Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 674 It's Time to See Netflix (4K)

As soon as the wedding in Las Vegas was over, Lu Yun and Xiao Hongmei returned to China that day, and there was another one at home.

The rest returned to San Francisco. Zeng Mu and Zeng Yu stayed in the villa to take care of Lu Xia. As for the newlyweds——

Come to the world of two, honeymoon to the west coast.

Malibu beach house, with the wind blowing in with the smell of the sea, the tulle curtains are lifted.

The sound of waves lapping on the beach can be heard.

In the bathroom, Zeng Li looked at herself in the mirror, her face was like a lotus, her eyes were like silk, and the corners of her mouth curled up.

When I reached out to take it, I saw that it was squeezed Vaseline in my hand, my face flushed a little, and I changed to sunscreen in embarrassment.

Then he wrapped up his swimsuit and walked to the private beach. There were four deck chairs under the thatched hut, and Lu Fei lay on one of them.

"Fly, put on sunscreen for me."

Zeng Li sat on the recliner next to him.

"Ah."

Lu Fei smiled, skillfully applied it on her suet jade-like smooth and white skin, and acted mischievously from time to time.

"Not enough?"

"Just a little while."

"Pfft, my back is almost covered three times by you."

"Hey, I'll wipe my legs now."

"Okay, okay, then I'll do it myself."

Zeng Li reached out to pick up the mobile phone on the table, glanced at Ivanka's number, and handed it to him: "The phone is ringing."

"Wipe it if it rings, it's a big deal to put on sunscreen for senior sister!" Lu Fei said in a joking tone.

"It's not straight."

"How can there be such a small interest in life?"

"You're right, okay, you answer the phone, and I'll wipe it off for you." Zeng Li rolled her eyes, "If you don't answer it, the phone will hang up."

"Don't use your hands."

Lu Fei lay prone while answering the phone.

Feeling Zeng Li's softness on her back, and hearing the good news from Ivanka, the two parties finally signed the acquisition agreement.

A hammer!
Unless it is stuck in the approval of the Foreign Investment Committee, Marvel will be named "Lu" from now on!
Thanks to Disney's board of directors failing to pass the budget proposal and having to withdraw from the bidding, Han Tang was able to win without any risk.

Although the quotation of 43.5 billion US dollars is high, the box office profits that Marvel movies can earn alone are enough, not to mention the fact that part of the money Marvel gets is going to the Three-Body Fund.

Because the IPs of Captain America and Black Widow were mortgaged to Merrill Lynch in the early years, the Three-Body Problem was exchanged for a CDO equivalent to US$5.25 million, and these IPs were backhandedly authorized to Hantang to make movies.

Now is the time for Marvel redemption!
It is equivalent to the left hand and the right hand. The Three Body Fund only paid more than 30 billion US dollars, but the company has a solid foreign debt of 43.5 billion US dollars. Of course, the valuation has skyrocketed even more.

Hantang's North American business is expected to reach US$90 billion.

"I think it's time for us to raise money."

Ivanka said worryingly on the phone.

"why?"

Lu Fei snorted and asked the reason.

"There are still two film distribution contracts between Marvel and Paramount. We must redeem them from Paramount, otherwise the distribution of "Thor" and "Avengers" will belong to Paramount. , the most important thing is that we are at a disadvantage in terms of the proportion of accounts.”

"How much does it take to redeem?"

"After a rough estimate, the two movies started at least 1 million."

"1 million is 1 million, and it must be redeemed. The value of these two movies, especially "Avengers", is more than 1 million dollars." Lu Fei curled his lips.

"Of course I know, but I have no money now."

Ivanka made a calculation.

The company's debt ratio is extremely high. This year, it has finally paid off the loan for the acquisition of Peak, and it has also incurred huge debts for the acquisition of Marvel. Next, "Twilight 2", "Thor" publicity asked for money, and "The Avengers" It costs money to make...

Money is needed everywhere!
Unless Disney is recruited and jointly developed.

""The Avengers" is a high-quality project among our high-quality projects. It is fine to distribute it to Disney, but absolutely not to invest in it."

Lu Fei directly refused.

"Then what do you think we should do?"

The change that Ivanka thought of was nothing more than——

Loans, financing, listing.

"There is another option. We can license the copyright to online video media, and we can get a large licensing fee."

"You mean the tubing?"

"No, it's Netflix."

"vomit vomit~"

The cries of seagulls sounded from the beach, and a few seagulls sometimes spread their wings and flew high, sometimes gliding in mid-air, like this every day.

