Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1430

Many business tycoons have multiple companies under their names, like Li Chaoren, who once indirectly or directly controlled 22 listed companies, with a wide range of businesses, which can be called the world's largest.

For Zhou Buqi, although it may be necessary to divide his energy into four parts to manage the four companies of Ziweixing, Ziweixing International, Ziweixing Global and Ziweixing Digital Media, in fact, only Ziweixing is the one who really wants him to focus on the business. global.

For other companies, just point to a direction and let others do it.

Needless to say, Ziweixing and Ziweixing International, in the past few years, Zhou Buqi has already built the foundation.Ziweixing digital media is actually very simple.

First of all, Ziweixing Digital Media is almost a monopoly company.

It's not that Zhou Buqi wants to monopolize, it's that others can't do what they want.Even if some companies in Europe think this direction is good and want to rush in to get a piece of the pie, they don't have the strength.

Finding the entry point of the official website agency business is equivalent to finding a fundamental business for Ziweixing Digital Media.Even if other businesses are not going well, as long as they become the largest agent of European football official website, they can make a profit of no less than 5 million pounds per year.

For Internet companies, if they want to become giants, they must first have a monopoly-level core business. Google relies on search, Amazon relies on e-commerce, and Yahoo relies on portals. Official website agency business of MSI cloud computing platform.

The annual profit of 5 million pounds is of course incomparable with giants such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook, but as long as the core business is captured, it can also become a small giant with a market value of 150 billion to 200 billion pounds.

In addition, the business of Ziweixing Digital Media is relatively simpler and more Internet-based.

As for the Internet-based business, Zhou Buqi has already understood it well during the process of founding Ziweixing. According to past experience and principles, it is enough to develop step by step.

Ziweixing Global is very difficult, and the difficulty lies in the fact that it has to produce its own content.

Ziweixing Digital Media is engaged in football business, and the content source is football matches of FIFA, UEFA and the five major leagues...Ziweixing Digital Media does not need to produce content, but only needs to carry out Internet-based content based on existing football content The market works just fine.

The model of Hollywood giants is very mature and powerful. They are both content side and channel side.

But football is different. The major associations and major competitions are the content parties. They are responsible for organizing teams and holding competitions. After the content is produced, they do not have their own channels and platforms. They have to sell football content to third-party channels for distribution. .

In other words, the football model is like DreamWorks and MGM, an independent studio in Hollywood without a distribution company.

This is easy to deal with.

If the content party does not have a distribution channel, it must rely heavily on the channel provider, and the channel provider can easily obtain huge profits from it.For example, BBC Sports and Sky Sports, the two largest sports stations in Europe, developed by broadcasting football matches and benefited from the low-end football industry model.

Therefore, "Internet + football" is relatively easy. You only need to do "Internet", you don't need to do "soccer", you just need to build a powerful channel platform.

In the "Internet + movie" industry, it is very difficult to compete with Hollywood giants, because apart from content, Hollywood giants are also channels.This requires Ziwei Star Global to be both "Internet" and "movie", and to have a richer and more powerful model to compete with traditional forces.

If you want to develop Ziwei Star globally, you must make some gains in "movies".

On June 6, Zhou Buqi met Steven Cooper, the new CEO of MGM.

Mr. Cooper is not a Hollywood practitioner. He is a corporate restructuring expert specially invited by the MGM board of directors from Wall Street. He has successfully operated the restructuring of KrispyKreme, the second largest donut chain in the United States, and Enron.

After the two sides met, they chatted very happily.

Mainly in terms of communication methods, Steven Cooper is completely looking at the problem from the standpoint of Zhou Buqi. He is very eager to hope that Ziwei Star Global can acquire MGM. In this way, he will reorganize MGM If you succeed, you can leave the market with a large commission.

Zhou Buqi also knew the exact attitude of Hollywood from his words.

At present, several Hollywood giants are indeed interested in MGM, but they all have deep concerns. In addition, MGM's creditors only need cash and not stocks, which greatly increases their entry threshold. .

Against the background of the current economic crisis, the cash flow of Hollywood giants is also very tight.

Steven Cooper says-

"No entertainment giant will offer more than $20 billion."

"MGM's string of film production failures over the past few years has caused panic in the industry."

"MGM has two parts, one is the production company, and the other is the content library. The Hollywood giant's offer is only for MGM's content library. They think that MGM's production business is a negative asset."

"MGM's shareholders are worried that the debt problem will affect them, and they all want to sell as soon as possible."

"MGM's creditors are only open to bankruptcy reorganization or a one-time debt sale."

