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Are you okay?

Fucking idiots.

Blow on my dices. Blow!

- Is it good? - What the fuck?

Oh, Dad! What the fuck?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

In my fucking room!

Fucking cunt!

Yasmin, where's your dad?

Fucking hell. Fuck, fuck, fuck!

You all right?

Where the fuck are you going?

- Was that the same one? - 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...

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.

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 is Elaine, she left you yet?

No, no, that's my best friend.

- Yes. - James, hi.

Sorry, I just got in. 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, I'm... Sorry, I mean press.

He's doing some news segment on founders.

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?

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.

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.

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...

Come on. What?

You know, you see, these are the typical whispers

you get around something this seismic.

And I might add that 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.

Yeah. No, we can,

we can cut that, it didn't really land.

Anyway, over here we have a...

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.

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?

Woke investing. Green washing.

So our business model

isn't a rigorous balance sheet examination.

We just look at the org chart and then...

Chatham House rules apply.

Pray that the CEO is a Black lesbian with one leg,

then without even meeting her,

sign "they/them" a blank check.

Have I got that right?

I'm sorry.

Chatham House rules means carte blanche for bigotry?

Maybe you can leave your cynicism at the door

while this trade still has legs.

Pierpoint Asset Management, our private equity division,

is heavily invested in these companies.

Lumi, Europa Gaz out of Frankfurt.

Momentum is everything.

With the successful launch tomorrow of Lumi,

the first domino falls and will signal to the market

that the other European live IPOs

we have in the pipeline will hit.

Good thing for me to tell

the CEO about in our weekly catch-ups.

How is the old man?

Still on three hours of sleep a night in his sixties.

And that's not because he's getting up to piss.

It was a pleasure to finally meet you, Wilhelmina.

Of course.

It's about time we had you in the family.