Hastings is the founder of Netflix, and although his entrepreneurial story is very, who made him successful and created the world's largest streaming empire? Zhou Shi publicly stated that he took a stake in Netflix, which made this guy who served on Microsoft's board of directors feel honored and a little worried. Although Netflix's stock price has risen a lot, it is still less than half of Zhou Shi's net worth (Netflix is now worth about $6.5 billion). He didn't know what the point of Zhou Shi's investment in Netflix was. You must know that YouTube has always maintained the status of the king of global video websites, and Zhou Shi himself is still the second largest shareholder on Amazon's board of directors, does this Amazon have any ideas?

In fact, how could Zhou Shi have so many ideas, that is, the news was leaked by others, which made this matter bigger. So the two sides had a friendly and harmonious conversation, and Zhou Shi would maintain the status quo and not interfere in anything with Netflix for the time being.

"Don't worry, I won't do better than you, how can I ask for trouble like this. And I also appreciate your business strategy, except for the matter of express DVD, you are almost impeccable. "Zhou Shi

"You also think there's something wrong with our DVD project?" Hastings

"Well, I think it's a technological advancement that has improved the way people are entertained, and the DVD model is neither economical nor affordable, and it's inconvenient, and sooner or later it will be obsolete. And it is likely that the elimination of this model is the streaming ......" Zhou Shi began to show his foresight, and it is difficult for people who are not capable to be respected by everyone. Zhou Shi, who pointed out the country from time to time and showed a sense of existence, became more and more shameless. Moreover, most of the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are very confident, even if Zhou Shi says that he is from the future, what will happen to this industry in the future. It is not necessary that people accept this point of view, and if they accept it, they will not necessarily implement it, and most successful people believe in themselves more than they believe in others.

Hastings, an elitist who is a CEO by day and a programmer by night, feels an unprecedented experience (in fact, it is roughly similar to DST only investing and not managing, but he and Yuri Milner have different identities and statuses, and the impact is also different). The two exchanged contact information with each other, although Zhou Shi said that he would not interfere in the company's operations, Hastings would not be so stupid, and the necessary communication and contact was a must. And he has long wanted to find a chance to meet Zhou Shi, the World Cup in South Africa that has just ended, the most famous is in addition to Paul the Octopus and the big data center of Time Holdings, in this unpopular World Cup, in addition to predicting all the countries that entered the knockout round at the beginning, there are also the results of almost all the games at the beginning of the knockout round, including the championship of Spain. Although it was not deliberately promoted, and the prediction results were displayed on Twitter at the same time as the game every time, which did not attract much attention at first, but when it entered the quarterfinals, it was still discovered, and the official account of the big big data center of this time was instantly subdivided into millions. Even Hastings was shocked by such a sci-fi big data prediction (pig's foot cheating), not to mention others. Fortunately, the Time Big Data Center promised no longer to make any predictions for sports competitions such as the World Cup after the World Cup in South Africa, and not to do any profit-making activities through big data predictions, which blocked many people's bad thoughts.

Besides, Netflix's transition to video streaming is largely due to the emergence of YouTube, and being able to cooperate and communicate with one of the founders of YouTube can give him more inspiration for Netflix's future development direction. Zhou Shi is also happy to see this, and there is no harm in being able to establish a good relationship with a leader who will change the future.

After the world-shaking prediction event of the World Cup, not only big data has received more attention, but also the technical strength of Time Holdings has been more recognized. This company, which has grown under the control of Galaxy Capital, Sixiang Fund, and Zhou Shi, has finally attracted the attention of the world.

The merger between Marvel and Disney is also in the final step at this time, and the repurchase of Miramax will be closed at a price of $1.2 billion. That is, the price at the time of the original acquisition, and it is the basic principle that it cannot be depreciated. For a well-run business, this price is still quite cost-effective, and Zhou Shi thought that no one should have an opinion.

"Mr. Zhou, this price is much higher than we expected, you see if the conditions of our cooperation can be changed. Huaying's Han Santong slapped Zhou Shi in the face hard

"Mr. Han, you must know that letting you join this acquisition will not do me any good in the short term, and the entry of Huaxia's state-owned capital into Hollywood has caused some people to be vigilant and warned me. What conditions do you want to change?" Zhou Shi, his words are not unfounded, some people do have opinions, if it weren't for Zhou Shi's efforts during this period of time (friend network, Twitter transfer, etc.), maybe his plan would be blocked.

Han Santong's face changed, he thought about it and said: "Can our borrowing ratio be lower, we need to apply for funds to go abroad, and it is difficult for us to raise enough funds in such a short period of time."

"Mr. Han, let me say it bluntly, if you can't do it, forget it, I don't lack your funds. In the future, if there is an opportunity, we will work together. Do you think Huaying can get this opportunity without the conditions for borrowing? And with my credibility, even if my conditions are harsher, there will be a lack of people to cooperate?" Zhou Shi said unceremoniously, sometimes it is really difficult to do good things, even if he wants to introduce state-owned capital to achieve a win-win situation, so that they have the opportunity to participate in international operations at close range and know some of the rules of the game in Hollywood. can make Chinese culture go abroad better, but there are always people who regard this kindness as weakness.

"Mr. Zhou, I personally want to promote this cooperation very much, and I also accept such conditions, but many times the affairs of state-owned enterprises are not something that I can make alone. Han Santong saw that Zhou Shi was angry and hurriedly explained.

"You don't want me to contact the above directly, do you?" Zhou Shi

"This ...... I mean, the reality is that investing in Miramax is not necessarily going to be successful, and if it fails, coupled with such borrowing conditions, we will be very passive. "Han Santong

"Investment failure? Are you kidding, even if it fails, Huaying's ability to familiarize itself with the rules of the game in Hollywood is the biggest gain, do you still want me to guarantee the success of the investment? If you lose money, let me supply you?" Zhou Shi was confused by him, this kind of monopoly enterprise, earning money from drought and flood, did not dare to take risks. The real horse was raised and scrapped, which company in the market has such waste materials?

"Huaying is national, not personal. "Han Santong

"Mr. Han, since I started my business, I have always disliked to negotiate terms with others, and I have always adhered to the idea of win-win cooperation with others. In this cooperation, if you agree, you will agree, and if you don't agree, forget it. Zhou Shi doesn't like grinding, although if he offends Huaying, his development in the film and television industry will be limited to a certain extent in the future, but as he said, Huaying is a country, and what he said may not be useful, not to mention that Zhou Shi's influence at home and abroad at this time is not something he can suppress if he wants to.

Starlight Films' "Despicable Me" was a box office hit, and the investment of nearly one billion soft girl coins (70 million US dollars in production costs, as well as publicity and distribution) has paid off handsomely. Up to now, on July 15th, Despicable Me's global revenue has reached 600 million US dollars, and the Chinese market has exceeded 1 billion soft girl coins, which has raised the global box office, and this is not an imported film, and the box office share enjoys the same treatment as Huaxia films. Starlight Pictures can make more than $100 million at the box office alone. Paramount regretted this very much, and wanted to get the right to cooperate and distribute the sequel to "Despicable Me". It's a pity that it's too late to regret at this time, no matter how stupid Zhang Zhao is, he won't make such a mistake.

The communication between the two ended up a little unhappily, but who told Zhou Shi to ask for trouble?

(End of chapter)