Chapter 114: It's capricious
When a person becomes the richest man in the world, what happens to him? Bill Gates, who is famous all over the world, has fans all over the world, and every word he says will be repeatedly studied by those who want to make money and think of neuropathy: he will become stupid. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In the first class of corporate finance, professors would always ask the question, "If your company makes $10 billion a year, do you reinvest it to grow the company, or do you return it to shareholders through dividends?" All the students decisively chose the former, at least the Penn class in 2007, but when it comes to such a question that a freshman would not be mistaken, Mr. The richest man resolutely chose the latter.
At the beginning of fiscal year 2007, Microsoft announced that it would distribute $7.9 billion in earnings to all shareholders in the form of dividends over the next two years, and immediately took out $4.5 billion as proof of this. All Microsoft shareholders were very happy to get the dividends, so they chose to withdraw their funds and invest in other companies, and then left behind the famous words that the ex-girlfriends of the money worshippers said: I don't love you, and I left just because I can't see any hope in you.
Another person may be confused, but as the richest natural person on the planet, Bill Gates fully explained what it means to be rich and capricious, since then every decision he makes is wrong, every project is lost, his company has been paying tuition, but he still has money, Microsoft is still Microsoft.
"Microsoft has injected $240 million in exchange for 1.6 percent of the shares, which has directly raised their estimated market value to $15 billion, and there are many people who are optimistic about them. Yun Jingyi put down the knife and fork in her hand, picked up the napkin on the table and gently wiped the corners of her mouth, her son's movie was not a hit, she was not only not worried, but she was quite happy, because she wished that Liang Baoguang could give up the movie to work on Wall Street, "At this time, if you want to shake their momentum, conventional means are afraid that they will not work." ”
Liang Baoguang shrugged and didn't look too nervous, he really cares about the development of Twitter, but Facebook can't use all its energy to deal with them at the moment, MySpace is their biggest enemy in this field, "It's impossible for Bill to make so much money without inflating, and it's time to suffer from being uneducated." ”
As soon as Yun Jingyi heard this, she immediately straightened her body, the lazy look on her face disappeared, and Liang Baoguang obviously had something to say, "What, do you have any inside information? Tell my mother quickly, I'll go get some money, maybe we can cut some flesh from them." ”
"I can have any inside information, but I just think it's amazing that this company has been able to get to where it is today under the leadership of such short-sighted people. "Actually, it's not so magical, it's just that the U.S. official is stiff behind it, almost a copy of the story of Edison and GM Group back then," but now it's different, they just continue to be willful, if they don't borrow money to spend this year, I will lose." ”
"Loans?" Yun Jingyi actually didn't believe in it in her heart, in the past 32 years, Microsoft has made a lot of money with the Windows operating system, and there is so much money that there is nowhere to spend it, so that they don't even disdain to engage in tax avoidance activities like other companies. Such a company that has not borrowed a penny from any other institution or individual since its establishment, and its financial situation is good, which makes people feel fake, and Liang Baoguang now suddenly says that they are going to borrow, which is a little unrealistic, you must know that 2006 is the year of Microsoft's most revenue.
Bill Gates casually threw $200 million to Facebook, in Liang Baoguang's view, it is no different from Jordan running to teach Kobe Bryant to play, they are all aiming for the other party's "so-and-so second" name, so he not only promotes the juniors but also shows his demeanor. Kobe Bryant, who is Michael Jordan's second, angrily grabbed the MVP title in Jordan's last All-Star Game and made the other party regret retiring, so Mark Zuckerberg, who is Bill Gates's second, will read Gates's good?
"Just have fun. Liang Baoguang is not easy to say too much, his analysis is based on personal ideas, and may not be accurate.
"You've been talking about Microsoft for a long time, what does it have to do with Facebook? It's not Microsoft that wants your Twitter life now. Yun Jingyi felt that Liang Baoguang had gone a little far, and now their top priority was to resist Facebook's offensive, and nothing else mattered.
"Hold on, you'll be able to see what I'm doing in two days. "The outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis has made cash a sought-after commodity, with more than a billion dollars of cash in his hands, Liang Baoguang is confident that he can leverage ten times or even a hundred times the capital, Facebook wants to forcibly acquire Twitter is a fool's dream, not to mention that he has no plans to go public for the time being, even if he has been listed, he can rely on the "poison pill" medicine to turn over the other party, "Didn't you say that you won't talk about career matters today, and finally found time to eat with you, but don't be in a bad mood." ”
"How about we talk about emotional things instead of career? Haha, just kidding. Seeing that Liang Baoguang was about to get up and leave the table, Yun Jingyi hurriedly waved his hand to let him sit down, but she really cared about Liang Baoguang's emotional world, and when she was old, she had to think about the third generation.
