Vol 5 Chapter 1118: plan

Feng Yiping didn't know that his successful acquisition of Marvel would make a strong man like Eisner feel such a serious heroic desolation.

If he knew it, he would sympathize for a while.

Eisner’s contribution to the market value of Disney from 2 billion US dollars when it took over to 40 billion US dollars today is indeed indispensable.

However, from another perspective, one drink and one peck are determined by the predecessor.

Eisner's slightly embarrassing and indecent way of stepping down has a lot to do with him personally. He could have done better.

He no longer looked down on Jobs, but he forgot the biggest difference between himself and Jobs. Even if Jobs was expelled from Apple by Sculley, he still had a title, "Apple founder".

And Eisner himself, even if there are many people, regard him as Disney's "king", he can never forget one thing, he, the king, was actually hired.

When a "king" tends to become a "tyrant", the "national", that is, the general meeting of shareholders, will naturally want to oust him.

Michael Eisner, and his generation of American elites, highly agree with a company with only one boss. This is actually a manifestation of America's advocacy of individualism.

In the period of rapid development of the company, there is no problem, but the moon is full of clouds, ups and downs, and naturally there are lows. When it seems, these once seemed to be magical, relying on personal ability to make the company explosive growth "Superman", his magic is no longer, when the company's development is at a low ebb, some of the problems that were previously covered up by the rapid development will slowly emerge.

Especially because of the arbitrary dictatorship of these "supermen", the shortage of senior management talents.

A qualified king, whether willing or unwilling, they all know that their last and most important task is to train their successors, hoping that after they end their rule, the kingdom can transition smoothly.

It can be said that a king who does not handle the issue of successors is not a good king.

However, Eisner, who has been accustomed to the dictatorship for a long time, or is somewhat in love with the stack, has intentionally or unconsciously failed to pay attention to this issue, and this is something that the general meeting of shareholders cannot tolerate.

In the end, he was relieved of his rights by the shareholders who had invited him from Paramount-quite ironically, it took a lot of effort.

This process, for a while, people in the United States have also enjoyed it very much.

The process of getting Eisner to agree to early retirement is really a Hollywood blockbuster.

In order to achieve this goal, the shareholders have used all means. The Disney family initiated the largest shareholder voting in the history of American business. It also followed the US presidential campaign and opened the website of savedisney. This has to be said. Another ironic thing is that Eisner, who never paid much attention to the Internet, finally suffered a big loss on the Internet.

In short, the key to this matter is that as a professional manager, Eisner has not coordinated the relationship with the shareholder meeting, and as a professional manager, he should have understood the importance of this.

So, is Eisner's current situation worthy of sympathy? Yes it is.

Does he take the blame? In fact, it makes sense.

Before developing his own business in the United States, Feng Yiping had a profound analysis of this problem. Therefore, at the beginning of his career in the United States, the professional managers he looked for, whether it was Mike at the beginning or Buchanan later, Cummins is now positioning them to focus on execution. As for decision-making, not only does it not delegate power, but it also rarely allows them to participate in opinions.

One of the main reasons is naturally because his decision is undoubtedly correct.

Another reason is that these professional managers who don’t want to hire themselves say that their current success is due to "teamwork". In fact, in their hearts, personal heroism is already emerging, and they feel that the company has the current achievements. Mainly because of their contributions, the result is like Eisner, wanting to be king.

Instead of such a situation, he would rather they all adore himself.

Therefore, after the acquisition of Coin Star, although Merbach was still responsible for all the business, through a series of plans that have been prepared to boost the development of Coin Star’s business, he successfully established his own in the Coin Star. Authority.

From the perspective of Merbach's personality, he has no desire to challenge his authority, but if he does, he will find that such an effort is destined to be futile.

As for Netflix, Hastings is indeed a thorn, and a strong man like Eisner, but a series of things that happened during the acquisition process successfully reduced his founder’s prestige in the company. Astoria was in the position, he was expelled, which can be said to be the expectation of the entire company.

Although Randolph was transferred to yutube in the end, Hastings was still in charge of Netflix. Although it didn't seem to have changed, in fact, it was all right.

After yutube and Netflix merge in the future, Feng Yiping will definitely let yutube take the lead.

Even let Netflix take the lead, Hastings did not challenge Feng Yiping's soil.

After watching the "blockbuster" of Disney's power struggle this time, he agreed that he would join his own Marvel once approved by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In terms of management, he had some new ideas, or rather plan.

From this short-term contact, Palmat is really not a good person to work with.

He is very busy at this time, and he has some expectations.

Just now, he met with representatives of the companies hired for this merger, such as law firms and investment banks, and held a brief celebration. Now he will meet with Marvel executives.

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Zhou Ning and her film crew were still immersed in the shock caused by the news announced at the press conference just now. No wonder Feng Yiping was so busy on the voyage when he came. It turned out that this was another US$2.3 billion. , Equivalent to renminbi, the same major merger and acquisition of nearly 20 billion.

