Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 232 Gun in hand, follow me

In the evening, the sky is half bright red and half black and blue, and the woods around the tree house are dyed a thin layer of red under the rays of the setting sun.

Ballmer turned down all the entertainment at night, rushed over non-stop, quietly called out Kurokawa Oike, and asked about the result of the negotiation face to face.

I saw him bend over at forty-five degrees, and replied respectfully: "I agree, all agree!"

"Did it work? How did Lu convince them!"

Ballmer's eyes widened. In just one week, he conquered four record giants, which is unbelievable.

Kurokawa Oike reported truthfully, trying not to miss any details of his words and deeds, and even imitated Lu Fei's tone of voice.

Baller listened carefully, without saying a word, and made up his mind that Microsoft's 15% stake in Spotify was far from enough, at least 30%.

While thinking about it, the meeting in the tree house next door ended, and crowds poured out from the two exits. On one side, the four major record companies, and on the other side, Lu Fei, Li Kaifu and others, had a feast after the formal signing.

With the help of bright lights, Lu Fei climbed down the stairs, and a loud laughter suddenly sounded in the quiet woods, startling a bird to fly.

"Hahaha, Bravo, Lu."

Ballmer's big belly was shy, and his smiling eyes were narrowed. "To celebrate, I invite you to a seafood feast!"

"Did you hear that? Ballmer will pay for the dinner tonight!"

Seeing that Lu Fei couldn't refuse, he could only follow the crowd to a crab pot restaurant and bar facing the sea and under the Ferris wheel.

The menu was full of crab set meals. He ordered one at random and sat face to face with Ballmer in the most remote corner.

"Lu, your relationship with them is over, it's time to continue our cooperation."

Zhang Tianmei sat on the side and interpreted for Ballmer into Chinese: "Microsoft can endorse the logic, let Wal-Mart and other large supermarkets relax the entry threshold, and let your products go on the shelves immediately."

"Thank you."

Lu Fei sees it very clearly. This is to use small favors to seize the dominance of financing, thanks to his superior skills.

Even without Microsoft, lmusic1 and fantasy1 can still spread all over the United States, because they have already received commitments from the four major record giants, and the traditional sales channels for albums include large supermarkets.

This busy, easy, happy to.

After all, the more Logic's MP3s sell, the more users sign up for Spotify, and the more they earn.

Relying on Spotify, Logic has formed a loose community of interests with the record giant group.

"yes!"

Ballmer stared straight at him, how could he still make such a move?

Helping incompletely is tantamount to helping in vain. It was originally a good gift, but now it is just icing on the cake.

"Admission is a week earlier than expected, and the research and development of Spotify Mall has to be accelerated."

Lu Fei took a sip of the cold Coke, "I have sent Logic's software development team to Seattle as soon as possible. Can Microsoft's technical support team be in place? The plan is to release the new Spotify 4 by April 1 next year at the latest."

"April 4, April Fool's Day?"

Ballmer was taken aback, not only by this date, but also by this R&D cycle, which only lasted for more than four months. Even a layman like him knew such a heavy task, and the time was too tight.

"Don't worry, Spotify 2.0, logic has been established since the beginning of October. If Microsoft can support a team of 10 people, there is more than enough time, and the internal test will be available in February next year."

Lu Fei turned his body sideways while talking, and asked the waiter to bring a large basin full of seafood to the table.

King crab, Dungeness crab, snow crab, as well as shells, mussels, and shrimp, with corn and potatoes, piled up like a hill.

"Crack!"

Ballmer didn't use scissors or a mallet. He roughly broke off the long legs of the king crab with both hands, venting all the accumulated depression.

What a icing on the cake!

"The top priority is to establish Spotify's North American headquarters."

Lu Fei cut open the crab legs with scissors, "15% equity, how much do you consider investing?"

Ballmer reported Amazon's pre-A round of financing data, roughly in the range of 800 million to 1200 million dollars.

He opened his mouth wide, sucked the crab meat indecently, and gave an expected number——

$1200.

Lu Fei picked out the crab meat, chewed it slowly, and bargained for the price. Once Spotify succeeds, it will be a great contributor to saving the American record industry.

At that time, any record company that messes up online, whether it wants to or not, will have to join the Spotify base camp, which is equivalent to a faucet, controlling the entire upstream flow of the digital music market.

