Before, due to the explosion of "Titanic", Roland was in a good mood.

When the box office is soaring and setting records continuously, even if it has reached the annual reporting node, David still doesn't want to ruin Roland's good mood with the matter of 'Sony making money'.

But now, since Roland took the lead in picking out, guessing the inside story, and did not express it too fiercely, David had no worries, and decided to calculate this year's harvest for Roland while it was still early.

"On the baht business, I borrowed 500 million from Berkshire Hathaway's shares."

"Although calculated according to exchange rate fluctuations, the short-selling income is theoretically more than five times the estimate they gave, but in the end, they still settled with us according to five times, at the beginning of last month, they sent us the money, with a total income of 2.5 billion, and then deducted the 20% commission they want to take, we get 200 million, and then redeem the shares you pledged, after deducting the loan interest, you actually got the money, there are 1473 million."

“Wow？ 147.3 billion in half a year? That's money grabbing! ”

Seeing the report pushed by David, Roland, who was still thinking about how to kill Sony, exclaimed.

Looking at the string of zero numbers, Roland coughed a few times involuntarily, after eight years of filming, all the salaries added up are not as much as this time, even if he has been mentally prepared, but after seeing the numbers, his heart is still very excited!

Wrong!

It was the pleasure of the special code!

“Fuck！ I've never seen so much cash in my life! ”

After counting the numbers several times and confirming that they were correct, Roland laughed and scolded.

"Do you think I've ever seen so much cash?" Seeing Roland's smile again, David also relaxed, rolled up his sleeves, leaned back, put his left arm on the armrest, and opened his five fingers slightly, telling the past.

“Shit！ When they called me to settle the bill, I couldn't believe how easy the money came by! ”

"I followed up with 200 million, and after deducting the principal, commission, and expenses, I also took more than 500 million!"

"I built a house with your father before, and it took me more than 20 years to build a net worth of more than one billion, but after mixing with these financial players, I didn't do anything, I ate, drank and had fun for half a year, and the 200 million principal could give birth to the net worth that I had worked hard for more than ten years?"

"It's such a wonderful feeling! It's so wonderful that I feel like I've lived my life in vain! ”

While sighing, David seemed to remember something.

Open the drawer, pull out a pack of cigarettes, pull out two, and throw one of them to Roland.

He took it, put it in his mouth, and half-got up and walked along the lighter on the table.

I only heard the sound of stabbing, and the flint and steel brought out the flames, took a deep breath, paused for a while, and then swallowed.

When wisps of white smoke slowly exhaled from his nasal cavity, Roland, who was in excitement, squinted his eyes.

Like a cat, leaning lazily on the seat.

"Unfortunately, it's not cash ......"

"If 1.4 billion Franklin were in front of me, I think I'd be even more excited......"

"Jump over and swim in it!"

"The numbers on paper will never face the gold mountain, and they will be more impactful!"

The greedy remarks made David, who was also leaning on the seat, sneer, "Roland, I usually see that you are quite calm, why are you whimsical now?" $1.4 billion in front of you? Do you still want to pounce? Aren't you afraid of being crushed to death? ”

"One Franklin is one hundred and fifty kilograms, and one hundred million is one thousand and fifty kilograms, and four hundred thousand is fourteen thousand seven hundred kilograms, or fourteen.seven tons! As soon as you pounce on it, Jin Shan will fall down and smash your head and bleed, okay? ”

"If you're unlucky, your life will be gone! Still swimming? When the time comes, I'll have to hire an excavator to dig you out! ”

The conjecture was paired with the complaint, which made the two giggle.

If they were still thinking about the gains and losses of Warcraft Film and Television after Sony made accounts, then now......

Let Sony do the accounts for another five years, and it will not be worth Roland's empty gloves white wolf for half a year!

Sure enough, the fastest way to collect wealth in the world is to rob!

After laughing, while flicking the ash into the ashtray, David also continued: "But ah, although the money is earned, I can't spend it all according to your request, don't you want to continue to eat Apple shares?" ”

"It's a pity that many holding institutions don't sell."

"I received 6.83 percent for you, and it cost you about 190 million."

"You currently hold 17.2 percent of the shares."

"At the beginning of last month, you still had 1473 million, and now, there are 1283 million left......"

"The holding institutions that are clamoring that Apple is a shame for a technology company are not being sold?"

Roland opened his eyes, closed them again, and said lazily: "Whatever, seventeen-two can keep me in the position of the majority shareholder, unless the rest of the guys unite, otherwise whoever opposes Steve will have to get out!" ”

Although Roland has repeatedly said that he wants to get a veto.

But that's just for fun.

If you really eat so many shares, you will trigger the ordinance to buy.

