My Age of Investment

   Chapter 688

  After leaving Redstone's home, the two got into the car parked at the door.

  Walking on the road, Gates, who had not spoken the whole time, finally spoke to Xia Jingxing.

  "Dalun, have you already thought of a response plan?"

  Xia Jingxing knew that Gates absolutely misunderstood, he really did not intend to let him be a tool man.

   "Mr. Gates, I only thought of this plan last night, and I don’t know if I can impress Mr. Lei Shidong."

Gatespi smiled and didn't smile. "It's definitely okay. According to what I know about this old guy, he always only recognizes benefits. As long as you give more chips than Murdoch gives, he will definitely stand by your side. "

When    was speaking, Gates was also wondering whether he gave the old guy too little chips.

  Like Murdoch, he wants to take down the entire oil pipeline. Naturally, it is impossible to distribute shares to several other Hollywood giants. He can only get cash subsidies.

  Xia Jingxing actually had the same idea as them, and no one can give it to these greedy guys.

  So he took a different approach, preparing to set up a new video platform and give them to share, so that it will not cause too much impact on the oil pipeline, and it can also quell the dispute.

   And he thought of the name of the video, it was called "Hulu" video.

  Previous News Corporation and NBC Universal jointly established Hulu Video half a year later, and Time Warner, Comcast, and Disney joined in successively.

  This type of streaming media, the biggest enemy is not YouTube, but Netflix.

  Liu Hai’s Lixia Fund has bought many Netflix stocks from the secondary market since last year.

  He can’t predict, if Hulu Video develops in the future, will it have any impact on Netflix’s investment, and it will become a battle between left and right hands.

  Actually, he can't think about that long-term. Now his only idea is to be generous with News Corp., to divert the attention of the vultures and let them bite the dog.

   "Daren, is the tubing still split?" Gates asked.

  Xia Jingxing nodded, "Of course we must split."

  This time the incident reminded him that even if the matter can be resolved properly and unharmed in the end, he can no longer keep the tubing in the Facebook system.

  Compared with the increasingly mature Facebook, there are still many oil pipe problems. Before the technology for screening copyrighted videos matures, there will always be hidden dangers.

  In addition, opening up the loss of oil pipes and not tying them with Facebook can also dispel unrealistic ideas from some people.

  The worse the performance of the tubing and the more bad-mouthed it is, the safer it is actually.

  In the previous life, when Chen Shijun was in the hands, several Hollywood giants did not come to blackmail.

  After changing hands to Google, I knew that a local rich man had come, and the one who touched porcelain came right after him.

   Gates heard that the tubing still had to be split, and instantly got a new idea.

  "Dalun, there are not too many funds in the oil pipeline account. After the split, we still need to raise funds? How about letting waterfall invest in a round of investment?"

  Xia Jingxing realized that the relationship with Gates could not be too stiff, and that he lacked a person who was wronged for more than ten years, so he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, no problem."

   Seeing Xia Jingxing’s answer, Gates’s depression diminished a little, patted the former on the shoulder, and then took the initiative to talk about the other four Hollywood giants.

  In the next few days, Xia Jingxing pulled Gates and visited the heads of Disney, Time Warner, Sony Columbia, and NBC Universal.

  The four heads have different styles. There are hardliners who claim billions of dollars to death, and a penny can’t be less; there are also gentlemen who talk euphemistically and actually want to sell shares in the oil pipeline.

   But no matter what the faction, after Xia Jingxing came up with several cooperation plans, his attitude has been loosened to varying degrees.

  In addition, Xia Jingxing still wanted to make it easier to initiate the establishment of Hulu Video.

  Including the old man Lei Shidong, none of the heads of the five companies directly agreed, and all expressed that they need to consider carefully.

  I thought about it for several days, but no one has clearly responded to him.

  Xia Jingxing's conjecture is still related to the division of interests.

  Several companies are giants of one party. It’s amazing that the two companies co-produce a movie, and the five companies work together. It’s never been before.

  In his previous life, he didn't know how News Corp. persuaded a group of colleagues to cooperate with them, but he could guess it. It was not an easy task.

  As for the giants who jumped out to go it alone, he was not very worried.

