The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 765: Billions and the Value of the Prize
“Ali’s shares?”

"Yes, I can give you some original shares, but there is a prerequisite: let Alibaba invest in PPS."

Ma Yun looked at the host on the stage and said without blinking, "1300 million shares, plus $3 million in cash."

He went on to say, “Last time you told me about your concerns. I can promise you now, and it can also be clearly stated in the contract that Alibaba will not interfere in the specific operational details of PPS.”

When Lu Yuan heard this, he pursed his lips slightly.

The conditions offered by Ma Yun were indeed beyond his expectations.

In 2013, Alibaba's annual transaction volume reached 1.5 trillion RMB, and its current IPO valuation is 1500 billion US dollars.

Some time ago, Ma Yun valued PPS at 400 billion yuan over the phone.

It is proposed to invest US$14 billion, or about RMB 84 billion, to buy 20% of PPS's shares.

Compared with the last time, Ma Yun’s proposal this time is more generous.

If Alibaba's market value after its listing is US$1500 billion, 1300 million shares, or nearly US$9 million, plus US$3 million in cash, totals US$12 billion.

It looks worse than the last proposal of $14 billion.

But that’s not how the accounts work out.

As a unicorn company in the domestic e-commerce field, Alibaba controls 80% of China's e-commerce market and is highly sought after by capital.

If the market can hold up after its listing in the United States, Alibaba's valuation will continue to rise.

Some industry insiders predict that Alibaba's market value after listing may exceed US$2000 billion, equivalent to the combined market value of the world's largest luxury goods group LVMH, Electricité de France and Airbus.

Ma Yun is also very likely to become the richest person in China.

If the market value after listing can reach 2000 billion US dollars, 1300 million shares will be worth nearly 11 billion US dollars, plus 3 million in cash, a total of 14 billion US dollars.

If the market value can soar to US$2500 billion after listing, 1300 million shares will become US$12.2 billion, plus US$3 million in cash, a total of US$15 billion.

Buying Alibaba shares at this time is almost like picking up money.

Considering this, Lu Yuan fell silent. After all, it was nearly 10 billion RMB.

Ma Yun glanced at him and didn't urge him.

He was quite confident in his offer and was willing to give the other party ample time to consider.

To be fair, he admired Lu Yuan very much.

In just a few years, he has grown from an actor to a person who has the potential to set industry rules to a certain extent.

Yes, in his eyes, PPS has the potential to set industry rules and become the leading domestic video network.

The current mainstream Internet video companies: Youku Tudou, which is just struggling to survive. LeTV, whose fake financial report will sooner or later be exposed. Sohu, whose Zhang Chaoyang is not very enterprising, and Sohu Video is just muddling along.

The only ones that can compete with PPS are Tencent Video and iQiyi.

Tencent has very low originality, but it rushes into various fields relying on its huge user base.

Many times, it does not really value the prospects of the industry, but simply wants to cause trouble for other companies. The so-called large-scale entertainment plan is just getting started, and it is still unknown whether it can be done. It may be abandoned one day.

Only iQiyi, owned by Baidu, has achieved barely acceptable development.

But in the past six months, PPS has come from behind and produced many hit products, and iQiyi has been beaten to the point of doubting its life.

Today, Alibaba has already built a scale in e-commerce that investors can trust.

In order to obtain a higher valuation in the capital market, companies try to expand their size as much as possible before listing and can only make up for their shortcomings in other areas.

The film and television entertainment sector has excellent prospects.

Alibaba is composting for its listing. If you want to invest in video websites, either don’t invest at all or invest in the best ones.

So even if the offer exceeded PPS's actual valuation, he was willing to do it.

It's all worth it.

He firmly believed that the money invested in the early stage would yield a rich return when the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. On the stage, Sabe and Wang Guan joked and said, "The next award is the PPS 2013 Best Screenwriter Award. Let's see which screenwriters are nominated."

