After the meeting, Luo Sheng returned to his office, and after working for about half an hour on the side of Bluestar Technology Group, he was ready to go to the Cote d'Azur next door, where there were still two meetings to be held, and he had to go to the Cote d'Azur laboratory to go around with Lens Semiconductor in the future.

This is Luo Sheng's follow-up work arrangement today.

"Mr. Luo, you look for me."

Also at the end of the meeting, Zhang Bowen came to Luo Sheng's office.

"Do you know Marvel? Marvel. ”

As soon as Zhang Bowen came in, Luo Sheng threw such a question to him.

"Marvel?" Zhang Bowen pondered for a while, thought for a moment, and said uncertainly: "Mr. Luo, are you talking about the Marvel Comics Company in North America?" ”

Luo Sheng nodded: "That's right, that's what I'm talking about, I plan to merge and acquire this company, I just took a look, I heard that Marvel has recently fallen into the stage of nine deaths, and it is the best time to acquire the company." ”

Speaking of which, Luo Sheng remembered that the name was still called Marvel Comics Company, and it has not yet been renamed Marvel.

Zhang Bowen can't predict the brain circuit of his immediate boss, but he is used to it, anyway, you never know what he will think in the next second and what he will do in the next moment.

What is the operation of acquiring a comic company?

Luo Sheng estimated the time, at this time, Marvel was already desperate, and invested money in the movie "Iron Man", and it was not surprising that the movie should be released a month later.

Once it loses, Marvel will also collapse, and it is not an exaggeration for Marvel to say that it is all or nothing, once this movie hits the street at the box office, Marvel will also follow suit.

But Luo Sheng knew that Marvel came back to life because of this, and opened the superhero movie universe, and finally made a lot of money.

He knows, but Marvel doesn't know it, this is an opportunity.

"I don't know much about this field, but as far as I know, the copyright of Spider-Man, Marvel's most valuable IP, is already in the hands of Sony, and the X-Men series is also in the hands of Twentieth Century Fox Studios, and Marvel doesn't seem to have any valuable IP......," Zhang Bowen said.

Luo Sheng didn't explain much to him, and said lightly: "The company currently has too much money on its books, and it was originally going to acquire Sun, but it didn't succeed, even if you remove the digital film copyright expenses with Hollywood studios, there are still more than 13 billion US dollars, and the repurchase of shares can't consume too much, how to spend the rest of the money?" Then buy Marvel, I estimate that even if I spend more than two billion dollars now, Marvel will be willing to sell it to me. ”

Zhang Bowen said: "Okay, what should we do next if we buy Marvel? ”

That's the point, what to do after the acquisition? It's also very painful to become a bad debt, and it's not a small amount.

Luo Sheng pondered for a moment and said: "Integrate Marvel's IP resources, establish Bluestar Pictures, enrich the ecology of the entertainment industry, and diversify the ecology of the BV video business. ”

After a pause, Luo Sheng looked at Lao Zhang and added: "Just take Marvel's IP resources to test the water, maybe you can take this opportunity to enter the film entertainment market." The shortcomings in the content need to be paid attention to, otherwise you can't stand the sky-high prices of several major Hollywood film and television giants, and this time more than 5 billion US dollars are thrown out, which is very chic and earns enough eyeballs, but it is also very painful. ”

Zhang Bowen suddenly said, the boss is to enrich the overall content ecosystem of Bluestar Technology Group, further consolidate its moat, species diversity, ecology will be healthier, a large group only rely on a single profit model is actually a very dangerous signal, the antibody is too weak, only the profit model is diversified, this business sector is loss-making, there are other business sectors in profit, if the profit model is too single, it is easy to collapse.

Again, the content problem is indeed a major shortcoming of Bluestar Technology, and if you don't get into it horizontally, you may be stuck by Hollywood in the future.

