Back to 1995

He raised his head and looked at the unshaven Kalanick in front of him. Scour's failure and bankruptcy, and the Saipan music store, did have something to do with it, but it wasn't that important.

To put it bluntly, Hollywood will definitely dismantle Scour if it touches the backs of Hollywood and the issue of jobs is involved.

The only difference is that after the downfall of Scour, who will take advantage, it may have been Apple's iTunes, and now it has been replaced by the Symbian music store, but the ending...is not much different.

But facing Kalanick, Song Yang did not ridicule him, but instead said, "Genius is lonely, Scour is indeed a genius idea, the model of paid advertisement plus membership fee may indeed become a new trend in the future record industry ...

but not now! "

In the past ten years or so, when the Internet has entered the era of all people and advertising has become a stable income for major Internet giants, Kalanick’s ideas may come true, but now, think about the current Internet industry in America. The advertising fees and revenue of the entire industry are less than tens of billions of dollars. Even Internet companies can't survive, so how can they distribute the money to the third-party companies in Hollywood.

Now it is a plundering game. The Internet industry plunders resources from various other industries to support itself. The most blood-sucking industries are the media, TV stations, newspapers, magazines and other industries. Scour is going to die. It provoked a beast and was directly bitten. died.

Kalanick was very calm, without complaining, "If you fail, you fail. History is written by the winners!"

That's what he said, but Kalanick still couldn't hide his disappointment and depression on his expression. Scour seemed to be only one step away from the giant.

And in the days when Scour fell, a bunch of music sites and new MP3 player brands popped up!
The Saipan Music Store is now relying on selling MP3s and ring tones, not to mention making a lot of money, but Wall Street institutions have made a performance forecast for the Saipan Music Store, which is that the annual revenue of next year will be 40 billion US dollars!

The Saipan Music Store will take away a large part of the traditional record revenue. By next year, the Saipan Music Store plus Yahoo Music and other brands will probably be able to take away about 15% of the market share of the record market!
There are many more companies entering the MP3 player industry. In addition to a number of veteran electronic technology giants, Apple has also announced its entry. Qiao Gang couldn't help it, and even acted as the white knight to save Apple. , Song Yang, who is still a member of Apple's board of directors, announced that Apple will launch a digital music platform and MP3 player.

As for Bangzi, there are a lot of electronic companies that have announced the launch of a new MP3 brand, and the price is probably much cheaper than Diamond MP3’s 99 US dollars!

The era of digital music is coming in full swing, but Kalanick regrettably got out of the game before that day. I'm afraid it came too early, it's better to come by coincidence.

Song Yang looked at Kalanick's expression and knew that with his nerves, he would definitely not be knocked down this time. As "the most unlucky Internet practitioner in history", he can be said to be unbeatable, and he was not beaten twice at once. For the second time, it is enough for other people to jump from the Empire State Building every time, and Kalanick can still carry it.

"The North American Trust and Investment Foundation will provide you with a credit as an investment fund for your next project!"

Song Yang would not let Kalanick carry that debt all the time, and be chased and beaten by creditors, saying that he was providing investment funds for him, but in fact he was asking him to pay back that debt first.

Of course, this money is not borrowed for nothing. When Kalanick has a new project in the future, this money will be automatically converted into equity in the new project. If he loses money, he will definitely not lose money. Some of the shares belong to Song Yang!

Song Yang stood up, pressed a button, and the windows in the suite began to open automatically, and a gust of air flowed in, which raised Song Yang's spirit a little.

"Now there are voices, the Internet has been terminated, and all industries that can be imagined have been occupied!

But I want to say that the curtain of the Internet has just been opened, the PC Internet is far from reaching its limit, and the mobile Internet has just begun. In the future, everyone's basic necessities of life will be changed by the Internet! "

Song Yang stopped at that point and didn't go on. Whether he can become the "seed" king of the Internet and the "king of travel" depends on whether Kalanick himself can figure it out.

Kalanick looked at Song Yang. He felt that Song Yang seemed to be referring to something, but he couldn't figure out what Song Yang was going to tell him. Kalanick would never think that a person like Song Yang would be in today's world. On such an important day, I took time out to meet him just to mention a bunch of nonsense.

"Brother, how is it?"

Evan Spiegel, who was chewing gum boredly and casually talking to the waitress at the club, saw Kalanick coming out of the suite, and hurried forward to ask.

Frowning tightly, Kalanick, who was thinking about what Song Yang said to him, heard what Evan Spiegel said, "Song asked the North American Trust and Investment Fund to provide me with a sum of money. The debt can be paid off in full!"

Evan Spiegel blew a whistle, "I said brother, absolutely no problem, when you have a new project, I will definitely be the first to invest."

Evan Spiegel, who has joined ICQ for several years, is worth more than ten million. When Double-Click was hunting for short-selling institutions, Evan Spiegel bought a lot of Double-Click to show his loyalty to Song Yang. The company's stock, as a result, gave Evan Spiegel millions of dollars in cash flow.

Now, Evan Spiegel has also received an equity award from ICQ, which is definitely worth a fortune.

Hearing that Evan Spiegel was going to invest in his new project in the future, Kalanick thought about it for a while, but he still didn't dare to take Spiegel's money, it was too hot!

After returning to the room and turning on the phone, there were a bunch of text messages immediately. The phone emails were also full of documents, and there were even threatening and warning text messages.

Looking at those text messages, Kalanick called his lawyer. Paying back the money is also a matter of particularity. A lawyer must come forward. Man, if he pays back the capital with interest, even if he sells Kalanick again, it is estimated that it will not be finished!

Nasdaq has not yet reached the point of complete fanaticism, but the stock prices of many Internet giants are already not cheap. The stock price of ICQ has also remained at around 200 dollars. A hundred dollars, but after a taste, the stock price fell rapidly.

Today, when Nasdaq is nearing the close, the major investment banks on Wall Street, as well as investment companies and investors from all over the world, are also preparing to settle today’s investment income. , suddenly started to change.

Just like an explosion in place, I only saw the stock price of ICQ, and instantly formed a straight line on the screen, and the stock price began to be pulled up straight away.

What kind of stock price pressure level, new high-level stock market vocabulary in the early stage, when placed on ICQ, it seems to have suddenly failed. I only saw that ICQ’s stock price is constantly being raised, and large sums of dollars seem to be free of money. It’s crazy. Buying ICQ shares, within a few minutes, the turnover has exceeded [-] million US dollars, and the buyer has a feeling that he can't wait to eat all the tradable shares of ICQ!

A group of institutions on Wall Street were also a little surprised by this situation. They didn't know what was going on. If they were big A's, they would have rushed in by this time, knowing that it was going to be a hit!

When Nasdaq closed, Wall Street suddenly reported that ICQ held a board meeting in San Jose. Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, General Electric, Telephone and Telegraph Group, Comcast Group, etc. were all invited to participate in the meeting.

And then, ICQ received an announcement that completely shocked the entire Wall Street and the Internet industry. ICQ suddenly announced that there would be major changes involving equity, revenue, etc.!

Before people from all walks of life reacted, General Electric and Comcast Group also issued similar announcements one after another, and the entire public opinion was completely blown up.