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- The conversation with James Cameron went very smoothly, and the plan to acquire the film company also went very smoothly. [Training Queen]
Like Hong Kong, every year, or even every once in a while, many film companies in the United States will go bankrupt, either due to poor management, investment failure, mergers and acquisitions, or being acquired by powerful established companies. Film companies such as Universal and MGM are suppressing it.
The fierce competition is exactly the same as in Hong Kong.
Of course, the same is true for the film and television industries in other countries and regions. The same is true for other industries. There is nothing to say.
Zhou Xingsheng didn't pay attention to this kind of thing. He was just happy that good news came on the fourth day after arriving in the United States. He reached an intention to acquire a complete film company that integrates development, production and distribution. It was easy to film and distribute the film in the United States without any obstacles.
At the same time, Zhou Xingsheng naturally suffered from severe bleeding.
Hiring a legal team, acquiring a team, and acquiring a film company all cost money, and they all cost US dollars. A total of fifty million US dollars was spent!
The investment is large, and the efficiency is naturally high.
By the fifth day, all the problems were solved. Surrounded by a group of people, Zhou Xingsheng walked into the gate of the film company that had been renamed "DreamWorks". This is another shameless rip-off, taking something from Spielberg and now turning it into an atmospheric title that shows off his ambition.
When a new boss takes office, the first thing he does is of course lecture him and stabilize the company, and Zhou Xingsheng is no exception.
That afternoon. Zhou Xingsheng was relieved when James Cameron came to the door.
Come up. First, he congratulated him on acquiring the film company, and then explained his intention. He had filmed "Titanic", but the preparations would have to wait until April next year. Now he has to film "Terminator 2" and conceive of "Titans". Nick issue.
Zhou Xingsheng was so confident that he immediately agreed and signed a cooperation agreement with James Cameron at the company on the spot.
Zhou Xingsheng delegated the specific affairs of the film company to Mark, the former general manager of the film company. However, Xu Xiaoming was transferred from Hong Kong and appointed as the deputy general manager of the film company. On the one hand, he was to supervise Mark, and on the other hand, he was prepared to take over Mark's position and take over the film company. As for Mark, Zhou Xingsheng only regards him as a transitional figure. If he does well, he can be hired to serve in the branch of Caishen Investment that will be established in the United States. Or he may be transferred to other companies under the Hong Kong Fortune Investment Group; if he does not do well, he will be fired directly without mentioning anything.
Mark is also a smart man. After Xu Xiaoming arrived, he immediately understood the intention of the boss Zhou Xingsheng and simply handed over most of the work to Xu Xiaoming. He assisted.
Once the emperor and the court, foreigners also understood.
Zhou Xingsheng didn¡¯t kill them all, but he still had to observe, so he didn¡¯t mention other things to Mark alone.
Caishen Investment is headquartered in Hong Kong, but its investment scope is becoming wider and wider. The investment areas are becoming wider and wider, and branches have to be established around the world to facilitate management.
Zhou Xingsheng plans to establish three branches. One is the American branch, which is located on Wall Street in New York, USA, which can almost be called the financial center of the global financial center; the other is the European branch, which is located in London, England, which is the financial center of Europe; the other is the African branch, Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Africa¡¯s economic backwardness and frequent wars do not mean that it does not need to be taken seriously. On the contrary, it is precisely because of its backwardness that it has the greatest willingness and potential for economic development, just like the mainland during the reform and opening up period. Caishen Investment is an investment company, and under its umbrella is Hexing Real Estate, a company specializing in infrastructure investment. The African market is not to be missed.
As for the Asian branch, the headquarters of Caishen Investment is in Hong Kong, so it is directly managed by the headquarters.
At present, the vast majority of Caishen¡¯s investments are in Hong Kong and the Mainland. It has its roots and has not expanded into a truly multinational enterprise with huge influence in the world, so it is impossible to talk about its various branches. Zhou Xingsheng¡¯s visit to the United States this time has the profound intention of truly penetrating the tentacles of the God of Wealth¡¯s investment into the United States.
?The establishment of the Caishen Investment branch on Wall Street is the first step for Caishen Investment to truly go global and cannot be missed.
Regarding the candidate, you don¡¯t need a super strong, world-famous manager, you just need to be loyal and be able to understand and implement his ideas. Even so, Zhou Xingsheng did not find a suitable candidate. He only had a rough case and decided to use a system of using foreigners to control foreigners, with Hong Kong people as his deputies.
The general manager of the branch is an American.Being familiar with the U.S. market and having a natural local advantage can better integrate Caishen Investment Company into the U.S. capital market.
The deputy is a Hong Kong citizen, one of our own, and can play a supervisory role.
Of course, if you are determined to be a moth, no one can stop it. No matter how good the system is, it will be useless, so choose the lesser of two evils.
All these actions went very smoothly.
