Chapter 728： Money never sleeps

In the banquet hall, Jim Pross of Twentieth Century Fox chatted with Michael Eisner, and found that this Disney tyrant was talking too horribly, and took the initiative to end the unpleasant contact and walked towards the side near the terrace. go with.

No wonder the people at Disney are rebelling, and they can't stand a boss like this.

Jim Pross spit out a few words, his eyes suddenly fell on the focus of tonight.

Ronan Anderson was surrounded by people again.

Among them are several familiar faces, from Wall Street's Lloyd Blankfein, the chief operating officer and president of Goldman Sachs.

Howard Johnson, the senior president of Morgan Stanley, and the CEO of Merrill Lynch...

Together, these people represent an extremely large capital force.

They are talking and laughing with Ronan Anderson.

Relativity Entertainment is about to get the support of major capital groups. Jim Prolos has also learned that Netflix is ​​preparing for listing. Wall Street is generally optimistic about this online company. It is said that Wall Street’s expectations for Netflix far exceed this year’s listing of Google. .

A successful listing means abundant funds, more solid partners, and a broader platform and development prospects.

Ronan Anderson shared his most anticipated Internet company with the Capital Group. At least for a long period of time, there will be a lot of people supporting him.

Relativity entertainment will probably take advantage of this wave to accelerate its development again.

It is more difficult for Hollywood to stop him.

At least 20th Century Fox can't do it.

Jim Prolos shook his head. The six major Hollywood companies have never been united, and tacit suppression can be done, but it is impossible to unite against a certain company.

"If Netflix wants to continue its rapid development, listing is a must."

In this small circle center composed of Wall Street people, Ronan talked eloquently: "Netflix also needs to use your strength to develop. We welcome every investment institution to invest in Netflix."

These people are nodding their heads, Ronan's attitude is what they like.

Likewise, they like this person very much.

The development of Netflix has proved Ronan Anderson's vision and decision-making ability. Investing in a company led by such a person can give people a sense of reliability as an investment in Microsoft.

These people have participated in more than one investment, and they are very clear about the importance of a good leader for the company's rapid development.

Today, they have appeared here and have expressed their attitude-they are extremely interested in investing in Netflix in Nasdaq in the future.

Netflix is ​​preparing to go public with the help of Goldman Sachs, and Nasdaq is likely to usher in a star stock next year.

Ronan added: "But you can't rush to go public. The more prepared Netflix is, the greater the potential for future development."

Lloyd Blankfein took the words: "Ronan is very correct. What we are expecting is a high return, and we have the patience to wait."

Morgan Stanley's Howard Johnson also said: "We will wait for the moment Netflix goes public."

"I hope there are surprises." Someone said.

Before a company goes public, there is a lot of preparation work, and often even investors have already been found.

The cocktail party was very successful. After the cocktail party, many people did not leave Los Angeles. For example, major mobile phone manufacturers, including Netflix and Qualcomm, had joint talks in Los Angeles and reached a lot of intentions.

Some people from Wall Street went to the San Francisco Bay Area to visit and learn about Netflix's business.

Netflix is ​​not the kind of company that sells concepts. It has a fast-growing business as its support, especially the streaming media business has reached the final stage of preparation and will be launched soon.

At the same time, with the help of Relativity Entertainment and Embassy Pictures, Netflix will cooperate with Red Bus Pictures in the United Kingdom, Europa Pictures in Luc Besson, and Constantine Pictures in Germany before Christmas. A number of overseas film companies included signed contracts and obtained more Internet licenses related to film and television works.

Netflix's DVD rental and sales business completely surpasses the traditional rental industry led by Blockbuster, and has become an important peripheral channel for Hollywood.

Nowadays, DVD is the most important profit point in the film industry, and the income that Netflix can create from this peripheral channel has reached a point where no film company can ignore it.

Even Twentieth Century Fox temporarily abandoned the contradiction with Relativity Entertainment, and reached a licensing agreement with Netflix.

So far, among Hollywood's medium and large film companies, only Paramount Pictures, which belongs to the Viacom Group with Blockbuster, has not yet opened its library to Netflix.

Netflix’s overseas copyright convergence has not slowed down. Although Netflix will certainly not be able to enter many markets in the future, such as the other side of the Pacific, Netflix will inevitably take the path of internationalization.

At the very least, Western markets are open to Netflix.

Ronan didn't expect Netflix to enter the market on the other side of the Pacific. If nothing else, the problem of piracy would be difficult to solve.

Once, he can also be said to be a direct beneficiary of the proliferation of piracy.

