My Age of Investment

   Chapter 685 Gates feels bad

  After finishing the conversation with Gates, staying behind the old man’s enthusiasm, Xia Jingxing ate dinner at his home again, but declined the old man’s stay, took the car to Seattle, and settled in a high-end hotel.

  At this time, the sky was completely dark, thunder flashing outside the window, and heavy rain.

  Xia Jingxing brought red wine, walked to the window, and dialed the phone of the foreign girl.

  "How is your situation there?"

   "Investors do not understand our decision to temporarily split the oil pipeline. They have a somewhat ambiguous attitude. The negotiations have also reached a deadlock. Moreover, such a large deal may not be negotiated in a short time."

  The voice of the foreign **** the other side of the phone is a bit tired. Today, she has been dealing with investors all day, laboriously.

  Xia Jingxing smiled bitterly. He originally wanted to make a time difference and quickly finalize the financing to avoid long nights and dreams.

  Following the feedback from the foreign girl, the idea may be lost.

  "Daren, do you think it was Murdoch who made some noise. He is a media player and he is a tycoon. It is easy to hand over a message to these investment institutions."

  Xia Jingxing was silent for more than ten seconds, and exhaled for a long time, "Okay, don't speculate about this. If you can't melt it, don't melt it."

   "But... But the funds on our account are running out, and the oil pipeline is a big money-burner. If we cannot finalize the financing as soon as possible, we will be caught in lawsuits and public opinion whirlpools, and the situation may be even more unfavorable."

  Xia Jingxing put down the wine glass and rubbed her temples. The foreign girl was telling the truth, which was something they had considered and worried about before.

  It is true that you can play litigation games with the six Hollywood giants, but in the capital market, they will be judged by others.

  Originally, he was a little complacent. After being reborn, he felt that he was omnipotent and invincible, but he would also have a headache when he encountered tricky things.

  The tubing went down, and Facebook went down. It didn't do much harm to his life, but it was a blow to self-confidence and a major waterloo in business competition.

  He is under a lot of pressure. On the one hand, he has always been arrogant. On the other hand, he does not believe in the fairness of American laws.

  I really thought that everything was settled in court, that would be naive.

  In addition to lawsuits, there is a media group behind the Big Six. It is estimated that manipulating public opinion can stir up a huge wave. The lobby group will go to join the senior officials to give Luo Zhi some unreasonable charges. It is light to detain him in Canada.

  If there is really no bottom line for business competition, this is in the United States, in the home field of others, and the network of relationships that has been woven for decades and generations will make him feel deeply pressured.

  Of course, this is not fear, nor cowardice, but a rational analysis of the situation.

  Xia Jingxing calmed down his brain quickly, and communicated with the foreign girl about today's communication with Gates.

   "What? You're crazy, really can't talk about it, you are going to sell the tubing to Microsoft?"

  The foreign girl has a loud voice, and her tone is still a little dissatisfied.

   "This is no way. The most difficult situation really arises. We can only choose to take care of it and let Facebook go lightly. Without the burden of oil pipes, Facebook can also make profits as soon as possible, go public as soon as possible, and completely consolidate its position.

  Only when the volume of Facebook is huge, can we establish a truly reliable network of relationships, instead of letting people get rid of it. "

  This incident triggered Xia Jingxing a lot. There were too many invisible hands. Xiao Mazi is a Jewish man. Many media tycoons in the United States are also Jewish men. I don't know if the two sides have mixed interests or formed small groups.

   And he is a Chinese, he was dazzling in Silicon Valley, and he was caught in a pigtail. How could vultures not make a big fuss.

  To hold this asset, you have to withstand these pressures. It's useless to escape. People will come to touch porcelain, just like TikTok in the previous life.

  This incident has also strengthened the determination to move assets. The United States cannot stay in this place and must increase domestic investment.

   "But, you said that the existence of YouTube is an important cornerstone of Facebook's big advertising business."

  Xia Jingxing sighed in his heart. He had said this before that, when the social network developed to the back and the incremental market disappeared, it would not be to grab users, but to grab time and make a fuss in the stock market.

  What impact the tubing can have on Facebook, please refer to the impact of Douyin on Penguin.

  If the Facebook Family Bucket occupies more time for a user, it will do a lot better in the advertising business, and the strong will always be strong.

  However, these are useless now. When the strong man breaks his wrist, don't hesitate.

