Global monopoly of technology

After the meeting, Luo Sheng returned to his office and worked at Bluestar Technology Group for about half an hour. He was about to go to the blue coast next door. There were two more meetings to be held. You have to go to the Côte d'Azur laboratory and wander around with Lens Semiconductor.

This is Luo Sheng's follow-up work arrangement today.

"Mr. Luo, you are looking for me."

Zhang Bowen, who was also just after the meeting, came to Luo Sheng's office.

"Do you know Marvel? The Marvel company."

Just as Zhang Bowen came in, Luo Sheng raised such a question to him.

"Marvel?" Zhang Bowen was shocked for a while, thought for a moment, and said uncertainly: "Mr. Luo, are you talking about Marvel Comics in North America?"

Luo Sheng nodded: "Yes, that's what I said. I plan to acquire this company. I just took a look at it. I heard that Marvel has recently fallen into a nine-death stage. This is the best time to acquire the company."

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng remembered that his name was Marvel Comics, and he has not changed his name to Marvel.

Zhang Bowen is unpredictable from the brain circuits of his immediate boss, but he is used to it. Anyway, you never know what he is thinking in the next second and what he will do next.

What is the operation of acquiring a comic company?

Luo Sheng estimated the time. At this time, Marvel was already desperate and invested money in the film "Iron Man". Not surprisingly, one month later, this film should be released.

Once the compensation is paid, Marvel will collapse. It is not an exaggeration for Marvel to say a desperate move. Once this movie hits the street at the box office, Marvel will also follow it.

But Luo Sheng knew that Marvel had come back from the dead and opened the superhero movie universe, and finally made a lot of money.

He knows, but Marvel doesn't know it, this is an opportunity.

"I don’t know much about this field, but as far as I know, the copyright of Marvel’s most valuable IP Spider-Man is in the hands of Sony, and the X-Men series is also in the hands of 20th Century Fox Films. There doesn't seem to be any valuable IP under Weibo..." Zhang Bowen said.

Luo Sheng did not explain too much to him. Yun Danfeng said lightly: "The company currently has too much funds on the books. It was originally intended to acquire Sun, but it did not succeed. Even if the digital film copyright fees with Hollywood film companies are removed. Expenses, there are currently more than 13 billion U.S. dollars. Buying back stocks can’t consume too much. How to spend the remaining money? Then buy Marvel. I estimate that even if I spend more than two billion U.S. dollars, Marvel will be willing to sell it to me."

Zhang Bowen said: "Well, what should we do if we acquire Marvel?"

This is the point, what to do after the acquisition?If it becomes a bad debt, it is painful. It is not a small sum.

Luo Sheng pondered for a moment and said: "Integrate Marvel's IP resources, establish Bluestar Pictures, enrich the entertainment industry ecology, and diversify the ecology of the BV video business. The BV video network must develop and grow. For movies, Netflix has been playing this model for so many years, and it is still booming, indicating that this path is right, and the BV video business should follow up.

After a pause, Luo Sheng looked at Lao Zhang and added: “Just use Marvel’s IP resources to test the waters, maybe you can take this opportunity to enter the movie entertainment market. We need to pay attention to shortcomings in content, otherwise Hollywood’s major players The film and television giants have been asking prices all the time, and you can’t bear it. This time, more than five billion US dollars were thrown out. It was very chic and earned enough attention, but it was also very painful."

Suddenly, Zhang Bowen, the boss wants to enrich the overall content ecosystem of the Bluestar Technology Group and further consolidate its moat. The diversity of species will make the ecology healthier. It is actually a very dangerous signal for a large group to rely on a single profit model. It is too weak. Only the profit model is diversified. This business segment is losing money, and there are other business segments making profits. If the profit model is too single, it is easy to collapse.

Another issue is that the content issue is indeed one of the major shortcomings of Bluestar Technology. If you don't get in, you will get stuck by Hollywood in the future.

