EXCLUSIVE: The first true bid for the assets of the trouble The Weinstein Company will be a difficult one to beat for any bidders thinking of getting into the fray. It starts with the woman fronting the bid, a Mexican immigrant who served in the Obama cabinet and has built banks and businesses and has four bonafide backers, some in Silicon Valley, ready to pony up $275 million in funds that are at the ready, and will not have to be raised.