After the failure of the movie, Stan Lee felt that he could still discuss with the America First Foundation. After all, he was Stan Lee, the person who understood Marvel the most. Even if the movie failed, the America First Foundation wouldn't do anything to him.
But what Stan Lee didn't expect was that Harry Potter didn't hesitate to give him two options.
The first option was that Stan Lee would still be the editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, but the president would be replaced by the America First Foundation.
In this way, Stan Lee would lose most of the control of the company and only have the control of Marvel Comics. As for Marvel Movies and other series of derivative products and IP, Stan Lee would lose control.
The advantage was that the America First Foundation could give Stan Lee a 20-year buffer for the debts caused by the failure of the movie. Stan Lee would find a way to pay back the money within 20 years.
Well, Stan Lee would be dying after 20 years and there would be no need to pay back the money. This was basically eliminating Stan Lee's debt.
The second option was that Stan Lee had to pay back the money within three months. Otherwise, all of Stan Lee's shares in the company would be frozen and liquidated. He would be removed from the board of directors and lose all of his positions in the company until he paid back the money.
Harry Potter's intention was very obvious. He wanted to use this opportunity to oust Stan Lee from his position as the company's president and make him obediently take charge of Marvel's comics!
When he first took over Marvel, the America First Foundation didn't know anything and had nothing, so they could only use Stan Lee as a chess piece to control Marvel.
As five years passed, the America First Foundation had inserted many chess pieces into Marvel. Many editors were eyeing Stan Lee's position. Their salaries were cheaper and they were obedient, so Stan Lee was no longer needed as the president.
But the problem was that Stan Lee had a high position in the company. If Stan Lee was forcibly removed, there would be a huge fluctuation in Marvel. Moreover, Stan Lee had a lot of shares in Marvel, which would also increase unnecessary trouble.
Therefore, the first choice was what the America First Foundation wanted to see, and it was also what they thought was the best. Stan Lee could keep his position as editor-in-chief, keep his shares, and get rid of his debts. He could continue to stay in the company with dignity.
As for the second choice, it was a complete indiscriminate destruction. No normal person would choose that.
But unexpectedly, Stan Lee exploded. He angrily said that he would never accept the humiliation of the first choice. So, Stan Lee decisively chose the second path. He threw all his shares to the America First Foundation and left.
Harry Potter really didn't expect this because Boss Jia only asked him to take away some of Stan Lee's power. He didn't mean to drive Stan Lee out of the company.
So, Harry Potter immediately called Boss Jia to ask for instructions. After Boss Jia received the call, he pondered for a while and then directly said, "Marvel is Marvel, not Stan Lee's Marvel. Since Stan Lee left, then he should be kicked out. Don't let him come back! At the same time, Marvel needs to be cleaned up. We need to completely remove Stan Lee's influence. "
Therefore, after Stan Lee left, there was a big purge in Marvel. All the people who spoke up for Stan Lee were directly kicked out of the company. In a short time, about one-third of Marvel's people were gone. All traces of Stan Lee in Marvel were completely removed. Even everything related to Stan Lee was thrown out. It was as if Marvel never had a president like Stan Lee.
But because of this, Marvel couldn't help but enter a state of complete silence. For the next few years, Marvel seemed to have become transparent. Aside from releasing comics every month, there were no other actions. Many people in the industry couldn't help but sigh. Marvel was dead. This once giant comic book company no longer existed.
But on the other side, Stan Lee was very prosperous. He quickly established the Stan Lee Entertainment Group, which was named after himself. Then, he announced that he would enter the entertainment industry such as comics and movies. At the same time, Stan Lee also announced that he would launch the world's first webcomic magazine to deal with the wave of the Internet in the future.
In an interview, Stan Lee also pointed out that with the continuous development of the Internet in the future, the traditional paper media would decline. The future of comics was on the Internet. In the future, everyone would be able to read comics through a PC. The webcomic magazine would completely overturn the traditional paper media empire. And he would become the founder of the new empire!
Because at this time, the United States was at the peak of the Internet economic development. All kinds of Internet concept stocks soared to an unimaginable level.
For example, 51Search, because in October last year, 51Search announced a new mechanism of paid advertising and bidding ranking.
According to the report released by 51Search, they would first have a row of advertising columns on the right side of the search page. Clicking on the advertising column would lead you to the advertising-oriented website, achieving the purpose of attracting traffic to the website!
As for the bidding ranking, it was even more simple and crude. 51Search no longer determined the final search ranking purely based on the number of hits on the website, but adjusted the ranking based on the payment of the target website.
As long as you were willing to pay, then a newly created website would directly appear at the top of the relevant keyword search.
And 90% of the world's netizens, when using 51Search, would directly click on the first website that appeared without hesitation. At the same time, they firmly believed that this website was the most popular and the most authoritative website in the entire Internet world. It was very trustworthy.
Of course, these two reports were not announced in the news media, but were vaguely mentioned in the report to the shareholders. After all, this kind of thing was really a bit unkind.
No matter how vague it was, in the eyes of the shareholders, it was a great benefit.
Especially after the related new system was implemented for a few months, the page advertising and bidding ranking brought in a huge amount of advertising revenue of more than 100 million USD in just three months. After 51Search successfully achieved a profit of 1 million USD in the first quarter, the entire 51Search stock went completely crazy.
Now, 51Search's share price exceeded 170 USD, and the total market value exceeded 170 billion USD. The people who sold their shares for a few USD when 51Search was listed regretted it so much that their intestines were about to explode.
The popularity of 51Search's stock further promoted the entire Internet technology concept stock section shares. After Stan Lee announced that he was going to set up a webzine, he was immediately pursued by the capital of the United States. It was said that dozens of funds had expressed their willingness to invest tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of USD in Stan Lee's company. Many employees who had left Marvel also went to Stan Lee. For a while, Stan Lee, who had left Marvel, was doing very well. It was a sharp contrast to the miserable Marvel!
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