Vol 2 Chapter 6566: Biggest gift

Of course, Paul Allen is also a well-known investor with many investment companies.

For example, the famous "DreamWorks", a top ten film processing, production and distribution company in the United States. It is also a TV game and TV program production company. In terms of North American box office, 2 of the films involved in the production or distribution have exceeded 400 million and 5 have exceeded 300 million. In two decades, more than 30 movies have exceeded 100 million. The classic movies produced by DreamWorks include "Get Out of the Law", "The Midnight Bell", "Tuxedo", "Vanilla Sky", "Gladiator", "Ghost Invasion", "Breaking the Milky Way", "Kung Fu Panda" and so on.

Lin Feng himself owns what used to be MGM, and today's "Fengshen Pictures", this counts as the shares of "DreamWorks", which is even worse for the major film companies in the United States.

Of course, whether there is a ‘Dream Factory’ or not, for these film companies, it’s actually not that big of a difference. Anyway, nowadays, most film companies and TV crews are looking for rental places in "Wind City" for filming. For this, you must apply to the "Wind City" management office.

To put it simply, you just have to look at Lin Feng's face. In addition, half of the movie screens in the United States are also under Ellison's control. In other words, from filming to filming, you basically have to look at Lin Feng's face and act.

You said, these film companies are so angry. Although everyone is a competitor, Lin Feng did not maliciously suppress it. It can only be said that everyone feels that the future is a little bit bleaker. Fortunately, just get used to it.

Yes, all habits are just fine.

This includes the American Charter-Communications company, whose Chinese name is Chartered Communications Company, whose main business is to provide network services to the American people.

Of course, Paul Allen is only one of the major shareholders, but he is also the chairman of the board. When it comes to this company, one has to mention the most stupid super decision of the 20th century.

That is, Paul Allen was once a major shareholder of AOL, but when he wanted to support AOL and become the largest shareholder, he was boycotted by the AOL board of directors' "poison pill plan". In a fit of anger, Paul Allen sold all AOL stock in his hands in 1994.

The result can be imagined. Then, under the last Internet wave of the 20th century, the market value of AOL stocks peaked at $164 billion. Calculated by the stocks that Paul Allen dumped at the time, its market value was almost equivalent to a Bill Gates.

It's a pity that Paul Allen sold it in a fit of anger, making the most stupid decision of the 20th century. After that, there was Chartered Communications.

Paul Allen is not a person willing to fail. He injected capital into Chartered Communications, and grew from a low-end Internet service provider to one of the three largest Internet service providers in the United States today.

As for AOL, it's no longer good. However, when Paul Allen handed over all his shares to Lin Feng, he also confessed several entrustments.

The first is to annex AOL to repay the hatred in the heart. You know, Paul Allen was very optimistic about intents, thinking that the future of the world was intents, so he wanted to bless America Online's shares so that it could operate according to his will.

auzw.com Unfortunately, it was rejected. But the management of AOL didn't know what an intent was, and didn't know how to make money in the Internet age!

As a result, it has fallen from the once largest online provider to the point where it sells itself for several times. It's so stupid! However, these stupid guys, when the stock price rose to its peak, especially when it merged with Time Warner, they mocked Paul Allen and ridiculed his shortsightedness.

At that time, Paul Allen was no less angry. That's why he spent huge sums of money in chartered communications companies and vowed to surpass AOL. However, now that he has gone to the universe and explored the solar system, the task inside was naturally handed over to Lin Feng to help him fulfill this wish.

Except for this, Lin Feng didn't visit other small companies. Anyway, Paul Allen is an investor, just taking dividends, and will not interfere with the operation of the company, equivalent to a venture capital.

But Paul Allen still has a company's stock, which is all left to Lin Feng.

This family, needless to say, everyone knows Paul Allen's background-one of the two giants of Microsoft entrepreneurship.

Although because of Bill Gates' success in the software industry, he was too arbitrary, unable to listen to people's words, and did not believe Paul Allen's judgment on the Internet, which led to the two eventually parting ways. But Paul Allen never sold his shares of ‘Microsoft’.

320 million shares! This is the greatest wealth Paul Allen left to Lin Feng.

Of course, Microsoft's total share capital is as high as 7.988 billion shares, which is not much compared to the total share capital. But it is also the third largest individual shareholder of Microsoft, second only to Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.

As for why Paul Allen, as one of the founders of'Microsoft', holds far fewer shares than Bill Gates, who has been selling shares of'Microsoft', and Steve Ball, who later joined silent?

Very simple, because he was fooled by Bill Gates. When the two founded Microsoft at the same time, Paul Allen was responsible for technology, and Bill Gates was responsible for the company's management, sales, and operations.

As a result, when the company was founded, Paul Allen wanted to propose a 50% share agreement, but Bill Gates said Paul Allen was still getting a salary from Altair manufacturer MITS, and Bill Gates had no income. , So the proportion is allocated to Bill Gates 60%, Paul Allen is 40%.

After that, Bill Gates, as the company's operator, once again increased the shares, reaching 64%, and Paul Allen was 36%. After that, because Paul Allen suffered from Hodgkin's disease, he left ‘Microsoft’.

However, in 1990, I once returned to ‘Microsoft’, but unfortunately at this time, the differences between the two sides were already very big. In the end, Paul Allen left ‘Microsoft’, because at this time, Bill Gates already had Steve Ballmer, and he no longer needed Paul Allen, a genius with a vision beyond the world for 10 years!

About ‘Microsoft’, about Bill Gates, Paul Allen didn’t say anything. There is no explanation.

However, Lin Feng understands! (To be continued.)