Steve. Keyes!

Li Lin couldn't help but look at the person who once single-handedly created AOL Time Warner.

For AOL Time Warner, he is very sorry.

Because AOL Time Warner is the closest to the entertainment empire among many companies in the entertainment industry, but unfortunately, under the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis, this behemoth collapsed, which makes people sigh.

As for Steve. Case, he didn't know much, except that he was the one who single-handedly brokered the merger of AOL and Time Warner, and that he lost and disappeared in the internal battle of AOL Time Warner.

Li Lin retracted his gaze and said slowly: "Life is the same as coffee, but there are bitter and sweet, and your coffee here is too bitter." ”

"What is sweet will eventually become bitter." Steve. Keith took a sip of his coffee, "Life is no exception. ”

"Steve. Mr. Case was too pessimistic. Li Lin shook his head and said, "Maybe Steve. Case's life is difficult, but it doesn't mean that other people's lives are also the same as Steve's. Mr. Case, too, was in trouble. ”

"Dick, for example. Parsons. ”

Dick. Parsons, who defeated Steve in an infighting. Keith's man, he stepped on Steve. Case's corpse became the president of AOL Time Warner.

Steve. Hearing this, Case's hand holding the coffee cup immediately jumped, "Are you laughing at me?" ”

"Lee definitely didn't mean to laugh at you." Avril gave Li Lin a look on the one hand, and mud on the other. "Lee is just saying that there are many happy things in life."

"Am I wrong?" Li Lin didn't pay attention to Avril's eyes at all, "It's the same Steve, but Steve. Jobs, on the other hand, could return to Apple after leaving it. And bring the apple to its glory, and Steve. Mr. Case, you can only open a bitter café here and enjoy the bitterness of life. ”

To be able to open a café like this, Steve. Case's state can be imagined.

"Jobs!"

Steve. Keith was silent for a moment.

At the beginning of '06, Apple was still just a technology company, and it didn't have the prefix 'great'. Case. Steve. Jobs was far less famous than Steve. Keyes.

At least Steve. The market value of AOL Time Warner, which Cases single-handedly created, has exceeded $200 billion, while Apple's market value has not even broken 100 billion.

Of course, wait until the time of '08. Apple began to use the prefix of 'great', such as a great technology company, and its market value has exploded, from tens of billions of dollars to more than $300 billion. Directly multiplied several times.

Even in 2014. Apple's market capitalization exceeds $700 billion, which is more than Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Facebook combined.

Steve. Jobs himself also began his own legendary path, from 08 until his death, he was directly mythologized, as for Steve. Case, sorry, Steve. Who is Keith? Can and Steve. Jobsby? Do they have anything to compare?

"You're right." Steve. Keith snapped, "That's why I found you." ”

"Li Lin. Interested in selling your Gold Group? ”

"AOL Time Warner is interested."

Li Lin was directly laughed at.

Acquisition?

He has no interest in any acquisitions.

Money, he is not lacking. And if he loses the gold medal group, the money in his hand will become his own talisman, and those kidnappers, and even those hungry wolves who peep at the money in Li Lin's hands, will also target him one by one.

Without the group's backing, he was powerless to resist the hungry wolves.

"Money, or AOL Time Warner shares, you can open it, as long as I can give it, I will give it to you." Steve. Keith was sincere.

At least he himself was sincere.

If the Gold Group can be merged, AOL Time Warner will immediately have the market in China, and more importantly, the Gold Group will have a strong complement to AOL Time Warner.

For example, the games of Gold Games can strongly supplement AOL's online game business, while Entertainment Paradise can supplement AOL's music playback and video-on-demand business.

As for the gold medal theater, it can be merged into the AOL Time Warner theater line, so that the AOL Time Warner theater line can be a strong supplement.

Gold Records can be added to the record, and Gold Medal Film and Television Zuò can be merged with Warner Bros.

Once AOL Time Warner acquires the Gold Group, it will be able to absorb and digest the Gold Group immediately.

"Money, I don't lack; As for the shares, hehe, you AOL Time Warner's shares are hot. Li Lin smiled contemptuously.

There are many ways to merge and acquire companies, such as companies that are not bad for money and directly use money to buy other companies, just like Coca-Cola, which throws money at the acquisition with deep pockets.

Some companies take out loans to acquire companies, such as Li Lin's Gold Group, which is burdened with heavy debts and expands step by step with the support of banks.

Some companies are acquired by injecting funds from investors, such as Cisco, which is supported by the Blackstone Fund, and every time a large merger and acquisition, the Blackstone Fund will inject a sum of money, and each injection represents a change in Cisco's equity.

