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  Chapter 1194 Fanning the flames

"This is impossible!"

Brian Roberts' tone couldn't help raising his voice. Comcast Group has been listed for many years, and its equity has been dispersed. Wall Street institutions, American pension funds, and overseas consortiums, etc. A large number of shares in Comcast Group, even the Roberts family, holds less than 30% of Comcast Group.

  Song Yang wants to take away 35% of the shares of Comcast Group, which is equivalent to directly controlling the entire Comcast Group, which makes Brian Roberts really unbearable.

   "Song, even Comcast Group doesn't have that many shares!"

  Brian shook his head again and again, not to mention that the Roberts family does not have that many shares, even if they did, he would not be willing to give up the controlling stake in Comcast.

  Song Yang wasn't angry either, he just demanded a lot of money to pay back the money, and he didn't expect to get so much equity in Comcast Group in one go.

   "At least 25% of the equity must be obtained. The Roberts family will transfer part of the equity of the North American Global Investment Foundation, and the rest of the North American Global Investment Foundation will be acquired from other investment institutions and the market!"

   "Up to 10%!" Brian Roberts is continuing to lower the price.

   "20% off!"

   "15%!"

  Song Yang and Brian Roberts had a bargain, and when they finally reached 18%, neither of them continued to argue. Apparently, Brian also agreed to allow Song Yang to get 18% of the shares of Comcast Group.

  If it is acquired according to this kind of equity, after the transaction is completed, it is expected that the North American Global Investment Foundation will become the second largest shareholder of Comcast Group.

Of course, for this acquisition, it is impossible for Song Yang to go all over the world with great fanfare to buy the equity of Comcast Group. He must establish an overseas foundation and wear a vest to acquire the equity of Comcast Group. .

At that time, even if the Comcast Group and ICQ join forces to engage in some trickery, as long as the relationship between the two companies is not recognized, even if the entire American people know that the two companies are colluding together, it will be fine. Can't blame the two companies!

   “Disney is not that easy to acquire!”

After reaching an agreement with Song Yang, Brian Roberts thought about it and said that for so many years, only Disney has acquired other companies, but no one has dared to touch Disney’s beard, and it’s not like there are no other giant companies that dare to fight. Disney's idea, but in the end all came back to nothing.

   Song Yang nodded, but he didn't have any worries. He just said to Brian Roberts, "Eisner, the emperor of Disney, is about to retire!"

Eisner is the emperor of Disney. No one can deny this. He is not from the founding family of Disney, but he has controlled Disney for a longer time than the Disney family. Pick Eisner to run Disney.

  Even if Eisner allowed the Disney family to survive the crisis, so what if the revenue and market value increased by dozens of times. The founding family of Disney didn’t get any bonus anyway, but was kicked out of the Disney board of directors.

If it was Eisner's heyday, it would be wishful thinking to take Disney away from him, and Song Yang would not have that idea, but the old emperor is already old, and he has undergone many operations, even if he is only 62 years old this year. Years old, but the helm of Disney has been a bit powerless.

In fact, in the past few years, Disney's founding family and Disney executives have tried to overthrow Eisner's control of Disney, but they have not been successful. Eisner is still sitting firmly on his Iron Throne. superior.

   "With Eisner's personality, he would rather hand over the control of Disney to others than return it to members of the founding Disney family!

For Eisner, there are two things that are most concerned about now. One thing is how to keep his posthumous name and not be liquidated by the new Disney president and the Disney founding family. The other thing is nothing more than being able to get How much pension, the former is related to the latter, can you spend this pension with peace of mind! "

Song Yang directly clarified what a powerful person like Eisner is most afraid of. Of course, it is to settle accounts after the fall. He also knows his own character and behavior style, and he probably can't count the people he has offended. How much did he have, how did he deal with the Disney family back then, and he didn't worry that the instigator would have no descendants? !

