(Thank you for chasing good books, and the two of them are rewarded.) Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info got drunk again today, so the update was delayed, I'm sorry, and allow me to adjust it for another day or two, and then resume the double update. ）

The acquisition of cinema chains is the main means to preserve the value of Zhouyou's assets and pay less taxes to the U.S. government. Because Zhou You sold Google's shares, Zhou You gained 1.75 billion in cash, and now Tencent is also busy with the pre-IPO before the IPO, Zhou You's income will not be lower than this figure, so the taxes that need to be paid to the U.S. government will also be astronomical.

If you don't spend a penny, you will have to pay more than a billion dollars in taxes when you travel around, so the best way to avoid taxes is to spend. As long as the money is spent in the United States, whether it is to buy an airplane or a company, you can be exempted from paying taxes on the consumption part.

Of course, the U.S. government will not lose, because the consumption of travel can also bring economic benefits to the U.S. government. Buying airplanes, which is a direct benefit to Boeing, is also taxed by the U.S. government. Buying a company allows the traveling funds to stay in the United States, and the person who sells the company also has to pay taxes to the U.S. government.

Therefore, since April, Zhouyou's investment team has been seeking to acquire the American cinema chain, and AMC, which was acquired by Wanda in the previous life, has entered Zhouyou's plan.

AMC Cinemas is the second largest cinema chain in the United States, second only to Emperor Cinemas, and although it is not as large as God King Cinemas, this cinema chain has the best quality assets.

For example, the Imperial Cinema Line has cinemas of different sizes in both large and small cities, but the cinemas of the AMC Cinema Line are mainly concentrated in large cities. AMC accounts for four of the top 10 movie theaters in the United States by revenue, and AMC accounts for 11 of the top 20 movie theaters in terms of revenue.

This is mainly because the AMC cinema chain has been the pioneer of multiplex cinemas since the sixties of the last century, and their name is actually the abbreviation of American multiplex cinemas.

AMC Cinemas has five main shareholders, in addition to the founder Stanley family, mainly some investment institutions. For example, JPMorgan Chase, Bain Capital, Carlyle Investments, etc., most of the equity is held by these investment institutions.

So, when it came to deal negotiations, Zhou You didn't encounter much resistance, but here in the U.S. government, it was stuck. The management of cinema chains in the United States is managed by a national federation of theater owners, an industry organization with unimaginable power in the mainland, and it is useless for them to say yes if they don't nod their heads.

Although Disney does not have much power in this organization, they belong to the film association and have a close relationship with this organization, so it can also influence their attitude.

After listening to Zhou You's words, Eisner only hesitated for a few seconds before agreeing. "Disney can help with this, but Disney is very willing to reach an agreement with Mr. Zhou on the next few parts of Pirates of the Caribbean."

Zhou You couldn't help but laugh and asked, "You believe in my box office appeal so much?" ”

Eisner also laughed and said: "I believe in the professionalism of Bruckheimer and director Wibinski, they think that your role as Howling Wind will become an iconic figure in film history, and will be as famous as Forrest Gump and Captain Jack, and I trust their judgment." “

Although the movie has not yet been made, Eisner also watched Zhou You's performance in the film, Zhou You's acting skills are not very good, but they are also above the horizontal line. What's more, Captain Howling Wind is a movie image tailored for him, just like Paris experimented with Elizabeth, and the performance was good in her true colors, so the traveling performance was unanimously recognized.

Eisner believes that the status of the richest man in the world, coupled with his performance in the movie, will definitely attract countless non-fans to watch this movie.

"I need to give a positive answer to this after the script comes out. However, in principle, I have no opinion. ”

Eisner stretched out his hand and smiled, "Okay, Disney will do its best to get the theater owners association to agree to this acquisition." ”

On this, Disney needs to spend tens of millions of dollars at most, but once Zhou You agrees to continue to play the role of Xiaofeng, it can bring Disney at least hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, so Disney will not deceive Zhou You in this regard, but will make every effort to promote Zhou You's acquisition.

