Hollywood Starts with Animation

Los Angeles.

Since Zucker ended his trip to New York and returned to Los Angeles, he immediately notified the two think tanks under his command by phone.

Private lawyer: Zhang Wei;

General Counsel of Private Finance: Anna Josephine;

"I'm calling you here this time, mainly for two things!"

Zu Ke raised his finger and said solemnly, "One, I want to set up a professional think tank team. I hope lawyer Zhang Wei can entrust a headhunting company to find this."

Zhang Wei and Anna looked at each other immediately.

Zhang Wei asked: "Mr. Wald, I understand. However, it will take a certain amount of time to recruit a real top think tank team."

"3 months!"

Zucker said immediately: "I know it's difficult, so I'll give you three months."

"That's fine." Zhang Wei breathed a sigh of relief.

The recruitment and formation of a professional and top think tank team is definitely not a simple and easy task. Before that, although Zhang Wei and Anna were also one of Zhu Ke's think tanks, they were mainly involved in law and financial management. In terms of real strategic layout and industrial planning, they were not as good as those professional think tanks.

Looking at the Forbes list, which of the famous people on the list is not supported by a professional think tank team?

One is short and two are long. The ancients did not deceive me.

With the passage of time, Zhu Ke is very sure that the scale of his own company will inevitably grow in the future, and the number of industries involved will also increase a lot. At that time, only relying on Zhu Ke's own strength is obviously more than enough. Insufficient power.

For example now:

Zu Ke not only has to worry about the development of various subsidiaries of Jinshuguang Entertainment Group, but also starts to pay attention to the development of various industries such as LinkedIn, Google, and California Standard Bank, and soon, he will be busy with the layout of the Internet bubble... ....

It's true that Zucker is a transmigrator, but he's not a god!

Relying on himself alone, Zhu Ke is half-dead from exhaustion, and it is estimated that he will not be able to cover everything, and may even die suddenly from exhaustion.

The formation of a professional think tank team is imminent!

"What about the second thing, Mr. Wald?" asked Anna Josephine.

After Zhang Wei wrote and drew in the notebook, he also fixed his eyes on Zhu Ke.

Zhu Ke said sternly: "The second thing is the matter of selling off the shares of major companies that I mentioned only two months ago."

In the past two months, Zhu Ke successively sold off the small shares held by 6 companies including HP, Dell, Oracle, and Cisco, and obtained 170 million US dollars in cash;

You must know that when Zucker bought these shares, the amount spent was only 30 million US dollars.

Needless to say, Zucker made a profit!

"Mr. Wald, this is our recent harvest. You only need to sign it, and it's completely OK." As Anna spoke, she took out a stack of authorization documents and a contract of intent for share trading from her briefcase.

[0.01% stake in Microsoft, valued at $62.25 million. 】

[AOL's 0.02% stake, valued at $73 million. 】

[2% stake in Yahoo, worth $940 million. 】

"Mr. Wald, the shares of Microsoft, America Online, and Yahoo that you hold have grown quite a bit in the past two months, especially the shares of America Online," Anna explained.

AOL shares have grown significantly?

"Ha ha!"

Zu Ke said with a smile: "AOL announced that it will acquire Time Warner, the world's largest media empire, in the form of cash + shares, with a total price of more than 180 billion US dollars. I also know the news. After all, the latest news is It's them."

After looking at the contract for a while, Zucker signed his name without hesitation.

A 0.01% stake in Microsoft, valued at $62.25 million, was eventually sold at a price 7% higher than the market price for $66.6 million in cash;

AOL's 0.02% stake, valued at $73 million, thanks to its imminent acquisition of Time Warner Group, a successful 10% premium and $80.3 million in cash;

2% of Yahoo's shares, valued at $940 million, at a premium of 9%, and re-booked in cash of $1.02 billion;

In other words, Zucker sold these shares and was about to start with $1.167 billion!

Coming soon?

That's right, after all, what Zhu Ke has signed now is only a "letter of intent to resell shares", not a formal sale and transfer contract. It also needs the witness of a notary office.

However, considering the current market situation, the drop of the $1.167 billion in cash is almost no surprise.

"Mr. Wald, your 8% stake in Amazon Marketplace has been approved by the Securities Commission and Amazon's board of directors and notified in writing, which means that you can now trade this part of your shares at any time." Anna said.

"Um!"

Zucker nodded and said: "8% of Amazon's shares, I will not clear all the transactions, only 2.9%, after all, I still want to retain my seat on Amazon's board of directors."

Selling part of the Amazon shares, Zucker is definitely not distressed.

"Anyway, the Internet bubble is close at hand. The big deal is that after a few months, I can buy a part from the market at a bargain price. I will definitely make a lot of money before and after."

2.9% of Amazon shares, the current market price is as high as 1.392 billion US dollars;

This stock is absolutely not worrying about buyers!

really.......

In less than a week, Zucker successfully sold 2.9% of Amazon's shares and sold it at a price 5% higher than the market price, again recording $1.46 billion in cash.

Up to now, in addition to Apple's 3.72% of the stock and Amazon's 5.1% of the stock, Zucker has all emptied the individual shares of listed companies in the United States.

1.167 billion + $1.46 billion = $2.627 billion.

I have to say that Zucker is a big fat sheep now, and his cash reserves are enough to drive many people crazy. Add to that the cash and gold reserves in Zucker's bank account, and the number is even more mouth-watering.

......

a few days later.

Zucker got two big news in a row in the same day.

Got a good new;

a return message;

"Mr. Wald, Marvel just contacted me, and they agreed to sell and transfer a share, but the specific share is not expected to exceed 20%." Zhang Weihui reported.

Zucker nodded and smiled and said: "This is indeed good news, at least the two old stubborn Marvels have spoken and compromised, but they are also treacherous enough, with 20% of Marvel's shares, are they planning to let me work for them? Just kidding. You keep talking to them, at least take over 40% of the shares.”

"Okay." Zhang Wei agreed.

The good news pleased Zucker.

However... the bad news is not so good!

Melodand and his team, who were kicked out by Fox Films, who founded the Lighting Entertainment Company in the future, and produced "Minions", had already intended to join Zucker's banner, but who knows, now there are ramifications!

They regretted it!

"In other words, are we being played by them? These guys really don't know what to do!" Zu Ke was a little anxious.

From Zhang Wei's mouth, Zhu Ke learned the beginning and end of the change.

It turns out that from the very beginning, Meledand himself did not intend to join Zucker's banner. After all, Zucker's subsidiary already has Waterworld Animation Company. It's just a banner to attract more attention from film companies and investors.

Sure enough, with the names of "Zuck" and "Water World Animation", Meledand and his team were successfully accepted by some capital markets.

So Meledand left Zucker without hesitation.

"Meledand is shameless enough!" Zucker gritted his teeth.

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