After a brief chat with Ashin and the others, Yu Dong stood up and said goodbye to them, while Cheng Yanqiu stayed in the lounge because she would take Shakira on stage with her after the performance.
Yu Dong was about to go back to the office to catch up on the manuscript of "WALL-E". There were more things going on in the past two days than he expected. He even encountered a robbery yesterday, which wasted most of his time.
Regarding the group of thieves, the police intend to release some information to the outside world. After discussing with Deep Space, the police are planning to wait until the Deep Space Company officially returns to work after the year before announcing it. Now that such a piece of news has broken out at this juncture, there are too many
Due to the uncertainty, we decided to postpone it just to be on the safe side.
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Most of Steven Case's recent attention has been on the acquisition of Time Warner. They must convince several relevant departments to approve their merger, otherwise everything will be in vain.
He hoped for a quick resolution. It would not be a good thing to delay this kind of thing for too long.
After the approval of the relevant departments, the two companies will still have to work together, and there will be many problems for them to solve later. If it is to merge with other companies, Steven Case does not need to think too much. The other party will definitely want to be based on the U.S.
Go at the pace here on the line.
But Time Warner is different. Time Warner is also a behemoth. It is impossible for the other party to completely adapt to the rhythm of AOL. AOL also needs to adapt to the rhythm of Time Warner.
One is a traditional media company and the other is an Internet company. Needless to say, the styles of the two companies must be very different.
The internal working atmosphere of AOL is very free, while the working atmosphere of Time Warner is more serious. If the two parties are together, it is easy for them to collide. These are things that Steven Case needs to solve.
But even during such a busy time, Steven Case still focused part of his attention on the Deep Space Annual Conference.
Although he didn't want to admit it, Steven Case did slowly regard Deep Space Company as their opponent.
It wasn't because of his failure in the tribal management competition that he began to pay attention to Deep Space, but because of Deep Space's series of operations in the past few years that he had to pay attention to.
During this period, when Steven Case was sleeping at night, he had a bad feeling when he thought about the recent commercial activities of the Deep Space Company.
One thing that everyone in the industry knows is that Deep Sky has been slowly selling off its Internet company stocks over the past year.
It was also when Deep Sky Company began to sell off these stocks that people discovered that Deep Sky Company had already held the stocks of so many companies.
The most important thing is that more than 80% of the stocks held by Shenzhen Sky are profitable, and less than 20% of the stocks are losing money, and these losing stocks have not lost much.
Profit is nothing compared to that.
Let’s talk about the stocks that make Deep Sky make money. Amazon, which they control, has already made a lot of money by selling only a small part of its shares. Steven Case predicts that by the middle of this year, Deep Sky’s total profit will be from Amazon.
The cash out should be more than 2 billion US dollars, and we don’t know if Deep Space will continue to cash out after this.
When he first heard that Deep Space was cashing out, Steven Case was still wondering why Deep Space didn't wait until Amazon split its shares before cashing out. It was obvious that Amazon's stock would grow after the split, so it could be cashed out.
More money comes out.
Now it seems that it is because Deep Space Company needs too much money to cash out and cannot wait any longer.
But why can't we wait?
Because Deep Space Corporation has funding problems?
How is this possible? No company in the world has as much cash as Deep Space. Moreover, if Deep Space wants cash, it has plenty of ways to cash it out, and it does so in such a hurry.
Cashing out in such a hurry is risky. When investors see major shareholders cashing out to this extent, they may lack confidence in the company. Fortunately, the Internet industry is very popular now, and some people have taken over the stocks that were sold out in the deep space.
It had no impact on the stock price, and even after Deep Space Company cashed out, the stock price rose.
Some people also joked about Deep Sky, thinking that they were too eager to cash out this time and failed to grasp the situation, possibly making hundreds of millions of dollars less.
But Steven Case didn’t think so, because in his opinion, it was impossible for an investment company like Deep Space, disguised as entertainment, to make such a low-level mistake.
Let’s talk about another transaction of Deep Space. They have been slowly buying Apple’s stock since 1998, and Apple’s stock has also been rising very well. The shares sold by Deep Space earned them at least 300 million US dollars.
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How could such a shrewd deep space company make a mistake?
Although everyone makes mistakes, Steven Case believes that the series of actions in deep space should have his own calculations.
Although he has never met YU, he has dealt with Jimmy many times. He has to say that Jimmy is a very powerful person and can be called a business wizard. It is impossible for such a business wizard to make such a stupid mistake.
Could it be that Deep Space Company is no longer optimistic about the Internet industry?
This is not correct. Deep Space Corporation is still operating Deep Space Tribe and Dongdong, and is constantly increasing investment.
In addition, Deep Space also spent US$28 million to buy 9.7% of Google's shares.
What do they want?
Some time ago, Steven Case had been waiting for the Deep Space Company to spend money to see what they were going to do with all the money and whether they had any big plans.
At the beginning, Deep Space Company did not make any special moves. It just increased its investment in film production and launched many projects at the same time, such as "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Spider-Man", "The Martian", "Shrek",
"Golden Dreams" and so on, Deep Space Company's investment in these movies is higher than the last, tens of millions are thrown into them.
They also spent a lot of money on Deep Space Tribe Dongdong, especially on technical research and development.
But at the end of the year, Deep Space Company suddenly made another effort and suddenly bought their game division from Vivendi, and then spent money to hold a game competition.
Although Deep Space has made several hit games before, except for the "Resident Evil" series, Deep Space's games are basically casual, and they are not pure PC games, so Steven Case doesn't
I think Deep Space Company will put too much energy into games, and making games is just for fun and to serve movies and TV series.
Who knew that Deep Space Company would suddenly make such a move, pretending to be a big player in the PC gaming industry?
