The city of New York is the economic center of the United States.

But if we talk about the center of Chinese people, it should be the West Coast.

Because when Chinese were abducted to work, the first ones they arrived in Los Angeles and San Francisco on the West Coast.

More than 100,000 Chinese are thriving here, and in recent decades, there have been as many as millions of Chinese people on the West Coast.

Yin Jun also knew that by 2020, the number of Chinese on the West Coast exceeded 3 million.

I don’t know if one day Chinese people will become a majority group on the West Coast.

No matter what, with so many Chinese people, living here is also a pleasant thing.

At least in addition to Americans, you can also see many faces from your hometown, but it is not that strange.

Yin Jun sat in front of the street seat in the cafe in the morning and saw several Chinese couples walking by the street holding children or pushing a stroller.

"Young Master Jun, the commercial mergers in the US market are already a little confused." Corauti on the opposite side sighed, "From 1982 to the present, there have been more than 3,000 mergers and mergers in the US, and it seems that they will not stop at all. If the current situation continues, will the US become a country controlled by monopoly giants in the future?"

Collauti is a senior partner of Goldman Sachs, second only to the top five people at Goldman Sachs.

In recent years, due to the emergence of various mergers and mergers, several major investment banks in the United States, and even European banks' branches in the United States have made a lot of money and shared such a feast.

Corauti is also one of the benefits.

Not to mention anything else, the companies he acquired for Yin Jun alone could already make him famous.

These acquisitions have made a lot of money for him and Goldman Sachs. Currently, Yin Jun has reached the highest level of service at their Goldman Sachs.

If Corouti hadn't been following Yin Jun's line, one of the five people above would definitely want to seize Corouti's client.

But encountering such crazy mergers and acquisitions has been going on for several years and it is still going on, which makes Corauti feel a little scared.

He doesn't know what kind of country the United States will become in the future.

To put it bluntly, he is also worried about his future work and destiny.

Yin Jun is the world's number one smart person and a genius, so when I chat today, Corouti mentioned this by the way, hoping to get some inspiration and help from Yin Jun.

By chance, Yin Jun really knew about this.

When talking about the US economy in the future, economists roughly divide the US economy into several stages.

One of them is a wave of mergers and mergers in the 1980s and 1990s.

What is the more than 3,000 pieces that Corauti said are?

By the mid-to-late 1980s, the merger incident became more serious, and then Japanese capital assets entered the United States, which fueled the fire.

It seems that there are more than 20,000 merger buttons in the United States in this era.

Even if there are many companies in the United States, the number of more than 20,000 accounts for one-third of the total number of companies in the United States, which shows how exaggerated the wave of mergers is.

Countless small and medium-sized enterprises have disappeared from such mergers and acquisitions.

Instead, countless large group companies emerged, usually two or three or five large companies, which controlled more than 80% of the industry's market share.

Then after the 1990s, the US economy was basically out of trust monopoly, and thus seriously lost its vitality.

After 2010, the U.S. industry was basically done, and only the financial and electronics industries were left to be interesting.

For China, this is a good thing.

Without such changes in the United States, there is no large number of factories moving out of this way, leaving only the easiest and least resource-consuming enterprises in China. The scale of industrial foundation development in China will have to wait for another twenty or thirty years.

"In fact, if it is too dispersed, it will also be a loss to the country's strength." Yin Jun smiled, "Besides, don't worry so much. At least in the financial industry, the United States has such a large competition. Even if there are more than a dozen banks of the same size as Goldman Sachs, it will be too difficult to defeat them, or they will defeat Goldman Sachs!"

“That’s true.”

After all, Collauti is a financial elite cultivated by Goldman Sachs. What these people care about the most is their own interests.

If you think about it carefully, banking giants all over the world are in the United States and are doing business, and they are all based on the country. How could they be defeated?

The same is true for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch. We have fought for decades and have survived several crises, but we have never defeated each other. I don’t think so this time.

After reclaiming his mind, Corouti talked about the serious matter, "Mr. Jun. This time Warner was a failure, and they were not confident when they contacted us. Although the offer was 100 million US dollars, I guess if we insisted on 80 million US dollars, we could still make a deal."

Corouti has been discussing with Warner about the acquisition of DC Comics on behalf of Yin Jun.

But after five or six months of negotiations, Warner was still undecided and finally suspended negotiations with the North American branch of Kirin Group.

The reason is that in May, Batman, the second most popular character of DC Comics, is about to usher in another big-screen movie of his own.

Of course, popular idols like Superman and Batman appear every ten years.

But the effects were not very good before.

