On the morning of the 18th, US time, Jiang Yan landed in New York.
He will stay in the United States for one day and go directly to New Zealand the next day.
His first stop was Wall Street.
Two hours later, Jiang Yan and Xiang Yan appeared in a trading room.
Looking at the long list of numbers on the report, Jiang Yan was very emotional.
When he first crossed over, he couldn't even get 200 yuan out of his pocket. In order to get rid of the pimp landlord, he had to ask Wu Yong to borrow 500 yuan.
A month later, he had tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.
Six months later, he had several hundred million Hong Kong dollars.
By May 1, 1999, Jiang Yan's total capital in the U.S. stock market had reached 100 million U.S. dollars. Including recording accounts, it would be more than 130 million U.S. dollars.
At that time, it was predicted that by the beginning of 2000, the initial calculation of 130 million would roughly reach 780 million.
By September, the total funds had reached 250 million US dollars. Because the growth rate of US Internet stocks would rise sharply after October, it was predicted at that time that the final profit would be between 900 million and 1 billion US dollars.
Later, the follow-up accounts of the "Joey" album, the "freeloop" single, and the accounts of "This Man is from the Earth" poured in one after another. The principal increased greatly again, and the expected profits that followed also skyrocketed again.
Among them, "This Man is from Earth" contributed nearly 40 million US dollars to Jiang Yan.
"The Man" has sold more than 60 million discs so far, with a box office of 23 million.
In the disc part, Jiang Yan has 80% of the share. After excluding various costs, the income from optical discs alone is close to 30 million, and there is also 8 million from the box office. Therefore, in the US stock market, Jiang Yan's total capital is 1.8
About 100 million US dollars, that is to say, in 1999, his income from music, movies and TV shows was about 60 million US dollars.
The money became the principal and was gradually added to the "bubble blowing" game.
It is January 18, 2000, and the Internet bubble will burst in about half a month to a month. It can be said that we are not at the top of the mountain now, but we are only a few steps away from the top.
Jiang Yan's total funds in the US stock market have now reached 1.36 billion US dollars.
According to the exchange rate of RMB against the US dollar in 2000, which was approximately 8.2, that is 11.152 billion RMB!
After 18 months, Jiang Yan officially became a billionaire!
The Internet bubble around 2000 was a very magical large-scale reality show. The products and services brought by new technologies subverted traditional shopping, communication and entertainment methods. Its significance was no less than replacing horse-drawn carriages with cars, and replacing steam with electricity.
It links people who don't know each other, lowers the threshold for information transmission, and at the same time creates a large number of new economy companies and wealthy people with unlimited potential.
Although companies such as Google, Amazon, EBay, and Qualcomm crashed in the bubble, they later climbed back up and played a more important role in the subsequent mobile Internet stage.
Those who paid for this reality show were investors who were lost in "irrational exuberance". Seeing the skyrocketing stocks and the aura of new economy companies, they gradually lost their rationality and turned crazy. No matter how calm people saw this,
The feast will also become greedy and enter this speculative party.
“So, stay vigilant when others are greedy, and become greedy when others are vigilant. When everyone shows greed without a bottom line, you should think carefully about whether you should put your head in ice water.
That’s it.” Jiang Yan sighed with emotion.
Although it is still not at the peak, it is almost there, so Jiang Yan sighed and directly ordered, "Clear the warehouse!"
"clear."
Xiang Yan immediately started to take action.
And the numbers on the computer also started to freeze.
1.36 billion U.S. dollars, this number seems large, but it still cannot make much waves in the U.S. stock market. When converted to the principal, the profit rate is less than 10 times.
In a sense, Jiang Yan is ashamed of his status as a time traveler.
You must know that in 1999 alone, Qualcomm rose 26 times. There were also 12 other stocks that rose more than 10 times. The share price of the network services company Akamai rose four times on the first day. In short, if Jiang Yan was more greedy,
1.36 billion can be doubled three or four times.
But he also knows that this is only theoretical, and many issues must be considered in actual operation.
Just like previous Hong Kong stock operations, taking into account spreads, handling fees, deferred fees and various costs, the actual profitability will definitely not perfectly match expectations.
In addition, political factors must also be taken into consideration. Although Lao America was indeed doing well at this time, Xiang Yan's various procedures had been fully reported, and 1.3 billion was still a small shrimp in the market, but Jiang Yan was a "experienced person" and he knew
The old Americans are dirty, so they have to be on guard at all costs.
Fortunately, the situation was not as bad as he imagined.
So soon, the final figure was fixed at US$1.3625 billion.
In 2000, Jiang Yan left the show early!
The next step is to leave some of it behind to catch this epic ebb tide.
We’ve already done the upswing, so why can’t we do the shorting?
Jiang Yan smiled slightly and left the rest to the North American team, while Jiang Yan, a billionaire, moved to Warner Headquarters.
On the afternoon of the 18th, Jiang Yan and Lao Fan met at Warner Bros.
