Chapter 20: Find a way to make money
Acquisition of MGM? !
Well, Zhu Ke does have this ambitious idea. After all, MGM’s film library has more than 5,000 movies. These film copyrights are not only the heritage of large companies, but also tens of millions of dollars in wealth from the TV stations and DVD and video tape markets every year, and Zhu Ke is not moved.
However, there is no money!
Only a small amount of money, but also set aside a part for tax payment at the end of April.
"It seems that I have to find a way to get some money, otherwise not to mention that the film company grows, even Spider-Man cannot shoot."
"System, are you still alive?"
"..."
Zhuke couldn't help feeling very anxious. This **** system is **** damned! Except occasionally providing a little information about the future, it is useless, and it is not as easy to use as a 21st century computer.
The most useless system is yours!
The idea of making money is wonderful, but the actual operation is too difficult.
Yes, "Lola Run" is about to be released. It has a very good reputation in the original time and space, but it is not a high-grossing movie in itself. It's okay to use this movie to make Wald Pictures show off, but the profit at the box office is not expected to be too much. As for the final profit, Zhu Ke has no idea. After all, it is not the original film, but the rookie director himself.
expecting to use it to make a fortune, that is simply too much.
"Futures?"
"I remember this thing came in very quickly!"
In an instant, Zhuke thought of futures, and he couldn't help thinking of Soros, an economic crocodile.
In 1992, he sniped the British pound and made a short-term profit of 1 billion US dollars; in 1997, he sniped the Thai baht and the Hong Kong dollar, which triggered the Asian financial turmoil; in 2012, he shorted the Japanese yen and once again made a profit of 1 billion US dollars.
Zhuke was very obsessed with the so-called wealth myth when he just graduated in his previous life. He has studied the stock market and read several Soros reports, and he has a relatively simple understanding of it.
However.
Nima, it's 96 years now!
It’s more than a year since the sniping of the baht in July 1997. Where is Zucker’s first choice for making money?
The stock market? !
At this moment, Zhu Ke thought of the stock market. After all, most of his net worth comes from the stock market, and although it does not come as fast as futures, it is not low. In addition, in the late 1990s, this was the period of the Internet blowout. Otherwise, where did the bubble come from?
Netscape, Cisco, Comcast, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon...
Suddenly, many Internet company names popped up in Zhu Ke's mind.
Netscape?
Zhuke eliminated it first!
Yes, Zhu Ke relied on the listing of Netscape, but because of this, he dared not buy its stock.
Without him, I really know it too well.
Netscape went public in August 1995, and its stock price reached as high as $75 on the day of its listing, which is extremely brilliant. In the words of The Wall Street Journal: It took GM 43 years to reach a market value of $2.7 billion, while Netscape took "about 1 minute."
However, it is prosperous and declining.
Microsoft's IE browser came out and promoted in an all-round way.
The struggle between Netscape browser and IE browser was later called the "browser war". By December 1997, Netscape's stock price was less than $20 per share, which can be said to be a complete loss to Microsoft. .
"Buying Netscape now is simply looking for death, but you can short Netscape next year and make some extra money."
"Cisco's stock price has risen, but this year's increase is not big (after all, the increase in 1998-99 is amazing), you can consider buying a little, anyway, you will not lose."
Apple?
Forget it, before Jobs returned in 1997, Apple was still the rotten apple, half dead;
Comcast?
It is the second largest Internet provider in the United States. By 2020, it has a market value of over 200 billion U.S. dollars. It has been in the process of "buying, buying, buying". It is either acquiring this company or acquiring that company. The stock market has almost been rising, but The increase in 1996-97 was not very large.
Amazon?
Yes, it is a giant company. But dude, it was just a company that was established in 1995, and now it's just a little cute, it didn't go public until 1997.
......
After calculating all the way, Zhu Ke surprisingly found:
The stock market can make people rich, but as far as I know, it is almost impossible to expect to get rich overnight in the stock market this year!
(The stock prices of Cisco and Microsoft have been rising. That’s right, but it’s not enough to get rich for a while.)
For a while, Zhu Ke’s dream of making a fortune in the stock market was broken!
"Gosh, how can it be so hard to make money!"
Zhuke almost sighed up to the sky.
Zhuke barely slept this night. When I woke up early the next morning, my whole body was listless, but he still resisted getting up.
No way, today is the beginning of April. The store managers and finance of SpongeBob SquarePants House will have a meeting this morning and report on the recent business situation.
...
Alice Cafe.
It is a coffee shop located near the Chinese Theater in Hollywood, next to Zhuke’s SpongeBob Squarepants store, so it has become Zhuke’s designated meeting place at the end of each month.
save money!
"Boss, thanks to the popularity of "Toy Story", even if it is released, our peripheral products are still selling well. After eliminating various costs of manpower, water and electricity, and property, the head office’s net profit this month "For 70,000 US dollars" head store manager James spoke first.
"Boss, the net profit of the second store this month is 63,000 US dollars. UU看书www.uukanshu.com"
"The net profit of the three stores this month is 40,000 US dollars."
...
Finally, the net profit of the seven SpongeBob stores totaled 345,000 US dollars. Compared with the same period last month, it was US$375,000, a decrease of eight percentage points.
dropped again?
Yes, pure profit has been declining since January.
But these Zhuke are acceptable, after all, the heat of "Toy Story" has passed. Moreover, since January, Zhu Ke has also consciously reduced the prices of peripheral products in order to increase the customer's return rate.
In fact, compared with other film chains in Los Angeles, Zucker’s SpongeBob Squarepants House is still among the top three in terms of the profitability of a single store.
Because of Zhuke's listlessness today, the meeting ended soon.
Out of the coffee shop.
"Zuke, what are you doing today?" James curiously asked after the meeting.
"No money, not happy." Zhu Ke waved his hand.
Hearing this, James frowned.
Fuck!
With a net profit of more than three hundred thousand dollars a month, what are you unhappy about? Even if the profit may decrease in the next few months, but it is estimated that the income of 3 million US dollars in a year, you still have no money? !
Of course, James didn't say this.
After all, the two are at different levels now, and they are considering different issues.
"Jenny, are you really planning to buy Yahoo stock? It is said that this company is not very good, and you may lose money if you invest."
"It's okay, I don't plan to sell much anyway."
At this moment, Zhuke's ears were heard by a burst of discussion.
Yahoo? !
In an instant, Zhuke was agitated.