The most popular "Superman" in the United States was only popular in the first episode, but was sniped by "Life and Death Speed" in the second episode, and the third episode even failed to even reach 100 million US dollars.

This seems to confirm once again that comics are not suitable for changing the saying that they become movies.

The movie "Batman" represents Warner's final test for DC Comics.

In "Batman", which was released in early May, Warner not only won more than 2,000 ordinary screens, but also won 1,000 pictures on the imax screen, just like the previous popular "Resident Evil".

But unfortunately, "Batman" did not repeat the magic of "Resident Evil", but directly failed. In three weeks, North America's box office revenue was only more than 60 million US dollars.

At first glance, this result is actually good, but if you consider adding special effects, the total cost of "Batman" is 60 million US dollars and the promotion and promotion cost is 10 million US dollars, you will know that this time "Batman" is a loss.

Even after a long-term reaction in the end, the box office of "Batman" exceeded 100 million US dollars, and their losses would exceed 20 million US dollars.

Even if there are revenue from videotapes and TV copyrights, it is really shameful that a brand of "Batman" is as big as three or five years to recover the cost.

This is not enough in terms of economic efficiency.

It’s better to shoot a few more low-cost movies or follow the trend to shoot action movies. This way, it’s easier to make millions or tens of millions of dollars with a cost of 20 to 30 million.

So Warner never insisted anymore and planned to sell the DC Comics to the North American branch of Kirin Group.

When Corauti talked about this, he was a little gloating.

Warner was really undecided. Although the DC didn't have the strength, he just wanted to hit the south wall before turning back, wasting so long.

Now they want $100 million?

It's simply a dream!

If they raised the price to 100 million US dollars two or three months ago, they said they wanted to sell it, maybe Yin Jun would agree.

But now the live-action movies of DC Comics have failed again, and it will take several years to get back. It will not be easy for them to sell them again, let alone raise the price by 20 million to sell them.

So Coruti said that just by grinding them, 80 million is perfectly OK.

Yin Jun’s answer to this was, “Don’t worry, anyway, the only one who really has the determination and money is ours. Take your time and don’t let this big fish run away.”

"good."

Corouti smiled, "Don't worry, they can't escape."

Yin Jun didn't say anxiously that 100 million is 100 million. I have money, so I just bought it.

This is not the case when doing business.

Even if you have money, you cannot write your preferences for a certain company on your face.

People in Hollywood and Wall Street are more beautiful than monkeys. If you promise too readily and act too urgently, you will definitely cause more trouble.

Corauti is already a veteran in acquisitions, so he certainly knows what to do to maximize the interests of Yin Jun.

"Mr. Jun, if you get the DC comics, are you going to prepare to start integrating resources in the near future and shoot live-action movies belonging to Kirin movies?" Corouti was also a little curious.

"I have this plan, but within three to five years, I shouldn't be able to take action." Yin Jun said half-truely, "The main reason is that the special effects technology is insufficient, and there are personnel and shooting considerations."

"That's a pity! I'm still a big fan of Superman!" Corouti said with regret.

Americans must have grown up watching various comic books in their childhood. It is not uncommon for Superman to attract Corutti, a popular hero.

Which movie did DC Comics, which was already in extreme dilemma in the previous life, finally turned over?

It's also "Batman", it's just a sequel to "Batman", "Batman 2" 4 years later.

The movie won 400 million US dollars in one go, contributing more than 150 million US dollars in box office profits to Warner Movies, and making more than 200 million US dollars in box office profits.

With such a crazy achievement, Warner immediately gave up the idea of ​​selling the DC Comics and began to operate it slowly and seriously.

In Yin Jun's opinion, "Batman 2" is just like the one filmed, which is not as classic as "Batman Dark Knight" filmed by Nolan.

So if the boy wants to shoot, he must be filming "Batman Dark Knight".

The problem with special effects technology is actually not big. With the rapid development of the digital field and the gradual progress of computer special effects technology, this Dark Knight will be filmed in at most three years.

Yin Jun finished filming "Forrest Gump" this year and took a year off next year. He took on this drama the next year, and was completely stressful.

If you really don’t have time, then whether you entrust James Cameron or Rest as the director, you can save the series "Batman".

But this is not the problem.

The problem is that Yin Jun also wants to acquire Marvel, which is more valuable!

If you made "Batman Dark Knight" a hit and Marvel insisted on trying it out after seeing it, wouldn't it increase Yin Jun's acquisition difficulty?

Marvel is already in trouble now, and it would not be a good thing if it gave them a life-saving straw!

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