¡°Only the issue of cooperation with Apple has caused big troubles, which Zhou Xingsheng did not expect.
First, there was trouble with Steve Jobs.
In May 1985, shortly after Zhou Xingsheng was reborn, Jobs, the founder of Apple, was kicked out of Apple by the Apple board of directors. He only retained the position of chairman and his own shares, and lost all rights. Zhou Xingsheng can imagine how angry Jobs must be, and he can also see Jobs' strong desire to return to Apple.
But what shocked Zhou Xingsheng was that even though he personally came to lobby for Jobs to work hard, and then contacted other shareholders in Apple to bring Jobs back to Apple and support him in leading Apple, Jobs actually shook his head and vetoed it. His suggestion was even told to stop trying in vain.
It was hard for Zhou Xingsheng to imagine that the later Jobs, who was always full of fighting spirit, actually rejected his kindness when he clearly wanted to return to Apple. Perhaps he was looking down on him, but after carefully analyzing the current situation of Apple, Zhou Xingsheng knew , it¡¯s not that Jobs looked down on him, but that he simply didn¡¯t have the energy to accomplish this.
Not to mention that Steve Jobs is very depressed now, the most important point is that Zhou Xingsheng himself has no influence in the United States, even within Apple, which owns a part of Apple shares!
Apple¡¯s equity is very dispersed and is held by multiple individuals, as well as some financial institutions responsible for underwriting shares when Apple goes public.
Jobs is a major shareholder, but he does not hold a dominant position. On the contrary, his equity is even less than that of Mike Markkula, Apple¡¯s largest investor in its early days!
Mike Markkula is a retired Intel employee who owns 30% of Apple. This man played a huge role in Apple when Steve Jobs and his friends founded Apple. He invested funds for Apple's development, provided contacts to help Apple expand the market, and joined Apple to help Apple reorganize its management. He has made outstanding contributions. It can even be said that there is no Mike Markkula. , Apple's growth will take many detours and it is impossible to even talk about it.
However, other Apple shareholders, including Mike Markkula, the benefactor who originally supported Jobs, will not welcome Jobs back to Apple at this time, because they drove Jobs away together and chose to trust the current Apple President John ?Scully.
With Zhou Xingsheng¡¯s current energy and influence, trying to convince Apple shareholders to welcome Jobs¡¯ return is tantamount to wishful thinking.
Even if Apple has shown signs of decline at this time, Apple¡¯s shareholders will still choose John Sculley. To put it nicely, this means that John Scully cannot be beaten to death with a stick, but must always be given a chance.
Of course, in Zhou Xingsheng¡¯s view, this is not about giving John Sculley a chance, it is about them not giving up until they reach the Yellow River, and not shedding tears until they see the coffin!
The second problem is even bigger than this.
Negotiations with Steve Jobs were unsuccessful. Afterwards, Zhou Xingsheng went to meet with Apple¡¯s current president, John Sculley. Before joining Apple, he was the president of Coca-Cola. However, Steve Jobs deceived him: ¡°Do you want to sell it for the rest of your life?¡± Soda still wants to change the world." He jumped to Apple neatly.
It is almost conceivable that this meeting was unsuccessful.
John Sculley showed great caution by not refusing to meet with him. At this point, Zhou Xingsheng knew it very well. Who asked him to try to trick Jobs into taking this guy's position?
¡° Taking away people¡¯s wealth is like killing their parents.
Even Europeans and Americans who believe that there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests, have the same understanding as the Chinese on this point.
John Sculley rejected his request to join the board of directors, and the cooperation negotiations eventually broke down. Even Zhou Xingsheng came up with part of the advanced personal computer operating system design, which was the result of several months of research by Xusheng Technology.
There are two reasons for the failure. On the one hand, it is the disdainful attitude of John Sculley, and on the other hand, it is also Zhou Xingsheng¡¯s own indifferent attitude.
Not to mention the contemptuous attitude, facing Asians, and also Chinese, at this time, Americans' superiority in their hearts is not generally high. They do not believe that innovative high-tech computers can be born in desert China, even if Xu Sheng Technology has shocked the world this year because of the World Wide Web.
Zhou Xingsheng¡¯s indifferent attitude,??It was because Jobs's rejection made him worried about Apple without Jobs, and the second was the news he had just received. Apple had actually reached an agreement with Microsoft before, allowing Microsoft to use Apple. Technology in operating systems!
This agreement is really a scam. It is tantamount to handing over the world of future operating systems to Microsoft!
Zhou Xingsheng was speechless for John Sculley, who led and signed the agreement. If he cooperates with Apple, does this mean that the technology he owns will be transferred to Microsoft again as soon as it changes hands?
In view of this, Zhou Xingsheng no longer insisted on cooperating with Apple, and instead set his sights on Microsoft.
In the past few years, he has also been acquiring shares in Microsoft. Although the progress has been slow, he has become a relatively important small shareholder. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read it.) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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