My Age of Investment

After leaving Lei Shidong's house, the two got into the car parked at the door.

Gates, who hadn't spoken the whole time while walking on the road, finally spoke to Xia Jingxing.

"Daren, have you already thought of a solution?"

Xia Jingxing knew that Gates definitely misunderstood, he really didn't intend to make him a tool man.

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

Gatzpi smiled, "It's definitely not a problem. According to my understanding of this old guy, he has always only considered interests. As long as you give more chips than Murdoch, he will definitely stand on your side. "

While speaking, Gates was also wondering if he had given the old guy too little bargaining chips.

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

In fact, Xia Jingxing had the same idea as them, and no one could give it to these greedy guys.

So he took a different approach and prepared to set up a new video platform and give it to them to share, so that it would not have too much impact on YouTube, and it would also calm the dispute.

And he has already thought of the name of the video, which is called "Hulu" video.

The former News Corporation and NBC Universal jointly established Hulu Video half a year later, followed by Time Warner, Comcast, and Disney.

The biggest enemy of this kind of streaming media is not YouTube, but Netflix.

The Lixia Fund under Liu Hai has bought a lot of Netflix shares from the secondary market since last year.

He also couldn't predict, if Hulu Video develops in the future, will it have any impact on Netflix's investment, and it will become a fight between left and right.

In fact, he can't think about that long-term. Now his only thought is to be generous to News Corporation, divert the attention of the vultures, and let them eat dogs.

"Daren, is the oil pipe still split?" Gates asked.

Xia Jingxing nodded, "Of course it will be split up."

This incident reminded him that even if the matter can be properly resolved in the end without any injuries, he can no longer keep YouTube in the Facebook system.

Compared with the increasingly mature Facebook,

There are still many problems with YouTube, and there will always be hidden dangers until the technology for screening copyrighted videos is mature.

In addition, opening up the loss situation of YouTube and not being tied to Facebook can also dispel some people's unrealistic ideas.

The worse the performance of YouTube, the more bad-mouthed it is, the safer it is.

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

After the owner of Google changed hands, he knew that there was a local rich man, and the Porcelain came soon after.

When Gates heard that the tubing was still to be split, he had a new idea in an instant.

"Dai Lun, you don't have much funds in the YouTube account, so you still need to raise funds after the split? How about letting Waterfall invest in a round?"

Xia Jingxing realized that the relationship with Gates should not be too rigid, and that he lacked someone who had been taken advantage of for more than ten years, so he immediately nodded and said, "Okay, no problem."

Seeing Xia Jingxing's straightforward answer, Gates' depression eased a little, he patted the former on the shoulder, and took the initiative to talk about the other four Hollywood giants.

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

The heads of the four companies have very different styles. There are hardliners who will claim a billion dollars, not a penny less;

But no matter what the faction was, after Xia Jingxing came up with several cooperation plans, his attitude relaxed 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 said that they should think carefully.

But after thinking about it for several days, no one has answered him clearly.

Xia Jingxing guessed that it had something to do with the division of interests.

Several companies are each a giant. It is amazing that two companies co-produced a movie, and five companies cooperated together, which has never happened before.

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

As for some giants jumping out to do it alone, he is not very worried.

The future of video sites is uncertain at present, and it is not a big secret that YouTube loses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

In addition, Netflix and Hulu Video have not found a successful model yet, and there is a high probability that HBO MAX and Disney+ will not be born at this stage.

Even if it is born, there will be a bunch of big players such as Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video waiting for them.

Compared with these companies, it is undoubtedly much easier to guard the oil pipeline of a track alone.

Of course, life in the past ten years will be very bitter, good days are to come, first bitter and then sweet.

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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.

"Bang bang~"

He knocked on the door of the foreign girl's office.

"Come in!"

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

The foreign girl was looking at the computer screen intently, and he didn't notice the person coming until Xia Jing walked close to the desk.

"Dai Lun, when did you arrive?" The foreign girl was both surprised and delighted when she saw the energetic Xia Jingxing.

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

"How is it going?"

Seeing that the foreign girl was very concerned, Xia Jingxing introduced the situation in the past few days.

"Set up a new video website? Do you need Facebook and Youtube to guide them?" Yang Niu was a little worried, "Will this cause us any trouble?

If they become bigger in the future and start to create original content like us, wouldn't they take away our market? Create enemies for yourself. "

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

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

A video platform that mainly promotes copyrighted videos will suppress the survival of original videos, and the two cannot coexist harmoniously, 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 holes for them again."

"It's not a matter of digging a hole. If the platform is successfully established, we are also shareholders. Why do we have to deal with ourselves?"

Xia Jingxing shook his head. There are so many things in the world that are black and white. To use a great man's words: make as many friends as you can, and make as many enemies as possible.

This is wisdom accumulated from rich experience in struggle, and it has to be learned.

Yang Niu heard Xia Jingxing say that the five heads were still under consideration, so she didn't feel too worried. Instead, she persuaded Xia Jingxing not to be too anxious. Anyway, the worst plans have been done, and now they have nothing. Fear, the soldiers will come to block the water and cover them with soil.

Xia Jingxing then asked about the splitting of Yangniu Youtube and the progress of Facebook's financing.

The YouTube split went relatively smoothly. All shareholders of Facebook agreed to the split, and there was no internal resistance. It was just a bit of a rush in terms of personnel deployment and management changes, but there were basically no major disturbances.

Facebook's financing is going to be a little more troublesome. I don't know what kind of slander several investors have received, but they all stand still, as if they are waiting to see what happens next.

At this point, Xia Jingxing can basically be sure that Murdoch must be playing tricks.

The more Yang Niu talked, the more angry she became, and she was about to scold Murdoch when the latter suddenly called Xia Jingxing.

He picked up the phone and was just about to say hello to Murdoch when a cold voice came from the phone.

"Daren, it's useless for you to delay time, stop trying in vain.

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

Seeing that Murdoch was still determined, Xia Jingxing smiled and said, "The conditions I gave before are also valid, the shareholding dilution ratio within 5%."

"That means we can't agree?"

Xia Jingxing turned on the speaker, and threw the phone on the table. The foreign girl could also hear Murdoch's words clearly.

Although her lungs were exploding with anger, the foreign girl still held back and did not speak.

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

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

The foreign girl was a little surprised, "I'm going to hang up now, I thought you would chat with him for a while."

"There is nothing to talk about. This war with them cannot be avoided, and it is also a good time to use him to convey some information to the outside world."

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