Chapter 1942 Plan

Feng Yiping didn't know that his successful acquisition of Marvel would make a strong man like Eisner feel so lonely.

If he knew, he would have sympathized for a while.

Eisner did contribute to the increase of Disney's market value from $2 billion when he took over to $40 billion today.

However, from another perspective, everything is predetermined.

Eisner's slightly embarrassing and not very decent way of stepping down actually has a lot to do with him personally. He could have done better.

He looked down on Jobs, but he forgot the biggest difference between him and Jobs. Even if Jobs was expelled from Apple by Sculley, he still had a title on his head, "Founder of Apple".

And Eisner himself, even if many people regarded him as the "king" of Disney, he could not forget one thing anyway, that he, the king, was actually hired.

When a "king" has a tendency to become a "tyrant", the "people", that is, the shareholders' meeting, will naturally want to drive him out of office.

Michael Eisner and his generation of American elites highly agree that a company has only one boss, which is actually a manifestation of the United States' advocacy of individualism.

In the period of rapid development of enterprises, there is no problem with this, but the moon has its ups and downs, and there are highs and lows. When it seems that these "supermen" who once seemed to have magic and relied on their personal abilities to make the company grow explosively, their magic is gone, and the company's development falls into a low ebb, some problems that were previously covered up by the rapid development will slowly reveal themselves.

Especially because of the autocratic dictatorship of these "supermen", there is a shortage of senior management talents.

A qualified king, whether willing or not, knows that his last and most important job is to train his successor, so that the kingdom can smoothly transition after his rule ends.

It can be said that a king who does not handle the successor issue well is not a good king.

But Eisner, who has been accustomed to long-term dictatorship, or is a little reluctant, intentionally or unintentionally did not pay attention to this issue, which is intolerable to the shareholders' meeting.

In the end, he was stripped of his rights by the shareholders who had invited him from Paramount in the first place - quite ironic, it took a lot of effort.

This process has been quite enjoyable for the American people for a while.

The process of getting Eisner to agree to early retirement can really be said to be a Hollywood blockbuster.

In order to achieve this goal, the shareholders used every possible means. The Disney family launched the largest shareholder voting campaign in the history of American business, and even imitated the US presidential election and opened the website savedisney.com - this has to be said to be another ironic thing. Eisner, who has never paid much attention to the Internet, finally suffered a big loss on the Internet.

In short, the key to this matter is that as a professional manager, Eisner did not coordinate the relationship with the shareholders' meeting, and as a professional manager, he should have known the importance of this.

So, is Eisner's current situation worthy of sympathy? Yes.

Is he to blame himself? In fact, it makes sense.

Before developing his own American business, Feng Yiping had analyzed this issue in depth. Therefore, when he first came to the United States, he positioned the professional managers he found, whether it was Mike at the beginning, Buchanan later, or Cummins now, as executive-oriented. As for decision-making, he not only did not delegate power, but also rarely let them participate in opinions.

One of the main reasons is that his decision is undoubtedly correct.

Another reason is that he does not want these professional managers he hired to say that the current success is due to "teamwork". In fact, in their hearts, personal heroism has emerged. They think that the company's current achievements are mainly due to their credit. As a result, they want to be kings like Eisner.

Rather than this situation, he would rather they all worship him.

Therefore, after acquiring Coin Star, although Merbak was still responsible for all the business, he successfully established his supreme authority in Coin Star through a series of plans that had been prepared to boost the business development of Coin Star.

From Merbak's personality, he has no desire to challenge his own authority. Even if he does, he will find that such efforts are doomed to be futile.

As for Netflix, Hastings is indeed a thorn in the side, and a strong man like Eisner, but a series of events that happened during the acquisition process successfully reduced his prestige as a founder in the company. When Randolph took over, he was expelled, which can be said to be the expectation of the entire company.

Although Randolph was transferred to YouTube in the end, Hastings still managed Netflix. Although it seems that there is no change, in fact, people have changed.

In the future, after the merger of YouTube and Netflix, Feng Yiping will definitely let YouTube take the lead.

Even if Netflix is ​​the leader, Hastings has no soil to challenge Feng Yiping.

After watching this "blockbuster" of Disney's struggle for power and profit, he has some new ideas, or plans, in terms of management for Marvel, which will join his command once the US Securities and Exchange Commission approves it.

Judging from this short-term contact, Palmat is really not a good person to work with.

He was very busy at the moment and somewhat looking forward to it.

He just met with representatives from the companies hired for this merger, such as law firms and investment banks, and held a brief celebration. Now, he will meet with Marvel executives.

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Zhou Ning and her film crew were still immersed in the shock of the news announced at the press conference just now. No wonder Feng Yiping was so busy on the voyage when he arrived. It turned out that this was another US$2.3 billion project. , equivalent to RMB, is also a major merger and acquisition of nearly 20 billion.

Including Alibaba, which just completed its merger and acquisition a few days ago, Feng Yiping has spent nearly 5 billion US dollars and nearly 40 billion yuan on mergers and acquisitions in less than a week - she doesn't care about Marvel. The money has not actually been spent yet, and she believes that domestic audiences will not take this matter too seriously.

