Kazuo Hirai looked like he had just come from work, the air in the room was warm, his blazer hung on a hanger in the corner, and he was wearing only a shirt that was slightly loose compared to his thin figure, and the hem of the shirt was not tied up, and it was casually draped, looking like a middle-aged man who was an old pedant at the end of the Showa period, smiling and looking gently.

At first sight, he didn't feel majestic and solemn, and even because of his relatively small and compact facial features, Kazuo Hirai gave Ahn Junhyuk a somewhat pleasing impression.

However, An Junhyuk knew that anyone who despised this middle-aged man would eventually pay the price, he paced in as usual, unbuttoned his suit casually, sat down cross-legged, and bowed slightly: "I've been looking up for a long time, Hirai-kun!"

Kazuo Hirai looked at An Junhyuk fixedly, for a moment, and said with a smile: "It's better to be famous than to meet, An Jun has the style of a gentleman!"

Unlike traditional Confucian interpretations, the "gentleman" here is not modest and orderly, but resolute, awe-inspiring, bold and calm, which was regarded as the noblest quality by the Japanese in the Showa era, and it was precisely because the whole society was cultivating this kind of culture that allowed Japan to challenge the American economy again in just 30 years after the war.

It was also this kind of atmosphere that made the Korean Peninsula and the red country become a semi-colony of Japan, an island country, and the whole of East Asia was feared.

Ahn Joon-hyuk is not an angry young man, he doesn't care about anger or hatred for such things, and even anyone who has a lot of money and power in his hands, whether he wants it or not, his environment does not allow him to put his individual thoughts above the collective. There are no saints in the world, but from the perspective of "saints are unkind and take all things as dogs", every powerful person is also a "saint", they must start from the overall situation when thinking about any problem, and they must stand on their own macro perspective when looking at everything.

All beings are chessboards, and the powerful are chess players, starting and falling, and mentally calculating a hundred steps, under the overall situation and macrocosm. The fate of any chess piece is the same for a chess player.

The saint is the ritual law. Etiquette is class, so Zhuangzi said: The saint does not die, and the thief does not stop!

The topic is far away, in Ahn Junhyuk's point of view. How the past is the past. Japan's strength has its merits. Rather than blindly opposing the boycott, it is better to learn the advantages with an open mind, and the ancients still knew how to master the skills of the master to control the country. Today, however, there are many people who carry the banner of national and righteous causes, wantonly slander and smear their enemies, and fall into the illusion of the so-called "honor" of their own nation.

If anyone objected and thought that the Japanese spirit should be learned, they would refute it with words: If a dog bites a man, can a man learn from a dog to bite?

This is simply a fallacy, not to mention anything else, the Japanese eat rice and wheat, do you have to eat in order to pursue not to be the same as the Japanese?

Thoughts flowed through him, and in the face of Hirai Kazuo's praise, Ahn Junhyuk smiled: "Young and vigorous, I should not be praised by Hirai-kun, Hirai-kun has been in charge of Sony's electronics business in the United States for many years, and he has gone through ups and downs and perseverance, which is a model for my juniors to learn." ”

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Although it is a private meeting, both have the purpose of developing a personal friendship, but after all, it is the first time to meet, and it is impossible to talk too deeply about the topic. With the current status of the two, even if the standards are relaxed, the development of personal friendship must be cautious, this time Kazuo Hirai arranged to meet at dinner, mainly to have a preliminary contact, pondering Ahn Junhyuk's character and style of doing things, and then talk about other things.

In fact, he has been paying attention to Ahn Joon-hyuk for a long time, as early as when he was in the United States.

The news of a Korean idol star as the CEO of a Silicon Valley technology company was the hottest topic of conversation at the time, especially a series of actions after Ahn Jun-hyuk took office, using full openness and dynamic news to transform Facebook from a simple college student dating site into a prototype of a virtual community smoothly but without lack of progress, such a means is almost equivalent to a miracle even in Silicon Valley, where high-tech industries and start-ups are endless.

And what really impressed Kazuo Hirai about Ahn Junhyuk was that at the press conference, he responded to the question of the "San Jose Courier", some time ago, he was just selected by the American "Time" magazine as the most classic quote in 2006 -

What Facebook is doing today is to let everyone know whether it is a person or a dog on the other side of the network!

That sentence made the name Ahn Junhyuk the darling and target of the American Internet, and also made countless technology companies bet their surprise, appreciation and other eyes on him.

It is true that for many executives, such statements are too idealistic and not stable enough, but what the Internet industry needs is precisely not stability. The Internet industry is young, and the users who use it are also young, they like passion and arrogance, Ahn Junhyuk's speech has made countless Facebook users cheer for him, and Facebook's controversial "News Feed" feature has been recognized to the greatest extent.

For a company, this is the talent and talent they need - being able to make the right annotation for the product and make it acceptable to users is the greatest success!

At that time, Sony Electronic Entertainment even considered poaching from Facebook with a high salary and hiring Ahn Junhyuk, because at that time, Sony Electronic Entertainment had just undergone a personnel transfer, and Kazuo Hirai was promoted to vice president of the Japanese head office, chief operating officer, and CEO of the US branch, and there was no suitable candidate.

