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When it came to Netflix, Zhou Buqi took the lead and quickly finalized the cooperation plan between Ziweixing Global and Netflix.

Take Netflix’s paying user scale as a reference.

$0.72 per user per month.

For example, Netflix's streaming business now has 11 million paying users, so Netflix has to pay US$7.92 million in copyright fees to Ziweixing Global every month.

If it grows to 100 million users in the future, the monthly copyright fee to be paid will be US$72 million.

In addition, there is also the sharing of server storage space, which was almost difficult to achieve in the past. This is one of the reasons why streaming media companies appeared as early as the 1990s but failed to develop.

For example, the movie "Jurassic Park" may have multiple versions such as 480P, 540P, 720P, 1080P, etc., and the storage space occupied in the server may be as high as 20GB.

Ziweixing Global currently has thousands of movies and tens of thousands of TV series episodes. How much storage space will it take to convert these film and television contents into digital content and store them?

The cost of storage equipment alone is beyond the reach of ordinary companies.

In fact, storage can be said to be nothing more than capacity expansion.

But what about data migration?

According to the past model, it can only be a hard data migration, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive and extremely costly. For example, Universal Pictures canceled the authorization of "Jurassic Park" to Netflix and turned to Hulu for cooperation. At this time, you need to transfer all 20GB of data content to Hulu's server.

Once the scope of cooperation is too wide, the scale of data migration will be extremely huge, and it may not be completed in ten days and a half.

This affects efficiency and costs too much money.

However, the new era is different, and industrial technology has been upgraded!

Cloud computing is here.

This is a public platform.

All data content is stored on the cloud computing platform.

Netflix uses Ziweiyun's services, and the digital content of "Jurassic Park" is stored in Ziweiyun's cloud data center, forming a small module of "Jurassic Park".

If Ziweixing Global cancels its cooperation with Netflix and instead cooperates with Hulu, there will be no need for data migration. It can just let Hulu use Ziweiyun's services, and then let Hulu directly call "Jurassic Park" This small module can provide the streaming content of "Jurassic Park" in Hulu at zero cost without any additional consumption.

Why will cloud computing become a huge and popular industry in the future, with various countries actively promoting development? Because from a social perspective, cloud computing can minimize total social expenditures.

The previous data migration model was very costly, but the process did not produce any value and was a pure waste. For enterprises, this reduces corporate profits; for society, it reduces social taxes.

Cloud computing is a model that can greatly optimize social efficiency, empower all walks of life, and reduce costs and increase efficiency. As corporate profits improve, society's tax sources will naturally increase.

Therefore, behind the cooperation between Netflix and Ziweixing Global, there is also a third-party company, and that is Ziweiyun.

This is a hard condition.

Both Netflix and Ziweixing Global must use Ziweiyun's services. Through Ziweiyun as an intermediary, both parties can be guaranteed in many aspects such as data custody, data security, data storage, and data migration.

It can be seen from this that due to the cost considerations of massive data migration, Ziweiyun will play a huge role in the large industry of streaming media!

Because the data scale is so large, data migration is almost impossible, and streaming media companies can only choose the original storage location of massive data to cooperate.

In other words, as long as Ziweixing Global stores all its massive streaming media digital copyright data in Ziwei Cloud, in the upcoming chaos in the streaming media industry, thousands or tens of thousands of streaming media companies will If you want to get the copyright of Ziweixing Global, you can only cooperate with Ziweiyun!

They seem to have a choice, but in fact they have no choice. This is a monopoly system based on cost.

Just like Walmart.

Fortunately, in big cities, the residents' spending power is very high, which allows many large shopping malls and hypermarkets to appear. But in some small towns or remote suburbs, where Wal-Mart exists, there is almost no grass growing.

Because Wal-Mart has lower costs, lower prices, and a wider variety of products, it can quickly defeat any competitor.

This is not a monopoly, but it achieves a monopoly effect.

Zhou Buqi has put all his efforts into the layout of Netflix and Ziweixing Global. In addition to being optimistic about the future development of the streaming media industry and entertainment industry, another very important reason is the gain in Ziweixing's cloud computing business.

This is a hard-core industry, and it is the foundation for Ziweixing International to gain a foothold in overseas markets!

It’s different from Helo.

Helo has more than 35 million overseas users and has achieved brilliant success. Even Zhou Buqi is confident that the user base will increase 10 times in the next three years.

But, what about 10 years from now? What about 20 years from now? What about 30 years from now?

Hard to say.

This is a C-end product, and the characteristic of C-end products is that they have no loyalty. Who knows when a more interesting and fun social product will appear, which will replace Helo.

But Zi Weiyun won't.

This is a B-end product with extremely high loyalty.