Coupled with Ali, who just completed the merger and acquisition a few days ago, Feng Yiping spent nearly 5 billion U.S. dollars on mergers and acquisitions in less than a week, and nearly 40 billion yuan—she didn’t care about Marvel’s The money has not actually been spent yet. She believes that domestic audiences will not be too serious about this.

Anyway, according to the views of both parties, the US Securities and Exchange Commission will definitely approve this transaction, and it is likely to be within a month.

This is another M&A that Feng Yiping initiated in the United States after a lapse of one year. Zhou Ning knows that most of the domestic audience should not analyze such a merger. The benefits of the development of the company, or to interpret the context of Feng Yiping’s future development.

Just like the original Feng Yiping, after learning that Lenovo had acquired ibm and Geely had acquired Volvo, he would not care about the commercial significance of such an acquisition, and simply felt a little proud.

The people in China, as long as they know that Feng Yiping has acquired another American company, and it is still a well-known film company in Hollywood, they will also feel a little proud of it.

I only heard that foreign capital has acquired one well-known company in China. Now, it is finally our turn to acquire their well-known company. Haha, this is good, Feng Yiping, good!

Zhou Ning and the film crew are all beaming at this time. It seems that they are happier than Feng Yiping and the others. There is no way, this time in the United States, we took such material. Then, about Feng Yiping's The ratings of the second phase of the program are guaranteed.

In any case, it will not be worse than the first issue. As media people, they know the preferences of the domestic people.

"Immediately make a short film and send it back to China for Director Li to use for publicity," Zhou Ning whispered to Jin Cheng.

"You are right," Jin Cheng pulled one person away and whispered a few words. Soon, the two of them hurried away with the previously filmed film.

Together with the technical team staying in the hotel, they will produce a trailer.

Propaganda in place is also a very effective means to increase ratings.

"You said, Feng always foresaw a series of major events in the future when he suggested to the station that we shoot a program like this?" Jin Cheng asked in a low voice.

Zhou Ning thought for a while, "Some, he was definitely certain at the time, such as the merger with Ali, which was obviously planned long ago, but other things, including making the now-seeing and far-reaching decision in the film and television base , And later the leadership interviews and support from the province to the national level, as well as the current merger and acquisition, most of which are not in his plan."

"Really?" Jin Cheng whispered, "President Feng is notoriously far-sighted."

Hearing what he said, Zhou Ning, who originally thought his analysis was very reasonable, couldn't help but waver. Yeah, how could he try to figure out Feng Yiping from his own perspective?

"Huh, what is that?" She asked, looking at the two groups of people who were meeting over there.

And their cameras have faithfully recorded this scene.

At this time, Palmat, who was also standing behind a group of people, handed a big box to Feng Yiping with a smile, "Feng, this is a gift we specially prepared for you,"

Feng Yiping smiled and looked at him and the group of people behind him, "Palmat, why do I think it must be a bad thing if you smile at me like this?"

He found that some people behind Palmat obviously agreed with his analysis.

Palmat seemed to have not heard Feng Yiping's words, "Come on, why not open it now?"

Feng Yiping feels that this is mostly a pit, but in the United States, such a request is really difficult to refuse. Moreover, Palmat has already started.

Together with Palmat, he untied the ribbon on the big box, and then, in the curious eyes of the people on his side, and the expectant eyes of Marvel, he opened the box.

Immediately, laughter rang.

Inside, it was a model of the "Invisible Woman" in the large Fantastic Four.

The craftsmanship is really good, it looks like a reduced version of Alba, and it's still the one that wears tights and has a more prominent S curve.

These guys!

Feng Yiping immediately closed the box, "I actually prefer the X-Men,"

Yes, after the acquisition of Marvel, there will be an additional business in his business, the toy business.

When Palmat first entered Marvel, he merged his toy company ty\\biz into Marvel. Like Disney, Marvel has made money in this area in recent years.

And because whether it’s Sony’s Spider-Man or Fox’s X-Men, what they bought from Marvel is just the production copyright of the movie, and these peripheral copyrights, including the models, are still in Marvel’s hands, so their The more the movies sell, the more they sell these peripherals.

He turned his head and said to a person behind him. Immediately, Zhou Ning and the others saw that a beautiful Hispanic woman hurried over with a notebook in her hand, "Feng, let us ask you, do you like those Marvel characters?"

Is this for everyone to pick gifts? Oh, this is an unexpected benefit.

Feng Yiping heard the laughter from the camera crew and nodded towards them.

Palmat has already started to introduce Feng Yiping to his Marvel executives~www.wuxiaspot.com~This is the head of our film department, Kevin Fitch,"

"Nice to meet you, Feng,"

"Hello Fitch," Feng Yiping held the hairline almost to the top of his head. He was afraid that he would be inseparable from the hand of a person with a hat in the future, and patted him on the shoulder a few times.

According to the information provided by Cummins, this Kevin will play an important role in Feng Yiping's plan.

"This is Dan Barkley, our president of publishing."

"Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada,"

"Comic writer Brian Michael Bendis..."

Following Palmat’s introduction, the people in Feng Yiping’s plan appeared in front of him one by one.

All of a sudden, both them and the camera crew over there were all smiling.