Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2097 Investing 1500

At night, live in an apartment in Manhattan.

Zhou Buqi had another phone call with Boss Ma, and with Ning Lu's help, he made arrangements for tomorrow, mainly two things.

First, to investigate the distribution department of Ziwei Star Global in New York;

Second, go to HBO to investigate with the people from Netflix, focusing on the American TV series "Game of Thrones" that shocked the United States and the world this year.

The reason why Netflix CEO Reed Hastings obeyed the words of Zhou Da boss, he said that if he wanted to acquire Dark Horse Comics, he would start the acquisition plan immediately.

Because Big Boss is just so great.

As early as two years ago, Zhou Buqi came forward and put it into operation, and took the project of "Game of Thrones", which was still at risk at that time, into his hands.

Universal Pictures can participate in the investment and get the streaming rights of the entire series!

After obtaining the streaming media copyright, of course it is authorized to Netflix.

At the beginning, this project was full of worries, which aroused concerns from all parties, and it was considered that the investment was too large and the risk was too great.This year, the show was broadcast, and it even changed the public's perception of TV dramas.

It turns out that TV shows can still be shot like this!

The main character actually said he was dead.

Now, the broadcast of the first and second rounds of the TV series "Game of Thrones" has ended on HBO, and according to the contract, the streaming media channel can be launched.

Of course, HBO will be very unwilling.

The TV series "Game of Thrones" has a relatively high threshold, not as popular as "The Big Bang Theory" and "Friends", and the viewing threshold is even one or two levels higher than AMC's "Breaking Bad".

The higher the threshold, the higher the target audience level, and the higher the charges can be.

Therefore, TV stations that broadcast "The Big Bang Theory" and "Friends" are generally free TV stations; AMC, a TV station that broadcasts "Breaking Bad", charges a relatively low fee of $3.99 per month.

HBO's fee is $8.99. Relying on higher-standard and higher-standard film and television works, "Game of Thrones" has become synonymous with HBO.

If this is transferred to Netflix, isn't it using HBO's flagship product to support Netflix?
So what Warner and HBO mean is that they hope to pay a sum of money to buy out the streaming rights of the "Game of Thrones" series.

This is of course impossible.

Zhou Buqi wanted to go over and talked to them.

At the same time, you can throw a few sweet dates to HBO, and Marvel can cooperate with HBO to jointly develop one or two "dark series" Marvel TV series.

HBO can get two rounds of TV broadcasting rights, on the one hand, it can be regarded as compensation, and on the other hand, it can continue to strengthen the cooperation between the two parties.

In terms of the level of production of TV series, Universal Pictures and Sony Pictures are actually very good, but there is still a big gap with HBO.If we can maintain a long-term cooperation with HBO, it will be beneficial to both parties.

It is worth mentioning that when Zhou Buqi went to the headquarters of HBO the next day, he met an acquaintance. It turned out to be a delegation led by a vice president of UEFA. programme.

Zhou Buqi understood it at a glance.

Depend on!
Ask the HBO team to make a documentary?
How much will that cost?

I really don't know how distressed I am when I spend other people's money, and I don't know how much interest and power are blended in it.

After working all day, at night, Zhou Buqi and his party returned to Silicon Valley from New York. Boss Ma had already returned to Silicon Valley from China to continue working on the Yahoo case.

Judging from the current situation, the idea of ​​buying Yahoo as a whole in a package has become increasingly unfeasible.

Regardless of the fact that Yang Zhiyuan's shares in Yahoo are only 3.9%, and he has been removed from the positions of chairman and CEO several times, but he is the founder. As long as he retains the title of director and is still on the board of directors, he will have a huge influence force.

So many people are aggrieved, saying that Yahoo's board of directors is "Yang Zhiyuan's board of directors."

It takes 6 hours to fly from New York to Silicon Valley.

However, Western US time is 3 hours later than Eastern US time, so it will be more than 10 o'clock in the evening after arriving home.Zhou Buqi looked at the time, and stopped to worry about it. He planned to take a bath and then rest.

"Yaoyao, do you want to come to my room at night?"

"what?"

