America's Road to Fame

Chapter 36 The acquisition of Twitter is reached
Since he didn't know how long he would stay in Silicon Valley this time, William Chen took Erica, Alicia, and four bodyguards with him.

Yes, the four bodyguards his uncle John Drey had picked for Chen William finally arrived in New York. Among other things, the appearance of these four bodyguards was enough to deter them.

They all retired from the elite troops of the United States, and then joined the security company, with many years of security work experience.The four of them will always be by William Chen's side, divided into two groups, and work 24 hours a day to ensure the safety of William Chen.

With Erica, William Chen will need her to continue teaching courses when he has time. At present, William Chen's entrance preparation course for Master of Economics has come to an end.

However, after completing these courses, he still hopes to continue to study some master's courses in economics. After all, even after enrolling, he can't be in school often. Anyway, this course only needs to take enough credits, and he can freely Arrange study.

As for Alicia, he needs to deal with some legal issues in his acquisition.At this time, with the increase of his property, William Chen also gradually felt the need for a dedicated legal and financial team. However, Alicia is still in charge of these at present, and he can slowly find candidates.

After arriving in Silicon Valley, William Chen took a short rest and immediately went to Twitter. He first met with Williams, the CEO of Twitter. The conversation between the two began with the development of the mobile Internet. After William Chen, Williams watched his "Oprah Show" specifically. He noticed that William Chen said in that interview that he was very optimistic about the development of the mobile Internet after the popularization of smartphones.

After talking about related issues, Williams found that, unlike William Chen in his previous impression, he did have a certain understanding of the mobile Internet and had some unique views.

This discovery relieved him a little of his previous worries.That is, if Twitter is acquired by William Chen, will the company go on the wrong path because of his identity as the boss and random command?William Chen's performance today has indeed changed his attitude towards Williams, who is worried about being acquired by him.

William Chen also gave Williams a reassurance about the lack of funds that Internet companies generally have.You must know that Internet companies face a wide range of users. For example, Internet companies in the United States will need to face users all over the world.And now Twitter is also developing rapidly, and the number of users is growing explosively, which brings pressure on the server and requires massive funds to build its own data center.

And whether it is research and development technology, personnel salaries, and promotion, money is needed.Therefore, from the beginning of their birth, those start-ups need continuous financing to solve their thirst for funds.And Chen William can guarantee that in the future, Twitter will provide a steady stream of funds to ensure its development.

Finally, let’s talk about the management’s shareholding. At present, Twitter has passed two rounds of financing, and investment institutions hold about 35% of the shares. The management and founding team hold a total of about 65% of the shares.

Williams wanted the management to retain at least 15% of the shares, which Chen Williams also agreed to.After all, it is impossible for William Chen to manage the company by himself in the future. He has many other things to do. Therefore, Twitter will still need the current team to lead the company's development in the future. In this way, letting them hold shares can also motivate them better operating company.

Therefore, after reaching these unified intentions, the subsequent negotiations will be much simpler.In the end, Twitter CEO Williams will hold 10% of the shares, founder Dorsey will hold 3%, and CTO Dick.Costello holds 2%, and they hold 15% together.

The other shares of the founding team, as well as the shares of previous investment institutions, will be sold to William Chen at a total valuation of US$2 million.And in addition to this, William Chen will also invest 5000 million US dollars into Twitter for the company's future development.

According to the agreement, after William Chen invested 5000 million US dollars this time, when the company needs him to invest again, if the management cannot provide the same proportion of funds to invest in the company, their shareholding will be diluted.But at the same time, Chen William will also take out a part of the shares and set up a share incentive pool. When the management completes certain requirements, they will be given share incentives.

This also ensures that William Chen can invest funds and prevent the management from diluting shares and resulting in too low shareholding, because they can still get share incentives through the company's development.

Of course, although an agreement has been reached, there are still many things left. It will take some time for William Chen to fully complete this acquisition. According to Nelson and Alicia’s estimates, it will take at least half of the time to fully complete this acquisition. month time.Therefore, although most of his funds have been invested in the gold market now, he still has time to wait until the investment is completed before completing the settlement of the acquisition funds.

