Heads Up Hollywood

Last year, after Tang En made a large amount of national wealth, he took out 500 million U.S. dollars to invest and establish the "Scott Swift Venture Capital Fund". Tang En held 80% of the shares and Scott held 20% of the shares.

On the one hand, Tang En thanked him for operating Tang En Capital in the past few years and made a lot of money. On the other hand, he maximized the use of the advantages of foresight to open up a larger market space.

Dunn only offered him three suggestions: Ali, Penguin, and Samsung Electronics.

Success is the best. It can completely open up the Asian market and form a supreme authority. It doesn't matter even if it fails, Tang En already has enough money anyway.

However, Scott Swift's ability is very good. As soon as he got the funds last year, he successfully operated a big deal.

Little Superman’s Yingke Digital acquired a telecommunications company on a leveraged basis and borrowed heavily, resulting in losses for two consecutive quarters. In order to make up for the shortfall and repay the debt interest, some assets had to be sold.

The 20% stake in Penguin held by Superman was finally sold through a tripartite transaction with Penguin and Scott Swift.

Scott Swift invested a total of $32 million.

Among them, 18 million U.S. dollars was used to purchase 20% of the shares held by Little Superman; the remaining 14 million U.S. dollars was invested in Penguin, and another 15% of the shares were obtained.

In just two months of operation, Scott Swift Venture Capital Fund has become the largest shareholder of Penguin Corporation!

However, at this stage, the Internet is still a new term. China has no investment institutions in this area at all, and entrepreneurs lack understanding of the Internet. As a result, the first batch of Internet companies were all foreign investment.

At that time, Penguin couldn't see any hope of profit at all, and couldn't even afford a server. The founders of Penguin urgently needed financing to solve the predicament. They successively found Sohu, Sina, Yahoo, Kingdee, Lenovo, Haier and many other companies, but were all rejected.

Fortunately, "Penguin" is a company that Tang En focuses on!

Scott Swift had worked under Twain for many years. Many times, he couldn't understand Twain's behavior and thinking, but the results afterwards often proved that he was right.

With this kind of trust in Tang En, he made a bet without hesitation!

This time, the early start squeezed out the MIH company in South Africa in the previous life, and took control of 35% of Penguin's shares in one fell swoop.

In the blink of an eye, in 2002, with funds, Penguin began to exert its strength, and the number of QQ users increased tremendously, quickly defeating the chat software Yahoo Messenger and ICQ, and the number of users approached the trump card boss MSN!

If it was said that Penguin would go bankrupt, Tang En would not believe it one hundred times, "What happened?"

Scott Swift quickly said: "Penguin has a key product, QQ, which is a chat software. This year, the software has been updated and has new services. It is very popular among users, and users have become more and more popular. More, now the registered users have broken through the 100 million mark!"

Tang En smiled, but he was a little dazed, "It's a good thing that the increase is increasing day by day? What's the matter? Can't find the entrance to cash out?"

Scott Swift gritted his teeth: "Of course it's a good thing for Penguin, but it's a devastating blow for Microsoft's MSN!"

Now, there are two most popular chat software in the world: MSN and ICQ.

And Microsoft's MSN is the overlord of almost every market, and it is the giant of chat software!

Tang En frowned and asked, "MSN imitates QQ?"

Scott Swift said: "It would be nice to imitate, but the two softwares have different user orientations. The reason why QQ users can grow rapidly is because they are fashionable, avant-garde, and have developed a stranger. Chat service, but MSN can only chat with friends. In Microsoft’s view, MSN is a business software, and we should avoid sending messages with strangers to prevent harassment.”

Tang En has basically understood.

It was Microsoft who made a move on Penguin!

In any market in the world, MSN is the leader and its position cannot be shaken. But in the Chinese market, a little-known QQ has popped up. With Microsoft's strong capabilities, it's easy to kill the penguins.

"Twain, I've already invested 32 million US dollars. Penguin must be alive. You have to communicate with Bill Gates. He can't do that! He's breaking the law!" Scott Swift said emotionally with.

