but even without investing in the publicity that Jake gave her company they had sold a lot in those years .
Because of this her company had almost reached Clara's market value even though it had a much smaller initial investment, investors were very excited about her company and so her company shares were very traded in the market .
Especially because in the last two years she had paid dividends, and they were values even higher than the value of the shares because she was not holding the valuation of the company as Clara did, so this year her company would value even more .
Jake was very happy to hear that, he knew well that in the beverage market and even across the food business it was very difficult for smaller companies to grow and develop without being under pressure from the larger companies .
Luckily Tiffany's company had chosen the sports drinks market that went a little out of the way of the biggest brands in the market and had a lot of market and consumer attention because of Jake .
So it was as if they had protection to grow in the market, after a few more years they could end up becoming a billion-valued company like Matthew's .
"Glad to hear you and your company doing so well these months, I have some good news to give you, Tiffany . "
"Oh, so you didn't just call me here to talk, what's the good news?"
"I received money from Matthew's company profit-sharing this year and as I had nothing to do with the money I decided to buy the shares of Clara's company that were in Robert's hands . "
"Today I went to talk to Clara and already bought Robert's stock, now Clara is free of her ex-husband and your company and your company can go back to investing again without having to worry . "
Tiffany was shocked for a while and only then understood what Jake was saying, she couldn't describe what she was feeling, it was so hard in those two years to have to stop investing in the company and suffer some shareholder pressure to help Clara not lose the company .
Now all of a sudden all the problems were resolved in no time, it was great news for her and Clara, but Tiffany felt for a moment that everything she had been through these past two years was for nothing .
"I thought I'd call you to the negotiation, Tiffany, but it all happened so quickly and I didn't even have to meet Robert to buy the stock, then Clara had to go back to work and I decided to tell you the good news . "
Jake didn't understand how Tiffany was feeling, he just helped because he could and didn't want to see Clara and Tiffany companies wasting precious time growing in the market just to buy stocks he could easily buy .
Even if he had to lose hundreds of millions of dollars if he had invested his stocks, it was worth it to have a clear conscience that his friends were doing well and to be able to play basketball quietly .
Jake always had trouble understanding women's feelings, so maybe he couldn't get a relationship even though he had so many qualities, thankfully his fourth job skills Communication Skills and Emotion Control helped him understand that something was wrong with Tiffany .
"Aren't you very happy about it? I understand that you went through a lot to help Clara with these stocks, but I did it just because I didn't want to see you guys struggling so hard to succeed having difficulties and seeing your companies stagnate even though I can help . "
"It's not that, I'm very happy that everything went well and this problem is solved, I'm happy for Clara and me too that now I can focus again on the development of my company . "
"I was just thinking that since you solved everything so easily, everything I've done in the last two years has been kind of useless, you know?"
"I'll be honest and say that I don't quite understand what you are feeling right now because I've never been through anything like that, but you have to understand that since I knew about the problem Clara was going through and that you were also having trouble help I've always been thinking of helping . "
"I always said you could count on me, so once I had the opportunity I helped as I said I would, I don't want to have any regrets in this life, so of course I would . "
Jake knew that Tiffany must be feeling helpless that he couldn't do things as easily as Jake, he understood that and knew what it felt like to do nothing when he saw Eva dying in his past life and it was because he didn't realize she was sick .
But he understood that life was like that, as you fight your whole life to achieve some things, some luckier people get it in a few months, people might be jealous of it, but have to accept the situation, Jake was still trying to use them that he had to help his friends before thinking only of himself .
Tiffany just laughed when she realized she was being very immature, after all, she was being comforted and receiving advice from Jake who was only 17 years old, she couldn't put her feelings in order at the moment .
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"I don't think you're in the mood to celebrate, so I think you better go home and rest, take time off from work and get your feelings in order, and then work well for your company to make up for the lost time and grow even more . "
"I think you're right, Jake, I'm going then and another time we can celebrate . "
After Tiffany left Jake was alone for a while smiling bitterly, he did something he thought was right and helped his friends the way he wanted, but he just can't celebrate with Clara and Tiffany .
He even wondered if what he did was really right, after all, no one seemed to be very happy about it, but Jake soon comforted himself that he did what he thought was right and he felt better after doing it, at least he was sure it didn't hurt Clara and Tiffany with that .
After that Jake went home to spend more time with his mother which was what he had come to do this week he was here, he would not say what he did today to his mother because he did not like to talk much about stocks and investing with your mother .
After all, it was a business that for many people was a risky investment, only Jake knew it was safe because he knew the future, yet he had to be careful not to end up losing everything if the future changed with him here .
