Hollywood Hunter

In the third week after the official listing, the market value of Daenerys Entertainment successfully broke through the $120 billion mark on July 13 due to the impact of the phenomenal sales of "Forrest Gump".

Although the rise in stock prices has begun to slow further, some Wall Street analysts who are extremely bullish on the development of Daenerys Entertainment have issued the argument that the company's stock price will rise to a high of $65 in the next year.According to the calculation of the total share capital of Daenerys Entertainment Group, the stock price will reach US$65 and the market value will exceed US$150 billion.

Many industry media have expressed recognition for this.

Because even if the market value exceeds 150 billion US dollars, according to Daenerys Entertainment's recent earnings expectations, it is only equivalent to 57 times the price-earnings ratio.

If it is another corporate giant that has hit the ceiling of the industry, the price-earnings ratio of 57 times is obviously a bit exaggerated, but it is not excessive for Daenerys Entertainment, which has repeatedly created business miracles.

Of course, the opposition is not without.

Bloomberg, a well-known financial information company on Wall Street, published a targeted commentary article that analyzed in detail the appearance of the Daenerys Entertainment Group on the surface of the company that seems to be still vigorous and has actually reached the ultimate industry.

Especially when the core movie business of Daenerys Entertainment Group has occupied half of Hollywood, even if it has always maintained its current strength, it has been lucky to break the uncertainty of the industry and produce explosive movies. In fact, it has not been too big. upside potential.

Even on the contrary, as the engine for the development of Daenerys entertainment diversification, once the movie business changes, it will inevitably lead to the decline of the entire company from prosperity.

Therefore, although Daenerys Entertainment has no signs of declining in the short term, and the global film industry is also in a period of rapid rise, this entertainment company whose development momentum has reached its peak, the reasonable price-earnings ratio should be 20 to 30 times between.

At this stage, the price-to-earnings ratio of 45 times has been exceeded, and the market value of more than 100 billion US dollars has a serious bubble component.

Bloomberg analysts believe that this phenomenon is entirely due to the market's blind admiration of Simon Westero's personal wealth miracle. However, investment should not be blind, but must be rational.

Bloomberg's development is still far from the peak in Simon's memory, but its influence is no less than any financial media.

As a result, when the article calling for investors to return to rationality was published on the morning of July 14, Daenerys Entertainment's share price fell more than 1% directly after the opening, and then it was in a state of shock and decline throughout the day.

Bloomberg's article is on the surface, but from the recent news comments of this financial information company, intuitive people can feel the hostility.

As for the reason, it was in the Alpha Beta company founded by Girl B.

After staying in Ohio for one day on Monday, Simon came to New York on Tuesday for the main purpose of participating in the internal evaluation meeting of AlphaBeta's financial information software Alia.

Although AlphaBeta’s short-term customer development goals are concentrated in the bottom trader groups of large financial companies and small and medium-sized financial enterprise users, as the Westero system continues to spread news of entering the financial and economic field, development has been unique in recent years Bloomberg News clearly felt the threat.

In order to avoid disguising itself as a propaganda for Alia, which will be released in October at the end of the year, Bloomberg has no public statement on this matter.However, Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg has stated more than once in private that Bloomberg will at all costs in order to maintain its own business model and intellectual property rights with many patents.

The purpose of this statement is self-evident.

Founded more than ten years ago, Bloomberg is certainly not without competition, but under the innovative information terminal model of Bloomberg,

This time it was obviously different.

Anyone who pays a little attention to AlphaBeta can find that Simon attaches importance to this startup.

In order to support AlphaBeta, Simon personally came out and selected the top financial analysis and software development talents from Cersei Capital and Eaglet, and appeared in the Manhattan financial circle with the B girl more than once in the past six months. Many social occasions.

As the software release approached, a marketing team from Igreat's software sales department has quietly entered AlphaBeta.At the same time, Cersei Capital, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the three well-known Wall Street giants, all signed official software purchase contracts in recent days after quietly participating in the trial of Alia's trial version for a while.

There are millions of financial practitioners in the United States, and even more numerous worldwide.However, at this stage, the installed capacity of Bloomberg terminals with an annual fee of up to 15,000 US dollars can only exceed 20,000 units. Even Wall Street giants such as Cersei Capital, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, it is impossible to equip all traders with expensive Bloomberg terminal, Alia financial information software that provides relatively simple functions but far exceeds the old stock market display, is undoubtedly the best financial software suitable for large-scale employees.