Only 1200 million?
Ballmer said the valuation criteria, "Lu, our internal assessment is that Spotify, which is not licensed by the four major record giants, is three to five million. I set a compromise at 4 million. Every time there is a license from a music company, I am bullish on 400 million. , do you think it is reasonable?"

"This is a record giant that even Jobs can't necessarily talk about."

Lu Fei knocked and cut, and ate crab meat. He was completely different from Ballmer, who was rudely gorging on sea food. There were two styles of painting, one literary and one military, one static and one moving.

The two wrestled with each other in the turbulent eradication of crabs, and locked in a bullish valuation of a music company's authorization at $250 million.

5 companies, that is 1650 million US dollars.

Ballmer waved his hand and said, "Lu, I think it's okay for Sony, but it has jumped out of the cooperation plan to go it alone, and will not agree to authorize it."

"That's not necessarily the case. Sony's greatest strength is its size, but its biggest weakness is also its size. Each department works on its own, and each department will try its best to protect its own interests."

Lu Fei raised his lips, "The other four giants have agreed, can Sony Music accept to do it alone?"

………………

That night, the moon was bright and the sky was like washing.

Doug Morris separated from Roger and the others, and the first thing he did when he returned to the hotel was to contact Jimmy Iovine of IGA Music Company. They have been friends for more than 30 years, and recently they were worried about piracy.

How can such a good thing as Spotify be enjoyed alone?

Must have fun!
"Rail? Riel!"

Jimmy Iovine was very excited when he heard the ready-made solution, "No one can make it so simple, neither can Jobs, only him!"

"No, no, maybe Jobs too."

Doug Morris is covering his old friend's face. With the addition of IGA, it is equivalent to adding a little impression point to Universal Music.

Immediately afterwards, the two of them poured a glass of wine each, talked over the phone on the phone, complained about the lead brother with the help of alcohol, hung out with Sony, and went hungry for nine meals in three days.

Finally reached an agreement, this big brother, it doesn't matter if you don't follow!
After making up his mind, he terminated the cooperation with Sony, and then hung up the phone. Just when Doug Morris was about to contact the next record label, Jobs suddenly called.

"It's so rare that you would take the initiative to call me?"

"Morris, you went to Microsoft?" Jobs showed an unusually good temper.

Doug Morris smiled and said, "That's right, EMI, Warner, and BMG are all there."

Jobs had a bad feeling and restrained his irritable temper, "Can you tell me why Microsoft brought you together?"

"Specifically speaking, it wasn't Microsoft who summoned us, it was Lu, that Huaxia Lu!"

Doug Morris was a little drifting because of the effect of alcohol, "He is like Moses, parting the red sea of ​​piracy and pointing us to a clear path. My instinct is that the new beginning of digital music may start today."

Huaxia Lu?
Jobs couldn't help but startled, as expected, he knew that a mediocre person like Ballmer could do something earth-shattering.

As for this strange Lu Fei, he was both curious and apprehensive, "Which way did he point to?"

"Sau Rui, we have signed a non-disclosure agreement and cannot disclose information to any third party."

Doug Morris can only choose to say openly, "Lu has an MP3 product that is not inferior to the iPod, and a music software that is not inferior to or even surpasses iTunes..."

"Beyond itunes?"

When Jobs heard of products that surpassed Apple, his perfectionism made him instantly angry: "Are you drunk and confused!"

Doug Morris retorted: "No, no, no, Steve, you haven't seen Spotify, and our legitimate paid hopes are all pinned on it."

"That's because you haven't seen the latest itunes!"

Jobs asked very seriously: "Isn't it cool to put music products into vending machines and let those damn pirates buy cheap songs with coins like buying drinks?"

"Emm, yeah~"

Doug Morris was stunned. It is the same as the Spotify mall. Lu Fei is indeed the person I fancy!
Jobs said aggressively: "Morris, do you think Universal should choose me now, or choose me?"

There was silence on the phone for a long time, and the voice of drinking alcohol could be vaguely heard, and finally Doug Morris' voice sounded again:

"Sau Rui, I still choose Lu."

"why?"

Jobs frowned, holding the phone tightly with one skinny hand, and holding his lower back with one hand.

Doug Morris boldly said: "Because it's not easy following you, Sao..."

"dududu~"

Jobs hung up the phone roughly, and paced back and forth angrily, suddenly walking too fast, and intense pain swept his body.

I have a kidney drop!

As everyone knows, how many people lost their kidneys for apples in the previous life.

ps: and...

(End of this chapter)