After sitting on the sofa and thinking about it, Steven Case called his assistant.
"Mills, go check out the companies that are selling their stocks in the deep space."
"But it's been checked once before."
"I know I've already checked it once, but I want to get more information, not just superficial information. I want to know the specific development of these companies."
"okay, I get it."
Mills on the other end of the phone curled his lips. In fact, he didn't think they could find anything more. According to the information they found, the companies that Deep Space sold their shares in had great development potential, especially Apple and Motorola.
, are all objects of focus for investors.
After making the phone call, Steven Case felt a little more relaxed.
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While Steven Case was thinking about deep space, Yu Dong was concentrating on writing a new book. Maybe it was the note taped on the office door that had an effect. From morning to evening, no one else came except Cheng Yanqiu.
disturb him.
The note he posted on the door said: For small things, go downstairs, for big things, go to the opposite side. If you have nothing to do, come find me after five o'clock in the evening.
Downstairs refers to the margin, and across the street refers to Jimmy.
At five o'clock, the alarm bell on Yu Dong's desk rang. He reached out to press the alarm bell and wrote a few more words in his notebook before putting down the pen.
Cheng Yanqiu, who was nestling on the sofa, saw Yu Dong resting. He put down the book in his hand with a smile and said, "Today's working status is not bad."
Yu Dong stretched himself and said, "If I can do this every day, I can finish writing the new book in a few days."
Cheng Yanqiu pouted and said, "If this happens every day, I won't do it anymore."
Yu Dong smiled, stood up and looked downstairs. From his direction, he could see the whole square in front of the music hall.
At this time, the front of the music hall is already crowded with people, the lights are shining, and the show will start soon.
"What time does it start?" Yu Dong asked.
"Seven-thirty, isn't it your decision? You said that tourists can go to the canteen to have a meal when they have time." Cheng Yanqiu also walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the direction of the stage, "But if I want to see it, I'm afraid no one will want to go.
Eat. Many people have been guarding their seats in the stands since two or three o'clock, and the stands are already full at around four o'clock. No one wants to go to eat at this time."
Yu Dong patted his head, "Wrong decision, bad decision, I forgot that our temporary stands do not have seat numbers and do not require tickets. They are all free to occupy seats."
Since it is free to reserve seats, everyone must come in advance to reserve a seat. Those who have already occupied a seat are not willing to give up their seats and go to the cafeteria to eat at this time.
"You may make mistakes sometimes." Cheng Yanqiu chuckled, "At noon, Yiliang told me that he wanted to renovate the location in front of the music hall and turn it into a theater. He also calculated that this open-air theater
Once completed, it should be able to seat at least 8,000 seats. I think his idea is quite good. Do you remember when we were at the Hollywood Bowl?"
"Of course I remember, it was the first time I showed my singing voice in public."
"This is the only time... I think that place is quite good. The space in front of the music hall is big enough, so we can build something similar."
Yu Dong nodded, "No problem, let's go back and let the rest go. It's just a theater and it won't cost much. After it's done, we can still hold some concerts, but these concerts can no longer be free, or
You have to charge more or less."
"Well, you can also use points to redeem tickets." Cheng Yanqiu said.
"Haha, indeed, you can collect their deep space points. You have thought of another thing for them to spend their points on."
I have to say that things like concerts and music festivals are really good projects that consume deep space points.
The energy points consumed by holding a concert or music festival are definitely not a small amount.
If the points for redeeming tickets are set at 500 points, and a single venue can accommodate 10,000 people, five million points will be consumed at one time. And if a concert is really held, the ticket price will definitely be more than 500 points, and the number of people allowed in a single venue will definitely be too.
More than 10,000 people.
In addition, this incident also gave Yu Dong some inspiration.
The current performance of Deep Space Points in other cities is relatively weak because except for Jinling, it is not that convenient to use Deep Space Points in other cities. Although Deep Space has continued to add partners in various places, the speed is still a bit slow.
And now Deep Space Company is also facing a problem, that is, the ways for people to obtain points are increasing faster and faster, but the ways for people to consume points have not increased much.
Compared with increasing the ways to consume points, increasing the ways to obtain points is very simple. Just cooperate with the local bookstore and set up a points entry system for the bookstore.
However, the concert method can help Deep Space Company solve some of its problems. Deep Space only needs to set up a separate performing arts company to specialize in contracting various concerts, concerts and music festivals.
After being contracted, Deep Space Company is responsible for purchasing tickets, so it can naturally be set up to allow viewers to choose points to redeem tickets.
Different from ordinary business cooperation, this type of concerts can be held in many cities and are very mobile.
In this way, every time you visit a city, you can consume the deep space points of the local and surrounding cities, keeping the deep space points of each city in circulation.
Only by ensuring liquidity can the "purchasing power" of deep space points be guaranteed.
They were talking about this matter a few days ago. Jimmy wanted to promote the Star Card to Europe and the United States to expand its influence, but it has not been fully rolled out in domestic cities. If it is pushed abroad now, he may face the same problem.
question.
But now it seems that this problem is not very difficult to solve. It is completely possible to set up a separate planning company abroad to contract various activities.
Thinking of this, Yu Dong turned around and picked up the phone on the table and dialed.
The phone rang twice and the person on the other end suddenly hung up. After more than twenty seconds, Jimmy ran over cursing and said, "What do you want from me? Why don't you just come to my place with all your dignity?"
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Didn't you say last time that you wanted to promote the Star Card in Europe and the United States? You were just worried that like in China, places where you can use points will not be popular."
"Ang, what's wrong?"
"Teacher Cheng just gave us a solution."
Jimmy looked at Cheng Yanqiu, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Has the boss lady started to listen to politics behind the curtain?"
Cheng Yanqiu rolled his eyes, "I don't even know what he is talking about."
Chapter completed!