Chapter 852 Changes in Public Opinion Atmosphere
Because of complete privatization and separation from the capital market, Verizon has had a very weak presence in the public in recent years. Only the industry is aware of the strong presence of this telecom operator in the field of mobile communications.
During the dinner, Simon and Raymond Smith first discussed re-launching Verizon into the capital markets.
In fact, it is another IPO.
There are many reasons for this decision, and many benefits.
The first is to reduce the Westeros system's stake in Verizon.
Under normal circumstances, business owners want to hold more company shares. Simon did the opposite, still in order to further integrate the Westeros system into the American economy.
Like the Igreit IPO this time.
Counting the 100 million additional new shares issued recently according to the original green shoe mechanism, the current total share capital of Igret reaches 4.426 billion shares, of which Westeros holds 2.561 billion shares, and the shareholding ratio has been reduced to 57.9 %. The biggest benefit of transferring as much as 42.1% of the shares to Igreat's management and investors is that Igreat is much less likely to be targeted.
The interests of tens of millions of investors exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars are tied to the Westeros system. Whether it is the federal antitrust agency or many competitors inside and outside the United States, if they want to target Igreat, they must It is equivalent to the huge capital alliance behind the scenes against Igret.
If you're not careful, you can be smashed to pieces.
The U.S. telecommunications industry has developed for more than a hundred years. If you want to break the deep-rooted old pattern, you will inevitably face many potential resistances. The integration strategy can undoubtedly minimize these resistances.
The second is raising funds.
This is also a key expansion strategy for the Westeros system in the next few years. Taking advantage of the market situation, it is possible to reserve as much cash as possible through listing or issuing bonds. In the past, many new technology companies that emerged in the 1990s went to the end because of a shortage of funds after the burst of the Internet bubble.
The third reason is that it is more intuitive and convenient to complete the merger with AOL after listing.
The unlisted Verizon Telecom, even the $30 billion valuation given by "Forbes" this time, is still low in Simon's view. If it is directly merged with the high market value AOL in the privatized state, it will be difficult. Making a valuation that satisfies all parties can lead to potential litigation risks if you are not careful.
After the listing, the stock prices of both parties are determined by the capital market, and the merger will not cause too many disputes.
In addition, Simon also discussed with Raymond Smith in advance the personnel issues after the merger of AOL and Verizon.
This thing has a lot to do with it.
AOL's predecessor was originally just attached to a start-up providing Internet services of Bell Atlantic, the predecessor of Verizon. At that time, Raymond Smith was already the head of Bell Atlantic, and now the head of AOL, Steve Kay Si is just a new entrepreneur, and the status of the two is very different.
Now, America Online is at its peak. Although the identities of the two cannot be completely reversed, once they merge, Raymond Smith can only become Steve Case's subordinate.
Simon is very cautious about this sort of thing.
If Raymond Smith cannot work closely with Steve Case, or even check each other, after the merger of the two companies, the merger will not make any sense, and may even have disastrous consequences for both companies. The decision to merge is unlikely to change, so Simon can only kick one of the two out if something starts to emerge.
However, neither of the two were out for Simon.
When talking about this during the meal, Raymond Smith showed great spontaneity, saying that he would try his best to cooperate with Case in the future, which made Simon a little relieved, but not absolute.
Many things are easier said than done.
In the following days, the media surrounding the 1995 Forbes 400 list of America's richest people became even hotter. After all, there are too many things to watch on this year's list.
With a personal wealth of $700 billion, Simon is hard to shake.
Following closely, the personal net worth of Microsoft founder Bill Gates also increased to $57.3 billion, an increase of more than 100% compared to 1994.
The third-placed Warren Buffett, with a personal wealth of $12.6 billion, exceeded many people's expectations, but it was mainly due to Daenerys Entertainment's acquisition of Metropolitan abc Group. Shares of Berkshire Hathaway, which owns Metropolitan ABC Group, have been rising in recent months on the back of that.
Fourth place Larry Ellison is a dark horse. His personal wealth of $11.7 billion mainly comes from his 31.2% stake in Oracle.
