Chapter 1343: Social Layout
During Simon's trip to Asia, many other things were happening at the same time.
On March 29, Ukraine held its first parliamentary election after the promulgation of the 1996 constitution. There were a total of 450 parliamentary seats. All 20 parliamentarians elected by the Ukrainian Progressive Union Party supported by the Westeros system in Ukraine were easily elected, and 20 Even if the number of MPs is not much compared to the total of 450 MPs, it declares that the Westeros system has begun to directly participate in Ukrainian politics.
This is just the beginning.
Next, the Westeros system will use a method of boiling frogs in warm water to gradually gain control of the country until it is completely controlled.
Another thing, on April 2nd, news suddenly came out that the Hearst family was seeking to sell the San Francisco Chronicle, which was the most important copy owned by the Hearst Group after it was hit hard in 1994. newspaper. However, compared to the valuation of up to 700 million US dollars a few years ago, with the rapid decline of the paper media and the well-known targeting of the Hearst family by the Westeros system, the quotation that Hearst hopes to get is only about 300 million US dollars , less than half of previous years.
However, even so, after the news was released, none of the buyers contacted the Hearst family until Simon returned to Los Angeles.
Everyone is watching and inquiring.
In addition to the irrationality of investing in the acquisition of paper media at the moment, the key to whether this transaction can be completed falls on Simon.
Frankly speaking, if Simon does not nod, no one would dare to buy.
In recent years, the power of the Westeros system has become more and more powerful. The Hearst family has always been in such an embarrassing situation. In all aspects of cooperation with the Hearst Group, they are cautious, for fear of offending a young man. Super tycoon, as for the sale of the San Francisco Chronicle this time, it is obviously not a whim.
The Hearst family has been trying to sell media assets in recent years, but in addition to the general environment, they have a certain mentality of keeping their pockets safe, so as not to end up with nothing.
It wasn’t until another gossip broke out that the Hearst family donated a family girl to Simon Westeros as a lover as a reconciliation between the two parties, and then the Hearst family took the opportunity to want to sell the "San Francisco Chronicle" It is even conceivable that if the "San Francisco Chronicle" can be successfully sold this time, other small and medium-sized newspapers controlled by the Hearst Group will be sold one after another, and the recovery of funds to establish a trust is enough to ensure the long-term survival of the entire Hearst family. Good life.
While some people were still discussing a certain gossip with a strange mentality, when Simon returned to Los Angeles, apparently after some kind of communication, News Corporation took the lead and began to contact the Hearst Group.
The potential connection between News Corporation and the Westeros system is not a secret. As Murdoch began to make a move, this has obviously become a clear signal, and other interested capitals have also made tentative offers. After all, it is the No. For a large newspaper, if the price of about 300 million US dollars can be won, it is still very cost-effective.
Even some weaker media capitals realized that they might not be able to grab the "San Francisco Chronicle", so they directly tested the Hearst family's other newspapers distributed across North America, and also got quite positive signals.
Simon didn't expect that the Hearst family would do this, and it was quite straightforward.
But there is no objection.
In Western society, mastering a large amount of media is not much different from mastering an army.
By doing so, the Hearst family took the initiative to disarm, saying that they would never pose a threat to the Westeros system in the future. This is also a very smart measure. Otherwise, Simon will not let go of his vigilance towards the Hearst family even if he masters a large amount of media every day, because everyone else understands this. The family will only get worse and worse.
If all media assets are exchanged for money, the Hearst family will return to a state of nouveau riche who was once most looked down upon by their own old money. They are very rich, but they have lost the potential power equivalent to money, and may even become some people. The fat sheep in the eyes.
Simon is very happy to see this transformation of the Hearst family, and of course he won't stop it.
When the Hearst family began to deal with their own media assets, Simon returned to North America, and Daenerys Entertainment also received good news first. The acquisition of the old record giant Polygram passed the approval of the governments of the two countries, and the two parties officially entered into the settlement At this stage, after the combination of Daenerys Entertainment's recording assets and PolyGram, it will also become the world's largest record company worthy of the name, with only music copyright reserves of more than 3 million songs.
