Reborn Russia As An Oligarch

YANDEX\u0026MAIL.RU United Technology Company and Facebook Russia, these two companies are the first to be listed among the Internet companies controlled by Wang Ye.

Of course, companies such as Apple, Google, and Amazon that have already been listed on the market do not count, and Wang Ye does not have a controlling stake in these companies. They can only be regarded as strategic investments.

Especially for Google and Amazon shares, Wang Ye will cash out when the stock price is right, and he does not intend to hold them for a long time.

That is to say, he plans to hold Apple's shares for a long time. After all, Wang Ye clearly remembers that Apple's stock price continued to rise in the next ten years, and at its peak, the company's market value was as high as three trillion US dollars!

What is this concept...

When Wang Ye invested in Apple a few years ago, he paid a total of US$800 million. Based on the stock price of US$5 per share, he won Apple's targeted additional issuance of 160 million shares in one fell swoop.

Occupying 16% of Apple's total share capital, it became Apple's largest shareholder!

Pioneer Holdings, the second largest shareholder, only owns 100 million shares, accounting for 10%.

As for other shareholders, they hold even fewer shares.

In recent years, as Apple's iPOD products have been selling well all over the world and the launch of the Apple Music Store has been well received, the stock price has continued to rise, reaching around US$400!

Compared with the price when Wang Ye originally invested in the shares, the price has increased approximately eighty times, and Apple's market value has also reached more than 400 billion US dollars!

This increase is very amazing.

But Wang Ye knows where this is going. Apple will launch a truly epoch-making product next year, and that is the IPHONE!

At that time, Apple will truly become a global technology giant, with its stock price breaking new highs repeatedly, and its market value exceeding one trillion, two trillion, and three trillion...

However, based only on the current market value of Apple, the value of the shares held by Polar Bear Investment Company has reached more than 60 billion US dollars!

This does not include the shares of Penguin and Google and Amazon held by Polar Bear Investment Company.

Why does Wang Ye dare to make big purchases and "spread money" everywhere? This is his confidence.

Even if his other companies are not making money, or even losing money, as long as there are no problems with Polar Bear Investment and those technology companies continue to develop as he remembered in his previous life, he does not need to worry about money issues...

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Wang Ye also sorted out the newly acquired industries.

Yukos Group's shares are the simplest. He was originally the major shareholder and chairman, but now he only holds more shares.

However, other industries are a little more troublesome.

Like First United Bank, engaging in finance requires strong professionalism, and Wang Ye really doesn't understand it himself.

Fortunately, Hovchenko left him a complete team of professional managers, so Wang Ye didn't need to worry.

Therefore, the assets acquired from uncle Hovchenko are considered to be of very high quality, saving worry and trouble and making money at the same time...

The media group and aluminum group purchased from Abu are a bit more difficult.

Especially the Aluminum Group. The major shareholder of this company is Derepaska. Wang Ye just "offended" him a few days ago because of the strike at the aluminum plant.

Of course, Wang Ye didn't pay too much attention to this matter. He didn't have much idea about the Aluminum Group for the time being, as long as Drepaska could guarantee his annual dividends.

What he really needs to worry about is the media group with the lowest market value!

The media group originally controlled by Abu was called "National Media Group", which sounds like a very big name, starting with "国"!

But in fact, this is just a private media company, because the media industry in Damao is open to private capital and even foreign investment.

The National Media Group is the largest private media group in Russia. It controls a national television station, more than a dozen newspapers and magazines of various sizes, has also established a new online news platform, and has its own professional reporter stations at home and abroad... …

Anyway, the scale should not be underestimated, and it is still very powerful and influential.

After Wang Ye acquires it, he plans to make some additional investments, with the focus being on building that TV station!

Although the influence of traditional media channels has begun to slowly decline with the rise of the Internet, it is undeniable that the influence of authoritative TV stations among the public cannot be ignored.