With the explosion of the new technology industry and the close connection between Oracle Corporation and the Westeros system, the monopoly trend of Oracle's database software has become more and more obvious in recent years. When "Forbes" counts the list, Oracle's market value has reached 376 One hundred million U.S. dollars. Even if it cannot be compared with the giants with a market value of 100 billion such as Igret, it has surpassed most of the traditional corporate giants in the US stock market.
It is worth mentioning that Westeros currently holds 24.6% of Oracle, so this company alone contributed $9.2 billion to Simon’s personal wealth.
The fifth-place Paul Allen has a personal wealth of $10.9 billion.
Forbes counts Bill Gates and Paul Allen's reference market capitalization at $151.5 billion, so Westeros' current 18.7% stake in Microsoft also contributes to Simon
$28.3 billion in personal wealth.
The sixth, seventh and eighth places are tied.
Tim Berners-Lee, Jeff Bezos, and Carol Bartz of Igret Corporation, each with a fortune of $8 billion.
The same super dark horse.
At the beginning, "Forbes" magazine was to wait for Igreit to be listed and then count the new annual wealth list. Therefore, the wealth of the three giants is based on the closing price on the first day of Igreat's listing on October 6, which is very important to Simon's personal wealth. stats as well.
The ninth is John Kruger, personal wealth 6.1 billion US dollars.
John Kruger is 81 years old this year. The veteran media tycoon who once competed with Sam Redstone for control of Orion and wanted to break into Hollywood has gradually retired. Therefore, he has been liquidating and selling a large number of assets over the years, and then transferring Doing trust investment and starting to prepare for the inheritance of wealth, many TV stations under the Fox TV network established by Rupert Murdoch are from John Kruger's macro media company.
The tenth place is tied with the eleventh Walton family's two brothers Jim Walton and John Walton, both of whom have a personal wealth of 4.6 billion US dollars.
The Walton family is still not to be underestimated.
However, due to changes in equity for various reasons, the wealth of Walton's widow and four children is no longer uniform. After the two brothers, the personal wealth of the other three Waltons continued to occupy the twelfth to fourteenth positions. , the wealth figures were 4.5 billion US dollars, 4.5 billion US dollars and 4.3 billion US dollars.
After the top ten, it is worth mentioning Alice Ferguson, the former housekeeper of the Westeros family in 15th place, with a personal wealth of 4 billion US dollars.
Daenerys Entertainment CEO Amy Pascal also ranks 17th on the list with a personal fortune of $3.5 billion.
In addition, the 35th C-girl Claire Gein, relying on a 13.2% stake in Tincobel, is tied with Neil Brantley, another founder of Tincobel, at No. 36. Personal wealth estimates are all $2.2 billion.
Further down, D-girl Deborah Lipman also ranked 87th on the list with a personal wealth estimated at $1.1 billion by virtue of her 56% stake in the instagram website.
This year's Forbes list of America's 400 richest people has a threshold of $340 million, which happens to be backed by the famous talk show host Oprah Winfrey.
In the list of these 400 people, companies under the names of Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Larry Ellison and other companies are not counted, but they are only held by the Westeros system rather than controlled or supported by the big coffee, such as Simon , Tim Berners-Lee, Alice Ferguson, C girl, etc. who are really closely related to the Westeros system can be counted as 'esterosian' rich, a total of 37 people.
If it weren't for the deliberate suppression of all parties, Simon Westeros' control of the United States would definitely become a hot topic on major media platforms. When a person relies on huge wealth to have a pivotal impact on a country's politics, economy, culture, and even military, it is almost the same as control.
In fact, the Westeros system is far from reaching a certain level, but the trend is very obvious.
Like this time.
Compared with the public opinion atmosphere in the past few years, the media is lively and lively, and all kinds of clamoring to limit the continued expansion of Simon Westero's personal wealth or to designate a targeted tax bill are much less. The number of doubts about the dollar one after another.
$700 billion, how is that possible?
All right.
Even if it reaches 700 billion US dollars on the book, most of it is just stock assets, or stock assets with serious bubble components. Isn’t it all said that the new technology bubble is very serious now, and Westeros is the best embodiment.
