Chapter 889 Financing; Ye Ning

“At noon today, Alibaba issued a long announcement:

First: the group has now obtained absolute controlling interest in Youku and will continue to repurchase Youku’s original shares from the remaining shareholders;”

Second: Youku will officially start the delisting process from now on; it plans to delist from the New York Stock Exchange within six months and completely complete privatization;

Third: Mr. Gu Yongqiang, the former chairman of Youku, will continue to serve as chairman of Youku temporarily until Youku completes the privatization process before making other appointments. "

“According to people familiar with the matter, Alibaba’s aggressive acquisition of Youku totaled nearly 30 billion yuan, and was paid entirely in cash!”

"Since yesterday, Alibaba's big entertainment plan has taken a big step forward and is approaching perfection; Alibaba Pictures and Youku will form a strong complement in terms of functions..."

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I have to admit that the news that Alibaba has completely swallowed Youku is undoubtedly a big earthquake and storm for the entire film and television industry, entertainment industry, and entertainment industry.

This means that Alibaba, one of the leading Internet companies, has further "controlled" the film, television, entertainment and culture industry, and its influence has once again increased dramatically.

Because Youku, a video website, accounts for more than one-third of the market share! It is one of the important broadcasting platforms for works in the film and television industry and is a port!

The major film and television companies in the industry all became anxious because of Ali's announcement. The reason is that it has a direct interest in himself.

In the past, Alibaba Pictures could only be said to be a strong competitor backed by an Internet parent company;

Now that Alibaba has taken over Youku, it has become one of everyone's "buyers" to a certain extent. Who can guarantee that its subsidiary Alibaba Pictures will not "fake the power of the tiger"?

Because whether it is a TV series or a movie, it must be logged on the Internet broadcast platform! If Alibaba Pictures wants to invest in your high-quality film and television project, how should you respond?

At 7:30 in the evening, Lin Nan drove out again; and this time, he took Liu Yifei with him and drove Liu Yifei's car.

At a high-end restaurant not far from the light, Wang Changtian, Ye Ning, and Wang Wei were already waiting here.

In the only small banquet hall on the 16th floor, Wang Changtian had already poured himself champagne before the food was served.

"Alibaba spent 28 billion to obtain absolute controlling rights. It is conservatively estimated that they hold more than two-thirds of the shares, or even 80%;

In the past two years, they have successively acquired no less than 40% of Youku's shares! By comparison, after Potato goes on the market, our market value cannot be less than 60 billion..."

The more Wang Changtian talked, the more excited he became. Guangguang was working hard to get back to 20 billion; but Tudou could easily be valued at this much! The types of companies are different, it’s really incomparable!

"It's a bit early to say this. After all, Youku is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and we are going to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange."

Ye Ning said calmly, even frowning slightly.

It should have been a happy thing, but his mood was not like this, and the reason came from within Wanda. He just wants some shares...

Hearing Ye Ning's words, Wang Changtian did not refute, nodded and then talked about something else:

“We have to learn from Youku’s mistakes. The founder of Gu Gu has now directly become ‘continue to serve as interim chairman’;

This is the weakness of unicorn companies. Firstly, they have been established for a short period of time and have a weak foundation; secondly, the ownership structure is too dispersed and is not good! Mr. Wang, are you sure the potatoes are fine? "

Of course Wang Wei understood what Wang Changtian was asking. He smiled and nodded:

“Don’t worry, Mr. Wang, although the Hong Kong stock market currently does not allow companies with dual-class share structures to be listed, a small number of large companies can negotiate, and Tudou is one of them!

Earlier, I had led people to negotiate with them; Director Lin knew about this situation, otherwise he would not have kept emphasizing this matter. "

"That's good!"

Wang Changtian still had a smile on his face, just as he joked in front of Lin Nan a long time ago, saying that he might have to rely on potatoes for retirement in the future; because there are many giants in the film and television industry, competition is very difficult, but there are only a few video websites. Such two or three giants!

"Oh, by the way, I heard that Wanda has been crazy about shopping abroad recently. It seems that they have all been bought in Hollywood? Mr. Ye, is this true or false?"

Logically speaking, Ye Ning should not answer such a secret no matter how it is spread outside, but at this moment he nodded mysteriously:

"It should be soon, just in the next two or three months. Wanda will enter Hollywood and be bigger than Crystal Pictures."

Wang Changtian paused and realized that he had asked too much, "Then I wish Wanda success."

While several people were talking, the hotel foreman outside had already brought Lin Nan and Liu Yifei in.

"It seems that you are all more active than me? Hahaha..."

"Oh, Yifei is here too. This is the first time I've seen her."

Wang Changtian said with a smile. The first time he was referring to was when several people were discussing the financing and listing of Tudou, the first time he saw Lin Nan and Liu Yifei coming together.

"I'm following Lin Nan just in time to have a meal. Director Wang, Mr. Ye, Mr. Wang, good evening." Liu Yifei greeted the three of them in turn.

"Director Wang, now?"

"It's time to serve."

"Okay, Director Wang."

The hotel foreman was obviously familiar with Wang Changtian, and he left immediately after receiving the answer.

