Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2228 Can't I go?

Carl Icahn wanted to take this opportunity to get close and let Zhou Buqi make a quick decision.

As a result, this kid didn't take this set at all.

It seems that I really want to devote myself to the art promotion of the theater career, and I seem to have countless questions to ask Mr. Schubert Jr.

So that Carl Icahn never had a chance to speak.

I thought it was time to talk about business at lunch, but Zhou Buqi suddenly answered a phone call, and then his face was serious, as if there was an emergency, he made a call, and then left the venue quickly.

This made Carl Icahn quite annoyed.

I feel like I was played by this bastard kid.

However, in the face of huge potential benefits, he is really powerless and can only endure.Yahoo has been tossing about this case for several years, and he is also a little irritable.

This time, although Yahoo CEO Thompson's academic qualifications were used to deal a fatal blow to the entrepreneurial team, it would still be difficult to achieve all goals.

According to normal logic, if Thompson had such a scandal, the appointment of several of his directors should also bear certain responsibilities and choose to resign.

This is the practice of listed companies.

Whoever makes a mistake bears the responsibility.

But, what if these guys don't resign with shamelessness?
So the follow-up ending still needs to be discussed.

Just like when Yang Zhiyuan quit Yahoo's board of directors at the beginning of the year, the management faction agreed to many terms in order to let him leave quickly, one of which included the appointment of Thompson as CEO.

Yang Zhiyuan withdrew only after the terms were reached.

Several other die-hard directors on the board want to clear them out, and there will definitely be a long negotiation and power struggle next.

This was the case with Yahoo in the previous life.

Although Yang Zhiyuan's faction was plotted by the management, and in the end they all quit Yahoo's board of directors, but they also relied on their legacy to fight against a wave of management.

There is only one purpose, which is to prevent Carl Icahn and the others from splitting up Yahoo's high-quality assets and selling them all the way.

Thompson has done a good job at Yahoo, and his performance has been outstanding.

This allowed the entrepreneurial team to see the hope of Yahoo's recovery, and then recruited young vice president Marissa Mayer from Google to serve as Yahoo's CEO, hoping to continue Thompson's strategy and lead Yahoo's recovery.

This Marisa Mayer is not ordinary, she is a beautiful woman.

Known as the number one beauty in Silicon Valley.

The reason why she left Google was because she dated Larry Page. After the breakup, she couldn't stand this scumbag leading her at work, so she resolutely left.

However, Yahoo is so easy to save?

After a few years of doing it, Yahoo's road to recovery is getting farther and farther away, so there is no way.Under the strong promotion of the capital, Yahoo, once the largest Internet giant, really split up its assets, and then sold them all the way.

Carl Icahn is a master in capital operations, of course he procrastinated, so as not to have long nights and dreams.

If Boss Zhou is really interested in Yahoo, it's a great opportunity not to be missed.

Zhou Buqi also wants to use this as an entry point to take down Yahoo.

Yang Zhiyuan is an independent director of Ziwei Star International. He is a Chinese. He has a good relationship with Boss Ma and Sun Zhengyi, and has a deep relationship with the Asian market.

For Zhou Buqi, it is actually not that difficult to deal with Yang Zhiyuan.

Of course he cares about fame.

Like Carl Icahn said.

It is a fact that Ziwei Star International can make huge profits if it gives Yang Zhiyuan its huge reputation.But as a capitalist from Wall Street, he really underestimated the emotional factor. Not all rich people are cold-blooded animals like him.

There are more important things than fame.

That is whether Yahoo's future can live better.

Yahoo is Yang Zhiyuan's child.

He doesn't want to bear the reputation of selling his sons and daughters, but he cares more about the healthy growth of his children in the future, rather than having their organs removed and sold for money.

……

Because I want to stay and watch "The Peony Pavilion of Youth Edition", this gives Zhou Buqi more opportunities to participate in Changyou's front-line business.I just found a reason to escape from Carl Icahn, and in the afternoon, I followed Don Mattrick's team and went to one of the most well-known local game companies in Manhattan—take-two, known in the industry as "T2 ".

T2 is a group company with 13 game studios covering the European and American markets, the most famous of which are of course Rockstar Studios and 2K Studios.

It is not difficult to win this game company.

One very important reason is that the "entrepreneurial school" in this company is dead, and only the management is left.

In order to seize power, it also experienced a wave of blood and rain back then.

In a place like New York, of course capital is more powerful!

As early as 06, the founder of the company, Ryan Bryant, was arrested and suspected of financial fraud...but he was not imprisoned. In the end, his punishment was to prohibit him from working in any listed company.

Then he quit the company he started.

It is much easier for children to lose their parents and raise them in other people's homes. As long as the price charged by others is high enough, they should be sold for money.

