Chapter 6566: The Greatest Gift

Of course, Paul Allen is also a famous investor, with many investment companies under his umbrella.

For example, the famous ‘DreamWorks’ is one of the top ten film printing, production and distribution companies in the United States. It is also a video game and TV program production company. In terms of North American box office, two of the films produced or distributed by DreamWorks have exceeded 400 million, and five have exceeded 300 million. In the past 20 years, more than 30 films have exceeded 100 million. Classic films produced by DreamWorks include "How to Get Away with Murder", "The Ring", "The Tuxedo", "Vanilla Sky", "Gladiator", "Ghost Invasion", "Galaxy Blast", "Kung Fu Panda" and so on.

Lin Feng himself owns the former MGM company, and now the ‘Fengshen Pictures’. If you count the shares of ‘DreamWorks’, this is a double whammy for major American film companies.

Of course, whether there is a ‘DreamWorks’ or not, it doesn’t really make much difference to these film companies. Anyway, most film companies and TV crews now have to find the ‘Windy City’ to rent a place to shoot a film, and you must apply to the ‘Windy City’ management office for this.

In simple terms, you have to act according to Lin Feng's mood. In addition, half of the movie screens in the United States are also under Ellison's control. In other words, from filming to the release of the movie, you basically have to act according to Lin Feng's mood.

You say, what else are these movie companies angry about? Although everyone is a competitor, Lin Feng did not suppress them maliciously. It can only be said that everyone feels that the future is a little bleaker. Fortunately, get used to it.

Yes, get used to everything.

This includes the American Charter-company, whose Chinese name is Charter Communications Company, and its main business is to provide Internet services to the American people.

Of course, Paul Allen is only one of the major shareholders, but he also serves as the chairman of the board of directors. When it comes to this company, we have to mention the stupidest super decision of the 20th century.

That is, Paul Allen was once a major shareholder of AOL, but when he wanted to support AOL and become the largest shareholder, he was resisted by the "poison pill plan" of the AOL board of directors. In a fit of anger, Paul Allen sold all his AOL shares in 1994.

The result is imaginable. Later, under the last Internet wave of the 20th century, the peak market value of AOL stock reached 164 billion US dollars. Calculated by the stocks that Paul Allen sold at that time, its market value was almost equivalent to that of Bill Gates.

Unfortunately, Paul Allen sold it in a rage, making the most stupid decision of the 20th century. After that, there was Charter Communications.

Paul Allen was not a person who was willing to fail. He invested in Charter Communications,

which grew from a low-end Internet service provider to one of the three largest Internet service providers in the United States today.

As for AOL, it is no longer glorious now. However, when Paul Allen handed all his shares to Lin Feng, he also gave several instructions.

The first was to annex AOL to avenge the hatred in his heart. You know, Paul Allen was very optimistic about intent at the beginning and believed that the future of the world was in intent, so he wanted to bless AOL's shares so that it could run according to his will.

Unfortunately, it was rejected. However, the management of AOL did not understand what intent was at all, and did not know how to make money in the Internet age!

As a result, it has fallen from the largest network provider to the point of selling itself several times. It is so stupid! But these stupid guys, when the stock price rose to its peak, especially when it merged with Time Warner, they often mocked Paul Allen and ridiculed his short-sightedness.

This made Paul Allen very angry at the time. That's why he invested heavily in Charter Communications and vowed to surpass America Online. However, now he has gone to the universe to explore the solar system, and the task here is naturally handed over to Lin Feng to help him fulfill this wish.

Apart from this, Lin Feng will not look at other small companies. Anyway, Paul Allen is an investor, just taking dividends, and will not interfere with the operation of the company, which is equivalent to a venture capital.

However, Paul Allen also has stocks in a company, which are all left to Lin Feng.

Needless to say, everyone knows Paul Allen's origin - one of the two giants of Microsoft's entrepreneurship.

Although Bill Gates' success in the software industry made him too arbitrary, unwilling to listen to others, and did not believe Paul Allen's judgment on the Internet, the two eventually parted ways. But Paul Allen never sold his shares in Microsoft.

320 million shares! This is the greatest wealth that Paul Allen left to Lin Feng.

Of course, Microsoft's total share capital is as high as 7.988 billion shares, which is not much compared to the total share capital. But it is also the third largest individual shareholder of Microsoft, second only to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.

As for why Paul Allen, as one of the founders of Microsoft, holds far fewer shares than Bill Gates, who has been selling Microsoft shares, and Steve Ballmer who joined later?

It's very simple, because he was fooled by Bill Gates. When the two founded Microsoft at the same time, Paul Allen was responsible for technology, and Bill Gates was responsible for the company's management, sales, operations and other businesses.

When the company was founded, Paul Allen wanted to propose a 50% equal share agreement, but Bill Gates said that Paul Allen was still receiving a salary from MITS, the manufacturer of Altair, while Bill Gates had no income, so he divided the shares into 60% for Bill Gates and 40% for Paul Allen.

After that, Bill Gates, as the operator of the company, increased his shares again to 64%, while Paul Allen held 36%. After that, Paul Allen left Microsoft because he suffered from Hodgkin's disease.

However, in 1990, he returned to Microsoft, but unfortunately, the differences between the two sides were already very large. In the end, Paul Allen left Microsoft because Bill Gates already had Steve Ballmer at that time, and no longer needed Paul Allen, a genius whose vision was 10 years ahead of the present world!

Paul Allen did not say anything about Microsoft or Bill Gates. There was no explanation.

However, Lin Feng understood! (To be continued ~^~)