Hollywood Hunter

Globally, not to mention the large chaebols that the government controls or monopolize private ownership. Only in terms of listed companies, before the Daenerys Entertainment Group's IPO, the highest market value of listed companies appeared in Japan five years ago.

At the peak of the economic bubble, the market value of the Japan Telephone and Telegraph Company (NTT) once reached 21.5 trillion yen, which is roughly equivalent to 160 billion U.S. dollars based on the exchange rate of about 1:130 between the dollar and the yen that year.

At the time, the Japanese corporate giants that followed NTT were all banks.

At its peak, the market value of Japan's Industrial Bank equivalent to US dollars also exceeded 100 billion. Other Japanese banking giants such as Sumitomo Bank, Fuji Bank, Daiichi Kanye Bank and other Japanese banking giants also pressed all major US companies. Among them, the No.1 Kanye Bank ranked fifth. The highest market value reached 8.6 trillion yen, equivalent to 66 billion U.S. dollars.

In recent years, with the bursting of the Japanese stock and property market bubbles, the Bank of Japan was the first to bear the brunt.

The bursting of the Japanese property market bubble brought trillions of yen in bad debts to major banks in Japan, causing many banks to be on the verge of bankruptcy and their market value plummeted.

As for NTT, three years ago, Japan imitated the United States to split NTT. Coupled with the continuous decline of the Japanese stock market in recent years, the market value of NTT, a monopolistic telecommunications giant, has also shrunk seriously. At this stage, the market value of Japanese companies is still maintained. In the first place, NTT's market value has only left 6.3 trillion yen, which is equivalent to 61.1 billion U.S. dollars based on the 1:103 exchange rate after the recent yen appreciation against the US dollar.

Even after the economic bubble burst, Japan is still the world's second largest economy following the United States.

The market value of Japanese companies is still the same. The European countries that fell into economic recession after the currency crisis in 1992 have no listed companies that can compete with Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Therefore, although it is not the first corporate giant with a market value of over 100 billion U.S. dollars in global history, Daenerys Entertainment's market value of 112.8 billion U.S. dollars on the first day of listing has become the only company in the world with a market value of 100 billion U.S. dollars at this stage.

The stock price of Daenerys Entertainment Group rose sharply on the day of its listing, which severely impacted the entire Hollywood entertainment sector.

For the entire trading day on July 1, the other six in Hollywood.

Time Warner Group’s stock price fell 3.1% and its closing market value was $17.9 billion;

Disney’s stock price fell by 5.3% and its closing market value was $6.7 billion;

MGM’s share price fell 1.7% and its closing market value was $2.7 billion;

Fox Pictures’ parent company News Corporation’s share price fell 4.1% that day, and its closing market value was US$9.6 billion;

Paramount’s parent company Seagram Group’s share price fell 6.1% that day, and its closing market value was $13.7 billion;

Even Sony, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, saw its stock price drop 3.7% that day, and its closing market value was $21.5 billion.

As a result, the six traditional Hollywood giants besides Daenerys Entertainment, even the assets of their entire parent company, have a total value of only 72.1 billion US dollars, which is only 63% of the market value of Daenerys Entertainment Group on the first day of listing. .

Simon does not want to see Hollywood’s one super-many strong situation too soon. Therefore, in recent years, he has supported Time Warner explicitly or implicitly. Now, in terms of the market value of the company, this kind of actual one super-many strong situation has not only formed. Moreover, the combined strength of the other six is ​​not even as good as Daenerys Entertainment.

As the Hollywood film industry is relatively open and competitive, this situation at this stage can only be described as a miracle.

In any case, it may be very difficult for outsiders to break into Hollywood. For the native Hollywood, the seven major film companies have equal opportunities to enjoy this market. For example, in this summer vacation, each major film company can launch multiple films. Home-produced videos.

There is no shortage of opportunities, no shortage of markets, and the poor performance of the film market produced by oneself can hardly blame others.

Therefore, although the Daenerys Entertainment Group has suppressed all the cutting-edges of the other six major Hollywood players, unless it is a savage mess, the remaining six have little excuses to accuse Daenerys Entertainment's monopoly or other unfair competition behaviors. .

It is certainly not that the executives of several other major Hollywood film companies have secretly considered the joint targeting of Daenerys Entertainment.

It is a pity that Daenerys Entertainment's rise is so fast. When some people plan to sniper Daenerys Entertainment according to the standard of ‘Wild Boar’, in a blink of an eye, this company has become an ‘elephant’.

Now, having just experienced the Hearst Group incident, not only in the media industry, but no company in Hollywood dares to impose any small actions on Daenerys Entertainment.

