America is in control

Chapter 318: One step at a time and the share is received (will order tomorrow)
In his first boxing championship match when he was promoted to light heavyweight, General Liu's appearance fee reached an astonishing US$1000 million.

Half of this appearance fee was borne by the New Caesar Boxing Promotion Company, which is equivalent to left hand instead of right hand. His actual income in appearance fees was only 500 million US dollars.

Different from the sharing of various incomes from the event, the appearance fee will be transferred to General Liu's account within one or two days after the end of the game.

Part of the 500 million was used to buy Amazon stock.

As for additional investment in major companies such as Microsoft, Dell, Intel, and Cisco, we have to wait until the revenue sharing of this game is received.

There's not much to say about the recent performance of New Caesars Sporting Goods, which is selling fairly well for its first product in the boxing training equipment market segment.

With the expansion of production scale, the cost of this product will be further reduced, and the market share will gradually increase.

Research on new materials for quick-drying clothes is also progressing well, and it is expected that more unique series of quick-drying clothes will be launched in the near future.

Putting down the report of New Caesar Sporting Goods Company in his hand, Liu Jiang picked up another document and read it.

Since entering April, Yahoo's stock price has begun to surge and rise rapidly, as if it had been given a shot of chicken blood.

The skyrocketing stock price has inevitably affected the mentality of some of the company's management and minority shareholders.

A new idea came to their mind. Instead of struggling to engage in internal incubation, it would be better to directly acquire Internet start-ups.

This is not only simple and efficient to save time, but also helps to increase the stock price.

At Yahoo's recent shareholders' meeting, shareholders representing Wall Street have formally made suggestions to management.

Quickly abandon the internal incubation mailbox project and instead acquire an Internet start-up company that specializes in mailboxes and has relatively mature products.

For this suggestion, Moritz's idea was a little different from that of the two founders of Yahoo.

He is more sympathetic to this proposal put forward by shareholders on behalf of Wall Street, while Jerry Yang and David Filo believe that rashly acquiring an Internet start-up company may lead to internal instability at Yahoo.

General Liu also prefers acquisitions. You have the right to be quick. Now that the Internet wave is intensifying, there are countless start-up companies fighting fiercely on every track.

There is no doubt that whichever company launches a mature product first will take the lead.

At this time, slow internal hatching is not advisable!

Liu Jiang called Moritz and the three of them one by one to explain his ideas, and at the same time introduced Hotmail, a free email service he invested in.

His meaning is obvious. If the alliance headed by Moritz reaches a unified opinion, they can consider acquiring Hotmail, and he will definitely cooperate accordingly.

But Moritz and others did not immediately express their attitude, and General Liu did not force it.

For him, acquisition is good, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't acquire it. The impact is not that big.

Putting Yahoo aside for the time being, Liu will turn his attention to eBay.

As Meg Whitman gradually takes over as CEO, eBay has undergone radical changes in all aspects.

Various rules and regulations have become more formalized, and the company's development has skyrocketed like a rocket.

The number of transactions on the website in a single month has hit new highs, and transaction fees have also been reduced.

eBay was getting better and better, but Meg Whitman didn't dare to relax at all.

She has seen too many start-up companies swirling across the night sky like meteors.

She knows it’s not easy for startups to really take root.

After asking General Liu for instructions, Meg Whitman decisively invested a lot of money in practicing internal skills.

She spent a lot of money to buy servers, upgrade bandwidth, recruit outstanding programmers, and do her best to improve the user experience.

Hard work pays off!
eBay's good auction experience and good reputation gradually spread due to the publicity of caring people, and more and more new users followed.

This in turn caused the number of transactions and transaction fees on the website to continue to skyrocket. eBay entered a positive cycle and began to expand rapidly.

At the same time, under the leadership of Meg Whitman, a special group was established within the company and began to conduct forward-looking research on logistics and payment methods.

Of course, it's not all good news for eBay. The rapid development of any company must be accompanied by some hidden worries.

The first to bear the brunt is of course the threat from America Online (AOL). After Meg Whitman warned General Liu last time, he immediately sent someone to find a professional investigation company to keep an eye on the internal trends of AOL. .

