Chapter 1606
After dealing with the matters in Los Angeles, Zhou Buqi made up his mind to go to Manchester.

This season's competition has come to an end.

In the Premier League, Manchester United is almost invincible, leading the second place Chelsea by as much as 7 points, and the three consecutive championships have basically been won.

Next, let's look at the Champions League.

Now it has entered the knockout stage. In the quarter-finals, Manchester United swept AC Milan with a big score of 7:2.Especially in the home game at Old Trafford, Manchester United sang all the way and won a 4:0 cleanly.

In the next quarter-finals, Manchester United's opponent is the Bundesliga class bully Bayern Munich.

However, at this stage of the season, many "crispy" players have physical problems.Robben strained his right leg in the second round against AC Milan, and he will be sidelined for at least 3 weeks. He may not be able to play against Bayern.Van Persie was also injured and was in an unstable state.

Even Beckham, who has excellent physical fitness, suffered a serious Achilles tendon rupture in a Premier League game in February. Not only was he reimbursed for this season, but his World Cup dream this year was also shattered.

We can only rely on No. 10 Rooney to carry the heavy responsibility of Manchester United's striker.

At the difficult moment the team encountered, Zhou Buqi felt that he should go over to boost the morale of the soldiers.

I haven't left Los Angeles yet, and I received a call from Sun Zhengyi, saying that he wanted to chat.

Let's chat then!

After chatting, I realized that this person was concerned about copyright procurement. The $20 billion procurement budget was nominally approved by the board of directors. In fact, there was no board of directors at all, and it was Boss Zhou's arbitrary decision.

Not to mention, Andy Hopkins recently purchased the streaming copyright of 59 film and television works of the original DreamWorks at a "high price", which has caused some controversy.

Sun Zhengyi couldn't sit still anymore.

Zhou Buqi simply talked to him, and there were not too many obstacles. The main discussion was the development direction of Ziwei Star Global's technology, from digital conversion to 3D imaging, from artificial intelligence to streaming media.

Sun Zhengyi said: "I want to buy some Netflix stocks."

"do not!"

Zhou Buqi hurriedly stopped.

Sun Zhengyi also knows something, "When will the strategic cooperation be made public?"

Zhou Buqi replied, "May, June at the latest."

The strategic cooperation between Ziwei Star Global and Netflix has been basically determined internally. Ziwei Star Global will invest 8 million US dollars to buy 25% of Netflix.After the strategic cooperation, almost all the film and television content of Ziweixing Universal will be put on the streaming media platform of Netflix.

It is conceivable that as long as this news is released, Netflix's stock price will inevitably skyrocket!
News was released in June that by the end of the year, Netflix’s market value may double by 6-3 times.

It's late March now, and the time is too tight.At this time, Softbank entered the market to buy Netflix's stock, which is a proper internal transaction.

At that time, even Ziwei Star Universal and Netflix will be affected.

In fact, similar insider trading happens every day in U.S. stocks, especially the notorious investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, who are frantically probing on the edge of the law, and being punished is commonplace.

However, Softbank is quite special. It is a "foreign company", and it is a foreign company that is a thorn in the side.Softbank is so rich that many venture capital institutions hate it.In many cases, the capital can obviously suppress the valuation to 10 billion US dollars, and Softbank waved banknotes to enter the market, and may increase it to 12 billion US dollars or 15 billion US dollars.

So many people use the movie "Ghostbusters" to describe SoftBank, saying that SoftBank is like soft cotton candy wandering around, and no one likes to compete with such a behemoth with seemingly unlimited funds.

In such irregular operations, you still have to be cautious.

Zhou Buqi said: "Netflix's stock may be split in September. If you want to buy stocks, wait until the split."

"let it go."

Sun Zhengyi has no interest.

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "I heard that you bought a big house in Woodside? Is this to earn back the purchase price?"

Woodside is in the heart of Silicon Valley, where housing prices are extremely high, and Sun Zhengyi has made a lot of money taking advantage of the economic crisis in recent years.Zhou Buqi "borrowed" the luxury yacht he bought last year, and this year he bought a super luxury house in Silicon Valley for $1.17 million.

You know, the purchase price of Zhou Buqi's "Gentleman's Manor" in Silicon Valley is only 6800 million US dollars.

Of course, the timing of buying is also different.

When you buy a house every week, it is the time when the house price is the lowest.Now that the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis is fading, the prices of high-end real estate are rising rapidly.

Sun Zhengyi waved his hand and avoided the topic, "I heard there was movement at EMI?"

Zhou Buqi said: "It seems so, I also heard that the creditors and equity parties are fighting."

"Are you still interested in EMI?"

