Chicago 1990

It’s hard to get a ticket for two APLUS concerts in Berlin. This pop song, film soundtrack, and symphony has a musical genius who has been involved in eight-year career. In fact, only two official studio albums have been released. American fans are waiting hard. It seems to have been completely immersed in the global popularity of the World Cup theme song The Cup of Life...'

In late September, Song Ya waved and blew kisses to the fans who sent the plane, bid farewell to Germany and set off for Ermao. The American reporter said in the sound of the screen: ‘As for the East Hall scandal...’

'despair. ’

Barry Diller turned off the TV, "Please sit down."

"Okay, Mr. Diller."

The two A+ liquor executives, who were also former Seagram veterans, just sat down respectfully, and then slightly got up to catch the wine glass handed by the tycoon himself.

"Don't be restrained, I have been friends with Edgar and his son for many years." Barry Diller said.

"we know."

"of course."

The two responded repeatedly.

"Did APLUS tell you about the details of coming to see me?" Barry Diller asked after sitting at the boss's table.

"Yes, we want to try to solve the monopoly problem with Seagram."

Barry Diller: "OK, what's the situation? APLUS said that your wine was deliberately suppressed by Seagram using channel energy?"

"It's not that serious. Seagram refuses to put our new red and white wines here, but that is excusable. The United States itself is a grape-producing region. Both relevant associations and local wine merchants are very resistant to new wines from China. Brand, we and Seagram are under great pressure, and the product itself has no price advantage..."

The other party replied: "The vodka product line has cooperated very well and has been selling goods normally."

Barry Diller: "That Grey Goose vodka, isn't it? I have fought a lawsuit with the French? It's very common in the market."

"Yes."

Barry Diller: "What about the production of red and white wine?"

"Because of the inability to open the international market, the output is not high, and they are all digested within China, but they are actually selling well."

Barry Diller took a pen and paused on the table. "APLUS told me that you tied a long appointment with Seagram while he was in a coma..."

"Uh..." The two old men looked at each other, "Mr. Diller, you know, we have worked for the Bronfman family for decades, and cooperation with Seagram has always been the first choice. This is from our acceptance of Mr. APLUS Make it clear when hiring...otherwise we would not work for a new wine merchant."

"This was originally a win-win situation, and the decision was made by Mr. Riise, President of A+ Wines."

"We just didn't expect him to have a conflict with Edgar Jr."

"We know that Edgar Jr. secretly gave Sigram a similar order to suppress it. This is very frustrating. We didn't expect it at all... We went to his father and sold out the old face begging but we could only Keep the vodka product line that has been cooperating for many years."

"Little Edgar doesn't like it, and rarely talks about the operation of the wine business. We quarreled with him before when we were in Seagram... Many times, maybe because of this, he was not happy to see A+ wine. The industry continues to develop rapidly."

"Of course he is a very good boy, and he is also very successful in transforming the entertainment industry. It is just a matter of interest."

"Yes, little Edgar was the one we watched grow up."

"Compared with his brothers and sisters, it's not like coming out of a family."

"The boss is good at everything, but he is too arrogant to the children. Since childhood..."

"It's totally correct to hand over the property to Edgar Jr., anyway."

The two old men babbled endlessly.

It’s very interesting. The boss in their mouth is still not referring to APLUS, but the old Bronfman. When they think of the old fox... Barry Diller smiled bitterly, "What about APLUS? What do you think of APLUS?"

"Of course he is also very good."

"Yes, there is the temperament of an old-school Chicago businessman, sharp like a knife, a bit like when the boss was young..."

"He has a beastly instinct for making money."

"And knowing what young people like now... this is very important."

The two old men praised again.

"Listening to your description, he is even expected to catch up with Morgan and Rockefeller." Barry Diller said deliberately.

"No, no, that's impossible."

The two old men laughed, "There are still a lot of shortcomings. He is not mature enough. He has the usual problems of most young people, such as rampant recklessness, frequent unnecessary arguments with others, and lack of patience."

"Yes, operating a traditional industry needs to endure long-term boring work, which he can't do at all. After promoting Grey Goose vodka, a major product, he has basically forgotten the wine business except for regularly reading reports. The clothing business doesn’t seem to be bothering much..."