Anyway, according to the views of both parties, the US Securities and Exchange Commission will definitely approve this transaction, and it is likely to be within a month.

This is another merger and acquisition of more than 2 billion US dollars initiated by Feng Yiping in the United States a year later. Zhou Ning clearly knows that most domestic audiences will not analyze such a merger and have no interest in Feng Yiping's company. The benefits of development, or in other words, the future development of Feng Yiping Company can be interpreted from it.

Just like the original Feng Yiping, after learning that Lenovo acquired IBM and Geely acquired Volvo, he didn't care about the commercial significance of such acquisitions. He simply felt a little proud.

Domestic people, as long as they know that Feng Yiping has acquired another American company, and it is also a well-known film company in Hollywood, they will also involuntarily feel a little proud.

Originally, I only heard that foreign capital had acquired well-known companies one after another in China. Now, it is finally our turn to acquire their well-known companies. Haha, this is good, Feng Yiping, good job!

Zhou Ning and the film crew were all beaming with joy at this time. They seemed to be happier than Feng Yiping and the others. There was no other way. They had captured such material during this trip to the United States. So, what about Feng Yiping's first story? The ratings of the second episode are guaranteed.

In any case, it will not be worse than the first issue. As media people, they know the preferences of the domestic people.

"Immediately make a short film and send it back to China for Director Li to use for publicity," Zhou Ning whispered to Jin Cheng.

"You're right," Jin Cheng pulled someone over and whispered a few words. Soon, the two people hurriedly left with the films they had taken.

They will work with the technical team staying at the hotel to create a trailer.

Proper publicity is also a very effective means to increase ratings.

"You said, when he proposed to the station that we film a program like this, didn't Mr. Feng already foresee a series of major events that would follow?" Jin Cheng asked in a low voice.

Zhou Ning thought for a moment, "Some, he must have been sure of at the time, such as the merger with Alibaba, which was obviously planned in advance, but other ones, including making the decision at the film and television base that now seems to have far-reaching consequences , as well as the subsequent interviews and support from provincial and national leaders, as well as the merger and acquisition in front of him, most of them were not in his plan,"

"Really?" Jin Cheng whispered, "Mr. Feng is famous for his ability to see far and accurately."

Hearing what he said, Zhou Ning, who originally thought his analysis was reasonable, couldn't help but be shaken. Yes, how could he figure out Feng Yiping from his own perspective?

"Hey, what is that?" she asked, looking at the two groups meeting over there.

And their cameras have faithfully recorded this scene.

At this time, Parmat, who also had a group of people standing behind him, handed a big box to Feng Yiping with a smile, "Feng, this is a gift we specially prepared for you,"

Feng Yiping smiled and glanced at him and the group of people behind him, "Palmater, why do I think that it must be a bad thing if you smile at me like this?"

He found that some people behind Palmater clearly believed in his analysis.

Palmater seemed not to have heard Feng Yiping's words, "Come on, why don't you open it now and take a look?"

Feng Yiping felt that this was probably a trap, but in the United States, it was really difficult to refuse such a request, not to mention that Palmater had already taken advantage of it.

Together with Palmater, he untied the ribbon on the big box, and then, under the curious eyes of people on his side and the expectant eyes of Marvel, he opened the box.

Immediately, laughter started.

Inside, there is a large model of the "Invisible Woman" from the Fantastic Four.

The craftsmanship is really good. It looks like a smaller version of Alba, wearing tights and with a more prominent S-curve.

These guys!

Feng Yiping immediately closed the box, "I actually prefer X-Men,"

Yes, after acquiring Marvel, there will be one more business under his name, the toy business.

When Palmater first joined Marvel, he merged his toy company Toy\Biz into Marvel. Like Disney, Marvel has made a lot of money in this area in recent years.

Besides, whether it is Sony's Spider-Man or Fox's X-Men, what they bought from Marvel is only the copyright of the film production, and the copyright of the peripheral products including the models is still in Marvel's hands. Therefore, the more their films sell, the more these peripheral products will sell.

He turned around and said something to someone behind him. Immediately, Zhou Ning and others saw a beautiful Hispanic woman running over with a notebook in her hand, "Feng asked us to ask you, which Marvel characters do you like?"

Is this asking everyone to pick gifts? Haha, this is an unexpected benefit.

Feng Yiping heard the laughter from the crew and nodded to them.

Palmat has begun to introduce the Marvel executives on his side to Feng Yiping, "This is the head of our film department, Kevin Feige,"

"Nice to meet you, Feng,"

"Hello Feige," Feng Yiping held the hand of this man whose hairline is almost at the top of his head and who may not be able to leave his hat in the future, and patted him on the shoulder a few times.

According to the information provided by Cummins and others, in Feng Yiping's plan, this Kevin will play an important role.

"This is our president of publishing, Dan Buckley,"

"Chief Creative Officer, Joe Quesada,"

"Comic writer Brian Michael Bendis..."

As Palmat introduced them, the people in Feng Yiping's plan appeared in front of him one by one.

For a moment, both they and the crew over there were smiling.