Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

In fact, just when Jed was maliciously speculating about the grievances between Redstone's CBS and Paramount, Jed also received an email from Yahoo.Yahoo is a company that Jade invested in early, and Jade appeared as an angel investor.Jade has successively invested 300 million US dollars in Yahoo, owning nearly [-]% of Yahoo's shares.

According to the agreement, Jade will transfer these shares one after another after Yahoo goes public, but there is no agreement on the specific time and specific stock price, and now Yahoo seems to be in a hurry.Although Yahoo has just been listed for a short time, its stock price has reached 33 US dollars, and Japan's Softbank, which operates Yahoo's listing, can't wait to reap its own fruits.

What makes Sun Zhengyi angry is that an unknown offshore investment company actually owns [-]% of Yahoo's stock, and he has to share the rest with Yahoo's founder and current management, as well as investment banks such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Sixty percent of stocks, how is this enough?Sun Zhengyi is not a vegetarian, and soon found out that the behind-the-scenes boss of this company is Jed Sherman.

Seeing Jed's name, Sun Zhengyi was a little surprised, because this person's investment strategy is very similar to his own in some aspects.Sun Zhengyi knows that the investment company under the name of Jade not only owns Microsoft stocks, but also Apple and Cisco stocks, which are all companies that Sun Zhengyi believes are extremely valuable in the future.Unexpectedly, the two collided again when dealing with Yahoo's investment.But what makes Sun Zhengyi feel a little bit stuck in his throat is that Jade is one step ahead of himself every time he invests.

What makes Sun Zhengyi unhappy is that on the one hand, Jade set up DVD barriers to allow Japanese companies to pay for patents from him, and on the other hand, he and the Koreans made Samsung mobile phones.As far as the current market is concerned, Samsung, Nokia, and Motorola are three points in the world, and the Japanese have nothing to do with them.Since it is to acquire the Yahoo stock held by Jade, the quotation is very important. Although the Yahoo stock price has touched a high price of 43 US dollars, Masayoshi Son believes that this is not the best performance of Yahoo in the future.But he thought that Jed must think that $43 was an insurmountable fortress, so he made an offer of $40 and sent it.

Under the auspices of Shannity, the companies under Jade's name have been integrated one after another. However, due to the lack of a flagship company in the investment sector, it is still a private company of Jade for the time being.So Sun Zhengyi's quotation email was not sent to the relevant departments of the Sherman Group, but was sent directly to Jade's personal lawyer, John.

John was a little surprised when he saw the quotation email from Softbank Japan, because according to the discussion between John and Jade, although Softbank wanted to master Yahoo, it should not be so fast, right?But to John's surprise, Sun Zhengyi's quotation email had already appeared on their desk.However, Masayoshi Son's quotation is too stingy. According to Jade's estimation, Yahoo's future stock price should be above $100.Although John is not as optimistic as Jed, he also thinks that around $70 is a reasonable price.But this 40-dollar quotation is too underestimating my own side, right?John sneered and made an intercom call to Jed.

"Jed, I think you will be very interested. Masayoshi Son gave us a quotation about Yahoo stock." John said.

"If it's not more than $110, you don't have to look for me." Jed laughed. "If it's less than $100, just return it."

"I see." John hung up the phone gently.A very formulaic email was returned, and the business was naturally out of the question.After answering the email, John leaned back gently in his chair.A few days ago, the family was asking about his intention to return, but he naturally refused.Because since working with Jed, I don't seem to be so repulsive to the affairs of the dark world, so the big brothers in the family have thought about it, hoping that I can go back to help.But John is very clear about the position of the mafia, they can't tolerate a homosexual as their boss, so why bother to be annoying?

"Damn Yankees!" Sun Zhengyi became irritable when he saw this routine reply without emotion, "Could it be that such a high price can't satisfy your greedy mouths! Damn it!"

Now that the way to negotiate directly with Jed has been blocked, the only way to find trouble with Jed is through the current Yahoo management.Now Jerry Yang and Sun Zhengyi still have a common language, because Sun Zhengyi promised to open up the Japanese market for Yahoo. Although Yahoo Japan is an independent company, Yahoo still has a controlling position anyway.But what Yang Zhiyuan didn't know was that Sun Zhengyi's plan was to ask Yahoo to help him form a Japanese portal.

The actual result is that Yang Zhiyuan was played crazy by Sun Zhengyi, and he lost Japan's Yahoo and China's Yahoo one after another.After losing the world's largest Internet market, Yang Zhiyuan was naturally deposed by his shareholders.It's a pity that Yahoo has done nothing after losing the Japanese and mainland China markets. If it hadn't acquired Taiwan's Qimo website, it would have left a foothold in Asia.

But at this time, Yang Zhiyuan has been completely blinded by Sun Zhengyi, as if Sun Zhengyi will open up the Asian market for him and make Yahoo the real number one portal in the world.Therefore, after Sun Zhengyi proposed that Jed must withdraw from Yahoo, Yang Zhiyuan immediately hung up the call on Jed's mobile phone.

