Chapter 693 Meow

Under Eric's strong insistence, the capital injection negotiations with Qualcomm were finally finalized on the day of the Golden Globe Awards ceremony on January 21. ↗ fiction,

Qualcomm's shareholders and management also understand that the sooner an agreement is reached with the powerful Firefly, the better it will be for the promotion of CD technology. Therefore, they did not open their mouths because of Firefly's urgent attitude, but only demanded that Firefly be determined according to the Qualcomm stock price the day before the deal was concluded. the final capital injection amount.

After the news of Firefly's contact with Qualcomm came out, Qualcomm's stock price rose by 21 in just one week, reaching $23.8 per share. Firefly Investment will eventually need to pay $238 million for Qualcomm's private placement of 10 million shares, which is far from the price. Exceeding Eric's tolerance, he rushed from Los Angeles to San Diego in person early in the morning.

After the signing ceremony was held in the morning, high-level executives such as Eric, Chris and Qualcomm's Owen Jacobs got into the conference room to discuss the next step.

It is already five o'clock in the afternoon after the detailed discussion of the lobbying strategy for telecom operators and the construction plan of Qualcomm's cd equipment factory.

Chris and Owen Jacobs had already made an appointment with Verizon's CEO for tomorrow's meeting. After the afternoon meeting, the two couldn't wait to board the plane to Verizon's headquarters in New York. Eric sent Chris and Owen Jacobs away, and also drove back to Los Angeles with his entourage.

By winning Qualcomm, Eric once again placed an important pawn in the high-tech industry that has begun to rise.

original time and space. Although Qualcomm is much more obscure than high-tech companies such as Cisco and Yahoo, which once had their own booming moments, in fact. Qualcomm is the most profound of these companies, because it has almost a complete monopoly on an entire generation of mobile communication technology. Even if it really encounters a decline, it can answer the old saying that there are still three thousand nails in a broken ship. , relying solely on the licensing fees of thousands of patents held in its hands, it can steadily make large profits every year.

Think of these. Eric's thoughts turned to Cisco, Yahoo, Nokia and AOL already owned by Firefly Investments. If according to the original historical development process, in addition to Cisco, the remaining three companies will gradually decline in the next few years.

Eric read later articles about why Nokia suddenly declined. In the process of development, these high-tech enterprises are neither short of capital nor lack of technology. The fundamental reason for their decline is the major mistakes in the direction of enterprise development. As long as he can maintain enough control over these companies in his opponents, with the advantages of the reborn, Eric is confident at least for the next twenty years. He was able to keep these companies on the right track.

The black Rolls Royce was galloping along the Pacific Rim Highway between Los Angeles and San Diego, as the sunset teetered on the distant sea level, dyeing everything in sight a magnificent orange.

in the carriage,

Eric kept his eyes closed and contemplative all the way. Kelly, who was sitting next to him, was not disturbed and quietly flipped through a document in her hand.

I don't know how long it took, noticing that Eric suddenly opened his eyes and straightened his body, Kelly raised her head and asked, "Eric, what's wrong?"

Eric turned his head and asked Kelly, "I remember seeing an M&A proposal submitted by Cisco executives a few days ago, do you remember?"

Kelly nodded: "Well, there is a plan to acquire a network switch company in Seattle. The preliminary negotiated price is 1.9 billion US dollars, using a stock exchange merger."

"What is our shareholding after this transaction?"

Kelly pondered for a moment and said, "Cisco's current stock market value is about $16 billion. After the merger, it will exceed $18 billion, and our shareholding ratio will drop from 23 to 20.5."

Eric shook his head. Although the shareholding ratio has dropped to 20.5, Firefly is still the largest shareholder of Cisco, but the control power will become weaker and weaker. Although Cisco has maintained a strong position in the industry in the previous life, Eric will not deliberately Intervened in corporate management, but he also realized that he could no longer let the Cisco equity in Firefly Investments be diluted, even if the diluted shares would still be a huge wealth in the future.

"It can't be lowered any more, no, not only can it not be lowered any more, we will also increase our holdings of Cisco shares again, you will contact Chris tomorrow and ask Cisco's management to change the method of this merger and convert it into a cash plus shareholding method to ensure that our The shares cannot be diluted again. In addition, you will discuss a plan to increase our shareholding, preferably to increase our shareholding ratio to 30.”

Kelly wondered: "Eric, don't you plan to invest in the telecommunications industry? According to the current scale of Verizon and Sprint, any one of them agreeing to invest in Firefly will require more than $1 billion in capital. It is said that the shareholding ratio of Cisco will be increased to 30, considering the premium factor, it is likely to need to invest 2 billion US dollars, and there may not be investment institutions willing to transfer the shares in their hands.”

