Chapter 3, Kenji Kitagawa and Muneyuki Uesugi
In the large office, the huge desk occupies nearly half of the office, Sony Music CEO Naoki Kitagawa sat behind the tall boss's chair, heard someone knock on the door, he put down the documents in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Please come in!" ”
Uesugi Soyuki pushed the door in, he simply said hello, and without getting Naoki Kitagawa to agree, he sat down directly opposite him: "What is the chairman looking for me?" ”
In the face of this young man's actions, Naoki Kitagawa didn't care, in the eyes of RB people, if a genius didn't have some arrogance and eccentricity, it would be a strange thing. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
As a young and famous investment genius, a junior who returned from overseas study, Uesugi Soyuki has done a very good job in this area, he is polite to everyone, and now he is not very polite to himself, but it shows that the two are already very familiar with each other, and this young man thinks that there is no need for these polite things.
"A few days ago, Kenji's kid mentioned you when he came home, and the two of you went to Ginza together?" Naoki Kitagawa was uncharacteristically and nagged about some trivial matters.
Uesugi Soyuki nodded, a few days ago, at the invitation of Kenji Kitagawa , the two went to a high-end nightclub in Ginza for a while.
"Uesugi, you're twenty-two years old this year, aren't you?" Naoki Kitagawa continued.
"Exactly twenty-two years old this year, chairman."
"Yes, in a blink of an eye, Qianji's child is also thirty years old, and he got married last year and started a family." Naoki Kitagawa said with a sigh of relief, the mustache on his lips swaying slightly with his master's movements.
Uesugi Soyuki is also very patient, and the two chatted about some trivial matters slowly, since he returned to China, Kitagawa Kenji has been interested in associating with him, although they have reservations about each other, but they can also be regarded as friends.
After chatting for a while, Kitagawa Naoki saw that this young man did not have the slightest impatience, but seemed to be more and more energetic, and sighed in his heart: This son is really an outlier.
At the age of twenty-two, his qi cultivation kung fu is not worse than that of an old man in his sixties, and I don't know how the Yonezawa Uesugi family cultivated such a freak.
If Uesugi Soyuki knew what the CEO of Sony Music in front of him was thinking, he would definitely scoff: his heart is no younger than this old man, and he has inherited more than 30 years of life experience from that Celestial Empire technology nerd.
"So, Director Uesugi, what do you think of the fish that slipped away?" Seeing that the topic was getting more and more crooked, Uesugi Muneyuki was already talking about Sapporo's ramen, and Kitagawa Naoki had to take the initiative to open his mouth and bring the topic back to the topic.
"The fish has grown up and found a bigger lake, and it won't go back to where it came to ask for help, and even more so it's a place that has abandoned it." Fingers stroked the silver ring on his index finger, and the young man said slowly.
“。。。” Naoki Kitagawa didn't speak, but his dry palm was slowly exerting force, squeezing the pen in his hand very tightly, very tight!
Who would have thought that the girl idol group, which lost 2 billion yen in two years, would become such a gold-absorbing artifact today!
Especially in the context of Sony's continuous losses and shrinkage in recent years, it is difficult to escape the blame for missing such a lucrative project, as the head of Sony Music.
Even if he had found a scapegoat and kicked him out of the board, it wouldn't work!
Because Sony is about to usher in huge changes, the original Sony leader, Howard Stringer is about to retire, and the new Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai is about to take office!
What does he need to do to salvage this defeat!
And the breakthrough in everything may be in this young man.
The reason is very simple, according to his investigation, when he was in a desperate situation, Akimoto Yasusu found RB Dentsu under the guidance of this young man who urgently returned to China, and was able to turn the tide.
Thinking about the social networking business that Uesugi Soyuki has done overseas over the years and the global business expansion of Dentsu, Naoki Kitagawa can easily draw a conclusion: this young man, he has a deep shadow of RB Dentsu behind him.
So why did he take a stake in Sony Music from the Chinese and join our board of directors at Sony? This is something that Naoki Kitagawa has not figured out.
However, these are not the key now, how to use this young man's special identity to get a piece of the AKB48 pie is the top priority.
According to preliminary estimates, AKB's revenue this year will exceed 10 billion yen, which is 10 billion yen!
That's not a small amount.
Seeing that Naoki Kitagawa was a little distracted, Uesugi Soyuki didn't interrupt him, he just waited quietly, waiting for the head of Sony Music to come up with a plan, in RB's workplace culture, subordinates must be absolutely obedient to superiors, even if they are only nominal superiors and subordinates, this form cannot be changed.
"It's all Yasu Akimoto! At the beginning, his attitude was so resolute, we agreed to his request to terminate the contract for the sake of cooperating with him for many years and for the sake of the past situation. Kitagawa Naoki was excited at first, and then his voice gradually calmed down, and he clearly had an idea.