It's a pity that this intention was not put into action later, on the one hand, Sony detectives heard that Ahn Junhyuk is the second largest shareholder of Facebook, and on the other hand, it is also an internal power struggle.

However, since then, he has paid more and more attention to Ahn Junhyuk's affairs, including Facebook's development under the leadership of the other party in the past six months, as well as the other party's career in South Korea.

After three rounds of wine, the atmosphere slowly warmed up. The two of them also became more and more interested, and after going around and around with diplomatic rhetoric, they finally talked about career issues.

"I watched the Korean news some time ago, and I admired Anjun's development vision in the music industry!" After drinking a glass of wine, Kazuo Hirai said with a slightly flushed face: "J.H's idea of trying to integrate the music industry and create a unique brand coincides with our strategic choice a few years ago. It shouldn't be borrowed. The situation faced by J.H is different from that of Japan, which is more difficult and courageous. ”

"Hirai-kun has won the award, which is the success story of your company and other firms in Japan. It was only then that I saw the hope of industrial integration. It's not too much to say borrowing. ”

Kazuo Hirai has experience working at Sony Columbia Records. When it comes to the music industry at this time, Ahn Jun-hyuk is not surprised and answers humbly. Then he shook his head: "However, there are still many obstacles to achieving this goal. I can't talk about courage, and now many people in China think that my pace is too reckless!"

"Where is there no obstacle in the mall? Hehe, outsiders look reckless, but An Jun is planning for the future!"

Ahn Junhyuk was stunned and didn't say anything, but just looked puzzled: "What does Hirai-kun mean ......?"

"Hehe, I have been friends with An Jun for a long time, and I usually have a lot of guesses about An Jun's actions, if you say something wrong, please correct it. Kazuo Hirai smiled.

Putting down the wine glass, Ahn Junhyuk said dignifiedly: "Don't dare to point out, please speak!"

According to the statistics of Sony Bertelsmann Music Group, in Japan, the sales of digital records are gradually making up for the lost profits of physical records, I think, Anjun arranges J.H to integrate the music industry, but also to increase the voice of content providers, further dominate the market, and finally occupy a dominant position, holding the pricing power in his hands, right?"

Ahn Jun-hyuk nodded: "Not bad!"

"Then, An Jun must have seen it, Japan is actually just a special case!" said, Kazuo Hirai sighed, "The outside world has always believed that the market environment of Japanese records is because the content providers have mastered the dominance, which has provided strong support for the vigorous development of the record industry, but few people have seen it, whether it is Sony or Apple, we have all copied the same model outside of Japan, theoretically speaking, we have succeeded, but today, Sony has failed, and Apple has also failed!"

In this case, if it is known to the outside world, most people think that Kazuo Hirai is alarmist. It's not wrong to say that Sony failed, since the launch of Apple's iPod, Sony's consumer electronics products, the original most profitable portable player market, was quickly seized by iPod, and the once popular Sony Walkman, in a short period of time, has been dimmed and light, placed in the corner of the market shelf, piled up with dust and no one cares.

In contrast to Sony, Apple relied on the iPod to successfully turn over, performing a classic battle of art and design to defeat science and technology. In terms of scientific and technological content, iPod has no advantage in the face of Sony's portable player, but it is only a design change, just the word "humanization", which destroys Sony's years of technical accumulation.

Nowadays, Apple's music service products can generate hundreds of millions of dollars in profits every year, where does the word "failure" come from?

Ahn Jun-hyuk was silent.

As if to see his silence as confused, Kazuo Hirai smiled and explained: "Apple has really failed, it does not provide a healthy profit model for the music industry, for it, music is just a tool to market the iPod." Over the years, the U.S. record market has actually been shrinking, and more importantly, Apple's strategy has allowed people to see a new sales concept of portable players -- using music as a weapon to conquer the market! As far as I know, there are already some electronics manufacturers in Europe and China who have begun to copy Apple's model and set up a start-up test field in the online audio-visual industry, and in order to seize the market, they are more radical than Apple......

Naturally, it is to reduce the burden of consumer consumption, and gather users with low listening costs, some of which are even free!

Hearing him say this, Ahn Jun-hyuk was slightly stunned, but also sighed secretly.

is worthy of Kazuo Hirai, the future helmsman of the Sony empire, even though he has left the music industry, he can still clearly grasp the pulse. He is right, Apple's success has indeed stimulated many electronics manufacturers, and the boosting effect of iTunes mode on the iPod has attracted the attention of those vicious sharks. They began to try to enter the market in order to grab a share from Apple, or to seize the already empty market position, and naturally, these evil sharks started a price war!

The future "digital music meat grinder" kicked off in this way, first with electronics manufacturers, and then with the Internet industry, the future of dreams, in just a few years. The field of music services is growing at a breakneck pace. Countless dollars have been poured into it, and it's like it's about to usher in a second golden age of the music industry – and it's easy to understand that operators are fighting each other to make streaming services more technologically advanced. It's also more humane. Users can finally enjoy the on-demand jukebox service anytime, anywhere. Every song is at your fingertips, so you don't have to worry about which one to choose from a bunch of records, and you can enjoy hundreds of songs for a very low monthly subscription.