"Cross-border geniuses are unable to concentrate because they have too extensive interests. Play this today and play that tomorrow."

"Yes, half of my studies go abroad for concerts..."

"When I got tired of pop music, I started playing gospel chorus."

"And those women..."

"We know that he has made most of his net worth in the stock market in the past few years, and he has easily made billions and billions of quick money. It is indeed unnecessary to continue to stare at clothing and wine. He is also hardworking and energetic. Time work, we just feel a little pity..."

"Of course we are both old minds, maybe we can't keep up with this era, haha..."

Barry Diller smiled at the corner of his mouth, squinted his eyes and listened in silence. He sketched in his mind an APLUS character portrait that had not been studied in depth before, and tried to figure it out.

The other party in the conference call that day was suddenly very excited and threatened Doug Morris, but this made himself and David Geffen keenly grasp his true psychology, that is, he was not very emboldened in the mutual harm with the young Bronfman. Sufficiently, he guessed that behind the Bronfman's request for the merging of A+ records and records, he probably had some conclusive handle, otherwise he would not say to Doug Morris, "I never accept threats."

Because I knew very well that the little Bronfman actually said 99% of it casually.

But put yourself in the position, whoever faces the pressure of the Bronfman family will at least be a little imaginary, even if he is not imaginary, he will definitely be imaginary, otherwise he will be a completely lunatic lunatic, and he does not deserve to earn thirty Billions of wealth.

It's all the same, why isn't it like that?

APLUS, the youngest self-made billionaire, must have a pile of dirt hidden under his glamorous appearance...

As long as the conditions are right, APLUS is willing to compromise. David Geffen and himself discovered this at the same time. The two 3 billion tycoons hardly decouple their entangled business from each other, and there are plenty of opportunities for making money.

"Uh, Mr. Diller, we told you this because the boss took care of us. I hope that what we said just now will not be spread..." The two old men finished complaining.

The'boss' is still referring to the old Bronfman.

"Of course not, I just talked with Edgar, and he also agreed with me that business is business, and it is not good for both parties to be stuck with APLUS." Barry Diller replied.

"Little Edgar there..."

"He also agreed."

"Really?" The two old men smiled, but immediately showed a little unbelief.

"Yes, he was too busy. I advised him to give himself a good vacation after he returned from Washington, but he flew to Xiangjiang non-stop. Anyway, you talk to me about a certain stage of the transaction details, and I will tell him ."

At the same Universal Music headquarters in Los Angeles, "Has the boss arrived in Hong Kong?" President Doug Morris asked his subordinates.

"I just arrived at the hotel, now I should be resting, jet lag."

"OK."

He put down the hand extended to the landline, and the company has entered the next stage of integration of Polygram Records, which is to straighten out some of its brands with complicated equity structure as much as possible through means such as redemption or spin-off and sale, streamlining management and saving Costs, as well as various repairs and internal mergers, in order to go public as scheduled, some of the bubbles that PolyGram used to blow must not be broken in its own hands.

He was naturally very busy. The boss, the young Bronfman, was calm on the surface, but he should also be very anxious. He hurriedly went to Asia to put out the fire as soon as he agreed to let APLUS go. Because he did not continue to manage with the former high-level Polygold Norman Zheng Sure enough, there have been a lot of mistakes in that area recently.

But Barry Diller, David Geffen and himself know the character of the rich three generations very well, and no one dares to pack a ticket. Will he change his mind when he returns from Asia, so at least he is interested in reaching an agreement with APLUS as soon as possible. Are interlinked.

Because of APLUS’s angry and threatening words, Barry Diller and David Geffen, two old foxes, were actually willing to decouple that day when they saw APLUS. They sensed the “business opportunity” and saw it in their eyes but didn’t intend to pierce it. .

Of course, you can't let the transaction price, otherwise if the rich three generations come back, if they regret it, then they will have to go back.

"Ugh!"

He couldn't help sighing, it is very likely that he will be back. The character of the rich three-generation boss is just like that. Once APLUS successfully decouples from the world, it will be a big tiger. The new special movie project diamond money printing machine is restarted. , When the time comes, the media will fan the flames and say something strange about the boss...

Shouldn't sign him, shouldn't buy A+ records, shouldn't let him go, let him go and still not complete the task of continuing to suppress...

