Hollywood Hunter

Globally, not to mention those large chaebols controlled or monopolized by the government. For listed companies only, before Daenerys Entertainment Group's IPO, the highest historical market value of listed companies appeared in Japan five years ago.

At the peak of the economic bubble, the market value of the Japan Telephone and Telegraph Company (NTT) once reached 21.5 trillion yen, which is roughly equivalent to 160 billion U.S. dollars at the exchange rate of about 1 to 130 dollars against the yen.

At that time, the Japanese corporate giants that followed NTT were all banks.

The market value of the Industrial Bank of Japan in the peak period also exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars, and other Japanese banking giants such as Sumitomo Bank, Fuji Bank, First Bank, etc. have also squeezed major U.S. companies. The highest market value also reached 8.6 trillion yen, equivalent to 66 billion US dollars.

In recent years, with the bursting of the Japanese stock market and housing bubbles, the Bank of Japan bears the brunt.

The bursting of the housing bubble in Japan brought trillions of yen in bad debts to major banks in Japan, causing many banks to linger on the verge of bankruptcy and their market values ​​plummeting.

As for NTT, three years ago, Japan imitated the United States and split the NTT. In addition, the Japanese stock market has continued to decline in recent years. The market value of the monopoly telecommunications industry giant NTT has also shrunk severely. Although the market value of Japanese companies is still maintained at this stage. In the first place, NTT's market value is only 6.3 trillion yen. According to the recent exchange rate of 1 to 103 after the continuous appreciation of the yen against the US dollar, it is equivalent to 61.1 billion US dollars.

Even after the bursting of the economic bubble, Japan is still the second largest economy in the world following the United States.

The market value of Japanese companies is still the same. In the European countries that fell into economic recession after the 1992 currency crisis, there is no listed company that can handle it against the Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Therefore, although it is not the first enterprise giant with a market value exceeding 100 billion US dollars in global history, Daenerys Entertainment has a market value of 112.8 billion US dollars on the first day of listing, but it has become the only company in the world with a market value of 100 billion US dollars.

Daenerys Entertainment Group's stock price rose sharply on the day of its listing, severely impacting the entire Hollywood entertainment sector.

Throughout the trading day on July 1, the other six major Hollywood.

Time Warner Group’s share price fell 3.1%, with a closing market value of $17.9 billion;

Disney's stock price fell by 5.3%, closing the market value of 6.7 billion US dollars;

MGM shares fell 1.7%, with a closing market value of $2.7 billion;

Shares of News Corporation, the parent company of Fox Pictures, fell 4.1% on the day, with a closing market value of US$9.6 billion;

Paramount's parent company Seagram Group shares fell 6.1% that day, closing the market value of 13.7 billion US dollars;

Even Sony, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, shares fell 3.7% on the day, closing the market value of 21.5 billion US dollars.

As a result, the six other traditional giants in Hollywood other than Daenerys Entertainment, even if it is the assets of the entire parent company, have a total value of only $72.1 billion, which is only 63% of the market value of Daenerys Entertainment Group on the first day of listing. .

Simon does not want to appear in the Hollywood superpower situation too quickly, so in recent years, it has supported Time Warner either explicitly or implicitly. Now, in terms of corporate market value, this actual superpower situation has not only formed, And the strength of the remaining six majors added up, not even as good as Daenerys Entertainment.

For the Hollywood film industry, which is relatively full of open competition, this situation at this stage can only be described by miracles.

In any case, it may be very difficult for outsiders to break into Hollywood. For Hollywood natives, the seven major film companies have equal opportunities to enjoy this market. For example, this summer file, each big film company can launch multiple films. Self-produced videos.

There is no shortage of opportunities, there is no shortage of market, and the market of the films produced by them is not good, so they can not complain.

Therefore, although the Daenerys Entertainment Group has resolutely suppressed all of the other six Hollywood big edges, but unless it is a nuisance, the other six big parties have little excuses to accuse Daenerys Entertainment's monopoly or other unfair competition. .

Of course, the top executives of several other major Hollywood film companies have not secretly considered the joint targeting of Daenerys Entertainment.

Unfortunately, the rise of Daenerys Entertainment is too fast. When some people plan to snipe Daenerys Entertainment according to the standard of'wild boar', in a flash, this company has become an'elephant'.

Now, having just experienced the Hurst Group incident, it is not just the media industry. There is no other company in Hollywood that dares to impose any small actions on Daenerys Entertainment.