The negotiations between Lao Fan and New Line have been basically finalized. As expected by Jiang Yan, the US$200 million budget prepared by New Line for "The Lord of the Rings" is completely insufficient.
The total filming time for the "Lord of the Rings" series of movies was just over a year, but Weta Studio, which was responsible for the visual effects, spent seven and a half years preparing.
Not only did they make very detailed divisions into different races, but they also made nearly many props purely by hand.
The props team was so meticulous that they made 250,000 artificial leaves to create a big green tree.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So it has only been more than two months since the filming of the movie started, and the director and producer realized that there was not enough money.
So after a re-audit, including post-production announcements, it was probably still short of US$8,000 to US$100 million, and the total investment in the original "Lord of the Rings" was indeed US$281 million.
This is a huge gap. To be honest, even if it is a big eight in Hollywood, it is difficult to come up with it for a while. After all, movies are a high-risk industry. A movie can make a lot of money, or it can directly lead to bankruptcy.
, so for a film that costs close to 300 million, it is natural to invest cautiously.
At this moment, Lao Fan suddenly appeared waving banknotes, which was a timely blessing for New Line.
However, although the "Lord of the Rings" project is generally not optimistic, such a high investment requires a box office of more than 780 million US dollars to recover the investment, which is too risky.
But in the same way, there are things that are not promising and there are things that are promising, so if New Line wants to raise US$100 million, it is actually only a matter of time.
In the original time and space, they solved this problem in time.
Fortunately, Jiang Yan had a good advantage. Both Warner Henry and Lao Fan knew the boss of New Line. In addition, Jiang Yan's side was rich and easy-going, so the cooperation was quickly finalized.
80 million investment, getting 25% share, seems like a loss, but in fact, according to the unspoken rules of outsider entry, this is already a good number.
This kind of unspoken rule will be very common in the domestic Jinyuan era in the future. For example, someone invested 50 million in a movie directed by a famous director, but the share was calculated as 30 million. Anyone who understands the extra money.
Lao Fan was actually a little hesitant about this investment, not because of the unspoken rules, but because he thought it was because of his words that Jiang Yan would invest so much.
He does think that "The Lord of the Rings" will make money, but he is not 100% sure. After all, who can guarantee the future?
And with just one word from him, Jiang Yan spent 80 million, still in US dollars. This was a heavy trust in him, but it really scared him, and he felt a little sorry for this trust.
Jiang Yan said not to worry, he had money, so he could rest assured.
But how can Lao Fan be completely relieved?
Therefore, he is determined to make New Line and "Lord of the Rings" his second base in the next one or two years. He will personally review the future accounts and cannot let others mess around.
Jiang Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he couldn't stop him, so he just pushed the boat forward and said, Lao Fan, why don't you set up a North American or global distribution company, and you can take over all the works of Stars and Seas in the future.
This can be regarded as a benefit for Lao Fan. Jiang Yan will have many films in the future. Lao Fan can make a lot of money just by taking the intermediate profits from the distribution. If he doesn't want to take the intermediate profits, he can just take the shares.
As for this approach, there is actually a similar figure in Xiangjiang who has become very big. His name is Jiang Zhiqiang or something. He has become the number one boss by distributing Asian movies all over the world.
Jiang Yan feels that if Lao Fan really works hard, he can definitely be better than Jiang Zhiqiang. After all, Lao Fan himself has huge energy, and Jiang Yan's future works will not lack in quality. It can be said that Lao Fan has a higher starting point than Jiang Zhiqiang.
I don't know where to go.
At the same time, Jiang Yan can also get a global distribution channel.
In this way, in the future, Stars and Sea will have theaters in the mainland, as well as stable channels abroad, coupled with the stable output of works, it may be able to be ranked first in Asia.
After thinking about it all night, Lao Fan said to Jiang Yan with dark circles under his eyes: "I know you, I don't know if you are unlucky or lucky. Hey, I say goodbye to my leisure life!"
"Welcome to the sea of stars!" Jiang Yan extended his hand to welcome.
"Bullshit, haven't I already been one? Oh, I was an outsider before?" Lao Fan slapped him away.
"Oh, life has to have a sense of ritual."
"Ritual sense of fart, let me tell you first, you have to guarantee my vacation time, this is sacrosanct!"
"I understand, I will buy an island later and support you in your retirement."
"Boy, I'm only 51! You look down on me so much!"
"Okay, okay, then we'll hire ten or eight more maids."
"...Fuck you...don't give me Southeast Asia, not even Africa..."
"Hahaha..."
The two of them came to Warner's headquarters jokingly.
An hour later, Jiang Yan signed an investment agreement with New Line under the witness of Warner Henry and his lawyer.
The next step is to make money. This is not a big problem, he is now a billionaire!
Two hours later, the matter was settled, and Lao Fan went straight back to sleep without asking a single question about where Jiang Yan got his money.
Jiang Yan stayed and talked with Warner Henry about the music plan for 2000.
On the afternoon of the 19th, Jiang Yan set off for New Zealand, accompanied by a small follower, who was naturally Sissi.