Chapter 402 (1/2)
Simon saw off Martin Davis and had dinner with Robert egger, who came to the west coast to attend the afternoon meeting.
After the merger of MCA, Robert egger's position remains unchanged, and he is still the president of danielis entertainment group, but his authority has increased significantly.
In the next few years, while maintaining Denise Entertainment's advantages in the field of TV program production, Robert egger's focus will turn to cable TV business, of which USA TV network will be the top priority.
Although the MCA is finally in the hands of Denise entertainment, the seven major Hollywood studios in the past, Columbia and MGM, have been bought by overseas investors. At present, some overseas giants, such as sigram group of Canada and Vivendi group of France, are eyeing other Hollywood studios.
Therefore, the U.S. government and the media are aware of a problem. In order to avoid more Hollywood studios being acquired by overseas capital, it is an inevitable trend to release the ban on the merger between local television networks and studios.
Simon remembers that the legal limit was lifted around 1994.
Then came Disney's acquisition of ABC, and then CBS and NBC changed hands and merged with Hollywood studio giants. After that, Fox TV network of News Corp. completely got rid of many legal constraints and gradually developed into the scale of three traditional TV networks.
In a word, it is not impossible for Simon to lift the ban one or two years earlier if he mobilizes the MPAA and his own powerful contacts to lobby now.
However, doing so is not in line with Simon's plan for the pace of danilisi's entertainment development.
Denise Entertainment's next step is definitely to merge a national TV network and complete its horizontal layout in the field of media and entertainment. However, this matter needs to be digested and integrated by MCA and the IPO of Denise entertainment.
In the next step of M & A expansion, Simon is still inclined to cash acquisition. In fact, most of the acquired companies also expect to cash out directly. However, when the debt burden is already heavy enough, Denise entertainment is not suitable to increase too much debt at one time. It can only adopt the acquisition method of cash and equity.
Even if the market value of Denise entertainment is considerable, it will be very cost-effective to adopt equity merger and acquisition.
As for the stock rights to be let out, it is necessary to buy back the stock until the company has enough funds.
After dinner, Simon returned to domay point estate at more than eight o'clock in the evening.
It's Tuesday, and Janet has been flying to the east coast in recent days to get busy with cersei capital.
The overall situation of the Gulf War has been decided, and it has basically begun to close. Cersei fund management company of cersei capital has also started to close its fund hedging operation around the war.
Since we have decided to give up many opportunities such as the next pound crisis, this operation can be said to be the last big market for cersei's fund management team to operate without hindrance.
According to the preliminary statistics of New York, from the outbreak of the war on February 17 to now, cersei capital has made a Book profit of more than $1.6 billion in about a month. The profit mainly comes from the S & P 500 index related futures, which rose by 25% in just one month.
After this operation, cersei capital will focus more on Apollo management and black rock asset management.
The improvement of the overall economic situation in the United States is just conducive to the development of enterprise mergers and acquisitions, asset management and other businesses. Of course, cersei fund management company will still keep it, but will be more inclined to micro hedging of specific stocks and securities.
After a busy day, I took a bath and changed into a pullover and slacks. Simon looked at the time. It was over eleven o'clock in New York. Janet must have gone to bed and never called again. Women never like to answer the phone, especially when they are asleep.
Simon is a night owl. He has just passed the hotel in Los Angeles and is not sleepy, so he comes to the PC Room on the first floor of the villa.
The computer room is like a Mini PC Museum, certainly not as complete as a real museum.
Simon's arrangement of such a computer room is mainly for the convenience of checking the compatibility of various versions of IE browser developed by igrit on different operating system platforms and computers with different configurations.
Simon doesn't like the coexistence of a lot of operating systems at this time. He also resists a lot of low configuration personal computers. However, the personal computers, which are generally expensive in this era, are far from being able to be upgraded at will. If igrit wants to get the most customers in a short time, it must be compatible with as many platforms as possible.
However, igritte in the development of IE browser, also began to obviously tend to Microsoft's windows system. The function update of this operating system platform is more timely than other operating systems.
In the spacious room of more than 200 square meters, there are several rows of various personal computers. Simon randomly selects three IBM compatible computers with different configurations side by side, opens them, opens his chair and sits down. After the machines are turned on, he connects to the network and logs in to his e-mail.Click on an email from Carol Bartz.
Not surprisingly, the female executive in charge of igritte's software business is talking about raising the price of IE browser software in her email.
Based on the explosion of Internet users in recent months, igritte predicts that the growth of Internet users in 1991 will definitely exceed 5 million. Because of the free trial programs launched by AOL and other Internet access service providers, the number of installed IE browser software will only be more, and may even reach tens of millions.
According to the ISP pricing of $10 for each set of IE browser software, the installed capacity of tens of millions of level means hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue.
Since Simon brought Tim Berners Lee to the United States at the beginning, he has created an enterprise with software sales revenue of over 100 million in just two years, which is very rare. However, Carol Bartz thinks that the commercial potential of IE browser software is far beyond that.
Simon certainly understands the commercial potential of IE.
However, in addition to Simon himself, most senior executives within igritte feel that the pricing of IE browser software is low. For $10, you can get more content and functions than most of the current operating systems, which is almost free.
Especially this time, igrit completely monopolized the patent of graphical interface browser on the world wide web platform.
In the original time and space, Netscape was only one of the authorized manufacturers of the graphical interface browser technology on the world wide web platform. The market value of such a company easily exceeded $1 billion when it was listed.
Now, Simmons has no plans to open the patent license of World Wide Web browser, so browser software will be the only one on the world wide web platform at least.
Even other versions of browsers that bypass igritte's browser kernel are impossible, because igritte holds the lowest level technology patent of the world wide web. Other software manufacturers want to develop browsers unless they choose other network technology platforms.
However, with the world wide web technology now taking the lead, there is little room for other types of network technology to develop.
At the end of the day, this is monopoly.
Simon has already rejected Carol Bartz's price increase proposal, and the low price strategy has been determined from the beginning. After all, if the sudden rise in the price of internet explorer makes the industry feel the threat of igritte to the monopoly of World Wide Web technology, it is difficult to guarantee that other manufacturers will not temporarily support the network technology standards based on other technologies.