Zhou Shi doesn't like to play with power, but he has no time to maintain his authority when he has no time to take care of others, which is a very difficult thing, his choice is to decentralize, decentralize, and finally centralize. Its core is capital control, that is to say, my business, let you play first, but the boss is the boss, who dares to be disobedient......

For example, Sixiang Fund acquired Shanghai Jahwa in China, and before the equity incentive plan, Ge Wenyao served as the chairman of the board of directors of Lao Fengxiang, and then acquired the seagull watch that he never forgot through Lao Fengxiang. Convince him of the high-sounding excuse, in order to build a domestic luxury brand. Fashion and luxury have a deep blood relationship, for Ge Wenyao, who wants to do something big. It is obviously more tempting to integrate the superior resources of the two companies to form a group enterprise and realize the value of their own lives at the same time. After all, he has the opportunity to become the new owner of Shanghai Jahwa by means of a management buyout, and he did not choose to do so, which shows that he attaches more importance to fame than profit, and the approach of Sixiang Fund just hit his soft underbelly. Then in order to do things, Ge Wenyao's demand for them is also increasing. The monolithic management of Shanghai Jahwa was infiltrated and controlled by the Sixiang Fund without much effort, and it did not cause a backlash. Of course, such an operation is difficult to replicate, this is the result of acquiring two companies successively and suppressing Lao Fengxiang's original management at the same time, and the gains and losses are difficult to say.

Why Zhou Shi has been acquiring all these years, in addition to the needs of industrial development, there is also the need for checks and balances of power. Many companies seem to have stupid strategies, but in fact they have their own internal contradictions, which are generally difficult for outsiders to understand, but one thing is not wrong, that is, the development of the enterprise/economy can mask most of the social contradictions. So don't be in a hurry to say that a person, a business is stupid, maybe that stupid person is you!

Vivendi's compromise is not only in the acquisition of Ubisoft, but also in the attitude towards Time to take a stake in Universal Music from resistance to actively seeking cooperation, it seems that they have also figured out that unless they are supporting a music streaming company, if Time Music, which has initially become a king, is treated differently, Universal musicians may be treated unfairly. After all, there is no acquisition of Baidai's Universal, and there is no strength to dominate the world. As for the European market, it needs to be talked about one by one, Zhou Shi will not interfere, if a company does not even have the ability to fight a tough battle, it will not be able to become the protagonist of this world.

The privatization of Live Nation has also begun, and with so many giants making a move, there will be almost no surprises, but Zhou Shi still finds time to meet with the management of Live Nation, after all, his big music concept needs to be executed. One day, Zhou Shi's strength will be able to spread to every corner of online and offline, affecting all aspects of people's cultural and sports life.

He has said much about the development of Live Nation and Universal Music, and there is not much he can add, which is to build an online rights management/agency/licensing platform that connects musicians with film, television, brands and other media to a fully automated global music licensing market. Music creators have control over their content and rights, and the ability to monetize and monetize their music by licensing it to all forms of media, including streaming. At the same time, it is also convenient for people in other industries who need music.

In addition to Internet copyright agents, there are also virtual idols, and ACG is the best entry point, through which the market foundation is cultivated and then spread to the real world. A few years later, there are thousands of virtual idol anchors on youtube, Hatsune Miku has nearly 600 million fans around the world, the popularity of station B (pig's feet will not buy station B, only invest), and there are VOCALOID idols "Sweet Ann" launched by Swedish music company PowerFX, South Korea's SBS company has also developed female idols "SeeU", and British Zero-G singers Avanna and Vocro Spanish singers Bruno and Clara from Labs. All of them represent virtual idols, which is one of the trends of the future. In addition to virtual idols, it is to let the special effects in the digital field deeply participate in the performance service, and through virtual reality technology, even large-scale performances can be broadcast, and Time Cloud will also benefit from this. Who made Zhou Shi have so many Internet genes, and the EMI Music Group, armed with modern technology, may become an Internet high-tech enterprise, and in the future, it will even be able to project a virtual idol with artificial intelligence to each fan through holographic projection technology, singing for him (eighteen touches or conquering??)...... I don't know if this is a dimensionality reduction blow to other traditional music groups.

Of course, Zhou Shi will not say all his thoughts, but the CEO of Baidai Music Group (including Live Nation) finally chose a person with a background in the Internet IT industry. Also, Chairman Momoyo is his man. Song Ke joined the headquarters of EMI Music, mainly responsible for the business in the Asia-Pacific region, Gao Xiaoyi stayed in Huaxia, well, stayed in Greater China! At present, Live Nation and EMI Music operate independently, and the cooperation between each other communicates through the headquarters, and the headquarters also has the right to ask them to cooperate in the operation of certain businesses. The rights and responsibilities are very clear, but Live Nation's ticketing website has been split and let the headquarters of EMI Music directly manage it, who calls it the Internet? After all, this has no direct relationship with live performances, and the separation of the two is more in line with the law of market development.

"I'm still satisfied with the affairs of EMI Music!" Zhou Shi completed the formation of EMI Music Group in stages and came to Buffett.

"Satisfied, how dissatisfied, your logic and ideas of doing things have inspired me a lot. "Warren Buffett

"That's good, if you have a problem, please be sure to bring it up, our team has grown up by learning and may make some low-level mistakes. "Zhou Shi

"No problem, but your team, although young, is indeed full of energy, passion and imagination!"

In this acquisition of EMI Music and Live Nation, Zhou Shi's secretarial team from all over the world officially stepped onto the stage, but did not act as the main force. The most important thing in the growth of young people is experience rather than knowledge, why are the children of the rich more likely to become talents, because their parents can give them more opportunities. For example, Li Bancheng's youngest son in his 20s can run a company with a scale of 10 billion Hong Kong dollars, and sell it at a sky-high price (Li Bancheng used administrative monopoly resources to obtain a satellite TV license to set up a satellite TV in Xiangjiang, handed it over to Li Zhekai, and sold it to Murdoch at a price close to 1 billion US dollars three years later), is it because of the ability of Little Superman?

In the past, Zhou Shi has been recruiting mercenaries, and now he is cultivating soldiers, the importance is self-evident, whether it is true or not, Zhou Shi is very happy to hear Buffett's praise. But his purpose was not to listen to good words.

"By the way, I have a further idea in terms of charity, can you help me refer to whether it is suitable or not?" Zhou Shi

"Oh, you're ready to do charity, no problem, I'm more than happy to!" Buffett

"That's ......"

(End of chapter)