Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1640 Industrial-level strategic support

When it came to Netflix, Zhou Buqi took the lead, and quickly finalized the cooperation plan between Ziweixing Universal and Netflix.

Take Netflix's paying user scale as a reference.

$0.72 per user per month.

For example, Netflix's streaming media business now has 1100 million paying users, so Netflix has to pay 792 million U.S. dollars in copyright fees to Ziweixing Global every month.

If it grows to 1 million users in the future, the monthly copyright fee will be 7200 million US dollars.

In addition, there is also the sharing of server storage space, which was almost difficult to achieve in the past, which is one of the reasons why streaming media companies appeared as early as the 90s but failed to develop.

就比如《侏罗纪公园》这部电影，可能会有480P、540P、720P、1080P等多个版本，在服务器中占用的存储空间可能会高达20GB。

Ziwei Star Global currently has thousands of movies and tens of thousands of episodes of TV series. How much storage space does it take to convert all these movies and TV content into digital content for storage?

The cost of storage equipment alone is beyond the affordability of ordinary companies.

In fact, it is easy to say that storage is nothing more than capacity expansion.

But what about data migration?
According to the past model, it can only be a rigid data migration, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the cost is extremely high.For example, Universal Pictures canceled the authorization of "Jurassic Park" to Netflix and turned to Hulu to cooperate.At this time, it is necessary to transfer the 20GB data content to Hulu's server.

Once the scope of cooperation is too wide, the scale of data migration will be extremely large, and the transfer may not be completed in ten days and a half months.

This not only affects efficiency, but also costs too much money.

However, the new era is different, and the industrial technology has been upgraded!

Cloud computing came out.

This is a public platform.

All data content is stored on the cloud computing platform.

Netflix uses the service of Ziweiyun, and the digital content of "Jurassic Park" is stored in Ziweiyun's cloud data center, forming a small module of "Jurassic Park".

If Ziweixing Universal cancels the cooperation with Netflix and cooperates with Hulu instead, there is no need for data migration, and it is enough to let Hulu also use Ziweiyun’s services directly, and then let Hulu directly call "Jurassic Park" With this small module, the streaming media content of "Jurassic Park" can be provided in Hulu at zero cost, without any additional consumption.

Why will cloud computing become a huge hot industry in the future, and all countries are actively promoting its development?Because from a social point of view, cloud computing can minimize total social expenditures.

In the past, this data migration model cost a lot, but this process did not generate any value, which was pure waste.For enterprises, this reduces corporate profits; for society, it reduces social taxes.

This model of cloud computing can greatly optimize social efficiency, empower all walks of life, reduce costs and increase efficiency.When the income of the enterprise is improved, the tax sources of the society will naturally increase.

Therefore, behind the cooperation between Netflix and Ziweixing Global, there is a third-party company, which is Ziweiyun.

This is a hard condition.

Both Netflix and Ziwei Star Global must use the services of Ziweiyun. Through the middleman of Ziweiyun, both parties can be guaranteed in many aspects such as data storage, data security, data storage, and data migration.

It can be seen from this that due to the cost considerations of mass data migration, Ziwei Cloud will play a huge role in the big industry of streaming media!
Because the data scale is too large, data migration is almost impossible, and streaming media companies can only choose the original storage location of massive data for cooperation.

In other words, as long as Ziwei Star Global stores all the massive data of its streaming media digital rights in Ziwei Cloud, in the upcoming melee of the streaming media industry, thousands or tens of thousands of streaming media companies If you want to get the copyright of Ziwei Star Global, you can only cooperate with Ziweiyun!

They seem to have the right to choose, but in fact they do not have the right to choose. This is a monopoly system based on cost.

Just like Walmart.

Fortunately, in big cities, the consumption power of residents is very high, and many large shopping malls and hypermarkets can be allowed to appear.But in some small towns or remote suburbs, where Wal-Mart exists, almost no grass grows.

Because Wal-Mart has lower costs, lower prices, and more products, it can quickly defeat any competitor.

This is not a monopoly, but it has achieved a monopoly effect.

Zhou Buqi has worked hard to deploy Netflix and Ziwei Star Global. Apart from being optimistic about the future development of the streaming media industry and the entertainment industry, another very important reason is the gain in the computing business of Ziwei Star Cloud.

This is a hard-core industry, and it is the foundation for Ziweixing International to gain a firm foothold in overseas markets!

Not the same as Helo.

Helo has more than 3500 million overseas users and has achieved brilliant success.Even Zhou Buqi is confident that the user scale will increase by 10 times in the next three years.

But what about 10 years from now? What about 20 years from now? What about 30 years from now?

Hard to say.

This is a C-end product, and the characteristic of C-end products is that they have no loyalty.Maybe when a more interesting and fun social product appears, Helo can be replaced.

