Chapter 964 (1/2)
Disney CEO sandy littwatt and President Bill michanik wait in a VIP room at Los Angeles International Airport.
As litwat hung up a phone call, bill michanik asked, ”Simon must have refused, right?”
”What happened a few days ago, how could Simon go to the party to welcome the French?” Sandy littwatt said with a smile. He put away his cell phone, took a cup of coffee and took a sip. ”Anyway, we just need to finish what we should do, just like Peter guberra had a lot of stars entertaining Akio Morita and coaxing the Japanese You have to be happy. ”
Bill michanik cocked his legs, with a little regret and self mockery: ”it's a pity that we don't get as good treatment as Cooper and Peters.”
”At least in a short time, donkeys won't step on the same spot twice, we just don't have a good time,” Sandy littwatt shrugged and laughed, looked at the airport runway outside the glass window of the VIP room, and suddenly said, ”have you been in touch with Michael lately?”
Michael, of course, is their former boss, Michael Eisner.
Bill michanik also did not hide, nodded: ”I had breakfast together a few days ago. Michael's LinkedIn social networking site did a good job, and he also tested whether I was interested in working together.”
Sandy littewart heard michanik say that he was a little disappointed that Eisner didn't get in touch with him.
But it was soon relieved.
As a lawyer, he was once the head of Disney's legal department. Although he managed his business in good order during his term of office, he didn't have much to do. Moreover, he was not familiar with the emerging Internet industry.
What's more, littwatt also knows that Michael essnara has retired from Disney's former president Frank wells as a director and legal adviser on LinkedIn's board of directors. Frank wells, also a lawyer, was the immediate supervisor of sandy littwatt before his retirement. Now that he had this helper, of course, Eisner would not think of him again.
Bill michanik is different.
The former head of Disney's home entertainment department successfully launched a series of Disney's old animated films in the 1980s, which not only created sales miracles, but also directly provided a large amount of funds for the development of Disney in the 1980s, and promoted the rapid rise of Disney's stock price.
All in all, michanik is a practical talent who is very good at business development and marketing. If he moves to LinkedIn, he will hopefully help Eisner improve the business model of this workplace social networking site. Sustainable business model is a problem that many Internet enterprises urgently need to solve at this stage.
With that in mind, sandy littwatt asked, ”how did you respond to Michael?”
Michanik shook his head and said, ”I refused.”
Little Watt was a bit surprised: ”why, I think this is a good opportunity?”
”the Internet industry is crazy now, I cannot read a bit,” Micha Nick said honestly. ”Moreover, I think the bubble wave will last for another year at most. If we go to LinkedIn, maybe we haven't got the business to start, we will face the bubble burst and the market will enter an underestimation crisis. By contrast, it's more stable to stay in Hollywood. ”
Sandy littwatt said half jokingly, ”in that case, you may have missed hundreds of millions of dollars.”
Michanik shook his head and said: ”now, whether it's Wall Street or Hollywood, many people are trying their best to squeeze into Silicon Valley. How many people can really make a fortune? These people do not think that once the Internet bubble bursts, can they return to their original fields easily? Moreover, in my opinion, the monopoly pattern of the Internet industry has taken shape, and the westero system has occupied most of the interests. Unless there is another change, fewer and fewer people will dig gold from this field. ”
Ritter watt thought about michanik's words for a moment. He had to nod, but he still couldn't help saying, ”I heard that LinkedIn is already preparing for the IPO?”
”Yes, it's probably going public early next year. Michael and I have revealed that the IPO value of LinkedIn may be about $500 million. Compared with the initial investment of the website, this is a considerable figure, but it's still far from the new technology giants like igritte. This is why I am not going. If I choose to join in the first place, I will get more shares in the IPO. Now I will get more options for future job hopping. You will know more about this option than I do. Once the bubble burst, those options would be not worth a hair.
As a matter of fact, he was also thinking about whether he would use his savings over the years to fight in Silicon Valley. After listening to michanik's analysis, litwat rubbed his coffee cup, somewhat dejected, and gave up some thoughts in his heart.
After all, they are both middle-aged.
I can't afford it.
Now that they are in charge of Disney together, even under the strict control of Vivendi, there is not much room for them to perform. After all, they are also the seven leaders of Hollywood. Although the French have strict control over Disney, in order to stabilize people's minds, their salaries were not bad.After waiting for more than ten minutes, an assistant came to inform them. They got up and took several entourage to an apron inside the airport for private planes to take off and land.
Vivendi group's new chairman and CEO Jean Marie Messier and his party arrived from France today.
Jean Marie Messier recently took over from guy dejovani, the former boss of Vivendi group for 20 years, the century old giant with a market value of more than $30 billion.
Vivendi had previously been mainly engaged in water, transportation, energy and other fields. When Jean Marie Messier was president, Vivendi began to march into the media field. Vivendi's acquisition of Disney was a project promoted by Jean Marie Messier himself. With the qualifications accumulated in this acquisition, Messier beat other competitors and became Vivendi's new leader.
Just after the handover last week, Messier couldn't wait to arrange the trip to North America.
Even if Disney's current performance is somewhat tepid, after all, the time is still short, and the deal is far from being labeled as a failure. At present, the global media and entertainment industry is growing at a high speed. The acquisition of Disney is just the beginning for messier, who is ambitious to transform Vivendi into a media and entertainment giant.
After getting off the plane, Jean Marie messier, who came to Hollywood with a huge group of subordinates, did not go to the hotel to have a rest, but went directly to the Disney headquarters in Burbank.
A large conference room in Disney headquarters.
Sandy littwatt and a group of Disney executives sat on one side of the conference table, looking at Vivendi's senior executives of France's fourth TV station, the famous French gomont film team and Luc Besson, a little famous French director in Hollywood, and others on the other side of the conference table, feeling a little strange.
The French want to attack Hollywood?
Jean Marie Messier is also an aggressive figure. We sit down and give each other a brief introduction. He goes straight to the theme and says that he will personally promote Disney to focus on building a number of blockbuster projects to compete with other Hollywood film companies. At the same time, in order to share the risks, Disney will strengthen cooperation with major French media and entertainment companies.
After asking sandy littwatt about the progress of the terminator's copyright negotiations and expressing his affirmation, Jean Marie Messier announced on the spot that he would cooperate with the French goment film industry to jointly develop the science fiction blockbuster ”the fifth element” series prepared by French director Luc Besson for many years.