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   Chapter 604 Big Action

"The Matrix" was a hit at the box office. It was released for three days, and the global box office hit hundreds of millions of dollars. It reached the top of the box office in America, England, France, Japan and other places. The entertainment industry is naturally touted for Song Yang. .

The technology industry is also very proud. "The Matrix" is hot, and the discussion continues to soar, so that the stock price of the Internet industry has soared today. After all, in name, this is a movie promoting the concept of the Internet. Although in fact it is just selling dog meat.

   But at this juncture, it is the most frenetic period of the Internet. With a little trouble, the stock price can be stimulated to skyrocket, not to mention a special Internet concept movie.

   As a brother company of Western Pictures, it is also a double-click company under Song Yang. It once again received a wave of dividends, and its stock price soared a lot.

In addition, as one of the representatives of the Internet and technology industries, the "Matrix" invested by Song Yang this time has performed quite well in Hollywood, which has given other Internet and technology companies a gimmick, and the technology industry has crossed into the Internet industry. It seems to be very promising!

  As the first person in the Internet industry to enter Hollywood to eat crabs, Song Yang's first bite seemed to be meat, which made many Internet companies start to move.

   After all, cooperating with Hollywood is the easiest way to get out of the circle, and it can quickly gain popularity. This trick is the best at accounting, and he bundles a lot of stars for his platform, and finally makes a lot of money...

   Paulson dropped the newspaper in his hand and asked his confidant Pelle Greene, "Song, where are you now?"

The last time Paulson met Song Yang, it was to solve the problem of PayPal. Paulson personally went to San Jose to meet Song Yang. The final result... Goldman Sachs, Morgan, Deutsche Bank and PayPal joined forces to give those small and medium-sized banks to PayPal. sold.

Today, Paulson, Deutsche Bank and several other Wall Street institutions met with Song Yang and ICQ executives to get Goldman Sachs to take over ICQ's stock underwriting rights, which has been confirmed and is the biggest piece of Wall Street this year meat.

Goldman Sachs has cooperated with Song Yang several times. Goldman Sachs does not dare to say that it has made a lot of money, but basically it has made a lot of money. The cooperation with PayPal has allowed Goldman Sachs to cut a lot of small and medium-sized banks. Now Goldman Sachs has begun to invest some funds , started selling through PayPal, cutting leeks is more obscure, but it makes more money.

   "Should be almost there!"

Pelle Greeni put down the newspaper in his hand, glanced at the time and said, his eyes flicked on the newspaper, Pelle Greeni felt that Song Yang did not appear in the media frequently, but every time he appeared in the media , there must be a big move starting to appear, and Song Yang's worth will also soar a lot.

   Now Goldman Sachs is the boss of Wall Street, Paulson is the uncrowned king of Wall Street, whether ICQ or other companies want to go public, Goldman Sachs cannot be avoided, and other institutions can only come to Goldman Sachs.

  ICQ went public at an astonishing valuation of $27.8 billion, and raised $1.8 billion. These are all new Internet records. This is not something that a Wall Street institution can eat. Naturally, Goldman Sachs, the leading big brother, is needed.

   "Is there any plan between ICQ and GE and Comcast?"

   Paulson suddenly asked Pelle Greeney a question, which made Pelle Greeney stunned for a while, wondering what Paulson meant.

  Pelle Greeney, who is familiar with Paulson's character, knows that his immediate boss has always been rigorous in his official affairs, and it is by no means that he said these words without evidence.

   "President Paulson, did you hear any rumors?" Pelle Greeney asked Paulson tentatively.

  Paulson smiled, looked at the nervous Pelle Greene, shook his head and said, "It's from General Electric, I heard some wind, it's related to ICQ, but it's not clear yet..."

Paulson did not say who was the one who disclosed the rumors, but given the current situation within GE, for the position of the next generation leader, the scenes of open and secret struggles, those of Immelt's opponents, adding some obstacles to Immelt, is another way. It's commonplace, after all, he also stumbles on those opponents.

  Pelle Greene knew that it was not difficult to get some insider information from General Electric with Paulson's connections.

