The richest person in Chinese entertainment

Chapter 383: Zhang Chen is a traitor?

Zhang Chen spent most of the first half of December handling the handover of work between Disney and Pixar Animation.

This time when he joined Disney, he did not give up his voting rights like he did at Pixar Animation.

There was no clause in the transaction regarding the ownership of Zhang Chen's voting rights.

Because before the completion of this transaction, their shareholders had increased their holdings to varying degrees, so according to the current situation, Zhang Chen’s joining actually does not bring about any fundamental changes to Disney’s power structure.

The management that originally controlled Disney still holds more than 57% of the voting rights.

For them, as long as they have control over the company, Zhang Chen’s votes are not important.

What's more, during this period of time, they were also trying to develop Zhang Chen into one of their own.

Under such circumstances, it would be even less likely for them to force Zhang Chen to hand over the power in his hands.

Otherwise, at this point in time, the relationship between the United States and China is still good. In a few years, it would be impossible for Zhang Chen to accomplish this.

After finishing his work at Disney, Zhang Chen rushed back to his mansion in Beverly Hills.

It's been a long time since he last came.

In the past, he would rent out the villa to maintain its popularity and maintenance costs.

But after Zhang Chen realized the importance of security and privacy, the house was never opened to the public again.

"Boss, I got what you wanted."

"All those people I told you about?"

Zhang Chen took the videotape handed to him by William without asking how he got it.

This is something William should consider, he only wants the result.

"Both!" William's face was flushed with excitement. "Is the boss planning to kick Gates off the throne of the richest man?"

"No!" Zhang Chen shook his head decisively, "I'm just keeping it in case of emergency."

William looked regretful when he heard this.

There are not many people in this world who know Zhang Chen’s true wealth, but he may be one of them.

Why is it possible? It is because he doesn't know whether Zhang Chen has more wealth in a place he doesn't know about, just like he has hidden it from the whole world and let him manage the company.

There may be one or more companies in this world with Zhang Chen's shadow behind them.

Even if we put aside the wealth that he doesn't know about, just the wealth that he knows about.

Zhang Chen’s stake in Morning Music exceeds 35%, and this does not include the shareholding of Zhang Chen in the parent company of Morning Music.

Even if the parent company holds only 50% of the shares, Zhang Chen's actual shareholding in Morning Light Music (Beautiful Country) is more than 60%, and it may be 70% or even %.
Then according to the shareholding ratio of Morning Light Music (USA) in Facebook and the dispersed shares that he helped transfer, Zhang Chen’s actual shareholding ratio in Facebook exceeds 60%.
Based on the current valuations of the two companies and the market's response to their IPOs, Zhang Chen's shares in these two companies alone exceed US$400 billion.

In addition, others may not know it, but he knows clearly that his boss is also a shareholder of two other listed companies.

First, let's take Google. Its current share price is around $450. Although he doesn't know how much stock Zhang Chen got when the two founders started the business, he estimates that it was no less than 20%.
According to this guess, after Google's IPO, his boss should still own no less than 15% of Google's shares, or about 4050 million shares.

In other words, his boss has at least $180 billion at Google.

In addition, Apple originally exchanged $8.2 million in cash and 5% of its shares for 11.3% of Apple's shares.

Based on his boss' 60% shareholding in Morning Music (USA), 60% of the Apple shares held by Morning Music (USA) belong to his boss.

A total of 9800 million shares were initially exchanged, and after a 2:1 stock split, it now becomes 1.96 million shares.

Based on Apple's current share price of $70, this is another $140 billion.

William had no idea which companies his boss still held shares in, nor did he calculate the value of the companies he knew about but that were not listed.

Based on the information of these listed companies he knows, his boss’s wealth is at least over 720 billion US dollars!
And in March 2005, how much was the wealth of Bill Gates, who is currently ranked first on the Forbes Rich List?
465 billion dollars!
Even though it is already the end of 05 and the new Forbes Rich List is about to be updated, no matter how it is updated, Gates' wealth cannot double in one year.