Public opinion guides this kind of thing, and Simon doesn't need to make arrangements in person now.
As the core of the entire Westeros system, not only its affiliated companies, including Time Warner, News Corporation, New York Times Group and other closely-cooperating media, will consciously defend a young man, because everyone's interests are related, One is prosperous, and one is lost.
The outside world was disturbed, and after rejecting all interview invitations as usual, Simon's life was still as planned.
The transaction settlement process of Daenerys Entertainment’s merger with Metropolis abc Group has come to an end. After the registration of the stock settlement ratio in the first two weeks of October, the proportion of Daenerys Entertainment’s final choice to exchange Metropolis abc Group shares for Daenerys Entertainment shares is as high as 83%, and even Warren Buffett changed the original settlement ratio of half stock and half cash to 70% stock and 30% cash.
As a result, in the original $20.9 billion acquisition agreement, the final cash payment that Daenerys Entertainment needed to use was only $3.5 billion, less than half of Daenerys’ own cash reserve of more than $7 billion.
On the other hand, after the settlement is expected to be completed and a total of 236 million shares are paid to the shareholders of the original Metropolis abc Group, the total share capital of the new Daenerys Entertainment Group will increase to 2.599 billion shares, and Simon will hold 1.937 billion shares. After the merger, the new company's shareholding was reduced from 81.9% to 74.5%.
According to Daenerys Entertainment's dual shareholding structure, the shareholding ratio has dropped to 74.5%, and Simon's voting rights in Daenerys Entertainment are still as high as 96.7%.
Control doesn't move like a mountain.
Therefore, Simon still feels that the shareholding ratio of 74.5% is a bit high, but it is not easy to reduce in the short term, so he can only reduce his holdings slowly in the future.
Logistics distribution around Wisconsin
The handling of lawsuits and strikes at the sending center has been suspended.
This is a decision made by Simon himself.
In order to avoid someone with his latest personal wealth and a group of truck drivers who are destined to be blacklisted, it is better to wait for the recent public opinion to cool down before dealing with it.
In the blink of an eye, it's Friday, October 27th.
The end of the year comes.
The third film "The Conjuring 2" in the Conjuring Cinematic Universe series produced by Daenerys Entertainment was released on this day, announcing the opening of the Halloween schedule.
Prior to this, a series of movies released in the summer season have basically been drawn one after another.
Among them, the North American box office of "Jurassic Park 2" finally reached 413 million US dollars, temporarily ranking the domestic box office champion in 1995. Whether it can hold this position depends on the Christmas file "Batman v Superman" released on December 22nd. : Dawn of Justice's box office performance.
This is also a focus of recent fans' attention.
There has also been some controversy.
It stands to reason that if "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" is placed on the Thanksgiving schedule, it will be more beneficial for this DC superhero blockbuster to give full play to its box office potential across the two major festivals of Thanksgiving and Christmas. The reason why it is scheduled for December 22 , a very important reason to make way for the 3D animated film "Beauty and the Beast" produced by Daenerys Entertainment.
Although "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" is distributed by Time Warner, Simon has the final say about the opening schedule.
The 3D version of "Beauty and the Beast" is set for November 17.
After all, he is a full-fledged son.
Moreover, Simon actually hopes to leave some breathing space for some movies from other Hollywood studios. Otherwise, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", which is also a domestic box office of 400 million, will be released on Thanksgiving, and there will inevitably be a family. dominance situation.
Time Warner, of course, has a lot of criticism about this, but it can only endure it.
Everyone knows that when this matter is placed on others, a decision similar to Simon will be made.
In addition to the "Jurassic Park 2" that crushed the summer, "Apollo 13" was also produced by Daenerys Entertainment and led by Tom Hanks. The cumulative box office in North America was 177 million US dollars. "Jurassic" Park 2" and "Apollo 13" also became the only two films to break 100 million at the box office in the summer of 1995.
