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Chapter 167 - Chapter 167

The valuation of Cisco's new round of financing was finally confirmed as US $120 million. We invested US $18 million to acquire 15% of the company's shares. In addition, quantum link, a small company, recently just wants to operate independently without the cooperation with apple. After negotiation, we invested $5 million to obtain 25% of the shares of the company. At the same time, I got the priority of quantum link's next round of financing. Next is... "

James Leibold recently negotiated equity investments in five companies.

However, Simon only cares about two of them.

It is needless to say that Cisco, which had a market value of more than 600 billion US dollars in the wave of new technology in the late 1990s, has long been targeted by Simon.

Even if it will be diluted in the next many years, even if only 10% is left, at the top of Cisco's share price, the value of this share will reach $60 billion, with a return rate of more than 3000 times.

What's more, Simon will not be satisfied with the current shareholding ratio, and will continue to increase his shareholding next.

Another quantum link was found after Simon's careful search.

Quantum is transliterated as "quantum" in Chinese and originally means "quantum" in English. Therefore, many science and technology enterprises like to use the word quantum. As for quantum link, the company is still unknown, but it became a household name, AOL.

Simon's deepest memory is the collapse of AOL after the merger with Time Warner around the new millennium. At the peak of

, after the merger, AOL Time Warner has a total market capitalization of more than $300 billion, but only a few years later, with the breakdown of the Internet bubble, the market value of the US online fell by more than 90%, and Time Warner was also badly hurt.

, however, before the dotcom bubble burst, AOL is definitely a very worthwhile investment company. What's more, when you think about AOL's peak market value of more than $160 billion at its peak, it's just a price that you can't afford.

If you take the equity of these two companies, the investment of the other three companies is worth losing.

"As for the Qualcomm company in San Diego, they have no financing plan at present, but the other side also said that if they have such intention, they will contact us. Simon, the total amount of these five investments is $65 million, but there is only $28.55 million left on the books of Westeros. If you are sure there is no problem, we may need to make a loan. "

To cash out Motorola's more than 300 million US dollars, in addition to part of the tax reserve, Simon spent more than half of his shares in Microsoft and other companies. He also spent a lot of money to buy the series copyrights such as the Lord of the rings, as well as the expenses of the two buildings in Manhattan.

Now there are 28.55 million left, which is more than that.

Thinking about it from the bottom of his heart, Simon remembered the Gulfstream IV Business plane he had ordered. The price of the bare machine was $16 million, and the decoration cost was about $18 million.Simon just paid a part of the deposit at the beginning, and the plane will be delivered next month, which just allows Simon to fly to Europe to attend the Cannes Film Festival in France. But Simon also needs to pay the rest of the balance, which is another expense.

The budget of Manhattan building, the investment budget of five technology companies, and the budget of private aircraft, but these three items need about $100 million.

Simon is unlikely to sell his stake in Westeros. Because of the nature of Westeros, it is very difficult to issue bonds to the public. So loans are basically Simon's only option.

Although he doesn't like to borrow money in essence, Simon also knows that borrowing money is necessary for his career to expand rapidly.

Moreover, compared with Simon's current wealth, only danilisi film's loan, his personal debt ratio is less than 10%, which is absolutely very low among the rich people, and the bank is certainly willing to lend him money.

After a careful discussion with James Leibold, Simon made a decision to continue lending $100 million.

After dealing with personal financial problems, April is coming to an end unconsciously.

After two weeks of continuous release, "when Harry meets Sally" grossed more than $70 million in North American box office, which was the top 10 in North American box office last year. Although the box office in a single week has fallen to less than $8 million, with the continuous release of the film, "when Harry meets Sally", there is no doubt that the local box office will exceed $100 million.

The selection of the leading actor of Batman has been going on all the time, which inevitably becomes the focus of the media. The five-film contract and the 15 year contract period make many people think that Simon westero is crazy. The contract was also called "Hollywood's slavery contract" by a newspaper.

No matter how the outside world commented, danielis pictures didn't mean to give way, and still pushed forward its plan step by step.

Meanwhile, Simon is also planning to move the two special effects software companies to Los Angeles.

The wave front technologies company in San Francisco is relatively easy to run. Americans have no habit of moving back to their homes. The mode of moving to trigger plots in Hollywood movies and TV plays is rampant.

Simon chose an office building in Santa Monica, and most of the staff moved quickly. Toronto's alias research company has some problems, because it is a Canadian company, involving overseas labor problems, but it will basically solve them in the next one or two months.

It's about the set.

Simon can see that Amy is obviously looking forward to him buying the MGM set in Culver City, because in the past, when Simon wanted to spend a lot of money on some projects, Amy would always persuade him, but this time he didn't.

But after careful consideration, Simon decided to put it off.

He didn't really feel much about the MGM set. Even, compared with Fox's Century City studio, Paramount's Hollywood studio and universal and Warner's studio in Burbank, the MGM studio in Culver City is just a real estate, and its value-added potential is not too great.

Moreover, Simon is also looking forward to building a new shooting base.

So busy, in May, Simon's Gulfstream IV Business plane was successfully delivered, and the Cannes Film Festival also came.