The day after Eva went back to the restaurant, Jake called Emily, he had only one week in Miami and wanted to work out what he could before he went back to college and had to focus on basketball games again .
Emily didn't show up because she didn't know Jake was in Miami, otherwise she herself would have come to sort out some important matters with him, in the office, she organized the important documents Jake had to see and then went to Jake's home .
Since Emily was her assistant on behalf of Jake, she didn't have to leave home to talk to her, so Emily also preferred a quieter business environment and went quickly to his house .
"I didn't know you were home, Jake if I had known I would have come before . "
"I arrived a few days ago and was doing other things, so even if you came before I couldn't talk to you, did you bring the reports?"
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So Emily recounted the things she considered most important to Jake, first she reported changes and forecasts to the stock market, especially to the Cisco company they were investing in .
Jake knew what had happened and what was going to happen better than analysts had predicted, but he still listened to Emily who had the trouble of organizing all the information for him .
After Emily told Jake what was going on with the Amazon company too, they reached 180,000 customer accounts that month and her revenues were $ 15 . 7 million, she wasn't very excited about it because it was little considered what had been invested .
What Emily had not considered was that the company had been started recently and was still growing, Jake was not concerned about the company, he could simply forget that he had these shares until more than 20 years later .
"Even though sales are not doing so well, it seems that the company's IPO is expected to be very well, who owns company stock may end up with millions after the company enters the stock market . "
Emily was so excited that she said it incorrectly, after all, Jake had invested more than 12 million in the company, so it was normal that he was a millionaire when the company went to market, she should be referring to who had invested little in the company .
By the time the company goes to market Jake's 12 million will soon be worth 120 million, so Jake would have made a lot of money since then, of course, Jake expected his share of the company to fall because of the company's IPO .
But with his contract he would have no less than 12% of the shares, that would be great for him anyway, of course, Jake didn't want his share percentage to go down, but he was prepared for it .
She then talked about the Palo Alto company spending on developing Multi-touch technology, it was a lot of spending adding up what they used for electronics and plus the salaries of Charlie's team, but it wasn't much for Jake at the moment .
Jake's own investment firm spent much more than that every year, of course, it was important because they were taking care of hundreds of millions of dollars in investments .
After receiving all the reports, Jake signed some necessary documents and finally settled everything he needed on this trip to Miami, but before Emily left Jake had to take care of more investments .
Last year he had received a 25 million profit share, had to repay the 12 million loan he made to buy Amazon stock and another 3 million to buy his current home with the renovation and another building for his company of investments .
The rest of the money he did not invest because he was saving to buy those 10 percent of Clara's company stock or for an investment, he was considering making in some companies in a few years .
But now he had already bought Clara's stock and still had over 30 million to invest again, so he decided to invest more money in the Cisco stock and leave the rest for emergencies and future investments .
He would invest $ 23,900,000 and leave $ 7 million without moving, next year he would probably receive more profit share from Matthew's company and maybe also from Clara's company .
With more of the money he would receive from the sponsorship he could think about how to invest this money again later next year, Emily received that money and thought for a moment and decided not to say anything and just go out to make this new investment .
"Are you thinking of anything? You can tell me, I want to hear your opinion . "
"I was just thinking that it is very risky to keep hundreds of millions of dollars invested in just one company, I have made some market research and have dozens of companies that are growing as attractive as the Cisco Company . "
"But when I was thinking of suggesting this to you, you decided to invest even more money in this company, so I realized that you wouldn't listen to my advice and might even think I'm doing it because my dad asked . "
Emily thought her father and Matthew were a little right to be concerned that their stock was appreciating so much and might lose everything at once, so she was in favor of selling at least some of it and giving it back to investors because so their company and their investments would only work with the profit .
Jake couldn't answer what Emily said, everyone who works on venture capital stocks knows that it is better to diversify his investment portfolio into dozens of companies, so if some of those stocks were to devalue other stocks could rise and discount that loss .
But Jake was just investing in one company, so if the stock depreciated they would lose all the money invested, it was very high risk and not recommended and could only increase the bigger the investment .
Jake even in his past life made his money in the stock market by diversifying his investments in various stocks, he lost some more money made much more so, of course, he regretted not investing more money in some companies as well .
But now he was just choosing the company he knew would make the most money instead of unnecessarily diversifying money into several companies, not to mention that it would be easier for him to sell in the future .
"I understand what you're saying Emily, the stock market is a high-risk investment like you said, sometimes higher risk investments can make you earn more, that's what I'm doing right now . "