Daenerys Entertainment released David Fincher's new film "Mind Game" at the end of the summer season, with a production cost of 50 million US dollars, and the final domestic box office was only 51.34 million US dollars. It is expected that the overseas box office will be similar. Not too bad, but far from satisfactory.
As for "Die Hard 3", "Ghosts", "Braveheart" and other films from other Hollywood studios, they were directly or indirectly impacted by "Jurassic Park 2". Failed to cross the million-dollar threshold.
Warner Bros. burned the $175 million "Water World", and it made the old studio lose money in the end.
Although the schedule was set at the end of July and far away from "Jurassic Park 2", this apocalyptic sci-fi movie still only recovered 63.19 million US dollars at the domestic box office, which has shrunk by a full 20 million compared with the previous history. Overseas markets Competing with "Jurassic Park 2", it is expected to barely get a box office of about 100 million US dollars.
The global revenue of 160 million is expected to be about 70 million US dollars, which is far from the production budget of 175 million US dollars.
This time, no Universal Studios has created a "Future Water World" attraction in disguise to make up for the loss. After all, Daenerys Entertainment's own IPs can't be used up, and Warners can only look at the huge loss statement and cry without tears.
The two famous box office duds of the original Hollywood in 1995, "Future Water World" has been settled, and then it will be seen whether "Cutthroat Island" will repeat the same mistakes.
"Cut Throat Island", which relies on German capital Carlock Films and Seagram's Paramount, has a final production budget of $100 million, according to figures released by the two studios in recent publicity. The 3D animated film "Beauty and the Beast" produced by Liz Entertainment is scheduled for the same day, both on November 17.
If "Cut Throat Island" fails again, the two box office duds will be enough to pour cold water on many ambitious speculative capital who want to show their fists in Hollywood.
Not everyone can come in and play in Hollywood.
With fewer spoilers, Daenerys Entertainment's position will be stronger.
Manhattan.
The fourth Victoria's Secret show will be held on November 11. The Lexington Avenue Arsenal near Gramercy Park in Midtown has been contracted by Victoria's Secret for the rehearsal of the show.
This year's list of Victoria's Secret Angels has been finalized ahead of fashion week.
The biggest change is undoubtedly the resignation of two Victoria's Secret Angels spokespersons Cindy Crawford and Yasmin Gary, as well as Eva Herzigova from the Czech Republic and Fernanda Leigh from Brazil Ma replaces the places vacated by Cindy.
Eva Herzigova is nothing yet.
The 22-year-old Czech girl rose rapidly last year. Relying on a series of resources that make people envious and hateful, she quickly rose to the top of the model popularity list launched by the fashion section of the Igret portal. and magazine covers and other points earned the title of 'Supermodel'.
Therefore, Eva Herzigova has become a new spokesperson for Victoria's Secret Angel, at least with sufficient qualifications.
Another Fernanda Lima, who just turned 18 this year, is inevitable
It inevitably caused a lot of controversy. The big goblins in the fashion circle were torn apart quite violently, but unfortunately, no matter how dissatisfied, everyone can only watch it, who made the girl stand behind Simon Westeros? .
Not to mention the huge wealth of Simon Westeros of 700 billion US dollars, it is just the influence of the Westeros system in the fashion circle. Since someone has hand-picked Fernanda Lima, others can only envy look.
Even John Casablanca, the 'godfather' of the industry who used to be in the fashion circle with only one hand to cover the sky, said that it was silent, let alone these little models, who would dare to do bad things in private and put a little black on the media. What is expected, other than being completely blocked, don't even think about the second result.
As for why Westeros chose Eva Herzigova and Fernanda Lima, it can only be a man's own preference.
It's not even a matter of climbing into a man's bed.
Because in the current circle, there are too many models willing to do this.
It's just luck.
For example, now, the hall of the runway has been arranged in the arsenal, and the lucky man named Fernanda Lima takes advantage of other themes to snuggle up beside a man in the stands. Small flames flashed in the eyes of the fairies passing by on the stage.
Bitchi!
They're all six-foot-tall goblins, pretending to be the girl next door, not coordinating at all, and even acting like a spoiled child, tsk tsk, I wish you both feet in the next rehearsal.
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