Seeing someone coming in, HBO's representatives put away their aggressive attitude.

Wang gradually shook hands with Reed, and invited the other to sit down.

He looked at the two groups of people sitting at the conference table, and thought to himself.

From the words of the representative of HBO just now, I knew that the other party was not just coming in front of "Prison Break".

And this Reed Hastings, who is willing to give up some of his producer powers, obviously has a lot of plans.

"By the way, I forgot to introduce, this is the representative of HBO. ”

This is Reed Hastings from Los Angeles, who is also interested in investing in the Prison Break prequel. ”

The two sides glanced at each other.

The representative of HBO is okay, just as the other party is an investor who wants to enter the entertainment industry.

Reed, on the other hand, frowned.

HBO's business model, in a sense, is very similar to its own vision for the future of the enterprise.

Wang gradually took out two documents and handed them to both parties, "This is the current ratings of "Prison Break", and the audience's evaluation. ”

"That's the profit margin of Prison Break so far. ”

Wang gradually handed the two documents to both parties.

"Now, it's time to talk about your offer. ”

"HBO is interested in working with the website in depth," HBO representatives said, setting aside the documents, "In addition to the prequel to Prison Break, we also hope to get priority adaptation rights for other works on the website." ”

In return, HBO promises that every adaptation will be on the television network, and will not choose to hide in the snow. ”

However, each adaptation can only be streamed on HBO. After the broadcast, HBO also has the right to buy out the copyright of the film and television work. ”

Hehe, so domineering.

Wang gradually nodded noncommittally, and looked at Reed's side again.

Reed stared at the HBO representative for a moment, then opened the briefcase he was carrying with him and pulled out a document from it.

"Mr. Wang, can you talk about it privately? ”

After obtaining the consent of the HBO representative, Wang gradually took Reed to his office.

"I don't know, what does Mr. Wang think of the current videotape market in the United States?" Reed sat in his office chair and handed Wang a document.

Wang gradually took the document and looked at it.

I saw that in the current video product market, Baishida occupies an absolute advantage of nearly 5% with the absolute hegemon.

And its new stores are still increasing.

But then, Wang gradually frowned again.

Because although the number of Baishida chain stores is increasing, the turnover of individual stores is continuing to decline.

This...

"Hehe, Mr. Wang must be surprised that when Besta has added a large number of stores, why does the total profit decline?"

Wang gradually nodded, looking at Reed suspiciously.

"First, there is serious homogenization. Besta doesn't have anything unique of its own, they're just a resource aggregator. ”

"With the opening of some small video rental shops, it is inevitable to hit the fundamentals of Besta. ”

"On the other hand," Reed pulled out a newspaper, "thanks to HBO's good start." ”

Wang gradually took the newspaper and found that a piece of news was being reported in the newspaper.

According to the news, in just 95 years, five free-to-air TV networks have been converted to pay-TV networks.

Some of these TV stations focus on action movies, and some focus on literary films.

A large number of videotape rental users are beginning to convert to paying TV users.

"So, Mr. Wang. Why don't we have an in-depth cooperation?"

Reid proposed, "We don't want much, just the exclusivity of the tapes." ”

He took out a plan and handed it to Wang Yan.

"This is a proposal that I have spent a few days drafting. ”

"The above is the development plan, and the specific cooperation method. ”

"Please Mr. Wang read it carefully and give me a reply as soon as possible. ”

With that, he handed Wang a business card and turned to leave.

Wang gradually sat on the office chair, took a cursory look at the plan book, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

What a big ambition!

He would call Tom on the inside line: "Send the HBO representative away first, and say I'm going to think about it." ”

"Understood. ”

In this proposal, there is a rough description of Reed's intention to progress the video tape rental industry.

Then, I spent a lot of space talking about how to work together.

Basically, Reed will invest a certain amount of money in proportion to the number of people who pay for each work.

He does not participate in other profit sharing of the film and television drama, as long as the right to sell the exclusive video products of the film and television drama and the income.

As compensation, of course.

Websites are also not allowed to sell movies and television dramas to paid channels within three years of their premiere.

Wang gradually thought about HBO's plan and Reed's plan, and fell into deep thought.

And at this time, Finland, Helsinki.

The office building of Nokia, a world-famous mobile phone manufacturer.

An engineer is demonstrating a new product under the watchful eyes of executives and investors.

"This phone is called the Nokia 9000 and it is the most advanced phone in the world today. ”

"Not only does it add the ability to send and receive faxes, emails, and messages, but it also comes with a full keyboard. ”

"The most important thing is that it supports the Internet both in terms of hardware and software. ”

"This should be the world's first real 2G mobile phone!"

An investor picked up the Nokia 9000 with great interest and played with it.

Available in a few minutes.

The investor frowned and looked at the engineer.

"Is this so-called Internet only available to text messages?"

"Uh," the engineer glanced at the investor, "and under the current technical conditions, it is most appropriate to look at text information." ”

"You guys want this thing," the investor closed the phone speechlessly, "to challenge the current hegemon in the mobile phone market, Motorola?"

"Do you know what opening my eight-year-old son's web collection will reveal?"

"What is the attraction of reading text-based information on the Internet, you sue me?"

"Uhhh

Your son's favorites are full of muscular hunks!

At this time, an engineer hired from the United States at a high price raised his hand.

"Actually, if you just look at the text, it will still have a certain appeal. ”

"Oh?" the investor looked at the person who spoke with a smirk, "Then you can show me this." ”

The young man walked up to the podium, picked up his phone and started pressing the buttons

Immediately after, an English website appeared on the big screen in the conference room.

It's just that this site opens very slowly because of the transfer speed.

After waiting for a while, the young man simply clicked on the first link on the homepage of the website.

Then, the text-only page loads quickly.

The investor frowned and looked at the big screen, "Extreme Heavenly Demon?"

"What is this?"