The pricing set by Alia is very clear. It costs US$150 per month and US$1,500 per year.

Not to mention the large Wall Street clients such as Cersei Capital, even ordinary individual investors who are slightly interested in the stock market can easily bear this expenditure.By comparison, the Bloomberg terminal with an annual fee of up to $15,000 is expected to be unprecedented for most grassroots financial practitioners who can only earn tens of thousands of dollars a year.

At this stage, the number of Bloomberg terminals purchased by various Wall Street giants is generally only a few hundred.This time, for Alia, the three companies signed a total of 1500 sets of purchase contracts at once, which is not just a big deal out of Simon's personal influence.

Such a starting point is enough to make Bloomberg at the beginning of the year unmatched.

For the past six months, Simon has only provided limited suggestions for the development of Alia based on his own knowledge. More is still supported by funds and resources. He can’t see the quality of the software, but because of Simon’s attention, Jenny Especially said that this software is great.

Moreover, judging from the behavior of Cersei Capital and other three companies directly signing purchase contracts after participating in the internal trial, this software has already obtained a considerable degree of recognition before it is officially listed.

Of course, the cooperation of the three companies has Simon's affection in it.

However, involving hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, if the software itself is not qualified, Simon will not allow even the Westero system's own company Cersei Capital to purchase and use it.

The affirmation of the three companies including Cersei Capital directly erected a gold signboard for Alia.

After the official listing, only relying on the three Wall Street star customers who have reached cooperation as live ads, Alia's promotion will do more with less.

In order to further promote Alia, Girl B has also made plans to provide free trial versions to some American universities.

This is something.

In modern society, there has been little success for no reason.

At that time, Bloomberg actually relied on Michael Bloomberg's network of working on Wall Street for many years to get a software development contract from Merrill Lynch in advance to successfully start. When signing the contract, the Bloomberg terminal was only in PPT state, even testing No version of the product.

Subsequently, Merrill Lynch became a shareholder of Bloomberg, and used its customer network on Wall Street to promote Bloomberg terminals, which largely contributed to the success of Bloomberg.

Girl B does not have many years of experience in working on Wall Street, but she has a larger backer like the Westeros system.

Therefore, even if the product has not been officially launched, or even for a long time in the future, it will not target the high-end customer base occupied by Bloomberg terminals. This company still makes Bloomberg as an enemy.

The Westeros system has proven its success in too many fields over the years, and the Bloomberg terminal is far from reaching the point where it will completely monopolize the market with its own data and information ecosystem many years later.The Bloomberg review article called on the market to look rationally at the business miracle created by Simon, but Michael Bloomberg was obviously not at all calm about the arrival of Alia.

AlphaBeta's headquarters is located in Greenwich, Connecticut, mainly for the sake of operating cost savings and tax avoidance.

On Thursday afternoon, after finishing work in Manhattan, he returned to Greenwich, and Westmont came to AlphaBeta headquarters.

About the name change.

As the product enters the trial stage, both A and B girls feel that the name AlphaBeta is not as easy to remember as Alia. It is still the concept of Simon when he first named the AlphaBeta product. It is a company and product that is easy to be remembered. , Has many potential advantages.

The new company name is also readily available.

Named directly according to the name of its product, Alia.

Simon actually understands the careful thinking of the two girls.

Once AlphaBeta changed its name to Alia, it intentionally or unintentionally became the fifth'woman' of Westeros after Daenerys, Melisandre, Igret, and Cersei, which could undoubtedly further increase the market for this Software confidence.

The fairly common name Alia, of course, is based on the business habits of Westerners. Of course, it will not fail to register in advance.

Girl B quietly operated for a period of time in advance, before buying or registering the Alia trademark in major countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and other major countries. However, this expenditure totaled more than 2.3 million US dollars, which was still operated through the shell company. As a result, if purchased in the name of AlphaBeta, a subsidiary of the Westeros system, the price may directly increase by ten times.

Even if you do not plan to change your name, since Alia software is to be launched, it is imperative to acquire trademarks worldwide, so this expense cannot be avoided.

Counting such an expenditure on the name, AlphaBeta has invested more than 18 million US dollars in the past half a year. This is still under the circumstances that girl B saves costs as much as possible. Girls A and B total 20 million US dollars. The Vase Fund is also nearing consumption.

Symonte paid attention to this matter.

