Reborn: Billionaire in College

The time is from June to July.

There were several big and small things that happened during this period.

First, a bunch of new startups emerged in the taxi-hailing sector.

Among them are Kuaidi Taxi in Hangzhou, Yaoyao Taxi and Didi Taxi in Beijing, etc.

Chen Pingjiang did not focus his attention here. Right now, taking a taxi is in the starting period and is not worthy of excessive attention.

However, another piece of information attracted Chen Pingjiang's attention.

On July 7, Jia Nailiang and Li Xiaolu got married.

There is nothing wrong with these two people getting married. The key is that behind them stand Jia Yueting and Gan Wei.

Suddenly it became interesting.

Li Xiaolu and Gan Wei have been good friends for many years.

Following this relationship, Jia Nailiang naturally had a good relationship with Jia Yueting, and even invested in Jia Yueting at one point.

What’s more interesting is that at this wedding, Gan Wei invited many friends from the circle, including Jia Nailiang and his wife, Wang Cong, Zhou Xun and Wang Baoqiang, all of whom became investors of LeTV.

Chen Pingjiang feels that he is very low-key in the film and television industry, at least much lower-key than Jack Ma and Jia Yueting.

Even though Ma and Zhao Wei had an unclear relationship, they were still excited to go and make a movie.

If a movie star who can fight comes, just give him money.

This is also a representative example of the entertainment industry bowing to capital.

However, Lao Ma is still far inferior to Jia Yueting, and the key reason is that he does not have a wife in the film and television industry.

So much so that later, one of Jia Yueting's selfies included more than a dozen big names.

"Jia Yueting married a good wife, but she is really hard-working when it comes to things." Chen Pingjiang shook his head and sighed.

Wan Yuqian on the other side smiled and said, "Then do you want to find one too?"

"Forget it. Lao Jia and I are not the same kind of people. He wants to wrap himself in the spotlight every day." Chen Pingjiang waved his hands repeatedly.

Wan Yuqian said: "His methods are actually very clever, and he and the celebrities in this industry can be regarded as mutually beneficial. These celebrities want investment channels, and Jia Yueting has also brought great benefits to this circle of friends through the integration of assets, including career and capital."

"After years of hard work, he finally enjoyed the splendor of fame and threw one big party after another. From a hard-working salesman who ran around for his friends, he finally became a wise operator who could easily control the overall situation. I have to say, this man is also a legend to some extent."

Chen Pingjiang does not deny this point. To some extent, Jia Yueting can indeed be regarded as a hero with good strategic vision.

But unfortunately, I cannot control my inner desires and want to do everything without looking at the limits of my abilities.

Jia Yueting's strategy is always extremely advanced, but an extremely advanced strategy requires extreme execution capabilities. It is rare for an average company or employee to be able to perfectly execute the company's strategy, not to mention in the context of such rapid expansion at that time.

"The current competitors seem to be Tudou and Youku, but in fact LeTV is the biggest threat. Since its listing in 10, LeTV's market value has achieved geometric growth. It has upgraded its weapons and has now become a company with an integrated video industry chain and huge content assets." Wan Yuqian said: "Their path is exactly the same as ours, buying versions and making their own content. The drama called "Tiny Times" that they worked on with Guo Jingming has also been completed."

Chen Pingjiang nodded: "Don't worry about him, let him run for a while, but put some pressure on Lao Jia so that he can find a way to deal with me as soon as possible."

Wan Yuqian sensed from Chen Pingjiang's mysterious smile that Jia Yueting was in big trouble.

Few people who are targeted by their boss can walk away with a smile on their face.

Chen Pingjiang thought very clearly that there was no need to specifically target LeTV. He just needed to put a little pressure on Jia Yueting behind the scenes, and he would start expanding faster and go abroad earlier.

This trap has been set for LeTV!

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At LeTV's internal high-level meeting, Jia Yueting had a ruddy complexion today and seemed to speak softly and gently, but one could also hear the confidence and self-assurance in his voice.

"Behind the scenes, although I don't like Chen Pingjiang as a person, I admire his vision, which is to use the Internet's thinking to make hardware. You have been working in traditional hardware companies before, and you came to LeTV to subvert yourselves!"

The executives and engineers below were all filled with questions.

How exactly are we going to subvert ourselves?

What is Internet thinking?

Liu Chaoran, the person in charge who came from Lenovo, is still following Lenovo's product development process.

