The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 230: Emptying the family assets and completing the acquisition

“What about Facebook?”

This time when I came to the United States, in addition to solving the Apple issue, another urgent matter was Facebook.

Since the beginning of this year, after several global hot events, Facebook has gradually become a gathering place for netizens from all over the world to watch the drama.

For many netizens who now need to use browsers to search for information online, the emergence of Facebook undoubtedly provides them with a platform to directly obtain the hottest news in the world.

Under such circumstances, some basic institutions and even some government offices in the United States and around the world have already noticed this platform.

Zhang Chen didn't dare to ask about these things over the phone or email, for fear of being monitored.

Although there is also the risk of being discovered face to face.

However, compared with the risks on the Internet, if you are well prepared in real life, the chance of being discovered will be much smaller.

"Many fund companies have contacted me. According to the boss's idea, I have transferred most of my shares to some shell companies."

According to Zhang Chen's plan, he will not have much relationship with Facebook on the surface. Even if he holds shares, the proportion will not be too high.

However, the total shareholdings of the shell companies he controls need to be maintained within a safe value to try to prevent the company's voice from falling into the hands of others.

These are all he can do. After all, it is a company on someone else's territory. Whether he can make money and do something with the company depends on fate. He will not force it.

"Let's sell some of our shares to select some strong global companies, so that these companies won't cause trouble in the future."

"Ok."

William nodded. This piece of cake was too big for Zhang Chen to eat and digest alone. He could only introduce some powerful companies to provide support.

July 7th is the day Microsoft stops mainstream support for Windows 10.

Du Zhining came to the United States on behalf of "Morning Light Music" and held a large-scale press conference with Apple.

Zhang Chen did not attend the press conference. President Du Zhining signed the relevant agreements on behalf of the company throughout the entire process.

1. M&G Music (U.S.) will invest $8.2 million in cash to acquire 12.1% of Apple's shares.

2. M&G Music (U.S.) exchanged 5% of its shares for 11.3% of Apple’s shares.

3. M&G Music has entered into a strategic partnership with Apple Inc. and will open 99% of its digital music copyrights to Apple Inc.

This is the main information. The other contents of the agreement are mainly the details of the future cooperation between the two companies.

The most important one is that Morning Glory Music will not directly participate in Apple’s decision-making, and will hand over this part of the rights to Steve Jobs.

This is one of the main reasons why Morning Glory Music was able to complete this deal.

Another reason for the success is that the main body of the transaction is Morning Glory Music (USA), not its parent company in China.

After the transaction, Apple's largest shareholder has become Morning Light Music (U.S.), with a shareholding ratio of 23.4%.
Apple has also successfully entered the list of shareholders of Morning Glory Music (United States).

Although he is not the largest shareholder of Apple now, if his invisible companies are included, his shareholding ratio will reach 34%.
However, this will not be the final shareholding ratio.

After all, Apple will also carry out a series of capital operations for the development of the company in the future, such as issuing new shares, which will continuously dilute the shares of the original shareholders.

However, in order to raise funds for the company, this method is also the basic operation of listed companies.

If Morning Glory Music (U.S.) does not reduce its holdings, its final shareholding in Apple should be around 10%.

After the equal-proportional dilution of Morning Light Music (Beautiful Country), the shareholding ratio of shareholders has also changed:
Morning Light Music (China) 38%
CGT28.5%
Warner Music Group 9.5%
Universal Music Group 7.6%
Apple 5%
Sony Music Group 4.75%
Zhang Chen holds 6.65% of the shares
This should be the final shareholding ratio before Morning Music (USA) goes public.

After the listing, each shareholder's shareholding ratio will be further reduced by 25%, and Zhang Chen's personal shareholding will also be reduced to 4.9875% after the company's listing, which is less than the baseline of 5%.

Before Du Zhining and Apple signed a series of agreements, Zhang Chen had actually reached a deal with Steve Jobs.

Pixar’s current market value is approximately US$36 billion, and Steve Jobs’ 50% stake is worth approximately US$18 billion.

This left Boss Qiao with only 0.1% of his shares.
However, since a joint action agreement has been signed, Boss Qiao is actually still the actual decision-maker of this company.

In these two transactions, Zhang Chen spent a huge price to acquire the two companies, while Steve Jobs not only successfully retained control of Pixar Animation, but also gained greater voice in Apple and $18 billion in cash.

It seems that Zhang Chen spent money to help Boss Qiao.

But in fact, Zhang Chen reaped the future of two companies.

After all, these are shares in a trillion-dollar company and a shareholder seat in Hollywood's most profitable film and television company.

After Zhang Chen completed these two transactions, he had basically spent all his cash.

This is also thanks to the strong money-making ability of Morning Music (USA). Since February, it has basically brought Zhang Chen a stable profit of more than 1 million US dollars, and that money has basically been spent on acquiring Apple shares.