  "Microsoft is not good at the Internet. Selling it to them is less threatening than selling it to Google and Amazon.

  If Microsoft is struggling to operate, maybe we can buy it back in the future. "

  Speaking of this, Xia Jingxing smiled and comforted the foreign girl: "Isn't this still at the end? Don't worry, the tubing is our painstaking effort, and I will do my best to keep it."

  After chatting with the foreign girl for a few more words, Xia Jingxing hung up the phone.

   Lying on the bed, he thought for a long time, and didn't fall asleep until late at night.

  The next day.

  Xia Jingxing boarded Gates’ private jet, flew to Los Angeles with the latter, took the car to Beverly Hills, and planned to visit another media tycoon who lives here—Somer Redstone.

The area of ​​Redstone’s house is small, only 1,400 square meters. It was bought by the old man from Stallone for $14.5 million a few years ago. The next door neighbors include Eddie Murphy, Denzel Washington, etc. Hollywood movie star.

  When the two arrived, the old man was sitting in the yard reading the newspaper. He was in his eighties and still had his ears and eyes, and he greeted Bill Gates far away.

  The two are actually old friends. The Gates Foundation has donated money to Redstone’s charity foundation before.

   Gates took Xia Jing to walk close to the old man, and briefly introduced Xia Jingxing to the old man.

   "Oh, Dai Lun, the amazing young Chinese man, I know."

  Lei Shidong got up, pushed away his wife, supported by a middle-aged white woman in her forties, and shook hands with Xia Jingxing.

  The old man greeted Gates and Xia Jingxing to sit down, and then asked his wife to bring a few cups of freshly ground coffee. The three of them drank coffee and chatted.

"Daren, Bill has told me all about your intentions. In principle, I agree to reconciliation with YouTube and Facebook, but you must remove Viacom’s CBS television network, Paramount Pictures, and MTV Music TV. The video content produced by subsidiaries such as www.nick international children’s channel, and compensation for all our economic losses, totaling US$1 billion."

Xia Jingxing has never been clear about how much Hollywood Big Six intends to claim. He was not too surprised when he heard the billion-dollar figure. It was not exaggerated in his dreams. Google was claimed to be so much in the past, but Facebook is not as rich as Google. He must have seen his Chinese identity and planned to blackmail him severely.

  Xia Jingxing smiled and said: “Mr. Lei Shidong, YouTube and Facebook have been in good communication with Viacom since last year and removed the video content you gave back in time.

  As for the one-billion-dollar compensation, this is an astronomical figure. If the compensation is based on this amount, the tubing will be gone. "

  Lei Shidong's face was indifferent. Although his eyes were muddy, his voice was loud and loud, "This is our bottom line for reconciliation, and we will not back down."

   Seeing to talk about it as soon as it came up, Gates hurried out to make a round.

   "Everyone calms down. Today we are here to solve the problem, not to create the problem."

After all, Gates looked at the old man, smiled and said, "Summer, your billion dollars in compensation is indeed too high. Everyone compensates one billion dollars, and the value of the tubing is directly cleared. It is better to declare directly. Forget about bankruptcy."

  "The value that tubing can create in the future is far more than this six billion."

   Lei Shidong looked at Xia Jingxing, and said every word: "The premise is to solve the copyright issue."

  Xia Jingxing shook his head and laughed, "We simply cannot afford to pay such a large sum of money. Even if the lawsuit is won, Mr. Lei Shidong, you will not get any benefits."

   "At least one missing user as many as 200 million, infringing on the copyright of our company's platform, and killing a hundred, can warn other companies, let them all stop the infringement."

  Xia Jingxing shook his head again, "Mr. Lei Shidong, you are wrong, the tubing is down, who is really benefiting? He used the other five companies as guns."

  "Daren, you don't have to try to break up our alliance." Redstone chuckled, "Murdoch has already called me, and he said you are scheming, be careful that you break us all."

  Xia Jingxing kept greeting Murdoch’s family in his heart, but after thinking about it, he also feels normal. Murdoch is an old world, and there will be no flaws in his work.

  "This is not to dismantle you, but to proceed from the actual situation. I think a living tubing is far more beneficial to Viacom than a dead tubing."

  Speaking of this, Xia Jingxing stopped and didn't go any further.

   Lei Shidong frowned and raised his hand to signal Xia Jingxing to continue.

  Gates looked at Xia Jingxing in surprise, not feeling very good in his heart.

  (End of this chapter)