Tang En said calmly, "Breaking the law? What kind of countermeasures did Microsoft adopt?"

Scott Swift gritted his teeth angrily, "Don't forget, Microsoft started with the Windows system! The medium of QQ is Windows!"

"ah?"

Tang En was taken aback, and then became angry and funny.

What a Bill Gates, what a slippery play!

Let the windows system directly block QQ, so what is there to fight for?

The chat software can be changed, but the operating system... cannot be changed!

MSN can completely crush QQ overnight!

Such a thunderous method, not to mention the small Penguin company, would be unbearable for any computer company!

However, in some developed countries such as Europe, America, South Korea and Japan, there are mature anti-monopoly laws-no violation of network neutrality and monopoly operation!

Tang En knew that the Penguin Company must have passed this life-and-death test in his previous life, otherwise it would have been impossible to become a world-class Internet giant later on.

I just don’t know if Penguin learned from Microsoft by using WeChat, QQ and other software to monopolize traffic and block and suppress competitors.

So Tang En acted very calmly. In the previous life, the penguin was able to pass the test. In this life, there must be no problem.

He just needs to say hello to Bill Gates and explain the powerful relationship among them. With the wisdom of the richest man, he will definitely make the most correct choice.

A foreign company, in the Chinese market, uses a monopoly to suppress local companies, what joke are you talking about?

Even if the anti-monopoly law is not perfect, the country will definitely not allow Microsoft to do this.

Scott Swift quickly said: "Microsoft China, I will communicate. But the attitude of Microsoft headquarters, especially Bill Gates, is very important. You have to make it clear to him that he is destroying the Internet. fair play!"

Tang En smiled and said, "Okay, I see. If there is a chance, I will meet and chat with him."

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At the peak of the Internet bubble, Microsoft's market capitalization was as high as $650 billion.

However, if there was no antitrust investigation of Microsoft by the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress in 1995 and the death penalty, and another antitrust investigation in 1999, Microsoft's market value would probably exceed 1.5 trillion US dollars! Even $2 trillion!

Monopoly is definitely a hurdle for Microsoft.

In the emerging Internet market in China, Tang En did not believe that Bill Gates would be so hot-headed that he would use monopoly methods as soon as he entered.

So Tang En was very confident in convincing Bill Gates.

Tang En's reputation in the American business circle is getting bigger and bigger. He is invincible in Hollywood and is a legend in the entertainment industry that everyone can't get past.

This face, Bill Gates must give.

In June, Dunn Films, Marvel Films, and Rose Films jointly held a press conference and announced new movie news: "Harry Potter 2", "Ant-Man", and "Lost in Translation" are officially released. Start shooting!

"Spider-Man 2" also gradually restrained its momentum during the crazy May schedule.

Throughout May, "Spider-Man 2" raked in $460 million at the box office in North America, completely beating its rival "Star Wars Episode 2," which took in only $180 million.

According to the current box office forecast, "Spider-Man 2" is likely to exceed the North American box office of "Spider-Man 1" of 510 million US dollars, reaching about 530 million US dollars.

And "Star Wars Episode II" North American box office ... very bad.

"Star Wars Episode 1" directed by Dunn Walker had a North American box office of 580 million US dollars, but "Star Wars Episode 2"... It is a blessing to get half of this amount!

More importantly, "Spider-Man 2" is a global commercial blockbuster! There is no viewing barrier for moviegoers in any country.

But "Star Wars Episode 2" is different. The overseas market and the North American market are completely two concepts.

With the current trend, the global box office of "Star Wars Episode 2" is likely to be cut in half, only half of "Star Wars Episode 1"'s $1.18 billion box office!

After the depressing schedule in May, the major Hollywood film companies began to compete frantically in June.

Warner's "Scooby-Doo", Disney's "Lilo and Stitch", Fox's "Minority Report", Universal's "Bourne Shadow", Sony's "Mr. Deeds"...

Of course, it also includes the war film "Windtalker" invested by MGM and directed by John Wu.