"What does Kitagawa mean that we are going to go to Akimoto-sensei now to get this favor back?" Uesugi Soyuki was slightly stunned, and immediately understood what Kitagawa Naoki meant.
In the previous life, the tech nerd was a big fan of the 48 series.,As long as it's from the cute girls of the 48 series.,The name of Akimoto Yasu is Akimoto Sensei.,Uesugi Soyuki also inherited this habit.,When I met Akimoto Yasushi for the first time,,He called it so and scared Akimoto Kang.。
"Uesugi, the relationship between you and Akimoto Yasu is relatively good, in this way, you go and get in touch with Kenji first, probe the bottom of Akimoto Yasushi in private, listen to his conditions, as long as it doesn't go too far, we can talk about everything." Naoki Kitagawa took a document, signed his name on it, and handed it to Uesugi Muneyuki.
"I'll do my best, but Kitagawa-san, you also know that now is not the time for AKB48 to start, and Yasu Akimoto is in charge of everything big and small." Putting away the papers, Uesugi Soyuki got up, bowed, turned to leave, and when he was about to go out, he still added such a sentence.
Kitagawa Naoki nodded dejectedly, his already half-white hair swaying slightly, and after seeing the young man close the door and leave, he leaned back in the comfortable boss's chair as if he had lost all his strength.
Since last year, seeing that this girl group is profitable, many big forces have leaned on it, such as Kyoraku, Yoshimoto, several major firms, and even RB Dentsu, Sony, as a late entrant, is not easy to get a piece of the pie.
What's more, Sony's market has been shrinking over the years, with deficits every year, this famous multinational group company, now relying more on the glory of the past to maintain face, Sony Music has been doing well under his management over the years, and has been in a profitable state, but who knows, the huge deficit in other departments, when will it affect Sony Music?
Nobody knows.
Uesugi Soyuki walked out of the Sony building, got into his Mercedes S600, and said to the driver with a blank face: "Akihabara, Don Quixote building." ”
The black Mercedes Benz slowly walked away.
RB Akihabara.
Akihabara is located in the Chiyoda area in the northeastern part of downtown Tokyo, and is on the Yamanote Line, a high-speed tram line that surrounds central Tokyo, a main tram line of JR East RB that encircles the entire Tokyo metropolitan area. As one of the world's leading electric towns, Akihabara is undergoing rapid changes. In addition to the specialty stores of electrical appliances, the service functions such as business and catering are also becoming more and more complete, and it is developing into a prosperous area with comprehensive colors.
Since the rise of otaku culture in the 90s, it has always been known as a mecca for otaku, with a variety of shops flaunting the prevalence of two-dimensional culture, but Akihabara is actually famous for its electronics and thrift markets, and there are many hypermarkets in between.
With the rise of the Internet age, Akihabara has made full use of its eclectic characteristics, from computers and electrical appliances to electronics, model toy stores, animation product stores and theme cafes, and then to the recent rise of office and retail store complexes, this famous tourist shopping street of RB is constantly changing in a new historical environment, in order to be able to comply with the objective law of development and achieve more profits.
AKB Theatre is located on the eighth floor of the Don Quijote Building, and the music video for AKB48 is playing on the display outside the building, and the streets are full of people, with some pedestrians handing out flyers and promoting some small idol groups.
"Ever since AKB48 came out of that small theater with hundreds of people as an underground idol and successfully appeared in red and white, these underground idol groups have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain." In a coffee shop on the side of the street, a thin, thin, and bearded man with a middle-parted hair said to the young man sitting across from him.
The young man sitting across from him was none other than Muneyuki Uesugi who had just arrived from Sony.
The identity of this man is also revealed, he is the son of Sony Music, Kenji Kitagawa, who is currently working as an assistant producer at AKB Theater.
Kitagawa Kenji is thirty years old this year, but he still looks like a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen, he is dressed very decently, logically speaking, he is not tall, and his figure is very thin, and an ordinary suit should not fit well on his body, so Uesugi Soyuki judged that this very elaborate suit on his body is likely to be custom-made.
"Have you gained anything in the recent period?" There is no superfluous politeness, and Uesugi Soyuki goes straight to the point as soon as he comes up.
The waiter brought two cups of cappuccinos, and Zong Xue politely thanked him, but Kitagawa Kenji frowned, first nodded, and then shook his head: "Which aspect are you talking about?" ”
"Every aspect." Zong Xue stirred the hot drink in the cup with a small silver spoon.
"Some are good, some are not so good, I'm alone, in operation, I'm still too weak." Kitagawa Kenji's appearance is not outstanding, with short and thick eyebrows, small eyes, and a big nose, which has a bit of a thief's eyebrows.
His appearance gave him a good disguise.
"It's useless to say that, I'll take you up and have a look."
Neither of them finished their cappuccinos because it really didn't taste good.