After signing the acquisition agreement, William Chen’s Meta Investment Company will pay $2 million at a valuation of $1.7 million to purchase 85% of Twitter’s founding team and investors’ shares, and continue to invest $5000 million for The development of Twitter Inc.Therefore, after completing the acquisition process later, he will come up with a total of 2.3 million US dollars in cash.

At this time, Chen William will return to New York first, and Nelson and Alicia will stay in charge of the future.With such a result, Nelson was very excited. This time, he successfully completed another big order for the company. The company was able to get a reward of $100 million from William Chen. He himself could get a bonus from it and increase his performance.

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It was already August 8th when he returned to New York, William Chen first went to Meta Investment Company.The company at this time was much more formal than before. When William Chen arrived at the company's office, the beautiful female staff at the front desk greeted him proactively.Entering the office, William Chen approached Joss and asked him how the current situation of the gold market was.

"Boss, now the international gold price has fallen back to around US$750 per ounce, which has dropped by more than 20% from the time when we opened the position, and the position has already had a floating profit of nearly US$15 billion. According to my judgment, there should be more gold in the near future. However, it can be clearly felt that the price has fluctuated and consolidated in the past two days, I wonder what your plan is next?"

Joss is only responsible for the specific operation of shorting gold this time. William Chen told him at the beginning that when he decides to close the position, he will notify Joss in advance.Seeing that the investment in his hands has already achieved such a high profit, he is still very disturbed, and he can't help but ask William Chen about his next preparations.

Of course, Joss was excited along with his anxiety.After all, it is conceivable that they only earned a few hundred million dollars when they helped William Chen operate stocks, and they have already received a bonus of 300 million dollars.This operation on gold futures has made a profit of nearly 15 billion US dollars so far, so how much bonus can they get in the end?It's really exciting.

"You have not yet reached the time to close your position. According to my prediction, gold will fall to a position close to 600 US dollars per ounce at the lowest, so I ask you to pay attention to the price of good gold in the past few days. When gold starts to fall to 630 When the US dollar is below an ounce, you can gradually start to close your positions." William Chen thought about it, and Joss said.

"Okay, boss. I will always pay attention to the trend of the gold price." After these two investments, Joss still admired William Chen's vision and said without hesitation.

Next, William Chen began to write the script on the computer. He was going to hurry up and get out the script and the director's shot script. After all, he could feel that Erica was getting more and more seductive. Don't forget, they have a Small stakes.

The plot of the movie "Magic Mike" is not complicated. When it is really necessary to shoot, it also needs to consider the plot of the performance in the club.After Chen William entered the state, the progress was also very fast. After all, there are ready-made movies, and it is not difficult to complete the script with this.If Joss hadn't come to remind him, he would have almost forgotten to eat lunch.

By the time Erica came to give him a class in the afternoon, William had finished more than two-thirds of the script.

It is estimated that after tomorrow, he will be able to finish writing the script, and the rest is the production of the director's shot script.Of course, William Chen does not need to draw every shot for the shot script, as long as he draws some important shots and transitions, and when he finds a suitable director, the other party will perfect the whole according to the script and the shot script. Movie.

William Chen is not too worried about this, because in his plan, he will be the producer of this film, and the director is just a tool for him to complete the film.

Unlike Huaguo, most film crews in Hollywood are director-centered. In Huaguo, the director has the greatest say in a movie, and often the director has the final editing right.

What kind of shots the movie will be presented in the end, and which shots to choose to judge what kind of effect it will be edited into is the final decision of the director alone.

In Hollywood, however, it is mainly a producer-centric system.Most of the directors are only responsible for the filming of the film, and the final editing right belongs to the producer.

Only a very small number of big-name directors can get the final editing rights of the movie, so we can see the director's cut version in many movies.Often these films are initially edited by the producer, but the box office results may not be satisfactory, so the director obtains the editing rights and cuts them into a version he is satisfied with for release.

William Chen's plan is to find a suitable director to shoot for him, and finally he will edit the film so that the final product is as close to the original as possible.

After all, the original version was successful in another world. Chen William would not be blindly confident that he could make this movie better. Rather than doing this, he might as well just copy the original version honestly.

(End of this chapter)