& 14 month.

Midday.

Fourth floor of the Smith Building.

In the office, Abel nested in the comfortable leather boss chair, holding his mobile phone very seriously

Playing with Maozi Blocks.

Classic mini-games, even the super-billionaire Mr. Smith, a little bit like it.

A moment later, there was a knock on the office door.

"Come in~"

Abel did not lift his head and said in the tunnel.

That being said, he still puts most of his spirit into the game.

The person who pushed the door in was in good spirits.

A white man in a suit, with meticulously combed hair, and about forty to fifty years of age.

The man's name is Alan Baker, and he is a former senior actuary at Matilda Fung Yee and business manager in Europe.

This was the man's previous identity.

He now works for Smith Capital, where he works in the firm's Special Division.

This "special department" is the original creation of Smith Capital.

Its role is to pay wages and benefits to Abel's think tank.

Alan Baker, who came in, was a representative of the think tank.

After the Katherine Jones incident.

Abel lost interest in such a thing as a "beautiful secretary".

It's not about losing interest in beautiful women.

It's the loss of interest in the secretary.

He felt that instead of setting up a "secretariat" in the company, it would be better to have a think tank as well.

I don't have a fixed office location anyway.

Except for when I like to come to Smith Capital when I cut leeks, I rarely appear here at other times.

Now I start running in Los Angeles and New York, and I often go to Texas.

In the future, it is estimated that it will be running around the world.

It would be better to set up a secretary in every company.

This secretary is in direct contact with the Special Division.

In this way, the think tank is directly in charge of part of the secretarial work.

There are good and bad ways to do this.

The downside is that the think tank will become very large and powerful.

When power is great, there is a risk of corruption.

It's something that can't be avoided, it's human nature.

The only thing that can be done is to strengthen internal control.

The good thing is that the think tank is always represented by Abel's side.

No matter where Abel is, he can be the first to know the situation of any company under his name.

At that time, there will be another rotation system.

For example, the secretary of company A changed to company B after a period of time, and the secretary of company C went to company C, and so on.

Then there is a promotion system, such as someone in a think tank after working for a certain period of time.

If you have enough ability and experience, you may have the opportunity to be transferred to the management of a company under the name of Abel.

There are also benefits and compensation to match.

In order to stimulate the work of think tanks, subjective motivation and enthusiasm.

In doing so, there may be other shortcomings that Abel can't see.

But Abel felt that no matter what the system, there will always be shortcomings and advantages.

The advantages are amplified, and the disadvantages can be improved.

Abel actually followed the model of the "Military Aircraft Department" of a certain dynasty in China to make such a nondescript thing.

As for whether it is useful or not, it will need to be seen later.

Alan Baker, the senior manager of the special department, is temporarily acting as the business secretary of Abel's side.

In addition, David Jones was also included in this department.

His duties are the secretary of life, and he belongs to the great steward of Abel.

When Alan Baker came in, he saw his boss staring at his phone seriously.

He stood at his desk and waited quietly.

Wait for a dozen minutes

After the bell.

The hairy cube on Abel's phone failed, the game was over, and he looked up at him later.

"Ah~ Alan, I'm sorry, I was fascinated by the game just now. Forgot you came in, what?"

The representative of the think tank spoke softly:

「BOSS。 The information you asked us to collect yesterday about the two A's has been collected. Would you like to take a look at it now, or do you want to see it later?"

"Oh~"

Abel smiled and said, "Take it."

In the United States, the English abbreviation is A, and there are two main companies that are relatively large in scale and fame.

They are A Cable TV and A Cinema Company.

In the Chinese context, this English abbreviation can make people think that they are the same company.

But it's not.

In the English context, the full name of A Cinema Line is "E", which literally translates into Chinese as "many theaters in the United States".

& The name of the cable TV station is actually "American Classic Cable TV".

The two are not the same thing at all.

& The cinema chain was acquired by Wanda in a parallel time and space.

But A Cable is a TV station, even if it is only a TV station with low ratings and influence.

