The richest man

Chapter 247 The Record Revolution
The Internet bubble burst, and the United States was devastated for a while.

Both economic and technological development have suffered.

"Serina, there is something I want to talk to you about. You know, the dot-com bubble has burst recently, and no venture capital firm is willing to take the risk of investing in an internet company anymore. Now the capital chain is about to be broken, which means that the company will go bankrupt! Serena, I may lose my job!!!" Senior engineer Spark Daniel said to his wife with great difficulty.The thought of losing his job scares Spark Daniel, worrying that he won't be able to make his mortgage and car payments.

"Honey, you are a senior engineer, isn't it even hard for you to find a job?" the wife asked suspiciously.

"Oh, I'm afraid so! At present, most Internet companies are laying off employees, and there are not a few senior engineers like me. There are so many engineers in Silicon Valley, and the competition is too fierce..."

In Silicon Valley, a large number of Internet companies go bankrupt every day, which also means that a large number of talents lose their jobs every day.

Seeing this, Zhang Jun was overjoyed, and quickly took the opportunity to instruct the human resources department of Legend Technology Company to frantically poach people from the United States to work in China.

In the past, excellent talents would not be willing to work in China, but now, the Internet bubble has burst and countless companies have gone bankrupt. Even excellent engineers are facing the crisis of unemployment. It is very good to have a job , How can I choose to choose.What's more, the company that recruited them is a legendary technology company that is well-known all over the world!

The cold winter of the Internet may last for several years, but the legendary technology company is rich and powerful, and it can fully sustain it.At present, Legend Technology Company needs a lot of talents. It plans to focus on artificial intelligence AI, cloud computing, big data, database, large-scale online games, mobile operating system, mobile software app, mobile game, intelligent chemical plant system, intelligent robot, drone , Smart cars and other fields are intensively cultivated, and only those domestic talents are far from meeting the needs of Legendary Technology Company.

Previously, talent from all over the world flocked to the United States.

But now, talents are flocking to China, especially the United States, which was hit hardest by the Internet bubble. Tens of thousands of high-level talents have been hired by Legend Technology and have come to China one after another.

It is worth mentioning that many high-level talents are actually attracted by the headquarters of the legendary technology company.

As the saying goes, "Plant a sycamore tree, and a phoenix will come"!
The money was not wasted.

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"The misfortune of the United States is the great fortune of Legendary Technology!!!" Zhang Jun said with a smile, feeling an inexplicable pleasure in his heart.

Immediately, he looked at the other people in the big conference room and ordered, "There is not much time left for us to develop with peace of mind. We must seize the opportunity to expand our technological advantages! The heads of all departments must not slack off, and must do a good job. My own research and development project, strive to produce results as soon as possible!"

"Yes!!!" Everyone responded in unison.

Zhang Jun said again: "The top priority is that our company wants to promote ipod music players!"

Recently, the smart phone has not been developed yet, but the new generation of music player of Legend Technology Company has been developed, and Zhang Jun named it iPod.

iPod adopts a micro hard drive recently developed by Legend Technology Company, which is only 1.8 inches, but the hard drive capacity can store 1000 songs.Previously, there were more than 10 songs on a CD.You can imagine how shocked consumers were when the ipod was released! ! !

The ipod is made of aluminum, weighs 3.6 ounces (about 102 grams), and comes in five colors: silver, gold, pink, blue and green.

Cost less than $100.

The price is 249 US dollars.

However, ipod downloads music from the Internet, so this involves music download software and music copyright.

Music download software, legendary technology company has already developed: iTunes.

At present, the most troublesome thing is music copyright.

Zhang Jun asked: "How do you think we can get record companies to agree to sell music on iTunes?"

As soon as the voice fell, someone answered: "Boss, this matter is actually not that difficult. I don't know if you have heard of the Napster website. The appearance of this website is a godsend opportunity for iPods!!!"

Zhang Jun is very busy and rarely pays attention to other websites on the Internet.But the Napster website, he does have an impression.

He immediately understood why the emergence of Napster was a godsend opportunity for the ipod.

