Start with hooves

Chapter 207
12 month 31 number.

The last day of 2008.

After being harassed by tourists for an entire vacation, Suri finally had enough of being a mascot and flew to Los Angeles again,

Daddario's parents and younger siblings, who just returned to New York yesterday, were perfectly staggered with him, avoiding the embarrassment of meeting each other.

The so-called small do not win the newlyweds.

On the morning of the 31st, Suri didn't even go home after landing, but took a car to Daddario's new home.

The two of them tossed until lunch time, and their stomachs growled so hungry that they took a shower and went out to look for food.

The place to eat is an Italian restaurant.

Coffee-flavored ice cream, served with Neapolitan pizza, lasagne and lasagna.

Although I don’t know which country the chef is from, Su Rui actually tasted the taste of Northeast roasted cold noodles from the lasagna. It is probably because this restaurant uses similar sauces, and the memory that has been sleeping for more than 20 years has been awakened. , which greatly increased his appetite.

during meals.

Suri said to Daddario:
"I was wrong. You shouldn't go back to Lanai Island during the peak season. It's more comfortable to live in the off-season. Do you know the feeling of being haunted by a large group of people every time you go out, and you can't get away if you want to leave? It's really annoying."

Daddario eats lasagna, fork in hand.

She was wearing a black shirt, and the whiteness in the gaps of the clothes was faintly visible.

Sure enough, a good figure can attract attention in everything, and a plain shirt can also look so sexy.

He was in a hurry to go out for dinner, and his hair was still a little wet. Daddario smiled and said, "Then you should come here earlier, I can spare time to see you."

"No way, Lanai is not only my home, it's also a business," Suri told me.

"How is its business this year, can it make money?"

"Of course, since November to now, it has contributed a total of about 11 million profits. It's a pity that it just opened this year, and the investment is relatively large, so the net profit must not be that much."

Suri reached out and helped Daddario wipe off the sauce from his mouth, and then explained:
"If the annual after-tax net profit is 2000 million U.S. dollars, and the tourism business can continue, then according to the asset valuation formula in the market, adding up the total income in the next 15 or 20 years is equivalent to making Lanai The value of the island has increased by three to four billion U.S. dollars."

This method of calculating asset value is similar to evaluating listed companies.

If 98% of Lanai’s land ownership is only worth more than 3 million U.S. dollars when it is losing money, then an island that can earn 2000 million U.S. dollars a year can soar to [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars.

After the new hotel is completed, if it can still be full, attracting tourists to flock to it, and increase the annual profit to 5000 million US dollars, it means that Lanai Island has the opportunity to increase in value by about one billion US dollars.

Therefore, Su Rui has always felt that the new hotel may have an impact on other investment projects, but he has not considered how long it will take to recover the cost.

The increased profit will be magnified and reflected in the total value of the entire island, which is also an asset.

Daddario was in a particularly good mood, and continued:

"That's been fantastic, and The Walking Dead's premiere numbers have been good, so hopefully the luck continues next year and we all go well."

It has been a week since the broadcast of "The Walking Dead", and the second episode will be shown tonight.

Suri laughed and said:

"I check the data every day. There are only hundreds of thousands of members in total, but the first episode has more than 2400 million hits."

"It shows that the film has a good reputation and has attracted netizens. Except for repeated clicks, previews, etc., the number of people who have actually watched it is about 750 million."

"Because the first 3 episodes are free, it is not clear how many paying members can be attracted, but this number is far beyond my expectations..."

as an actor.

Daddario has no access to background data.

Even if she asked Director Lynch, she could only get a very good answer at most.

Movies released in theaters like to continue to release box office data, which means nothing more than saying "this movie is good, many people have seen it, everyone come and see it".

After listening to Suri, Daddario asked him: "Which website did you find it on, can you send me the link?"

"The company programmer gave me the permission to view the real-time data background. In order to avoid affecting your mood, it's better not to pay too much attention to these. I can let you see it occasionally..."

More than 750 million people watched the first episode.

Compared with the [-] million people in the United States, this number seems very small.

However, Su Rui felt that it would be quite good if 200 million people watched it in the early stage. After all, Netflix Entertainment has just started, and people are not used to watching TV through the Internet.

The data of 750 million a week undoubtedly gave him a big surprise.

According to Netflix Entertainment's discounted pricing, the monthly membership fee for the regular version is about $8, and the gold membership that is completely ad-free is priced at about $12.

On average, a user contributes $10, even if it only brings in 100 million paying users, it means $1000 million in revenue.

On the premise of not deducting the expenses of other companies, based on the calculation of four episodes of "The Walking Dead" a month, its income can not only support the crew, but even have a little left.

This is what surprised Su Rui the most.

The sooner it starts making money, the more helpful it will be for Netflix Entertainment's valuation, and it will be able to plan two or three more new dramas next year.

If there are 200 million paying members and the growth trend is maintained, perhaps by the end of next month, the valuation of Netflix Entertainment will skyrocket, reaching 30 billion US dollars or more.

The growth valuation method in the Silicon Valley Internet field is very unreasonable, focusing on the calculation of future value.

If Netflix Entertainment can acquire 200 million paying users in the first month, the capital market will dare to evaluate its potential based on 2000 million paying users.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, it is worth placing a heavy bet and burning money.

As for the board of directors of the parent company, they specially sent someone to talk to Su Rui, saying that they plan to use a full budget of 1000 million U.S. dollars in January to promote "The Walking Dead" and Netflix Entertainment like a movie, planning in advance how to The problem of opening up international markets.

Daddario suddenly remembered something and told Suri:

"During dinner two days ago, my father inexplicably mentioned Netflix's parent company, saying that its stock price had gone up a bit crazy, and then he guessed that the performance of new dramas was better."

"Of course, Netflix's parent company owns half of its shares. Between Christmas and New Year's holidays, the stock price rose by 33% in a single day."

Su Rui took a mouthful of ice cream, his mind almost froze, and he added after a while:

"The news in the capital market is the most well-informed, and you can't hide anything from them, especially the rich and powerful brokers. The intelligence network is scary. Now that Netflix Entertainment has been predicted to become very valuable, of course people want to snap up Netflix shares in advance. Becoming its shareholder means indirectly holding shares in Netflix Entertainment..."

(End of this chapter)