The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 319 Oscar Day is coming, looking forward to Zhang Chen
"boss?!"

William was obviously shocked by Zhang Chen's words, and his voice began to tremble.

Zhang Chen's words scared away all the drunkenness in him.

You have to know that everything he has now was given by Zhang Chen. If he is no longer of any value to Zhang Chen, then he will return to his old days.

There will never be the same champagne as there is today.

There will never be the luxury cars and beautiful women we have today.

There will never be the luxury cars and mansions we have today again.

There will never be the same level of support as now.

I will never be able to call the shots as I do now.

Everything will go back to the days when we were running on the streets to sell products, just like the protagonist in "The Pursuit of Happyness".

After watching the movie, William always regarded himself as the protagonist in the movie. He felt that Zhang Chen not only used Chris Gardner, an investment expert from the United States, as a reference, but also incorporated some of his own experience into the movie. Otherwise, how could there be the last segment about shorting the United States' real estate market?
Whenever William thought of the scene in the movie where the protagonist Chris Gardner reaped the entire real estate market in the United States and was worshipped by countless Wall Street elites, he felt sour all over.

Now he has contacted John Paulson, whom his boss introduced to him, and injected a lot of money into his hedge fund.

"William, you should have had a very comfortable time during this period, right?" Zhang Chen asked with a serious face.

He already felt that this matter must be related to William.

"Boss, I"

"Come to my place tomorrow."

After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for William to answer.

He frowned and thought for a moment before slowly getting up and walking out of the room.

By the time Zhang Chen arrived at the reception room, the coffee in Sergei's cup was almost empty.

"Sergey, long time no see." Zhang Chen put on a smile and greeted him warmly.

“Leon, I never had the chance to say thank you to you in person.”

Sergei also stood up and greeted Zhang Chen.

After a simple handshake, the two sat down in their respective seats. Xue Yining, who was standing beside them, also handed them some refreshments at the appropriate time.

Sergei lowered his head and drank the steaming Chinese tea, and it was unclear whether he had the heart to taste it.

Zhang Chen was also playing with the teacup and didn't speak in a hurry.

The two of them suddenly fell silent amidst the enthusiastic atmosphere of their meeting, and the only sound left in the room was the swinging pendulum.

Sergey was waiting for Zhang Chen to fall asleep.

Zhang Chen was waiting for Sergey to ask for help.

In this situation, a little initiative can determine the outcome of the next discussion.

For ten minutes, neither of them spoke.

Just when Zhang Chen showed impatience and was about to leave, Sergei spoke up: “Leon, I want to ask if you have any conflicts with Li?”

Obviously, this "Li" refers to Li Yanhong.

"Whether there's a festival or not doesn't matter now, does it?"

"Yeah," Sergei nodded in approval.

Now that things have come to this, it doesn’t matter whether there is a festival or not, or what happened before.

The important thing now is how to solve this problem.

Sergei took a deep breath and put down the teacup in his hand: “Leon, can you let go of Li’s company?”

"Reason." Zhang Chen asked indifferently.

“Shares of YouTube.”

Sure enough, Zhang Chen sighed in his heart.

YouTube has been noticed by Google in advance.

I don’t know whether William’s every move has attracted the attention of Wall Street, or whether what William revealed himself is no longer important.

CGT Video and YouTube are two complementary companies. Now we can see that CGT is making great strides in the long video field, or the Internet film and television circle, but it is still lukewarm in the field of personal videos.

This includes issues of development emphasis and company business focus.

It would be best for a product to be a leader in a field and to be the best in every aspect. Not to mention how technically difficult it is to combine all these functions into one product, the energy and internal development tendencies of the company alone will be deviated.

Then the best way is to set up a separate company, or it would be better to support a company to do another business.

Alternatively, it can be incubated and then spun off to operate independently.

However, it is obvious that Zhang Chen does not have the energy to do more things. With huge cash flow in hand, it is more time-saving and labor-saving for him to spend money to invest in some startups that he remembers and let them develop along the established route.

YouTube is an important part of Zhang Chen's cultural industry layout.