"You leave this matter to George Charles, vice president of the North American region, to talk to Marvel, the bottom line is a maximum of $3.3 billion, and there is no need to acquire if it is exceeded." Luo Sheng said that after crossing this line, it is better to directly repurchase the shares of Bluestar Technology, and the income from the stock price appreciation after ten years is much higher than that of the successful Marvel Universe as a whole.

What's more, Luo Sheng didn't dare to pack a ticket, and today's Marvel will definitely be as successful as the world he was in in his previous life, after all, his appearance has changed too much, and what is certain will be full of uncertainty.

Although Luo Sheng's performance is light, it does not mean that billions of dollars of investment is a light thing, this is the net profit scale of Bluestar Technology in two quarters, and the results of half a year's struggle, if it fails, it will be very painful.

It's not easy to make some money.

In the future, there will be large-scale investment in cloud computing services, and here is a big hole waiting to be filled with tens of billions of dollars.

Zhang Bowen confirmed that Luo Sheng was serious, and immediately nodded in response: "No problem, I'll go talk to the people at Marvel in person, I happen to be going to North America this month." ”

Luo Sheng has no objection to this.

The matter was so determined, and he didn't pay much attention to the rest of the things, all he wanted was to wait for a result, and as for the merger and acquisition process, just leave it to the subordinates below.

The acquisition of Marvel Comics is different from the high-tech Sun Computer Sun Microsystems Company, although the North American authorities are also greatly supporting the Hollywood film industry, but there will not be too many restrictions on foreign investment, otherwise there will be nothing to do with Sony, to a large extent, it depends on the strength of the capital.

And financial resources are proper for Bluestar Technology Group.

……

Two days later, Luo Sheng's focus was on the Cote d'Azur, working on the development of a new generation of Azure mobile phones, often moving between Lens Semiconductor and the Cote d'Azur lab.

In addition to the main mobile phone business, the Cote d'Azur is currently secretly developing a game console hardware module, codenamed "ACC Project", which is a new project plan, and Luo Sheng has not focused too much energy on this project.

At the same time, the Cote d'Azur has begun to draft a "spare tire plan", which is being carried out in conjunction with Huawei and is classified as a top research secret, with the meaning that the United States will one day be able to become self-sufficient if they interrupt the cooperation of international supply chain partners.

Zhang Bowen also traveled to North America today, and his main job on his business trip to the United States in April was to go to IBM to discuss the completion of several major data centers in North America.

Luo Sheng temporarily arranged a job for him, so he could buy Marvel Comics by the way.

But the acquisition of Marvel is not the first task of Zhang Bowen's trip to North America, by the way, finalizing the landing of cloud computing services and data centers in the North American market is better than acquiring ten Marvels, and only after this matter will he stop by to buy Marvel Comics.

On the fourth day of Zhang Bowen's arrival in North America, the main purpose of the trip has basically been completed, and it is quite smooth, after all, the big difficulties have been overcome, and the access permit for the North American market has been obtained.

Next, he is going to complete the merger and acquisition offer for Marvel Comics.

Zhang Bowen did not go directly to meet the head of Marvel Comics, but first went to Wall Street, stayed at Merrill Lynch for two days, and then took Merrill Lynch to visit Marvel Comics.

……

Marvel Comics, Avi Arad's office.

"BOSS, the people of Merrill Lynch and the global executive vice president of Bluestar Technology Group came to visit our company, hoping to meet you as soon as possible, they did not have an appointment."

Arad's assistant, who is now the head of Marvel Comics, enters the office to report the incident.

“What？ Bluestar Technology Group? ”

Hearing the report of the assistant, Arad was full of incomprehensible question marks, without an appointment, it was cut in line, just a Merrill Lynch person arrived, he had to put down the affairs at hand to meet him, because Marvel Comics Company might have died without Merrill Lynch Securities, and there was no funding for the filming of "Iron Man".

Without much thought, Arad immediately put down the work at hand and ordered, "Invite them to the VIP reception room, and I'll come over later." ”

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