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Li, those who have watched the online drama House of Cards should have an impression of this company, and it also has a Chinese name: Netflix.

I have to say that whether it is a person or a company, it is very important to choose a good name, Netflix, people who don't know, will think that this is a copycat sports brand!

Of course, even those who can correspond its Chinese and English names don't know that this company, which is a self-made drama, has been successful at the Emmy Awards, is the most successful paid streaming platform in the United States, and even poses a huge threat to the old H-wave, was originally a company that sells DVDs, and it is still selling it later.

Feng Yiping has an impression of this company, mainly because of the house of cards, although the heroine is not good-looking, her figure is very average, and her acting skills feel like that, in short, it is not attractive at all, but the male lead, Kevin Bassie, this guy who has won the Oscar for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, his performance is really impeccable, especially his lines, there is really no one!

At that time, he tried to search the company, and he was immediately interested, and what interested him at that time was naturally because of money.

This company, that association, is brewing to learn from Apple and engage in stock splits.

At that time, Netflix's stock price had soared to a high of $700, and if you bought 100 shares, you had to invest $70,000, which was higher than the annual income of most middle-class families in the United States, and it was relatively too risky.

Looking closer, this company is really not an ordinary bull, in 13 years, its stock price soared by 240% for the whole year!

Hehe, I didn't expect to engage in a group buy, and I actually reminded myself of this incident again, "Honey," he immediately called Huang Jingping, such a thing. You can't find it on the current website, and it's not easy to call the company's securities department, or Buchanan and Mike, "Still exercising? Go home and help me check the situation of this company." ”

"Okay," Huang Jingping is this good, Feng Yiping's request, she never asked the reason, but. Her voice was a little low now, "Do you still have to stay in the capital? Do you know that I can't even sleep when I see the news?"

"Fool, there are so many people around me who serve me and work for me, what is there to worry about," Feng Yiping smiled heartily, "It's good to put a hundred and twenty hearts." Besides, don't you see, now that there are new cases every day, are they decreasing, and the shape is improving,"

"Bragging, I know that there are many people who work for you, and there are people who serve you?

Is it looking for or recruiting. Feng Yiping didn't understand too much.

"Hehe, no, it's still those people, but. Of course, they are very concerned about the personal safety of people like me, who belong to the core and soul of the group, and it will be absolutely fine, don't worry,"

"Anyway, you have to be careful, you don't just have parents now. There's me, and our daughter,"

"Then you hurry up and go home, hold your daughter and video with me, I miss her very much,"

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In the evening, Feng Yiping carefully browsed the email sent by Huang Jingping, which was much more detailed than what he saw in China.

The first is the stock price, which is still hovering around $20 at this time, and the market value is less than $2 billion, so it is a good choice if it is used as an investment for long-term holding.

It's just that the more he looks at it, the more Feng Yiping feels that it's just an investment, which seems to be a pity.

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings, who graduated from Stanford University with a degree in computer science, and was naturally also influenced by Silicon Valley culture.

Like most alumni, after graduation, he founded his own software company, and his most distinctive feature is that he continues to expand through mergers and acquisitions, because the pace of mergers and acquisitions is too fast, or too sharp, in the industry, he and his company, are not very likable, and his peers even give him a bad nickname, "beast".

But his operation, which was undoubtedly successful, was sold for $750 million.

This guy loves to watch movies, and when he was still running a software company, he has been thinking about how to get movies and videos to the audience in a convenient and fast way, and it seems that using the mail is a good option, so the remaining question is how to attract customers and provide rental services.

As a movie lover, he has long noticed that the video rental market is very promising, but at that time, Pepsi from the United Kingdom had nearly 7,000 video rental shops in the United States, and Hastings did not have a good way to compete with such an absolutely dominant company.

It was at this time that Apollo 13, a videotape he rented at Pepsi, was forced to pay a fine of up to $40 due to the delay in returning it, which stimulated him and allowed him to see the opportunity in it.

There should be many consumers who are very dissatisfied with these overlord clauses formulated by traditional video rental companies such as Pepsi, so how can they take advantage of this?

He naturally thought of the Internet, and he immediately set up a website that recommended DVDs and could accept online orders, il, which means to rent through the guò network, and then deliver it by mail with a very distinctive red envelope at that time.

However, the initial operation can be said to be bleak, of course, it is not without benefits, after the establishment of Netflix, the postal company in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, the efficiency is exceptionally good.

After persisting for two years, Hastings took the initiative to find the object that he was going to subvert, Pestell, hoping that the other party would buy the company he founded at a price of $50 million, but was categorically rejected by John Antioch, the CEO of Bestella at the time, for the simple reason that Netflix at that time was a small company that was still losing money.

Such a blow inspired Hastings's fighting spirit, and he planned to let the world see what he was capable of, and after that, he made many adjustments, and finally, the attempt of the membership system made him a great success.

Like a later domestic website, the paid membership system has brought a rapidly expanding consumer group, and before the 02 years of listing, it has developed to the need to establish large-scale distribution centers throughout the United States to meet the strong demand of consumers.

However, if you look at the existing achievements, although Netflix is a successful company, it is not a very outstanding company, only Feng Yiping knows how brilliant this company will be in the future, becoming a world-renowned streaming platform, whether it is market value or influence, it has surpassed an old media company like CBS.

Of course, what Feng Yiping values most is not Netflix's future potential, for him, there are many similar options, and he believes that relying on the advantages of rebirth, his video website will definitely develop better than Netflix.

What he values is the team of Netflix, they can always find a way to survive in the face of opponents who are never in one heavyweight class, and they can always choose the most suitable path at the most suitable time, which is very commendable.

It just so happens that my own lure tube is preparing, if I can dig this team over, won't I save a lot of trouble?

Digging up the whole team, there are not many options, the overall acquisition, is a feasible way, and besides, than sporadic shares, at a price of more than $2 billion, to acquire a company with a future market value of $40 billion, isn't it better?

So, can you buy it, and do you have the strength to buy it? He looked at the information sent by Huang Jingping again.

The advent of Netflix and the success of the trial membership system have indeed disrupted the traditional movie rental market, at least Pepsi, which once humiliated him, is now under pressure due to high rent and staff costs, and is preparing its own online rental business.

And its most important competitor now is Wal-Mart, the retail giant, has launched its own online rental service, relying on the United States' complete network and rapidly developed logistics, has brought a lot of pressure to Netflix, that is to say, Netflix is not having a good time now, I believe its shareholders, must be willing to sell.

If it can be acquired, then funding is a big issue, the premium is for sure, Netflix is now close to $2 billion in market capitalization, and to ensure success, it needs to prepare at least $2.5 billion because there are also other possible competitor bids to be considered.

Raising $1 billion, that's not a thing, it's all about the same, that is, there is a way to raise $1.5 billion, which can only be found by the bank, and he is ready to give this task to the group's finance department tomorrow morning, so that they can propose possible solutions.

But before he could implement his plan and try to buy someone else's company, at two o'clock in the morning, Buchanan urgently informed him that Amazon had just appointed a lawyer to the company and officially proposed to buy Nextdoor as a whole at a price of $1 billion!(~^~)