Chapter 72: On the Reward of Meritorious Deeds

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In New York, inside CBS CBS, Mike, a hurried clerk, walked into the director's office.

"Mr. Thompson, we received an email from California, it's a music single!"

"Music singles?" Thompson, who was in a suit and leather shoes, invested all his savings in the financial markets, and now he was bored when he looked at the numbers constantly jumping down on the computer, and couldn't help frowning and said, "Have you forgotten the position of our CBS?" We're called the Seniors Radio. ”

"This is a BP private equity fund, saying that it is a donation of copyright to New Yorkers in the panic and pain of terrorist attacks. I think it's necessary for you to listen to this song first. ”

Mike was very loyal to his duty and did not choose to give up because of the dissatisfaction of his leadership.

"BP Fund? Haven't heard of it. But since it's dedicated to the citizens of New York, let's listen to it first. Thompson's face softened, motioning for him to put the single into the CD player and press play.

The first thing that came out of the HIFI-rated hi-fi speakers was a gripping piano sound, well, not bad to listen to, Thompson thought.

As the prelude ends, a full-pitched male voice and a clear female voice follow, and the lyrics, although not gorgeous, are very straightforward, accompanied by the soothing and sad Irish bagpipes, which can make the listener feel the strength of the strength, calling for themselves to be strong, to rise up, and to forget the pain.

Thompson, who originally thought it was a pop song, is now really shocked, this song is simply a ray of light for New York in the haze of terrorist attacks!

"Adjust the time now, play this song on a loop, the people of New York need it, the United States needs this uplifting music!"

Thompson immediately made this decision excitedly, he was sure that CBS was definitely not the first to receive this CD, and it had to be played before the competition!

Walt Disney's ABC Radio, Time Warner Group's CNN Turner Radio, and NBC Radio followed in the footsteps of CBS and began to broadcast the song throughout the day, even calling it the best gift God has given to the American people.

Other television networks began to use the song as the background music for 9/11 news events, and it became popular across the American continent.

"This is simply the gospel of God, and it is here to save the suffering citizens of New York!"

"It's amazing, this song completely gives me a positive energy."

"Genius songs created by talented musicians should be awarded the Presidential Medal!"

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Media comments such as these abound, all of which are full of praise, and the song has not only become popular in the United States, but has spread to the world with the development of television and the Internet.

As a donor of songs, BP Foundation has become famous by more people from an obscure small private equity fund. Even more popular is Lavigne, who lives in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and entertainment reporters can easily find her.

Composers Philkinson and Lavigny are packed with interview announcements every day, like superstars. The lyricist and male singer Chen Bo's pseudonym Vincent only appeared in the signature, and all the insiders were tight-lipped under his instructions, so naturally no media person could find him.

"Boss, I'm afraid I won't have to wait a week to close the net." Chris said to Chen Bo a little depressed.

"Is there something new that can't happen?"

"Hey, it's not your song that made a fuss, the encouraged American people are now in a relaxed mood, the financial market is stabilizing, and there are even signs of recovery!"

Chris sighed.

"Just a song, and such a miraculous effect? But as a member of the American people, you don't seem to be too happy. ”

"I'm in finance, I only worship money, I don't care about nationality." Chris shrugged.

"In that case, let's close the net." After Chen Bo gave the order, Chris began to sell the short-selling futures orders to the market one after another, and in three days, he had exchanged the futures index contracts for cash.

After repaying the bank's leveraged funds and the income attributable to investors, this time the futures index market earned a total of $1.3 billion, although compared to the 1.4 trillion dollars that the entire market has lost so far, it is still pitiful, but compared with the leverage of $600 million, the income has doubled, which makes everyone in the BP fund ecstatic.

Even Chen Bo's $28 million private money came back $46 million even though he entered the market late!

This kind of thing looks very profitable, it's like counting the money to the point of foot cramps, but the risk is quite large, who dares to operate against the trend, and it happens to encounter such a sudden event.

Next, of course, we have to talk about meritorious deeds, Chen Bo took out 1% of the income, 13 million US dollars, to reward all the meritorious heroes. At the same time, a 15% equity incentive plan has been formulated for the management, which will be implemented in installments in the next five years, but the dividend right is available every year.

Chris, as the person in charge, naturally gets the most, and everyone else is not left behind, according to the different degrees of personal contribution, there are more or less, it can be said that everyone is happy.

