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There was no mutual agreement. Although Zhou Buqi had met this old pervert a few times, they had no further communication. The main reason was that he couldn't understand this person's style.

However, everyone had specially sent a note to invite me, so it was hard to refuse out of politeness.

Zhou Buqi turned his head, covered his mouth and whispered to the venue staff around him that he wanted the team's general manager to come over.

He is the big boss and everyone has to do his bidding.

After a while, general manager Larry Riley arrived, and Zhou Buqi stood up and asked him to lead the way to the elevated box No. 6.

Oracle Arena is old and cramped.

As the two walked side by side, Zhou Buqi couldn't help but say: "The club should have a new plan to build a modern stadium that fits the characteristics of the Bay Area. It should choose a site in the urban area of ​​San Francisco. This stadium is too old. It’s too big, but the facilities are backward, and it’s totally out of tune with the prosperity of Silicon Valley.”

"this……"

Larry Riley was stunned. This was the first time he had dealt with this mysterious behind-the-scenes boss.

I was stunned on the spot.

Such a big thing was decided in just a few dozen seconds on the stairs? Don’t need to communicate with another boss? Don’t need to go through management?

Zhou Buqi said calmly: "This is what I mean. Let's discuss it later."

Last year, he bought the Golden State Warriors at a low price.

One of the important reasons for the low price is that the Warriors do not have their own venue. The current home stadium of Oracle Arena is rented from the Oakland Sports Authority.

This is related to the needs of tourism and local economic development.

Oakland is in the San Francisco ecosystem of the Bay Area, but strictly speaking, Oakland is not San Francisco and is equivalent to a suburb of San Francisco.

Oakland is a bit remote, and the Golden State Warriors can use the team effect to bring viewers and attention to it, increase the vitality of the city, and promote local economic development.

Professional sports in the United States have formed a complete industrial chain system.

During this process, the Oakland Council will continue to approve funds and entrust the Oakland Sports Authority to repair the Oracle Arena to meet the needs of the Warriors.

Over the past three decades, they have spent $150 million renovating Oracle Arena.

The Warriors don't have to spend a penny of this money.

You don’t even have to pay the rent of the venue. The venue only needs to take 5% of the ticket sales for the daily operation and maintenance of the venue.

That said, Oakland is losing money every year at its disposal at Oracle Arena.

The main purpose is to drive the local economy through professional sports.

The Warriors actually took a big advantage.

But for the ambitious boss Zhou, this doesn't work. Oakland can only be considered a suburb of San Francisco, a bit out of the way. If you want the football market to be prosperous, you must set your home court in a real big city!

Just like the Knicks and Nets.

In terms of strength, the Nets are stronger and the Knicks are the worst team in the league.

But in terms of team value, the Knicks are the richest team in the NBA, but the Nets are extremely poor.

They are both New York teams, so why is the gap so big?

Because of the location!

The home court of the Knicks is in Manhattan, the commercial center of New York, while the home court of the Nets is in Brooklyn, a suburb of New York...

If the Warriors want to achieve greater development, they must find a geomantic treasure land.

We went all the way to the box area on the MS floor, and arrived at Box 6... This is the VIP box. There are several sofa seats outside, where you can watch the game from a high position. It's a unique place inside, like a small bar with bartenders, waitresses, and even dancing girls. You have to be more restrained outside the box, but inside the box, you can do whatever you want. You can even drink and watch the striptease while watching the game through the screen in the box.

Maybe it was because a big shot was invited, so the atmosphere in the box was relatively cold at this time.

Even though he was cold, Zhou Buqi was really shocked.

After meeting Hugh Hefner and shaking hands, he first introduced his fiancée, a tall and beautiful blonde model in black clothes, who cuddled tightly with him.

She is about 60 years younger than him and looks very affectionate.

This is nothing, after introducing my fiancée, I introduced two younger girlfriends, who must have just turned 18... Wearing the same white suspender skirt, holding hands, and looking exactly the same.

It turned out to be a pair of twins.

The last time we met, there were more than just them.

Zhou Buqi was well-informed, Larry Riley had heard about it for a long time, and he was a little embarrassed at the moment, feeling that he was not the same person as this kind of person.

What's going on?

Talk about something!

I evacuated as soon as nothing happened. I couldn't bear to see these smoky and chaotic old men in their eighties still harming young girls here day after day.

Hugh Hefner seemed to have noticed that these two gentlemen did not like his style of style, so he could only sigh in his heart, feeling that in this era, there are really fewer and fewer elegant people.