As the president of Disney, Eisner could still suppress those opponents, but... once he left the Iron Throne, Eisner lost not only a title, but also power, connections, resources, and media opinion. If he leaves him in the same way, he will become just a little old man in his dying years, or a very valuable old man. Will he worry about being settled by his opponents and being slaughtered as a fat sheep? !

Hearing Song Yang's words, Brian Roberts raised his brows. He felt that if he was in the Disney family, he might hate Eisner. He originally hired a housekeeper to manage the villa, but the housekeeper took over the magpie's nest and didn't say anything. , I lived in the villa by myself, and drove away the people who built the villa. It was really unbearable. Seeing that Eisner was about to leave, the Disney family would definitely find a way to make things happen.

   "If members of the Disney family, along with other Disney board members, start a war against Eisner, it is indeed an opportunity for Comcast Group!"

  Brian Roberts said with flickering eyes that Eisner and the Disney family still have many shareholders, and the situation is already in turmoil. As long as there is a fire, it can ignite a raging fire.

As for what to do if the two sides don’t go to war, of course it’s a fight. Comcast and ICQ’s media camps are not for nothing. Everyone knows the trouble!

As for the Comcast Group, what to do is to find Eisner to join forces when Eisner is cornered. Will a person in desperate situation give up the olive branch of life-saving, even if it is a straw? Hold on tight, as for selling Disney, for Eisner, I'm afraid there won't be any psychological burden at all, and I can't wait to disgust the Disney family to death.

   "The North American Global Investment Foundation and the Bruno family will provide Comcast with sufficient acquisition funds!" Song Yang said to Brian Roberts from the side.

Brian Roberts breathed a sigh of relief and reached out to Song Yang. If he could acquire the Disney Group and join hands with ICQ to take down the TCI TV network under the Telephone and Telegraph Group, then Comcast Group would be enough to complete the transformation. When the time comes to cooperate, the new video website that Song Yang is talking about, Comcast Group will also enter a new era!

Microsoft's huge sum of money to acquire the Skype platform is still in the process of fermenting, but after the market opened the next day, Microsoft's stock price fell a little, while ICQ's stock price continued to rise sharply. This shows that Wall Street institutions are very concerned about this transactional attitude.

   "Milia maintains the center of gravity, the range should not be too large, and keep the same rhythm as Baloo!"

  On the horse farm of the San Jose Manor, Song Yang and Jenny, who was holding little Alan Bell, and Greco, Dana, Gallo, Hai Li, etc., looked at Miria who was training on the horse farm.

Milia is going to participate in a U25 Grand Prix at the Kentucky Derby. The prize money is less than 30,000 US dollars. It is basically a competition for the transition from amateur to professional equestrian. It provides young riders with a chance to experience the competition on grass. It is an exclusive sport for American celebrities and families, and the riders participating in the competition basically have some explanations about the background behind it, so the attention is quite high.

  Even if it is a non-professional equestrian competition, since it is Miria's first competition since learning equestrianism, the Bruno family will naturally join in, and Song Yang will go to watch the competition in person.

The horse Baru that Milia is riding is also an Oldenburg mixed-breed horse bought by the Bruno family with a lot of money. The price is quite high. This is not considered the top thoroughbred horse. Thoroughbred horses that have won horse racing championships, if sold, will basically be sold for more than one million dollars, or even tens of millions of dollars!

Horse racing is also a huge industrial chain, including America, old Europe, Middle East oil countries, and Asia. There are a large number of horse racing betting competitions. A huge industrial chain has also been born, including farms for cultivating professional racing horses, racing hospitals, racing schools and so on.

Taylor, who is the equestrian coach for Miria, also has a lot of background. During the Atlanta Olympics a few years ago, she represented America in the team equestrian competition and won the Jerez World Equestrian Championship. The reason why she is willing to teach Miria It's not that I saw how talented Miria is in equestrianism, it's purely...the Bruno family gave too many dollars, and the bonuses she earned from participating in the competition for so many years did not have to be a coach for Miria in the past few years Her salary is high, even if Milia really doesn't have any talent in this line of work, her reputation will be ruined, and she... also admits it, after all, the Bruno family has given too much.