The financial industry is like this, some people can survive, and naturally some people will starve to death, and today's BP funds are naturally the former.

Moreover, the reputation of BP funds is getting louder and louder, and it is easy to raise funds again. The more than one billion dollars can be used for corporate investment, and the funds raised continue to be invested in the financial market.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Bo gave two orders to Depp and Jason, the first is to set up a technology company in Silicon Valley, recruit troops first, and as for what to do and how to do it, he will send someone to be responsible. They just need to do a good job of assisting, which is owned by Depp and wholly owned by BP Fund.

The second was Marvel Pictures and DreamWorks Animation, both of which had to be taken down, and then an independent film company could be found.

Marvel Pictures is a film company under Marvel Comics Entertainment, and in later generations it had a very loud name called "Marvel Studios", but that was the official name that was later changed.

Compared with the rival DC Comics, which is backed by a giant media group like Time Warner, Marvel Entertainment is very sad, and most of the time it is suppressed by many comic book heroes such as "Superman", "Batman", "Robin", "The Flash" and so on.

In the early 90s, even in order to make a living, many comic book hero movies have been sold out, among which the X-Men series characters and Fantastic Four, Deadpool, etc. were sold to Fox movies, Spider-Man was sold to Sony Columbia, Aquaman Namor, and Humanoids belonged to Universal Pictures and Lionsgate.

Marvel Studios, which was only established in '96, is even weaker, and it is only a department that assists other film companies in making movies.

The X-Men had already been remade in 2000 with a production cost of $75 million and a box office of $300 million worldwide. If you want to talk about box office sharing, it will earn about 30 million US dollars, which is not too much.

But film companies don't all live on the box office, there are also DVD sales, film and television peripheral products, and TV network broadcast licenses, which add up to enough to make Fox Film make a lot of money.

Marvel Entertainment is a listed company, and it can't be smashed without a billion dollars, and you have to continue to throw money into it after buying it, and you will definitely not be able to do it with your current financial resources, so it is better to lay out Marvel Studios first, get a controlling stake and then inject a large amount of money to recover the copyright is a reliable approach.

At the same time, the BP fund can cooperate with the absorption of some Marvel Entertainment stocks, put a long-term line, and catch big fish, and it will take a long time in the future.

DreamWorks Pictures is a film company founded by Spielberg and several other big names, and the animation business is a subordinate department of it. Now he has a small reputation, but he has only produced one "Shrek", and he will be independent in the future anyway, so it is better to let Depp take the initiative to push it.

The main reason is that the strength of DreamWorks Animation is second only to Pixar, although Pixar is still the private property of Jobs, but it is real money, and only giants like Disney can afford it.

While there is money now, and the other party is not strong, you can still take the lead. If it becomes the climate in the future, it will not be a problem that can be solved with money.

As for independent film companies, it is to facilitate the distribution of domestic films in China abroad, it is just to buy a shell, and if conditions permit, you can make a few movies to make a small profit, and the copyright of "Spy Shadow" is still in the hands of BP Fund.

Cultural invasions are more subtle and influential than economic invasions, and as long as these companies are taken down, the global entertainment market will be able to get a piece of the pie in the future.

It's a little exciting to think about this, but this is all conjecture at the moment, and whether it can really be achieved depends on the effectiveness of the work of Depp and Jason.

After all, emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and Marvel and DreamWorks are obviously not quails waiting to be caught.

After explaining the matter here, Chen Bo went to Apple to visit Jobs by the way, and when he came to meet old friends, the two were to explore the tone. Whether your iPod is sent or not, it has been produced since last year, and there has been no movement at all until now.

Although Chen Bo's development of MP3 players has already reached the ears of Jobs, he doesn't care, in terms of industrial design, quality control can be compared with Apple is only one Sony, the others are not qualified, naturally will not regard him as a threat.

And Apple naturally has a professional team to analyze the market, and the results of the comments submitted are obviously the same as Chen Bo's ideas, just to expand his beautiful music network, and the main focus is still the Chinese market, which basically has no impact on Apple.

The first-generation iPod did not hit the spectrum of the Chinese market at all, neither planned to sell it in China, nor designed the operation interface of the Chinese version.

China is still a non-WTO member, and the tariffs imposed on electronics are too high, so it is obviously not a good idea to venture in.

But this is at least good news for Chen Bo, without the impact of iPod, Sony has not developed a new player, then his current opponent is only one Samsung company.