This also led to LeTV's first smart OTT box moving forward in confusion and exploration.

"I increasingly feel that we must take a step forward to cope with the stranglehold of Tencent and even Youku Tudou. If we want to survive successfully, I think we can make TV."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the meeting room looked surprised.

Liang Jun, the person in charge, couldn't help but say, "Mr. Jia, our energy is now focused on the OTT box, and our entire hardware team is not prepared at all."

Jia Yueting disagreed: "Aren't we already expanding our R&D team? Liu Song, who is responsible for electronic design, Li Qiang, who is responsible for BSP, and Huang Tao, who is responsible for UI design, have joined us one after another, and they have also brought their core teams with them."

Liang Jun shook his head: "But they are just like us. They have no experience in TV development and they all come from the mobile phone business."

"Then we should poach people, experts who can develop TVs." Jia Yueting was very proud. "This is the optimal solution for the next step that I have carefully considered, and it is a point that none of the giants have noticed. Think about it, if our LeTV TV can become the mainstream in users' homes, we will have countless terminals. How can those companies compete with us? Even if Chen Pingjiang is very capable, it will be useless."

To be honest, everyone was speechless. They didn't understand why Jia Yue always liked to DISS Chen Pingjiang whenever he stopped talking.

"Next month, Mr. Terry Gou of Foxconn will visit our company." Then, Jia dropped another explosive news, further explaining his determination to make a super TV.

At this point, everyone knew that the situation had been decided, the big boss had given the order, and they could only work hard to complete it.

Liang Jun, who was born in Lenovo, couldn't help shaking his head.

He and many other backbones of the hardware team came from Lenovo. All colleagues have one thing in common: they come from traditional hardware companies and have no experience in Internet work. Hardware development requires a complete set of process control, and major design defects cannot occur. Once a problem occurs, it will lead to serious after-sales quality accidents.

LeTV itself is an Internet company.

If an Internet company’s product makes a mistake, it can be modified in a timely manner. What matters is speed, and they can make changes as they go along.

Therefore, the two forces within LeTV currently look down on each other.

The LeEco team was said to have "nonsense" and "workshop" style management, while the LeEco TV hardware team was seen as a group of "rigid" and "fixed-minded" people.

The people from Lenovo call themselves "regular national army", while the people from LeTV are a bunch of "local rioters".

The two teams often complained to each other in meetings that "the other party did not support their projects."

After the meeting, Jia Yueting returned to the office and immediately received bad news.

"Mr. Jia, we still haven't reached an agreement on the exclusive online broadcasting rights for The Legend of Zhen Huan." Jia Yueting said with almost no hesitation.
"Correct!"

Lao Jia's face immediately turned unhappy.

This Chen Pingjiang is like a mad dog and can't be shaken off.

The relationship between the two began with Chen Pingjiang's investment and entry into streaming media.

Jia Yueting always felt that Chen Pingjiang was using the asymmetric advantage of being a giant to suppress him, so he said some strange and ambiguous words in front of the media.

I almost cursed Chen Pingjiang for wanting to monopolize everything and getting into every industry, and then being killed once he got in.

It was also from then on that the two companies started fighting over copyright.

Take the copyright of “The Legend of Zhen Huan”, which was the most popular TV series last winter.

If there had been no disruption, the deal would have been settled long ago. But it has been four or five months now and there is still no progress.

"Huaer Films has raised its asking price to 5000 million this time."

"5000 million? Are they crazy? The investment cost of the whole drama is only 7000 million. They have already earned enough from the TV station, right?"

"It's clear now that they are messing with us. We've worked so hard to drive Youku and Tencent away, but now they refuse to give in and are determined to fight us to the end."

Jia Yueting thought about it for a long time, and finally shook his head: "Forget it, we don't want 5000 million. We don't know if we can make it back. Originally, my ideal price was only 2000 million. When it was sold for 4000 million, it was already my last offer."

Damn Chen Pingjiang!

Always mess up your mentality unexpectedly.

The more he thought about it, the more Jia Yueting felt that he had to stand up.

With connections above him and the support of coal bosses and film and television stars, there is no reason for him to lose to Tencent Video in the streaming media sector.

We must let these giants look at our own strength.

"By the way!" When Jia Yueting saw his subordinate about to leave the office, he suddenly called out, "By the way, has the release date of Tiny Times been confirmed?"