Yao Yao suddenly received an invitation from the big boss, and she became numb as if she had been electrocuted.

She was still in a daze, so Gu Zanli came over to push her with a smile, and helped her speak: "Yes, yes! She is willing! Boss, you don't know, she has been talking about it these days, and she is in a hurry. Bad, I thought you didn't like her."

"Where is it?"

Shy and embarrassed, Yao Yao gave her a push, but also coyly followed in the footsteps of Boss Zhou, followed him, and her second assistant, Sun Wanran, to the bathroom.

While taking a bath in the bathtub, Zhou Buqi looked at the delicate Yao Yao sitting in his arms, feeling very comfortable physically and mentally, and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, how is Momo's financing going?"

Sun Guanran said: "We are talking, it seems that we have made some progress."

"So fast?"

"It seems that Meng Houkun came to talk."

"Oh, no wonder."

Zhou Buqi nodded.

Investing in Momo, it is inconvenient to participate in the name of Ziweixing.After all, in terms of the current market, Ziweixing's WeChat and the emerging product Momo are the main competitors.

Zhou Buqi could only contribute a sum of money. He kept his relationship clear and participated in the investment in Momo, mainly to earn financial benefits.

He would definitely not do such a trivial matter.

It was supposed to be operated by a person named "Li Xuekai". He was an employee of Xiaonei in the early years and is now Meng Houkun's assistant.Zhou Buqi has relatively few male assistants, and the number one assistant is actually Meng Houkun. Many personal matters are helped by Meng Houkun or Meng Houkun's assistant Li Xuekai.

Sun Guanran said: "It seems that the other party's valuation is not low. Meng Houkun had no choice but to appear in the name of the senior vice president of Ziweixing Group. Now the other party agreed to the deal."

Zhou Buqi hugged sister Yao Yao in his arms. The warm and fragrant nephrite was very comfortable. Looking at Sun Guanran who was sitting opposite, he was a little surprised, "The valuation is high? How much?"

"6000."

"Dollar?"

"Where is it?" Sun Guanran couldn't help laughing, and rolled his eyes at him, "It's Huaxia currency, and Momo is a start-up company that has only been established for a few months."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "I thought so much!"

Sun Guanran nodded and said: "Well, Meng Houkun came forward and said that it was from 1500 million yuan, accounting for 25% of the shares. The other party agreed, and the contract will probably be signed soon."

"1500 million?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Didn't you say 1000 million? Why did it increase again?"

He invested in Momo not for strategy or to make money for himself.

It was for the ten little secretaries in the office.

Find a way out for them.

These ten young secretaries, who are as beautiful as flowers and in their prime, are different from many secretaries in the office before.In Zhou Buqi's office, many female secretaries have been changed in a hurry.

However, when choosing a secretary at that time, it was more out of work needs.

After all, Zhou Buqi had not delegated power at that time, and there was a lot of work to be dealt with every day, and dozens or hundreds of documents had to be signed every day.

Another point is that the previous secretaries had no requirements in personal life, some were even married, and some even had boyfriends.

This time it's different.

Guan Nanqing, Gu Zanli, Yao Yao, Mai Feixue, Yan Qiqi, Zhuo Wensi, Zhao Limuge, Liang Lexin, and Li Shuruo are all real girls, just like Sun Guanran and Ning Lu back then.

And after layers of screening, they are closer to Boss Zhou in terms of thinking and values.This cannot easily give some small money, or buy a house and give it away.

Zhou Buqi prepared in advance, investing in Momo is to solve this problem.

The original plan was to invest 1000 million, so it was like lending 10 million to each of the 100 little secretaries to help them invest in Momo.After Momo goes public, they can be considered to have truly completed the leap in social class and changed their lives.

Unexpectedly, the amount of this investment is 1500 million.

500 more.

Sun Guanran gave him a white look, "I told Meng Houkun, I did it just in case."

Zhou Buqi asked, "Just in case?"

Sun Guanran snorted and said, "In the office, there will always be newcomers coming in in the future, right? You should always set aside some extra shares to make plans for the newcomers in the future."

(End of this chapter)