Compared with the D girls, their partnership to set up Instagram only needs one or two million dollars to start. Financial information companies want to develop products, they need to hire top-level professionals, they need to build a huge enterprise database, they need to design complex stock bonds The analysis model requires external procurement data and information, etc.

$18 million is already a considerable savings.

More than ten years ago, Bloomberg developed the first Bloomberg terminal, which took eight months. It also invested more than 4 million US dollars before and after. In the early 1980s, 4 million US dollars was basically equivalent to 10 million US dollars.

Bloomberg has hardly encountered too threatening opponents for so many years. One of the key reasons is that emerging startups usually can’t afford such companies that need a lot of top talent and huge amounts of funds to launch products at the beginning of their establishment. Cruelty hitting hundreds of millions of dollars in, and developed a formal product, may not necessarily be recognized by Wall Street.When it comes to the safety of large sums of money, no Wall Street financial company will rush to use the products of a startup.

As for Dow Jones or Reuters, a 100-year-old financial information company, because it has already formed a fixed business model, it will inevitably cause a big tail. The development of products such as Bloomberg terminals often threatens their core business model, so it has also been Let Bloomberg develop.

Eventually, Bloomberg became the overwhelming overlord of the global financial information industry.

Now, Bloomberg’s customers are just over 20,000, not the 300,000 that has been completely monopolized for many years. Bloomberg’s data and social ecosystem are not completely stable. This is the opportunity of the Westeros system.

Simon has pinpointed the potential market scale of the tens of billions of dollars in the financial and information industry, and he does not lack funds and contacts. It will naturally pose a strong threat to Bloomberg if he unswervingly develops this field.

In a conference room at AlphaBeta headquarters, I saw the design schemes of several new company logos quietly prepared by B girl. Everyone discussed and selected one of them, which was basically finalized the name of AlphaBeta.

"The orders of Cersei Capital's three companies, accounting for the natural increase in product revenue after the official release of Alia, are sufficient for you to maintain a self-sufficient operating state. Unless necessary, I will not give you more funds in the short term. Becky, next you What is to be done is not to rush to expand the business, but to use the feedback of the three major customers to continuously optimize and update this software, patiently settle for at least one year, and then start a larger scale promotion."

The meeting was over and the time was already over six o'clock in the evening.

Simon said this to Lady B when she was about to leave.

The expansion of the Westeros system in recent years is a miracle. However, Simon is not a person who has made quick gains. He must be patient when he should fight steadily.

Cersei Capital has signed 1,500 sets of software orders in advance. Although a 20% discount is given in private, the average annual fee for each set of software also reaches 12,000 US dollars, which can provide Aria with a basic annual fee of 18 million US dollars. Receipt is equivalent to the investment of the vase fund for this company in the past six months.

If the financial information company wants to improve various businesses, no amount of money can be counted as 100%.

Just like Bloomberg, this veteran financial information company now has more than 500 journalists worldwide. This alone is a huge expense.B Girl's company can only obtain financial information by cooperating with other media for the time being. This is obviously not a long-term plan. However, the establishment of its own information team cannot be achieved overnight.

At this stage, if it is steady and steady, the revenue of 18 million US dollars, including the benefits of other customers after the software release, is enough for this company to maintain a certain degree of expansion while being self-sufficient.

Aria, which is about to be renamed, has a shareholding structure of 15% for girl B, 5% for girl A, and another 10% is awarded to several core executives of the company. Westeros holds shares through the vase fund 70%.

As long as this company is able to remain self-sufficient next time, the shares of B Girl and others will not be diluted.

B girl and others seem to have a small share of equity. For a company that needs to invest a lot of money at the start-up stage, Simon’s 30% share of equity is already generous enough.Based on the investment of the vase fund over the past year, the total value of the 30% equity is as high as US$6 million.

Moreover, this is just the most primitive equity, as long as Aaliyah develops smoothly, these equity can make many people become billionaires in the future.

Simon does not plan to inject funds into Aaliya in the short term. In addition to wanting to let girl B settle down and avoid falling into impetuousness, in fact, it also has the intention of not diluting their share of equity.

Many business owners always encourage employees to be wolves, but they often forget the fact that wolves eat meat.Graze employees and hope that they will help you fight like a wolf pack. This is a rogue.

Narrow and stupid.

The two worlds are human beings, seeing too many world sentiments, Simon does not lack selfish instincts in his heart, but he often warns himself not to have such a narrow mindset.