Especially since Wang Ye is now in politics, it is even more important to master his own publicity channels.

Whether he is running for office later, helping his faction to canvass votes, or helping Rosiana, the cooperation of the media is indispensable anyway...

The TV station under the National Media Group is called "Russian Independent Television", or "NTV" for short, and it has a very good background.

This TV station was established in the 1990s by Gusinski, one of the "Seven Oligarchs". It has a national viewing coverage of 87% and is a very famous TV station.

In recent years, with the increase in national fiscal revenue and corresponding policy changes, state-owned assets have acquired and "reorganized" many private TV stations.

Therefore, NTV has become the only wholly-owned private TV station left in the country. Other so-called private TV stations have more or less state-owned shares or even controlling shares...

But no one can say how long NTV can remain a sole proprietor. According to Abu, relevant state departments have approached him about investing in NTV, but he rejected it.

However, the Kremlin should have realized the importance of controlling publicity channels and began to tighten policies on the media industry. It may be possible to introduce corresponding regulations in the future to directly prohibit private capital or foreign capital from controlling important media channels.

Abu may have seen this and felt that he couldn't carry it for long, so he simply packaged it and sold it to Wang Ye.

After all, this guy Wang Ye must be able to handle it better than himself...

Wang Ye is naturally very clear about this, but after he takes over, he no longer needs to worry about NTV being nationalized. After all, no one is willing to risk offending him by doing such a thing.

And even if corresponding regulations are introduced, it is impossible to bypass him as the deputy speaker of the Duma!

Wang Ye controls this TV station and will not do anything too extreme, let alone allow some capital intrusion with ulterior motives.

Besides, with his strong financial resources, he will definitely invest more money in the TV station every year than the national TV station, which will produce more sophisticated and excellent programs.

Speaking of capital investment, as far as Wang Ye knows, the Russian Public Television, the largest and most authoritative television station controlled by the state, has an annual budget of just over US$100 million...

For a large-scale TV station, this money is really just a drop in the bucket. Not to mention large investments in large-scale production, even maintaining the normal operation of the TV station requires careful budgeting!

It can only be said that it is really difficult to move forward without money, and it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.

There are actually quite a lot of talents in the Lao Maozi literary and art circle. Masters have always emerged in large numbers, but now there is simply not enough funds, and everything has become empty talk.

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NTV is headquartered in Moscow. It was formerly the National Channel 4 during the former Soviet Union, which was the education channel.

However, after privatization, it became a comprehensive channel.

After Abu took over a few years ago, he also invested a lot of money and produced some dramas that received good response, so now the ratings are second only to public television, ranking second.

The change of ownership of NTV was not publicized to the outside world, so it did not cause much reaction in the society.

However, within the TV station, senior managers have been notified that from now on, the TV station, including the parent company, is owned by Speaker Mikhail.

After receiving the notice that the TV station had changed owners, station director Serev didn't look too good.

It is said that the new owner of the TV station, Mikhail, is richer and more willing to invest. In the long run, NTV TV station may even become the largest TV station in Russia. He should be happy.

But Serev is not thinking about the development of the TV tower. The first thing he has to consider is whether he can keep his position as the station director...

After all, the habits of emperors and courtiers are universal throughout ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.

When a new boss comes to power, the first thing he usually does is to replace the key positions with his own confidants...

When Abu was the boss of NTV in the past, Serev felt very comfortable as the director, because Abu generally did not interfere with the TV station's affairs. Although he was not given a large budget every year, Serev was responsible for everything at the station. The final word!

But obviously, after the boss is replaced by Mikhail, this kind of good life will probably no longer exist...

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Serev was right. After Wang Ye acquired the National Media Group, the first thing he did was to ask his assistant to bring all the group's information and he closed the door to study it for a whole day.

The focus of his attention is naturally NTV. Other magazines and newspapers are not important, because with the development of the Internet, these magazines and newspapers are basically facing the dilemma of bankruptcy. Even Wang Ye has no way to reverse the development of the times. The general trend.