Lin Nan took Liu Yifei and sat down. At this moment, everyone was here.

The reason why Lin Nan brought Liu Yifei here today is because Tudou is really going to start raising funds and launch a listing plan! And Liu Yifei owns half of what he has.

The waiter eagerly added tea for the few people, and then left.

No one talked about business until a team of waiters came in with a dining cart and served a table of more than 30 dishes. After everyone left, Wang Wei spoke.

"Director Lin, according to the plan, we can release the financing announcement to the public."

"After the financing announcement is released, there will definitely be a lot of people who come to make plans." Wang Changtian added.

"Well-known capital, including finance, Internet, and banking, should all be there!" Ye Ning affirmed.

Lin Nan silently helped Liu Yifei pick up the dishes, and after a few seconds, he joked:

"No matter how many people are making plans, we still have to decide?

The earliest will be the 18th, which is the day after tomorrow. By then, I will have flown to the crew, and basically no one can harass me."

"The day after tomorrow? Good!"

In an instant, Wang Wei and Wang Changtian said in unison, quite excited. Ye Ning just smiled and nodded.

"Boss Ye, are you worried?"

Lin Nan noticed and asked immediately.

"Nothing, just some problems at work, it's a small matter.

By the way, does Yifei want to be a director of Tudou? Director Lin has so many shares."

Ye Ning changed the subject and talked about Liu Yifei.

"Me? Forget it, I'm tired of being a Red Star Wu."

Liu Yifei smiled and shook her head, decisively rejecting the proposal, but she was very happy in her heart, which was written on her face.

"There is another thing, how many rounds of financing do we have to do in the end, and then submit an IPO?" Wang Changtian glanced at Lin Nan.

It stands to reason that Tudou's strength is enough, and the financing link does not need money, but more allies and business networks.

"Let's finish the first round first, and then talk about it later. But there will definitely be no third round!"

Lin Nan replied. Based on Lin Nan Pictures, Light Media and Wanda, plus Tudou, this is already a closed loop;

The next thing to do is how to make this "loop" bigger! For new entrants, they must be strictly selected, not everyone can come in.

"Okay, we can do this. To be frank, potatoes are in great demand now! Haha..."

The purpose of today's dinner is not to talk about business, because it only takes a few minutes to talk about business; the real purpose of this dinner is to celebrate, to celebrate the official launch of the listing journey of potatoes!

At around nine o'clock in the evening, everyone dispersed. Lin Nan and Liu Yifei left the earliest. The former drank, so the latter drove.

"Did Director Lin not sign a pre-marriage agreement?"

Wang Wei looked at the sports car going away and whispered to Wang Changtian next to him.

"Well, they didn't sign it." At this moment, Wang Changtian smiled very simply, as if he had seen something beautiful.

"That's really enviable." Wang Wei was a little emotional, so courageous!

At about half past nine, Ye Ning left alone. He had not touched the wine just now.

While waiting for the red light, Maybach made a phone call.

"Hello?" A question came from the other side, and a smile could be heard faintly.

"Mr. Wang, is there no note for me?"

"Mr. Ye is joking. I just didn't see it clearly just now. I'm out socializing and have a few drinks."

The call paused for a second, and Wang Zhonglei took the initiative to ask:

"Mr. Ye, you called me so late, is it..."

"I want to confirm again whether the conditions promised to me by Huayi have changed."

For a moment, Wang Zhonglei's breathing was a little rapid. Although Ye Ning had told him before that he would work at Wanda from beginning to end and finish a year... But this was no different from perfunctory, just dragging it out and waiting for the price to rise, but at this moment...

"It has never changed, it will only be more! How about Mr. Ye come over for a drink now? Not in our club anymore, there are too many people here, let's go to another place?"

Wang Zhonglei asked cautiously, looking forward to it.

There was silence on both ends of the phone again, with only the sound of wind blowing into the car.

After a long time, Ye Ning's voice sounded: "Okay, give me the address."

"Okay! I'll wait for Mr. Ye..."

After the phone was hung up, Ye Ning's breath in his heart also dissipated, a little weak. He held the steering wheel and gritted his teeth: "That's it."

On the other side, Wang Zhonglei happily left the club and stood at the door waiting for the driver to drive over.

At the same time, he also made a phone call.

"Brother, please come out for a while. Ye Ning's matter has been completely settled! He is on the way and will be at the old place in a while."

"Okay, I'll go out now."

Hearing this good news, Wang Zhongjun immediately responded. This is the mainstay and capable person of Wanda in the film and television industry!

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Ferrari drove into the villa and drove directly to the garage.

"Hurry up and take a shower. You have to get up early to go to school tomorrow." Liu Yifei looked through the unread messages on her mobile phone and said to Lin Nan.

"Are you all scheduled to meet tomorrow?"

"Yeah, everyone finally has a chance to get together. By the way, I should be with the acting department, and you will go to the directing department?"

Liu Yifei looked through the chat records in the group. Everyone was talking about the red carpet. Some people have already inquired about the process arrangement.

"It should be. I have to sign in tomorrow, just like when I was in school. Hehe..."

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