I haven't heard of any new projects being launched within America Online in recent times, nor have I found that the other party intends to support eBay's competitors.

Perhaps America Online's management didn't pay attention to the online auction (online shopping) track at all.

However, this threat always exists, and General Liu does not dare to take it lightly. He is already thinking of ways to solve this problem.

In addition to the threat from America Online, eBay also faces the dilemma of insufficient funds.

It has been several months since the last joint capital injection by Liu Jiang and Pier. Although the transaction fees charged by eBay have been skyrocketing during this period, more has been spent.

The funds in the company's account gradually failed to make ends meet and slowly slid towards the warning line.

A new round of financing is imminent, and Liu will instruct Meg Whitman to start looking for suitable venture capital investors to contact.

It’s time to find a reliable ally for yourself, and it’s also time to find a foolish and wealthy financier for eBay!
In fact, Liu Jiang can afford this round of financing from eBay by himself, but he has no intention of doing so.

It is basically impossible to eat alone in the United States unless you have extremely powerful power and energy.

Generally speaking, only large-scale consortiums in certain specific industries can do this.

The Internet industry is not naturally suitable for being a one-man business, because the risks are too great and the company needs to burn too much money to develop.

Most of the capital on Wall Street and Silicon Valley holds the idea of ​​sharing risks and benefiting from Internet startups.

If General Liu does not play according to this rule, he is likely to be collectively ostracized by these capitals, and it will be miserable then!
Besides, who knows how much money eBay will need to burn to successfully go public, if the funds required are beyond Liu's ability to bear.

Instead of throwing the pot away and letting others manipulate it, it is better to find good allies now and share the risks together.

Anyway, General Liu already holds most of eBay's B shares with extremely high voting weights. It is basically impossible for other shareholders to shake his control!

After roughly clarifying the issues that eBay needs to solve in the near future, Liu will give corresponding instructions and then put down the report in his hand. He picked up the fax sent by Chris and looked up the recent situation of New Caesar Investment Company.

Fatbrain, an online professional bookstore, and Hotmail, which provides free email, have been developing very well recently and will launch a new round of financing in the near future.

The valuations of the two companies have risen sharply, and Liu Jiang will have to think carefully before deciding whether to make additional investments.

As for the Internet start-up companies that Chris is the main investor, the situation is good and bad, generally speaking, making money should not be a problem!
Blog, the online social media platform developed by Li Ziang, has developed so fast during this period!

American Internet users are very interested in this emerging medium, and the number of new registered users of the website is increasing every day.

As the number of users and personal homepage content increased, Blog began to rent more servers, upgrade bandwidth, and recruit excellent programmers.
Currently, the blog only has outgoing items but no incoming items, and the funds in the company's account are approaching the warning line.

Without new capital injection, Blog is likely to face the risk of cash flow rupture.

Seeing this, Liu Jiang planned to find a time to have a good talk with Li Ziang.

Judging from the current situation, if Blog wants to continue to develop rapidly and steadily, it must start financing.

I didn’t expect that! Two Internet companies under my name have reached the stage of financing, I hope everything goes well!

Putting down the fax in his hand, Liu will focus on three companies or organizations that are closely related to his boxing career.

Is the new Caesars Boxing Club self-financed? very good! The next step is to improve hematopoietic function and strive to enter positive circulation as soon as possible!

National New Caesar Boxing Fans Association? well! He is still a loser, but the number of boxing fans is growing quite fast, and he can keep it up!
As for the New Caesar Boxing Promotion Company, the first priority right now is to calculate the revenue share from the last boxing championship match. It is expected that this time it will be profitable.

What's left is the new Caesars Entertainment. Let's talk about the distribution business first. The "Hollywood" bought at the Atlanta Film Festival has already made a publicity and distribution plan.

"Hollywood" will avoid the summer season and officially land in major theaters in North America in the second week of September. Ronald and Klaus have made sufficient preparations for this.

This is the first salvo after the new Caesar Publishing Company changed its name, and it must be launched!

Because "Death" will be released during the Halloween period, the announcement times of the two movies will overlap to a certain extent.

The second half of the year will be busy for Ronald and Klaus, along with the rest of the New Caesar Publishing staff.

