Chapter 448
Chapter 448
The development of the Internet is now at a bottleneck period.
Companies like Facebook and Amazon did not have very high market value in August 2006. They had to wait until mobile smart terminal devices became popular before they could make the pie bigger again and release their true potential.
America here.
The Silicon Valley's wealth-making myth continues. There are frequent examples of unknown people becoming rich overnight, and there is no shortage of opportunities to make big money. Fan Wumian is also often talked about by everyone for his successful investment in YouTube.
Countless investors have already sensed that the next boom is coming, and are now ambitiously searching for new business opportunities like vicious jackals. They are willing to empty out all their assets and take on debt to gamble on the future.
However, in Fan Wumian's eyes, the answers to many questions were clear and clearly laid out in front of him.
Investing and making money is very simple for him now, but due to the limited capital, he often has to make some choices.
For example, Apple's current total market value has exceeded 680 billion US dollars. However, in Fan Wumian's impression, even when it released the "magic machine" iPhone 4, its total market value was only two or three hundred billion US dollars.
This means that in the next few years, investing in Apple will only have a return on investment of a few times. Of course, he is too lazy to focus on this company, as there are too many better projects than Apple.
Last month, Fan Wumian also saw the news on the Internet that Yahoo was trying to acquire Facebook.
Later I heard that Yahoo suddenly changed its mind and cut the acquisition offer price from $10 billion to $8 million, which eventually led to the complete breakdown of the negotiations.
He only lamented that wild boars could not eat fine bran, and that the management had no long-term vision and missed countless good projects. No wonder Yahoo played a good hand badly and eventually went bankrupt and was sold at a low price, losing even the company's name.
As for Facebook, it only releases a small amount of equity each time when raising funds externally. As a star company in Silicon Valley, it is watched by too many people.
Therefore, Fan Wumian felt that there was not much point in investing in it. It would be better for him to pay attention to Netflix and Marvel Entertainment. At least he could find something to do and further increase his influence in the entertainment industry.
On the other hand, Penguin Group has both scale and potential. At the same time, he can also use this company to develop other businesses. It is already one of the best choices for allocating personal assets.
Take Tesla, a company that develops and manufactures electric cars.
In its previous life, Penguin Group raised $18 billion in financing and held 5% of Tesla's shares, but chose to sell them all after just two years.
This investment seemed to have made a huge profit of more than 20 billion US dollars, but in fact it missed the huge profit worth tens of billions of dollars. Something like this would never happen in Fan Wumian's hands.
When Fan Wumian received a positive response from Xiao Ma Ge that he was willing to give it a try.
He stayed in Hollywood for two more days and met with Jim Elliott, the founder of "American Weibo", and others for dinner in the hotel restaurant.
During the meeting, he personally negotiated the acquisition of the "American Weibo" project for US$75, and provided each of the three with a monthly salary of no less than US$1, and prohibited them from firing their programmers in the next three years.
Since even if they didn't acquire American Weibo, Fan Wumian could find other alternative startup teams of the same type in Silicon Valley, Jim Elliott and his team found that they had no bargaining chips and agreed to his conditions before they even finished their meal.
There are still a lot of things waiting to be dealt with next.
Everything needs to be prepared from scratch, including renting an office in the Silicon Valley, recruiting a new development team, spending money in advance to set up servers, etc.
Fortunately, Fan Wumian doesn't need to worry about these trivial matters personally.
On the day he left Los Angeles, he made an appointment with Megan Fox to hang out for two or three hours, then he felt refreshed and said goodbye to her.
Before leaving.
Megan Fox asked him if this counted as a breakup and if there was a chance they would meet again.
Fan Wumian didn't beat around the bush and just said that she liked Western food, while he liked Chinese food, and that their lifestyles were too different and they weren't really suitable for each other.
Been in contact for a few days.
Megan Fox also found that although they were very harmonious in the bedroom, they did not have many common topics to talk about and were not that attracted to each other.
So even though she was a little reluctant, she finally asked Fan Wumian to remember to call her next time he came to the United States.
Cheating too often will become an addiction, and constant feeling of guilt will make people psychologically numb.
Just as he left the hotel room with his suitcase, Fan Wumian sent a message to Zhuang Muxi, asking her where she was.