Eric couldn't help but say generously in his heart, $2 billion is more than ten times the amount Firefly invested in Cisco at first, but at this time he can only get less than 10 shares. It seems that the good days of finding leaks will be gone forever. returned. But given Cisco's future value, the additional investment at this point is definitely worth it.

Firefly Group has just experienced a lucrative fiscal year, and Eric was still feeling that there was too much money some time ago. Now he finds that if he wants to continue to expand, the funds in his hand are still far from enough. It’s not that Eric didn’t have the idea of ​​making some big investments in the past, but he always subconsciously felt that the benefits were not high enough and he resisted. However, at this time, he also felt a sense of enlightenment. He kept thinking about picking up leaks, which was definitely not correct. investment thinking, but speculation. Just like the war in the age of cold weapons, it is okay to occasionally send out a few surprise soldiers to fight a few battles with less wins.

"The profit of Firefly Group should be able to cope with these plans. Even if it is not enough, I will consider financing from other channels. You just do it."

Kelly nodded and wrote Eric's instructions in the memo. Looking out the window, he was about to enter downtown Los Angeles and asked, "Eric, the Golden Globe Awards ceremony should have started. Are you going to the Hilton Hotel?"

It was already dark outside the window, Eric looked at his watch. seven thirty. In his capacity, even if he rushes over at this time, he will not be stopped outside the banquet hall, but there is really no need for this. Looking at the female assistant who is wearing a black suit and skirt, Eric asked with a smile. Said: "I'm not going to join in the fun, is Nina in boarding school today?"

Kelly blushed and nodded slightly.

"Then let's find a place to have dinner first, and then go to your place."

The female assistant pinched the corner of her clothes. The cheeks were pink and the voice was like a mosquito: "Anyway, go directly to me, it's easy to be touched when you eat outside."

"No problem. Listen to you."

"There is no doubt about it, and it has nothing to do with the movie, it's just another male victory. Braveheart, a self-righteous film full of fictional historical facts, completely defeated the ten times better than it was to save Private Ryan, just because Because the director of Saving Private Ryan is a woman, it's another example of Hollywood's ingrained sexism, where as long as you're a woman, even if you do things that men can't necessarily do, you're still not recognized. In the end, I just want to weakly ask, is it really going to go on like this?"

The day after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, a well-known female commentator in the Los Angeles Times made such a rhetorical comment in her personal column, and received a lot of one-sided discussions about sexism in the media, including There is no shortage of doubts and discussions mixed with all kinds of shady Golden Globes. The reason for this is that at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards, the much-anticipated Saving Private Ryan lost all four nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Score. Braveheart, only Tom Hanks successfully won the Best Actor Award.

Although many professional film critics are well aware that the two films, Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan, can be said to be on the same level in terms of art, but instinctively, there are still many film critics who prefer Saving Private Ryan with a stronger sense of cultural identity. , because there is no strong contender, Tom Hanks is almost a certainty for the best actor. Ahead of the awards ceremony, much of the discussion focused on where the nominations for best picture and best director belong.

After saving Private Ryan for nothing, some people's original sense of identity turned into disappointment and doubt. Because of the gender of director Catherine, many feminists also protested angrily to the Golden Globe Awards jury committee, and even called on Hollywood actresses Stop attending the Golden Globes.

Regarding the media’s doubts, the Golden Globe Awards jury, like many times in the past, completely adopts an attitude of not responding. This kind of questioning about the awards happens almost every year. If you respond in the same way, you will appear guilty and make things worse.

In the following days, the nomination list for the 67th Academy Awards was announced, and Braveheart once again caused a heated discussion in the media. This time, the focus of the controversy was on Mel Gibson's nomination for Best Actor and Brave at the Golden Globes. The nomination of Best Actor in the Heart of the Heart has already made many film critics slandered, thinking that Mel Gibson's performances can only be regarded as a few, and there is still a large distance from winning the award nomination. Most of the media originally thought that the Oscars are not Mel Gibson would be nominated for Best Actor like the Golden Globes, but the fact that many people ate flies. The film critics have not finished expressing their anger because of the unfair anger of the Golden Globe Awards. At this time, they did not hesitate to point their guns at Oscar, which is another discussion on the fairness of Oscar.

Of course, ordinary people don't know how much happened during this period, and they just follow the debate with relish. With the increase of topicality, more and more media have begun to follow up, changing tricks to attract audiences or read.

Most people didn't notice that with the boom in discussion, Rescue Private Ryan, who had been down for a long time, silently sold 670,000 videotapes in the following week, which was equivalent to the total of the previous two weeks. In just one week, Firefly brought in $20 million in video sales.

at the same time. Braveheart, which is still in theaters, also jumped 60 percent to 11 million at the box office from more than $7 million before the Golden Globes. The cumulative box office box office easily surpassed the $73 million mark. The Weinstein brothers are naturally happy, and small movements are more frequent.