At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment has also begun to secretly absorb Blockbuster's shares, and will soon formally and publicly annex Blockbuster's plan.
Then, on April 10th, during the Easter week in North America, on the other side of the ocean, "Titanic" was officially released in Chinese theaters. In just three days of the following weekend, the Chinese box office reached 63 million, which is expected to be only a week. Not only that, relying on the Oscar halo of "Titanic" and the global box office miracle, this movie has quickly formed a phenomenon-level movie-watching craze in China. It can be said that it has reached the box office data of 360 million. easy.
Simon contacted Chen Qing privately and talked about it again.
The pirated VCD disc of "Titanic" will be released at the right time. At the same time, it only needs to be released in China for a full month, and the total box office should be controlled at about 300 million yuan.
Don't be too conspicuous.
In Chen Qing's reply letter, she did not have the slightest doubt, and said with great interest that the craze of "Titanic" will definitely further stimulate the popularity of VCDs.
Sales, I absolutely do not lose.
Simon returned to Los Angeles this time and did not leave until after Easter on April 12. The first stop was San Francisco.
Still about an acquisition.
Eaglet acquired the instagra movie sharing website created by d girl and others.
This is actually a plan that Simon had planned a long time ago. It was only before the Internet bubble burst last year that Instagram's stock price was too high, so it was not in a hurry to sell.
The recent recovery of the Internet industry has also allowed Simon to accelerate the layout of many aspects, one of which is the instagram
Because this is related to Ygritte's next social network layout.
For Eaglet, Simon has long divided the corresponding sectors, such as the software service business with cloud computing as the core, the e-commerce business with Amazon as the core, and the search business with the rapidly growing Google search engine as the core. Social network business with facebook as the core and so on.
Others, such as games, can only be regarded as supplements.
Because Simon is very clear about the scale and size of the few projects he has finalized in the future. In other aspects, it may also be able to grow bigger, but there is still a considerable gap from the trillion level.
Besides social networking business, only one facebook is definitely not enough.
Up to now, the brand new facebook is actually the same as before, it can be regarded as a comprehensive social platform, involving some aspects. However, if it is limited to this, future growth will inevitably reach a bottleneck.
Therefore need to find another way.
Instagram is one of them.
In the past, Facebook spent US$1 billion to acquire Instagram. At the beginning, many people felt that the price was very high. They believed that a simple photo sharing website would not bring much profit to Facebook, but it could only be regarded as icing on the cake. In fact, the development of Instagram has made Many people were surprised. Advertising revenue exceeded 20 billion US dollars just 7 years after Facebook took over Instagram.
This time, under the guidance of Simon, the instagram created by girl d and other girls, even though the mobile Internet era has not yet come, has not yet shined, but it has developed very rapidly in the past few years. In the past 1997, even if the Internet bubble Breaking down, Instagram's annual revenue is still growing steadily, reaching 460 million US dollars for the year, with a net profit of 130 million.
As for the reason, because the business model is simple enough, coupled with the growing maturity of Eaglet cloud computing services, the operating cost of instagra that only needs to be hosted is quite low, and, compared with other Internet companies, the intuitive visual experience of picture sharing, The effect of placing advertisements on this website is very impressive, so the main advertising business has grown quite rapidly.
The end result is that, like Eaglet, the price of instagra is also quite strong. Recently, it has been around 16 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to a price-earnings ratio of 120 times.
Simon's long-term layout of Igret has not changed. When the time is right, Igret will definitely be split. However, before that, it must be integrated first. After the new technology bubble burst in March last year, until now For a year, Eaglet has been eating all kinds of small companies that have been favored here in advance. This acquisition of Instagram is the biggest move.
It's pretty simple though.
Simon arrived in San Francisco and personally participated in a high-level meeting between the two parties, and the plan was finalized immediately.