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More than ten hours later.
A Bombardier private jet landed at the Lin'an airport. After signing for the customs officer, Fan Wumian left the exit through the VIP channel and got into a black business car with a Yanjing license plate.
The driver was Zhuang Muxi's assistant. She took the initiative to give up her seat, sat in another car, and handed the steering wheel to Fan Wumian's bodyguard Qian Ge.
Pu Jiajing also got in the car and sat in the passenger seat. She turned her head and greeted Zhuang Muxi:
"Hello~ Oh, I'm back home now, I don't need to speak English anymore. My English has improved by leaps and bounds in the past two months. I feel it's more useful than taking 300 English classes."
Zhuang Muxi told:
"You must be tired after such a long flight. I bought you some burgers, but they are cold."
Pu Jiajing was hungry, so she said happily, "Thank you~~~"
Done.
Zhuang Muxi handed a snack to Fan Wumian separately. The plastic bag contained fried pork tenderloin, fried vegetarian chicken, fried rice cake, chicken fillet, etc. The aroma was fragrant.
She said to Fan Wumian:
"I received your call this morning, and you asked me to buy these. Roadside stalls are not very hygienic. You should eat less, or you might get diarrhea."
Fan Wumian waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, and replied with a nonchalant tone and a smile:
"I usually eat too healthy and I'm starting to feel a little nauseous. I need some snacks with nothing added to them to save the flora in my stomach."
Amused by these words, Zhuang Muxi then asked him, "Is it fun to film in the United States?"
"It's just so-so. Not only is it inefficient, but the costs are also very high. I feel bad talking about this. Fortunately, Paramount Pictures helped me share half of the costs."
Fan Wumian ate the fried vegetarian chicken first. It was a little cold, but the sauce tasted good and he still enjoyed it very much. He continued:
"It was night when I left Los Angeles, and I flew for more than ten hours, and it was night again when I came back. I slept for nearly nine hours in total on the plane. When I woke up, I was already over the island country. My night is doomed. I guess I won't feel sleepy until tomorrow morning."
Zhuang Muxi smiled with eyes curved:
"You've been in the United States for so long this time, it might be hard to adjust your body clock. You can sleep a few hours less tomorrow and then slowly adjust. This way you'll feel a little better. At the beginning of last month, when I was promoting A Quiet Place 2 everywhere, the biggest headache was jet lag. My schedule was a mess."
Fan Wumian was busy eating, so he changed the subject and said:
"I don't know if Americans like this. If I open a fried skewers shop, or sell ramen or steamed buns, I can probably make a few thousand dollars a month."
The reason for landing in Lin'an this time was because Zhuang Muxi was filming in Hengdian.
It just so happened that Fan Wumian also wanted to go back to Hengdian to experience the feeling of returning home in glory, so he came here specifically.
Hengdian does not have an airport. It is more than 100 kilometers away from Lin'an and takes about two hours to drive. Therefore, after Zhuang Muxi finished work today, he asked his assistant to drive over to pick him up.
Chatted for a few words.
While eating chicken fillet, Fan Wumian asked Zhuang Muxi:
"You don't have a lot of scenes, but you haven't finished filming in more than ten days? I bought the script for this drama, The Story of the Imperial Harem, from outside. What do you think of the result?"
"Me? I'm only responsible for acting, so I'm not sure."
".As an actor, you should be able to tell whether the plot is exciting or not. Forget it. If I am free tomorrow, I will go to the scene myself."
"The Story of the Ming Dynasty Harem", just by hearing the name you can tell that this drama has something interesting.
Zhuang Muxi plays a rich lady who is spotted by the emperor who is on a secret visit during the Lantern Festival. She is forced to separate from her childhood sweetheart and live a miserable life in the palace.
The business car had just driven for more than ten minutes when she handed her cell phone to Fan Wumian, and saw someone comment "very gOOd figure".
At first I didn't quite get the hang of it.
Then Fan Wumian looked at her strengths and almost burst out laughing.
Zhuang Muxi sighed and said:
"Ever since I renewed my contract with the Coconut Tree brand and filmed a new commercial, this comment has gone viral online. It's really annoying."
(End of this chapter)