Then, we got down to business.

It has to do with his career.

The main business of his company Playboy Group is the distribution of "Playboy" magazine. However, it has been severely impacted by the Internet in recent years, and sales have dropped significantly.

People now go to the Internet to search for low-quality junk pictures, instead of buying Playboy to appreciate the fine pictures and the elegance of exquisite women.

This is not only a tragedy of an era, but also caused the company Playboy to be severely impacted by the market, and its stock price fell again and again. The current market value is only $140 million.

Times are abandoning playboy.

But Hugh Hefner was unwilling. He was struggling and planned to delist the company and privatize it. Then practice behind closed doors, redesign the company's strategy and business direction, and start again.

He is here to cooperate.

Mainly two points.

First, Zhou Buqi invested US$50 million to help him complete the privatization and delisting of the company, at which time he will own 25% of the company's shares.

Second, "Playboy" needs to adapt to the times and develop some Internet business. If paper media cannot be sold, then it would be better to sell electronic subscription versions.

However, the Internet is not something that established companies can understand. Hugh Hefner hopes to ask him for help and let him be the sole agent for the Internet business of "Playboy".

As soon as Zhou Buqi heard this, his boredom disappeared immediately.

I feel like this is a good suggestion.

Streaming media!

This is a direction that Zhoubuqi attaches great importance to in its layout of the Internet industry.

By subscribing to Netflix, you can watch a lot of film and television content online. This is video streaming media;

By subscribing to Spotify, you can listen to a lot of music content online. This is music streaming media;

Subscribe to "Playboy" and you can watch many exquisite and beautiful beauties online. This is a picture streaming media...

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Buqi even thought about the product positioning of the electronic version of "Playboy".

There are indeed many such pictures on the Internet, but many of them are fake and have been modified repeatedly with PS. Even the face, breasts, and buttocks may have been plastic surgery, and they are all "artificial + technology" beauties.

"Playboy" has a complete team and a strong brand. It can focus on the concept of "natural beauties" and only show some big photos of real natural beauties, which can attract the recognition of a group of white-collar workers who have higher requirements for women. , you will spend money to subscribe.

However, this kind of matter for outsiders cannot be decided hastily. Who knows if there are pitfalls in it.

Set aside first.

Go back and investigate.

…

Zhou Buqi entrusted the "Playboy" matter to the administration of Ziweixing Global to investigate, and he took a plane and took off to New York.

This time, the officials in New York were very capable and efficient, and they quickly came up with the first version of the cooperation plan.

However, Zhou Buqi seemed to be stimulated on the plane and sighed.

Ning Yaxian noticed this, brought him a glass of juice, and asked with a smile: "What's wrong? Did you encounter something unhappy?"

"yes!"

Zhou Buqi sighed.

Ning Yaxian leaned gently into his arms, as gentle as water, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Buqi said: "While watching a basketball game, I met an old bastard."

"Huh?" Ning Yaxian smiled, "Hugh Hefner? Didn't you say that he wants to talk to you about potential cooperation with Playboy magazine?"

Zhou Buqi said weakly: "This is all a trivial matter. The total value of the Playboy Group is only more than 100 million US dollars, so it is not worthy of attention. The main reason is... alas!"

"how?"

"That Hefner is so irritating!"

"Did he make you angry?"

Ning Yaxian's beautiful eyes widened, a little unbelievable. Did she make someone angry while talking about business? how so?

Zhou Buqi gritted his teeth and said, "That old pervert is so abominable!"

Ning Yaxian was a little confused, "What happened?"

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "You haven't seen that he has a fiancée, a British model, who is 60 years younger than him! I originally studied psychology in college, and after dating him once, I dropped out and lived with him. ."

Ning Yaxian said calmly: "It's not surprising, no country lacks such gold-worshiping women."

"That's all. The key...the key is that he still has two little girlfriends with him, who are not yet 19 years old."

"Oh, he is a playboy, that's normal."

"twin!"

"ah?"

Ning Yaxian was slightly startled, a little surprised.

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "Those two young girlfriends are twin sisters! What a bastard! This old gangster has no bottom line in his private life! Shameless! Hateful!"

Ning Yaxian couldn't bear it anymore, bent down on the table and laughed.

I thought something serious had happened!

So that's what happened.

Boss Zhou is not angry, he is clearly jealous. After all...he has been so successful and has not yet touched the twins. This is because he is mentally unbalanced.