After the five-day short honeymoon, Zeng Li took a step ahead of Lu Fei and left the villa. After all, there are still premieres of "The Wind" and "Iron Man 2" in China waiting for her to cooperate with the announcement.

Not to mention Lu Fei, there are too many businesses to manage.

So the honeymoon ends here for the time being, and next year I may go to the Bahamas for a good vacation to make up for it.

"Beep, beep."

At this time, there was a sound of shoes trampling on the floor.

As the founder and leader of Netflix, Hastings received an invitation from Lu Fei quite unexpectedly and came here immediately.

There was no one in the huge sea view room, lying in the thatched hut outside, Lu Fei was wearing beach shorts and an open short-sleeved shirt, snuggling up with Ivanka who came earlier.

Seeing her wearing a crochet beach dress over her swimsuit, Hastings stared straight at him, secretly envious——

Good guy, monsters will enjoy it!
"sit!"

Lu Fei put the "Netflix Culture Manual" on the table.

Hastingston's eyes lit up immediately. This was co-edited by him and the chief talent officer, and it was widely circulated in Silicon Valley as soon as it was published.

Lu Fei was obviously putting on a show, but he said that he didn't read it because he was here, but wanted to learn from the book about Netflix's corporate culture, "This is definitely one of the most important documents in Silicon Valley!"

"Hahaha~"

When Hastings heard this, he immediately felt that Master Lu was very close, and he was simply a confidant that he had never met in his life.

Ivanka watched them brag about their business and drank their drinks in silence.

"Lu, on behalf of Netflix, I would also like to thank you. During the subprime mortgage crisis and Netflix's most difficult time, you were still willing to choose to believe in Netflix and invest in Netflix." Hastings couldn't help feeling, "If it wasn't You, Netflix, will not get through the crisis so quickly, nor will you have the opportunity to reshape the new corporate culture."

"I support you all because I see Netflix's potential on the Internet." Lu Fei waved his hand modestly.

"potential?"

"I know that Netflix is ​​hiring a technical team to improve the algorithm and transform from offline to online streaming, right?"

"Yes."

Hastings nodded: "In fact, in 2000, I thought that as long as the Internet was developed enough, there would be no need for DVDs at all, and it would be enough to transmit videos to users through the Internet. But at that time, broadband technology was too backward to support it. But when I saw the success of Penguin’s YouTube, I found that the time was ripe, and I finally made up my mind.”

"However, YouTube is not doing streaming media. You are the world's first streaming media platform. What are you going to do next?"

Lu Fei crossed his hands.

Hastings was taken aback, didn't he come to discuss cooperation?
Why did it suddenly involve Netflix's business model?
But the major shareholder sitting in front of him said frankly: "You also know that Netflix is ​​the world's first streaming media website. We are still in the groping stage. We are slowly building a team and customizing a big data mining platform. Algorithm, just like YouTube, doesn’t YouTube have a very unique recommendation mechanism?”

"Ah."

Lu Fei poured ice water on him: "This is our unique skill. It will continuously push videos that meet users' preferences. This set of recommendation algorithms will also be applied to Penguin News to solve the problem of recommending content to users. problem, but there is another problem, which is the lack of content, especially the lack of 'explosive content'."

"Yes, yes, lack of content!"

Hastings suddenly realized: "Do you want to cooperate with Netflix?"

"you can say it this way."

Seeing Ivanka open her mouth, Lu Fei took the lead and patted the back of her hand at the same time, implying that she should be safe and calm: "But to be precise, I want to cooperate with Netflix on more explosive content."

Hastings took a sip of ice water and remained silent.

Lu Fei knew that he didn't see the rabbit and didn't spread the eagle, and he didn't hide it, telling the business operation mode of streaming media.

The creation of popular products will bring about the growth of users, and then there will be an increase in subscription members, and more and more revenue, so that there will be money to make more popular products.

"hiss!"

With a shocking word, Hastings suddenly had an earth-shaking understanding of streaming media, and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

"Lu, can I write down everything you said?"

"of course can."

Lu Fei gave Ivanka a look, and saw her go straight to the house to get it. While waiting, he began to "fool" Hastings, making him believe that as long as Netflix is ​​willing to spend more on content production For the money, there will be more global subscribers.

"Lu, but..."

"There is nothing but, you think, you think about it, as long as there is big data and production costs to support, you can increase the hit rate, you can have enough hit content, if a hit can make Netflix pull Millions of subscribers, think about how many potential users there are in the world, and now you are the only streaming media."

"Gulu, Lu, can I have another glass of ice water?"

