Chapter 10 Encirclement and Suppression in Advance

The annual VGL came to a perfect end, and the band "Guns N' Roses" shone in this concert as a newcomer personally recommended by Caesar.

What makes fans even happier is that many of the game's sequels have very classic BGMs, and after the adaptation, they have added new members to VGL's track family.

After several years of training, Emily has been completely recognized by Caesar, and in the future, except for the routine recommendation of newcomer bands, Caesar will basically not interfere with VGL.

Now that Kaiser has enrolled, he didn't want to be special, but Harvard Business School has already helped Kaiser find a temporary apartment, which is also on campus, but not in the student dormitory, but an old professor retired and moved away, and the vacant apartment was reserved for Kaiser to live in.

When school started, Caesar realized how special he was.

First of all, MBA is a master's degree in business administration, and most of the time this college only recruits master's students who have graduated from a bachelor's degree or an on-the-job manager who has graduated with a bachelor's degree, with a semester of two years.

Then there is the highest-end, and the least enrolled, Ph.D. student, with a semester of four years.

The rest are all kinds of short-term on-the-job training.

Every student, even a freshman like Caesar, must be twenty-two or thirteen years old.

Caesar's tender nineteen-year-old face was the youngest of a group of freshmen, and he was the focus of attention wherever he went, both because of his popularity and his youth.

Caesar understood in an instant, I am afraid that this is also the reason why the hospital has arranged a separate dormitory for him, for fear that he will be disturbed.

The biggest headache for Caesar is those managers and bosses who are training on the job, as long as they meet Caesar on campus, they will immediately come forward to introduce themselves and hand out business cards like teleportation.

Caesar felt that familiarity for the first time, and some memories from his past life slowly revived.

These short-term on-the-job training students are not here to learn, they are here to expand their network, and at the same time to inspect MBA students.

Especially those doctoral or master's students who have studied all the way up without any work experience are even more sought-after.

Taking advantage of the fact that those good seedlings have not been labeled as other companies or even rival companies, it is the goal to sign an entry agreement first and mark their own enterprises.

People all over the world are the same, at least human nature is the same, and at this moment there is no difference between Americans and Chinese people in Caesar's eyes.

Because they are all human beings, they all have human nature, and if there is human nature, human habits cannot be avoided.

The United States advertises itself as a legal society rather than a humane society, not because everyone is law-abiding, they also have to talk about human feelings and connections in the shopping mall, but the people in Philadelphia back then were all wonderful, and none of them believed in the inherent goodness of human nature......

So starting with Washington, he was the first to take the lead in imagining his future self as a brutal villain, and all future successors as villains and villains, so the gang held protracted meetings to formulate a set of rules to limit the power of these future villains.

In fact, the group of self-proclaimed elite whites that Caesar had seen in his life had long since been seen through by their ancestors.

Whether it is black, white or yellow, they are all human beings, and no one should pretend to be a natural saint.

If it weren't for the protracted and contentious meeting in Philadelphia, what would the United States be in now......

After seeing the faces of these master's, doctoral and short-term students, Caesar was much calmer.

Business School of Business, as the name suggests, is a group of laypeople who are full of ideas about how to make money, and the so-called "academic" atmosphere here is to work hard, analyze cases every minute and every second, summarize experience, and contribute to strengthening the ability to make a lot of money in the future.

Caesar estimates that only those old professors will still have an "academic" place in their hearts, and others, including the dean, will only have "Franklin" in their hearts.

Now that he has come to this environment, Caesar does not pretend to be high, analyze the case?

Very good, Caesar said that I have a golden finger, and if you want to learn faster, you can just watch my back and follow behind to eat ashes!

As a special enrollment, the business school specially selected a four-year doctoral student for Kaiser, obviously trying to learn from each other and understand why Kaiser can repeatedly "see through the future".

No one thinks about rebirth and time-traveling, first, there is no Biquge.infoyy article in this world, and second, the more people value money and material things, the more they believe in "science".

Rebirth? Through? Soul? Alien? Creator? Goldfinger? How can such an unscientific thing exist?

Caesar can go without sleep for half a month because of his energy, so he can still find time to perfect the script of "Home Alone" while studying.

As for those people's speculations, Caesar didn't have time to deal with them.

Time flies, and soon the college declares a holiday, because Christmas is approaching, and Caesar flies back to the warm Tampa Bay, ready to welcome Christmas and New Year with his family.

Under Bea's guidance, Little Liv exaggerated that she could almost memorize the script of Home Alone.

After Christmas, followed by New Year's Day, Caesar took Little Liv and the crew who had completed the preliminary preparations to New York and began the filming of "Home Alone".

