Chapter 722: Yahoo takes a stake in Netflix

Lei Jun and Pichai came out one after another to explain Time's dual headquarters system and its privacy and security protection system. Finally let the public put down their worries, except for the equity relationship, Time is no different from other Silicon Valley Internet companies. Although there are doubts about the current major shareholders of Time, they have also dissipated with the enthusiasm for Zhou Shi.

"The best entrepreneur in history, the best investor!"

"An excellent Internet entrepreneur who doesn't understand technology and management!"

"The youngest super-rich man in history, a seriously underestimated post-80s generation!"

"Yahoo's savior, the most legendary entrepreneur of the 21st century. ”

"The invisible Internet giant, the legend behind it!"

There are various praises, but what is even more pleasing is that Yahoo's stock price has soared, and its market value has exceeded $45 billion. Yahoo Messenger's unusual vitality may be the key reason, or it may be because of Zhou Shi, the chairman who is not responsible for specific affairs.

"Our cooperation agreement with Netflix is about to be reached, right?" Zhou Shi asked Chen Shouzong at Yahoo headquarters

"Soon, the initial agreement is for Yahoo to buy Netflix shares and buy 9.9 percent of the shares, becoming its largest shareholder. Then the two sides reached a membership cooperation agreement, and the specific profit sharing ratio was almost negotiated. But there's another surprise!"

"What kind of accident?" Zhou Shi asked casually, the impact of this accident was obviously not great.

"Carl Icahn also joined us in taking a stake in Netflix. "Chen Shouzong

"Oh, does he know about our affiliate program?" Zhou Shi

"I'm not sure, but it's possible that he's optimistic about Netflix's development. "Chen Shouzong

"Forget it, leave him alone, as long as it's out of the way, and pay attention to the company's confidentiality system, I don't want Yahoo to be a sieve where anyone can know our secrets." "Zhou Shi, although most of his moves in Yahoo are conspiracy, not everyone can learn and use them well, but there are always some secrets that are inconvenient to disclose.

"I will pay attention to the fact that the group's security and confidentiality measures should indeed be tighter!" Chen Shouzong, although it is easy to produce results in such a thriving enterprise, there are many problems. Especially Zhou Shi, although on the surface it seems to be a great achievement, in fact, he attaches great importance to the construction of the foundation and foundation. Yahoo's investment in security is not even less than that of star products such as Yahoo Messenger. The real group, including Yelp and Linkdein, has been integrated into a unified security protection system in terms of security, forming the company's cloud security division.

Netflix's investors are mainly institutional investors, Zhou Shi was the largest shareholder before, and later cashed out a lot because he wanted to invest in Guohu, Reed Hastings himself held less than five percent of the shares, and Netflix this time because of the change in the membership system, caused a huge negative impact, at this time no one bucked the trend to increase their holdings. So Zhou Shi and Yahoo together have more than 15% of the shares, and the influence is very large, and he has also joined the board of directors of Netflix again.

The reason why Reid Hastings agreed to Yahoo's stake is mainly because Netflix's stock price fell further, even if Yahoo's stock price rebounded explosively, the market value reached a new high, but it still did not pull Netflix's stock price, which is now worth less than $4 billion (the lowest price of Netflix in this period in history is less than $3 billion). The decline in the stock price of this magnitude has put him under tremendous pressure on the board of directors. The addition of Yahoo and Zhou Shi will obviously ease his pressure, and the in-depth cooperation between the two sides will inevitably improve the company's operating status and expectations. In addition, there are so many Internet giants, and only a few companies such as Yahoo do not have their own video business, so if they don't choose Yahoo, will they choose Microsoft? Besides, Zhou Shi is famous for not liking to interfere in the company's operations, and he doesn't even sit in the position of CEO of Yahoo, so how can he care about the management position on Netflix's side. Moreover, the addition of Zhou Shi can also obtain the exclusive video content authorization of Miramax, which is very important to Netflix under the premise of facing the challenge of Hulu supported by several major film and television giants.

In fact, Zhou Shi will not squeeze into the now competitive video market, News Corp, Disney wants Zhou Shi's Yahoo to buy Hulu, but he directly refused. In the final analysis, the video industry still has to fight for self-made dramas and exclusive content in the end. Yahoo's money couldn't have been spent on it, and even after a few years, he didn't have the money to invest in this bottomless pit. Unless Yahoo starts making a profit, and that hope won't be visible anytime soon.

Miramax, which Netflix follows, is a representative of an independent film production company, like Lionsgate. With the financial support of several giants, coupled with the Internet promotion channels established with the help of Zhou Shi, it is radiating amazing vitality. Miramax manages MGM's 007 series and The Hobbit series, as well as Summit Entertainment's upcoming Twilight series (Pig's Foot has a bug in acquiring Summit Entertainment, although the first part of Twilight is not high, but about $400 million should not be able to acquire Summit Entertainment, so here give up part of Twilight's box office revenue to the original shareholders), these three are destined to detonate the market, but the income is not large. There are also movies such as The Hunger Games that can control most of the revenue and are box office hits. Not to mention the Martian in the planning, Interstellar already in the works, etc. Miramax is about to enter an explosive period, and many people are optimistic about this film and television company controlled by Zhou Shi.

The biggest surprise in this year's film and television market is definitely "The Avengers", which has reached $1.5 billion at the global box office so far, which shows the large number of moviegoers, and it is rare that there are countless praises. Liu Feifei became the first Chinese actress because of this, and no one said that there was anything wrong with her changing her style and taking the sexy route. The audience in the European and American world finally accepted her as the role of Black Widow and accepted her, an American Chinese female star. The Marvel series of movies is enough for her to eat for a lifetime, and if she can reduce the price or don't raise the price to appear in a movie specially prepared for the role of Black Widow, she may be able to gain more fans around the world.

Disney also relied on the huge box office revenue of "The Avengers", the stock price soared, and the market value came to $90 billion, and Robert Iger was ready to buy Lucasfilm, continuing to embark on the glorious road in his previous life and becoming the world's most valuable film and television media company.

The market is constantly changing, but it still goes the same way to a certain extent. Of course, there are differences, and Miramax is in talks with DreamWorks Animation to get the rights to their distribution. Their distribution agreement with Paramount expires at the end of the year, and DreamWorks Animation, which does not want to continue working together, wants to find a new distributor. Miramax, who already has global distribution capabilities, is a very good choice.

At the same time, Searchlight Animation, which was in trouble with the world because of unsatisfactory performance, was acquired by Starlight Film and Television, and took over the "Despicable Me" series in the hands of Starlight Film and Television...... Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "The Rebirth of the Post-80s Legend Claw Book House" for free for the first time.