The 18 billion yuan he had on hand was raised by selling some stocks with little room for appreciation. He also raised a larger amount of money by mortgaging some of his properties.

However, it was only from this year that Zhang Chen's industry began to develop along the normal path of company development.

After all, which decent company would not have any loans at all?

Only those who use the money from low-interest loans from banks to invest in projects with higher returns can be considered a qualified investor.

"Huh, I'm finally done." Zhang Chen stretched lazily while walking in the crew of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

It is now July 7th, and Zhang Chen has finished all his work in the United States.

Holding the original shares of two companies with a future market value of trillions of dollars does not mean that he can sit back and relax. He also has to be wary of the United States doing some weird things.

However, in this matter, he can only make some precautions in advance, and cannot prevent such a thing from happening. He can only do his best and leave the rest to fate.

As for Facebook, everything that should be done has been done. It just depends on how many shares William can keep for him.

"Boss, you have to cooperate with the crew from now on. If you don't finish your scenes, the crew won't be able to move on."

Lin Fen, who was already a contracted director under Chen Guang, came up to Zhang Chen and gave him a reminder.

In Yongkang, the crew has already filmed more than half of the plot, and now all that’s left is Zhang Chen’s shots.

If the male lead Zhang Chen skips work again, the crew will really have to shut down.

After all, the crew of Chen Guang now shoots according to the method of completing all the scenes in one scene, so if Zhang Chen’s shots are not completed, the set will have to be kept, which will delay the crew’s move to the next location for shooting.

"Okay, where's our fairy sister?"

Zhang Chen nodded to show that he understood, and said a name that made everyone present laugh.

The title "Sister Fairy" naturally refers to Liu Yifei, who plays the role of Wang Yuyan in "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", which has been successfully broadcast simultaneously on Capital Television, Shonan Television, Zhejiang Television, Taiwan TV, and Hong Kong TVB.

If we talk about the most popular actor in this drama, apart from Zhang Chen, it is not the other two of the three brothers, but Liu Yifei, who is the youngest.

With the help of Weibo, Liu Yifei's reputation has basically become one-sided.

To the extent that people have begun to regard Liu Yifei as the new generation of "Fairy Sister" after Li Ruotong.

"Yifei should have changed her clothes and prepared for the shoot."

"Then I'd better hurry up and change my clothes, otherwise that guy will blame me again." Zhang Chen said, and his pace quickened a lot.

It's not that he was afraid of this little girl Liu Yifei, but this would delay the work of hundreds of people in the crew.

"By the way, Xiao Xue, find someone to do something for you." Zhang Chen seemed to have remembered something and instructed Xue Yining, "Go and set up a stationery production company, and call it 'Morning Light Stationery'."

"Ah?" Xue Yining was confused and didn't understand what the boss was thinking.

Stationery production, is that the stationery she had in mind?

The kind that produces pens and the like?
Isn't this totally inconsistent with the development strategy of Chenguang Group?
"That's what you thought. Some people say that our industry is backward and can't even produce the tip of a ballpoint pen. Let's prove it to them."

Zhang Chen found an excuse.

As for the real reason?

He always felt that his company, named "Chenguang", seemed to have taken over the body of a company that should appear in the daily studies of Chinese children in the future.

Zhang Chen always feels like something is missing from the study life of Chinese children without "M&G Stationery".

"Okay, okay."

Xue Yining accepted the job with a strange look on her face.

It's just a new company, and a company that produces stationery, which doesn't require high technology. Even if the so-called ballpoint pen tips are difficult to produce, the Morning Glory Group can still invest money to build them.

"Don't underestimate the power of a stationery store." Zhang Chen seemed to see Xue Yining's hesitation and explained, "If we print some of our company's works on these stationery, how powerful do you think this will be?"

"Co-branded product" is an effective promotional method in later generations that has low cost but can reach the hearts of thousands of children.

Many cartoon characters enter the children's world in this way.

Zhang Chen has now acquired a strong animation company overseas, and it is time to find a time to establish an animation studio in China.

It is too expensive to adapt many mythological stories into TV series or movies with real people, and animation can reduce the investment to a certain extent.

Cultural output should start with children.

Disney's animations and Disney's comics all follow this path.

There was no reason for Zhang Chen not to replicate their success.

"Let's go, don't keep our fairy sister waiting anxiously."

After resolving the big knot in his heart, Zhang Chen felt much more relaxed.

Next, it was the long life on the crew.

I hope that during this period of time, other people won't cause him any trouble.

　The data was difficult to calculate. I spent a long time looking up information and using the computer.

　　Don't think that you have too many shares. Companies like Apple will definitely issue new shares in the future, and the shares of original shareholders will be continuously diluted. It will not be the case that there will be a trillion-dollar market value in the future, and the main player will still have an outrageous statistic of 20 to 30 percent of the shares.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)