America's Road to Fame

Chapter 415 Entering Capital
On November 11th, William Chen started to leave Atlanta and head to China.

The Gulfstream G550 landed at Yanjing Airport first, Chen William returned to his courtyard, and Yang Mi was already waiting for him at home.

When William Chen was not in Huaguo before, both Huayi Company and Yinghuang Entertainment came to him. At that time, William Chen asked Zhang Zhao and Yang Mi, the CEOs of Future Entertainment Media Company, to deal with him.

The purpose of Huayi and Yinghuang, without it, is to take a fancy to the project of Marvel Huaguo Company.

Although the specific shareholder list of Marvel Huaguo has not been announced, for the Wang brothers and Yang Shoucheng, it is natural to understand who is really talking about this company.

What's more, with the series of movies produced by Marvel Studios under MGM Pictures in the [-]th century, the Marvel Universe has caused a stir around the world. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that almost all superhero copyrights have been withdrawn. MGM Pictures in the [-]th century, and the Marvel Universe series of movies that will withdraw next, are so rich.

It is worth mentioning that at the beginning, William Chen took back the right to change the follow-up of the Spider-Man series from Sony at a price of US$5 million. This matter has been announced, and it has attracted a lot of ridicule, thinking that he is a fool with money many.

At that time, the Spider-Man trilogy had almost exhausted the potential of the Spider-Man IP in recent years, and initially Sony bought the right to change Spider-Man for only 2000 million U.S. dollars. At that time, William Chen spent 50 times the price To buy back the right to change will naturally not be understood.

But now, all the pressure is on Sony. Everyone has to admit that William Chen's deal, spending 5 million US dollars to recover the rights to adapt Spider-Man, is really wise.

Especially after Marvel Studios launched "Iron Man 3" this year and achieved unprecedented success, some people even set the valuation of Spider-Man IP at 50 billion US dollars, although most people think this valuation is too high, but It is widely recognized that its value is well over $5 million.

For this, William Chen just hehe, this is just the beginning, if they can know that in their previous life, after Disney bought Marvel, when the "Avengers" series became the most successful superhero movie ever After that, they hoped to buy back the adaptation rights of Spider-Man from Sony Pictures, but the other party offered a price of 100 billion US dollars. I don't know how they would feel?

In addition, Disney later spent more than 700 billion US dollars to buy 21st Century Fox, and what the public cares most about this deal is that Disney can take back the copyrights of the X-Men and Fantastic Four... What a crazy Marvel Universe.

Back to Huayi and Yinghuang, they are also optimistic about the development of Marvel Huaguo, so they hope to start with William Chen, even if they invest in movies to earn some broth.

It's not about how much money they can make by investing in these things, but once they participate, they can also eat fat through the capital market.

Just like after the news that the two companies participated in the second episode of "Extreme Game" came out, the income earned by the two companies from the capital operation of the stock market alone was already higher than their income from making movies... …

Not to mention that if you can stuff your own actors into these projects, even if they are not the protagonists, they are already the best resources.

However, William Chen was not in Huaguo at the time, and it was Zhang Zhao, the CEO of Future Entertainment Media Company, and Yang Mi, the boss of Weimi Investment, who talked to them about this matter. These two were representatives of the major shareholders of Marvel Huaguo.

After the Wang brothers met Yang Mi, they were also very emotional - back then, this girl was just a new flower, and Hua Yi could easily pick out such a female star.

At the beginning, she joined William Chen, and even entered Huayi's banner. At that time, although their brothers were polite to her on the surface, they just looked at William Chen's face, but they didn't think so in their hearts.

But it’s completely different now, let’s not talk about Yang Mi’s current connections and the right to speak in the entertainment industry through Weimi’s investment, but her net worth at this time. Far.

Let’s just talk about HEYTEA Company. She originally owned 60% of the company’s shares, and later transferred 5% to Tang Yan and Liu Shishi each, leaving the remaining 50% of the shares.

Earlier this year, after Heytea’s valuation reached 50 billion, Heytea Catering merged with HT Asset Management, which holds the property rights of more than 300 stores...

After merging with HT Asset Management Company, HEYTEA Company has become a first-tier and second-tier city in China, with more than 500 directly-operated stores, of which more than 300 stores have their own property rights, and are still rapidly expanding in China. The No. [-] brand of new milk tea.

After the merger, the shares of Heytea Company also changed. HT Asset Management Company, which was merged into Heytea Company, owned 30% of the shares of Heytea Company after the merger. Mi holds 35% of the shares, Tang Yan and Liu Shishi each hold 3.5% of the shares, the management's equity incentive pool owns 7% of the shares, and Huaxia Future Capital holds 21% of the shares.

However, the original HT Asset Management Company was privately held by William Chen. After the merger, he personally distributed 30% of the HT Asset Management Company's shares to Yang Mi and Tang Yan respectively. 5% of Heytea shares, and Liu Shishi, who has his child, 10% of Heytea shares, and the final 10% will be merged into Huaxia Future Capital’s shareholding.

In this way, the final shareholding ratio of HEYTEA Company became 40% for Yang Mi, 31% for China Future Capital, 13.5% for Liu Shishi, 8.5% for Tang Yan, and 7% for the management equity incentive pool.

In the just-concluded A-round financing of HEYTEA, HEYTEA raised 250 billion Chinese dollars at a post-investment valuation of 25 billion Chinese dollars, which will be used for store expansion, quality control system construction, self-owned orchards and tea planting base construction etc.

The financing this time caused a sensation in the entire Huaguo, becoming the largest company A round of financing in recent years. Participating in this financing includes well-known investment companies such as Alibaba's Yunfeng Fund, Yida Investment, and IDG Capital.

After this financing, Yang Mi’s shareholding in Heytea Company was 36%. According to the valuation of this financing, only her shareholding in Heytea Company pushed her net worth to 90 billion Chinese dollars. So her name is destined to enter next year's Forbes list...

At this time, Yang Mi has successfully completed the transition from an actor to a capital, and he is not in vain in the face of the once unattainable Wang brothers of Huayi Company and Boss Yang of Yinghuang Entertainment.

When we met, she said:

"Sorry, Mr. William recently went to Europe for business, and asked me to come over with Mr. Zhang to discuss cooperation with you."

"Don't dare, don't dare, we've seen it on the news, Mr. William is busy with big things, we don't dare to bother him with these small things."

Boss Yang was still very smart, and when he heard Yang Mi's words, he quickly replied like this.

In fact, although Yang Mi said sorry at the beginning, but the meaning is quite clear, just like what Boss Yang said, the business that William Chen is now involved in is tens of billions of dollars in business, like what happened to them this time, It is indeed not that big, and it is normal to hand it over to the people below.

(End of this chapter)