  The video website is currently undecided. It is not a big secret that the oil pipeline loses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

  In addition, Netflix and Hulu Video have not yet come out with a successful model. HBOMAX and Disney+ will not be born at this stage.

  Even if it is born, there will still be a bunch of big players waiting for them from AppleTV and AmazonPrimeVideo.

  Compared with these companies, it is undoubtedly a lot easier and more comfortable to guard the tubing of a track alone.

  Of course, the days of the past ten years will be very hard, and the good days will come later, first bitter and sweet later.

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  After a few days of visits, Xia Jingxing and Gates parted ways.

   Gates returned to Seattle, Xia Jingxing returned to Silicon Valley and went directly to Facebook.

   "Boom~"

  He knocked on the door of Yang Niu's office.

   "Please come in!"

After getting permission, Xia Jingxing pushed the door and walked in.

  The foreign girl was looking at the computer screen intently. It was not until Xia Jing walked near the desk that he noticed the visitor.

   "Dalun, when did you arrive?" Yang Niu was surprised and delighted when she saw Xia Jingxing who was energetic.

   "Just came back." Xia Jingxing sat down on the desk.

"How is it going?"

  Seeing that the foreign girl was very concerned, Xia Jingxing gave a brief introduction to the situation in the past few days.

   "Set up a new video website? Need Facebook and YouTube to divert them?" Yang Niu was a little worried, "Will this cause us any trouble?

  In case they become bigger in the future, and learn from us to start creating original content, wouldn’t they take away our market? Cultivate enemies for yourself. "

  Xia Jingxing seemed very confident, shook his head and said: "No, these are two business directions and two tonality.

   Just as Google can't do social networking well, Yahoo can't do search well.

  A video platform that promotes copyrighted videos will suppress the survival of original videos. The two cannot coexist in harmony, and vice versa. "

  The foreign girl looked at Xia Jingxing with watery eyes, and said with a smile: "Well, I guess you must have dug some big hole for them."

   "It's hard to talk about digging holes. If the platform is successfully set up, we are also shareholders. Why can't we have trouble with ourselves?"

  Xia Jingxing shook his head. There are so many black and white in the world. In a word of the great man, it is: We must make many friends and make few enemies.

  This is all the wisdom accumulated from the rich experience of struggle, and we have to learn.

The foreign girl heard Xia Jingxing say that the five heads were still thinking about it. They didn't feel too worried. Instead, they persuaded Xia Jingxing not to be too anxious. Anyway, the worst plan was done. Now they are nothing. Shocked, soldiers came to cover the water and earth.

  Xia Jingxing asked about the split of Yang Niu’s tubing and the progress of Facebook’s financing.

  The split of the oil pipeline is relatively smooth. All shareholders on Facebook agree to the split. There is no internal obstruction. It is just a little messy about the deployment of some personnel and management changes, but there is basically no mess.

   Facebook financing is going to be a little more troublesome. I don’t know what kind of slander several investors have received. They all stood still, as if watching the next situation.

  At this point, Xia Jingxing can basically be sure that Murdoch must be in it.

  The foreign girl became more angry as she spoke, and was about to scold Murdoch, who suddenly called Xia Jingxing.

  He picked up the phone, and just as he was about to say hello to Murdoch, there was a cold voice over the phone.

   "Darren, it's useless if you want to delay time. Don't do it in vain.

  The conditions I gave before are still valid, don’t make the wrong choice. "

  Xia Jingxing saw that Murdoch was still determined to himself, and smiled and said: "The conditions I gave before are also valid, and the equity dilution ratio is less than 5%."

   "Then you can't agree?"

  Xia Jingxing turned on the amplifier, and the phone was thrown on the table. The foreign girl also heard Murdoch's words clearly.

  Although her lungs were exploding, the babes still endured without speaking.

   "Since we can't agree, let's not talk about it!"

  Xia Jingxing hung up the phone with a "pop".

  The foreign girl was a little surprised, "It's hanging up, I thought you would talk to him for a while."

   "There is nothing to talk about, this war with them cannot be avoided, and it happens to use him to convey some information to the outside world."

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  (End of this chapter)