Eaglet will still acquire Instagram at a price of 20 billion U.S. dollars in the form of stock and cash, and wants to pay a premium of around 20, of which 70 will be paid in stocks and 30 will be given in cash.
If the premium of 20 was placed before the new technology bubble burst last year, it would definitely not be considered. Even now, with the announcement of the news, it is inevitable that some small shareholders will raise criticisms. Fortunately, the absolute control of Instagram is in the hands of the Westeros system , Criticism can only be criticism.
Even if a lawsuit is filed, first-line institutions that have a little bit of strength against the Westeros system, such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan, will not be so stupid as to be unhappy with the Westeros system over this matter. Small-scale investors will go to court Just asking for fun.
The western suburbs of San Francisco.
Inside the estate in the Woodside Hills, this is Wednesday, April 15th.
After a busy day, in the evening, Simon brought a group of Yingying and Yanyan to stay here again. C-girls, D-girls, Alice, Little Jenny, and even waist and leg girls from San Francisco all ran over.
Simon is now a little happy to see the women around him leave on their own initiative and return to a normal life in the eyes of the world.
There are too many, and I am not iron-clad.
However, it can be regarded as self-inflicted, just like the waist and legs pinched together by him, the women are in pairs, even if Simon is not around, they have formed their own stable social state unconsciously.
Let's face it, it's an economic issue.
For a group of women in Silicon Valley, a net worth of more than 100 million can only be considered as the threshold, and a billion can be embarrassed to greet people.
With money, no matter whether it is a man or a woman, they will not like the conventional living conditions too much.
After all, under Simon's help, I found that two women live together, which is actually quite good. Occasionally, a man will come over again, which can be regarded as an adjustment, and life will be very nourishing. Why do you want to find a man who is not as good as yourself?
A living room in the main villa.
Return in the evening and run together
After soaking in a hot bath and having a lively dinner together, everyone gathered here to watch TV together.
Little Jenny thought she was petite enough, so she leaned into Simon's arms.
The left and right are the waist essence and the leg essence.
On the single sofa next to her, there are two girls C and D sitting opposite each other on the left and right. A former housekeeper with a still cold personality seems to be a bit out of place sitting on a round pier next to Girl D.
People don't care what is said on TV.
The topic of discussion was what to do next for the girls after instagra dropped.
Simon held the flimsy and restless little Jenny, and said to Girl D: "Actually, I have been thinking about this issue intermittently for several years. The development of the Westeros system has been seen by many people as already I have reached an extreme, what should I do next.”
Girl d asked subconsciously: "Boss, do you have an answer?"
Simon felt the eyes of the fake loli in his arms turn and turn, and patted her small buttocks: "Jenny, what do you think?"
"Project 3G," Jennifer Bray blurted out, straightened her waist and put her arms around the man's neck, and continued: "Actually, I'm more interested in the research of life sciences, boss, I'm looking forward to your making us live to hundreds of years old."
The girl c next to him said: "Actually, I think it might be quite boring to live to be hundreds of years old, just like a group of vampires, heh, in all kinds of stories, no vampire who lived for a long, long time is actually happy. , death is the ending that makes them feel the happiest in an instant."
After Miss C said that, everyone looked at Simon again, even Alice who seemed absent-minded looked over, looking curious about Simon's possible answer.
Simon said: "I don't think so. There are really vampires. In my opinion, they just live for the sake of living, but we can make our lives more exciting and keep setting various goals for ourselves. Moreover, These goals are definitely not the kind of life ideals that are common in the world."
"Boss, for example?"
"Explore the mysteries of the universe and go to the distance of the starry sky."
Waist Yasmin Gary said softly beside him: "It sounds so big."
Leggy Nadja Allman echoed: "It's tiring to listen to."
Little Jenny smiled gloatingly.
"The goal is big enough to be able to carry infinite time, and I'm just giving an example." Simon said, seeing that the two goblins around him still didn't agree, he didn't mind, and said with a smile: "So, you women."
"Simon, you are discriminatory."
"Sexism."
"Well, I'm guilty."
"I will come, I will punish the boss."
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