The Wolf of Los Angeles

Beverly Hills, Hyatt Hotel.

Douglas Cost from BlackRock's San Francisco branch walked into a business private room with two assistants.

Emma Bateson has been waiting here for a long time.

Both sides entered the private room conference room and discussed investment matters on Twitter.

Emma said bluntly: "Twitter and Hawke Osmon themselves do not exclude investment from BlackRock, but the premise of investment is that BlackRock must not interfere with Twitter's operations and Twitter must maintain sufficient independence. ”

She paused a little and added: "Haoke Osmon also proposed a financing model with a dual-equity structure. He controlled the company's voting equity, while other companies only had investment dividend equity..."

BlackRock cannot accept such conditions no matter what.

Douglas said directly: "He imagined it was too beautiful, at least a billion dollars would be spent. If Twitter argued, the investment could be said to be a failure if he did not follow BlackRock."

Commercial affairs are not limited to business, but also involve a series of subsequent related matters.

Emma hasn't finished her words: "Other aspects, such as increasing the number of minorities and female employees in the company, were all sternly rejected by Hawke Osmon."

This quote attracted Douglas' attention and he asked, "Did Hawke give a reason?"

"He said he was interfering with the independent operation of Twitter," Emma said.

Douglas gently pulled the armrest of the chair with his fingers, focusing on this aspect.

This incident involves the future strategic plans of BlackRock Group and Pioneer International Group.

Since the mid-to-late 1990s, the two investment companies have developed rapidly, but the donkeys lost the election. After the Texas pigs came to power, they were affected by the policy and political environment. BlackRock and Pioneer International have a rapid development momentum of One pause.

Just talk about California, a deep blue land, now donkeys have been frustrated.

BlackRock and Pioneer International belong to Deep Blue. It is crucial to enter the fast lane of development again and allow donkeys to gain an absolute advantage again.

The two companies cooperated with several think tanks in Washington to develop a strategic plan for marginal populations.

The method is to use media, entertainment and business to create momentum, promote the feminist movement into a new stage, and at the same time, let groups such as ethnic minorities, homosexuals and addicts on the margins of society enter the mainstream of society and gain more voice.

This group of people was ignored by society in the past, and the counterattack mentality has created a stronger mentality of making trouble and a more positive voting attitude.

The votes of normal people are votes, and the votes of these people are also votes.

Moreover, the enthusiasm of these people to vote is far higher than that of ordinary people.

Specifically in terms of business, BlackRock has formulated a future plan to establish a complete marginal population assessment system. If companies invested by BlackRock must obtain high scores in this system evaluation.

For example, the employment ratio of female employees, **** employees and black employees in the company is an important assessment standard.

This plan has not yet been truly launched. This is the first time BlackRock has implemented it on Twitter, but it was rejected.

Douglas frowned. Even if the strategic plan can be launched, the Twitter acquisition will continue to be strongly promoted.

A poor boy from Wyoming wants to confront BlackRock head-on?

He thought for a while and said to Emma: "You continue to keep in touch with Twitter, tell Hawke Osmon that BlackRock will continue to increase its investment and will not give up easily, let him know BlackRock's attitude .”

Emma is a middleman who takes money to do things: "I can."

"I'll stay in Los Angeles for a while." Douglas got up and left: "Call me just if you have something to do."

Out of respect and politeness, Emma kept sending people to the hotel door, and personally went out of the hotel door to help Douglas open the car door.

Douglas nodded at her and got on an Escalade.

On a Ford diagonally opposite the hotel, Carlos retracted the telephoto camera and said to Juan on the co-pilot: "Cut down the license plate number."

Juan held the DV in his left hand, shot through the front windshield, grabbed a pen in his right hand, and wrote down the license plate number on his notebook.

Carlos picked up the car intercom and said, "The target vehicle is black Escalade, track it forward and backward, be careful not to be discovered."

The Escalade drove away from the hotel, and Ford did not move.

Behind Escalade, he followed another business car, with a strong bodyguard sitting in it.

Carlos and others had great experience in tracking, so they started the car and chased after it.

The black Escalade went northeast and soon arrived south of Burbank and entered Universal Studios.

Douglas Cost got off the car and went straight to the headquarters of Focus Pictures at Universal Studios, and met Focus Pictures founder James Shams and his old partner Ang Lee. The newly established film company is planning a **** film project that is fully in line with BlackRock's strategic plan. A film foundation under BlackRock is preparing to participate in the investment and production of the film.