"Not yet. President Jia, do you have any instructions?"

"Please inform Director Guo and Enlight Media and tell them that I hope to schedule the release date to coincide with So Young."

"..." The subordinate secretly smacked his lips. This was really a fight. "Boss Jia, isn't this a bit too big?"

"No need to persuade, it's always fun to defeat the strongest opponent."

Jia Yueting is extremely confident in "Tiny Times".

At the same time, "Tiny Times" and "So Young" are also rivals that cannot be avoided.

Both are adapted from novels, even the director is named Guo, and the investors behind them are enemies.

The two dramas have been hyped in the market for a long time.

Jia Yueting felt that his own drama "Tiny Times" had a lot of handsome men and beautiful women, and it also told a modern story, so it should be better than "So Young", right?
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Even Chen Pingjiang didn't expect Jia Yueting to be so crazy.

"So Young" was just scheduled to be released on August 8th, and soon after it was reported that "Tiny Times" was scheduled to be released on August 28th.

It was almost an obvious display of strength, intending to fight Chen Pingjiang.

Originally, Chen Pingjiang didn't care too much, but Wan Yuqian came over speechlessly.

"Last time you told me to leave LeTV alone. How can I leave it alone? They are clearly coming for us. What should I do now?"

Chen Pingjiang smiled slightly: "Didn't I hear that the copyright of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has been acquired?"

Wan Yuqian shrugged slightly: "We paid 50 million. If we can't even win the prize for "The Legend of Zhen Huan", we will be laughed at. This time, we are just trying to make a profit out of spite."

"Who told you that 50 million can only make money and not lose money?"

"I don't believe it, unless a large number of people come to watch 'The Legend of Zhen Huan' every year. But how many dramas like this have there been in history? The only ones I remember are 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms', 'Journey to the West' and 'The Legend of White Snake'."

Seeing Wan Yuqian's face full of disbelief, Chen Pingjiang didn't waste any words and directly called Ma Huateng in front of her. After some discussion, he distributed the exclusive online broadcasting rights of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" for 3000 million every three years.

This means that if Tencent renews the contract in the future,

In this regard, Wan Yuqian could only shake her head speechlessly.

Every time, it is Brother Ma who has to take over the responsibility.

Chen Pingjiang did not explain in detail how powerful "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is. Only he himself knows it.

It is a truly thrilling palace drama. Even ten years later, many people still remember it and occasionally watch it again.

LeTV was in such a desperate situation, but it managed to survive for many years by relying on the copyright of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and is still doing well.

It’s really a drama that has cultivated a platform.

In addition to money, the influence of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is also not weak, so some famous memes are about to emerge.

"I've already bought it. I'll ask Wang Xin to warm it up a bit recently to see if it can stay popular for a while longer."

Wan Yuqian naturally knew how popular "The Legend of Zhen Huan" was a while ago, and she was also very optimistic about purchasing the copyright, but she felt that the price was too high.

"Let's not talk about "The Legend of Zhen Huan". What do you think about the deliberate conflict between the release dates of "Tiny Times" and "So Young"?"

Chen Pingjiang laughed: "What do I think? I'll go to the cinema and buy a few tickets for "So Young". The rest is up to you. After all, you are the boss of Renren Entertainment Group. Don't tell me you are weak at this time."

Provoked by Chen Pingjiang, Wan Yuqian rolled her eyes and said, "Then I will go to the Brothers Group to beg for resources. I will kill Tiny Times no matter what."

Chen Pingjiang nodded: "Jia Yueting thought he could be my opponent, but in fact, you are the Five Finger Mountain he has to climb. Only by defeating you will he be qualified to see me."

When Wan Yuqian heard this, she was not angry. Instead, she looked at Chen Pingjiang with a charming look and said, "You are becoming more and more arrogant. By the way, do you know Wu Jing?"

"Of course I know him. I loved watching Tai Chi Master when I was in primary school."

Wan Yuqian smiled and said, "Through an introduction from a friend in the industry, Wu Jing found me a while ago, and I decided to give him a chance, so I signed him. But he gave up being an action star and insisted on being a director, but his first film, Wolf Tooth, was a huge flop. Haven't you always been very good at judging people? So I came to ask you."

Chen Pingjiang laughed in silence. He had not expected that Wan Yuqian would be so successful in the entertainment industry. "You're lucky, Mr. Wan." (End of this chapter)