At her villa in Beverly Hills, Paris threw another lively dance party to celebrate the completion of the tour's first film. Yan Fangqing and Gracia also came to the United States from Singapore and Colombia respectively to celebrate their travels.

After the new script came out, Gracia really got the contract for the heroine, but she didn't get a penny of salary, but sponsored five million dollars.

However, the five million is not public money, but her own private money, and she has spent a lot of money for this movie. However, although there is no salary, Gracia has the right to dividends, according to the investment ratio of 5 million, she has 2% of the global box office, if the global box office of this film reaches 250 million, then she can also pay back, if the box office is higher, she can also make a small profit.

Fortunately, Yan Fangqing has no interest in making movies, otherwise, Zhou You will have more headaches, because he has no more heroines to assign.

Of course, because Zhou You and Gracia are not professional actors, they still need a professional actor to share part of the scene. Zhou You's male protagonist role cannot be reduced, because he is the guarantee of the box office, so he can only add one heroine, in this regard, Zhou You did not hesitate to choose Nicole Kidman, who is known as the box office poison, who makes this cold and glamorous woman has always been Zhou You's favorite!

After spending a few days in Los Angeles, dealing with the film, and going to the studio to shoot another set of expressions, I left Los Angeles and came to Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley, 600 kilometers away.

From early March to early September, Facebook, which has received tens of millions of dollars in angel investment, has gone viral across the United States. Although the company has not yet seen the prospect of profitability, the company has already attracted the attention of countless institutions just by virtue of its traveling investment and crazy speed of spread.

But at this moment, the contradictions between the founders have gradually become acute, although the company has only been established for half a year, the founders have been completely divided.

As in previous lives, the first to be eliminated was Eduardo, who started to invest the most money. Since he did not give up his studies at Harvard, he stayed away from Mark Zuckerberg and others, who had moved to Silicon Valley, and although he was still the chief financial officer, his influence in the company had been reduced to a minimum.

In terms of the development of the company, Zhou You has always supported Zuckerberg because he believes in Zuckerberg's ability. And Eduardo, has been proven in history to be unfit as a qualified leader. He studied finance and has a meticulous heart, but he does not have professional skills and far-sighted strategic vision.

And Zuckerberg, no matter what kind of shortcomings he has, but like Sect Leader Joe, he is the soul of a company, and of course he will only support Zuckerberg.

But because Zhou You is good at balancing, he has always controlled that there is no outbreak between them, although Zhou You has always been biased towards Zuckerberg, but Eduardo still regards Zhou You as an idol in his career.

At Facebook's headquarters in East Palo Alto, in addition to the founders of Thinking, the company's management has added two more prominent managers, namely Peter Thier, one of the founders of PayPal, and Sean Parker, one of the founders of Napster.

Their participation reduced Eduardo's role, and their broad vision and genius ideas for the development of the company were also indispensable to the development of the company, so they were allowed to enter the company with their money without the slightest obstacle in the slightest.

It is also because of their participation that the company was able to enter such a rapid development period without entering a chaotic situation at all, which made Zhou You quite satisfied.

When Zhou You arrived in Palo Alto, the first person he saw when he got off the plane was Eduardo, and Zhou You had no accidents, because this was something Zhou You knew before he arrived.

Now a frustrated Eduardo needs some comfort from Zhou You, and of course, Zhou You has to persuade him to make some concessions.