   Looking at Paulson's expression, Pelle Greene frowned, "Bruno Song and ICQ are planning things, compared to Disney's acquisition of ABC Group?"

Under the tough hands of Disney Emperor Eisner, the transaction between Disney and ABC officially came to an end. Disney officially completed the acquisition of ABC TV and ESPN, the world's largest sports channel under ABC, at a price of up to 19 billion US dollars. In the bag, Disney's status as the world's largest media giant was officially established.

In the eyes of Pellegrini, Disney's action is big enough. The acquisition of more than 10 billion US dollars, I don't know how much Disney has made, but the Wall Street institution that deals with this matter has already made a lot of money. Full.

   Comparing ICQ's actions with Disney's acquisition of the ABC Group, Pelle Greene feels that he has a high enough opinion of ICQ, and his brain hole is big enough.

But after Paulson heard Pelle Greeney's words, he was only silent for a while before slowly opening his mouth to his most important confidant at Goldman Sachs, "I don't know what ICQ is going to do here, but It should have something to do with companies like General Electric, Comcast Network, Telecom America, etc., maybe not even smaller than what AOL and Time Warner have done!"

   Pellet Greeney stared at Paulson in astonishment. If this was not said by Paulson, then Pellet Greeney must have thought it was a joke.

Goldman Sachs, according to recent news, AOL President Keyes is quietly in touch with Time Warner President Jerry Levine. This matter has not been reported by any media, but several Wall Street companies including Goldman Sachs The top organization has already heard the wind, because AOL is going to play too much, it is absolutely impossible for Case alone to complete it!

AOL wants to swallow the elephant and complete the merger with Time Warner. This is a century merger that may exceed more than 100 billion US dollars. If AOL wants to complete the merger, it must rely on the support of Wall Street. Case disclosed the news to Goldman Sachs and other institutions, It is also testing the attitude of Goldman Sachs and other companies on this matter.

Before Pellegrini, from Paulson's side, when he heard that AOL was going to acquire Time Warner, he was already shocked. He felt that this might be America's first acquisition. From Paulson's mouth, I heard again that someone was going to play the same trick as Case, even more than AOL!

  Pelle Greene was full of shock. He didn't know how much work Song Yang and ICQ were going to play, maybe even more than AOL.

If this is true, in such a big transaction involving hundreds of billions of dollars, as long as you prepare in advance and hoard more shares in ICQ, General Electric, and Comcast, then it is estimated that all Can make a profit!

In the Goldman Sachs conference room, Paulson nodded to Edison, general manager of Deutsche Bank Investment Bank, Anshu Jain, Merrill Lynch Investment Bank President Stan O'Neill, and people from Morgan Investment Bank.

   Although there are quite a few investment banks present today, they are basically dominated by three investment banks, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Merrill Lynch. Other investment banks, such as Morgan, are basically just earning some extra money by dividing the fundraising quota.

The rebellious Edison has no regard for the Wall Street crowd, but he is still a bit jealous of Paulson's bald head. Now he has just led Wall Street and shorted Paulson in Southeast Asia. When he was in power, Edison had to avoid a few points.

Addison didn't like Paulson, and Paulson didn't like Deutsche Bank Investment Bank as an outsider, especially Addison was rebellious and wanted to replace him as the number one person in Hollywood. It's strange that Dickon's face is so good.

   In front of the gate of Goldman Sachs headquarters, a group of reporters and media gathered, all waiting eagerly.

Seeing the arrival of a row of motorcades, a group of reporters immediately surrounded them. When a lady in a suit and a pair of black-rimmed glasses got out of the car, a large group of media reporters scrambled to reach the microphones of the long guns and short guns. In front of Erin.

   "President Erin, what do you estimate the stock price will reach after ICQ goes public?"

   "ICQ's valuation is as high as 27.8 billion US dollars. Can ICQ support such a valuation?"

   "There are rumors that ICQ's $1.8 billion fundraising is just to harvest small and medium investors. What do you think, President Erin?"

   "After ICQ goes public, can President Irene be worth more than a billion dollars?"

