Chapter 172 Make More Friends

Early in the morning, Mia Marceau, who had just returned from exercising outside, took a sip of ice water.

Because I drank too quickly, I almost choked and coughed twice.

She looked at the spacious and luxurious first floor. There were only two maids cleaning the super large living room.

He looked at the artistic clock hanging on the wall and couldn't help but roll his eyes.

It was nearly ten o'clock, and Sophie would usually be up long ago.

It's so late today, it must have something to do with that bastard American.

He thought of something and his expression changed slightly.

"Mrs. Marceau, breakfast is ready."

At this time, three maids in charge of the kitchen and dining room came over.

"Well, I'll go call Sophie. What time is it now..."

Mia Marceau, who had just stepped onto the stairs, suddenly thought of something and held back her complaints.

How could we forget that bastard American?

Looking at the five maids around her, Mia Marceau sighed inwardly.

Every time she thought about how her daughter got pregnant by that American bastard and didn't have to get married and take responsibility, she got furious.

Of course, she also knew that Sophie was already alienated from marriage.

This stems from the fact that when Sophie was nine years old, Mia divorced her truck driver husband who liked to abuse her.

Because her husband favored boys over girls, her son followed her husband and her daughter followed Mia.

The last name Marceau is not Sophie's biological father's, but Mia's own last name.

Fortunately, that bastard American will not marry Sophie.

He did everything else flawlessly, so that even I, who disliked him, could not come up with a reason to ask my daughter to completely cut off contact with him.

The conditions around me and everything I have enjoyed these days.

Mia knew very well that even if her daughter was the most famous female star in France.

Sophie didn't have the money to pay these people's wages, so she couldn't enjoy these things at all.

The money Sophie earned was just enough for mother and daughter to live a good life in France.

Not to mention, when Mia came to the United States, she got a check that was enough for her to buy a luxurious villa in Paris.

Thinking of this, Mia felt much better.

At least she is enjoying these now and getting the checks.

Even her husband, who has been divorced from her for twenty years, can’t enjoy it!

Of course, Mia knew that too.

It is very difficult to make Sophie, who is so independent, listen to her mother. As a mother, she knows her daughter's temper better than anyone else.

“Pada, pada…”

While Mia Marceau was thinking about something, Sophie, wearing a silk nightgown with a big belly and slippers, walked down the stairs lazily, holding the handrail.

"Good morning, Mom."

"It's still early. It's almost ten o'clock now."

She rolled her eyes at her daughter, hurried forward to support the staggering Sophie, and whispered, "Why are you up so late? Did you let him do anything wrong?"

Sophie glanced at her mother and replied speechlessly, "No, Mom, I know what I'm doing. Just don't worry about it. Don't always target him..."

Mia Marceau glanced up the stairs, not paying attention to Sophie's words, and asked casually, "Where's that little bastard? Hasn't he gotten up yet?"

Sophie rolled her eyes, her cheeks, which had become rounder due to pregnancy, were very rosy. Milo had just coaxed her into giving her a bath in the bedroom, and to be honest, she was a little too lazy to move.

"He's taking a shower. He'll be down soon. Let's eat first. We don't need to wait for him."

Sophie walked into the restaurant and saw the large glass of fresh white milk on the table. She seemed to have thought of something and said to the maid beside her, "Give me a glass of strawberry juice. No milk today..."

After a while.

"Good morning, Mia, you look good." Milo, wearing a white T-shirt and shorts, sat next to Sophie with a sunny smile on his face and greeted Mia Marceau.

"Yeah, morning."

Mia Marceau glanced at Milo, responded, and then ignored him, eating breakfast and reading the newspaper.

Milo shrugged indifferently, took the breakfast handed to him by Sophie with a funny expression on her face, drank a big sip of milk first, then picked up the beef that had been cut by Sophie with a fork and put it directly into his mouth.

Milo asked casually as he saw Sophie reading the newspaper while eating breakfast.

"What's the news today?"

"Your film company is going public."

"Um?"

"See for yourself."

Sophie Marceau handed Milo a copy of The Wall Street Journal.

After coming to the United States and getting pregnant with an American's child.

Sophie Marceau has been trying hard to integrate into life here.

This includes improving spoken English, adapting to local customs and habits, and paying attention to all aspects of news in the United States.

But generally speaking, Sophie Marceau prefers to read entertainment newspapers and gossip news more.

First of all, these are good-looking, and the reporters and editors who write about them are very good at catching the eye.

Secondly, every woman is gossipy, so it’s natural for her to like gossip news.

Thirdly, she is a Hollywood actress after all.

Reading these newspapers means you are concerned about industry news.

She rarely reads professional newspapers like The Wall Street Journal, which focus on current affairs and finance.

But today is an exception.

The newspaper was originally intended for Milo.

But Sophie just happened to see the front-page headline.

It's not only about Milo, but also about the entertainment company.

So she looked at it first.

[When will Paladin & MCA Media Group go public? ! ]

Milo took it and looked at it, and saw the news headline printed in large English fonts on the front page.

