Chapter 072: Wild Manor
"Dear, it's not the same thing. Your ten-film contract is signed with Marvel Studios, it must be a superhero film, and the salary of other types of Marvel films has to be negotiated separately. "The Hangover" is a film of Legendary Pictures, and naturally it is not within the scope of those ten films. Cang Yaozu explained to Jennifer Aniston.
"Okay, then I can't act in a lot of movies, hehe, come on, kiss one!"
"Okay, I'll pick someone up at the airport, where are you going?"
"Haha, I'll go back to my own home, I have a mansion in Los Angeles, I spent all my salary endorsements and bought a big house. This time I went to the NBC headquarters in New York to talk about the salary increase, and now that I'm back, I'm going to continue to renovate my house. ”
"There's a million in this card. Cang Yaozu handed out a bank card.
Jennifer Aniston didn't answer: "What?
"How is it possible, I'm going to invite you to shoot the cover of my CQ Fashion magazine, this is to pay you in advance, and remember what I told you on the plane? All six of you have transferred your brokerage contract to Hexahedron? Of course it doesn't matter how many of them are, you can turn around first." That brokerage has a partnership with my company. ”
"Okay, I'll jump over with my agent, she's pretty dutiful. ”
"No problem, my driver and convoy are below, you can pick a car to use, you also know my mobile phone number, ICQ number has been added, come to me at any time, I have been living here recently." ”
Cang Yaozu hugged Jennifer Aniston and kissed her, sent her to the driver and the team, and let her go home.
Melissa came back from New York today, and she didn't need Cang Yaozu to pick her up or anything, but before she got on the plane, she said that her mother wanted to see Cang Yaozu, so she could only pick up Melissa and meet the old mother who had her birthday.
Cang Yaozu brought a lot of gifts from China, every time he went to visit those rich people, shareholders, he brought gifts, not a valuable thing, but also worth tens of thousands of pieces, it was a handmade silk embroidery brought over from Huaxia, all of which were high-end goods, at least to ensure that each piece was very unique, not to mention unique, it was almost the same.
I picked a hand-embroidered loungewear, not a cheongsam, a looser loungewear, much more formal than pajamas, but generally not worn out of the door, and then an embroidered silk scarf. This is a birthday gift for Melissa's mother, which can be regarded as spreading Chinese culture.
Los Angeles International Airport.
Cang Yaozu picked up Melissa and drove to Monticito, northwest of Los Angeles, where Melissa's mother's birthday celebration was held at the estate of Melissa's stepfather, Mr. Wild. Wild Manor is not in downtown Los Angeles, but in a waterfront mansion in Monticito, more than 150 kilometers north of Los Angeles. The city of Monticito is not affiliated with Los Angeles County, but is a city affiliated with Santa Barbara County.
"I signed a contract with Carl Icahn, $50 million, plus 1% of ICQ's shares, with a guaranteed buyback clause. After calculating the acquisition of Marvel, a total of 460 million US dollars and 6.6% of ICQ shares were spent, and 87% of Marvel shares and part of the debt were obtained, and when the debt-to-equity swap was completed, the Marvel shares held by Cang Yaozu could be increased to more than 95%. After more than a week of full promotion, ICQ has 8 million users worldwide and is valued at $400 million. So the current cost should be less than 500 million US dollars, but the shares are guaranteed to be repurchased, so your expenditure is nearly 7 billion, is it cost-effective to buy Marvel at this price?"
"It's a good deal, what I'm most lacking now is cash, three months ago I was a cashless and assetless freshman, and now I'm worth more than $2 billion, of course, not liabilities, I'm still negative equity, if you count the amount of the guaranteed repurchase clause, I'm now more than $10 billion in debt, hey, I'm really a millionaire." I'm very excited, it's the uncle who owes the money, and the one I owe more than 10 billion dollars must be my ancestors, right, and my creditors didn't send some beautiful bodyguards to protect me? If something happens to me, their funds will be lost. ”
"They sent beautiful bodyguards to protect me, your information is very disclosed, only a few people know, most of the creditors only know about me, the fund manager, don't know which one you are. ”
"How good is that, when I can't pay off my debts, I'll push you out. ”
"I am responsible in the eyes of those retail investors, and you are indeed responsible in the eyes of large investors, and the maximum one billion of these $10 billion liabilities can be counted on me. ”
"Haha, I'm reluctant to push you out, and I still have to rely on you to continue to raise money for me, the money is not enough, I still have to buy and buy. ”
"Didn't you get $500 million from Perelman? 76 million to buy hotmail, inject 50 million, accounting for 90% of the shares, 145 million to buy 55% of Shengdi's shares, inject 200 million US dollars, increase the stake to 72%, and spend 470 million in cash. It took 460 million cash to acquire Marvel, and Marvel spent 60 million to recover the superhero copyright, and then remove the money reserved for Marvel Studios and Legendary Pictures to acquire special effects companies and IP, let's count 150 million first, that is, 150 million US dollars, so we still have more than 600 million in cash, which is not enough for you to spend?"
"There are more than 600 million, it seems that I still have a long way to go. I want to go to England and buy a website, buy a publishing house, buy a football club, buy a semiconductor company, and let's go through it together after the New Year. ”
"You're really going to spend it all, although our fund is a closed-end private equity fund, but you're spending too hard. And what kind of company are you collecting. ”
"Alas, there really isn't much of a good thing, and a lot of it has to be invested again. But after this wave of acquisitions is completed, we can basically stop for a while, and the next wave is our acquisition of Universal plus MGM, and then a bank. The next wave is to buy or break up Disney, and at the same time get the Lakers or the Clippers. After these three waves, it is basically the same, and it can develop slowly. Well, then you can buy a yacht, buy a plane, buy an island. ”
"I'm speechless about how you can spend money, but I can't help but be excited. ”
"Don't just get excited, you have to raise funds, you have to wait for the rice to be put in the pot everywhere. ”
When I came to the city of Monticito, I soon arrived at Melissa's stepfather's house, which was a large manor house, standing on a hill with a gentle slope.
According to Melissa, the estate covers an area of more than 80,000 square feet, some of the buildings have two floors above ground, some of the buildings have three floors above ground, well, not counting the basement there are more than 30 rooms, 25 bathrooms, garages, maid's rooms, stables, and even a helipad. There are also a lot of sports facilities, basketball courts, tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, behind the manor is a small cliff, along the cliff is a circle of glass plank road, you can watch the sea nearby, I heard that there is an elevator to the bottom of the cliff, you can go to the private bath by the sea.
"This manor is much more awesome than my big courtyard in Yandu, it's really incomparable, incomparable. Where is such a estate? I want to buy a dozen. ”