Acquisition of MGM?!

Well, Zhuke does have this ambition. After all, MGM's film library has more than 5,000 movies. The copyrights of these movies are not only the foundation of a large company, but also can gain tens of millions of dollars in wealth from the TV stations, DVDs and video tape markets every year. Zhuke cannot be moved.

However, there is no money!

The only little money must be reserved for tax payment at the end of April.

"It seems like I have to find a way to get some money, otherwise even Spider-Man will not be able to shoot it, let alone the film company has grown."

"System, are you still alive?"

“……”

Zhuke couldn't help but be very angry. This damn system is so damn wasteful! Apart from occasionally providing some future information, it is useless and not as useful as a 21st century computer.

The most useless system is you!

The idea of ​​making money is wonderful, but the actual operation is too difficult.

That's right, "Run Lola" is about to be released. It has a good reputation in the original time and space, but it is not a high-box movie. It's okay to use this movie to make Wald Pictures show off, but the box office profits are probably not too much. As for how much profits it will make in the end, Zhu Ke didn't know. After all, it was not the original movie, but the filmed by himself, a rookie director.

It's just too much to expect to make money with it.

"futures?"

"I remember this thing makes money very quickly!"

In an instant, Zhuke thought of futures and couldn't help but think of Soros, the economic tycoon.

In 1992, he sniped the pound and made a profit of US$1 billion in a short period of time; in 1997, he sniped the Thai baht and Hong Kong dollars, which triggered an Asian financial crisis; in 2012, he shorted the yen and made a profit of US$1 billion again.

During the period when Zhu Ke had just graduated in his previous life, he was very obsessed with the so-called wealth myth. He had studied the stock market and read several reports from Soros, and had a relatively simple understanding of him.

However.

Damn, it's 96 years now!

There is more than a year left before the sniping baht in July 1997. Where is Zhuke's current first choice for money?

stock market?!

At this moment, Zhuke thought of the stock market. After all, most of his wealth comes from the stock market. Although it is not as fast as futures, it is not low. In addition, in the late 1990s, it was a period of Internet boom, otherwise where did the bubble come from?

Netscape, Cisco, Comcast, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon...

For a moment, many names of Internet companies popped up in Zhuke's mind.

Netscape Company?

Zhuke eliminated it first!

That's right, Zhuke made his fortune by making a listing with Netscape, but because of this, he didn't dare to buy its stocks.

There is nothing else, I really understand it very much.

Netscape was listed in August 1995, with a stock price of up to $75 on the day of listing, which is extremely brilliant. In the words of the Wall Street Journal: It took General Motors 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 is released and has been fully promoted.

The struggle between Netscape browser and IB browser was later called the "browser war". By December 1997, Netscape's stock price was less than $20 per share, which could be said to have completely lost to Microsoft.

"Buying Netscape now is simply asking for death, but I can short Netscape next year and earn some extra money."

"Cisco's stock price has risen, but the increase this year is not big (after all, the increase from 1998 to 1999 is just amazing). You can consider buying a little, but you won't lose anyway."

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, the market value exceeded US$200 billion and has been in the process of "buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, or acquire, and the stock market has been rising almost all the time, but the increase in 2019 1996 to 2019 is not very large.

Amazon?

Yes, it is a giant company. But man, it was just a company that was founded in 1995 and is now just a cute newbie. It was not listed until 1997.

......

After all the way, Zhu Ke suddenly discovered:

The stock market can make people rich, but as long as you understand it, it is almost impossible to expect to get rich overnight in the stock market this year!

(Cisco, Microsoft's stock price has been rising, that's right, but it's not OK to get rich for a while.)

For a moment, Zhuke's dream of making money in the stock market was shattered!

"Oh my God, why is it so difficult to make money!"

Zhuke almost sighed to the sky.

That night, Zhuke almost didn't sleep. When he woke up early the next morning, he was listless, but he still forced himself to get up.

There is no way, today is early April. The managers and financial officers of SpongeBob House will hold a meeting this morning and report on the recent business situation.

.........

Alice Cafe.

It is a cafe near the Hollywood Chinese Theater, next to Zhuke’s SpongeBob House Main Store, so it becomes a designated meeting place for Zhuke to attend 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. Eliminate various costs such as manpower, water, electricity, property, etc. The main store's pure profit this month was US$70,000." James, the manager of the main store, spoke first.

"Boss, the second store has a net profit of $63,000 this month."

"Three stores made a net profit of US$40,000 this month."

.........

Finally, the net profits of seven SpongeBob stores totaled US$345,000, down eight percentage points from the previous month's US$375,000.

It's down again?

That's right, pure profits have been declining since January.

However, these Zhukes are acceptable. After all, the popularity of "Toy Story" has passed. Moreover, since January, Zhuke has consciously reduced the price of peripheral products to enhance customers' return rate.

In fact, compared with other movie-related chain stores in Los Angeles, Zhuke's SpongeBob SquarePants House is still among the top three in terms of profits from a single store.

Because of Zucker's listlessness today, the meeting ended quickly.

Out of the cafe.

"Zuke, what are you today?" James said curiously after the meeting.

"I don't have money, I'm not happy." Zucker waved his hand.

Upon hearing this, James frowned.

Damn it!

What else are you unhappy about the pure profit of more than 300,000 US dollars a month? Even if the profit may decrease in the next few months, you still say you have no money for the estimated income of 3 million US dollars a year?

Of course, James didn't say this.

After all, the two of them are different now, so the issues they consider are different.

"Jenny, are you really planning to buy Yahoo stocks? It is said that this company is not very good, and you may have to lose money if your investment is done."

"It's okay, I don't plan to sell much anyway."

At this moment, a voice of discussion came into Zhuke's ears.

Yahoo?!
Chapter completed!