Caesar's partner this time is Universal, and it should have been the turn of "Columbia Pictures" in order, but Sony's sudden appearance director Zhì Caesar signed a contract with Universal in an instant, and he didn't even give Columbia a chance.

After extinguishing Nintendo's rise and beating Microsoft, Caesar knew that he would eventually face Sony's pressing efforts.

In his previous life, Sony eventually became the world's largest studio in the world, as it acquired Columbia, MGM and United Arts Pictures and merged them into one.

Then Sony, together with Microsoft and Nintendo, did away with Sega, creating a three-way situation in the game industry: Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

In the end, Sony became the largest music company in the world, after acquiring all the rights businesses of Columbia Records, Bertelsmann and EMI Records.

It can be said that Sony once led the way in the three major entertainment fields of video, audio and games.

What's more, Sony also holds countless patents, as well as strong electronic product hardware design and manufacturing capabilities, until 2015, when Caesar crossed, Sony is still launching a variety of black technology hardware products.

In the face of such an expanding and directly competitive company, it is impossible to be unprepared.

Caesar remembers that Sony's official acquisition of Columbia was in the last year of the eighties, but in fact, Sony's hand on Columbia appeared as early as 1968.

In '68, Sony established a joint venture with Columbia Records, which was the first contact between the two companies.

No one knows exactly how much Sony did behind the scenes, but Sony's subsequent series of acquisitions of Columbia shows that this partnership is definitely a premeditated preparation.

According to Caesar's understanding, in fact, since 86, Sony has successively made some small moves related to the acquisition of Colombia.

How hard is it to acquire a large, non-intent company to sell? I won't go into detail here, anyway, it's definitely not as simple as Caesar's acquisition of Marvel.

Caesar did nothing but leak the news anonymously to the media......

First of all, he has little interest in Columbia, and second, he knows that the final price of Sony's acquisition is a super premium of $6 billion.

The last year of the eighties it was also the eighties, what was the concept of $6 billion in the eighties!?

In the 80s, the monthly salary of "Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou" in China was about 300 to 500, note that, it was RMB.

How much did Caesar spend on Marvel and DC just a few years ago? That's less than $200 million!

Sony's acquisition can be said to have wronged the Americans, and it was firmly reprimanded on the ground.

said that his image of "being stupid and having a lot of money" once again appeared in the world news.

Hollywood in the 80s can be said to be in turmoil, a while ago Murdoch wanted to buy Fox, but Fox finally broke free in various ways.

Because Caesar said hello during the honeymoon period of close cooperation between the two parties:

"If someone buys you and you are tempted, please contact me immediately, especially Murdoch, if you believe me, I will definitely be more happy than Murdoch's Australian layman's acquisition."

Because of several collaborations with Caesar, Twentieth Century Fox survived for a few more years in the hands of its boss, oil tycoon Davis, so when Murdoch launched the acquisition, Davis first notified Caesar, and then escaped by borrowing and resuming his life.

Because he saw that with the cooperation of Caesar, the company had a great possibility of resurrection.

If he can turn a profit, he will try his best to keep Fox, the golden rooster that lays eggs.

However, the reality is cruel, and Davis rejected Murdoch's takeover because he is always torn between "selling at a higher price through the intervention of Caesar" or "keeping it in his hands to turn a profit".

The end result was that Murdoch chose Universal instead, while Fox was getting farther and farther away from turning a profit from the end of '84.

Now that Caesar's collaborators have skipped Columbia and gone straight to the equally mismanaged Universal, Davis finally regrets it.

I knew that I should have sold Fox's stock directly to Murdoch in the first place, but now it's good, burning money every day is like bloodletting, even if he Davis is an oil tycoon, he can't see such a way to spend money.

Seeing that Davis finally came to the door in person, Caesar had no expression on his face, but his heart was so dark that he couldn't control it.

Twentieth Century Fox is currently the easiest of the Big Six in Hollywood to buy, because most of its shares are in Davis's private hands, and the rest of its shareholders are small fish and shrimp.

The whole Fox is equivalent to Davis's private company, so Murdoch's acquisition of Fox in the previous life would be so simple and fast.

The equity of several other major production companies is very complicated, such as Universal, which has changed its boss several times since the establishment of the production company, and the equity and debt of the director zhì are simply a mess, and it is definitely not something that can be won smoothly in a short time.

The strangest thing is Warner Bros., which was acquired by Times Group earlier than in its previous life.

In fact, according to Caesar's database, Sony's early move to acquire Colombia was also a bit premature.

The encirclement and suppression of these Hollywood production companies by large groups is much earlier than Caesar's previous life, which is probably the biggest difference Caesar has seen since his rebirth.

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