Chapter 1177 - Don't Worry About Money, Still Getting Richer
Chapter 1177: Don’t Worry About Money, Still Getting Richer
At that moment, Jenny called him. “Do you need me to remind you that it’s almost April?”
Luke was blank for a moment. After being teased so many times by CEO Jenny in the past, his thoughts spun, and then he smiled. “Isn’t it just the other companies putting their smartphones up on the market? What are you afraid of?”
Jenny said, “…So, it’s been more than a month since Valentine’s Day, and you didn’t think of me? Sigh, a CEO can’t even compare with a secretary.”
Hearing that, Luke sweated and said, “Okay, I’ll come find you this afternoon.”
Jenny found that odd. “This afternoon?”
Luke chuckled. “The sun is bright in your office. The view from the window last time was pretty good.”
Jenny pooh pooh’ed at him, before she said, “One in the afternoon, then.” She then hung up.
Luke turned off his phone and scratched his head. “That’s… really early.”
That being said, he still went.
Valentine’s Day or whatever, he wouldn’t spend it with Jenny nor Elena.
That day would forever be an ordinary one. He wasn’t stupid enough to dig a huge hole for himself, even if he now had the Star of Justice clone.
But Valentine’s Day this year was when the Hand ninjas had charged into Metro General Hospital and were wiped out.
He and Selina had been monitoring the hospital entrance that night.
Although conditions hadn’t been great, Luke had left for a bit before he returned with a bunch of snacks from his inventory a few minutes later, and enjoyed them with Selina.
So, technically speaking, it was Selina who had spent Valentine’s Day with him. Of course, neither of them had mentioned it that night.
Thinking for a moment, Luke had lunch before he left for the phone company in Nassau County.
It was inevitable that Jenny would look for him now.
Her true objective definitely had nothing to do with Valentine’s Day, or she would’ve called him last month.
It was already the end of March. Calling about Valentine’s Day was clearly just to increase her bargaining chips so that a certain stakeholder who had no utterly no interest in meddling in company affairs would give her some reassurance.
The car with black windows and random license plates once again entered the phone company’s garage. Luke again took the exclusive elevator directly to the CEO’s office. As before, he didn’t see anyone when he entered, only the coffee cups in the open kitchen.
Luke took off his coat and rolled up his sleeves before making coffee.
Compared with fine foods, he was much more clueless when it came to coffee.
He had enjoyed coffee in his previous life, including instant coffee from various countries, but he couldn’t hide his perfunctory attitude toward coffee.
In this life, he would order and try all sorts of coffee in a cafe, but he only had two things to say about the taste: Delicious, not delicious.
It didn’t matter to him if it was sour, bitter or some mountain cat sh*t.
He cared about the last one even less, given he was quite obsessed with cleanliness.
Thus, he just made coffee with instant powder. He absolutely couldn’t be bothered to grind the coffee beans himself.
The downside was that it supposedly tasted a lot worse, but Luke couldn’t tell.
The upside was that it was done quicker.
When Jenny came out of the bedroom, the coffee was ready.
Sitting down next to him on the loveseat, Jenny took a sip of her coffee. “When will your coffee-making skills reach the level of your cooking and baking skills?”
Luke chuckled. “It’ll be hard. After all, I’m not interested in studying it.”
Jenny was lost for words.
She still found it hard to understand how a man whose culinary and baking skills were on par with a chef’s could be terrible at making coffee.
It had to be pointed out that the coffee made by Jenny’s maid at home could blow Luke’s coffee out of the water, while his cooking was superior to hers.
But Luke was here today to talk business. Jenny didn’t waste any more time and got straight to the point.
After hearing her out, Luke spread his hands. “What are you afraid of? Isn’t this something we were already prepared for? No one company can monopolize the phone market. It’s already very good that you can control when the others enter the market to some extent.”
Jenny tapped her knee absentmindedly. “But this company is my blood and sweat. I’m afraid…”
Luke hugged her and said, “Hey, do you think this is a TV drama? We have the advantages of technology, creativity, and market entry. You also have a lot of funds, right? How much did you make from the Stark Industries shares?”
Jenny came back to herself when she heard that and nodded. “Not as much as last time. I still have a portion to dump, but the real profits are only about a billion… Wait, didn’t I send you a notification after the operation? You didn’t see it?”
In fact, even if the phone company were to collapse right now, she could still stand among the top in the country as a board member of Stark Industries.
Luke’s expression didn’t change. “I’m just reminding you that we made another fortune.”
Jenny looked at him suspiciously for a moment, but still chose to believe him. After all, they couldn’t get along if she doubted him all the time.
Luke secretly wiped his sweat.
He didn’t care how much money Jenny made. In any case, he was very rich, and was still getting richer.
Like the stash of illegal cash in his inventory, for example. He had been a little excited at the very beginning, when he swiped 20,000 dollars from the Carlos family in Mexico.
But after he went to Brazil, pried open Hernan’s mouth and earned more than 200 million dollars, there was no longer any sense of excitement.
It was all because he was no longer pressed for money.
He wasn’t a tycoon like Tony Stark, who was obsessed with experimenting with new and advanced technology.
Most of the time, he was just a “porter.”
He could modify suitable products for himself with the abilities and mature programs he “ported” over from the tycoon.
Tony’s Mark armor cost more than 100 million dollars. Luke’s armor was only 10 million at most.
Thus, his and Tony’s expenditures when it came to making armor were worlds apart.
So far, the tycoon had poured more than 5 billion dollars into the development and making of the armor, while Luke still fell far short of even a billion.
Since he was able to save so much money, Luke was nice to Tony.
5 billion dollars was almost as much as what Titanium Phone Company was worth right now.
In the end, Jenny said blithely, “The company is currently valued at 50 billion. Of course, some exaggerated estimates put it at 70 billion…”
Luke: … Alright, when it came to business, it was better for him not to make blind guesses. He couldn’t compare with Jenny’s talent and eye for money.