So it’s better to save some time, integrate those magazines and newspapers later, and let them fend for themselves...

The most important thing he values ​​in acquiring the National Media Group, or the only thing he values ​​​​is NTV!

Wang Ye knows very well that if you want to run a business well, the key is to choose the leader of the business, that is, the general manager!

If NTV wants to recruit new people, the position of director is very critical.

Therefore, Wang Ye carefully looked through the archives of station director Serev.

Judging from the archives, Serev is a very senior media expert who has been working in television for nearly 30 years. He used to be an executive at a public television station and was poached by Abu with a high salary.

Since then, he has been responsible for the operation of NTV television station.

Under his leadership, NTV has developed quite well over the years.

It has consistently ranked second among national TV stations in ratings and coverage...

Number one on the list is naturally the state-controlled public television stations. That one is incomparable. After all, the resources that public television stations can mobilize are not comparable to those of private television stations.

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After reading the information and having a plan in mind, Wang Ye asked his assistant Nova to call Serev and ask him to have dinner with him.

The location was naturally set at the old place, Turandot Restaurant.

Wang Ye has a private room in the Turandot restaurant, which allows him to invite some guests to come over for dinner and talk. Normally, this private room is not open to the public when he is not there.

In this private room, Wang Ye met and discussed matters with many high-ranking officials, and many national affairs were discussed over cups and cups!

Today I invited Serev here to meet and chat. It can be seen that Wang Ye still values ​​Serev quite highly...

At around six o'clock in the evening, Serev drove his Jaguar car to the Turandot restaurant in advance.

He is no stranger to this restaurant and occasionally invites guests to eat here.

However, his mood when he came here today was different from usual. Serev felt a little uneasy. He didn't know what he would face next.

Although Serev has never dealt with Mikhail, the new boss, he is no stranger to him!

After all, NTV has done many TV programs about Mikhail, including two exclusive interviews.

Based on Selev's understanding of Mikhail, he believed that although the new boss was young, he was very decisive and skillful in doing things. As long as he was determined to do something, he would definitely do it.

If this new boss is dissatisfied with me, then I really don’t even dare to think about resisting...

After all, even a giant like Luzhkov was defeated by Mikhail. A little guy like himself must be like an ant in front of him.

Under the guidance of the waiter, Serev came to Wang Ye's exclusive private room, thinking about his thoughts while waiting for Wang Ye's arrival.

As he was holding the black tea cup and drinking sips at a time, the private room door was pushed open and Wang Ye arrived...

Serev quickly put down his tea cup and stood up to say hello to Wang Ye.

With a smile on his face, Wang Ye nodded towards Serev, and then told the waiter to prepare the dishes. He wanted to chat with Serev while eating.

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"Director Serev, I heard from Abu that under your leadership, NTV has developed quite steadily."

After sitting down, Wang Ye spoke.

Serev carefully observed Wang Ye's expression and couldn't figure out whether this "steady" evaluation was a compliment or a derogation...

But he didn't see anything on Wang Ye's face. After being in the political arena for so many years, Wang Ye had already been trained to the point where his emotions and anger were invisible.

Not to mention small characters like Serev, even real top "old foxes" like foster father, Gazev, and Gryzlov can't tell Wang Ye's thoughts through his face.

Unless Wang Ye deliberately wants them to see it...

After thinking about it for a moment, Serev smiled cautiously and said: "Speaker Mikhail, thank you for the award. I just did some basic management work. Mainly because my colleagues in the TV station are all excellent, so when funds are not sufficient, We have tried our best to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, and have produced some good programs.”

Wang Ye was quite satisfied with Serev's answer.

Knowing how to not take credit or shirk responsibilities in front of the boss, but to record performance on the heads of subordinates is already considered a qualified manager.

But if that's all, it's not enough... (End of chapter)