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Chapter 604

The box office of "The Matrix" is very hot. It was released for three days, and the global box office hit hundreds of millions of dollars. It topped the box office charts in America, England, France, Japan and other places. The praise of Song Yang in the entertainment industry is naturally no problem. .

And the technology industry is also proud of it. The popularity of "The Matrix" and the continued soaring discussion have caused the stock price of the Internet industry to soar today. After all, in name, this is a movie that promotes the concept of the Internet. Although in fact it is just selling dog meat.

But at this juncture, it is the most frenetic period of the Internet, and the stock price can be stimulated to skyrocket if there is a slight disturbance, let alone a special Internet concept movie.

As a brother company of Western Films, and also under Song Yang's Double-Click Company, it once again received a wave of bonuses, and its stock price soared a lot.

Another point, as one of the representatives of the Internet and technology industry, Song Yang invested in "The Matrix" this time, and performed quite well in Hollywood. This gave other Internet and technology companies a gimmick, and the technology industry crossed into the Internet industry. Seems to be promising too!
As the first person in the Internet industry to enter Hollywood to eat crabs, Song Yang seemed to have eaten the meat with his first bite, which made many Internet companies start to move.

After all, cooperating with Hollywood is the easiest way to get out of the circle. It can quickly gain popularity. Accountant Jia is the best at this trick. He tied a lot of celebrities to his platform, and finally made a lot of money...

Paulson dropped the newspaper in his hand and asked his confidant Pellet Greene, "Song, where are you now?"

The last time Paulson met with Song Yang was to solve the PayPal problem. Paulson personally went to San Jose to meet with Song Yang. The final result... was that Goldman Sachs, Morgan, Deutsche Bank and PayPal joined forces to bring all the small and medium-sized banks together. Sold it.

Today, Paulson met with Deutsche Bank and several other Wall Street institutions to meet with Song Yang and ICQ executives in order to let Goldman Sachs win the underwriting rights of ICQ's stock. meat.

I have cooperated with Song Yang several times. Goldman Sachs dare not say that it has made a lot of money, but basically it has made a lot of money. The cooperation with PayPal has allowed Goldman Sachs to cut a handful of leeks from small and medium-sized banks. Now Goldman Sachs has begun to transfer some funds , started selling through PayPal, cutting leeks is more subtle, but earning more.

"It should be here soon!"

Pellet Greene put down the newspaper in his hand, glanced at the time and said, his eyes glanced at the newspaper, and Pellet Greene felt that Song Yang did not appear on the media frequently, but every time he appeared on the media , there must be big moves starting to appear, and Song Yang's worth will also soar a lot.

Now Goldman Sachs is the boss of Wall Street, and Paulson is the uncrowned king of Wall Street. Whether it is ICQ or other companies, if they want to go public, they cannot avoid Goldman Sachs, and other institutions can only come to Goldman Sachs.

ICQ went public at an astonishing valuation of US$278 billion, and it needed to raise US$18 billion. These are all things that set new records for the Internet. This is not something that a Wall Street institution can eat.

"Is there any plan between ICQ and General Electric and Comcast?"

Paulson suddenly asked Pellet Greene, which stunned Pellet Greene for a moment, not knowing what Paulson meant.

Pellet Greene, who is familiar with Paulson's character, knows that his immediate boss has always been rigorous in his official affairs, and he did not say these words out of empty words.

"President Paulson, did you hear something?" Pellet Greene asked Paulson tentatively.

Paulson smiled, looked at Pellet Greene with a tense face, shook his head and said, "I heard some rumors from General Electric that it has something to do with ICQ, but the specifics are not clear yet... "

Paulson did not say who was the one who leaked the news, but given the current situation within General Electric, for the position of the next generation head, the scene of open and secret fighting, those opponents of Immelt, to add some obstacles to Immelt, is again It couldn't be more common, after all, he would trip up those opponents again.

Pellet Greene knew that it was not difficult to get some inside information from General Electric with Paulson's contacts.