What's more, even if a group of'wild boars' all join together, it is unlikely that an'elephant' will be turned over, and this'elephant' has not killed them all, but will occasionally give up some ' food'.So, although everyone's livelihood is obviously much harder, in this constantly recovering and prosperous movie market, the days are barely going to pass.

Everyone has different degrees of inertia, and the enterprise is controlled by people, so naturally.

Since it has not been forced to a desperate situation, the difference in strength is too great, the Hollywood pattern is temporarily stable.

Outside of Hollywood, the last trading day before the holiday of Independence Day, not only the first day of Daenerys Entertainment's listing rose, it directly overturned the veteran industrial giant General Electric, and even brought two other stars in the Westeros system. Listed companies Cisco and AOL, on the same day, share price increases also reached 7.1% and 5.6%, respectively, closing market value was 76.4 billion US dollars and 65.9 billion US dollars.

In just one day, the Westeros system accounted for three of the top five US listed companies by market value.

The total market value of the three companies has reached an astonishing 255.1 billion US dollars!

According to Westero's shareholding ratio of the three companies, these three companies alone contributed $170.7 billion in personal wealth to Simon.

Three months ago, the media had just announced that Simon’s personal wealth had exceeded $200 billion.

Now, just the three companies holding shares of Daenerys, Cisco and AOL, with personal wealth of $170.7 billion, are close to this figure.

In addition, the Westeros system also owns Cersei Capital, Melisandre, Eaglet, Verizon Telecom and other companies, but the market value potential is no less than that of Cisco and AOL. Grete's general valuation has reached 50 billion US dollars, and Westero's heavy holdings of Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN and other technology company stocks are also worth a lot.

All these assets add up to more than another $100 billion.

Although the Westeros system specifically greeted many mainstream media groups in the United States, the following weekend, many second and third-tier newspapers in order to attract attention have given Simon's latest personal net worth.

And directly pulled up another order of magnitude.

$300 billion!

This is a valuation generally accepted by the media that gives similar valuations.

Not precise, but not many.

After all, only Daenerys, Cisco and AOL have contributed more than $170 billion in personal wealth to Simon Westeros. Many other companies and assets in the Westeros system, after removing debt, the total value is then converted. $130 billion is clearly more than enough.

According to economic data in the first half of the year, the official estimate of the US GDP in 1994 was about 7.2 trillion US dollars.

Now, Simon Westero's personal wealth of 300 billion US dollars is equivalent to 4.1% of the US GDP, far exceeding the 1.5% GDP share of the Rockefeller family's heyday.

Rockefeller and Morgan were once known to control the existence of the entire United States.

This time, the rapidly rising Westeros system has also penetrated into many aspects of American public life in just eight years, the most important and sensitive of which is the control of American public audio-visual entertainment resources.

As a result, compared with the American media's squabbling after the London girl incident in March, this time, the slightly interested public can feel the North American media, especially the large-scale media with wide influence. For Simon Westeros Personal wealth has reached a new "cold" attitude.

American media opinion has a great influence on the direction of federal policy.

In many cases, just a heavyweight article in large newspapers such as "New York Times", "Los Angeles Times" or "Washington Post" can lead to the conclusion of some federal government bills.

The large mainstream media showed a cold performance. Even if Simon's personal wealth of more than 300 billion US dollars triggered a lot of people's subconscious feelings of rich hatred, without the gathering and guidance of public opinion, it would not cause too many negative consequences.

However, although the mainstream media with greater influence has reached an interest relationship with the Westeros system or was not out of speculation because of fear, the birth of the first US$300 billion super rich in the history of the United States and the world, triggered The hustle and bustle is still not comparable to ordinary social events.

After all, the slightly influential newspapers and TVs can't say anything about the listing of Daenerys Entertainment and Simon's personal net worth.

Simon only tried his best to control the media not to direct public sentiment to the opposite of the Westeros system. For major newspapers that could influence the direction of federal policy, the requirement was to minimize exposure, but it was impossible for countless American newspapers, All media platforms such as TV and radio shut up.

Of course, with the Hurst Group as a lesson, most of the media did not dare to criticize Simon's growing personal wealth accumulation, but using this topic to brush a wave of sales or ratings, but spared no effort.

The mainstream media is conservative, but many politicians in the US government do not have these fears, especially those congressmen who perceive that they have been included in the Westero system's mid-term election sniper list this year.

A group of politicians led by Wisconsin State Senator Craig Ames jumped out again, spared no effort to render the threat of the growing Westeros system to the US economy, requiring the federal government to take immediate measures, Restricting Simon's personal wealth continues to grow unchecked.

