Wall Street's valuation of Weibo and Twitter has once again made the world marvel at Li Mu's business talent. Li Mu's use of suppressing Mars to achieve success in Weibo and Twitter is, in the eyes of Wall Street, a spectacular operation worthy of being recorded in the history of capital.
Li Mu has proven with his actions that an Internet product does not necessarily have to rely on the number of users, influence, and revenue potential to demonstrate its value. It can even use destructive power as a powerful supplement.
A Weibo Twitter can overwhelm a Fortune 500 traditional company, and its ability to block public opinion is as strong as the Five Elements Mountain. Mars has suffered so much that it was even forced to grovel and apologize and spend 100 million yuan. The U.S. dollar has calmed down the troubles, and its destructive power alone is enough to make the whole world look at it.
Just when authoritative financial media around the world were hoping to conduct an exclusive interview with Li Mu, Li Mu declined all interview invitations and began to think about who would take over Weibo and Twitter in the future.
When Weibo was in its golden stage, capitalists all over the world were particularly optimistic about it. In this era when there were no rivals, global capital was crazy about it. However, due to the limitations of the product itself, sooner or later it would be impacted and its market value would decline. Sooner or later, sanity will return.
For Li Mu, the super giant Facebook will be enough for the future social platform in the PC field. As for Weibo and Twitter, after the advent of the mobile Internet era, it may not even be able to maintain a market value of 300 to 400 billion.
Therefore, Li Mu’s best solution is to maximize the market value of Weibo and Twitter, and then find a fool to take over.
If we strike while the iron is hot and separate Weibo and Twitter and list them separately, we can gradually reduce our holdings in the stock market to cash out at a high level, and then let investors take over for Weibo and Twitter. However, this kind of operation method is very bad, and there are many restrictions in the stock market. There are many restrictions on reductions.
The best way is to package it and sell it to a rich man, a big company or a big chaebol.
In this way, there is no need to go public or be supervised by any agency. As long as the price reaches a consensus, Li Mu can directly sell Weibo and Twitter in exchange for a large amount of cash. After all, although he does not have 100% control in Makino Technology, he still has voting rights. But it is 100%, and all shareholders obey his words.
It's just that this fool is really hard to find. There must be many people who want to buy Weibo and Twitter, but there are really not many people who can afford it.
Li Mu really wants to sell Weibo and Twitter to Microsoft, because Microsoft can afford the money, and Microsoft has always wanted to return to the field of Internet social networking and portals. Unfortunately, he has been beaten all the way and has now completely given up on this business. .
I wonder if they still have this idea in their minds? If anything, Weibo and Twitter will really be the most ideal successor in the future.
Just when Li Mu was secretly thinking about Microsoft, the entire "Flying Tigers" crew was finishing filming. The American actors and staff had already taken a charter flight provided by Li Mu and flew to Yanjing to meet Li Mu.
Under Li Mu's arrangement, they would rest for two days and one night in a five-star hotel in Yanjing, and then return to Hollywood on a Boeing 747 chartered by Li Mu from Air China.
In order to celebrate the completion of the movie, Li Mu booked the banquet hall of this five-star hotel and held a fancy American-style party. Naturally, Du Wei followed Li Mu to the scene early. After all, this party was actually for Du Wei. Wei prepared it alone.
Du Wei is young, has a simple personality and values love. She has worked and lived with the crew for a long time and treats them as good friends. She hopes to reunite with the crew in Yanjing, so Li Mu will do it for her. This party was arranged.
In addition to the cast and crew who are returning to the United States, all domestic cast and crew in Yanjing were also invited. There were two to three hundred people at the scene, which was very lively.
However, among the people who attended the party, except for Li Mu and Du Wei, no one else knew about Li Mu's motivations, especially Spielberg. He also felt that Li Mu really regarded himself as an excellent person. Friends, that’s why the arrangements are so in place.
After the party started, Li Mu invited Spielberg, the director, to come on stage and say a few words to everyone. Spielberg picked up the microphone and said: "I feel that at this moment, all the cast and crew of "Flying Tigers", First of all, we would like to thank Mr. Li Muli. It is he who actively unearthed this story that has been almost forgotten by history. It is also he who made this extraordinary film with huge investment. Let us first give our warmest applause to Mr. Li!"
All the cast and crew at the party applauded, and Li Mu waved to everyone with a smile, which was considered a polite response.
After the applause gradually stopped, Spielberg said: "I am very honored to have the opportunity to work with everyone here in the past few months. You are the most professional team I have ever seen. Everyone Everyone is impeccable, so please give applause to yourself and the partners around you!"
The audience burst into applause again.