Seeing Paulson's expression, Pellet Greene frowned, "Bruno Song and ICQ are planning, compared to Disney's acquisition of ABC Group?"

Under the strong wrist of Disney Emperor Eisner, the transaction between Disney and ABC has officially come to an end. Disney has officially completed the acquisition of ABC TV station at a price of up to 190 billion US dollars, together with ESPN, the world's largest sports channel owned by ABC. In the bag, Disney has officially established its status as the world's largest media giant.

In Pellet Greene's eyes, Disney's actions are already big enough. I don't know how much Disney has made from the acquisition of more than [-] billion dollars, but the Wall Street institutions that dealt with this matter have already made a lot of money. Full.

Comparing ICQ's actions with Disney's acquisition of ABC Group, Pellet Greene feels that he already has a high enough opinion of ICQ, and his brain is big enough.

But after hearing what Pellet Greene said, Paulson was only silent for a while, and then slowly said to his most important confidant at Goldman Sachs, "I don't know what ICQ is going to do here, but It should be related to companies such as General Electric, Comcast Television Network, and American Telecom, and it may not even be smaller than the movement made by AOL and Time Warner!"

Pellet Greene looked at Paulson dumbfounded. If Paulson didn't say this, then Pellet Greene must have thought it was a joke.

Goldman Sachs has recently received news that AOL President Keith is quietly in contact with Time Warner President Jerry Levine. This matter has not been reported by any media, but several Wall Street companies including Goldman Sachs The top organization has already heard the wind, because AOL is planning to play too much, and it is absolutely impossible for Case alone to complete it!
AOL wants to swallow the elephant and complete the merger with Time Warner. This is a century-old merger that may exceed more than 1000 billion dollars. If AOL wants to complete the merger, it must rely on the support of Wall Street. Case disclosed the news to Goldman Sachs and other institutions. It is testing the attitude of Goldman Sachs and other companies on this matter.

When Pellet Greene heard from Paulson that AOL was going to acquire Time Warner, he was already shocked. He felt that this might be the first merger in America, but now, he From Paulson's mouth, I heard again that someone is going to play the same tricks as Case, even surpassing AOL!

Pellet Greene was shocked. He didn't know how much trouble Song Yang and ICQ had to play, and it might even surpass AOL.

If this is true, in this kind of big deal involving hundreds of billions of dollars, as long as you make some preparations in advance and hoard more shares in ICQ, General Electric, and Comcast, then by then, it is estimated that the It can make a lot of money!
In the Goldman Sachs conference room, Paulson nodded to the general manager of Deutsche Bank Investment Bank Edison and Anshu Jain, as well as the president of Merrill Lynch Investment Bank Stan O'Neill and the people from Morgan Investment Bank.

Although there were quite a few investment banks present today, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Merrill Lynch were the main investment banks. The other investment banks, such as JP Morgan, were basically just splitting the amount of funds raised to earn some extra money.

Edison, who is rebellious and rebellious, looks down on the Wall Street gang, but he is still a bit jealous of the bald Paulson. Paulson, who has just led Wall Street and shorted Southeast Asia, is the last When the power was overwhelming, Edison also had to back off a bit.

Edison didn't like Paulson, and Paulson didn't like Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, an outsider, especially Edison, who was rebellious and wanted to replace him as No.1 in Hollywood. It's strange that Dichen has a good face.

In front of the gate of Goldman Sachs headquarters, a group of reporters and media gathered, all waiting eagerly.

Seeing a platoon of convoys approaching, a group of reporters immediately surrounded them. When they got out of the car in a lady's suit and a pair of black-rimmed glasses, a large group of media reporters rushed to reach the microphone with long guns and short guns. In front of Erin.

"President Irene, may I ask what is your estimate for ICQ's stock price after it goes public?"

"The valuation of ICQ is as high as US$278 billion. Can ICQ support such a valuation?"

"There are rumors that ICQ's fundraising of 18 billion US dollars is to harvest small and medium-sized investors. What do you think, President Irene?"

"After ICQ goes public, can President Irene's worth exceed one billion dollars?"