Hastings felt hot-headed and dry-mouthed.

While pouring water, Ivanka came back with a pen and paper.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Fei turned into Hongjun and gave a lecture.

The more Hastings listened, the more excited he became, as if a door to a new world had been opened, and he frantically took notes of Master Lu.

"Streaming is not a business for the faint of heart!"

Lu Fei is serious: "Even if there are small losses and small debts for the sake of explosion, that is not a problem. As long as the number of members is growing, investors like me will give Netflix enough patience and a high enough valuation. Do you think I'm right?"

"Yes, Lu, you are right!"

Hastings held his hand excitedly: "After what you said, I seem to have found out how Netflix should transform into streaming media, Lu, thank you, thank you!"

As he spoke, he shook his hands vigorously.

"You're welcome, I'm always willing to give advice to companies I like, as long as you don't think it's a bad idea."

Lu Fei smiled.

"No! Absolutely not!"

Hastings said: "You have been a great help. No wonder, no wonder so many companies have hired you as a director. Now I also want to invite you to join the board of directors and continue to advise Netflix."

Just him?

Ivanka pouted, you don't even know how dark his heart is!
But just thinking about it, she has already realized Lu Fei's intentions, and saw the needles, Netflix needs to hit the streaming media, and Han Tang is best at making hits, so they can cooperate with each other.

"........."

Hastings was lost in thought, but said nothing.

"As for the content, don't worry, we have enough content. To tell you the truth, Han Tang has acquired Marvel."

Lu Fei said it lightly.

But when Hastings heard this, his heart was immediately turbulent, "What! You bought Marvel! When?"

"It's still going through the process, but it's just a matter of time. If there is no accident, Marvel will integrate with Hantang. You are the first outsider to know the news besides us."

Lu Fei made a silent gesture.

"Please keep it secret for us for the time being, we don't want to make too much noise." Ivanka raised her chin proudly, "We are planning to launch movies, live-action dramas, and animations. Marvel has more than 5000 superheroes, which are completely enough for us. Develop!"

Hastings couldn't help being moved when he heard this.

Stud streaming media, the most important thing is the content.

Just look at the current hit "Iron Man 2", Han Tang has never missed a super-English movie, and he is also very good at horror movies, such as "Dead Silence" and "Chain Saw"...

Netflix + Han Tang, sounds very good!
"Not only that, in addition to purchasing copyrights, Netflix can also arrange original productions and try to produce series by itself. Of course, the team can outsource, such as looking for Han Tang." Lu Fei glanced at Ivanka.

Seeing that she immediately understood what he meant, saying that Netflix can contribute money, and Hantang contributes, and they will jointly produce an original hit drama titled.

Hastings touched his chin: "Lu, since you know so much about streaming media, why don't you let Youtube do it? Youtube is yours, Penguin is yours, and Hantang is yours. Why do you have nothing to do with Nai? What about flying co-op 'streaming'?"

"It's simple, Youtube doesn't intend to do streaming."

Lu Fei shrugged.

YouTube and Netflix have different market segments. One is a subscription service and the other is a UGC platform. The primary task of YouTube is advertising, with the focus on users rather than subscription members.

Therefore, YouTube and Netflix are not competitors!
"Haha, Lu, how do you want us to cooperate?"

Hastings thought for a while, then relaxed.

"Wow wow wow..."

The tide was surging, and as the sky gradually dimmed, the blue sea water was illuminated golden, sparkling, and the water waves were not happy.

After discussing the general framework of the licensing agreement, Hastings stood up, "Lu, I will discuss it with the management when I get back."

"Hope for a happy co-operation"

Lu Fei stretched out his hand.

Hastings shook his and Ivanka's hands, then hurried off, not even going to dinner.

"No wonder you invested in Netflix, did you think of this step before acquiring Marvel?"

Ivanka stared at Lu Fei with flickering eyes.

"What do you say?"

Lu Fei walked into the house with a smile.

"However, in terms of TV series, we are not as experienced as movies, and we don't have a team like HBO and Starz. Also, what is the first TV series to shoot?"

Ivanka frowned and said, "Marvel?"

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is really good.

Lu Fei showed a mysterious smile.

"House of Cards" also seems to be good. The reason why it was unfinished in the previous life was that I never thought that reality would be more magical than the TV series.

Maybe add Bai Dengqiao and Dong Jianguo...

Or Ivanka as producer...

"what are you thinking about?"

Seeing his absent-mindedness, Ivanka was puzzled.

"I was thinking you should take off your armor."

Lu Fei couldn't help but smirk.

(End of this chapter)