Chapter 1089 (1/2)
”The share price rose 43% on the first day, and the market value reached $5.9 billion. After experiencing it for myself, I found that sometimes it was really so easy to make money.”
”It's just that we're just in time for a new round of wealth distribution. However, Mike, I have read a report on the operation of LinkedIn in recent months. Frankly speaking, I feel that you are more and more suitable to transfer to be in charge of this company. After all, LinkedIn and CAA are actually the same in some aspects. In the future, the core business is to sell people to customers. As for Eisner, it was not a problem when Lingying was very small. With the increasing scale of users in the future, his thinking of operating a content-based enterprise will only limit the development of this company. ”
”Simon, you know it's very troublesome. Mike and I have been good friends for so many years. He is the one who started Lingying. I'm only a partner and give some advice occasionally.”
”At present, the number of registered users of LinkedIn is 27 million, which is just the beginning. In the future, it may be 270 million or more. Mike, compared with the CAA with less than 2000 customers and 1 billion customers, which one can give you more space to show
”Simon, I don't think we should talk about it.”
”Well, there's a long way to go anyway.”
Park City, Utah.
Simon is located in the villa at the top of the mountain in the south of the city on Saturday afternoon, January 18.
The waiters in the villa are busy preparing for the annual party in the evening. Simon and visiting Michael owitz are hiding in a reception room overlooking Park City on the west side of the villa, drinking coffee and chatting. The topic is LinkedIn, the workplace social networking site just launched yesterday.
Two years ago, Michael Eisner left the company after Disney's acquisition. Together with his good friend Michael owitz, he found out the idea of a workplace social networking site. By chance, he chatted with Simon and Simon remembered a Lingying name.
The project was initiated in February 1995 and launched in June of that year. Until now, about a year and a half ago, through close cooperation with westero system and under the marketing guidance of igritte, the number of registered users has reached 27 million. Unlike Facebook, a popular social tool, LinkedIn, as a professional workplace social networking site, has a large number of users Ride away the dust.
In the newly completed IPO, Lingying issued 15% of the new shares, raising US $600 million. The company's valuation reached US $3.5 billion, and the share price rose 43% on the first day. After the issuance of new shares, the total stock market value was US $5.9 billion.
Although it can't be compared with the previous instagram listing, the accumulated investment before and after the listing is only 120 million US dollars, and the market value of a website with an estimated annual revenue of less than 10 million US dollars is as high as 5.9 billion US dollars in a year and a half, which makes people feel the miracle of making wealth in the Internet industry once again.
After two rounds of financing and this IPO, the shares of two Hollywood born ”Michael” with similar shareholding ratio were reduced to about 18%. They were listed yesterday. According to the closing stock price of that day, their personal wealth directly reached the level of 1 billion US dollars, becoming the new ”billionaire”. This is also the key reason why owitz just said with emotion.
Even if you understand that it's only book wealth, it's still a little easier to make money.
Simon doesn't have the same feeling as owitz. The initial direct investment and the subsequent shares obtained by igritte's investment in Lingying are of no importance to Simon's current wealth. What he sees is the hidden worries under Lingying's scenery. After the listing, Michael Eisner took the position of chairman and CEO of the board of directors, while owitz, as a large shareholder with a considerable proportion of shares, had only one seat on the board of directors.
In Simon's view, if Lingying wants to develop better, they should actually swap.
If owitz wants to, Simon can come forward and say something in person. Of course, if the talks fail, it will be easy to replace the management with nearly 30% of the shares held by the westrow system. Think about the last chicken feather between two Michaels in history, this time it will be the same.
Now, since owitz is still interested in his friendship with Eisner, Simon is not reluctant.
No hurry.
There's a long way to go.
If Eisner can take the initiative to quit in the future, it will be better.
In the reception room.
Michael owitz took a sip of coffee, looked at the beautiful town surrounded by the snow and mountains, and asked, ”by the way, Simon, are there any new people you like this time?”
”Yes.”
”Well?”
Simon held his warm coffee cup in his hand and shook his head with a smile: ”I won't tell you, so as not to be robbed by CAA and sit on the ground.”
”Well, all right.”
Michael owitz had to smile bitterly until Simon was joking.
Now in Hollywood, the rise of the blockbuster continues to weaken the position of big directors and stars. In addition, danelis entertainment has more and more control over the entire entertainment industry. Where there is any brokerage company that can start in front of Simon, they are all fighting for opportunities.Thinking of this, owitz can't help thinking of Simon's proposal.
Even though owitz has made great efforts to expand the business scope of sports brokerage and CAA in recent years, it is impossible for this company to have great development. If owitz can jump out and get a more open platform, he is willing to try.
The problem is that there can only be one leader in Lingying.
If he forces his way, owitz doesn't have EQ either. He knows very well that the result is that he and Eisner will be friends from now on.
Simon just arrived in Park City in the morning and didn't watch a movie. He just looked through the information of the shortlisted films on the plane. Under normal circumstances, it's impossible to find any outstanding new people.
Of course, the opposite is true.
In this year's shortlisted films, Denise Entertainment's high gate film industry has two main projects: Christopher Nolan's first feature film ”follow” and Guy Ritchie, also from Britain and also the first feature film ”two big smokes”.
These two films and related creators need not be mentioned.
In addition, Simon saw other familiar names.
For example, a big bald man named van diesel, who wrote, directed and acted in a film ”lost”, was shortlisted in the main competition.
For another example, a young Asian director, Lin Yibin, brought his own work, which he co wrote and directed with his classmates, called ”rush to buy tusks”. It cost 100000 US dollars to shoot. Unfortunately, he didn't get the judges' attention. He just entered the non competition exhibition unit set up by Sundance in recent years.
Just this couple, Simon is worthy of this trip, after all, ”speed and passion” series is a direct live together.
However, Simon's arrangements for van diesel and Lin Yibin are different.
Because he doesn't plan to start the ”speed and passion” series in the short term, van diesel plans to hang it out for a few years, and Simon will take a little control of the big male star's career line, so as to avoid the other side's going too high before the ”speed and passion” series starts, including Spielberg's ”Saving Private Ryan” which is under preparation, and this time a soldier's role, Simon Although he promised that he would not interfere at all, it was still easy not to let a person get the chance.
Lin Yibin is a direct start to further polish.
The 23-year-old director of the film department of the University of California has made two long films, including ”rush to buy fangs”. Although they are small films with very low cost and can only find cooperation with friends and relatives, compared with many new people in the circle with high vision and low hand, they are quite good achievements. They can be directly sent to the new world film industry to direct some low-cost small projects .
Simon and owitz chatted casually, and the time soon came in the evening.
Winter days are short. When the twilight begins to fall, the bright lights on the villa at the top of the mountain become the most yearning place for all people in the small town this night.
”Simon, I'm so pitiful that paramount messed up such a good film as” Mrs. baron. ”
In the villa hall.
Madonna, who had just arrived, saw Simon, who was chatting with Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, and rushed over, taking advantage and complaining.