Lionsgate, unlike the traditional Hollywood Big Six production companies, is an independent production company with no Hollywood background, headquartered in Santa Monica, California, USA, but it is actually a Canadian film company, founded in Vancouver in 1997.

Lionsgate started with low-budget B-grade films, and is good at making small and big, and most of the films it invests in are small-scale horror and bloody violence, most notably the "Saw" series, which is the most commercially successful independent film and TV distribution company in North America.

The adventure theme of a killing game like "The Hunger Games" is very much in line with Lionsgate's appetite, and the last "Hunger Games" series of movies was produced by Lionsgate.

In fact, in addition to Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures, among the six major Hollywood studios, are also very interested in the film adaptation rights of "The Hunger Games", especially Warner Bros. once again offered a high price of 10 million US dollars.

However, Li Zhe still rejected Warner Bros., and instead sold the adaptation rights to Lionsgate, which cost less, and the reason why he did this was also because he had the intention of taking the adaptation rights of "The Hunger Games" into Lionsgate.

The original three-volume "The Hunger Games", Li Zhe adapted it into four volumes according to the movie, and Lionsgate only got the adaptation rights of the first volume, and the adaptation rights of the other three volumes are still in his hands.

After the first film of "The Hunger Games" was released and the box office was successful, with the adaptation rights of the remaining three volumes, he still had a great chance to get a small stake in Lionsgate.

As for taking the adaptation rights to invest in the six major Hollywood production companies, such a dream should not be done!

"By the way, Xiaozhe, why did you think of investing in a video website?" the young lady said in surprise.

She knows her brother very well, he really doesn't have much ambition, and the only investment in business over the years is real estate and stocks.

"I'm just optimistic about the development prospects of the online video industry. Li Zhe smiled faintly.

The young lady rolled her eyes and shook her head secretly. How could she believe this kind of nonsense? When the legend was popular, Li Zhe also said that he was optimistic about the game industry, and he didn't see him enter the game industry!

She glanced at Ying Bao beside him, and her heart suddenly understood.

"But Xiao Zhe, Gong Yu is the elite of the Internet industry, and he can't be poached with money, so it's not easy to move him!"

"I will let Gong Yu be the president and CEO of Qiqi.com, and I can also promise him that he will not interfere in any development of the company, and if he still does not agree to such conditions, he can only reconsider other candidates. Li Zhe shook his head and said. Gong is the most suitable candidate, but he is not the only one.

Without Gong Yu, it is likely that the development of Qiwei.com will not be as successful as in later generations, but it will not attract the covetousness of Internet giants such as Du Niang and Pain News, whether to become an ordinary sensible person of a big video website, or to become the chairman of an ordinary video website, the gains and losses are really hard to say!

"Xiao Zhe, how much money are you going to invest?"

"The first investment will cost 50 million!"

"It's not too much, the copyright income I got this time is almost enough!" the young lady thought about it and said in a relaxed tone.

"Sister, I'm talking about dollars!" Li Zhe chuckled.

"50 million US dollars, wouldn't it be 340 million yuan in RMB? This is not a small amount, and the studio's liquidity is far from enough! Xiaozhe, can't you invest a little less?" the young lady was slightly surprised and frowned.

"50 million US dollars, you can't do less! Video websites are a money-burning industry, and they can't develop without strong financial support. ”

From its establishment in 05 to 10 years, Tudou has carried out 5 rounds of financing in 5 years, totaling 135 million US dollars, but it is still a large loss, unsustainable, and was merged by Youku in 12.

From its establishment in 05 to 10 years, Youku.com has carried out 6 rounds of financing in 5 years, totaling 160 million US dollars.

Du Niang invested in Gong Yu to establish iQiwei in 10 years, and the first investment was 50 million US dollars; In 14 years, Xiaomi invested 300 million US dollars in iQiwei, and Du Niang also added 300 million US dollars; In 17 years, iQiwei was already the largest video website in China, but it was still losing money, so it carried out a third round of financing of up to 1.53 billion US dollars.

Li Zhe wants to keep his stake from being heavily diluted, and in the next few years, he will have to invest at least another $300 million to retain his status as a major shareholder.

After listening to Li Zhe's explanation, the young lady's brows furrowed even tighter.

"Don't say that the next 300 million US dollars, even the current 50 million US dollars, the studio can't come up with it!

"Yes, Li Zhe, you think about it again!" Ying Bao also hurriedly persuaded. Li Zhe opened her mouth to be hundreds of millions, billions, and she was a little frightened when she listened to it.

"This is the last chance to enter the video industry, no matter how late it is, we won't even be qualified to enter!" Li Zhe shook his head.

"Sister, how much liquidity does the studio have?"

"More than 80 million!"

"Take out 50 million first, I can still take out 70 million, plus the 8 million US dollars in copyright income of "Hungry Games", a total of almost 170 million, the remaining half of the shortfall, take the property to find a bank mortgage, if there is still a gap, sell some stocks. Li Zhe pondered for a while and spoke.

Li Zhe's assets are about 200 million, of which 1.56 billion are stocks of major companies such as Apple and BAT, and 5.6 billion are real estate hoarded in the capital and Modu.

These assets are handed over to one, and a professional financial management team of more than 20 people is taking care of them, and he only regularly looks at the financial statements.

"Xiao Zhe, the stocks in your hands are still rising, it's a pity to sell now!" the young lady said with some regret.

The stocks in Li Zhe's hands were all bought at the bottom, and the few rose by five or six times, and the most rose by more than ten times.

For example, when he bought Apple stock in 05, the lowest price per share was only $5, and now it has risen to more than $70, and it is still soaring, and Apple's stock has risen to 1,000 yuan per share in later generations, which is almost 200 times.

Of course, Li Zhe's shares have been bought one after another, and on average, they will definitely not increase so many times, but there are still dozens of times, and in 17 years, he is worth tens of billions of Apple shares alone!

If it weren't for Yingbao, he really didn't have any heart to fight.

But thinking of Apple stocks, Li Zhe's heart moved. There is a saying in later generations: "Apple stock 10 years ago, Bitcoin 09 years!"

Bitcoin is going even frantically higher than Apple's stock.

When Bitcoin was first born in 09, it was actually not worth at all, only worth about 5 cents, and in 10 years, someone even bought a pizza with 100,000 bitcoins.

In 11 years, bitcoin has risen from $0.05 to $13, an increase of 260 times. In 17 years, Bitcoin once rose to more than 30,000 US dollars, and the lowest was more than 12,000 US dollars, which was also an eye-popping increase of two or three hundred thousand times from 09 to 17 years.

Of course, Li Zhe can't remember it so clearly, he just remembers watching a news that an unlucky guy casually threw away a hard disk containing 7,500 bitcoin passwords, so he lost more than 800 million soft sister coins, and the value of a bitcoin can be imagined.

This year is 09!

"Sister, have you heard of Bitcoin?"