After a while, Spielberg looked at Li Mu and said with a smile: "Next, let Mr. Li Mu say a few words to everyone!"
After saying that, Spielberg had already taken the lead in applauding.
Li Mu didn't refuse, stood up and walked to the stage, took the microphone from Spielberg, and said with a smile: "Flying Tigers was successfully completed, and everyone here is a contributor who deserves a lot of credit." , so here, I want to say thank you to everyone for your hard work."
Later, Li Mu added: "'Flying Tigers' is the largest-scale cooperation between Chinese films and Hollywood films in history. Its smooth completion also proves from a practical perspective that culture has no national boundaries and the ultimate goal of the cultural market is , it is not that American films go to China, or that Chinese films land in the United States, but that film and television works and markets from all over the world integrate, tolerate, and cooperate with each other. Therefore, in my personal opinion, I hope that this cooperation will be a collaboration between both of us. This is a new beginning for our cooperation, not its peak. In the future, I hope we will have the opportunity to work together to make more and better films."
"Finally, once again, I would like to thank everyone here for their hard work. I believe that "Flying Tigers" will definitely become an excellent work that will be recorded in the history of world cinema. Thank you everyone!"
After Li Mu finished speaking, he bowed slightly to everyone, and then walked down amidst applause.
Among the cast and crew at the party today, there are at least two hundred people from Hollywood. During the filming of "Flying Tigers", they all saw the unparalleled advantages of this Chinese boss. Not only does he have money and resources, They also respect the employees and do not interfere in the independent creation of the main creative team. Everyone likes to work with this kind of boss, so their impression of Li Mu is very good. When Li Mu said that he hoped to have the opportunity to work together, everyone felt They are all looking forward to the next cooperation.
For Li Mu, "Flying Tigers" is indeed just the beginning of his penetration into Hollywood. In the near future, he will continue to pull away more and better actors, technology, and soft power in the film and television industry from Hollywood to This will improve the overall level of domestic films.
In the future, Li Mu's film and television base will become the largest and most authoritative film and television center in the country. At the same time, his theater chain will also take advantage of the good opportunity that the domestic film market has not yet risen to seize the market across the country in advance. In this way, he will You can hold the three major sectors of film and television productions, including shooting, post-production, and theater production, in your hands.
Li Mu has no intention of turning the domestic film and television industry into his own back garden. He wants to occupy the right to speak in the three sectors of shooting, post-production, and theaters, largely to curb the development of domestic bad films in the future.
By that time, it will be difficult for producers of bad movies to use Li Mu’s filming base, let alone the post-production team trained by Li Mu. Moreover, if such a movie wants to be released in theaters in the future, Li Mu cannot guarantee it in other theaters. , as long as it is in his own theater chain, it will be difficult for bad movies to obtain good scheduling resources.
Putting pressure on bad movies from multiple directions will make it exponentially more difficult to make money from bad movies, which will naturally reduce the number of bad movies fundamentally.
The Chinese film market is a typical example of bad money driving out good money. To prevent Chinese films from making the same mistake, the most important thing is to reduce the number of bad money and reduce the purchasing power of bad money. If a considerable part of the bad money can be killed and forced out from the source, If a batch of bad coins is recast, it will be a huge improvement for the entire market.
After coming off the stage, Li Mu drank and chatted with the creative team. Anne Hathaway was very relaxed today. She drank several glasses of champagne in a row and seemed very happy.
Even Du Wei, who had little ability to drink, drank a few drinks because she was in a good mood. Her little face soon turned red and she looked particularly cute.
After everyone chatted for a while, Du Wei took Anne Hathaway aside to chat quietly.
At this time, Li Mu gathered with Spielberg, Leonardo, and Tom Hanks and drank a few more glasses of wine.
After three rounds of drinking, Spielberg raised his glass and said to Li Mu: "Mr. Li, I want to apologize to you about Mars. I acted for Roland Mars without knowing the whole story and the real reason." Si's plea to you is really a bit abrupt."
Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "Stephen, there is nothing wrong with you saying nice things to your friends, and you don't need to apologize to me. If you really talk about it, I didn't give you face for this matter, and I feel a little bit regretful."
Spielberg said hurriedly: "Mr. Li, you are serious."
Li Mu waved his hand and said with a smile: "This matter is over. Don't mention it again. We are partners. Don't get too excited about these trivial matters."
Spielberg nodded, suddenly remembered something, and said to Li Mu with a smile: "By the way, Mr. Li, do you know what day today is?"
"I don't know." Li Mu shook his head: "What day?"
"Today is the day the gubernatorial race is announced in California," Spielberg said.
After that, he looked at the time on his watch and said with a smile: "In more than an hour, the results from California should be announced!"
(End of chapter)