How many people are staring at the high-definition version on the Internet, various download tools are emerging one after another, and some people even play themselves in prison.

Besides, there are regional protection strategies everywhere, and Ronan did not expect Netflix to enter all markets in the world.

The license fee for overseas movies is very low, and there is no industry regulation such as Hollywood. Netflix has successively reached licensing agreements with many overseas companies. By the time Christmas comes, Netflix already has the Internet for nearly 100,000 movies and TV shows. Related copyrights.

This is a very large library, which can provide sufficient work support for the upcoming streaming media business.

At the same time, Netflix achieved 14 million paying users and sold 500 million DVD discs.

This series of data has attracted Netflix's attention.

Coupled with the current sharing of Netflix, who has constantly published all kinds of fierce materials in the black movement, Netflix is ​​already a veritable star company in Silicon Valley.

The limelight has even overshadowed Google, which just went public this year.

Lehman Brothers contacted Ronan again quietly, expressing willingness to invest in Netflix, but not after Netflix was listed on the Nasdaq, but now.

They offered an offer that seemed impossible to be rejected.

The single share price is US$80 and it will acquire 10% of Netflix's shares for US$1.6 billion.

In other words, Lehman Brothers valued Netflix at US$16 billion!

This offer can make many people go to their heads? Google went public in August this year, with a single issue price of US$85 and a total market value of US$23 billion.

Listing is not only financial and mathematics, but also a magic trick. The listing magic that has been optimistic and smashed in the past is not rare.

According to the Google listing situation, Lehman Brothers once again offered Netflix a pretty good offer.

But today's Netflix is ​​not what it used to be.

After Relativity Entertainment entered Netflix, Ronan provided not only development ideas and future decisions, but also relatively abundant funds. On the basis of the original DVD rental and sales business, Netflix also developed video and social networking. Big business, won Android, is actively building a smart phone alliance, and then streaming media business will be listed.

Regardless of the future of Lehman Brothers, it is not difficult for people like Ronan to analyze Wall Street's attitude towards Netflix. Netflix's future listing will at least not be worse than Google.

Therefore, Ronan did not hesitate to reject the friendship hand extended by Lehman Brothers again.

Soon, gossip began to circulate that some Wall Street companies would attack Netflix's listing plan.

But Netflix was not fighting independently, and Goldman Sachs quickly stepped up to stabilize the situation.

Lloyd Blankfein directly pointed out on the Goldman Sachs board of directors that in the operation of this Netflix listing and financing, Goldman Sachs' dedication may receive more than ten times the return in the future!

The Netflix development data he provided for the past two years quickly convinced Goldman Sachs.

As long as it is profitable, Goldman Sachs doesn't mind standing with the devil.

On Wall Street, money never sleeps.

The talks between Mark Randolph and Qualcomm and several major mobile phone manufacturers ended temporarily after reaching a few preliminary intentions.

A Netflix network that is not strong enough, let alone dominate the alliance, it is very difficult to even promote the establishment of the alliance.

Business alliances can only be discussed step by step, but the key lies in the Naifei network itself Compared to Netflix, Blockbuster has fallen into a difficult situation.

In the past, 70% of Americans could find a Blockbuster chain store within a 10-minute drive. At its peak, Blockbuster had more than 8,000 physical stores in the United States, which can be said to be the ultimate.

Over the past two years, Blockbuster has continued to lay off branches with troubled performance. Currently, there are only more than 5,000 stores left in the United States.

In addition, Viacom’s acquisition of Blockbuster is more for the need for capital operation. It is not particularly concerned about Blockbuster. It draws a large amount of cash flow from Blockbuster every year. Nowa Support is far from enough.

Sam Redstone directly abolished the chief executive officer of Blockbuster, replaced a new helm who knew the Internet industry better, and prepared to transform Blockbu into the Internet leasing industry.

A huge aircraft carrier still has loopholes everywhere. It is not ordinary difficulty to complete a U-turn in an extremely short time.

Netflix has already dumped other companies too far in the DVD Internet rental business.

When Christmas arrived, Ronan hosted a Christmas party at his home, inviting friends who were not in Los Angeles and were single to come to the party.

To some surprise, the old fox Angela Lindevo also came after hearing about it.

"May not meet again."

After the party, Angela Lindevo said to Ronan: "Just as a last memorial."

Ronan certainly doesn't rush people rudely, he must meet the needs of the guests.

Angela Lindevo first went upstairs to take a bath, leaving Ronan to send away other guests.

Sending off James Wen, Ronan received a text message: The fort has been set up, when will the gunner be in place?

https://

Genius remembers this site address in one second:. Mobile version reading URL: