While Daenerys Entertainment and Metropolis ABC Group attracted most of the media's attention, another merger was finalized during this time.
San Francisco, Silicon Valley.
On June 28, Tinker Bayer, an emerging electronics company that has risen rapidly in recent years, suddenly announced that it had reached an agreement with Broadcast, an online radio station and audio sales website, and the two parties would formally merge. Because they are both private, unlisted companies, Tinkerber and Broadcast did not announce a specific merger agreement. Another piece of news accompanying the merger news attracted more attention.
After the merger is completed, Tinker Bayer will officially launch its IPO plan.
In the past few years, there have been many rumors about the upcoming IPO of Tinkerber Company, because the company's growth rate is comparable to that of new technology companies in recent years, and it is also considered to be the leader of many of the Westeros systems. One of the women's names (Tinko Bayer is also a woman's name), so the capital market has been looking forward to the listing of this company.
It's a pity that the past few times ended up being nothing.
This time, since it is an official release, it is unlikely to be fake news.
With the announcement of the news, the media dug up and disclosed the approximate merger details of the two companies. In this merger, Tinker Bayer and Broadcast were valued at US$15 billion and US$2 billion respectively. The valuations of the two companies seemed to be They are all very high, but according to market analysis, Tinker Bayer is still considered to be at a huge disadvantage.
After Tinco Bayer's sales data were released last year, the industry's valuation of the company has reached tens of billions.
After launching the digital music player iPlayer-10 in the first half of the year, in the past month or so, Tinco Bayer has increased its production capacity to 300,000 units per month. The supply is still in short supply. It is expected that the total sales volume of iPlayer will be only one year after its launch. It is comparable to the iCam series that this company has launched for several years.
This is equivalent to a direct doubling of the size of Tinker Bayer.
Not only that, with the launch of the micro hard drive version of the iCam-50 and its popularity, the market share of Tinco Bayer digital cameras has returned to more than 60% from 53% last year.
Combining these favorable factors, even a valuation of US$20 billion for Tinco Bayer is not excessive.
Looking at Broadcast again, from its launch in 1993 to now, although the total number of registered users of Broadcast has exceeded 30 million and it has found a more suitable business model, the revenue of this network platform in 1994 was only US$26 million. At the end of the day, this is actually only slightly more than Tinco Bayer’s current revenue in a day.
Although Broadcast's revenue began to rise rapidly after the launch of iPlayer-10, the valuation of US$2 billion was very much a bubble.
However, after a lively discussion in the media, it was suddenly discovered that the two companies were both companies in the Westeros system after all, and no matter how they merged, it was just a left-hand thing overcoming a right-hand one. What's more, everyone can see that because of the popularity of iPlayer, Tinker Bayer will win over Broadcast and completely control the content channels, which will only bring many benefits.
This is actually true.
After this merger, the ownership structure of the new Tinker Bayer Company has become more complicated. However, the shares directly controlled by Westeros Company still reach 61.6%, which is still an absolute controlling share. Broadcast was incubated by the venture capital arm of Ygrit Corporation, which in turn was absolutely controlled by Westeros Corporation. After the merger, the 8.1% shares nominally held by Ygrit Corporation were actually still controlled by In the hands of the Westeros system.
None of the other parties involved in the merger were dissatisfied.
In order to win over several major newspaper groups, Simon opened a series of projects that Yigret focused on incubating to these established media giants for investment. Last year, the New York Times Company acquired 15% of the shares of the Broadcast website with US$30 million in funding. This merger Later, 15% of the shares of the New York Times Group were converted into 1.8% of the shares of Tinker Bayer Company, which seemed to be much lower. However, based on the total valuation of the merger of US$17 billion, the value of the 1.8% shares also reached 300 million. US dollars, equivalent to a tenfold increase in one year.
Girl C's shareholding in Tinker Bayer has been reduced from the previous 15% to 13.2%. Based on the combined valuation, the former Weijia maid who walked out from Simon's side has a personal net worth of US$2.2 billion.
Another Billionaire-level super-rich person was born.
The net worth is equivalent to that of Alice Ferguson, the former housekeeper who received 76 million shares of Eaglet some time ago.
As Yigret and Tinker Bayer are about to go public, the two girls are even very likely to break into the top ten ranks of the Forbes 400 richest people in the United States.
Not only are 'Daenerys', 'Ygret', 'Melisandre', 'Cersei' and other Westeros system subsidiaries named after women, there are millions of people in the Westeros system The powerful 'women's gang' with outstanding abilities has become more and more famous in recent years.