Roland never thought about buying Apple, because the tech company couldn't be privatized to become more inflated.

What's more, just as General Electric is optimistic about Steve Jobs, not all capital feels that Apple is garbage.

And in this case, how could Roland think of eating alone?

The more complicated the identity of the shareholders, the better the company's development, because in many cases, these shareholders who hope that the company can develop better are capable of helping the company solve some tricky things.

Capital has always been grouped.

This is also the reason why Spielberg wants to pull Roland to buy Sony Columbia Samsung.

Before, Roland in the old man's eyes may not be qualified, but after having a meal with Bill Gates, the old man also knew how rich he was as a student.

"After acquiring Apple's shares, there are still 1293 million, plus the 63.5 million of Warcraft Film and Television's income this year, the money available to me is 13.5 ......."

Before Roland finished settling the accounts, David interrupted: "Don't count how much money you have in your hand first, I have other things to tell you!" Now that I'm talking about Overwatch Ventures, I'll tell you something else......"

"Amazon, you know what? The ...... I voted for you."

"After Amazon went public this year, the stock price went all the way up, and Jeff Bezos, who had money in his hands, wanted to expand."

Since the online bookstore is already the largest, he is ready to develop into the field of audiovisual products.

"Movies and books need to be introduced, but DVDs are different from books, people who buy books just look at the title and author of the book, they know whether this is the book they want, and people who buy DVDs, many times can't read the title and introduction of the movie, they know whether they are interested in the movie, so they ...... The guy asked me for a price. ”

"Amazon wants to buy IMDb in our hands and complete the acquisition in a share-and-cash manner."

"The price they offered is 320 million."

Wow！ Wow！ Wow！

After hearing the news, Roland, who was leaning on the seat with squinted eyes, had a smile on his face even bigger.

Holding the empty cup that had been drunk, he got up and wanted to go to the water dispenser to pour a glass of water, but halfway through, he remembered the wine cabinet that David had hidden in the study, walked straight over, took out one at random, unscrewed the cap, and filled it for himself.

"He wants to buy IMDb? The news really caught me off guard. ”

Although Roland's words were a little surprised, his words were a hint of ridicule, "But ah, I also know that IMDb can really only play its best role in the hands of Amazon." ”

"Once they bought IMDb, they were able to add a link to buy the film directly on IMDb."

"After users click on the link, they can place an order to achieve accurate diversion."

"Or rather, it's profit-maximizing."

"Well, IMDb works for me too!"

"Since Jeff Bezos knows that IMDb is my industry, why didn't he choose to work with IMDb?"

"Am I like the kind of person who would refuse to cooperate? Amazon only needs to pay a licensing fee, and we can open the link. ”

Roland's inquiry made David chuckle, he drank the lemon juice in the cup, and then filled himself with it, "Because, Jeff Bezos thinks that buying IMDb is the most economical way to go." ”

"Moreover, he also specifically named him in the acquisition offer, he will not interfere in the operation of IMDb, he only needs IMDb to insert ads into Amazon, and he doesn't care about what Cole Niedhan and you are doing now."

"And he's very keen to see that you're still very enthusiastic about IMDb after the acquisition."

"Oh...... This guy wants to give IMDb a platform after the acquisition of IMDb! ”

Roland understood, and asked self-deprecatingly, "Do I look like such a stupid person?" ”

"The company is not mine anymore, why should I make some explosive topics exclusive to IMDb?"

Roland thinks Jeff Bezos is simply a good hand - the door is slammed to death.

If it is a cooperation, Amazon has to pay a large amount of advertising fees every year, and this money will grow with the continuous increase in the value of IMDb, but what if it is an acquisition...... Isn't this money saved, and most importantly, from the current point of view, isn't the madman who can make IMDb continue to increase in value is Amazon's second largest shareholder......

But David, apparently, doesn't see it that way.

"Because after you sell IMDb, you can eat 18.35 percent of Amazon's shares......"

"In this acquisition, they are ready to give out five percent of the shares and two hundred million in cash."

"According to your shareholding in IMDb, you can get 3.35 shares and 13.4 billion in cash."

"Don't you want me to continue to sweep Amazon shares for you?"

"Now you don't have to sweep it, sell IMDb to him, and people will pay for it!"

Hold the grass! Is it so generous!

Roland touched his chin unexpectedly.

Although on the surface, IMDb, which was estimated to be 500 million by the outside world, was sold to Amazon for 320 million, which is simply a discount sale, but the problem is that Amazon's 3.35 shares are really valuable!

Moreover, the current IMDb actually plays a role in controlling the evaluation for Roland.

