Chapter 329 Planning
Mr. David Geffen was kind, and Ye Dongqing also reciprocated the favor by calling Reed Hastings, the current CEO and founder of Netflix, and asked him to help contact Mr. Geffen to see if there was any possibility of cooperation.
For Netflix, he has been treating it with an attitude of less care and less questioning, obviously not as attentive as Apple, Amazon, Tencent and other companies, mainly because the current development ideas are no problem, and Ye Dongqing does not need to spend too much thought, and it is okay to slowly expand the market according to today's development ideas, and it takes time to compete with the traditional video rental giants.
More than 400 million US dollars have been invested in Netflix before and after, the amount of funds is not large, so long it has brought him a return of nearly 100 million US dollars, the current total market value is more than 4 billion US dollars, he accounts for 13% of the shares, and the follow-up may increase investment, but the specific number is limited, and now the attention is still paid to the mobile intelligence industry and surrounding fields, and is continuing to look for companies worth investing in, after all, the company still has so much cash lying on its books, so much that it can only continue to increase its holdings of Amazon shares.
Let Laura call himself after coming over, have dinner after returning to the hotel, and then look at Facebook's recent financial statements, Apple will visit tomorrow, and by the way, Amazon Inc.'s California logistics warehouse will have a look, as a major shareholder, you can't just invest and ignore it.
When it comes to Facebook, just yesterday, its global user base exceeded 220 million, which refers to registered users, with an average daily usage of more than 130 million, which is already a very dazzling number, and there are many accounts that no one has logged in for half a year.
The original profit model is no longer suitable, advertising is still the focus, but the third-party application sharing and game sharing model is also being explored, and recently it has also considered optimizing the previous advertising promotion model, using a more accurate advertising matching model, Facebook has mastered a variety of data of more than 100 million users, interests, occupation, home address, etc., these are very relevant data to personal consumption tendency.
After it is put into use, most of them can attract more advertising resources, and the price will rise slightly, Amazon's Mr. Jeff Bezos values Facebook's user resources very much, and has placed a lot of ads, and may enter deeper cooperation next, Mr. Bezos mentioned in front of Ye Dongqing last time, for how to cooperate, has not yet drawn up a charter that satisfies both parties.
FB can bring a large number of users to Amazon, this is already certain, now the question is how much benefit Amazon can give FB, Ye Dongqing has shares in both companies, but Amazon is not his Amazon after all, there is no reason to cut meat and feed it to other shareholders, and the accounts that should be calculated still have to be sorted out.
A super data processing center is starting construction in the Santa Clara County area, with an initial total investment of about 300 million US dollars, including supercomputers and several large databases, this investment is paid by FB company out of his own pocket, Ye Dongqing did not pay any money, he hopes to use this data processing center to provide users with more rapid and More precise supporting services, Skype is sold, Whatsapp instant chat programs and Youtube will also be used in the future, Amazon and Apple may also join, there is no reason to duplicate the construction, and it will save a lot of money in the long run.
Recently, many Internet companies have spent a lot of money on this thing, what is it called a cloud computing platform, Ye Dongqing doesn't know too much, but a group of experts said that they could do it, and he agreed.
Laymen can't interfere too much with insiders, so Ye Dongqing only makes suggestions and formulates the development direction of these Internet companies, and the specific implementation links are handed over to the most professional people to be responsible, and they have developed some tacit understanding for so long, such as the person in charge of Facebook and Whatsapp and YouTube, each time he will only tell him the increase and decrease in the number of users, as well as the financial income and expenditure, etc., in addition, user evaluation, he himself will often use it to pick out some deficiencies.
It's hard to imagine that he relied on this kind of half-understanding to develop these companies, in fact, there are not many founders who do this, if the boss knows everything, then why do you have to pay so much to the supervisors.
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The bed was very comfortable, the room was very clean, and there were beautiful women sleeping around.
Such an environment should be very suitable for resting, but Ye Dongqing didn't fall asleep, the time was already more than two o'clock in the evening, and his head was already filled with all kinds of thoughts and news.
The problem that can make Ye Dongqing so entangled is, of course, a big deal, the problem he considers is how to achieve a wider range of resource sharing on the basis of maintaining the advantages of various companies, so that the companies under his hands can help each other and complement each other, such as Amazon and Facebook, to a certain extent, with Facebook's user adhesion, can greatly promote Amazon's performance growth, and Amazon can also stimulate Facebook's advantages in online business.
After thinking about it, the final conclusion is that in addition to in-depth cooperation, the two companies can also merge and use Facebook's cash flow to fill the hole in Amazon, he was taken aback by this idea, and finally rejected it because the backdoor listing was not cost-effective, and then thought of whatsapp, which has replaced the ICQ program of AOL, and considered whether to acquire the ICQ department and convert their users into users of Facebook and whatsapp chat programs, at the cost of more than a billion US dollars, in exchange for hundreds of millions of global users, it seems that it is not a loss, but Ye Dongqing is sure to seize the current market share of ICQ in the next time, in this way, it is tantamount to spending unjust money.
In the end, he didn't come to the best conclusion, which made Ye Dongqing feel that his head was not enough, and it seemed necessary to ask some experts to help make suggestions to achieve the greatest degree of complementary advantages, which was directly related to how far his industries could go in the future.
He doesn't remember when he fell asleep in a daze, but when he woke up, Mahi had already finished his morning run and had come back to take a shower.
She asked, "What would you like to eat, and someone would like to bring you some bread?"
"Have you eaten yet?"
"Hmm. ”
"Then you don't need to help me prepare, do you want to stay in the hotel to rest today, or go shopping in San Francisco, or act as my secretary and accompany me to the company to have a look?" Ye Dongqing asked.
“…… Let's go to the company with you, yesterday you went fishing, I was just watching TV in my room, but tomorrow I may not be able to accompany you, I found out on the Internet that there is an exhibition of Monet's paintings in San Francisco. ”
"Monet, I have a painting of him at home, and I will give you a slow ...... when the time comes."