Rebirth of the Evil Life

Of course, Paul Allen is also a famous investor and owns many investment companies.

For example, the famous "DreamWorks" is one of the top ten film development, production and distribution companies in the United States. It is also a video game and TV program production company. In terms of North American box office box office of the films he participated in, 2 of them have exceeded 400 million, and 5 of them have exceeded 300 million. In two decades, more than 30 movies have grossed over 100 million yuan. Classic movies produced by DreamWorks include "How to Get Away with Murder," "The Ring," "Tuxedo," "Vanilla Sky," "Gladiator," "The Haunting of Hell," "The Galaxy" and "Kung Fu Panda."

Lin Feng himself owns the former MGM company and now the 'Aeolus Pictures'. In addition to the shares of 'DreamWorks', this is even worse for the major American film companies.

Of course, it actually doesn’t make much difference to these film companies whether there is a ‘DreamWorks’ or not. Anyway, most film companies and TV drama crews now have to rent space in the Windy City to shoot their films. For this, you must apply to the Windy City Management Office.

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

Tell me, what else do these film companies have to be angry about? Although everyone is a competitor, Lin Feng does not maliciously suppress them. All I can say is that everyone feels that the future is a little bleaker. Fortunately, you just get used to it.

Yes, just get used to it.

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

Of course, Paul Allen is only one of the major shareholders, but he also serves as chairman of the board of directors. When talking about this company, we have to mention one of the stupidest super decisions in the 20th century.

That is, Paul Allen used to be a major shareholder of AOL, but when he wanted to join AOL and become the largest shareholder, he was resisted by the "poison pill plan" of the AOL board of directors. In anger, Paul Allen sold all his AOL stock in 1994.

The result is one can imagine. Later, during the last Internet wave of the 20th century, the market value of AOL's stock peaked at US$164 billion. Calculated based on the stocks that Paul Allen dumped at that time, its market value was almost equivalent to that of Bill Gates.

Unfortunately, Paul Allen sold it out of anger, making the most stupid decision of the 20th century. After that, there was Charter Communications.

Paul Allen was not a man willing to fail. He invested in Charter Communications.

From a low-end Internet service provider, it has grown into one of the three major Internet service providers in the United States.

As for AOL, its glory days are gone. However, when Paul Allen handed over all his shares to Lin Fengzhi, he also made several entrustments.

The first is to annex AOL to repay the hatred they felt back then. You know, Paul Allen was very optimistic about Intent at the beginning and believed that the future of the world lies in Intent, so he wanted to increase his stake in AOL so that it could run according to his will.

Unfortunately, it was rejected. But the management of AOL have no idea what an intent is, and they have no idea how to make money in the Internet era!

As a result, it has fallen from being the largest network provider to the point where it has sold itself out several times. It's so stupid! But unfortunately, these stupid guys, when the stock price rose to its peak, especially when it merged with Time Warner, they ridiculed Paul Allen and ridiculed his short-sightedness.

This made Paul Allen quite angry at the time. That's why he invested huge sums of money into Charter Communications, vowing to surpass AOL. However, now that he has gone to the universe to explore the solar system, the task here is naturally left to Lin Feng to help him fulfill this wish.

Apart from this, Lin Feng stopped looking at other small companies. Anyway, Paul Allen is an investor. He only receives dividends and does not interfere with the company's operations. He is equivalent to a venture capital investor.

However, Paul Allen still had shares in a company, and that was all left to Lin Feng.

Needless to say, everyone in this family knows Paul Allen's origins - one of the two entrepreneurial giants of Microsoft.

Although because of Bill Gates' success in the software industry, he was too arbitrary and could not listen to what others said, and he 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 that Paul Allen left to Lin Feng.

Of course, Microsoft's total share capital is as high as 7.988 billion shares, which is not a lot of shares compared to the total share capital. But he is also the third largest individual shareholder in Microsoft, behind Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates.

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

It's simple, because he was deceived 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, operations and a series of businesses.

As a result, when he founded the company, Paul Allen wanted to propose a 50% equal share agreement, but Bill Gates said that Paul Allen was still receiving a salary from MITS, the manufacturer of Altair, while Bill Gates had no income. , so the proportion is divided into 60% for Bill Gates and 40% for Paul Allen.

After that, Bill Gates, as the company's operator, once again increased his shares to 64%, while Paul Allen's was 36%. After that, Paul Allen left Microsoft because he was suffering from Hodgkin's disease.

However, in 1990, he returned to 'Microsoft'. Unfortunately, by this time, the differences between the two parties were already great. In the end, Paul Allen left Microsoft because at this time, Bill Gates already had Steve Ballmer and no longer needed Paul Allen, a genius whose vision goes beyond the current world for 10 years!

About Microsoft, about Bill Gates, Paul Allen didn't say anything. There was no explanation.

However, Lin Feng understands! (To be continued ~^~)