The Chinese community is one of the most vulnerable groups to bullying and discrimination in the United States, and Zhou Shi has heard rumors about this for a long time, but he did not expect that he could not avoid it after so many efforts, and the mainstream group in the United States may have a lot of hostility towards him. Google's Groupon has now plagiarized yelp on a large scale, and even the design style tends to be consistent, although some people are disgusted, and it is strange that most people are indifferent to it.

That's it, Google may not be able to beat Yahoo in the competition. In terms of corporate culture, Google is exclusive and is a typical engineer culture, while Yahoo is inclusive and a multicultural company. Engineers are accustomed to using technology to solve all problems, and many people who come out of Google say that engineers are the core of Google, and the status of other staff is inferior, and the authority and flexibility are not as good as Yahoo. This means that in the area of life services, as long as Yahoo YELP itself does not have problems, it will basically not be defeated by a group of imitators who are tied up.

The biggest reason why Yahoo has hope for rapid development is that Zhou Shi knows the direction of progress, no matter how rich other companies are, they need to cross the river by feeling the stones, and the speed and efficiency are far less than Yahoo. A large part of why founders are becoming more important in Silicon Valley is because their decisiveness (or ability to choose directions) exceeds that of ordinary professional managers.

Yahoo and Zhou's team of assistants were busy helping him design his public image, and Zhou Shi shared many of his thoughts to professionals, including his study of Taoism.

There are many Westerners who know the classics of traditional Chinese culture, especially the Tao Te Ching, so more people are familiar with it. Many scholars see it as one of the ultimate solutions to the world's problems. Zhou Shi borrowed Taoist culture to explain his behavior, which was not only in line with his Chinese identity, but also carried all kinds of mysteries of the ancient oriental country.

Mystification itself is not tendentious, it doesn't matter if it's good or bad, and since this is a kind of prejudice against Chinese culture in Europe and the United States, he doesn't have much choice. It is better to make the most of the benefits of this mystery and try to avoid the disadvantages.

Perhaps the key to the difference between Chinese culture and Western culture lies in the influence of Taoist culture, believing in God but not superstition, believing in the existence of God but not worshiping it......

Explain your point of view and let the experts make some embellishments, but not to make yourself more perfect, but to avoid some of the sensitivities of the two cultures.

Within a few days of returning to the United States, the cross-shareholding agreement between Time Music, Time Music, and the three major music groups was basically reached, and Time Music accepted shares from three companies at a valuation discount of $1.5 billion, with Sony 3 percent, Warner 5 percent, and Universal Music 4.2 percent; Time Holdings invested 5 percent of the shares in two music companies at the valuation of Sony at $3 billion and Warner 3.8 billion respectively. At this time, the number of users of Time Music in the European and American markets reached 30 million, and the number of paid users reached 6 million.

Compared with Spotify,Both at the technical level and in the user experience are beyond a lot,The most prominent is the concept of social music,Learn the comment mode of NetEase Cloud Music,Most of the comments in the two major apps of Time Music are full of truth, goodness and beauty,There are very few negative emotions,Even if there is, it has been processed in descending order。 Cooperation with Facebook & Friends is also one of the advantages, but at present, Facebook no longer regards Time Music as the only option to join Spotify, after all, Time Music's reviews are not F&F as the core, but Time Music as the core.

Secondly, there is a time cloud disk,You can synchronize songs with time Android phones,Upload the music that time lacks to the cloud storage space of time,As for song lists,Radio,Ranking version and the like will definitely not be less。 Moreover, Time Music has also successively launched high-quality music, such as 320K and lossless music, which has increased the love of music lovers, especially after Time Music's music library surpassed Apple iTunes, it has become a well-deserved leader in the American market. Spotify, the app that was particularly popular in the previous life, was stifled in the US market before it even started, and it didn't make much waves.

Spotify's failure is doomed, regardless of financial technology or operational capabilities, time promotion methods, time at this time is obviously many times stronger than Spotify, coupled with Zhou Shi's long-term experience of Penguin Music and NetEase Cloud Music's experience, he can make more targeted requests. As for whether it is free or not, how to charge, that is a market problem.

Not long after the contract of Time Music was signed, people from Universal Music came to the door and wanted to renegotiate the matter of Time Investment, but they made a request, and Vivendi headquarters wanted to meet with Zhou Shi.

Vivendi is a French company, its main business involves music, television, film, publishing, telecommunications, the Internet and video games and other industries, no matter which aspect has an intersection with Zhou Shi, see each other, but it depends on who it is, not just a small deflated three. So for the first time, Zhou Shi refused without hesitation, because the other party was a little-known little person, a vice president of Vivendi's headquarters.

"Mr. Zhou, this time they told the truth, it was Carrefour in France who wanted to meet with you, seek opportunities for cooperation, and ask them to help. "Chen Wen

"Carrefour?" We don't have a buyer's shares, right?" Zhou Shi said uncertainly, in addition to high-tech, the focus of Galaxy Capital's investment is the large consumer sector, and the retail industry has also been counted, such as their heavy position in Costco and TJX.

"No, our focus is on the U.S. stock market. After knowing about Carrefour, I went to check, their stock has continued to fall in the past two years, for many reasons: the development of the Chinese market was suppressed by Wal-Mart and RT-Mart, coupled with the anti-China incident in France in 08, Carrefour's development in China has been subject to invisible resistance, the rapid development of European and American e-commerce in recent years, Carrefour has not made a decent response, market sales and single-store turnover are declining...... "Chen Wen

Carrefour's share price has fallen 60 percent in two years, and more than 80 percent from its 1999 high, which is indeed a bit miserable. The current market value is about less than $20 billion, which seems to be worse than the previous Yahoo!

"What do they mean by that, but they want to bundle up and sell? We don't have to take a stake in Universal Music, there's no need. "Zhou Shi, the condition for Time Music to let the three major record companies take a stake is that the price of these companies to Time Music must be the lowest in the market, or it cannot be higher than any other competitors.

"It is not necessary to bundle the board, and it is possible for Carrefour to sell the Huaxia business. ”

(End of chapter)