A group of media and reporters asked various questions around Irene. Some asked if ICQ’s stock price would rise sharply after its listing, and some asked if ICQ raised 1.8 billion US dollars, whether it was cutting leeks, and the worth of Irene and other executives. Will it soar with the listing of ICQ and be promoted to the list of billionaire clubs?

ICQ's listing this time, no surprise, will set off Silicon Valley and the Internet industry. It is the largest wealth-making campaign in history. It is estimated that more than two billionaires can be born, and there may be more than a few billionaires. As for the millionaires and above, there will also be a large number of...

   "I believe ICQ will not disappoint investors. Whenever investing in ICQ, it will be the best choice!"

Irene, dressed in a mature dress, responded to the reporter's question with a cold tone and a straight face, telling them that as long as they bought ICQ stocks, they would earn it, and then entered the Goldman Sachs headquarters accompanied by supervisors and security personnel. .

Compared with Irene, although he is also the co-president of ICQ, Wesley, who is in charge of ICQ technology, has received much less attention. Except for professionals in the Internet industry, the rest have paid attention to Wesley. Not much.

   The media's question to Wesley was also a little perfunctory, whether ICQ will launch epic feature updates, whether it will sue those ICQ imitators, and so on.

   But for these, Wesley doesn't care much, he is now the "father of instant messaging", no matter how many instant messaging software there is, it cannot be denied.

The    name already exists, and the listing of ICQ is a benefit!

Wesley is now on the media side. Although he is not as famous as Irene, he, like Irene, owns a 5% stake in ICQ. As long as ICQ is successfully listed, he will immediately join Irene and enter the American billion dollar market. Among the knives rich club.

   An engineer with a technical background can enter the billionaire club. Looking at America, how many of the millions of engineers in Silicon Valley can do it?

  Wesley has all the fame and fortune. What else is he not satisfied with? As the co-president of ICQ, Wesley is already an absolute big man in the eyes of Internet practitioners all over the world!

  After Irene and Wesley, ICQ Chief Financial Officer Marcus, Legal President Greck and other executives have all entered Goldman Sachs headquarters one after another.

   When Song Yang got off the car, the scene became noisy again, and a large group of reporters squeezed Song Yang's bee chrysalis.

   "Song, the global box office of "The Matrix" has exceeded 100 million. What will you invest in the next Hollywood movie?"

   "There is a Hollywood actress who wants to have dinner with you, Song, will you accept the invitation?"

   "Song, after ICQ goes public, will you be worth more than Buffett?!"

   "Amazon will go public in the near future. Will eBay and PayPal, which you invested in, choose to go public?"

  Facing Song Yang, the media in front of Goldman Sachs headquarters were much more engaged with reporters, throwing various questions at Song Yang, and reporters from the entertainment industry came to join in the fun.

The Internet and the media in the financial industry are most concerned about how much Song Yang's net worth will soar after ICQ's listing, replacing Bill Gates as the world's richest man. Buffett, it seems possible to give a wrist.

   For these questions, Song Yang just nodded with a smile on his face, and didn't mean to break his wrist with Buffett.

Now is the frenzy period of the Internet and the technology industry. The valuations of ICQ, Double-click, PayPal, America Telecom, and Alcatel mobile phones in Song Yang's hands are all rising. Song Yang's net worth is soaring faster than Buffett's. For Song Yang, it is only a matter of time before he surpasses Buffett on paper.

   But that's just the data on paper. Those valuations would have to shrink a lot if they were to be exchanged for US knives. Buffett's cash in hand was much more than Song Yang's.

   "Today, ICQ President Erin and a group of executives, including ICQ founder Bruno Song, met with Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, etc. If ICQ goes public, Bruno Song will become the second richest man in the Internet industry..."

   In a building not far from Goldman Sachs headquarters, there are also a lot of people gathered here, which are also a number of Wall Street institutions and Silicon Valley venture capital companies.

  Bezos and Amazon executives, along with these institutions and VCs, watched the scene on TV a few kilometers away from them.

   (end of this chapter)