What's more, even if a group of'wild boars' all unite, it is unlikely that an'elephant' will be overturned, and this'elephant' did not kill them all, but would occasionally give up some' food'. As a result, although everyone's livelihood is obviously much harder, in this ever-recovering and prosperous film market, life can barely survive.

Everyone has different degrees of inertia, and enterprises are controlled by people, so naturally.

Since they have not been pushed to a desperate situation, and the difference in strength is too great, the pattern of Hollywood can be considered stable for the time being.

Outside of Hollywood, on the last trading day before the Independence Day holiday, it was not only Daenerys Entertainment's first day of listing, that it overturned the veteran industrial giant General Electric and brought two other stars of the Westeros system to the ground. The listed companies Cisco and AOL also rose by 7.1% and 5.6% respectively on the day, and their closing market values ​​were US$76.4 billion and US$65.9 billion respectively.

In just one day, the Westeros system accounts for three of the top five listed companies in the US by market value.

The total market value of the three companies has reached an astonishing US$255.1 billion!

According to Westeros Group's shareholding ratio of the three companies, these three companies alone contributed $170.7 billion in personal wealth to Simon.

Three months ago, the media had just announced that Simon's personal wealth exceeded US$200 billion.

Now, only Simon's holdings of Daenerys, Cisco and AOL shares, and his personal wealth of US$170.7 billion, are already close to this figure.

In addition, the Westeros system also owns Cersei Capital, Melisandre, Eagle, and Verizon Telecom. Among them, the market value potential is no less than that of Cisco and AOL’s Iraq. The general valuation of Great Company has reached 50 billion US dollars, and the stocks of Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, SUN and other technology companies held by Westeros are also valuable.

All these assets add up, definitely more than another 100 billion US dollars.

Although the Westeros system specifically greeted a number of mainstream media groups in the United States, many second- and third-line newspapers in order to attract attention have given Simon's latest personal wealth in the following weekends.

And it directly raised another order of magnitude.

300 billion dollars!

This is a valuation generally recognized by most media that give similar valuations.

Not precise, but not much.

After all, only Daenerys, Cisco, and AOL have contributed more than 170 billion US dollars of personal wealth to Simon Westeros. Many other companies and assets in the Westeros system, excluding debts, are converted into total value. 130 billion US dollars is obviously more than enough.

According to economic data in the first half of the year, the official estimate of the US GDP in 1994 is about 7.2 trillion US dollars.

Now, Simon Westero's personal wealth of 300 billion US dollars is equivalent to 4.1% of the US GDP, far exceeding the 1.5% GDP of the Rockefeller family during the heyday.

Rockefeller and Morgan once were hailed as controlling the existence of the entire United States.

This time, the rapidly rising Westeros system has also infiltrated many aspects of American public life in just eight years. The most important and sensitive one is the control of the American public's audiovisual entertainment resources.

As a result, compared to the American media after the outbreak of the London girl incident in March, this time, the public with a little bit of interest can feel that the North American media, especially the large-scale media with wide-ranging influence, are very important to Simon Westeros. The'coldness' attitude of personal wealth to a new high.

The American media and public opinion have a great influence on the direction of federal policy.

Very often, just a heavyweight article in a large newspaper such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or The Washington Post can lead to the conclusion of some federal government bills.

The large mainstream media performed indifferently. Even if Simon's personal wealth of more than 300 billion US dollars has triggered many people's subconscious feelings of hatred for the rich, it will not cause too many negative consequences without the gathering and guidance of public opinion.

However, although the more influential mainstream media did not hype it because of their interest in the Westeros system or just out of fear, the birth of the first US$300 billion super-rich in the history of the United States and the world was triggered. The clamor is still not comparable to ordinary social events.

After all, a slightly influential newspaper and TV can't mention Daenerys Entertainment's listing and Simon's personal net worth.

Simon just tried his best to control the media not to lead the public sentiment to the opposite of the Westeros system. For major newspapers that can influence the direction of federal policy, the request is only to minimize the exposure, but it is impossible to let the countless newspapers and newspapers in the United States. Media platforms such as TV and radio all shut up.

Of course, with the lessons learned from the Hearst Group, most media dare not rashly criticize Simon's growing personal wealth accumulation, but using this topic to brush a wave of sales or ratings, they spare no effort.

The mainstream media is conservative, but many politicians in the US government have no such fears, especially those congressional candidates who realize that they have been included in the sniper list of this year's midterm elections by the Westeros system.

A group of politicians led by Senator Craig Ames of the Wisconsin State Congress once again jumped out and spared no effort to exaggerate the threat of the growing Westeros system to the U.S. economy and demand that the federal government must take immediate measures. Limit Simon's personal wealth to continue to grow uncontrollably.