It is also unlikely that the United States will allow it to be sold to foreigners, especially the Chinese.

Like some entertainment or what is written on Hong Kong Island.

After the male protagonist makes a fortune, he goes to the United States to buy Hollywood giants or TV stations.

It simply can't happen in the United States.

Even if the boards of directors and shareholders of these companies are willing to sell, the relevant US authorities will stand up and stop it.

Either the Ministry of Commerce or the Ministry of Security.

This is like in China, it is impossible for foreign capital to control domestic TV stations.

A real *** country, which simply will not allow something like this to happen.

It is only those countries that are superficially *** countries (say you Britain and France), but are actually semi-puppets, will let Americans buy their country's TV stations.

At that time, the Marshall Plan injected more than just money to revive the European economy.

At the same time, there is also the chain of "mind control" of the United States.

Abel took the information handed over by Alan Baker, and there were two copies of the information.

One is from A Cinema Company, and the other is from A Cable TV Station.

In Abel's previous business plan, in his own media map.

The last two sectors he listed were theaters and TV stations.

Coincidentally, there are just two such companies in the United States with the same English abbreviation.

It just so happens that one is a theater company, and the other happens to be a film company.

Among the two documents, he first flipped through the information of the thinner A cinema company.

& The cinema chain was founded very early, in 1920.

It also happened to be the golden age of Hollywood, when many movie theaters were born.

Cinemas have the second largest market share in the U.S., with 349 movie theaters and about 5,500 screens in 2000.

This data is behind the first-place Emperor Entertainment Company and ahead of the third-place Summerke Cinema Cinema.

In the data, the valuation of A Cinema is about $1.5 billion, with an annual revenue of $500 million.

The price is wonderful and looks cheap.

You know, this is the second largest cinema company in the United States.

But the company's market liabilities are as high as more than $3 billion.

Again, a company that is insolvent and has debts that far exceed its value.

For this A cinema chain, Abel remembers that after Wanda acquired it in parallel time and space, he was tied to death.

In addition to fame, I didn't make a lot of money, and I kept losing money.

And now

, Abel wants to buy the company.

What was before him was nothing but a prohibitive debt.

There's also a Paramount Act that hurts in the egg.

The bill stipulates that film producers in the United States cannot directly control the channels through which movies are broadcast, that is, movie theater chains.

This bill was originally used to sanction Paramount in the Golden Age.

Hence the name Paramount Act.

In fact, this bill has been weakened since the 80s of the last century.

Viacom, for example, is the parent company of CBS and Paramount.

Its controller, Lei Shidong, has a cinema company under his umbrella, as well as a film company like Paramount.

The very existence of these two businesses is a satire of the Paramount Act.

In addition, if you work in parallel hours, in another ten years, this program will be officially canceled.

It's just that now, if you do make an acquisition, you should run into a lot of trouble.

Those Hollywood giants probably don't want to see Abel buy A theaters when they have MGM.

Because that will greatly enhance MGM's strength in the market.

No one stopped it, all worried about the sanctions of the Paramount Act.

If someone intervenes, it will inevitably hinder the acquisition even more.

What's more, cinema companies in the United States have always been a less profitable industry.

Otherwise, most of the movie theaters are in the city, and the occupancy rate has always been good.

There will be no losses of all kinds, so that it is almost to the point of being sold.

"Is there a way to bypass the Paramount Act?" After a brief glance at the information of A Cinema Company, Abel looked up at Alan Baker.

Alan Baker replied directly: "There is a certain operability. Before Viacom entered the media industry, his main business was cinemas."

"If you're the boss and you want to buy A Cinemas. We thought we could buy a small cinema chain first, and then approach Cinema A in the name of this cinema chain."

"There is some feasibility in this approach."

"The premise is that it has to be fast, and there is a way to get the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Commercial Law to interfere as little as possible. Before other competing companies react, buy a majority stake in A Cinemas."

Abel frowned when he heard this.