In his previous life, Roland used IMDbPro and TV series and other interfaces, he didn't think about how to do it at all, if Jeff Bezos is willing to give up power and ensure Roland's influence on IMDb, then selling it to Amazon is the best choice!

"It's a really good deal." Roland thought for a moment and agreed with a smile, "This is the second good news. ”

"Right?"

"Of course." David took a sip of wine, then found an invitation to cooperate from the data mountain, pulled out his pen, and was about to write a note on it, while asking a confirmed question, "Then I'll let people talk?" ”

"Uh-huh." Roland said in a nasal voice, "By the way, I'm asking for a board seat, and then it's still you." ”

“Shit！ You really don't think I'm busy enough! David scolded, but still wrote down the operation plan on the information.

In fact, throughout '97, Roland's company, like Roland, did not do personnel.

Although Warcraft Film and Television is a film and television drama production and distribution company registered in Los Angeles, the problem is that under Roland's manipulation, the company that should have developed with great fanfare was played by him as a copyright operation company.

Although Overwatch Ventures is an investment company registered in San Francisco, it is a pity that the whole company has made two angel investments so far, in addition to Yahoo and Amazon, IMDb is a direct acquisition, Apple and Microsoft, which are all sweeping.

And Interstellar Records, which has been in operation for several years, finally opened this year, but ......

Well, this is actually a copyright operating company.

The development idea of not signing people makes it unique in the entire music industry.

In addition to these three companies, Blizzard Entertainment, which has the best development momentum, has not been honestly developed this year.

When Mike Mohami received a call from Roland at the beginning of the year, they launched an acquisition of a game studio based in England.

Rock Star was successfully acquired by Blizzard Entertainment, and "GTA", which was launched this year, was also a big hit in Europe, but when the acquired subsidiary made a hit, there were some problems at Blizzard headquarters.

"In fact, in the past year, the most reports I've gotten have come from Mike."

"He kept telling us that "StarCraft" has to skip tickets, "StarCraft" has to skip tickets, and "StarCraft" has to skip tickets."

"At first, it was the cynicism at last year's E3 show, and the DEMO of StarCraft was so bad that they chose to tear it down and redo it; But, after returning from vacation this year, didn't you let them recruit and expand? Then there was a problem with the handover of new and old employees, which led to countless bugs when they were writing the game......"

"The biggest thing about the progress is that they don't understand, because the engine of Warcraft was developed in C on MSDOS, and when it came to StarCraft, after the PC system entered the Windows era, they decided to use C++ to write the engine of StarCraft. But unfortunately, people including Mike didn't know much about C++, so they learned and wrote as they went, and then ......"

"Caused a disaster."

"When you went to shoot 'Saving Private Ryan,' Mike called me and asked me if I could help him borrow some engineers from Microsoft, in his words, 'Writing a game in C, it's easy to accidentally hit your own foot, C++ has a lower chance of hitting your foot, but once you do, your entire lower body will be ruined.'" ”

"At the beginning of this month, he called me again to tell me that StarCraft currently encountered a bug that cannot be solved at all, that is, farmers in the process of mining, there will be congestion due to the unit volume, although I don't understand, what they mean when they say 'the units are all textures, so the collision volume will be particularly large', but one thing I know is clear, that is, Mike said that this time they will not bounce the ticket, if they can't solve this problem, then change to ignore the collision volume."

Okay! Okay! Okay!

No matter how strong the banknote ability is, it can't do the tradition of bouncing tickets!

Shaking the water glass, the wine inside swirled as he moved.

Regarding the situation faced by Blizzard, Roland really has no FUCK to say, "So they don't have an annual meeting this year?" ”

"What kind of annual meeting is this? "StarCraft" will be released on March 31 next year, and they can't even play a normal game so far, where do they still have the heart to go out and play? David shrugged his shoulders, as he should be.

"Alright then, looks like those game studios are going to have to let you buy them." Roland was ready to re-entrust him.

“What？ Acquisition? What do you want to buy? David was shocked, this money has just arrived, and you are thinking about how to spend it?

If you have money in your hand, you have to spend it.

Otherwise, how can the value of money be reflected?

What's more, the current acquisition is for the future......

Since Amazon's acquisition of IMDb will not be able to reach a deal for a while and a half, the cash of three or four billion yuan is the month in the water for Roland, but even if this money is not added, there is also the share of the goods brought by the Shuangxing Group, and the cash that Roland can use is already 1.4 billion, and in this case, if he does not expand, he is sorry for himself.

Naughty Dog, which already belongs to Universal, SuckerPunch, Microsoft, Bend Studio, which is well-known in the industry, and CDProjekt, a Polish company that has been born but acts as a game agent, were written on paper.

"Let's buy these four first."