For BlackRock's strategic planning, Hollywood is definitely the best publicity base.

James Shams provided Douglas with work prepared for the film adaptation, a short **** novel "Brokeback Mountain" written by Anne Plux.

Douglas is an amateur in novels and film creation, and only made a little request: "I can give you enough budget, but when filming and producing films, you must have enough competitiveness in the Oscars, and even win the Best Actor and Actress, At least one of the four major awards of Best Director and Best Picture.

Ang Lee has never spoken, but he regretted that "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" lost the best director a few years ago. This time, with the support of the funder, he certainly wanted to give it another try.

As for the hidden purpose behind the financial owner, he neither cared nor cared.

This kind of business cooperation is nothing more than what everyone needs.

James said politely: "The establishment of Focus Pictures, BlackRock's financial support is the key, and cooperation in film projects, especially this "Brokeback Mountain", we will naturally do our best, but one film , especially this kind of work that focuses on the homosexual community, if you want to win key Oscars, you also need luck in addition to operations."

Douglas never believed in luck and said: "The key to Oscars is nothing more than money. In recent years, Harvey Weinstein has won consecutive Oscars. Where is the secret? It's just that he is willing to give up his posture and spend money on public relations."

He looked at James and Ang Lee and said seriously and seriously: "Two, this video has a significant response to BlackRock and America. I need it to have an extraordinary influence."

The other party was willing to donate generously, but James had nothing to say, so he responded.

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

Douglas said: "Also, BlackRock's Film Foundation will have a long-term investment plan in Hollywood. Black equality, feminism, homosexuality and other minority themes will be priority investment goals, do you understand?"

This type of work is not unique in Hollywood. James seemed to have seen a brand new path to film production and quickly responded: "This is left to Focus Pictures."

Douglas discussed with the two of them for a while, left Universal Pictures and visited Burbank.

In BlackRock's plan, the entertainment industry, especially the film industry, coupled with the traditional media industry and emerging online media forces, can form a perfect ecosystem.

The emerging online media is naturally Twitter.

Now the ecosystem is missing.

...

San Francisco, Bay Area.

In the office of the Long-term Capital Management Company, Peter Thiel stares at the computer screen and watches live news on the Twitter page.

Opposite, his college classmate and friend, Red Hoffman, who started his business at PayPal, was looking at the laptop in front of him.

The same content is displayed on the notebook screen.

All are videos of the Ice Bucket Challenge.

Like many people in the Silicon Valley technology circle, both participated in this ice bucket challenge.

Peter asked the other side: "How is this social software on Twitter?"

"It's very useful." Red Hoffman has been using Twitter for the past few months: "The second one can't be found on the Internet, interactive, entertaining, media and ease of getting started."

Peter said, “Give up the LinkedIn social media you are planning to invest in, join my investment team, and we will invest in Twitter together.”

LinkedIn is also a social media software, but its scale and performance are far less than Twitter's.

Hoffman is a famous angel investor in Silicon Valley: "This company has risen so quickly that I haven't decided to join LinkedIn yet and I'm no longer interested in it."

He has doubts: "There are many such websites and software that suddenly explode and quickly disappear on the Internet."

Peter is confident in Twitter: "I invest in Twitter not only because of this company, but also because of his founder Hawk Osmon."

These days, he has learned about Hawke through Brian and has also called Hawke: "I won't say anything else, the Kobe Bryant incident I asked you to see last time, this time Tom Cruise's ice bucket The challenges have made Twitter the focus of the Internet. Through repeated operations, Hawke Osmon has turned the event into a high-rating TV series with climaxes and reversals. "

Hoffmann watched the whole process through Twitter: "It's really interesting."

He pondered for a long time and asked, "Investing requires a right time, and as far as I know, BlackRock's San Francisco branch has been working on Twitter."

Peter Thiel smiled, “So, I’ve been waiting and didn’t join in rashly.”

Investment must first be in line with one's own interests and maximize one's own interests: "BlackRock has a great power, and is never bound by one's means. It is also a deep blue force. In order to force Twitter to submit, it will definitely use various methods to make Hawke. Osmon compromised.”

Hoffman understood as soon as he heard it: "When Twitter and Hawke Osmon face serious crisis, we will show up as a savior to save him and Twitter and get the best solution."

Peter Thiel snapped his fingers: "Now you just need to wait and see the show." (End of this chapter)