Congressman David Merros, who is supported by the Hirst family, has already tried to set up a special investigation committee for the House of Representatives against the Westeros system.

However, Craig Ames followed David Merros’s thoughts, and once again publicized the original “asset tax” bill, the politician also contacted a group of members of the parliament and asked to be in the Senate of Congress. The establishment of a special investigation committee, this time the goal is still to investigate the'Cisco-AOL-Igreat' Internet monopoly on the emerging Internet industry.

As for the Daenerys Entertainment Group, although this company is already very large, it does not exist in the federal laws that there is much to blame.

In this world, unless a person is mediocre to have no sense of existence, otherwise, he will have friends, and he must have enemies.

Simon is very clear that even the federal media, the Westeros system is definitely not as peaceful as it seems at this time.The reason for this is mainly because it is difficult for the news hotspot at the current stage to cause any damage to the Westeros system.On the contrary, once strong, some flowers and plants may be trampled to death by the huge Westero system.

If there is a suitable opportunity, Simon can be sure that many media will jump out of the crowd and push the wall down.

As for politics.

In a capital society like the United States, politicians are usually not willing to provoke those super-rich, but it is never absolute. When the rich themselves reveal their flaws, or they are caught in the political career of these people, their nature is definitely better than ordinary people. Politicians who are too aggressive will definitely do everything they can.

Moreover, the rise of the Westeros system is too fast and the foundation is too shallow, which also gives many politicians an opportunity.

The following weekend, news came from Washington.

The United States Department of Justice will formally launch an investigation into the alleged "monopoly of the Internet industry" by the three companies in the Westeros system, "Cisco-AOL-Igret".

Unlike the FBI, the White House has strong control over the Ministry of Justice.

However, in the face of the continuous attacks by many political enemies on the Clinton government to deliberately protect the Westeros system, if the Justice Department takes action against the Westeros system after Congress, the accusations of some politicians will be more serious. These two years The White House, which had no reputation at all, would also be more passive.

Therefore, Clinton must act before Congress.

Simon was prepared for this.

Even a rough plan has been made.

The most important feature of the antitrust investigation in the United States is that it is protracted. Simon does not even take too long. Even if there are two or three years, the layout of the three companies in the Internet industry is completely entrenched.At that time, even if it is split again, it is actually the same as the ATT split case of that year. Although a giant was split into seven, it will actually still be a market pattern monopolized by the princes.

After July 1st, there are three consecutive days of Independent Day Holidays.

The outside world has been disturbing, and within the Westeros system, this increasingly large business machine is still running at high speed.

This IPO has greatly boosted the morale of Daenerys Entertainment Group employees.

The 35 million shares of Daenerys Entertainment stocks held by Amy Pascal increased to 1.67 billion US dollars on the day of listing. Counting the previous accumulation of the senior woman, Amy Pascal's personal worth has reached 20 100 million US dollars, among the top richest people in this era.

The five core management of the Daenerys Entertainment Group, Nancy Brill, Robert Egger, Mark Belford, Danny Morris and Ella Deutsch, rely on hundreds of Ten thousand shares of enterprise stock, all became billionaires on the day of July 1.

According to the closing price on the afternoon of July 1, 15 companies under the Daenerys Group holding more than 200,000 shares of Daenerys Entertainment's middle management jumped into multi-millionaires.

Among them, Tom Pollack, the president of Daenerys Pictures with a shareholding of 1.5 million shares, even if he did not squeeze into the core, his net worth is as high as 70 million US dollars. The top management that contributed too much was even ridiculed by "The Hollywood Reporter" as the biggest lucky person in the IPO process.

In addition, 173 grassroots executives who hold more than 20,000 shares have also become millionaires.

Throughout Daenerys Entertainment, employees with a few senior qualifications who participated in the initial stock subscription all made a lot of money during this IPO.

Before the listing, Simon distributed a total of 1.76 shares or awards or subscriptions to the employees of the Daenerys Entertainment Group. According to the rough conversion of the unlisted state at the time, the group’s 29,000 employees received an average of only 51,000 per person. US dollars.

However, on the first day of listing, the total value of the 176 million shares reached 8.4 billion U.S. dollars. Excluding the 1.09 billion U.S. dollars paid by the employees' internal subscriptions, each employee actually received a reward of 250,000 U.S. dollars.

In the history of world business, such a generous stock reward, even if it can not be said that there is no one who comes later, is also unprecedented.

At this point, many people are faintly aware of why the Daenerys Entertainment Group is so powerful.