In the whole thing, Mel Gibson is undoubtedly the most bitter. The controversy caused by the best actor nomination, and the media controversy about Hollywood sexism, has infinitely compressed his hopes of winning the best director to almost nothing.

"He's been paid $18 million. He'll take another 10 in the future. Fox doesn't owe him anything. Harvey wanted to spread the word about his Jewish racism. I stopped him, hum, if it wasn't for the fact that everyone was Australian, I wouldn't care."

In the hilltop mansion of Julia and Elizabeth in Beverly, Elizabeth, wearing a crisp white shirt, jeans, and sunglasses, reclined on a beach chair by the pool, facing Arie, who was flipping the script on the other lounge chair. K said.

Eric turned a page of the script in his hand and just nodded. Said he heard it.

Elizabeth curled her lips in dissatisfaction and said, "Eric, I heard that you have hired two new directors and handed over the Matrix to one of them. Are you not afraid of screwing up?"

"To be precise, three," Eric corrected casually.

"Of course I know, well, the Wachowskis, eh, are they anything special?"

Listening to Elizabeth's little voice becoming thief. Eric smiled and said: "Don't worry about it, the two of them, oh, three, have signed a three-film option contract with Firefly, at least five years, they will definitely not accept other companies. Of course, unless I take the initiative to release people."

Now that he has decided to use the Wachowskis and Michael Bay, Eric will of course not give them the opportunity to shoot a movie and leave the box office. It takes at least three films for Firefly to move elsewhere.

Of course, in order to maintain a good relationship with three directors who have good potential for appreciation in the future, Eric did not stipulate a low director salary in advance like many option contracts. Although Eric advocates suppressing the super-high remuneration of Hollywood superstars, he will not exhaust the water and let the main film creators only work without getting their due remuneration. Win-win is the fundamental principle for a virtuous circle of an industry. The option contract given by Eric was not harsh, and both the Wachowskis and Michael Bay were quick to sign it.

Elizabeth thought that Eric was talking about the traditional option contract, hummed twice, and said, "I think you are the greedy Jew that Mel Gibson said."

Eric didn't mind this kind of racial ridicule at all, and shrugged: "Who knows, whoever goes to Hollywood doesn't want to be a Jew."

The two were chatting, and Julia walked over with a plate of cut fruit platters lightly, placed it on the small round table on Eric's right hand, and gently pushed Eric to the side. Eric squeezed together and lay down comfortably on the wide beach chair.

Elizabeth said dissatisfied: "Julia, where is my fruit plate?"

Julia put her arms around Eric's waist, twisted her body to find a more comfortable position, felt Eric's heartbeat and the warm sunshine, and said lazily, "Do it yourself."

"Tsk tsk, like a cat, it's still a spring cat."

Julia ignored it, Eric smiled and touched Julia's face on his chest: "Little cat, cry."

"Meow"

"Ouch, you guys are disgusting, I'll forget it," Elizabeth made a retching motion, looked at the script in Eric's hand impatiently, and said, "When did you finish it, and what do you think?"

"You know, I've never been able to lift my spirits about things I'm not interested in."

"Is this script bad? I put a lot of effort into it, and I specifically checked a lot of information on small animals."

The script in Eric's hand was exactly an idea similar to robbing a nut shop that Elizabeth brainstormed in a short time after he and Elizabeth saw a small squirrel in the open-air restaurant that day. During this time, Elizabeth found a few The writers worked out the story together.

"It's not bad, but it doesn't make people feel at all. If you want to watch it, I will let you have a copy of the story script that Disney Animation is preparing, and let you see what is called imagination. force."

Elizabeth leaned hard on the reclining chair and said, "Since you don't like this story, why would you ask Chris Wedge from Blue Sky Studio to come over? I read the resume of that studio, although he has made some big-name movies. special effects, but he hasn't set foot in the animation field, and he can't compare to the people at Pixar."

Eric closed the script in his hand, picked up an apple in the fruit bowl and ate it, and said, "Although your story is ordinary, it can be used by them to practice their skills and make a short film to train the team."

"You might as well give me some people from Pixar, just like Disney animation."

Eric shook his head and said: "Pixar, don't worry about it, but I didn't give you this studio either. The two of us are divided equally. I have thought about it, leaving 10 shares to the management, and the rest. Firefly and Fox are 45 each."

"You already have two animation studios"

Eric said with a smile: "If it's not that some animation ideas don't conform to Disney's style, I don't mind another animation studio under Firefly."

"Wow, you greedy Jew" to be continued. cc2907201 Baidu search "" to see the latest and most complete novels!