Chapter 400: Identity Exposed!
After eating, Yang Mi waited for her assistant to bring her clothes, washed up and left.
It was not until she returned to the company that she realized that the ruthless man who plucked birds did not even leave her a mobile phone number. Fortunately, she added WeChat before playing games last night, otherwise she really felt like she was being taken advantage of.
Zeng Jia asked Yang Mi about the financing situation. After learning that the other party had no intention of doing so, she sighed for a long time, but could only accept it.
Of course, they still did not forget what they should do.
Just when the fans of Yang Mi and Li Qin were fighting online for the "role interception" incident, Jiaxing Media, as the "victim", suddenly issued an explanation announcement, stating that they had not received any role invitations from the beginning, so there was no such thing as "being intercepted".
By the way, they also apologized for the recent impact on Li Qin and Arclight Films.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Mi's personal studio official blog and the "Assassination of Novelist" crew forwarded this announcement, advising fans to calm down and not listen to the rumors of marketing accounts without evidence.
This announcement was written very sincerely, and anyone can see that its subtext is to tell those fans who have been attacking everywhere recently -
the characters are originally theirs, and we can't afford to offend Arclight, so you should stop making trouble and stop causing trouble for the company and the real owner.
On the contrary, the other party to the incident, Li Qin and Arclight Film and Television, have always been very cold and have not said a word to the outside world from beginning to end, as if they don't care about this matter at all.
Faced with Jiaxing Media's "admitting defeat" announcement, Li Qin's fans are naturally victorious and happy, but Yang Mi's fans are like a bolt from the blue.
The ministers are about to fight to the death, why did His Majesty surrender first?
The fans were already dissatisfied with Jiaxing, and this wave was like adding fuel to the fire, and their anger immediately broke out.
[Jiaxing Media, do you still have a little heart? We Mimi have worked hard for the company, making money and helping people, and now we are bullied, but you are soft first? ]
[I am really convinced, is there something wrong with Jiaxing! I have never heard of the person whose role was taken away apologize to the other party. 】
【Jiaxing will be destroyed if it is unjust! Jiaxing will close down today! 】
【Uh, a new fan asks, is Arclight Films much more powerful than Jiaxing Media in the circle? So the company dare not mess with them. 】
【This... it is definitely powerful, but it should not be much more powerful. 】
【Archlight is really good at filming dramas, but I haven't heard much about other aspects. Many people in the fan circle say that they are "an enhanced version of Noon Sunshine". Maybe Jiaxing hopes to cooperate in the future, so they gave in. 】
【……】
Except for the big fans and station sisters who make a living from this, the core fans who play in the fan circle are generally young, and most of them are students in their teens, 16s, 17s and 18s.
They are very familiar with controlling comments, brushing topics, and rushing data. They are also familiar with major charts and high-end endorsements. They are also well-informed about the status of celebrities, relationships in the circle, and gossip.
But when it comes to a deeper level, such as capital cooperation between film and television companies, representatives of various forces, etc., most of them are not so concerned, and they often just repeat what others say when they occasionally chat about it.
Anyway, the resources that the main owner can get are "top teams and conscience in the industry." What they can't get is "third-line small productions" and not worth filming.
Therefore, for Arclight Film and Television, they only know that it is a "film and television production company with many hits", and as for the part hidden under the surface, it is unknown.
In fact, this is also because Meng Bai has always pursued a low-key operating strategy. After all, he does not need to brag about marketing in order to raise the valuation for financing, but it is better to make money in a low-key manner.
It's just that this policy of making a fortune in silence can no longer be covered up after the previous "ratings fraud" incident. Now in the entire film and television industry, no one does not know Arclight Film and Television and its inherent strength.
The only thing Meng Bai is glad about is that at least outsiders don't know yet.
However, he forgot one thing, that is, compared with previous years, the expansion speed of his business scale this year is not ordinary. Under this situation, his plan to hide behind the scenes has long been "collapsed".
Just when Yang Mi's fans were still discussing what position Arclight Film and Television had in the circle, a piece of fresh news directly blocked everyone's mouth.
At the end of November, Hurun and Forbes successively released the 2018 global wealth list.
The world's richest man continued to be Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon, while in China, Tencent's Xiao Ma Ge defeated Alibaba with a $1.5 billion advantage and became the new richest man in China.
But the most concerned ones are Huang Zheng, the boss of Pinduoduo, and Zhang Yiming, the head of ByteDance.
Both of them are on the list for the first time, one with $14.5 billion and the other with $13.8 billion, surpassing a number of old bosses such as SF Express Wang Wei, Xiaomi Lei Jun, and Baidu Li Yanhong, and directly airborne in the top 20 in China.
However, for most netizens who eat melons, although this matter has been discussed a lot, it is nothing surprising.
As early as when Pinduoduo went public, everyone was sure that Huang Zheng would definitely rank high, the only difference was the specific ranking. The
same is true for Zhang Yiming. Although ByteDance has not been listed, its valuation has exceeded US$70 billion and it is called "the world's first super unicorn company."