It must be me again who was scolded by the rich three-generation boss pointing his nose...

But he had to do it. If the money printing machine was left at home, it would be better to take it out for cash, and after the release, the five major record companies would jointly block it...

Barry Diller actually has no plan to enter the recording industry, and the existence of his so-called friend is also very suspicious. Only he and himself know this matter. The old liar should not disclose it to David Geffen.

I hope that after APLUS leaves, I can't afford to toss any splashes, at least don't toss any splashes in the record industry. As for the movie project, it is not my own trouble.

"I heard some rumors that the Federal Trade Commission will receive a new grant next year to deal specifically with our old cases."

The subordinates observed his words and expressions and reported when his facial expression turned soft.

"What old case?" he asked.

"It was the monopoly case that year, the CD price was maintained at the resale price, and the six major defendants were the same."

The man answered.

"Ha ha……"

After so many years, there will be related rumors coming out at the end of each year. Doug Morris didn’t pay much attention to it at first, but after thinking about it, his brows wrinkled again, "I see. Go and check who is behind. promote."

Dismissed his hand, he took the exam alone, the temper of APLUS and Motula was dead, and he can control Daniel to some extent now, maybe he went crazy after the conference call that day, he didn't hesitate to sell Daniel. Directly accelerate the monopoly case?

That's a bit bad. Daniel was the president of Sony Columbia Records and the initiator of the CD price alliance, and the first person to respond was himself who was the president of Warner Records...

Not so, APLUS should indeed be willing to decouple. Today, I will send the wine business to see Barry Diller.

Is everything just a smoke bomb covering his revenge?

Once convicted of the establishment of a monopoly, Universal Music after the acquisition of Polygram will have to bear at least one third of the fine...

"Tsk!"

He smashed his mouth in annoyance, reached out to the landline, and stopped in mid-air for a long time before dialing.

"Doug!" Daniel's high-spirited voice came from the receiver, "my friend."

"You are not my friend, Daniel."

He said coldly: "You are a bit noisy..."

Daniel was very noisy. He heard men and women laughing, talking loudly, and the sound of wine glasses colliding, "Can you find a quieter place to talk?"

"Sorry haha, I'm having a party here."

Daniel seemed a little drunk, "Would you like to have a chat with the Mars in 30 Seconds? Leto! Shannon!"

"No no, I have something to look for you."

He knows that Daniel is recently touting Jared Leto, a star who plays rock and roll across borders. Shannon seems to be Jared's own brother, Shannon Leto, the band drummer.

"Okay, wait a minute... let's talk."

Daniel moved to a quiet place.

"Next year the Federal Trade Commission will have money for our case again." Although Daniel had sold himself as the chairman of the RIAA Copyright Dispute Committee, both of them were grasshoppers on the same rope in this case, and they could not run away.

"I know." Daniel said relaxedly.

"You know? What channel?" Faster than me? Where are your resources? He is strange.

"I just know it."

"Aren't you afraid that APLUS will betray you in order to retaliate against us?" He didn't expect Daniel to betray his secrets and provoke.

"On the contrary, he talked to me about this question, Doug, that kid has a bottom line in this regard, I was the great benefactor who took him out of the Chicago slums anyway..."

"Hehe, put the rest of your life on the bottom line of being a three billionaire? You know that a lot of that money is bloody."

"Don't provoke, useless Doug, I can be safer because of his protection~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Don't say it, you also enjoy the benefits of my friendship with him." Daniel laughed, "No thanks."

"When did you talk about it?"

"It's been a while, before he sets off for a global tour?"

"You knew then that the Federal Trade Commission wanted..."

"It's not convenient to disclose."

"Idiot! The kind of case that may involve billions of fines, what right does APLUS have to know the news so early in advance and protect you? You are really fainted by getting into the candy jar of his Cold Mountain project! Asylum? How humble, you have been the six presidents anyway! Don't let your guard down!"

Doug Morris cursed angrily, put down the microphone, and continued the long test with a gloomy expression, until the office door was knocked, "Come in!"

"Mr. President, I have heard a rumor that the Federal Trade Commission...this time... it seems that several large Internet companies are pushing it behind it."

Reporting from the staff.