Because Napster specializes in exchanging music in MP3 format, everyone who has a CD can exchange his collection with others online and download it for free. Netizens can share 200 million free music files, but Napster provides Free download services make it impossible for copyright holders to provide paid services.

As of now, Napster has 8000 million users worldwide.It is conceivable that the advent of Napster will cause much loss to record companies.

So not long ago, Napster caused strong dissatisfaction with the world's major record companies, suing it for copyright infringement, claiming that it lost billions of dollars in profits.

The two sides went to court, but Napster clearly lost the lawsuit.

At this moment, if Legendary Technology launches iPod music player and iTunes paid download software, the timing could not be better.

One is free Napster and the other is paid iTunes.

Don't even think about it, the record company will definitely stand on the side of Legendary Technology.

If the record company is unwilling to cooperate, then Legendary Technology can also play a rogue. I only sell music players, and it doesn't matter which website consumers go to download music.

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2000, June 5.

Major record companies around the world have been invited to come to Legend Technology headquarters to discuss cooperation matters.

The legendary technology company has a big face, and all the record companies that have received invitations have clearly replied that they will come to participate in the event.

On this day, people from major record companies gathered together, and everyone was full of doubts, discussing the purpose of Legendary Technology Company inviting them to the meeting.

After chatting and chatting, I couldn't help talking about Napster.

Napster damages the profits of all record companies, and everyone agrees with the enemy and condemns it.

"Napster is simply a cancer of the music industry, and it must be eradicated as soon as possible!"

"Strongly agree, if Napster continues to develop, our record company can go out of business. Users will download music from Napster website for free in the future, who will buy our records?"

"Yeah, Napster is obviously a cake in the moving record industry. If everyone who has records puts their music on the Internet to exchange with others, then Internet users have created a free digital music library. How does the company survive? So we must win this lawsuit!!!”

Around 10 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Jun, Shangguan Muye and his party came to the conference room.

Zhang Jun waved his hand, smiled and greeted the people in the record company: "Hi everyone, welcome to Legend Technology!"

"Hello, Mr. Zhang!" Everyone quickly responded.

After a while, Zhang Jun got straight to the point and said: "I invite everyone here this time, as long as it is because our company has recently developed a new music player ipod, which can download music MP3 from the Internet. I know that recently , the major record companies are following Napster, but our legendary technology is a company that attaches great importance to copyright, so our company has restricted this music player, and can only download MP3 on the supporting music software iTunes. Here, each of us Big record companies can cooperate with us to move music to iTunes software for sale at 99 cents per song. iTunes provides a sales platform and only needs 30% of the sales revenue.”

As soon as the words fell, people from the record company discussed one after another, and were very dissatisfied with the price of 99 cents.

You should know that the price of a CD record ranges from ten dollars to one hundred dollars.

If more people download music online, that means fewer consumers buying physical records.

The record company weighed the pros and cons, and it was difficult to make a decision for a while.

On the face of it, it's clear that physical records are more profitable.

Under normal circumstances, record companies would not agree to sell their music online at a low price, but the situation is different now. Napster is eyeing it, and users can download MP3s for free, while iTunes launched by Legendary Technology charges a fee. make money.

Therefore, before the Napster website is closed, if the record company wants to recover a little loss, it should cooperate with Legendary Technology.

"Mr. Zhang, isn't the price of each song too low? It's only 99 cents. I think it can be raised to 2 dollars." The CEO of Universal Records said.

Zhang Jun shook his head and said: "Pricing cannot be changed. We are now fighting through price wars and piracy. Once we raise fees, consumers will be forced to go to the road of piracy!"

After hearing the words, everyone felt that what Zhang Jun said made sense.

Right now, it is really necessary to attract consumers through low prices.

Zhang Jun said at this time: "In order to bring consumers back to the ranks of genuine products, I plan to invest tens of millions of dollars to launch a publicity campaign of 'Don't steal music is cool'. I believe that the emergence of iTunes will definitely be the dawn of the record industry. !"

(End of this chapter)