However, despite this, there is at least a traceable reason for their inclusion on the list, and everyone can accept it.
What really shocked everyone was a name in the lower half.
[No. 1281 in the world (No. 162 in China), Meng Bai, $1.8 billion (RMB 12.5 billion), cultural and entertainment industry, 28 years old.]
Like Huang Zheng and Zhang Yiming, Meng Bai's name was also placed in a separate list of "first-time list" and was seen by many people.
With assets of $1.8 billion, he is naturally a top boss in reality, but on this list, he can only be regarded as "ordinary". What
really makes people feel eye-catching is the name "Meng Bai" - because of the various hot events in the entertainment industry in the past six months, many people have also remembered this mysterious boss behind Arc Light Film and Television - the other is his age of "28 years old".
You know, Huang Zheng and Zhang Yiming are 39 and 36 respectively, which is incredible among a group of old men in their 50s and 60s. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, this number was marked as "two".
[Fuck! Is this true! Is this Meng Bai the boss of Arclight Film and Television? 】
【Of course he is. The industry type is also written as "culture and entertainment". There can't be another film and television company with the same name. 】
【That's not right. How can his film and television company be so valuable? 】
【Looking at the notes of the list, his assets are mainly invested in Pinduoduo, followed by a company called "Apocalypse Entertainment". Arclight seems to be not included in the statistics. 】
【Damn it, my mentality exploded! He is a 28-year-old industry leader. I am also 28 years old. Recently, I have been struggling whether to spend an extra 200 yuan a month on rent to live closer to the company so that I can sleep more. 】
【Young people don't have to worry about not having money. When you reach the age of 40 like me, you will get used to it. 】
【It should be said that this guy should be the richest "post-90s", right? 】
【That's not the case. The same age as him are Hugh Grovena, the seventh Duke of Westminster in the UK, with assets of 115 billion; the Collison brothers who founded the American Stripe online payment, each with 120 billion. There are also Evan Spiegel, who founded the self-destructing Snapchat, and Ludwig Braun, the heir of B. Braun Medical. There are many young people. 】
【Indeed, I looked at the youngest on the list, who is only 22 years old, with assets of 1.2 billion US dollars, but it was inherited. If we only count domestic people, then Meng Bai is indeed the youngest among the rich. 】
【Oh my God, there are so many rich people in the world, why can't there be one more of me! 】
【……】
According to the rules set by the Hurun and Forbes lists, only the rich with assets of more than 1 billion US dollars will be on the list, and there are probably more than 2,000 people in total.
In fact, to be honest, for most netizens around the world who are just looking for fun, this kind of "rich list" and the like will not have many people paying attention to it, let alone 2,000 people, even if it is the 20th.
So in previous years, the most people would do is to see who the richest man is and have more topics to talk about during meals.
As the saying goes, no one will pay attention to the second, unless you are Yue Lun or Qomolangma.
But this year is different. Although Meng Bai is not the richest man, because his industry type is the film and television industry that the public is very familiar with, coupled with his particularly eye-catching age, he has become an absolute hot topic for a while.
On Weibo, the term #孟白90后首富# directly rushed to the top of the hot search, and the popularity was even higher than the list itself.
The discussion about him has also completely broken the circle and become the latest hot topic. Various self-media marketing accounts followed up and began to dig into his career development history and asset map.
In this case, Meng Bai's various identities that have been concealed for a long time can no longer be concealed, and they are exposed one by one by netizens.
The founder of Arclight Film and Television, a giant in the film and television industry, a partner of many capitals such as Tencent, Huace, Guangxian, and Ruyi, a major shareholder of the first-line brokerage company Taiyang Chuanhe, an angel round investor of Pinduoduo, a representative of the top film and television industry alliance, and a genius creator of more than a dozen hit dramas and popular movies...
Before this, many people doubted whether he was really worth that much. But when the industries were listed one by one, everyone found that the list even counted him less.
At the very least, Meng Bai's core Arclight Film and Television was definitely not counted.
However, this also solved the doubts of many people, that is, why the bulk of Meng Bai's assets are in Pinduoduo's shares, but the industry type was arranged for him in the "culture and entertainment" industry.
For people in the film and television industry, everyone finally understood where the huge funds behind Arclight Film and Television's continuous expansion this year came from.
I thought they had capital before, but now I find that they are capital.
By the way, Meng Bai's identity as a "big boss in the circle" has also been completely confirmed. A net worth of 12.5 billion may be considered average in other circles, but in the film and television industry, it is definitely the "top 1".
If you don't believe it, take a look at the list. Besides Meng Bai, the only other film and television industry practitioner on the list is Wang Changtian from Light Media, but he is only worth 9.8 billion.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Meng Bai's assets alone are even equivalent to an entire film and television company. Just like Huace Film and Television, which has cooperated with Arc Light for a long time, after experiencing the film and television winter, its total market value is only 10.5 billion.
It can only be said that the film and television industry is too small, and any Internet capital coming in will be a dimensionality reduction attack.
(End of this chapter)
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