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- (GUESTS LAUGHING) - (SPEAKING SPANISH)
- (CORK POPS) - (YASMIN KARA-HANANI GASPS)
Are you okay?
Fucking idiots.
Blow on my dices. Blow!
- (LAUGHS) - (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (SPEAKING SPANISH) - (GUEST LAUGHS)
Is it good? - What the fuck?
- (SPEAKING SPANISH) - (PANTS)
Oh, Dad! What the fuck?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
In my fucking room!
- (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS) - (LIGHTER CLICKS)
- (CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING) - (GASPS)
Fucking cunt!
Yasmin, where's your dad?
- (TIRES SCREECHING) - (SCREAMS)
Fucking hell. Fuck, fuck, fuck! - (PAPARAZZO GROANS)
- (CAB DOOR OPENS) Oi! You all right?
Oi! Where the fuck are you going?
- Was that the same one? Oi! Cunt!
You all right there, mate?
Where the hell were you?
Should we call the police?
He was in your fucking skip.
A lot of you were asking about my phone case.
I swapped out the Bottega Green
because I thought this matte black case
was more work appropriate.
Shout-out to all my corporate girlies
for the steer.
So, this is a morning
in the life of a Sales and Trading graduate.
As I always say,
always be the first on the floor,
and ABSTBB.
"Always be securing that bag, bish."
God, I sound like a fucking freak.
Just hit 50k followers, it's like a full-time job.
You're at your full-time job.
You can't just film on the floor.
Sorry. Sorry, that, um,
sidebar is literally like crack, isn't it?
I just wanna say, the way they're dragging you
for being someone who unashamedly
enjoys the lifestyle, it's sickening.
At least they didn't mention you work at Pierpoint.
Yeah.
The fact that I actually work would fuck with their narrative.
You look amazing in that boat photo.
It's not what it looks like.
It was taken six weeks ago.
I've deleted all my socials.
They just ripped it off someone else's 'gram.
Bet your DMs were filthy when all this dropped.
I actually accrued quite a passionate gay following
for some reason.
But, yeah, like, I'm guessing a lot of, like,
unsolicited dick pics.
Sweetpea, could you just get me
some more Lumi IPO decks, please?
They're under your left hand.
Also, I started building this risk indicator model
when I was doing my rotations in Risk and Equity trading.
I can share it with you if you like,
you know, when it becomes interesting.
Oh, James Ashford's called, like,
three or four times this morning already.
I guess it's in response to Lumi's Q2 earnings.
Why would that not be the first thing you tell me?
No, no. No. He's bent as they come, man.
Are you worried they're gonna, like, fire you?
You know, the article?
So, your dad just, like, left, right?
Like, he just disappeared?
Have you heard from him since?
At least you make the whole incognito look
work for you.
Sorry.
How... how is Elaine, she left you yet? - (KEYBOARD KEYS CLACKING)
- (CHUCKLES) No, no, that's my best friend. - (LINE RINGING)
Yes. - James, hi.
Sorry, I just got in. Um, how are you feeling?
I tried Henry all last night, twice this morning.
Why is he harder to get ahold of than one of those
Obergruppenführer who joined the priesthood in Argentina?
Look, I'm sure he's just swamped with some last-minute
pre-IPO marketing.
He should be reassuring current investors,
not courting new ones.
No, um, I'm... Sorry, I mean press.
He's, um, doing some news segment on founders.
Oh, Christ.
Look, James, if you need any twelfth-hour deal color,
I am happy to fill you in.
Now, I have to drive three hours to a part of London
that I worked very hard to escape,
To visit a business I used to believe in.
Make sure the founder is there with answers, okay?
Okay, absolutely, James. I am completely with you.
It's just, I'm...
- The answers to what exactly? - Answers to my questions. Bye.
- Do I look like I need it? - (KENNY KILBANE CHUCKLING)
James at Ashford Asset Management.
I could hear the vein in his forehead.
I'm gonna dig into it, but honestly,
I have no idea what he wants.
Yas, he's a minutiae guy. Anal.
This'll be some non-material over-intellectual exercise.
She looks quite chic.
Sweetpea, could you print off the Lumi deck?
- Lumi's stock isn't gonna shift itself. - Yeah.
That newspaper's evil incarnate.
I mean, it's done more damage to this country than...
Private education?
Easy, Tom Selleck.
David Seaman, you look like the Thomas Edison
of pedophilia. What is this?
Have they offered you a Boohoo campaign yet?
- Every penny counts now, right? Guys, seriously,
with the sheer fuck-offness of the size of this IPO
that's looming over the next 48 hours,
I'm putting a moratorium
on giving airtime to that tawdry bullshit.
Back to the coalface, everybody, now, please.
Ooh! IPO build-ups. I get this fuckin' twinge
in my asshole. It's incredible!
Our mission today is consistent
with when we began this journey nine years ago.
To bring renewable energy at affordable prices
- to as many people as possible. - (CELL PHONE RINGING)
And so...
What?
James Ashford is on his way to Lumi.
His bloodlust is up.
Whose blood? Why?
He wants to speak to Muck,
says he's deliberately gone to ground.
He mentioned something about a PDF,
so I think he's talking about the quarterly report.
Yeah, well, he's in an interview.
You're not a fucking press officer.
The whole point of you wall-crossing
is so that you can manage him for Pierpoint's benefit.
Manage him.
Questions about the purpose of going public won't go away.
I wouldn't be so crude
as to use the phrase "cash grab," but...
Oh, come on. What?
You know, you see, these are the typical whispers
you get around something this seismic.
And I might add that the, uh, the Luddites
always sharpen their knives for disruptors.
Crude scrutiny is important.
And no one is more scrupulous than me, than us.
See, this...
This is what animates a decade-long mission.
Personally, I find I sleep deeper under my desk.
- That was me being humorous. - (JOURNALIST LAUGHING)
Yeah. No, we can, uh,
we can cut that, it didn't really land.
Anyway, uh, over here we have a...
Whoo!
- (OVERLAPPING CHATTER) Thank you.
Sir.
Thanks.
And to our newest partner,
a nod to Pierpoint's agricultural roots.
Cotton to credit default swaps. And in our 150th year.
Think of it as a gift from our founders,
Randolph and Mortimer Pierpoint, straight to you. (CHUCKLES)
They were a family of slavers, right?
Pierpoint's been overexposed in sales and trading.
This has been ameliorated
by our commitment to the green shift.
And on the day of his partnership,
it's important we credit Eric's work in the trenches.
Lumi is just the first in a pipeline
of environmental, social, and governance-oriented deals.
We have a suite of in-demand, ethical and social impact IPOs
that we've won over our competitors.
Look... ESG's a great marketing tool,
and I'm sure it's helped Pierpoint's stock price
to be included in all the ethical investment baskets,
but...
shouldn't we be wary of increasingly gearing
our balance sheet toward a fad?
Excuse me?
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