After training Milia and running a lap of the obstacle course, Taylor came over and said to a group of members of the Bruno family who were looking at Miria eagerly, "Next week's competition, the U25 youth group, there is no A particularly strong player, Milia should be able to win a medal!"

Facing Song Yang, Greck, Daana and others, Taylor said in a not-so-sure tone, taking so many beautiful knives from the Bruno family, if Miria participated in the competition and failed, Taylor would also It is really difficult to explain to the big benefactor.

   "Milia will definitely win a medal. Alcatel Mobile and ICQ sponsored the Kentucky Equestrian Games this time!"

Song Yang looked at Miria's figure and revealed the inside information to the equestrian champion. The corner of Taylor's eyes twitched when he heard it. If she was still participating in the competition, she would probably have yelled at her when she heard this inside information, but Now, she has quit the competition and is working as a full-time trainer. She only hopes that Miria can win a few more medals, so that her name will not be completely dirty.

In the ICQ headquarters where Skype has just been traded, after the hustle and bustle, there is also a bit of laziness after the hustle and bustle, and also a bit of a loss of Skype. It is inevitable that there will be some discomfort.

ICQ is connecting with Microsoft. The team members belonging to the Skype platform have received large bonuses from the ICQ headquarters. They can join Microsoft, or they can choose to leave with high compensation. In order to retain the Skype team, Microsoft Members, they were paid almost one to two times their previous annual salary.

Kirk McMillan has also become an old bird now. He was re-recruited back to ICQ when he was at the end of his rope after the Nasdaq crash. As soon as he came in, he joined ICQ Chief Technology Officer Wesley The development team led by him has developed two major projects: Twitter and Skype.

Kirk McMillan is also the proud man who graduated from Stanford, but he also understands that in Silicon Valley, a place where the world's technology giants gather, he is actually only a brick, and he knows he is lucky. If he hadn't been recruited by ICQ, he would be no different from those people who have sadly left Silicon Valley in the past few years. Many of those people had some great technical talents, and now they have all disappeared in the arena.

  In Silicon Valley, no matter how good the technology is, once it is out of the front line of technology, it will not take long for the level to plummet, and it will be difficult to be the leader.

And Kirk McMillan, relying on these two years of training, his skills have become more and more proficient, and relying on the two major projects of Twitter, Kirk McMillan's worth has directly broken the million mark , I also purchased my own house in San Jose, which was built by ICQ and Oswald Construction Company. Internal staff such as Kirk McMillan can purchase real estate at a price close to cost, which is also one of the benefits of ICQ , and the headquarters, thinking back before, he was so embarrassed that he couldn't even pay the rent, so he could only say that the world was impermanent.

   Today, Kirk McMillan thought it was another ordinary day and wanted to pack up his things. When he entered the gymnasium inside ICQ, he suddenly saw Wesley and several senior executives from the technical department, and hurried out.

  A moment later, when he looked at the people who came in with Wesley and the others, Kirk McMillan suddenly felt that something big might happen to ICQ again.

Kirk McMillan, who was about to get up, immediately sat down again when he saw Song Yang's figure. Song Yang didn't come to ICQ headquarters many times, but Kirk McMillan clearly remembered that every time Song Yang Once you come here, it won't be long before ICQ will have major events.

  Kirk McMillan's heart beat suddenly. He didn't know if Song Yang was going to let ICQ develop new projects this time, just like Twitter and Skype at the beginning!

   "Director Bruno!"

  Wesley, who has multiple titles such as the father of Internet social networking in Silicon Valley, the father of Twitter, and the father of VoIP, welcomed Song Yang into his office, made a cup of coffee himself, and put it in front of Song Yang.

   "I heard, Wesley, are you going to take a vacation?!" Song Yang sat down and said to Wesley with a smile.

  (end of this chapter)