Alan Baker said that there is, but there are too many preconditions and too many troublesome conditions.

It is necessary to have the background of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce, and the time to acquire must be fast.

It is also necessary to acquire a small theater chain first, and any step is easy to attract the attention of those Hollywood giants.

Once you get their attention, things can get troublesome.

After thinking about it, he shook his head, "Forget it. Let's not watch Cinema A for the time being."

The Paramount Act is out there, and it's not easy to get around it.

But it's not impossible.

In a few years, when Internet streaming flourishes.

The cinema line has been greatly affected, and companies such as A will be even worse than now.

At that point, the Paramount Act became a nice-to-have.

In the end, it was abolished, also because of the rise of the mobile Internet and the Internet.

As he spoke, Abel flipped through the materials of A Cable TV on the other side.

"AMC Cable TV in the United States, the full name of American Classic Movie Cable TV, was founded in 1984, AMC was originally a pay TV station specializing in the classic old movies of the 50s."

"In 1987, AMC joined the basic cable TV camp."

"By 1989, there were more than 39 million subscribers in the United States."

Turning to this, Abel frowned.

That's 39 million, but that's not very good.

In the United States, there are two types of cable television.

One

One is, the other is.

Translated into Chinese, it is probably the difference between a basic cable station and a custom cable station.

Among them, AMC belongs to the basic cable, and HBO, which is more well-known to Chinese people, is customized cable.

In addition to these two types, there is also a limit wired.

As the name suggests, the latter has a lot of playable content that LSPs will love.

Some of these restrictions are cable stations, and the episodes they broadcast are indescribable for some time.

The plot is dispensable, I was very excited when I first watched it, and I watched too much of it.

The difference between these three lies in the content they broadcast and the fees they charge.

Of course, the most expensive charge is the restriction of cable stations, and the purchasing power of global LSPs is obvious to all.

The second is HBO's custom cables.

The worst is of course that these foundations are wired.

There are many basic cable stations, the most famous are USA, AMT, MTV, and Disney.

Compared with these similar peers, TV A's 39 million subscribers are at the bottom.

Because a lot of times, these basic wires are all in the same package.

Here we have to mention the "cable TV operator" in the United States.

Because of these TV stations, they are really just program content providers.

They are commodities.

There must also be a "supermarket", a channel, to be able to see them.

Like CSC, the real owner of the New York Knicks, is this kind of company.

In addition, the giant Comcast that Abel has always wanted, is the giant of cable operators.

Compared to Comcast, any TV station and the media group behind them are scum!

But Comcast is too far out of reach, and it's not something you can buy with money.

& TV station is.

Over the past few years, A's situation has been getting worse and worse.

Its original film resources are not good, and as a result, in the past ten years, its other peers of similar level have been acquired by media groups one after another.

These media groups have all acquired Hollywood giants.

This is equivalent to the support of Hollywood giants in the peers.

&Nope.

This made A moved by the waist in the film screening.

Obviously, these movie giants with their own brother TV stations obviously can't let A play the latest movies.

& What you can get are old films that have been released for several years, or even more than ten years and decades ago.

& can only rely on TV dramas to survive.

But other peers, they also make TV series.

When they shoot TV series, they also have the support of those Hollywood giants.

& Here again fell to the downwind.

In parallel space-time,

If it weren't for the sudden release of a "The Walking Dead" to continue his life.

If no one wants A, it may go bankrupt around 2010.

"Valued at $1.3 billion"

Looking at the material from A cable TV station, Abel fell into deep thought.

Although the viewership coverage of cable television stations is far less than that of those public television networks.

But those public television networks are all companies that are not so easy to get.

Any one of them, without more than 10 billion dollars, is delusional.

Most of them can't be bought with money, and the only thing that can be bought is NBC.

But if you want to buy NBC, you need at least tens of billions of dollars in cash.

At the same time, it also has to have some resources that its parent company, that is, GM GE, wants in exchange.

& It's much simpler.

There is no big guy behind it, and it is Rainbow Entertainment Media that is the controlling shareholder.