In other words, if his boss revealed his hidden wealth, he would immediately become the richest man in the world!
Thinking of this, William looked at his boss, who was 10 years younger than him, with eager eyes.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Chen got goose bumps all over his body when William stared at him. The look in his eyes was like seeing a woman. He said with a little disdain, "Could it be that because I asked you to work for Puff Daddy, you also picked up his hobbies?"

"No, no!" William shook his head frantically. He felt sick when he thought about the scene he saw there. "I was just thinking, everyone else is fine, why did the boss specifically want that Brother Ni's video?"

"It's not needed now, but it will be needed in two years." Zhang Chen smiled without saying anything.

Although he would not host such a party like a certain island owner and P. Diddy, it would be no problem for him to provide some special equipment to take some photos there.

And according to the nature of these wealthy people, they might actually take photos as a souvenir.

It’s just that P. Diddy has the person Zhang Chen needs.

This thing is both a death talisman and a life-saving talisman. If used properly, it can ensure his safety for eight years between 08 and 17.

"Ok!"

William nodded and stopped asking questions. He felt from the beginning that his boss had a forward-looking vision. As far as investment was concerned, the so-called stock god Buffett was not even worthy of carrying his boss' shoes.

He had never seen a person whose wealth could expand to the position of the world's richest man when he was only in his early 20s.

Monster, this is how William described his boss.

So maybe this time it was my boss who saw through certain things with his forward-looking vision.

Thinking of this, William suddenly asked: "Boss, can you see how old I can live to?"

Hearing this, Zhang Chen narrowed his eyes and stared at William without saying a word.

"Hey!" William was startled by Zhang Chen's sharp eyes and quickly waved his hand in response, "I was just asking casually."

"Do your job well and don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. I guarantee you'll live to be 100 years old." Zhang Chen then said meaningfully, "Otherwise."

"I understand, I understand!" He nodded hurriedly for the next year.

Why does he listen to Zhang Chen so much?
The security personnel, servants, assistants, secretaries and others in his home are mainly yellow-skinned.

Many people have asked him this question, and his answer is always that this type of people are meticulous and hardworking.

What is the actual situation?
Only he himself knows the answer.

Moreover, a large part of his family moved to China one after another since he followed Zhang Chen, including his daughter who was born not long after he met Zhang Chen.

And the strange thing is that no matter how many beauties he found to sow seeds in recent years, no fruits were ever produced.

He suspected that someone had tampered with his body, but he had no evidence.

And he didn't dare to doubt this person.

As for betrayal?

Regardless of whether he could withstand his boss's wrath, given his control over the company and his family, he would probably be caught red-handed if he made any move. Besides, he was now a darling of Wall Street, and his life was completely different from before he met his boss.

As long as he can guarantee his loyalty, most of Zhang Chen's glory will be experienced by him openly. He must be mentally ill to think of betrayal.

Moreover, compared to himself, he felt that his boss might not be living as well as he was.

After all, he has a large group of beauties all over the world, and his boss
"What's with that look in your eyes?" Zhang Chen frowned and looked at William's slightly pitiful eyes, "Have you been a little bit arrogant recently?"

"No, no!" William really wanted to slap himself. He quickly explained, "I just think that since your wealth and status are so high, why don't you hurry up and find a few women to give birth to a few children for you? This will also stabilize the confidence of your company's management and investors."

"Didn't you learn anything from that P. Diddy queue this time?"

"A blood test before doing it?"

Zhang Chen was speechless. Did he really learn it?

"William, don't let me rescue you one day because of a woman's matter. And..." Zhang Chen looked at William's expression seriously, "Do you really not want to think about your wife and children?"

"The group of people around me now are just playing around." William quickly clarified.

Perhaps he felt that it was not firm enough, so he repeated: "Yes! It's just for fun."

Zhang Chen stared at it for a while, and finally nodded to indicate that he understood.

If William's wife and children are no longer trusted, then he has to think about how to provide additional insurance.

"How is the reorganization of the company I asked you to buy going?"