"Mr. Sherman, according to our agreement, you will sell your Yahoo stock after Yahoo goes public. But why haven't you sold your stock yet? Violation of the contract is not a good thing." Yang Zhiyuan's tone was quite blunt, and he completely forgot who provided the start-up capital for his company.I also forgot who provided great help during the initial stage of my company, as if the help at the beginning was not help.

Hearing Yang Zhiyuan's tone, Jade sneered and said: "Mr. Yang seems to have forgotten one thing. I promised to sell the stock after the company's listing, but the timing and price of the sale must be decided by me. This kind of force requires me to press Selling stocks at a certain price is not what a company should do to its shareholders, right? If Mr. Yang uses this to force me, then I have no choice but to report to the Securities Regulatory Commission. Finally, I remind Mr. Yang that you I was also born in Taiwan, China, and you should also know the hatred between your ancestors and the Japanese, I think they should have told you about the character of the Japanese. If you cooperate with them, I think you should be more cautious."

"I'm an American!" Jerry Yang interrupted Jade coldly, "and my parents thought that if it wasn't for the help of the Japanese, Taiwan would not be as beautiful as it is today. For me, the Japanese also Well, whether you are Chinese or not, it’s just a title based on nationality. I hope Mr. Sherman will not provoke my relationship with Mr. Sun, this is really despicable!"

Jed shrugged and said lightly: "Since Mr. Yang thinks that Mr. Masayoshi Son is a gentleman, then I have nothing to say. But my expectation price for Yahoo stock is 110 US dollars, take your US dollars, the stock It’s yours! In Shangyanshang, I’ve already given my price, and whether you buy it or not is up to you.”

Jed hung up the phone without listening to Jerry Yang, but he sneered in his heart, no wonder Yahoo became the first giant to fall during the second Internet boom.Yang Zhiyuan's vision is really limited, and his mind is not broad enough. No wonder Yahoo has suddenly fallen from the world's No. [-] company to a company that almost went bankrupt under his hands.Moreover, Jed also felt a little disgusted by Sun Zhengyi's instigation.Jade adheres to the principle of "harmony makes money", so his Sherman Group has been much more restrained than its predecessor, the Sherman Family Development Foundation, but he didn't expect that some people would think that the lion put away his minions to represent himself as easy to bully?

Jade is very clear that the future development trend of Softbank is two, mobile communication and Internet.Softbank not only released its own YahooBB broadband access service in Japan, but also attacked Vodafone Japan in the end, driving this old-fashioned company out of Japan.Of course, SoftBank's biggest investments are in Yahoo, Alibaba and Sprint.Now that Yahoo has been bitten by myself, then Softbank's Alibaba, Thousand Oaks Group and UT Starcom in China must also be mixed by myself.As for Sprint, Jade himself coveted the third mobile operator in North America.

Jed thought for a while in his office, then took a bottle of red wine and knocked on John's office.John turned off all the lights in his office, and only Margaret was quietly guarding the secretary's office outside the office.Seeing that Jed was coming, she didn't say anything.After Jed knocked on the door and went in, he found that John was actually smoking while listening to Paganini's Violin Concerto.Jed put down the red wine and said with a smile, "Don't you know this is a non-smoking floor?"

"Want to dance?" John put out his cigarette. "There is wine and music. It seems too sorry for the atmosphere not to dance."

"I don't care." Jed shrugged.So he danced to the sound of the violin that Paganini claimed could strangle the heart.

"I think you should be very upset with Masayoshi Son?" John was not a fool, so he could see Jed's anger naturally.

"In business, making money with harmony is the most important thing. Is it interesting to step on others to climb up?" Jed sneered, "I plan to set up a technology investment company in Hong Kong, and I will compete with Softbank who will be the Chinese Internet company." future godfather."

"Softbank has an investment bank, which is attractive to all technology companies." John reminded, "Don't forget, Yahoo's success has made all Internet companies see a'bright future', you don't have this attraction force."

"Although the old man allowed me to set up an investment bank, he did not allow me to use the name of East West Bank. He meant that this bank is a way out for Chinese people." Of course, Jed knows that investment is risky, so his grandfather's caution is also necessary of. "Recently, Huamei has successively acquired several small banks on the west coast, which can be regarded as a unified Chinese savings business in the western United States. As for going east, the old man and I believe that now is not the time. Huamei will complete the internal reorganization at present, and I will also It is necessary to form an investment bank to join the future East West Bank Group. Unfortunately, it is hard to find a good investment bank shell.”

"Of course it's not easy to find in the United States." John laughed. "If it were me, I would rather go to Hong Kong to find a bank and then merge with East West Bank. In this way, the newly formed investment bank will be able to operate in the United States, Hong Kong, and even the United Kingdom." listed."