Chapter 430: Nothing to do but ascend to the Three Treasures Palace
It is said that there is nothing to do in the Three Treasures Palace, whether it is Mr. Ellison or Mr. Jobs, they are not familiar with Su Mu so that they come to each other's houses at will.
Especially Ellison, this slut is a straightforward copycat of a lot of Sumu's products from those companies, as long as he finds that a certain program is popular, he will immediately let people launch similar products, racking his brains to bypass patents, so he makes a lot of money.
Two people in front of them.
One is famous for his bad reputation, and the other is famous for his bad temper, neither of which is an easy character to deal with.
In the late 90s, more than a decade after Steve Jobs' life peak, the memory of Silicon Valley was much worse than people imagined, and generations of entrepreneurs either took off quickly or disappeared, and most people have long forgotten who he was.
From the point of view of achievements, many entrepreneurs who are better than Jobs have encountered a low point in their lives, and his experience of being kicked out of Apple is really nothing, after all, today's Apple is the Apple company that belongs to Su Mu and the major shareholders.
In recent years, Jobs has made a lot of money, and although he is still a long way from being super-rich, he has more than 80 percent of the shares of Pixar Animation Studios, worth more than a billion dollars.
Recently, the first 3D computer animation produced by Pixar Animation Studios was a huge box office hit, which made the Disney Group take a fancy to it, and it is said that it is willing to bid $1.7 billion for the entire acquisition.
If he sells this company, he can get more than a billion dollars, and most ordinary people will not be able to make such an astonishing fortune in their lifetimes, even if some people laugh at his "failure", the starting point may just be red-eyed......
The two in front of them were the objects that Su Mu could only look up at when he first came to Silicon Valley, and now they want to do business, but they need to visit with gifts, the kiwi fruit in the box on the coffee table, this is the gift brought by Mr. Ellison.
Smiling and stretching out his hand to say hello, Su Mu asked directly to the point: "I heard that you have business that you want to talk to me about, and I'm listening." ”
"That's right, Leon......"
Mr. Ellison crossed his legs, lit the cut cigar and put it to his mouth, and continued: "Jobs and I recently came up with a good business, and now we need your help, you have the world's largest netizen resources, and we want you to help promote it." ”
"Just contact the people in my company directly about this matter, as long as you are willing to pay for advertising, I won't turn away your products, the money is innocent, isn't it?" Su Mu said, he didn't think that the two of them came all the way to tell him this.
"Listen to me first, we plan to develop a program specifically for listening to music, which has been supported by Warner Music, Sony, EMI and other major record companies around the world, and the music provided to users in the future is genuine.
The difficulty is that they told me that you worked with these companies a few years ago and got exclusive agreements for online music, and they couldn't relicense them to us without your permission. So this time I came to cooperate, and if you have any requirements, just ask for it, as long as you are willing to agree to authorize. ”
Mr. Ellison was disgruntled.
He couldn't figure out why Su Mu's mind was so good, he could always be one step ahead of others, and when everyone didn't react, he would take away all the benefits, not only the music copyright, but even the online film and television rights of a group of Hollywood companies were also in Su Mu's hands, if it wasn't for talking to the people from the music company, Ellison wouldn't have known about it.
Old friend Steve Jobs, finally came up with the idea of starting a business again, and Ellison was willing to help him, so he came to Su Mu, trying to try his luck and trying to understand it, to see if Su Mu was clear about the value of those music electronic copyrights.
Unfortunately, Su Mu knew it all too well.
After hearing this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't you know that I developed a similar product three years ago? The name of the program is Hummingbird Music, do you think I will be kind enough to license it and have one more competitor to compete with me for the market?"
Sighing deeply, Ellison looked at his old friend Steve Jobs.
After receiving the signal, Mr. Jobs nodded and said: "I understand that it will infringe on your interests, so I said that you can talk about any request, as long as you can authorize us." ”
"Even if it's 50 percent of the shares?"
Su Mu said casually, but he didn't expect Jobs to nod without hesitation!
"I can give you 50 percent of the shares in $10 million in financing, but the control of the company is absolutely mine," he said. ”
is so neat and tidy, most of them have been discussed before coming, Su Mu has been authorized by many music companies, and he is almost invincible to carve up the online music market with them.
From this point of view, it is not much for him to ask for 50% of the shares, after all, he is opening the opportunity to enter this market to other companies, if Su Mu does not agree, with a small number of sound sources, the possibility of entrepreneurial success is extremely small.
The increasing number of Internet users and the speed of Internet transmission have made Internet users more and more entertaining, and online music is one of the hot industries, with a market prospect of billions of dollars.
"Mr. Jobs, I don't think I seem to have the need to authorize, now the company is developing very well, and the Galaxy Group has given enough resources to support the Hummingbird Music program to expand the user base, I would be happy to do business with you, but it's not a business I've already set foot in, to be honest, with Mr. Ellison here, I'm worried about luring wolves into the house. ”
When Ellison heard this, he rolled his eyes again and again, and the soft one didn't work, so he began to be hard, and threatened: "But those music companies don't think so, at that time, you agreed with them to pay two to three times the amount of liquidated damages, and only spent nearly 200 million US dollars, and now they are no longer satisfied with this profit, since they may make more money, why do they only cooperate with you? I don't think those music companies can come up with the money to compensate for the liquidated damages, and take us to make it together, it's not a good habit for you to eat alone like this, maybe it can form a healthy competition?"
This is a problem that Su Mu didn't consider before, and he began to worry in his heart, if he wants to get an exclusive license, it mainly depends on the meaning of those music companies.
Unwilling to admit defeat at all, Su Mu immediately replied: "I agree with your idea, so if I invest in the SAFTSE company founded by Mr. Mark Benioff, I believe you will not have an opinion, right?"
This gentleman, Mark Benioff, who once served as senior vice president of Oracle, resigned and founded a customer relationship management software company, which can be regarded as competing with Oracle to seize the market.
Isn't it a threat, who wouldn't ......