Although this company cannot compare with super large Internet companies like Google in terms of size, it plays a vital role in influencing the world's people's views on an issue or in cultural output.

Zhang Chen would not sit idly by and watch this company continue to make negative remarks about its own people in the future.

He also wants to take charge of the YouTube channel Wuchang.

As for whether it will overstep the line, that is something to be discussed later.

Let’s make the money first.

"Sergey, I didn't expect that Google, which has become so big, would still care about such a small company?"

"We have been looking for companies with great potential in the world, just like you found us and we found Li in your country."

“I think it will be difficult for this company to succeed with the CGT player.”

"So, I came to see you, didn't I?"

"I don't have much to do with CGT." Zhang Chen denied it flatly.

"Leon, I know that you and William have a special relationship." Sergei paused and continued, "But no matter what the specific relationship between you is, it will not affect our cooperation."

"It's getting late, Sergei." Zhang Chen pointed at the clock opposite him, "You'd better tell me why you're here, or I can't guarantee that I'll be awake in the next second."

"Sorry." Sergei also realized that he had said too much, "Leon, let Li go."

"Still the original question, reason?"

It is true that the two are collaborators, but design is a matter of interests and cannot be dealt with with a simple sentence.

"Let's work together to develop the search engine market in your country."

"Not enough." Zhang Chen was not very satisfied with this condition.

“Baidu’s stocks.”

Zhang Chen chuckled when he heard this: "If I don't let go, their stocks will be nothing but a piece of waste paper."

Now that Baidu has been suppressed, if they want to make money from their stock listing, they can only ask Zhang Chen for help.

This is also the reason why Sergey came to find Zhang Chen.

So it's not a condition at all.

It would be better to say that, under the current situation, the venture capital funds that invested in Baidu can only find Zhang Chen to join in and make money together, otherwise no one will make the expected profits.

Sergei sighed softly. He knew that this condition would definitely not work, otherwise he would not have brought up YouTube before.

He had to cut the meat today. He just wanted to take advantage of Zhang Chen's jet lag and the possibility of making some misjudgments, so he hurried over to his house.

I didn't expect Zhang Chen to be so clear-headed at this point. "How about, Leon, tell me the terms."

"Google stock." Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows and put forward a condition that Sergey did not expect.

"impossible!"

Zhang Chen shrugged and didn't care.

He had secretly held a lot of Google stock, and he just mentioned it casually to see Sergey's reaction.

Seeing Sergey's reaction, Zhang Chen confirmed that Baidu was just a money-making project in Google's eyes and was not that important.

Then the next step is easy, it’s just a question of how much money everyone can make.

"Baidu's stock, plus YouTube's shares."

"How much does Lyon want?" Sergei pursed his lips, feeling a little painful.

The founder of YouTube has been on Google's menu for a long time, and it is only a matter of time before Google acquires a stake in it. With Google's help, it is only a matter of time before this personal video website explodes.

Now this situation is no different from giving money.

"Can you represent all institutions?" Zhang Chen raised his eyebrows.

"Correct."

Zhang Chen nodded and said, that's no problem.

It wouldn't make sense if Sergey was only here on behalf of Google.

After all, this is the common interest of all venture capital funds. It doesn't make sense for Google to bear the responsibility and give up its interests alone.

“I want 20%”

"All of us?"

"No, it's the total share capital." Zhang Chen smiled slightly.

The lion is really opening his mouth.

After Baidu launched its IPO, its total share capital was approximately 3232 million shares, of which Baidu's senior management team held 43.5% of the shares, and the remaining 56.5% were in the hands of investment institutions.

Zhang Chen's attempt to take such a big bite left Sergei dumbfounded.

“Leon, do you know how much we have invested to get to this day?”

"What you got is a piece of waste paper?" Zhang Chen looked at Sergei with a smile.

No matter how much time and energy you have spent, if Zhang Chen doesn't give in at this critical juncture, then Baidu's stocks will be just a piece of waste paper.

Baidu is going to be listed in August. If we don’t clean up our mess now, all our previous investment will be wasted.