Some companies are annexed through guò mergers, such as Time Warner, which was originally born from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Bros., and then Time Warner merged with Cable, Turner and other companies, and finally merged with AOL to form the current AOL Time Warner.

With each merger, the shares held by the shareholders of the original company are converted into equal shares, and eventually they become members of the board of directors of AOL.

It is precisely because of this that the shareholding of the board of directors of AOL Time Warner is extremely complex.

That's exactly what happened. AOL Time Warner will be mired in internal strife, with board members intriguing and merging companies secretly competing. Again and again, the company's development has been dragged down, making it difficult for the company to fully integrate resources and move towards a higher market share.

Merging into such a company is a complete disaster for Li Lin and his gold medal group.

"On top of that, Time Warner will completely elevate you to the throne of world superstars, like Tom Brown. An international superstar like Cruise. Or an international superstar like MJ. ”

“MJ？ Can you really make an MJ? Li Lin smiled contemptuously, "AOL Time Warner can come up with a king, I believe that even AOL Time Warner can come up with a king like Tom. I believe in an international superstar like Cruise. "But to bring out a singer like MJ. I don't believe it. ”

AOL's Time Warner's resources are unimaginable.

Newspapers, magazines, TV stations, theaters, film companies, special effects companies, publishing houses, online media, etc., AOL Time Warner has all of them, and it is very simple for him to become popular.

Find some well-known musicians to write songs for him. Tailor-made albums. Then the propaganda firepower was in full swing, and the whole world was full of his news, and he just couldn't live.

And in terms of movies, it's even simpler, casually assigning him to be the protagonist of the series, and he easily becomes popular, and it's hard to think about it.

After all, the Batman series and the Harry Potter series are enough to make anyone popular, but he doesn't believe that Li Lin will be praised to the point of MJ.

MJ pioneered the space step to get to that kind of course. It can be said that there is only one MJ in the world. Until the next era of seminal music arrives, no one can get to the point of MJ with music alone.

And how brain-dead he has to be to dedicate his foundation to the hands of AOL Time Warner for the sake of his own popularity, as for the shares of AOL Time Warner, he can't look down on it at all.

At this time, the crisis of AOL Time Warner has appeared, and by the time of the subprime mortgage crisis, AOL Time Warner will split up and become AOL and Time Warner again.

And this heavy blow has also made AOL and Time Warner go downhill.

Needless to say, AOL was defeated by YouTube, the chat software ICQ was defeated by Microsoft's MSN, and the online bookstore service was defeated by Amazon.

And Time Warner was no better, with publishing houses being bought, pay-TV networks being bought, and even Time Warner itself being nearly bought after an offer from Murdoch's News Corp.

Give up his own Chaoyang Jiangshan and run to sit on a Titanic that is about to hit an iceberg, and even whether it is a Titanic is still unknown, Li Lin is not amused unless he shows his brain.

"There is no need to mention the acquisition." Li Lin said: "I won't agree, if you come to me for this matter, then I can leave." ”

"Wait a minute." Steve. Case immediately stopped Li Lin, "If you don't want to be acquired, we can also cooperate, after all, we all have common enemies." ”

"Who?"

"Sony."

Steve. Keith said: "The reason why Avril dares to argue with Sony is because you are behind the back, I can see it, Sony can definitely see it, do you think you and Avril Lavril can fight Sony in an all-round way?" ”

"Steve. Mr. Case seems to have been mistaken. Li Lin took his coffee, "I never thought of a full-scale confrontation with Sony. ”

"Sony Music can't represent Sony."

"Sony of the United States cannot represent Sony of Japan."

At the end of the 80s, Japan's Sony acquired the American Columbia Company and announced its full entry into the United States.

However, Sony's move angered the Americans, and American newspapers reported the incident at length, calling it an attack by the Japanese.

In order to prevent the American people from resisting Sony, the clever Sony board of directors appointed Americans across the board in the United States and tried to downplay the traces of Japanese companies.

However, such a move angered Nobuyuki Idei and some radical Japanese, especially after Nobuyuki Idei was plotted by Time Warner, lost $800 million, and was kicked back to Japan by the board of directors.

With his efforts, Japan's Sony began a confrontation with the American Sony, and as a result, the Sony empire became the Japanese Sony and the American Sony, and the two Sonys began to secretly confront.

Although they are still a company, although they are still the backbone of the Sony empire, the confrontation between Sony in the United States and Sony in Japan is still well known. (To be continued......)