The key is also to operate

Bleak does not make money.

Basically, it belongs to a company that can be won if you have money.

When the information was turned to here, Abel also made up his mind.

& The theater chain can't be touched for the time being, and it will take a few years.

It's okay to do Internet streaming business first, and then kill the Paramount Act.

But to do Internet streaming, you need to consider whether the bandwidth of the American Internet in this era can support it.

This kind of thing just makes Silicon Valley bother, and you only need to burn money to invest.

> Cable TV is not the case, after buying it.

's own media territory can be regarded as the most important piece of supplementation.

Next, you just need to wait for the opportunity or raise strength, and when the time comes, you should be able to buy N.

If you get N, then a powerful media empire will be formed.

Public TV has n,

Cable TV has a,

Film production has MGM,

Entertainment Intermediary AA,

The newspapers have aSmith newspapers,

Fashion has an Isa show,

Basically.

At that time, a media giant will be formed that will not lose to Viacom and Time Warner.

If Comcast could be taken at the same time, it would be said to dominate the American media industry.

But.. Again, Comcast's size is basically equal to that of the United States. Electricity. It's still the private kind.

Its equity is unimaginably complex, and it does not have more than ten years of planning and sufficient strength.

Trying to get it is simply delusional.

"Contact Rainbow Corporation." Abel threw the information on the table, stood up and said to Alan Baker:

"Within $1.5 billion, I want a cable TV station."

"Understood." Alan Baker silently helped the boss pack up the information, and at the same time immediately responded.

"Let's go, I'm going to see if David has closed the net. I should be able to leave the scene completely."

Able smiled and walked outside the office.

Smith Capital's investment in the British pound currency pair has begun to close its position the day before yesterday.

Due to the large amount of funds, it takes a long time to close a position.

Fortunately, the dollar has been going short for the past two days.

This makes the pound, which is the strongest outside the dollar, go up.

Smith Capital's liquidation and exit are several times faster and less difficult.

Originally, it would take at least a week, and if it is long, it may take ten days and a half months to guarantee a high-profit exit.

In terms of time and difficulty, it has been greatly reduced and reduced.

So much so that yesterday afternoon, Abel announced that the lockdown of the Smith Building had been lifted.

The relevant personnel of the company can enter and leave the company building freely.

After all, at this time, even if you want to leak secrets, it's useless.

Who called the pound so sought-after now, Smith Capital is selling like crazy.

The other players on the field, the bulls, are buying like crazy.

There are more buying orders than selling orders, and it is naturally easier to exit the market.

Hearing the boss say this, the former senior actuary of Mingde Fengyi.

Alan Baker looked at the back in front of him, and suddenly felt a little reverence and awe.

Yesterday after the lockdown of the Smith building was lifted, as a member of the think tank.

Alan Baker learned that the boss and Smith Capital had made such a crazy investment in the past week.

The point is.

It's crazy, it's like Las Vegas.

&k's actually made a profit.

The profit is also particularly exaggerated, which makes Alan Baker, whose main customers were on Wall Street before, feel a huge shock.

This ratio of investment and harvest made Alan Baker a little numb after knowing some inside information.

Wait for Abel and Allen

Baker, come to the trading hall on the third floor.

The trading hall with hundreds of people is full of people at the moment.

As soon as Abel entered,

Alan Baker saw hundreds of people applauding and cheering wildly under the leadership of David Mellon.

After a few minutes of this feverish restlessness, he was finally suppressed by Abel.

Alan Baker got a statistic that made his eyes drop.

That's the relevant account of Smith Capital, after the official end of the entire investment cycle.

The account balance was $17.159 billion.

Alan Baker remembers.

This time, Smith Capital's principal is $10 billion.

That's the extra $7.1 billion.

It's clear that it's the profit in this investment cycle!

Seven days or so, $7.1 billion in profits?

With a profit of more than a billion dollars a day, this data simply makes Alan Baker feel like he is going to suffocate.