That's not even the most important thing.
Over the years, various things have happened one after another. Every once in a while, the Westeros system can produce some big news that attracts the attention of the whole people. Even if many people are unwilling to admit it, Simon Weiss The growing business empire built by Tello has also become ubiquitous as a young man's net worth continues to skyrocket.
Conspiracy theorists always feel that someone is secretly controlling the world.
This statement is actually correct.
However, for Western countries with relatively complete social systems, it is difficult for power to be concentrated in a few individuals. What controls these countries is actually a huge class of vested interests.
If we look into it more deeply, it can be summed up in two words: capital.
As the scale of capital controlled by the Westeros system becomes larger and larger, the implicit power held by the Westeros family in this country and even the world is also growing.
From the perspective of the entire civilization evolution cycle, Simon created all this in less than 10 years, without giving the old vested interests much time to react. In fact, it was no less than a violent revolution that changed the social class structure.
That's right.
Even though many people are absolutely unwilling to admit it, a brand new king has appeared in this world.
The king of capital.
Midtown Manhattan.
In the conference room of the Elite Model Agency headquarters at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street, Grace Spurter felt at this moment that a certain young man sitting next to him was her king.
It's the morning of July 3, Monday, the day before the American Independence Day holiday.
Things started a week ago.
Fernanda Lima, who Grace signed at the beginning of the year, celebrated her 18th birthday on June 25. Immediately afterwards, the Brazilian girl who just turned 18 won the opportunity to participate in the new Victoria's Secret show that is being prepared. Catwalk Angel Contract.
Counting the three daughters, Nancy Gauff, Eva Herzgova, and Daniela Posteva, Grace already has four members of the Victoria’s Secret Angels in her name.
Over the past few years, the circle has gradually discovered that models who are lucky enough to appear on the Victoria's Secret catwalk will definitely not only get the short-term glory of the catwalk, but also the entire Westeros system in entertainment, fashion and other channels. comprehensive resource support.
In fact, this is also a win-win situation.
Just the video sales of previous Victoria's Secret shows have brought hundreds of millions of dollars in profits to the Westeros system in recent years.
Therefore, as long as you can appear on the Victoria's Secret T stage, even if you are not an official Victoria's Secret spokesperson, the value of the relevant model will rise, your reputation will increase, and you will naturally receive a significant increase in commercial invitations such as catwalk endorsements.
There are millions of men and women working in the modeling industry in the fashion industry around the world, but very few have actually reached the top.
Now, with the support of the powerful resources of the Westeros system, the Victoria's Secret Army has firmly locked in the top position of this circle's pyramid.
The total number of members of the Victoria's Secret Corps is only about forty.
While many small modeling agencies are trying their best to get one or two Victoria's Secret Angel spots, Grace Spurter, an agent, has four spots. How can this make others not envious and jealous
Even Elite President John Casablanca couldn't bear it.
Fernanda Lima’s signing with Victoria’s Secret became an implicit trigger.
The conflict between Casablanco and Grace doesn't stop there.
After Elite established the new media operations department last year, Casablanca didn't pay much attention to it at first, but she didn't expect that the development and expansion of this department would be so rapid. In just one year since its establishment last year, Grace has grasped the new media operations department in her hands. The department has signed contracts worth US$26 million with major brands.
Founded in 1972, Elite has grown to this day. In more than 20 years, it has branches all over the world. Not counting the new media operation department, the total contract amount secured for its thousands of models last year was only 120 million. Dollar.
This is already a giant in the model agency industry.
But these basic businesses are suddenly dwarfed by the strong rise of the new media operations department.
It would not matter if this department was directly controlled by John Casablanca, but it happened to be another executive of the company. John Casablanca found more and more that if Grace Spurter was allowed to continue to be in charge of the new media operations department, Your position may not be guaranteed.
Not only that, at a meeting last week, Grace Spulte also proposed that she intends to create an advertising planning department again.
There are actually successful cases for this.
Hollywood's CAA has successfully entered the field of advertising planning a few years ago, and even won an advertisement for Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola's famous polar bear advertisement came from CAA's creativity. At that time, it not only defeated many established advertising planning companies, but also that advertisement It was also a huge success.
As the largest model agency in the industry, Elite's current core business is still the traditional model agency business. This is definitely not a sustainable business model in the long term.
The core of a brokerage company is its people.
If people disperse, there will be nothing.
