"Now many people on Wall Street are gnashing their teeth at us, and in a week, Yahoo's stock price has risen by 17%, and major short-selling funds have lost more than $3.1 billion. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Firefly Studios, in a small conference room.

As soon as the video conferencing equipment was turned on, Chris, who was far away in New York, said.

Eric sat in a leather chair and waited for the secretary to bring coffee to himself and Katzenberg across from him before looking at the monitors. At this time, the conference rooms were connected to Yahoo's headquarters in Boston, ABC's headquarters in New York, and Chris's office.

"But there must be people who are grateful to us, $3.1 billion, which is not a small amount," Eric picked up his coffee, noticed Emily behind Chris, and greeted with a smile, "Hey, Amy, it's Saturday, aren't you at home to watch the kids?"

Emily reached out and took a folder from Chris's desk, rolled her eyes at the camera, and said, "You secretly asked Edward to sign that girl, Vicky and Joan already know, you better think about how to explain it to them, right?" Vicky said that she had prepared the sofa for you, and you can sleep on it when you come over for Easter. ”

Eric immediately raised his hand and said, "Stop, Amy, I'm the boss, give face." ”

Listening to Emily uncover the boss's lace without hesitation, everyone laughed again.

Emily ignored him and disappeared into the camera with the folder she had just picked up.

When his wife left, Chris showed some gossip and lowered his voice, "Speaking of which, Eric, what the hell is going on with that girl?"

"Well," Eric said helplessly, "Do you think people won't be able to hear you if you keep your voice down?"

Another burst of laughter.

After a few jokes, Eric clapped his hands and said, "Okay, let's get down to business, first of all, about the acquisition plan submitted by Yahoo. ”

Eric said, opened a document in front of him, his expression became serious, and said: "I remember before the IPO I said that the current bubble in the NASDAQ market will burst sooner or later, and once this happens, the entire new technology industry will fall into a capital winter." Although we raised over $5 billion through the IPO, it was basically equivalent to Yahoo's 'winter' rations, so I wanted every penny of that money to be well spent. And if you look at the acquisitions you've submitted, such as this one, a software solution that can speed up the loading of web pages in browsers, it's a good thing. But, $20 million, are you kidding me? Take 10 random people out of the Yahoo engineering team and give them a month, and I don't believe they can't do it. Ten people, a month, who will help me calculate how much it will cost?"

In the conference room of Yahoo headquarters in Boston, Ian Gurnier didn't expect Eric, who was still joking with Emily Brighton with a hippie smile just now, to show signs of madness in a blink of an eye, so he could only take the initiative to explain: "Eric, this also involves patent issues." ”

"Then find a way to get around, or find another alternative, or if you can't do it, then why should I hire you?" Eric reprimanded unceremoniously, casually throwing the folder in front of him, "In short, I will not approve any of these proposals you submitted. I know that now the whole industry is very impetuous, everyone is burning money, you think that since the company is listed, it must also abide by the rules of listed companies, and you need to burn money wildly, crazy mergers and acquisitions, and crazy expansion, otherwise you may be criticized by the market and criticized by investors. But you're wrong, I'm telling you, Yahoo just needs to follow the established line, it doesn't need to be responsible for the stock price, it doesn't need to be responsible for Wall Street, and if it has to be responsible, you only need to be responsible for me. ”

Listening to the sound of paper flying out of the speaker, Ian Gnier nodded with a wry expression, Steve Mitnick, who was still casually tapping on the laptop in front of him, also sat up straight, and Tina Brown lowered her head slightly, her fingertips gently twisted the corner of the roll up the document in front of her, as if trying to flatten the paper.

None of you here are rookies in the workplace, and everyone has encountered such a thing as a boss or boss getting angry.

In comparison, Eric is definitely a very gentle boss.

But at this time, Eric suddenly broke out, and everyone realized that he was really angry in his heart, so no one dared to speak out in an uninteresting way.

Eric took a sip of the coffee next to him, eased his emotions, and continued: "In recent years, Yahoo's pace of expansion has indeed been a bit large, with 6,000 employees, more than all other pure Internet companies, and after going public, many people have become millionaires or billionaires, and they will definitely slack off in their hearts and feel that they can enjoy life, or they feel that they have millions of dollars, and their current positions are no longer comparable to their net worth." I can understand all of this, but I won't tolerate it. So, I need you to prepare ahead of time, after the tech bubble bursts, Yahoo will also carry out a layoff to weed out those who want to enjoy life. Yahoo still has a long way to go in the future, and there is no room for slacking off to keep up with the company. Of course, they've done their part for Yahoo in the past, so when the time comes, the company will definitely buy their shares so that they can enjoy life to the fullest or start a new career. ”

After saying these words, Eric took the careful office secretary and rearranged the documents handed over, and without waiting for Ian Gnier's response, he continued: "Okay, let's move on to the next topic, about the merger of AOL and Time Warner. Now the situation has become very delicate, and you must have seen the article in the Washington Post. Since the beginning of this week, the shares of listed companies in the entire Firefly system have risen, but AOL's stock price has risen a little higher than Yahoo, obviously, many people are optimistic about the prospect of the merger of AOL and Time Warner, thinking that after the merger of these two companies, Firefly will have a strong competitor, which is actually good for us. But at the same time, we also have to change the established strategy, at the very least, in the open media, we need to be firmly opposed to the merger of AOL and Time Warner, and the more we oppose it, the less resistance there may be to the merger of AOL and Time Warner. So, let's talk about it, what should we do exactly?"