"Of course, we must win it! Let them fight first, and fight first. EMI's case is almost exactly the same as MGM's case, just wait. When the time is right, go to Citigroup, and you can basically win it. "

Sun Zhengyi smiled, "I have a good relationship with Citigroup, you can find me when you need it."

"of course."

Zhou Buqi took it for granted.

Sun Zhengyi said: "The direction of streaming media is right, and the prospects are becoming more and more clear. There must be video streaming media, music streaming media, and news streaming media is also a good direction."

"Today's headlines, isn't this what it is?"

"The Toutiao model may not be able to go to sea, right? The free model may not work either."

Sun Zhengyi is more worried.

The main reason is copyright concerns. Various analysis articles in China can be written casually. After seeing other people's well-written articles, copy them in a daze, and simply modify them.

This is almost impossible in Europe and America.

The release of self-media content here is subject to strict copyright restrictions, and it is difficult to publish a large amount of repetitive content. Most of them cooperate with some professional media, such as "Wall Street Journal", "New York Journal", "Hollywood Reporter", "New York Guest" and so on.

However, if you cooperate with these professional media, the cost will be high.

If the model of Toutiao is adopted, the mere advertising fee cannot afford to buy copyright from these media.Unless it is the Netflix model, which is a paid subscription.

Users pay $5 or $10 per month to subscribe to content reports from some of the world's leading media.

The immediacy of news has led to the low value of many old articles in the past.

With Netflix’s model, you can purchase more copyrights for old movies, and old movies can be watched repeatedly, which is also of great value.But streaming media news products are not good, because the timeliness is too strong, so we can only continuously purchase the latest copyrights.

This mode is difficult to run.

Zhou Buqi said: "The public dissemination of news will still be undertaken by social platforms such as Twitter, YikYak, or Helo and UCgram in the future."

Sun Zhengyi nodded, "The timeliness of news is indeed immeasurable, but some discussions on issues that do not have timeliness are still more valuable, just like Ziweixing's micro-knowledge in China."

Zhou Buqi smiled, "Yes."

"There is also a product here in the United States, which is probably made by imitating what everyone knows about it. It is called Quora. It started its business last year and is currently launching its first round of financing."

"Imitate Weizhi?"

"Ah."

"What team?"

"Looks like it came out of Facebook."

Zhou Buqi thoughtfully said: "Ziweixing and Facebook have a lot of internal communication, and Ziweixing often sends teams to Facebook on business trips. Maybe it was during this process that they brought Weizhi's product concept to the United States, making the The interested people at Facebook found out, and then left to start a business.”

Sun Zhengyi was taken aback for a moment, then laughed, "It's possible!"

Zhou Buqi said: "Ziweixing has Weizhi, and Ziweixing International should also have a similar product. Since they have done it, then invest in it."

Masayoshi Son said with a smile: "That's what I mean too. Now that you are doing streaming media, you can do a full set. Video streaming media should be done, music streaming media should be done, and article streaming media can also be done. If you don't participate, Softbank will participate. It is said that this Quora is very popular, and the website has not been launched yet, and the valuation has been fired to 8000 million US dollars."

Quora is not yet online, but there is already an online question-and-answer website called Answers.However, the concept of this website is popular, that is, no matter how low your education is, you can register as a user and answer questions on it.As a result, there are a lot of fake and wrong garbage content on Answers, and the experience is not very friendly. The financing was completed at the beginning of the year, and the market valuation is 6000 million US dollars.

Quora has not been launched yet, but it can be quoted by the capital market with a valuation of more than 8000 million US dollars. The reason is that Quora’s concept is high-end, just like Weizhi, which restricts user registration.

Ordinary users can read, but cannot participate in answering questions. Only users who have been screened are eligible to answer questions and publish articles.

It is conceivable that the content in Quora must be of high quality and have extremely high reference value.

These are all issues that Zhou Buqi has considered several years ago. Unexpectedly, it has just been introduced to the United States. In terms of the ability to copy homework, Lao Mei is really not good at it.

Zhou Buqi called Lu Qi, handed over the matter to him, and then said to Sun Zhengyi: "You bought a new house in Silicon Valley, don't you want to throw a big party?"

"Ah? No need?" Sun Zhengyi looked surprised.

Zhou Buqi said: "How many projects has Softbank invested in?"

Sun Zhengyi said: "That's a lot, maybe a few hundred."

Zhou Buqi said: "I think we can pick some key companies with development prospects and get together. They can support each other and grow together. You use my products, I use your services, friendly exchanges. Invisible In the middle, we can effectively develop together, which is also in the interests of Softbank.”

Sun Zhengyi is very smart, and he immediately understood this kid's wishful thinking, he couldn't laugh or cry, "I heard that Weishu is going to be commercialized in the United States?"

Zhou Buqi said frankly: "Yes."

Sun Zhengyi nodded, "Okay, I will arrange it for you!"

(End of this chapter)

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