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Chapter 618 Kangzhuang Avenue
Su Chen never expected that Bernice would tell him some bad news just after he came to New York.

"Tell me, I also want to know what the bad news is." Su Chen said.

Bernice nodded and smiled slightly: "Boss, please follow me, this is an office specially prepared for you."

Su Chen followed behind her, walked a few steps, and saw an office with the sign 'Chairman' on the outside. It was impossible to know how big this office was just by looking from the outside.

Bernice pushed open the door, and Su Chen walked in behind her. After seeing the layout of the office clearly, he was immediately taken aback.

Because this office is really big.

Although it is not as good as the office on the first floor of Hong Kong Shengshi headquarters, it is definitely bigger than the offices he has seen before, and the decoration is also very modern.

There is no trace of nouveau riche's decoration at all, but there is special care everywhere.

There is a computer on the large desk, and behind it is a bookshelf with some seemingly esoteric books on it.

To the left of the desk is a huge floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the streets of New York.

There was still a carpet on the floor, which was soft to step on.

There are still a few paintings hanging on the wall, an air conditioner is erected in the corner, and there is also a sofa and a table, which should be specially used to receive some guests.

Su Chen was very satisfied.

He is particularly satisfied with this huge office alone, because the office is about 80 square meters by visual inspection.

Simply inhumane.

Bernice pressed on the bookshelf, and the wall that looked like a whole suddenly opened inward.

There is actually a bedroom inside, not only has a bed but also a bath cloakroom and so on.

This design is very spiritual.

"I found this decoration style to be designed by several companies. The purpose is to let you, the chairman, take a rest here after work." Bernice said, "This lounge is more hidden and will not be overlooked by the outside. Not disturbing, but also good soundproofing.”

Su Chen nodded again and again: "Yes, I like this layout."

Back in the office, he said, "Don't you have some bad news to tell me?"

"It's really not good news." Bernice nodded, and continued: "Marvel's performance is very poor, and the progress of regular updates of traditional comics has been difficult to meet the trend of the increasingly fast-paced life of the public.

The audience of traditional comics is quietly shrinking, and the traditional business model can hardly support the company's development needs, and has not brought profits to our investment. "

Su Chen already knew about this company.

He said: "No matter how the company's performance is, the copyrights of the heroes in hand cannot be sold, even if the headquarters continues to invest before posting, the copyrights cannot be sold."

"Go and talk to Stan Lee, let him not worry about this kind of problem, the headquarters will continue to invest, there will be no capital chain breaks or divestment, and there will be no transfer of the film adaptation rights of the company's characters. Difficulty, in order to survive bankruptcy and reorganization."

After receiving Su Chen's reply, Bernice nodded: "Okay boss, I will pass the news over there. In addition, I have already sorted out all the reports of the company under my company last year. Do you want to check it now?"

"Leave it to me, I will check it now."

Bernice quickly brought up a lot of documents, all of which were properties acquired or invested by Shengshi.

Huang Ying went to make a cup of coffee for Su Chen and was busy with herself.

While drinking coffee, Su Chen carefully checked the reports.

The first one in hand is Marvel, that is, Marvel, the financial report is really not good, no wonder Bernice would say it is not good news.

But for this problem, Su Chen was not worried.

With the continuous update of the concept of science and technology, people's living habits are also quietly changing under the influence of high technology, and it is inevitable that the comics market will change.

Just like the development of mobile phones, some traditional paper media industries have been seriously affected.

Only when the camera is updated, the editing skills are mature, the digital technology is updated and perfected, and the superheroes are put on the screen, their unique legendary color will not decrease but increase instead.

Film and television works of this kind of theme are becoming more and more mature in terms of the main storyline and test-taking techniques, and even have more visual impact than comics.

However, it will have to wait until around 2000 to actually move to the silver screen.

In other words, Shengshi will have to continue investing in Marvel for at least another 10 years before it can really make money.

Another most important point is that even with the blessing of prosperity, Marvel's old rival DC Comics is still a powerful stumbling block on the broad road from comics to the screen.

Thinking about these things now, I feel a little unfounded, and it will not cost much to continue investing in Marvel, just to keep alive.

Put down this report, and then look at the second report.

This report belongs to Cisco.

Last year, for a whole year, Cisco didn't make a penny, and it has been relying on Shengshi's investment to support it.

It was not until March of this year that Cisco developed and provided the world's first routing product——AGS, which is Advanced Gateway Server.

However, since the products they researched use the software and hardware conditions provided by Shengshi and have nothing to do with Stanford University, so the ownership of the patented technology of the "multi-protocol router" did not cause disputes.

Moreover, Cisco was licensed to use the source code of the invention, which had already been bought out by Shengshi.

How this thing develops in the future has nothing to do with Stanford University.

There is nothing in this report that deserves any attention.

And it is still very early to introduce Morgridge and others.

The next report is from Qualcomm, which also has no profit at all, and has not even seen anything.

If he didn't know in advance, Su Chen would have thought that he had met a liar.

Having said that, if this kind of technological thing can be obtained at once, it is really a bit mysterious.

Cisco, like Qualcomm, needs continuous investment, and don't think about getting rich overnight.

But when it is really researched, it will definitely become rich overnight, and various patent fees will be soft.

After reading all the reports.

At present, only Fox, ILM, and Acorn are profitable.

These three have their own businesses, and it is normal to make a profit. If they don't make a profit, then the real hell will happen.

In addition, Apple is now in a downturn just like Marvel, and it doesn't look like a trillion company later.

As for the commercial credit company, after cutting off some unnecessary businesses under Sandy's operation, it has actually begun to show signs of profitability.

This is good news.

If all the companies are unable to make profits, it will be difficult to repay the sky-high debt of 30 billion.

After reading the report, Su Chen knew exactly what to do.

Because the current cash flow of the entire prosperous age is 30 million US dollars, if you add the shares and real estate in hand, it is almost [-] billion.

If the debt of Wells Fargo Bank is not counted, Su Chen is now walking on the road of being a billionaire...

(End of this chapter)