Chapter 40: Future IPs

The new year of 1993 came with the promise of better days for most people. Sunny woke up and found himself under the arms of two beautiful blondes. One was Alicia and another was her cousin who had just come to celebrate 'New Year' with her.

"Well, it was a nice celebration." Chuckling Sunny moved the beautiful hands away before heading inside the showers.

The minute he locked the doors, the blondes opened their sleepy eyes.

"He is really a monster in bed, Ali!" Her cousin, Marianne said while trying to pull herself up.

"I told you. He is fit. Loves to exercise and all those muscles aren't just for show." Alicia replied and without any care, got off the bed and poured herself some warm water.

Her cousin also joined her, and she went back to talking in small whispers and laughing suddenly.

"Good morning, ladies. It was a great night. Merry, would you still be with us later?" Coming out of the washroom and having a towel wrapped around his waist, Sunny found the two girls up and talking.

"Well, for a few days. Ali and I need to check in with this music school. I have been admitted to a local school here. Let's see If I can do something with my music." Merry said and Sunny noticed the strange look Alicia was giving him.

"Well, you are welcome to stay as long as you want. Ali also needs a break, but I hope, Ali will be back after a week to the office." Sunny spoke while wearing his clothes.

"Aye Aye Captain!" Alicia replied and saluted him in a fake manner.

Sunny was just amused by her theatrics and left his apartment after getting a kiss from both the sisters. Alicia was not gay or bi, but she had no problem sharing her treats with her cousin or friends.

Something, Sunny found very early after Christmas.

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"Kenny, what do you think?" Sunny was having his first meeting with Kenneth in New Year and the topic of discussion was Marvel.

"Frankly, I feel we are wasting money on betting on this brand. What we need is to produce more and more films rather than spending money on this kind of operation." Kenneth spoke after carefully thinking about the value of Marvel.

"Why? Don't you think there is a market for Marvel Superheroes?" Sunny asked worriedly. Sunny had no idea about the present condition of Marvel, and he had been thinking about copyrights of future movies and TV shows these days.

Ever since Christmas with Alicia, the idea of hoarding future IPs had taken root inside him.

"Marvel has no value except.... maybe for animated TV shows. You have to know that Ronald Perelman, will never sell Marvel. It's his personal money-making machine.

Besides, there is another guy on the board of directors, Isaac Perlmutter. He is a major shareholder, and he also owns a Toy factory. Currently, they are planning to shoot some animated cartoons for kids to increase toy sales.

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No matter how bad their condition is, they won't sell Marvel. If Perelman even thinks about selling Marvel, Perlmutter would jump to buy his shares. If not, then other shareholders will jump to do the same.

Don't think Marvel is losing money or in some trouble. They can simply sell any comic character to raise money. Bottom line, until Marvel goes bankrupt, you can't buy it whole.

Or, if you are really desperate, you will have to spend like 600-700 million to buy it. Perelman made more than 500 million last year by selling Marvel shares. So, his shares plus shares from all other shareholders, it won't be any less than 600 million."

"600 million!" Sunny was shocked listening to the price. If he had 600 million, he would rather buy Apple or invest in all future software companies than buy Marvel! Besides, his total net worth is not more than 300 million.

"Fuck! I thought they are going to be bankrupt or something. Forget it. Kenneth, just do one thing. Maybe we can't buy marvel, but can you try to find out if they are ready to sell any characters? Just find out about this. I believe we can make a lot of profit from their IP." Sunny controlling his frustration asked Kenneth.

"Sure. But where are we going with this? Are you planning to start production on any marvel character? You know their history, right?" Kenneth tried to understand what pushed Sunny suddenly that he became interested in a comic book company.

"I am just trying to plan for the future Kenneth. Just like novels and story books, I think these comics have a lot of potential that can be tapped." Sunny replied honestly.

"Well, that does make sense. You should contact the legal guys first. They hear the whispers first in the IP market before anyone ever speaks about them." Kenneth left the office with the golden advice and Sunny did call the legal team about IPs.

In the next hour, Sunny sent five guys from the legal team on an IP selection trip and told them to check novels, books and screenplays that are on market and could be picked up at a cheap price.

Sunny knew his energy is limited and letting these guys fish in the market would also provide a better cover story in case people question his studio hoarding so many good IPs in future.

While the work was in full swing in LA, it was almost dead in Silicon Valley. The boys partied hard at Christmas and went back to Finland for New Year. The entire place was closed, and Sunny was checking the future upgrades the team was working on.

They had registered the website - 'codex.com' which is their homepage after a user launches the Rocket browser. So, open the rocket browser and now it directs to a new improved homepage - CODEX, where one can search for information or check out the listed directories.

There was also local and international news that one can read in different tabs. This was through a signed deal with Associated Press and Reuters. Two of the global News Giants in the USA enriched the content they had on their homepage.

However, Sunny read all the possible upgrades listed this year and he found, that the boys had no idea about launching a new service. He was dying for an online mail like Gmail or Yahoo mail or basically his search option to become something like Google, but he realised, this team was too young and had a tunnel vision on the browser.

He needed new people to head the team and people, who can attract other talents to come and develop their Rover Net further.

Also, thinking about IPs and website domain, he decided to make a team to register hundreds of domain names that he might be able to sell for a big buck in future.

Thinking all this, Sunny decided to call the only guy he knew who could help him in that case.

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