Apparently Sergei had figured it out, but he still wanted to struggle: "How much is Leon going to pay to buy our shares?"

Buying and giving are two different concepts.

If Zhang Chen asked for little, I would just give it to him as a way to strengthen our "friendship".

But Zhang Chen wanted so much, so Sergei had no choice but to let Zhang Chen buy it, otherwise it would be a huge loss.

You should know that Google only holds about 2.3% of the shares in total, and the majority is still in the hands of other institutions.

He is just a representative and he still has to go back to discuss it later.

“Leon, I can’t make this decision, but I think even if I go back, no one will agree to this request.”

"Sergey, Baidu has caused many families to be torn apart. You should have watched the news, right?" Zhang Chen said with a straight face, "I want justice for those people. I am asking for compensation for them."

Sergei was speechless. He just wanted some money, but he made it sound so high-sounding.

He just didn't believe that Zhang Chen would give all the money he took from them to those people.

"Let's not talk about that for now. What about YouTube? What does Leon think?"

The matter of Baidu can only be discussed with shareholders after returning. Google alone cannot give out so many shares, but there is room for negotiation on YouTube. He wants to see if it is possible to find a breakthrough here.

"My opinion is that without the support of CGT, YouTube cannot develop." Zhang Chen said worriedly.

This is not just bragging.

Currently, CGT is only developing its film and television drama business. If it enters the same track as YouTube and competes with each other, it is hard to say who will win and who will lose.

"Google wants to buy a stake in CGT, what does Lyon think?"

Zhang Chen glanced at Sergei and said nothing.

He has been running this thing on his own for such a long time, and it's not that easy for you to invest in it just by saying one word.

Although Zhang Chen also hopes that some of his companies in the United States can have some "old money" come in to launder the ingredients and make his company less conspicuous, there must also be enough benefits.

"Sergey, it's getting late." Zhang Chen glanced at the clock and began to see the guest off. "We have always had a good cooperation. I hope we can continue to have such a pleasant cooperation in the future."

Sergei didn't care when he saw that Zhang Chen didn't respond. He sighed, stood up, shook hands with Zhang Chen and said goodbye.

Ever since Zhang Chen invested in Google, the two haven't had much contact. It was the recent Firefox browser collaboration that brought the two back in touch. After all, they don't have a particularly deep friendship.

take it easy.

Xiergei was thinking about how to get along with Zhang Chen in the future and left Zhang Chen's house.

For the next period of time, Zhang Chen stayed at his Beverly Hills mansion.

During this period, I only met Will, Michael, and William.

William stayed at Zhang Chen's house for a whole day before leaving, and no one knew what the two talked about.

All we know is that after William returned, he turned down all party invitations.

There has been no news about Baidu, so Zhang Chen is happy to have some free time.

Again, it’s not him who is anxious, but Li Yanhong and the investment institutions behind him.

However, in order to prevent these people from doing anything desperate, Zhang Chen raised the security level of his home by several levels.

He only gave one order: anyone who broke into his house would have their magazines emptied.

This is also the fundamental reason why he did not go out during this period.

However, when it was the 27th, Los Angeles time, Zhang Chen had to go out.

Because this day is the day when the Academy Awards are presented.

This year's Oscars ceremony received more attention than any other before.

Just from the number of spectators on both sides of the red carpet, it can be seen that the number of spectators this year has more than doubled compared to the previous session.

In addition, the number of media reporters has also increased a lot.

The reason for this is, of course, Zhang Chen, a world pop star who switched from the music industry to the film industry and was born in Virgo and received multiple Oscar nominations.

"Is Leon not here yet?"

A reporter stood on tiptoe and stared at the end of the red carpet, camera in hand, afraid of missing any shot.

With so many reporters here today, if your hands are not fast enough, you won't be able to capture the moment when Zhang Chen walks onto the Oscars red carpet.

This scene that is about to happen is hailed as a "historic" moment, and everyone wants to find the best angle.

"Madam, please move aside." A reporter said politely to an oriental woman in a black dress.

"I'm Chinese, I'm waiting for Leon."

　Chapter 4000 8000 words, words today

　　
　
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