A group of media and reporters asked various questions around Irene. Some asked whether the stock price of ICQ would rise sharply after it was listed, and some asked whether ICQ raised 18 billion US dollars. Will it soar with the listing of ICQ and be promoted to the club of billionaires?

ICQ's listing this time, no accident, will set off Silicon Valley and the Internet industry. It is the largest wealth creation movement in history. It is estimated that more than two billionaires will be born, and billionaires may also exceed several digits. As for the millionaires and above, there will be a large number of...

"I believe in ICQ and will not disappoint investors. Whenever you invest in ICQ, it will be the best choice!"

Irene, dressed in mature attire, responded to the reporters' questions with a straight face and a cold tone, telling them that as long as they bought ICQ stocks, they would earn money, and then they entered the Goldman Sachs headquarters accompanied by supervisors and security personnel. .

Compared with Irene, although he is also the co-president of ICQ, Wesley, who is in charge of ICQ technology, has received much less attention. Except for professionals in the Internet industry, the rest of the attention paid to Wesley Not many.

The media's questions to Wesley were also slightly perfunctory, such as whether ICQ will release epic feature updates, whether it will sue those ICQ imitators, and so on.

But Wesley doesn't care much about these, he is now the "father of instant messaging", no matter how many instant messaging software appears, this cannot be denied.

The name already exists, and ICQ is listed, which is a profit!
Wesley is now in the media. Although he is not as famous as Irene, he, like Irene, owns 5% of ICQ's shares. As long as ICQ is successfully listed, he will immediately join Irene in entering the Billion Dollar America Knife Regal Club.

An engineer with a technical background can enter the club of billionaires. Looking at America, among the millions of engineers in Silicon Valley, how many people can do it?
Wesley has both fame and fortune, so what is he not satisfied with? As the co-president of ICQ, Wesley is already an absolute big shot in the eyes of Internet practitioners all over the world!
After Irene and Wesley, ICQ Chief Financial Officer Markus, Legal President Gleick and other executives entered the Goldman Sachs headquarters one after another.

When Song Yang got off the car, the scene became noisy again, and a large group of reporters squeezed towards Song Yang's bee chrysalis.

"Song, the global box office of "The Matrix" has exceeded [-] million. What will you invest in the next Hollywood movie?"

"There is a Hollywood actress who wants to have dinner with Song you. Song, will you accept the invitation?"

"Song, after ICQ goes public, will your worth surpass Buffett?!"

"Amazon will go public in the near future. Will eBay and PayPal, which you invest in, choose to go public?"

Facing Song Yang, the media and reporters in front of the Goldman Sachs headquarters were much more enthusiastic, throwing various questions at Song Yang, and reporters from the entertainment industry came to join in the fun.

The media in the Internet and financial industries are most concerned about how much Song Yang's value will soar after ICQ goes public, and replace Bill Gates as the world's richest man. Buffett, it seems possible to break the wrist.

For these questions, Song Yang just nodded with a smile on his face, and didn't mean to wrestle with Buffett.

Now is the frenzy period of the Internet and the technology industry. The valuations of ICQ, Double Click, PayPal, America Telecom, and Alcatel mobile phones in Song Yang's hands are all rising. The speed of Song Yang's soaring net worth is faster than that of Buffett. There are many more, surpassing Buffett on paper, for Song Yang, it is only a matter of time.

But it's just the data on paper. If those valuations are to be exchanged for dollars, they will shrink a lot. Compared with Song Yang, Buffett has much more cash in his hands.

"Today, ICQ President Irene met with a group of executives, including ICQ founder Bruno Song, and Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, etc. If ICQ goes public, Bruno Song will become the second richest man in the Internet industry..."

In a building not far from the Goldman Sachs headquarters, there are also a group of people gathered here, as well as a group of Wall Street institutions and Silicon Valley venture capital firms.

Bezos and Amazon executives, together with these institutions and venture capitalists, watched the scene on TV a few kilometers away from them.

(End of this chapter)