Back To 1995

  Chapter 987 Hands-Only Familiar

   Song Yang's last sentence was not loud, but it calmed Jerry Levine who was in anger immediately.

  Who wants to be printed in the teaching plans of business schools and become recognized as the most failed professional manager, even a Wall Street professional manager with a thick skin and a dark heart, who doesn't care about face, doesn't want to be nailed to the pillar of shame!

What if the descendants enter the federal department, every time there is a debate on TV, wouldn't they be hacked to death by the opposite party? Don't underestimate the ability of the American people to turn over old accounts. Eight generations of ancestors can give black material Digging it out, and then publicly mocking it on TV, they can definitely do it.

   After taking a few sips of wine and calming himself down again, Jerry Levine spoke again, "Song, what exactly do you want?"

   "Time Warner!"

Jerry Levin, who hadn't closed his mouth, opened his mouth wide and looked at Song Yang in shock. It was not just him. When Ted Sarando, who was sitting by the side, heard this, his face lit up for a while. Flushing, he had thought of this before, but when Song Yang really said it, he was still shocked.

  Don't look at Time Warner now that it seems that the dog ignores the buns, even the dog shakes his head when he sees it, and can lose more than 100 billion US dollars a year, but looking at the traditional media industry, Time Warner is still the most capable existence besides Disney.

Even with the crazy market last year, Time Warner's revenue still exceeded 40 billion US dollars, but it didn't meet Wall Street's expectations, and it didn't reach the Haikou that he boasted. Not much to lose.

But the media industry has never been able to just count how much it earns and how much it loses. The influence of the media itself cannot be measured with a dollar. Just like this year's battle for leadership, if Time Warner is on the side of the Elephant Party, small The Cowboys probably won't have a hard time winning.

HBO, CNN TV, TBS TV, TNT TV, WB TV Network, Warner Music, Warner Pictures, Warner Publishing owns "Time Magazine" that countless people dream of being on the cover, as well as "People" and "Sports Expo" , "Fortune", "Entertainment Weekly", "Time Life" and other impurities, and the rest include DC Comics, Atlanta Professional Baseball Braves, etc., all of which are Time Warner's assets!

   If you add AOL's big business, 22 million dial-up Internet users, Netscape browser, AIM instant messaging website, Mapquest map website, etc., AOL Time Warner's family background is really not thin.

For Time Warner, which is now shaken by the dog in the eyes of outsiders, even if it takes another ten or twenty years, it will not fall. I can bear it.

For other companies, Time Warner is now a burden, but for Song Yang, if AOL Time Warner's property is split off and then taken over by ICQ, Western Pictures, America Telecom, etc., then these things no one wants, They will all become sweet pastries!

   Even the Netscape browser, which has been completely abandoned, can be used to kill a wave of big dogs!

Netscape browser has no users now, but it is in the hands of AOL Time Warner, they can't push it up, they can't compete with Microsoft, but if Netscape browser is in the hands of ICQ, I'm afraid Ballmer won't dare to sleep with it catches the eye.

The same thing, in the hands of different people, will have different effects. When the Netscape browser is in the hands of ICQ, I ask Microsoft if I am afraid. Microsoft, which has just escaped disaster, dares to fight ICQ again. , bet ICQ can dismantle it? !

  Even if the Netscape browser is a mess now, when it is in the hands of ICQ, it can force Microsoft to swallow it at a high price, and it has to pay billions of dollars to ICQ to stop.

  The rest of Time Warner TV, record companies, Hollywood film companies, magazines, etc., will also become good things in the hands of ICQ and Western Pictures.

   Even the AOL dial-up Internet service, which is a headache for Jerry Levin, can be played well in the hands of America Telecom.

  Dial-up Internet users can't keep up with the times. Jerry Levine wants to upgrade dial-up Internet users to broadband users, but the cost is too high, and Time Warner really can't afford it.

  But American Telecom is different. Broadband lines are ready-made and can be directly pulled to users’ homes. They can almost seamlessly receive 20 million users, as long as they are willing to pay broadband fees.

What's more, American Telecom can also engage in free access to broadband and no handling fees. The new commander-in-chief has said that he will implement a community free Internet plan. The American knife approved from the Capitol Hill, and America Telecom’s own affairs, can this be called woolen wool?

   "You're buying AOL Time Warner, right now?!"

  Jerry Levine looked at Song Yang in surprise, and his first reaction was not that Song Yang really wanted to buy Time Warner, but that he dared to make trouble at this juncture.

The bankruptcy of WorldCom, Enron and other companies, coupled with AOL Time Warner and other companies, are deeply mired in the quagmire of financial fraud, so that the outside world is calling for the merger between the current giants. At this juncture, Song Yang has come up with a With the big merger of pen and ink, I am afraid that it will be pushed to the forefront immediately.

   "Isn't this the most suitable time?!" Song Yang chuckled lightly and said with a smile.

Jerry Levine was speechless. Song Yang was really telling the truth, which made it difficult for him to refute. Isn’t it the most suitable time? Everyone in giant companies is in danger, and the market is extremely bad. Now companies like Time Warner, It's a good time to buy the bottom.

  But Jerry Levine could only smile wryly for the target being acquired, and he couldn't refute it when Song Yang wanted to buy Time Warner at the price of cabbage.

   "Song, I need to report this matter to the Time Warner board of directors. You know the current situation. It is difficult for me to directly decide such a big merger..."

   Jerry Levin didn't directly agree, nor did he say whether he would accept Song Yang's acquisition proposal, but only said to report to the Time Warner board of directors, obviously trying to play a delaying tactic.

Marcus is well aware of the truth here, and can even think of more methods, such as the idea of ​​Time Warner releasing Song Yang and wanting to acquire Time Warner. If you want to be promoted, even if you sell it in the end, you will sell yourself to ICQ at a high price.

   "President Jerry Levine, it is said that Time Warner is now facing a lawsuit of financial fraud, and the compensation of 3 billion dollars seems not so easy for the current Time Warner, oh..."

Marcus slapped his forehead, as if he just remembered, "kindly" reminded Jerry Levine, "By the way, AOL Time Warner seems to have $28 billion in debt. I don't know if Time Warner has so much cash flow?!"

Jerry Levine didn't change his face when he said these words. He has been scolded for so long. These alarmist remarks have been reported by the media for a long time. What's the use of getting angry.

   At this time, Song Yang's sudden sentence made Jerry Levine unable to sit still.

"No matter how Time Warner's board of directors decides, this acquisition, the joint acquisition consortium formed by ICQ, will only discuss this matter with President Jerry Levine. If Time Warner's board of directors replaces a new CEO, then we will terminate this acquisition. Acquisition!

  Levin, this is your last chance to let the brand of Time Warner not have to be ashamed, and it will still be the overlord of the global media industry in the future! "

  Jerry Levine didn't take all these nonsense words seriously. Jerry Levine felt that this was because he was afraid that Time Warner would have a new president and dare not sell the company.

   As for him, it is different. He has already sold Time Warner once, once once and twice, and he is not too bad to sell this time again.

Of course, Song Yang wasn’t fooling him. If the time warner brand can be erected again through another merger and acquisition, Jerry Levine can be regarded as atonement. In future history books, he will also say that he knows people Unknown, met the unlucky Keith, and the merger of Time Warner and ICQ is the salvation of turning the tide...

  (end of this chapter)