"YouTube?" William straightened his face. "Our management has taken over for a while, but recently Google suddenly came to us and said they were interested in buying the company."

Zhang Chen's expression did not change when he heard the news.

Originally in Google's plan, YouTube was a part of their expansion of the Internet territory, and now that he had taken it over in advance, it was within his expectations that it would come to him.

"Don't worry about it for now, we'll run the company ourselves."

"But we only spent 1000 million US dollars when we bought it. This time Google's offer is no less than 10 billion US dollars, which means a 200-fold return!" William advised.

William, who had absolute confidence in Zhang Chen's investment vision, had no objection to his boss spending $500 million to buy a startup company.

Facts have also proved that Zhang Chen has a far-sighted investment vision.

Google's current offer is proof of this.

But since you have already made a 200-fold profit, why not cash out?
"William, do you think I'm short of money?" Zhang Chen pointed at himself and asked a question.

"Uh," William suddenly realized, but he asked another question, "What if Google is doing something bad behind the scenes?"

“Is my Firefox vegetarian?”

"That's right." William had to admit that his boss did have the confidence.

At this time, Google had not yet developed its own browser.

With Zhang Chen's huge investment, Firefox has recruited many high-end talents from all over the world to continuously improve this browser.

At present, at least 10 out of 7 computers in the world are installed with Firefox.

Google's annual "service" fee to Firefox also increased from $2 million to $5 million.

Although he cannot tear up the contract, he also has countermeasures if Google dares to play tricks on Zhang Chen's investment projects, unless Google can launch its own browser in a short period of time.

Moreover, it has to be promoted to the whole world in a short period of time and be comparable to the Firefox browser that Zhang Chen created by spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year to hire people to write code day and night.

Today's Zhang Chen is no longer the person who needs to hide his ambitions when investing and who delegates power to allow investment companies to do whatever they want.

He now has enough means to fight back against those who have ill intentions towards him.

Of course, only to a certain extent.

It will be difficult for him to speak loudly and have everyone listen to him, at least in the next ten years or so.

This is no longer a question of wealth and corporate power; it's something much deeper.

This is not something he can get involved in.

He can only wait and use time to endure.

In the process of enduring, he will continue to strengthen himself, allowing him to successfully survive until that time.

"Okay, now that I've dealt with the matter in the United States, I should go back home." Zhang Chen began to drive people away, "Remember to keep an eye on my business. I'll keep an eye on you."

"Boss, don't worry. Currently the stock subscription rate of the two companies has exceeded 134%. I believe that the day of listing will give us a huge surprise." William agreed repeatedly and stood up to say goodbye to Zhang Chen.

“Maybe at that time, I happened to be in the United States.”

"Is it the movie of Disney and the boss?" William smiled happily. "I heard some news from their top management, but I didn't expect you to have an idea so quickly. It's simply..."

"What is it?"

"It's just like your accomplishments in music, Quickshooter." William suddenly stopped talking here, and looked at his boss with a guilty look, "I mean 'Enter the Maker'."

"Get lost!" Zhang Chen waved his hand and chased him away in annoyance. "Remember to send the daily report via email every day. I'm going back to China tomorrow."

"Boss, is he in such a hurry to go back?" William was surprised.

As for the daily report, he actually only needs to copy the work log given to him by his subordinates. He also knows that the boss has been paying more attention to the company's situation recently. After all, it is understandable that it is during the IPO period.

But the two companies here are going through the listing process, so why does the boss have to rush back?

"Some people in the country have begun to question me."

"Do you need me to do something?"

"I'll ask you to help me with Facebook and YouTube then."

"Okay!" William accepted the task and went home.

Zhang Chen returned to the conference room and read the emails sent back from China.

"Traitor?" Zhang Chen looked at the red font on the email and chuckled.

　It is actually quite difficult to control subordinates, and you can only control them layer by layer.

　　After all, it's a novel, so just enjoy it.

　　After all, I haven't practiced it, right? Hahahaha
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(End of this chapter)