"MGM is interested in running The Hobbit..."

In short, after some communication, Zhou Buqi became more confident in winning MGM.

That night, I spoke to Sun Zhengyi and formally approved the M&A committee's first offer to MGM - $25 billion!
Ziwei Star Global is officially launched!

The next day, Zhou Buqi went to Silicon Valley with Senior Sister Zhen Yu and Sister Bao.

Going to hang out with Netflix.

Meet Zhou Shaoning by the way.

Aster has recently been entangled by Nokia, and it has been rumored that there may be a backdoor in the Aster mobile phone, which will leak user privacy and threaten national security. Zhou Shaoning is communicating with Google to discuss how to deal with it.

After Zhou Buqi passed by, I met Zhou Shaoning in Ziweixing International's office, "The problem is serious? Can't it be? Finland is a small country, and they can't play too many tricks."

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "Finland is not worried, but this is a signal. What we worry about is that the United States and the European Union will find this kind of national security excuse in the future."

Zhou Buqi asked curiously, "Is there a back door reserved?"

"How can there be?" Zhou Shaoning didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Isn't this a common routine? It's the same all over the world. Many countries use this national security excuse to boycott foreign products."

It is not surprising that in order to protect the domestic technology industry and resist foreign technology invasion, two methods are usually adopted.

One, the big stick of intellectual property.

As soon as this trick came out, most companies died.Just like the United States in later generations, only a few mobile phones such as Apple, Samsung, and Motorola can be bought in mainstream channels.

Second, national security.

This is even more complicated. It requires a strong public relations platform and political lobbying capabilities, as well as the game of great powers and market exchanges behind it.

Zhou Buqi asked: "Is it solved?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "We have had preliminary contact with Nokia, and we have reached a unity. They don't want to make a big deal. After all, Nokia also has a big market in China. Signed a 2G and 3G patent license for about 4 million US dollars. , the Finnish investigation is over. But this incident has reminded us that we must take precautions before they happen.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, it should, does Google have any suggestions?"

Zhou Shaoning twitched the corner of his mouth, "Bad idea! These old beauties are so single-minded, they treat business as a business, and don't consider more complicated regional influences at all."

"how?"

"They suggested that we donate 3 to 5 phones a year to the Pentagon."

"Hehe, what a good idea."

Zhou Buqi was angry and funny.

From a business logic point of view, this is indeed a good idea.

It is equivalent to bribery in disguise.

Take out 2 million US dollars of mobile phones every year and "donate" them to the Pentagon. When they get the benefits, they will naturally open the net.In the bigger picture, it's pretty convincing that even the Pentagon is using Aster phones.

The Pentagon believes that the security of Aster mobile phones will not be leaked, so it is easy to talk to other organizations and institutions, or to lobby some countries in the European Union.

For example, Samsung mobile phones in later generations, in order to enter the US market, fought with Apple in patent lawsuits, fought back and forth, and finally gained a firm foothold in the United States.

But then Apple has a second trick, which is the hidden danger of national security.

Are mobile phones made in South Korea unsafe?
Samsung sees the trick, and the strategy it gives is this kind of soft bribery to donate to military agencies.Even the U.S. military is using Samsung mobile phones, and there is still a fart security risk.

Later, another miraculous scene happened, and Lenovo also learned in style.Lenovo computers and Motorola mobile phones can indeed travel unimpeded in the United States, but they have created a greater hidden danger to public opinion.

Providing benefits to organizations and institutions with the right to speak is either in the name of "donation" or in the name of "donation", which is the same all over the world.

But there is a special field of public opinion in the country. What others can do, their own family can't.

Zhou Buqi was very decisive, "This is nonsense. Don't just accept such a bad idea just because of the friendship between China and the United States. As long as it has something to do with the military, it is very sensitive. Let's not touch it. Um... What about Huawei? Their communication equipment is different. The world sells it, how do they do it?"

Zhou Shaoning said: "They mainly sell them at super low prices to government agencies, some public welfare organizations, and environmental protection organizations, or donate part of them."

This range is huge, Zhou Buqi frowned, "Isn't the investment going to be more?"

"Yes, 2-3 times."

"An endowment of $5 million a year?"

"almost."

"It's okay, don't mess with the domestic public opinion." Zhou Buqi nodded, "I don't want the child to be trapped by wolves, and I can't be stingy about this kind of thing, just use it as protection money."

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "I don't need it in the past few years. Let's wait until Asda truly becomes a world-class mobile phone manufacturer. If it's a small company, people won't bother to talk to us."

(End of this chapter)