On the morning of September 3rd, the weather in New York has gradually cooled, this time Gu Xiaofan came to the headquarters of Time Warner Group in the largest city in the United States for the first time, when he met with Chen Keer, Neil and Isaiah Kanan and others at the door of the group's headquarters building, Neil felt the subtlety of the atmosphere, Gu Xiaofan and Chen Keer have been standing at the gate, as if waiting for someone. 【Reading.com】

"Aren't we going in?" Neil said in a bit of a hurry.

"Wait, we have an appointment today." Gu Xiaofan looked at his watch calmly.

"Who, Madame Cadify?" Since Neil was a little nervous, he was a little puzzled and said:

"I'm afraid she won't attend this time, to participate in the quarterly shareholders' meeting, the representative of the new line is generally the CEO 'lame' Haysen."

"Wait, I don't know who it's coming." Gu Xiaofan shrugged his shoulders and made a very relaxed expression.

Neil can't do anything about him, just accompany him and wait, although there are many Isaiah Kanan on his side today, but the weight is not enough, he can only rely on Gu Xiaofan, a big celebrity, otherwise their old Jet faction's formation will be too thin.

Chen Keer saw that Neil was a little impatient, so he asked him with a smile: "Mr. Neil, now that you have time, you can tell us about the matters to be paid attention to in this shareholders' meeting, although we have done a lot of deductions in the past few days, but there are still too many details, we have to prepare for it." ”

Although Neil has an exaggerated personality and is timid and cowardly, he is very "good teacher", as long as you have a question to ask him, he will be excited to teach you, and he will not get bored of saying it a hundred times, plus he has always had a good impression of Chen Keer, who has an elegant and capable temperament, Neil also quickly seized the opportunity to put on a score:

"Director Gu, I really have to tell you about this matter, our Time Warner is a big group, with countless industries and subsidiaries, and there are many factions, which are intricate, none of them have absolute control, and my father Jett and Abel are actually only the two strongest factions among them.

For example, Abel's old bastard, the actual control of the subsidiary, only N TV, Time Magazine, Warner Bros. Pictures, these three key companies are the main, as well as AOL's Netscape company, ICQ, these network resources.

And HBO TV, which we now actually control, ...... with New Line Films, as well as media such as "Glitzy World", "Premiere", "Entertainment Weekly", "American Cinematographer" and so on."

Neil said, and said excitedly to Gu Xiaofan:

"Originally, when we merged with AOL in 2000, AOL's market value was as high as $163 billion, far more than four times the headquarters of other subsidiaries, and Abel took absolute control of the group on behalf of AOL, and at that time, we would never have been able to obtain the production rights of The Dark Knight.

And today, the dot-com bubble burst, and AOL now has a market capitalization of only $3.4 billion, which is about the same as the new line company.

Now that counted, Abel's old bastard only controlled about 32 percent of the group's industries, while we controlled 17 percent...... This means that as long as we win the support of the remaining shareholders of the group's subsidiaries and the old people of the group's major shareholder Ikarn, we can shoot "The Dark Knight". ”

Neil spoke with great vigour, as if all this was the result of his careful arrangement, and people who don't know may think that the Internet bubble in the United States is all controlled by him......

Gu Xiaofan also laughed dumbly when he heard it, thinking that when it came to bragging, this old Jet's son is really a good hand, and it is really good to be a news spokesman on the table.

Seeing that the others had not yet come, Chen Keer continued to ask Neil: "Mr. Neil, which shareholders of subsidiaries can we get from?" ”

"That's a lot." Neil laughed:

"There's DC Comics' 'Rogues' Anderson, Celebrity Weekly's Willie Sr., Sports Magazine's Jones, Atlanta Hawks owner Levinson, Turner's Lewis of Turner Classics, TNT Cable's Lee, CW's Gonzalez...... They are all friends of my father, Jett, and they will definitely support us this time......"

Gu Xiaofan didn't care about Neil's rhetoric, although he had heard Chen Keer introduce him to Warner Group more than once, but every time he listened to it, he still felt that the media empire in front of him was far more huge than he imagined.

To outsiders, Time Warner may seem like a single Warner Bros. studio, but in reality, the media giant is made up of dozens of subsidiaries of all kinds.

And Time Warner, although it is the leader of the Hollywood film industry, but in terms of comprehensive strength, it is only ranked third among the six majors.

After this round of economic crisis, Time Warner's market capitalization has fallen below $40 billion, while News Corp., which owns 21st Century Fox, has a market capitalization of around $80 billion.

Although Disney, the most powerful in the film industry, is only one of the six midstreams, its surrounding real industries are the most powerful, with a market value of 150 billion.

Warner was once so powerful that it could not be added, but after the market value of AOL exceeded 200 billion US dollars in 2000, it has now fallen to only 40 billion assets.

Gu Xiaofan has often laughed at himself in his heart these days, when he wanted to buy Time Warner on the spur of the moment, his thoughts were really naïve, he didn't know what kind of behemoth he was facing.

If a few years earlier, when Time Warner's market value was still 200 billion, I am afraid that even if he can mobilize all the resources in the country, he will not be able to shake this giant...... Fortunately, now that the international situation has changed abruptly, under the global economic crisis, the Chinese government has won the game between China and the United States, and the Chinese government has won one or the other, which gave him this opportunity.

Gu Xiaofan stood in front of this glorious company with a history of 89 years, listened to Neil's eloquent talk, and looked up at the towering building from time to time, showing a heroic and dignified bearing.

It is as if you are concentrating on admiring this historic building.

There are important figures from various Times Warner subsidiaries passing by, all looking at this Chinese young man who has stirred up the storm in the past year from afar, although in order to avoid suspicion before the shareholders' meeting, it cannot be felt that they have chosen to support the old Jetter, but they do not come forward to say hello......