It's a happy time for end users. However, the last truth tells people that the happiness of users is actually the second ice age of the music industry.

In order to seize the market, service operators have not found a healthy and orderly profit model, all service providers, are operating at a loss, when they can not support the weak financial resources, when the bubble of the music industry begins to burst, it will be like the land after the war, depression, dead silence, full of devastation!

Later, people blamed the record company, thinking that it was their stubbornness not to adjust the copyright price that led to the bankruptcy of streaming media, but those people didn't see that streaming media did not go bankrupt, and the bankrupt ones were only weak, and those who could stand at the bottom of the cruel fight were supported by powerful big manufacturers, and these people, their ultimate goal was terminal electronic products!

The spoilers have been killed, the weak have been eliminated, and the wolves are waiting, how can the record company be left alone?

Kazuo Hirai can't see these scenes in the future, but it doesn't prevent his keen sense of smell from analyzing them, and the context of the market always has its trajectory to be grasped.

Looking at Ahn Junhyuk's slightly lowered eyes, Kazuo Hirai smiled and said: "The media in your country say that An Jun's acquisition of Pantai last year was to attack SK's heart and destroy its core business...... But in my opinion, An Jun's vision is far-reaching!"

Scold......

Ahn Jun Hyuk shook his head lightly in his heart, yes, Fantai...... J.H Entertainment and J.H Music, if you don't want to be exploited by wolves in the future, unless it also becomes one of those wolves.

Mastering content production and then mastering the terminal is the way for J.H to grow!

He thought that he would not talk too deeply about the topic when they met for the first time, but he didn't expect that not long after they met, he would be generalized like Kazuo Hirai.

Is this a topic that is deliberately thrown out for in-depth communication?

Ahn Jun-hyuk can't tell, at this level of communication, many times a sentence and an attitude can contain a lot of meaning, and the survival philosophy of the upper level is to pick out the relatively correct one among those many meanings.

He still needs to chew it carefully, thinking about it, he retracted his deep eyes, smiled, and poured a glass of wine for Hirai Kazuo: "Hehe, Hirai-kun's words, deafening, should give you a glass, please!"

With an attitude of not admitting or denying him, Kazuo Hirai did not show any abnormality, and had a drink with An Junhyuk with a smile, and then, just like the previous words were not said at all, and in the following time, the two talked about music, the entertainment industry, and the Internet, but they never touched on this topic again.

After a dinner for about 2 hours, the two said goodbye.

On the way back to the hospital, Kwon Bo-geun didn't ask Ahn Jun-hyuk how Hirai's date was, Ahn Jun-hyuk closed his eyes and pondered, and he didn't have time to say anything, he didn't say anything all the way, and when he returned to the hospital, Xiujing was already asleep on the hospital bed, Jisoo was holding a dictionary, sitting next to him and reading it idly, sometimes his lips were squirming, and he was reading words.

"Sakura was picked up by her father?" Ahn Jun Hyuk asked, looking at the quiet hospital room.

"Well, he came over a short time after you left. As he spoke, Jisoo, who approached in a wheelchair, was smoked by the smell of alcohol on his brother's body, and glared at him angrily: "It stinks, and I drink so much wine!"

After sake, I drank a lot tonight, Ahn Junhyuk's alcohol consumption was average, and he was indeed a little drunk at this time, so he hugged Jisoo when he heard it, and said with a smile: "Does it still stink?"

"Nasty! let me go!"

"Hah-"

Ahn Jun-hyuk sighed at her face, and the smell of alcohol suddenly made Jisoo cough, and he hit him twice in annoyance, and pushed him away forcefully: "Get out, hurry up and take a shower!"

Ahn Joon-hyuk smiled heartily as she pushed her wheelchair into the bathroom on the other side of the ward.

"By the way, did you wash it with Xiujing?"

"The nurse helped wash it, can you hurry up, hurry up and send me back to the hotel!"

"It's just a place to sleep, and it's not like there's no bed. ”

The facilities of the intensive care ward are similar to those of the hotel, there are sofas in the ward, and there is a rest room next door for the patient's family to rest, and there are two folding beds in it, where Ahn Joon-hyuk rested yesterday.

There was a rustling sound of water in the bathroom, and steam began to fill and pour out through the crack in the door, and Jisoo, who was sitting next to the hospital bed and holding up the dictionary again, looked at the hazy mist over there, and did not answer.

She hates hospitals!

The man took a quick bath, and ten minutes later, Ahn Jun-hyuk, who had finished bathing, changed his clothes, took the car that sent him back, and sent Jisoo back to the hospital, and then met with several leaders of the accompanying team, listened to a more detailed report, and then went back to the hospital to sleep.

Probably because I was a little drunk, I slept soundly, and when I woke up the next day, it was already three poles of the sun, the rain clouds had passed, the sky was clear, the sun was gently passing through the window edge, and the dust was drifting in the light.

He was not the only one in the lounge, and the moment he opened his eyes, he saw a small bald head, pursing his lips tightly, with his hands behind his back, looking at him innocently. (To be continued......)

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