With the release of this year's Forbes rich list, Eric's personal wealth of more than $300 billion has finally completely exploded some of the emotions accumulated throughout North America that have been stimulated by Eric's continuous surge in net worth for several consecutive years.

Despite the profit-seeking, superstitious and amazing investment vision of Eric, almost all stocks related to the Firefly system in the market have skyrocketed, but at the same time, there are more and more voices about the need to limit the continuous expansion of the Firefly system.

Of course, in such a mature capitalist society, no matter how huge Eric's personal wealth is, the federal government will never dare to use any rough situation to directly expropriate private property, which involves the fundamental institutional problem of a country. However, according to the current situation, it is not difficult to foresee that every step of the expansion of the firefly system in the future will be subject to very strict scrutiny and restrictions, which is also not because the federation is afraid of too large private wealth, but because of the instinctive counterattack made by other capital forces in this society in order to protect their own rights and interests.

In the short term, fostering a strong competitor to the Firefly system, such as AOL-Time Warner, is destined to be something that many people are very happy to see.

To be fair, Eric would also be keen to have such an opponent, one that he could foresee and manipulate to a certain extent.

As for the longer term, if he wants to continue to expand the Firefly system, what Eric has to do is either eliminate the opponent or pull the opponent into the camp of the Firefly system.

In addition to Yahoo's business strategy and discussions about how to reverse AOL's merger with Time Warner, there were some recent discussions about Eric's personal assets and control issues, and so on, and all sorts of other things, big and small, discussed all morning, in fact, it was already afternoon on the East Coast, and the meeting was over.

Walking out of the conference room, Mayer handed over a cell phone, indicating that Paul Rowland was already waiting online.

Eric and Katzenberg walked towards the big ship together, intending to have a meal together, and at the same time took the phone and chatted with the other person, and hung up.

Thinking of Emily's reminder before the meeting this morning, it was really a bit difficult to do.

At first, Carmen Keith was brought up on a whim, but Eric ignored the women's possible thoughts, Virginia and Joanna had always rarely asked about his affairs outside, but the last time Carmen Keith came to do so, the children were really scared.

After a little dwelling, Eric put these thoughts aside.

The soldiers came to cover the water and the earth.

How do you say that, if there are more lice, you are not afraid of biting.

Moreover, under the influence of the recent outside world, Eric still has a lot of pressure in his heart.

After arriving at the ship's dining room and ordering lunch, Katzenberg brought up "Blair the Witch" again.

"The box office was $61.51 million in the second week, and the cumulative box office in two weeks was $82.78 million, but the production cost was only $60,000, and the total box office is likely to exceed $150 million in the next few weeks. Now that everyone is saying, maybe that's why you're the first super-rich person to surpass $300 billion in personal wealth, and there's probably no movie in the world that can create a higher ROI than "Blair the Witch." ”

Eric took the bottled water handed over by Amy Adams, smiled at the girl, and then said to Katzenberg: "This is not necessarily, Hollywood is always not short of miracles, by the way, speaking of which, now you can also give those two young directors a bonus, as well as the small network marketing team last time." ”

Katzenberg nodded, "Actually, Kenneth just asked me to ask what you mean? I think $1 million per each of them is enough, and the success of this box office is mainly due to the effectiveness of our marketing plan." ”

"Give them both $5 million, $1 million is a bit less," Eric shook his head and smiled, "If you can't bear it, I'll write them a check privately." ”

"Okay, that's 5 million. However, in this case, although we do not plan to open a sequel to "Blair the Witch" in the short term, it is no problem for the two of them to re-sign two film contracts, "Blair the Witch" has been a box office success after all, even if it is a traditional film, they will definitely be more likely to attract the attention of the market than new directors in the future. ”

"That's it for you and Kenneth, I don't have that much energy right now. ”

"Speaking of which," Katzenberg nodded, adding, "Are you going to the Oscars tomorrow?"

"I'm not interested, there are no good films at this year's Oscars. ”

"Actually, I mean," Katzenberg said, "about the Iron Man hype, Eric, everybody's a little bit at a loss right now. According to the normal process, a big-budget film, now the main actor should start participating in various TV shows to warm up the film. ”

"I regret it a little now, I really shouldn't have taken this role," Eric said with a wry smile: "After such a fuss in the media these days, everyone must be more hostile to me, a super-rich man, and I don't know if I will come to watch the movie I starred in, I have thought about whether to adjust the Marvel Cinematic Universe plan and marginalize Iron Man." ”

"Well, we do have to do it if we have to. Katzenberg's expression was also somewhat approving, not even the regret in Eric's tone.

After all, Iron Man was originally just a second-tier superhero of Marvel, and the reason for the great success in the original time and space made Iron Man as famous as Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and X-Men series is mainly due to opportunity.

But now, since the situation has changed so much, it is necessary to make a temporary adjustment.

Eric also hesitated for a moment, and said: "Okay, what needs to be done is always done, I'll attend the Oscars tomorrow, and in addition, let Bowei start planning the promotional activities according to the normal flow, and I will cooperate as much as possible." ”

"Okay. Katzenberg answered, Amy brought the lunch of the two, the conversation paused for a moment, and Katzenberg said, "Do you have any arrangements for the evening, if you are free, I have a small party at home?"

Eric shook his head with a smile and said, "I have to go to San Francisco in the afternoon to discuss the equity incentive plan of Firefly Electronics, and I may not be able to come back tonight." ”