As for the production, the "Death Comes" crew is in good order under the management of Jonathan, James Huang, Glen Morgan and others, and there should be no problem in wrapping up the filming phase before the end of June.

The preliminary preparations for "Charlie's Angels" are almost complete, including location shooting locations, studios, shooting equipment, movie shot drawings, shooting plans, and special kung fu training for the three heroines.
Executive producer Jonathan and director Joseph have done most of the work, and now they are just waiting for the summer vacation to arrive before "Charlie's Angels" will officially enter the filming stage.

After staying in the study for a long time, dealing with a lot of things accumulated during this period, it was not until Connery knocked on the door that General Liu came out.

As for why Connelly did not participate in the special training today, the reason is simple. People who walk with shaky legs have no need to participate in training. It is better to rest at home for a day.

After the two had lunch, they were affectionate for a while. Later in the afternoon, Liu Jiang took the time to call Li Ziang.

"Hey, Bro, how are you doing lately? I heard from Chris that you often work late these days!"

As soon as the call was connected, General Liu asked with concern.

"John, I'm fine. I'm living a very fulfilling life during this time! Every day I encounter new challenges, but I can always overcome them. I enjoy this feeling of overcoming difficulties instantly!"

Li Ziang's slightly excited voice came from the mobile phone microphone.

"Take it easy, Brother! There are still many days to come, and I don't want to hear any bad news about you. Do you understand what I mean?"

General Liu warned the other party that he was still more concerned about this little brother Li Ziang.

The two of them have been through thick and thin together, and the other's uncle is his right-hand man. If something happens, it's hard to say.

"Yes! I understand, John, don't worry! I will try to solve all the troubles during normal working hours."

After this period of experience, Li Ziang has become much smoother. This may be growth!
"As long as you have an idea! By the way, I saw the fax from Chris today. There is not much money in the company account. What do you think about it?"

General Liu didn't force anything, he just wanted to stop. Then he changed the subject and got to the point.

"John, a company came to our door today. They plan to place advertisements on the blog. If the deal is concluded, the funds in the company's account should be able to last for a while."

After thinking for a moment, Li Ziang gave this answer.

"Brother, great job! Once the blog has advertising revenue, it will definitely develop faster and faster! However, you must also make other preparations. If the business fails to be concluded, will the company's cash flow be disrupted? ?”

General Liu first praised the other party, and then reminded him tactfully.

"John, don't we still have you? If this deal fails to be negotiated, you will provide emergency support at that time, and then the blog will launch the first round of financing."

Li Ziang smiled, with a hint of cunning in his laughter. This boy had a pretty good idea! However, it doesn’t hurt!

"Ha! You kid! You're getting smarter and smarter! Okay, I'll ask Uncle Li to prepare an emergency fund in advance."

General Liu was not impressed by Li Ziang's cleverness and agreed immediately.

After the two exchanged pleasantries for a few more words, they hung up the phone.

In the next few days, Liu Jiang took a good rest and only maintained basic training every day to completely relax his body and mind and restore his condition.

Li Ziang, that silly boy, is really quite capable. He actually succeeded in deceiving the company that approached him and signed an advertising contract with him.

There is an extra amount of advertising revenue in the company's account, which can keep the blog going for a while.

After Liu Jiang learned about this, he smiled and temporarily put aside his thoughts of urging Li Ziang to raise funds as soon as possible.

A few days later, New Caesar Boxing Promotion Company, with the cooperation of Ernst & Young, finally calculated all the income from the last boxing championship match with the main event promotion company.

The bulk of the event's revenue is naturally the PPV share. This boxing championship fight sold a total of 128 million PPV copies, with an average price of $80.

The pre-fight agreement between Louis Duva and Griffin's boxing promoter was for PPV earnings to be sixty-four cents.

New Caesars Boxing Promotions and Main Event Promotions each earned $1843 million in PPV splits.

　The PPV share calculation formula is: PPV sales * average price * distribution ratio with the TV station (this is usually fixed, 60%) * distribution ratio reached by boxing promoters of both parties before the game * distribution ratio reached by boxers and their own boxing promoters . To sum up, General Liu's PPV share income is 128 million * 80 * 0.6 * 0.6 * 0.5 = 1843.2 million US dollars.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)