"You leave this to George Charles, the vice president of North America, to talk to Marvel. The bottom line is a maximum of 3.3 billion U.S. dollars. If you exceed it, you don't need to buy it." Luo Sheng said, after crossing this line, it is better to go back directly. Buying the shares of Bluestar Technology, the return on stock price appreciation after ten years is much higher than that of the successful Marvel Universe as a whole.

What's more, Luo Sheng didn't dare to pack tickets. Today's Marvel will definitely be as successful as the world he was in in his last life. After all, his appearance has changed too much, and certain things will be full of uncertainty.

Although Luo Sheng’s performance on this is light and windy, it does not mean that the billions of dollars invested is a matter of light and wind. This is the scale of the net profit of Bluestar Technology in the two quarters. The results of the six months of struggle, if it fails It's also very painful.

It is not easy to make some money.

In the future, there will be a large-scale investment in cloud computing services. This is a big hole waiting to be filled in with tens of billions of dollars.

Zhang Bowen confirmed that Luo Sheng was serious, and immediately nodded in response: "No problem, let me talk to the people from Marvel personally. I'm going to North America this month."

Luo Sheng has no objection to this.

The matter is so determined, and he doesn't pay much attention to the rest. What he wants is to wait for a result. As for the process of mergers and acquisitions, just leave it to the subordinates below.

The acquisition of Marvel Comics is different from Sun Microsystems, which involves high-tech companies. Although the North American authorities are also greatly supporting the Hollywood film industry, there will be no restrictions on foreign investment, otherwise there will be no Sony What's going on depends largely on whether the capital is strong or not.

The financial resources are appropriate for Bluestar Technology Group.

...

Two days later, Luo Sheng's work focused on the Blue Coast Company, and he worked on the research and development of a new generation of Azure mobile phones, often moving between Lens Semiconductor and the Blue Coast Lab.

In addition to the main business of the mobile phone business, the Blue Coast is currently secretly developing a game console hardware module, code-named "ACC Project". This is a brand-new project plan. Luo Sheng has not focused much on this project yet.

At the same time, the Côte d’Azur’s "spare tire plan" has also begun to draft. This is being carried out in conjunction with the company and listed as the top research secret. Its significance is that if the Americans interrupt the international supply chain partners one day in the future Cooperation can also be self-sufficient.

Zhang Bowen is also traveling to North America today. Originally, his main job during a business trip to the United States in April was to go to the IBM company for the completion of several major data centers in North America.

Luo Sheng temporarily arranged a job for him, so he could buy Marvel Comics.

But the acquisition of Marvel is not Zhang Bowen’s first job in this North American trip. By the way, finalizing the landing of cloud computing services and data centers in the North American market is better than acquiring ten Marvels. Only when this is done will he buy Marvel comics. the company.

On the fourth day of Zhang Bowen's arrival in North America, he basically completed the main purpose of his trip, and it was quite smooth. After all, the major difficulties have been overcome and he has obtained permission to enter the North American market.

Next, he will complete the M&A invitation for Marvel Comics.

Zhang Bowen did not go directly to the head of Marvel Comics. Instead, he went to Wall Street first, spent two days at Merrill Lynch, and then brought people from Merrill Lynch to visit Marvel Comics.

...

Marvel Comics, Avi Allard's office.

"BOSS, people from Merrill Lynch and the global executive vice president of Bluestar Technology Group have come to visit our company. I hope to see you as soon as possible. They have no appointment."

Allard's assistant entered the office and reported the incident. He is the current head of Marvel Comics.

"What? Bluestar Technology Group?"

Hearing the report from the assistant, Aradman had a puzzled question mark in his mind. Without an appointment, he would jump in the queue. If only a member of Merrill Lynch arrived, he would put aside his business and go to meet him because of Marvel Comics. If it weren't for Merrill Lynch, it would have died long ago, and there would be no funding for "Iron Man."

Allard didn't think much, immediately put down his current work, and ordered: "Invite them to the VIP guest room, and I'll be here later."

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