Milo said nothing and watched while eating his steak.

At the beginning of the news, The Wall Street Journal listed a list.

The list includes all the controllers of American media groups.

In addition to him, the list also includes Murdoch of News Corporation, Redstone of Viacom, Hearst of Hearst Media, and so on.

The Wall Street Journal then changed the topic and specifically listed these people.

Milo is thirty-one years younger than the youngest one...

After specifically pointing this out, The Wall Street Journal began to introduce Paladin & TBS & MCA Media Group.

The Wall Street Journal puts Paladin Media's value at around $3 billion.

Mainly the film companies and newspaper groups are valuable.

Then there's TBS, which is worth about $9 billion.

It was originally worth 7 billion US dollars, but Milo has been in charge for more than half a year.

With the launch of the variety show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and the latest TV series "Shameless House".

TBS has greatly expanded into the entertainment field which they were not originally good at.

In addition, they are among the top three in the United States in the field of journalism.

So the value suddenly increased by 2 billion US dollars.

Finally, there is the MCA Group that Milo just acquired.

The Wall Street Journal puts the valuation at around $11.1 billion.

On how Milo got it.

The Wall Street Journal didn't give much of an introduction.

They directly said that the combined market value of Milo's three media companies exceeded 24 billion US dollars.

The coverage is extremely wide, ranging from wireless TV to cable TV to movies, to TV city and so on.

The Wall Street Journal speculates that Milo Blackburn has been integrating them for months.

But no matter how they adjust, they are still three companies that are not under the control of each other.

The Wall Street Journal believes that Milo will eventually merge them.

However, since both MCA and TBS are listed companies, Milo controls 80% and 55% of the shares respectively.

Originally, he only owned 50% of TBS, but during this period, he increased his stake to 55% through investments and acquisitions in the primary market.

So if a merger occurs, Milo will most likely re-list the new company.

Otherwise, he would have to spend more than 10 billion US dollars to buy all the shares held by other shareholders of these two companies.

Then delist.

This is obviously unnecessary and the probability is very low.

The probability of reintegration and re-listing is higher.

By then, the market value of the new company that is re-listed after the integration will most likely exceed 30 billion US dollars.

At present, even News Corporation cannot match the market value of Milo's new company.

Only Disney, which merged with ABC and has a current market value of $40 billion, is larger than it.

The Wall Street Journal concluded.

Once Milo's media group goes public, it will rank second among the media giants in the United States.

Of course, this refers to market capitalization rather than size.

In terms of scale, Wellcome and News Corporation are actually not much different.

After reading it, Milo put the newspaper down.

Sophie Marceau, who was drinking strawberry juice, looked at him and said, "Are you really going to list it? Will it really be worth that much money after it's listed?"

Looking up at her, Milo smiled and said, "I do have this idea. As for how much it is worth…"

Yes, Milo did think about integrating the three companies and re-listing them.

The reason for going public is simple.

Distribution of benefits.

Even though he used it for less than a year and a half.

From that dissolute playboy to where he is now.

It seems that there were no dangers along the way.

However, in reality, since Netscape went public.

As he controls many potential Internet stars, his life will no longer be as peaceful as before.

If his last name wasn't Blackburn.

If his grandfather hadn't been a former president.

If he wasn't from the Boston consortium.

Then he might have died in the second month after Netscape went public.

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Or just hand over the shares in your hands and become an ordinary rich man.

Although those people were impressed by his status as the heir of the Blackburn family.

No brutal action was taken.

But they are not dead men, and they will not sit idly by and watch him monopolize the benefits.

He knew that the shooting of Milo in Beverly Hills last year was a warning from someone at the time.

But they did a good job.

FBl and local police investigated and finally found Robert Downey Jr.

This is the guy who said he was looking for someone to shoot Milo.

By the time they found out, the guy had already died in the bathtub for more than a week.

The shooting was therefore left unresolved.

And Milo feels that although Robert Downey Jr. is a drug addict.

But it's definitely not completely brainless.

He dared to hire someone to shoot him, so he must have done some research on his background.

After all, I dared to beat him up at the Disney party.

And then Disney defended itself.

And other details are hard to check, but Milo has a father who is a congressman, and a grandfather who was the Elephant Party Whip and Speaker of the House of Representatives.

This matter is not difficult to check, even ordinary people can find it if they are interested.

There are not many people with the last name Blackburn in the United States, and even fewer in Boston.

There is no way that Donny the drug addict could not be found.

The drug lord was found and he still had the guts to hire someone to shoot Milo, so there must be someone behind this guy.

Or being instigated or bewitched by others.

It’s just that those people did it very cleanly and didn’t leave any traces.

And Milo was very high at the time.

The entire family of five of the gunman who shot him was killed that night.

The poisonous insect also fell to death that night.

When he calmed down afterwards, he had cut off the clues himself.

Of course, there is another possibility.

That's because he was addicted to drugs. In fact, there was no one behind the scenes. It was Robert Downey Jr. who got the job done on his own.

Anyway, it was that incident that brought Milo back to his senses.

He truly realized.