Just like Bezos, the big boss of Amazon, has an adopted daughter, which he bought from a domestic orphanage for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Boss Zhou appeared, and T2 became a sensation.

Almost everyone had a premonition.

Internal divisions are about to subside.

This is the new richest man in the world!
Not to mention anything else, the capital effect alone will be very strong. What capital is best at is pushing the high and trampling the low... Now that Boss Zhou is so rich, it means that Changyou will gain more and more recognition from the capital market.

The sooner T2 is sold to Changyou, and then shareholders exchange T2 shares for Changyou shares, the sooner they can get the capital gains of Changyou shares.

In fact it is.

After Zhou Buqi passed, the controversy within T2 immediately disappeared... There seemed to be only one choice before T2, and that was to sell to Changyou.

It depends on how much the premium can be completed to complete the transaction.

During this period of time, due to rumors that Changyou intends to acquire T2, the stock price of T2 has been rising. It has risen from US$16.4 to US$18.1, and its market value has reached US$20 billion.

At first glance, the gains are high.

It seems that with the rise of T2 stock price, T2 shareholders have made money.

Actually that's not the case at all.

This is the magic of M&A transactions. This is not a cash transaction, but a stock replacement transaction.

In the past period of time, T2's stock price rose by 10.4%, but Changyou's stock price rose by 13.6%.In other words, because of procrastination, T2 investors lost money!

If they had sold T2 to Changyou earlier, their stock could have increased by 13.6%, but now it is only 10.4%.What's worse, once the deal falls through... T2 will be beaten back to its original shape, and the stock price will fall back again.

The power of T2 is in the hands of the management.

For the employer, at this time there is no choice to return.

As soon as Boss Zhou made a move, the efficiency went up immediately.

I went to take-two, and immediately reached a consensus on important cooperation intentions, and the next step is to discuss the specific transaction amount.

The company left the company after 5 pm. Zhou Buqi was a little sour and didn't know the time difference, so he didn't care about it and called Lao Zhang directly.

Zhang Chaoyang was very helpless, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Good thing, I invite you to watch the play."

"Watching a play?"

"Well, "Youth Edition Peony Pavilion", do you know?"

"Kunqu opera."

"you know?"

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised.

Zhang Chaoyang said: "How famous, I went to see it in the theater, it was pretty good, what's wrong?"

Zhou Buqi was quite emotional, this old Zhang is really a bit of a literary fan, so he invited: "Now this troupe is touring here on Broadway in New York, and it will perform two shows in a row, one for three days. Now is the first show." The next day. Are you coming to New York? Come and see the play, I went last night, and it was a spectacle!"

Zhang Chaoyang is very happy, as long as he doesn't arrange tasks for himself, "How spectacular is it?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It's unimaginable, it's extremely shocking! Really, it feels more exciting than watching a football game live. Football is more of an emotional vent, and Kunqu opera... is more of an emotional resonance. , especially in foreign countries, there is also a sense of national pride. If you have seen it in China, it doesn’t count, but if you come to New York to see it, you will feel more empathy.”

Zhang Chaoyang smiled and said, "It's an exaggeration."

Zhou Buqi said: "No, it's all my true feelings. You'll know when you come here! I heard that the troupe is quite short on funds and has been begging everywhere. I plan to help them."

Zhang Chaoyang's literary and artistic attributes are much richer than Boss Zhou's. When he heard this, he was immediately interested, "Okay, I'll go and see."

Zhou Buqi said: "Come on, come on, as long as you read it, you won't regret it!"

Zhang Chaoyang said: "If you are really short of money, I can also provide some."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "You don't need to pay for it, but there is one more thing you can help with."

"what's up?"

"I just came out of the take-two game company, and I have negotiated with them about the acquisition intention, 20% cash plus 80% stock. However, the specific transaction amount is still to be discussed. This is a big deal, you Come over and host it?"

"Depend on!"

Zhang Chaoyang was so angry that he wanted to curse.

again!

Isn't it good Kunqu opera art, why don't you go to see "The Peony Pavilion of Youth"?

It turned out that it was all a cover!

I deceived people, and I went to help you...

Zhou Buqi pondered and said: "I chatted with Bai Xianyong for more than an hour yesterday to learn about the current situation of Kunqu Opera. It is not very good. The generations who passed on the characters back then were able to perform more than 400 plays, and the only ones that have been handed down to the present are There are more than 200 of them. If there is no change, there will be fewer and fewer. Lao Zhang, it is urgent for us to protect traditional culture!"

"All right, I'll go, can't I go?" Zhang Chaoyang broke down a bit, "Don't use art to oppress me!"

(End of this chapter)