But Ziweiyun won't.

This is a B-end product with high loyalty.

Because the cost of migration is too high, the larger the company, the less able it is to afford the operational pressure brought about by data migration and product jumps.In other words, as long as Ziweiyun develops, it will be difficult to fail in the future.Even if Ziweiyun wants to fail, others will not allow it, and will do everything possible to save it.

This is a typical tax-collecting business.

Ziweiyun collects service fees from users every year, and users still have to pay taxes, just like paying taxes.Without paying taxes, the company cannot operate normally.

In order to develop Ziweiyun, Zhou Buqi almost played a big game of shifting the universe, with Silicon Valley in his left hand and Hollywood in his right hand, all at his mercy.

When discussing this business, Kurian followed Boss Zhou with an indescribable earthquake in his heart.

Only at this moment did he know how grand the business layout of the big boss is at the strategic level. In contrast, his idea of ​​starting a "drone router" business to expand the Ziwei Cloud market is somewhat a little bit Child's play.

This time, Kurian was relieved and convinced.

I used to respect Zhou Buqi only because he was the boss.But if you want to say that there is not much recognition in terms of talent and ability.He doesn't think that a kid in his twenties can have a deep understanding of the complex B-side business.

Now he finally understands.

The big boss is indeed a big boss, with unique vision and keen judgment, really amazing!
No wonder when Ziwei Star Global was established, Ziwei Star International also participated in the investment and got 5% of the shares.At the time, this decision baffled many people.

Now the answer is revealed.

Very shocking!
If Ziwei Star International and Ziwei Star Global do not have some connection in shares and have no strategic in-depth cooperation, why should Ziwei Star Global strongly support Ziwei Cloud under Ziwei Star International?
In short, after some communication, the cooperation plan was reached.

quite complicated.

During the cooperation, Ziweixing Global promised to exclusively authorize all the copyrights of MGM, Lucasfilm, DreamWorks Animation, and Summit Entertainment to Netflix.However, Universal Pictures and other film and television streaming copyrights acquired from outside are not an exclusive licensing model.In other words, for other streaming media copyrights, Ziwei Star Global can find other streaming media companies to cooperate with.

On the one hand, the copyright fee paid by Netflix is ​​too low, and Ziweixing Universal can make more money by cooperating with other streaming media companies.

On the other hand, it paves the way for the development of Ziweiyun.

All digital copyrights will be stored in Ziweiyun's data center. If other streaming media companies want to obtain copyrights, they have only one choice, which is to buy Ziweiyun's services.

Netflix has obtained a large part of the exclusive authorization, and its performance will inevitably increase; Ziwei Star Global can find more partners and generate more revenue; Ziwei Cloud has industrial-level strategic support.

Three parties benefit!

The contract was signed for 4 years, and that's it!
Zhou Buqi is very satisfied with this. Seeing that his industrial layout in the United States has gradually paid off in the past few years, and he has played a cross-industry, cross-region, and cross-field ecological cooperation, he has a full sense of accomplishment in his heart .

It took a whole day to get this sorted out, and by the next day it was finally time to do something light.

Three days later, this year's NBA draft will be held at Madison Park in New York.

Because the Golden State Warriors are too weak, they naturally got a very high pick.Now that the rankings are out, the No. 76 pick is the Wizards, the No. [-] pick is the [-]ers, and the No. [-] pick is the Nets.

The Warriors got the 6th overall pick.

Experts across the United States are analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each player, providing various references, and the Warriors have also proposed many various plans.

Lacob had just taken over the team and seemed to be very humble and didn't want to command blindly.

Zhou Buqi was not satisfied, and found him the next day, "Many people say that success or failure lies in the details, and I am getting more and more disgusted with this kind of argument now. This is the infinite delegation of responsibility. Success, the greatest halo of honor belongs to The decision-making level; if it fails, the biggest responsible person is the grassroots. How can there be such a reason?"

Lacob understood what he meant. It was nothing more than dissatisfaction with the current management of the Warriors. They should take the main responsibility for the poor performance of the Golden State Warriors in the past few years. "I still need time to learn more about the team. and get to know more people."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I support you on this point, but don't give up the pick."

"Ok?"

"Has the current management selected any top players? Their level is too low! I said, I will choose!"

Zhou Buqi snorted, his tone undeniable.

This is the condition that was agreed long ago, Lacob naturally agreed, and said with a smile: "No problem, I will have all the player information handed over to you, and you make the decision."

He doesn't think Boss Zhou knows much about basketball.

Player drafting is the most difficult thing. Many professionals frequently miss it, not even Michael Jordan.

However, if he is willing to choose, let him choose.

He was right, the current team management is really terrible.Even if they choose blindly with their eyes closed, they may not be worse than those selected by their hard research and investigation.

(End of this chapter)