Chapter 128: Annual Meeting
At about 6:40 p.m. on January 5, in a large lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco Bay Area, many people were chatting in the lobby, and some people were looking at the middle of the hall, which was covered with a red cloth.
The hall was surrounded by tables, but the middle was covered with a red cloth, which made it look very abrupt.
Xu Qing was also chatting with some people in the lobby, including MGM's senior vice president Mackay, Sony Pictures Entertainment's president Ono Aihara, and Barnes & Noble's vice president Smith.
"Xu, why is your company's annual meeting so late, it's 1994 now. ”
McKay asked Xu Qing with a smile, he had a good relationship with Xu Qing, so it was okay to ask like this.
"As you all know, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and the animatronic pets were all released a few days before and after Christmas, and I wanted to take advantage of their popularity to have the best results. ”
The annual meeting of American corporations is generally held before Christmas and is rarely held after the New Year.
"You were so confident that digital pets were going to be a global hit? As far as I know, you invested hundreds of millions of dollars in electronic pets.
If the sale of electronic pets fails, even if the sales of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets are successful, the atmosphere at the annual meeting will be very depressing. McKay said.
Others also looked at Xu Qing with the same curiosity, the popularity of electronic pets was not expected by everyone present.
They knew early on that Xu Qing had placed hundreds of millions of dollars in electronic pet orders, hundreds of millions of dollars, which was also a very large investment for their company.
There are countless meetings to be held, and it will take at least a few months of discussion before a decision is made on the hundreds of millions of dollars.
At that time, Xu Qing's net worth was only more than 100 million US dollars, so he dared to place orders of hundreds of millions of dollars, and I heard that Xu Qing's company had not held any internal meetings to discuss and directly placed orders.
When they heard this information, they were stunned, their first thought was that Xu Qingqing had few ambitions, and he didn't know how thick the sky was, so he directly invested hundreds of millions of dollars to create a game called Electronic Pet.
Nintendo and Sega didn't dare to do this, and they had to go through a lot of research and evaluation before they dared to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in a game.
They were not optimistic about Xu Qing's decision, thinking that Xu Qing would suffer a lot.
Now they've been slapped in the face, electronic pets have become a world trend, with hundreds of millions of dollars in sales in the first week, and now no game can steal the limelight from electronic pets.
They were very curious about why Xu Qing dared to directly invest hundreds of millions of dollars at that time, and every decision made from Xu Qing to Carney Media to the present.
Xu Qing is only 19 years old! And he was a gentleman before taking over Carney Media, why is the business talent he is showing so terrifying now.
Xu Qing looked at the curious guests around him, and suddenly felt that he was not in the limelight too strong now.
Harry Potter and electronic pets have set off a global trend and brought him a lot of money, and now Xu Qing has a certain popularity around the world, and has become the idol of many young people in the United States.
It is normal for a person to be a little strong in one industry, but it is a bit abnormal to be strong in many industries.
So far, Xu Qing has been involved in the media industry, the book industry, the game industry, and the film and television industry.
Among them, the performance in the book industry and the game industry is too dazzling, and after those movie scripts are made into movies and released, Xu Qing will also be very dazzling in the film and television industry.
He's only 19 years old now! And he's still Chinese, so he behaves so dazzlingly, a good thing or a bad thing?
Xu Qing's brain flashed countless thoughts, and he said to the guests around him with an unchanged expression: "I said because of my feelings, do you believe it?"
The surrounding guests all showed contemptuous expressions, Xu Qing smiled and continued: "Actually, I also decided to directly invest hundreds of millions of dollars to make electronic pets after research. ”
The surrounding guests heard Xu Qing's words, and showed disdainful expressions, they had long known that Xu Qing had investigated hundreds of people's opinions on electronic pets.
The research of hundreds of people is also called research, and the investment of millions of dollars in other companies has to investigate countless people and prepare countless materials.
"Don't believe it, when Harry Potter was released, I also thought Harry Potter could be a hit, so I signed a special partnership agreement with Barnes & Noble at that time, and the same goes for animatronic pets. ”
Seeing that the surrounding guests couldn't ask anything, they didn't ask again, and talked about other things.
Today, these guests reminded Xu Qing that he is too dazzling now, and in less than a year, he has a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, which is about the same as the Xu family's assets.
The hundreds of millions of dollars in 1994 were more powerful than the billions of dollars in later generations.
In the future, if someone has a net worth of more than a billion dollars at the age of 19, almost all the media will report it.
The same is true of Xu Qing now, most of the world's media have reported Xu Qing's net worth, saying that Xu Qing is a genius, and some media even directly say that Xu Qing is the leader of the global youth generation.
When Xu Qing saw these reports, he was very speechless, this was not killing him with a stick and recruiting him to black.
Xu Qing decided that from now on, some things should be hidden behind the scenes, and less showy things should be done, not too dazzling, and behind-the-scenes control is king.
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At 7 o'clock, the annual meeting officially began, and the host of the annual meeting came to the stage to stir up the atmosphere, and after the atmosphere was stirred up, Xu Qing took the stage to speak.
Xu Qing came to the stage, and the eyes of nearly a thousand people in the audience looked at Xu Qing at the same time, fortunately, Xu Qing's psychological quality has been very strong this year, and he has no feeling for these eyes.
"Ladies and gentlemen, good evening, today is the first time that Sunlight Group and Glory Company have held their annual meeting.
Hey, I saw the expressions of some people in the audience who really wanted me to finish my speech quickly, do you really want to see the next beauty show and the big draw. ”
Xu Qing looked at the people in the audience with a smile, of course these people will not say that you should finish speaking quickly, but say in unison We want you to talk more.
"Okay, my speech this time is expected to take 5 minutes, and you can watch the beautiful women's performances after the speech, in fact, I really want to see it.
First of all, I would like to talk about the current development status of Sunlight Group and Honor.
Sunlight Group now has total assets of $120 million, more than 700 employees, and three subsidiaries, namely sunlight newspaper, sunlight publishing house, and sunlight film and television.
Among them, the assets of the Sunlight newspaper are more than 30 million US dollars and more than 500 employees.
Sunlight Publishing has more than $60 million in assets and employs more than 100 people.
Sunlight Film and Television has assets of more than $30 million and employs more than 100 people.
Honor now has total assets of $100 million and more than 100 employees. ”
Xu Qing paused here to give the audience time to digest the information.