Sitting in the Mercedes-Benz of the company's hospitality car, Zhou You listened to Eduardo's chatter and complaints, and asked rhetorically: "Eduardo, I know that you are angry and frustrated because you have been gradually excluded from the decision-making level, but do you think Parker and they are doing it better than you?" ”

Eduardo was silent for a moment and said: "Yes, they did do a good job, but I don't think that's a reason to squeeze me out, I'm the founder of the company, in the beginning, I invested even more than Mark, but now, my stake has been reduced to less than ten percent." ”

"Yes, you're only 10 percent of the shares, but don't forget, you only invested $10,000, but now, you've got more than 300,000 in return, and you also own 10 percent of the stock in a company worth $100 million." Feeling that his tone was a little too hard, Zhou You slowed down his tone and said: "The development of the company is explosive, all of us can only follow the pace of the company's development, if we are eliminated, we should first find problems from ourselves, instead of complaining." ”

"Mr. Zhou, what should I do now?"

Zhou You shrugged his shoulders and said: "Two choices, one is to transfer these shares, I believe, there are now countless institutions that are willing to buy your shares at a premium of more than double, which can easily make you into the ranks of multimillionaires." One is to feel comfortable being a shareholder and looking for new investment opportunities in the future, and if you have the opportunity, start anew. ”

Eduardo nodded and said, "Yes, Sequoia is willing to bid $30 million for my shares." ”

"A very generous offer...... "Facebook is now valued at just 100 million, and Sequoia Fund is willing to pay 30 million to buy 10% of the shares, which can indeed be called generous."

"But I refused." Eduardo sighed and said, "Because I believe that Facebook will be more valuable in the future." ”

Zhou You turned his head and smiled and asked, "Do you believe so much in the future of Facebook?" ”

He replied earnestly: "Because you are now the largest shareholder of Facebook." It's not so much that I believe in Mark, but that I believe in you. Whether it's Google, Apple, or Whiteness, Tencent, Tmall, all the companies you invest in have shown a super ability to attract money, although Facebook is only worth 100 million now, but in the future, I believe it will not be lower than Google's current market value of 60 billion. ”

Zhou You patted him on the shoulder and said, "Then you can keep these shares, I can support you to reduce your shares until Facebook goes public in the future, but I don't want you to continue to fight with Mark and him, because Facebook can't afford any toss now." ”

"I'm not reconciled...... But I will accept the facts! ”

Zhou You didn't expect Eduardo to agree directly without persuasion, so he smiled after a pause: "Then I will first wish you to become a future billionaire, maybe what you should consider now is how to reasonably avoid taxes when you IPO in the future." ”

He smiled and said, "I studied finance, so I'm definitely no stranger to this aspect." Perhaps, like you, it would be a good choice to become a Singaporean. ”

Zhou You laughed and said, "Singapore will welcome talented people like you to become permanent residents." ”

From the beginning, Facebook's headquarters was arranged around the waterfront in East Palo Alto, where the headquarters of Facebook was located in the previous life, but since Facebook has less than 200 employees, it is still far from the future.

It was the first time Zhou You had come to Facebook, and he received the warmest welcome because he was a living legend and an idol for all young people.

The successful resolution of the company's leadership dispute has also made everyone's mood much better. Although you don't know about technology, you also visited the graphic recognition system that Facebook uses to survive, although this system is still very simple and needs to be improved, but with this system, the development of Facebook has a foundation.

From Silicon Valley to Kansas City, when the plane landed at Kansas International Airport, Zhou You was surprised to learn that this was actually Missouri land.

Kansas City is an interstate city, and although it is the largest city in Kansas, it straddles both Kansas and Missouri, and the airport is also built on Missouri land. It is the largest agricultural area in the United States, but in the metropolitan area, it is home to the headquarters of AMC.

You've never been here, Kansas, located right in the middle of the U.S. land, has no famous companies, no developed economy, and it's an easily overlooked place on American soil.

The arrival of Zhou You was welcomed by AMC, because AMC at this time, because of its rapid expansion, has been losing money for three consecutive years. The road of expansion that began in 2002 has almost collapsed because of the stagnation of the box office of the films, because of the high investment in renovating the theater.

Everyone knows that Zhou You is very rich, and if the company loses Zhou You's hands, there will be no more financial troubles.