I said that I wouldn't talk about my career, but when I was eating, Liang Baoguang couldn't help but think about the tactics behind it, the outcome of the business war does not depend entirely on commercial means, and you can achieve the desired effect by doing a little bit. Liang Baoguang is ready to use three indiscriminate means to greet Facebook this time, he has always believed that "playing games is to win", not to mention that the other party first bribed the media to target "This Man is from Earth".
The box office results during the period of the movie's release can be described as dismal, but Ian McKellen and others have maintained full confidence in Liang Baoguang, they see how the quality of the movie is, and he will definitely make a better movie in the next movie, and these people will not have any burden when they work together.
Others are different, hesitating or refusing when the Blue Bird Film Studio throws an olive branch, and in the eyes of these people, money is always the most important thing, because a film is a failure if it does not bring benefits to the company. No matter how good the quality of the movie is, don't you see Columbia Pictures, which made "The Shawshank Redemption", now a part of Sony Films.
"This Paul can really sit still, even if the box office of the movie has nothing to do with him, it will inevitably affect his reputation in the future, why didn't he react at all?" Mike Barker frowned, he also understood the truth that things must be demonic, Liang Baoguang was calm at this time, and the more uneasy he became.
"You don't care if he reacts or not, can he turn the sky around like this?" Contrary to his old partner, Tom Bernard is not worried at all, as one of the two bigwigs of Sony's classic films, he knows the rules of the film industry very well, as long as the distribution channels are still in their hands, they can eat independent filmmakers to death, "I think he just gave up." ”
If Liang Baoguang is just a rookie director with no roots, no matter how talented Mike Barker is, he won't think much about it, but he has been to New York to know Liang Baoguang's roots. The anger of rich people is not so easy to resist, they are just Sony classic movies, not the same thing as Sony movies, "I have met him a few times, and that guy thinks that he is not a person who will give up easily, but he is afraid that there is a backhand waiting for us." ”
"It's not just us who wants to fix him now, Facebook is also looking for trouble with them, and even if he has a backhand, he is one against the other. "Sony's classic film is for Liwei for Liang Baoguang, so that independent filmmakers who don't follow their arrangement can see it, and Facebook is also for Liwei, and wants to show latecomers what will happen if they don't sell the company to them, and the goal of the two is the same.
There is a relationship between the film company and the film critics, and the early days of "This Man from Earth" were directed by the obvious bias of the film critics, and the Sony classic movie knew early on, they just didn't interfere.
"Facebook, did you read today's news?" Mike Buck was startled, he thought of the news he had just read in the morning.
"What's the matter, has something happened?" said Tom Bernard, who didn't have time to read the morning newspaper.
Facebook's servers were breached by hackers last night, and a large amount of encrypted data was exposed, and according to what the hackers made public, they traded all users' private information and habit records to advertising companies and e-commerce platforms, and even used the newly launched paste-wall feature to conduct psychological experiments. The facts are in front of you, and Facebook has just launched the function of online advertising and online second-hand trading, and the vast majority of users believe this statement.
As soon as the news was made public, there was an uproar in public opinion, and immediately a group of lawyers who saw an opportunity to make money were ready to pull up a "victim group" to file a lawsuit against Facebook, but something happened that made users even more angry, and after the incident, they learned that the user privacy terms at the time of registration made all of Facebook's actions legal, and they had nothing to tell at this time.
Facebook has no legal responsibility at all, and even if they do, they don't care, and they have been able to compete with MySpace in just two years, not because their software is particularly easy to use, or because Mark Zuckerberg's face is bigger than others, but because they provide user data to US officials in exchange for special care. The concept of big data is just emerging, and it was the U.S. government that first applied it, and in order to ensure a stable and wide range of data sources, they wanted to make Facebook as big as possible, how could it be that it could be overcome.
It's one thing to be legally legal, it's another thing to be emotionally resistant, and users who have to die have started to deactivate their accounts en masse, but of course, their online lives can't be affected, so Twitter's users skyrocketed by hundreds of thousands overnight.