The fluttering words made David frown.

This is an acquisition company! It's not about going to the vegetable market to buy Chinese cabbage!

How can you say it more simply than eating and drinking?

Thinking of this, David, who just wanted to stab back, suddenly felt that something was wrong......

Hiss......

For Roland, buying a company is indeed easier than eating and drinking!

Because he doesn't have to do anything but pay for it!

It's all about running for him!

Thinking of this, Ben still felt that David, who was generous with Roland's hand, darkened his face, "I'm doing it again, right?" ”

"Coupled with Amazon's invitation to acquire IMDb, there is only a week to go until 98 years, and as a result, you have already arranged a Wuzhuang case for me, right? Ruthless enough, ruthless enough, really ruthless enough......"

Hearing the broken complaints, Roland was full of glory, took the initiative to get up, took out a cigarette and lit it for David, and then poured the wine in the cup and bumped lightly with him, "David, don't others know if I don't know?" ”

"This kind of case can be directly handed over to those managers in the company to do."

"But in the end, I have to sign it!" David glared at Roland angrily, "I won't show you, what if those managers directly use money to smash those founders out of the field in order to complete the task?" ”

"You want to buy them, but you want them to continue to maintain their independence, this kind of case, it's very troublesome, okay?"

"And, as I know you, these four acquisitions should be just the beginning, right?"

"Although I don't know these companies, but the acquisition of them will cost three or four hundred million at most, and there are still one billion left, I think you will definitely find a way to spend it tonight, the same as last year, huh?"

The sharp words made Roland give a thumbs up.

"David, you really know me too well."

"If I don't spend the money in my hand, I feel bad."

"Actually, if it weren't for ZeniMaxMedia's non-sale, I would actually want to buy their Bethesda game studio, if it wasn't for EA's acquisition of MaxisSoftware for 125 million last year, I think its name would also appear on this list, if it weren't for Konami, it would not be possible to put Hideo Kojima......"

"If you want to die, just say it." Before Roland finished speaking, David interrupted him, rolled his eyes and said, "Buying so many studios at once, aren't you afraid of being strutted to death?" ”

"Game studios are different from other companies, in the R&D cycle, they can only rely on the old games to make money, and the emerging studios have no source of income, so they have to pay their own money to raise it, even if the current Blizzard can support the research and development of Blizzard headquarters, Northern Blizzard, and Rock Star, but if you buy seven at once, there is only a shortage of funds, so there is a possibility of bankruptcy."

"So I'll buy four first, and I'll do other things with the rest of the money."

As soon as David finished speaking, Roland blocked the question he raised.

The words that should have choked David to death who wanted to continue preaching.

Get!

According to you, is your idea of acquisition and expansion still correct?

David didn't care, "Okay, I can't talk about you, what else do you want to buy, just say it......"

"Which company do you have your eye on, or who do you have your eye on?"

Roland understands that David is complaining about the way he sees people investing, especially after Apple has spent nearly 400 million, this kind of madness makes people feel helpless - if you like Pixar, then you can buy it directly with 100 million, isn't it?

Maybe after Jobs took the money, he directly washed the blood of Apple's shareholders!

But Roland doesn't care about these complaints, and he knows that David, who has been helping him for so many years, is just talking casually and jokingly, "No, no, no, there are one billion left, and I won't buy the company for the time being." ”

"David, it's time for you to use your expertise, you go and help me find a piece of land, or see an island."

"Next, strive to build the zoo before February 16, 00."

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David, stunned.

He always thought that the words of building a zoo were used by Roland to coax his daughter, and as his daughter gets older, she may also understand this and will not entangle with it, and after Roland has one billion, David has always felt that he will replicate the behavior of investing in Apple last year and smash one billion directly into the stock of a technology company, but he didn't expect it to ......

"Are you really going to build a zoo?" David's voice instantly raised.

"Of course, is there any problem?" Roland thought it was very normal, "I promised Liqi something, of course I had to do it, and said that if I built it for her when she was ten years old, then it wouldn't be delayed until she was eleven years old." ”

"Then is it necessary for you to come up with a billion? That's a billion! A billion dollars! You just spent it on Lizzie? Wait a minute...... You can't really be as interesting to Lizzie as James says, right? ”

"Fart! James is talking nonsense again? And also! Who said that all the billions were used to build zoos? ”

“What？”

"When choosing a site for the zoo, please show me a house...... 10 million villas, 100 million manors, I can accept ...... Then, prepare me a diamond ring and a necklace...... Diamond rings you look to buy, but the necklace must be blue diamonds, don't Fox their tinkering tanzanite, to be big enough! It doesn't matter how much it is, but it has to be done before the Oscars, and it's ......useful."