This is how many modeling agencies have risen and died over the years.
If it can gradually develop other businesses and allow Elite to have relatively fixed 'assets', the company can maintain its position for a longer period of time.
Grace's suggestion is definitely for the long-term development of Elite. However, after running a company for more than 20 years and reaching the pinnacle of the industry, John Casablanca has long since lost much enterprising spirit, so he has been too lazy to develop anything in these years. New business, however, he will never allow others to threaten his power.
If this advertising planning department is successful again, he, the founder, may just pack up and leave.
Therefore, Casablanca rejected Grace's suggestion without hesitation and went a step further, asking Grace to give up control of the new media operations department. He planned to take charge of it personally. In exchange, he could promote Grace to serve as the head of the Elite North American branch. President.
Standard light rise and dark fall.
Naturally, Grace would not agree, and a quarrel soon broke out. Then, John Casablanca announced on the spot that Grace was fired.
When this happened suddenly, the entire Elite was a little confused.
what's the situation
Grace simply made some arrangements and left the company that day.
John Casablanca is the founder, shareholder and president of Elite, so he has full power to fire her, but Grace is more confident.
It is enough to have a certain man.
After calling, Simon was in Los Angeles at the time and just asked Grace to rest for a while and not to worry about anything else.
When it comes to Simon, Grace is completely blind and does whatever the man says.
After a busy year, I haven't been able to spend time with my children for a long time. I took advantage of the summer vacation to take the two children to the Caribbean.
In fact, I also knew that Simon was a little busy during this period. I thought she would have to wait for a long time. Unexpectedly, just a week later, she received a call again, asking her to return to New York as soon as possible.
Grace came directly from the airport to the Elite headquarters on Fifth Avenue this time.
Before getting on the plane, she also received some information from Simon's assistant.
In just one week, everything turned upside down.
At least, that's the case with Elite.
Talent agencies are marginal supplements to many industries. Even giants like Elite are just small businesses in the final analysis.
Therefore, Simon just explained and did not need to do anything on his own. Within a week, with both carrot and stick, Apollo Management Company, a subsidiary of Cersei Capital, negotiated an acquisition agreement with a group of Elite shareholders. Apollo Management Company paid 6,500 With an offer of US$10,000, 55% of the shares were obtained from Elite shareholders.
Given the nature of the Elite, this is actually a pretty generous price.
Taking the total contract amount of US$120 million in 1995, it seems like a lot, but in fact, even based on the higher 20% commission in the modeling industry, ELite's income was only US$24 million, most of which had to be spent Many of its brokers took it away, leaving very little so-called profit for shareholders.
Moreover, the representatives of Apollo Management Company stated their interests and interests, and Elite shareholders had no other choice at all.
If you continue to retain shares, it is very likely that a new model agency will emerge in the short term and take away a large number of Elite's clients. Although the number of models under Elite exceeds 2,000, the only ones that are truly valuable are the top ones, and the contracts for these models are very loose.
Even if there are still some people left in Elite, once the entire Westeros system, which has a strong influence in the fields of fashion and entertainment, takes action against this modeling agency, Elite will not survive for long.
Simon Westeros didn't do anything, he only took 55% of the shares, and also gave a further development plan for Elite. Everyone got benefits and had long-term expectations, so there was no more. How much resistance.
Easily achieving absolute control of Elite, John Casablanca, who previously only held a symbolic 5% stake in Elite, was naturally kicked out.
What we have to do today is the handover.
Simon had the idea of letting Grace take charge of Elite last year. He originally planned to let it simmer for a few years. Now that this has happened, it will be done quickly.
Moreover, Simon also knew what kind of person John Casablanca was.
In the past, John Casablanca, who was kicked out of the modeling industry due to a scandal a few years later, turned against the circle and constantly attacked and exposed the inside story of the modeling industry. This time, Simon also gave John Casablanca a 'vaccination' in advance. He not only wants the other party to leave honestly, but also wants the other party to shut his mouth honestly after leaving.
Things are also very simple.
Over the years, the 'godfather' of the modeling industry has really had a dirty butt. The man who always likes 18-year-old girl memes largely comes from John Casablanca. In fact, the other party actually liked younger girls. With Simon's casual instructions, the Westeros family's intelligence team quickly collected a pile of dirty information that could keep John Casablanca in jail for the rest of his life.
Now that they had broken up, Simon didn't hold back on Casablanca. He bought the other party's shares on the spot and kicked the other party out cleanly and completely.