Chapter 20

MGM acquisition?!

Well, Zhuke really has this ambitious idea. After all, there are more than 5000 movies in MGM's film library. These film copyrights are not only the inside information of large companies, but also the fixed income of tens of millions of dollars from TV stations, DVD and videotape markets every year.

However, there is no money!

There is only a little money, but also a part to be reserved for tax payment at the end of April.

"It seems that we have to find a way to get some money. Otherwise, let alone the expansion of the film company, even Spiderman can't shoot."

"System, are you alive?"

“.......”

Zhuke couldn't help but feel very angry. This goddamn system is a piece of shit! Apart from occasionally providing some information about the future, it's not as useful as a 21st century computer.

You are the most useless system!

The idea of making money is wonderful, but the actual operation is too difficult.

Yeah, "Lola Run" is coming. It has a good reputation in the original time and space, but it is not a high box office movie. It's OK to make use of this film to make Wald film stand out, but it's estimated that there won't be much profit at the box office. As for how much profit he can make in the end, Zhuke has no idea. After all, it's not the original film, but his rookie director.

It's too much to expect to make a fortune with it.

"Futures?"

"I remember how fast it came to pay!"

In an instant, Zhuke thought of futures, but he thought of Soros, an economic tycoon.

In 1992, he attacked the pound and made a profit of $1 billion in a short time; The attack on the baht and Hong Kong dollar in 1997 triggered the Asian financial crisis; In 2012, short yen made another profit of $1 billion.

In the period of his last life when he just graduated, Zhuke was very obsessed with the so-called wealth myth. He once studied the stock market and read several reports of Soros. He had a relatively simple understanding of it.

However.

Nima, it's' 96!

There is still more than a year to go before the sniping of Thai baht in July 1997. Where is Zhuke's first choice for making money?

Stock market?!

At this moment, Zhuke thought of the stock market. After all, most of his wealth comes from the stock market, and his money is not as fast as futures, but it is not low. Plus the end of the 90s, this is the Internet blowout period, or where the bubble?

Netscape, Cisco, Comcast, Microsoft, apple, Amazon

For a moment, many names of Internet companies appeared in Zhuke's mind.

Netscape?

Zucker was the first to rule it out!

Yes, Zhuke is relying on Netscape's IPO, but because of this, he is afraid to buy its shares.

Without him, I really know too well.

Netscape was listed in August 1995, and its stock price reached 75 US dollars on the day of listing. In the words of the Wall Street Journal, it took GM 43 years to reach a market value of $2.7 billion, while Netscape took "about a minute.".

However, the boom and the bust.

Microsoft's Internet Explorer came out and has been widely promoted.

The struggle between Netscape and IE browser was later called "browser war". By December 1997, Netscape's share price was less than $20 per share, which could be said to be a total defeat to Microsoft.

"To buy Netscape now is to die, but next year we can short Netscape and earn some extra money."

"Cisco's share price is still rising, but this year's increase is not big (after all, the increase in 1998-99 is amazing). You can consider buying a little, but you won't lose anyway."

Apple?

Forget it, before jobs returned in 1997, Apple was still the rotten apple, half dead;

Comcast?

It is the second largest Internet provider in the United States, with a market value of more than 200 billion US dollars by 2020. It has been in the process of "buying". It is either buying this company or buying that enterprise. The stock market has been rising almost all the time, but the increase in 1996-97 is not very big.

Amazon?

Yes, it's a giant. But man, it's just a company that was founded in 1995. Now it's just a small company. It didn't go public until 1997.

......

All the way, Zhuke found out:

The stock market can make people rich, but as far as I know, it is almost impossible to expect to get rich overnight in the stock market this year!

(the stock prices of Cisco and Microsoft have been rising all the time, which is true, but it's not good to get rich in a period of time.)

For a time, Zhuke's dream of making a fortune in the stock market was broken!

"My God, why is it so hard to make money?"

Zucker almost looked up and sighed.

That night, Zucker hardly slept. When I got up the next morning, I was listless, but I still tried to get up.

I can't help it. Today is early April. The store managers and Finance Department of SpongeBob house will hold a meeting this morning and report the recent business situation.

.......

Alice cafe.

It's a coffee shop near the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood, next to the head office of Zhuke's SpongeBob house, so it becomes Zhuke's designated meeting place at the end of each month.

Save money!

"Boss, thanks to the popularity of toy story, even if it's released, our peripheral products are still selling well. Excluding the costs of manpower, water and electricity, property and so on, the net profit of the head office this month is $70000." James, the head office manager, said first.

"Boss, the net profit of the second store this month is US $63000."

"The three stores made a net profit of $40000 this month."

.......

Finally, the net profit of the seven SpongeBob stores was $345000. Compared with last month's 375000 US dollars, a decrease of eight percentage points.

Down again?

Yes, net profit has been declining since January.

But these junks are acceptable. After all, the popularity of toy story has passed. Moreover, since January, the price of peripheral products, Zhuke also consciously cut prices, in order to enhance the return rate of customers.

As a matter of fact, compared with other movie chain stores in Los Angeles and the profits of single store, Zhuke's SpongeBob house is still in the top three.

The meeting was soon over because of Zhuke's listlessness today.

Out of the cafe.

"What are you doing today, juke?" James has a good idea after the meeting.

"No money, not happy." Zucker waved his hand.

James frowned at the speech.

what the fuck!

With a net profit of more than 300000 US dollars a month, what are you unhappy about? Even if the profit may decrease in the next few months, you can still say that you have no money if you expect to get 3 million dollars a year?!

Of course, James didn't say that.

After all, the two people are at different levels, and they think about different issues.

"Jane, are you really going to buy shares in Yahoo? It's said that this company is not very good. If your investment is not good, you will lose money. "

"It's OK. I'm not going to sell much anyway."

Just at this time, a voice of discussion came into Zhuke's ear.

Yahoo?!

In an instant, Zhuke was excited.