Because migration costs are too high, larger companies cannot afford the operational pressure caused by data migration and product jumps. In other words, as long as Ziweiyun develops, it will be difficult to fail in the future. Even if Zi Weiyun wants to fail, others will not allow it and will try every means to save her.

This is the most typical tax-collecting business.

Ziweiyun collects service fees from users every year, and users cannot refuse. It is like paying taxes. They have to pay even if they don't want to. Without paying taxes, the company cannot operate normally.

In order to develop Ziweiyun, Zhou Buqi almost used a method of shifting the world. Silicon Valley is on his left hand, and Hollywood is on his right hand. They are all at his mercy.

When discussing this business, Kurian followed Boss Zhou with an indescribable shock in his heart.

Only at this moment did he realize how grand the big boss's business layout was at the strategic level. In comparison, his stupid idea of ​​starting a "drone router" business to expand Ziwei Cloud's market was somewhat vague. Child's play.

This time, Kurian was finally relieved and convinced.

I used to respect Zhou Buqi just because he was the boss. But when it comes to recognition of talent and ability, there really isn't much. He doesn't think that a kid in his twenties can have a profound understanding of the complex B-side business.

Now he finally understands.

The big boss is indeed a big boss. He has unique vision and sharp judgment. He is really awesome!

No wonder when Ziweixing Global was established, Ziweixing International also participated in the investment and obtained 5% of the shares. This decision confused many people at the time.

Now the answer is revealed.

Very shocking!

If Ziweixing International and Ziweixing Global are not related in terms of shares and have no in-depth strategic cooperation, why should Ziweixing Global strongly support Ziwei Cloud, a subsidiary of Ziweixing International?

In short, after some communication, the cooperation plan was reached.

quite complicated.

During the cooperation, Ziweixing Universal promised to exclusively license all copyrights from MGM, Lucasfilm, DreamWorks Animation, and Summit Entertainment to Netflix. However, Universal Pictures and other film and television streaming rights acquired from outside are not exclusive licensing models. In other words, for other streaming media rights, Ziweixing Global can look for other streaming media companies to cooperate.

On the one hand, the copyright fees paid by Netflix are too low. Ziweixing Global can make more money through cooperation with other streaming media companies.

On the other hand, it paves the way for Ziweiyun's development.

All digital copyrights will be stored in Ziweiyun's data center. If other streaming media companies want to obtain the copyrights, they have only one option, which is to purchase Ziweiyun's services.

Netflix has obtained a large part of the exclusive license, and its performance will inevitably increase sharply; Ziweixing Global can find more partners and generate more revenue; Ziweiyun has industrial-level strategic support.

Three parties benefit!

The contract is signed for 4 years, and the matter is settled!

Zhou Buqi is very satisfied with this. Seeing that his industrial layout in the United States has gradually paid off in the past few years, and has developed ecological cooperation across industries, regions, and fields, he has a full sense of accomplishment in his heart. .

It took me a whole day to get this done, and by the second day, I was finally able to do something relaxing.

In three days, this year's NBA draft will be held at Madison Park in New York.

Because the Golden State Warriors were too weak, they naturally got a high pick. Now the draft rankings are out, the No. 1 pick is the Wizards, the No. 2 pick is the 76ers, and the No. 3 pick is the Nets.

The Warriors received the 6th pick.

Experts across the United States are analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of each player and providing various references. The Warriors have also proposed many various plans.

Lacob just took over the team and seemed very humble and didn't want to give random directions.

Zhou Buqi was not very satisfied and found him the next day. "Many people say that success or failure lies in the details. Now I am more and more disgusted with this argument. This is an unlimited delegation of responsibility. If you succeed, the greatest halo of honor belongs to you." The decision-making level; if it fails, the biggest responsible person is the grassroots staff. How can this make sense?"

Lacob understood what he meant. He was nothing more than dissatisfied with the current management of the Warriors. They should bear the main responsibility for the poor performance of the Golden State Warriors in the past few years. "I still need time to further understand the team. And get to know more people.”

Zhou Buqi nodded, "I support you on this point, but don't give up the draft rights."

"Um?"

"Has the current management selected any top players? Their quality is too low! I said, I will choose!"

Zhou Buqi snorted, his tone unquestionable.

This was a condition that had been agreed upon a long time ago. Lacob naturally agreed and said with a smile: "No problem, I will let someone give you all the player information and you will make the decision."

He doesn't think Big Boss Zhou knows much about basketball.

Player drafting is the most difficult thing. Many professionals often make mistakes, including Michael Jordan.

However, if he is willing to choose, let him choose.

He's right, the current team management is really terrible. Even if they choose blindly with their eyes closed, they may not be any worse than the people they selected through hard research and surveys.