Congressman David Melrose, a member of Congress backed by the Hearst family, had previously tried to establish a special committee of inquiry against the Westeros system.

However, Craig Ames followed up with David Merros’s thinking and once again promoted the original “asset tax” bill. At the same time, the politician also contacted a group of congressmen and asked to be in the Senate. The establishment of a special investigation committee, this time the goal is still to investigate the "Cisco-AOL-Eggret" Internet giants' monopoly on the emerging Internet industry.

As for Daenerys Entertainment Group, although this company is already very large, it does not have much to criticize in various federal laws.

In this world, unless a person is so mediocre that he has no sense of existence, he will have friends and enemies.

Simon knows very well that even if it is the federal media, the Westeros system is definitely not as peaceful as it seems at this time. The reason for this is mainly because it is difficult to fundamentally cause any damage to the Westeros system by hyping the news hotspots at this stage. On the contrary, once they are strong, certain flowers and plants may be trampled to death by the huge Westeros system.

If there is a suitable opportunity, Simon can be sure that many media will jump out in a swarm, and everyone will push the wall.

As for politics.

In a capital society like the United States, politicians are usually not willing to provoke the super-rich, but they are never absolute. When the rich themselves reveal their own flaws or are blocked in the political career of these people, their nature is definitely better than ordinary people. Politicians who are too aggressive will definitely do everything.

Moreover, the rapid rise of the Westeros system and the shallow foundations have also given many politicians opportunities.

News came from Washington the following weekend.

The U.S. Department of Justice will in the near future formally launch an investigation into the three companies in the Westeros system of ‘Cisco-AOL-Igreat’ for allegedly monopolizing the Internet industry.

Unlike the FBI, the White House has strong control over the Justice Department.

However, in the face of many political opponents continuously attacking the Clinton administration to deliberately protect the Westeros system, if the Department of Justice takes action on the Westeros system after Congress, the accusations of certain politicians will be more solid. These two years The White House, which has no good reputation, will be more passive.

Therefore, Clinton must act before Congress.

Simon was prepared for this.

A rough plan has even been made.

The biggest feature of the US antitrust investigation is that it is protracted. Simon does not even need too long. Even if there are two or three years, the layout of the three companies in the Internet industry will be deeply rooted. At that time, even if it is split again, it will actually be the same as the ATT splitting case that year. Although one giant was split into seven, it will actually still be a market structure monopolized by the princes.

After July 1st, there is a three-day solo holiday.

The outside world is disturbing, and within the Westeros system, this increasingly large business machine is still running at high speed.

This IPO has greatly boosted the morale of Daenerys Entertainment Group's employees.

Amy Pascal’s 35 million shares of Daenerys Entertainment’s stock rose to a huge value of US$1.67 billion on the day of listing. Counting the past accumulation of this senior woman, Amy Pascal’s personal net worth has reached 20 Billion US dollars, among the ranks of the top richest people of this era.

Nancy Brill, Robert Iger, Mark Belford, Danny Morris and Ira Deutch, the five core managements of Daenerys Entertainment Group, rely on hundreds of Ten thousand shares of corporate stocks all became billionaires on July 1.

Calculated according to the closing price on the afternoon of July 1, 15 mid-level managers of Daenerys Group holding more than 200,000 shares of Daenerys Entertainment became multimillionaires.

Among them, Tom Pollack, the president of Daenerys Pictures, who holds 1.5 million shares, has a net worth of US$70 million even if he does not squeeze into the core. This Hollywood senior is sufficiently experienced but actually has no interest in Daenerys Entertainment. The top management who contributed too much was even ridiculed by the "Hollywood Reporter" as the biggest lucky person in the IPO process.

In addition, 173 grassroots executives who hold more than 20,000 shares have also become millionaires.

In Daenerys Entertainment, all employees who had some qualifications and participated in the initial stock subscription made a lot of money during the IPO process.

Simon distributed a total of 1.76 shares or awards or subscriptions to the employees of the Daenerys Entertainment Group before listing. According to the rough conversion of the unlisted status at the time, the group's 29,000 employees received an average of only 51,000 rewards per person. Dollar.

However, on the first day of listing, the total value of the original 176 million shares reached 8.4 billion U.S. dollars. Excluding the initial cost of 1.09 billion U.S. dollars for internal subscriptions by employees, it was actually equivalent to each employee received a reward of 250,000 U.S. dollars.

In the history of world business, such a large stock award is unprecedented, even if it cannot be said that there is no future.

This alone makes many people vaguely aware of why Daenerys Entertainment Group is so powerful.