Lu Yuan came back to his senses and turned his head: "Mr. Ma, let's watch the show first. I will think about Ali's investment in PPS and get back to you later."

"Okay!" Ma Yun nodded. PPS, he was determined to win.

Although it is the annual ceremony of PPS, PPS is not limited to its own dramas. In addition to individual awards, other awards will be open to film and television dramas from the entire network.

The ambition is obvious.

In addition to PPS exclusive dramas such as Let's Get Married, The Cliff, Eternal Love, My Love from the Star, and Hot Mom, the film and television works participating in the selection include Swords of Legends, The Prequel to Crossing Guandong, The Legend of Yue Fei, Mazu, Everyday Happiness, and Infiltration.
The crown announced: "Best Screenwriter Award, "Let's Get Married", Meng Yao!!"

"Pa pa pa!" The guests clapped their hands one after another. "Let's Get Married" ranked in the top five in ratings last year, which is acceptable.

Screenwriter Meng Yao came to the stage to speak, thanking PPS, thanking the crew, blah blah.

Lu Yuan looked at the screenwriter of the 02 animated version of "The Legend of Nezha". He had a round face, short hair, and looked blessed.

After the Best Screenwriter Award ceremony, Park Suk came on stage and sang "Ordinary Road".

"Wandering, on the road, do you want to leave, via via"

Many guests at the scene hummed along with the beat. Last year, Han Han's "See You Tomorrow" was a box office hit, and this song was also very popular.

After the Best Screenplay Award, there are awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, etc.

When the awards were announced, the guests in the audience began to frown.

Because apart from "Mazu" and "The Rise of the Qin Empire", most of the awards were given to the hit dramas broadcast on PPS.

They admitted that the works broadcast on PPS last year were of high quality, but did they feel a bit like playing behind closed doors?

Seeing this, Ma Yun was also puzzled: "What do you think?"

Lu Yuan replied: "If PPS wants to have the right to speak, it must improve the value of the award. Therefore, it must raise the threshold from the beginning, set high standards and high requirements, rather than awarding awards for the sake of awarding. If I choose to share the pork, I might as well not hold this award. Some things can be compromised, but some things cannot be started."

When he was an actor, he was dissatisfied with the selection results of many awards, always thinking that there was a suspicion of unfairness.

After it was his turn to be in charge, he gradually understood the difficulties faced by the organizers of major awards.

Among the works broadcast on PPS last year, there were too many hits.

Even if the jury tried to remain as fair and impartial as possible, and even if he repeatedly instructed Xu Weifeng that the award results should not make the outside world think that PPS was just being self-serving.

However, it is set against the backdrop of a number of hit dramas such as "The Cliff", "My Love from the Star" and "Eternal Love".

It always seems that other dramas are too incompetent and have no fighting power.

PPS management is both happy and distressed.

Don’t distinguish between pork and pork, and completely ignore the dramas outside. People can just not participate in the PPS ceremony in the future.

So after careful consideration, Xu Weifeng and others came up with the idea of ​​picking the tallest ones from the short ones and awarding some less important awards to these works as a consolation.

Once the PPS Ceremony has completely established its foothold, and once the audience has become accustomed to the Ceremony and recognizes the value of the awards, the practice of dividing the pork will be completely abolished.

But this result was rejected by Lu Yuan.

Xu Weifeng and others had beautiful ideas, but once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. Once some things are started, they will leave traces and it will be difficult to reverse them in the future.

"Aren't you worried that they won't come to support the next ceremony?" Ma Yun pointed at her chin with her index finger.

Lu Yuan smiled and said, "No."

He is really not worried. The core of the platform is content, and the fundamental basis of a star is to please the audience. PPS has tens of millions of paying users, and there will be more and more in the future, so it will be no problem to control star artists.

"Oh, so confident?"

“Because they will immediately know how valuable the heavyweight awards awarded by PPS are!”

(End of this chapter)