This is the United States. Even Roosevelt, who held military power, died suddenly in the White House.

Even Kennedy, the most powerful man after World War II, could come up with such wild ideas.

Since then, he has behaved in a somewhat neurotic and reckless manner.

This is the protective color he gave himself.

A kind of personality that says, if you dare to mess with me, I will fight you to the death.

Fortunately, along the way, he was able to rely on his strong family background and his marriage to Rockefeller.

The most important thing is, I don’t know whether it is really God’s blessing or just a simple cheat.

He finally stood next to the chessboard and could play chess with those people as a new player.

But again, distribution of benefits, distribution of benefits is very important.

Just like the views of Mr. Zi Ren, whom he has always admired, on military affairs and struggle.

Fight if you can win, run away if you can’t, and accumulate strength to continue fighting.

Make more friends and fewer enemies.

Together with many friends, we besiege a few enemies.

Milo previously shared in the benefits of the Internet, and now wants to take the media group public.

This is exactly what he does if he wants to make more friends.

He is not worried about power falling into the wrong hands, because listed companies can have AB shares.

The first company in the United States to use this tactic was Ford Motor Company, which went public on January 17, 1956.

In the media industry, Redstone's CBS and Viacom Group also use the AB stock model.

That old guy actually only holds less than 15% of the shares of these two companies.

But with his 15% stake, he has 70% of the voting rights in Wellcome and CBS Group.

All Internet companies that went public in the future will use this tactic.

So after acquiring MCA, he wanted to integrate the three companies and re-list them.

Milo spent so much time in New York last month mainly dealing with this matter.

And the Wall Street Journal must have smelled something.

As the most authoritative newspaper in the financial field, they jumped out and started talking about this matter.

In fact, this cannot be guessed. The listed industry giants in the United States or even the world have basically experienced this kind of thing.

“It should be worth tens of billions of dollars by then.”

It seems long when written down, but in reality Milo only thought about it for a second or two.

Milo smiled and said to Sophie Marceau: "The initial listing should be around 35 billion US dollars. I am confident that it will exceed 50 billion US dollars in a year. By the new century, I think 100 billion US dollars will be the minimum."

"One hundred billion dollars!"

Mia Sophie, whose English is very mediocre, was shocked, “Oh my God, that’s how much money!”

My mother-in-law had never been to the United States, and as soon as she arrived, she received the best care from Sophie's team.

She had never spent a penny, so she had no idea about the dollar.

"One dollar can be exchanged for eight francs." Sophie Marceau said softly.

Although the release date of the euro has been determined, it has not actually come out yet.

France is still using the French franc.

Although in the 1980s, the exchange rate between the US dollar and the new franc once reached 1 to 10.

But after more than ten years of development, the exchange rate of the new franc has still increased slightly.

"One dollar equals eight francs, so one hundred billion dollars is eight hundred billion new francs?!"

Mia was shocked.

At this time, Milo smiled and said to his French mother-in-law: "Mia, I heard from Sophie that you are a fan of Lyon Football Club?"

Mia was stunned for a moment, then nodded, "Yes. Milo, you also know Lyon. As far as I know, your America is a football desert."

"I didn't know about it originally, but a manager in charge of commercial sports told me that he wanted to acquire some teams in Europe to expand the group's influence."

Milo smiled and said, "The list he sent over includes your favorite Lyon Football Club. The list shows that if you want to buy this club, it will cost about $100 million."

Sophie Marceau seemed to have a telepathic connection with Milo, and she smiled and said, "That is to say, after your company goes public, its value will be equivalent to a thousand Lyon clubs."

"Smart, give me a kiss."

Milo laughed, pulled Sophie over and kissed her on the lips.

"Hey, it's all grease and it smells like beef! So disgusting!"

Sophie giggled and pushed him, but both of them were very careful not to get pregnant.

Mia didn't pay much attention to her daughter and son-in-law's affectionate behavior.

Still in shock, she couldn't help but pick up the Wall Street Journal.

Only now did Mia Marceau realize it for the first time.

This bastard American got his daughter pregnant.

How rich is he?

Even though she had already learned from her daughter that he was the tenth richest person in the world.

But that was a bit far away, and now we know that it is a listed company.

Probably worth a thousand of her favorite football clubs.

That's one of the top three football clubs in France, with countless fans! This really shocked Mia Marceau.

After all, people cannot understand things beyond their own understanding.

Many times, a comparison object is needed to make people understand.

Looking at Milo who was teasing his daughter and deliberately sliding his greasy lips across her face.

Mia no longer had any resentment in her heart.

She thought that her daughter would not be at a loss if she followed a man like him, even if they did not get married.

Now Mia actually hopes that her daughter can tie this man down tightly.

Sorry, something happened. I've been dealing with it all afternoon and evening, and I have to go out later.

My wife's elder sister was married for the second time, and she cheated again. When my wife found out, she advised her to return to her family and live a good life, but her elder sister scolded my wife for her lover, which made my wife so angry that she started fighting. Then she called the police... It's so painful, now it's a big deal.

(End of this chapter)