Chapter 156: Butterfly's Wings (1)
With good thoughts, heaven is everywhere you look.
Li Jiaming scoffed at this, because as soon as he returned to the hotel, Mao Yan's phone called. The 'Little Brother' in his mouth called Mao Tong and said that Goldman Sachs was ready to raise funds for 'Alibaba' on the condition that $5 million accounted for 124% of the shares and 6% of the voting rights.
That broken company will definitely be worth a lot of money in the future, and it will be worth more than $40 million now? There are still bits and pieces, as if they were the result of negotiations, and they look like they're the same.
"Promise him, I know it!"
Hanging up the phone, Li Jiaming couldn't help sneering in his heart, suffering losses and getting cheap are relative, and I really don't know who is taking advantage of this.
"What's wrong?"
"Oh, Mao Yan came to me for something."
Li Jiaming, who had a smile on his face, casually stuffed his mobile phone into his jeans pocket, and took out a Tiffany jewelry box from his trouser pocket. Before the delicate little box was handed out, Sun Hui grabbed it, and a diamond necklace inside was crystal clear.
"Tiffany, brother, you're too good to Weiwei!"
Seeing Zhao Wei smiling between his eyebrows, Li Jiaming, who had spoken to his lips, changed his words.
"What, my eldest sister has her birthday next month, and I don't necessarily have time, so let her send her to take a sycophant. ”
Seeing that Li Jiaming had done the wrong thing and said the wrong thing, he hurriedly said: "Well, this gift is good, the eldest sister will definitely like it." Weiwei, when the time comes, you will send a big cake, this big sister will not be able to accept it!"
Alas, there is no love and there is also the reality of husband and wife, Li Jiaming, who was somewhat gloomy, sighed secretly, and casually handed over the Citibank gold card that the eldest sister gave him.
"Xiaohui, you play with Weiwei for a few days, I have to talk to Kyle about something, it's inconvenient for you to be here. ”
"Oh"
Jin Kaye, Sun Hui said excitedly: "How many are in this card?"
Li Jiaming really doesn't know, but this is a gold card, and the overdraft limit should be more than one million.
"I don't know, my sister gave it, she said that there should be a lot of rich roads for poor families. You can spend it, and I'll make it up for her when the time comes. ”
"Hey, Weiwei, let's go shopping!"
Sun Hui took away Zhao Wei, who was in a very bad mood, and Li Jiaming also followed downstairs, and picked up Kyle and an ordinary-looking and capable blonde girl in the hall. The three of them went upstairs again and entered the standard room where Li Jiaming lived, and Kyle immediately handed over a copy of Ms. Agnese's information.
"Boss, this is Miss Nsohn, who graduated from Sloan College last year with an MBA, which I poached from Morgan/Chase. ”
looks good, at a glance, you know that you are not a person who eats with your face, Li Jiaming asked a few words, shook his hand, and recognized the new assistant, and then looked through the information.
After carefully reading the more than a dozen pages of information, Li Jiaming sighed that the family has a profound background, no wonder Kyle said that if he wants to succeed, he must have many capable friends to help him. After a moment of silence, Li Jiaming handed the information back to Kyle and closed his eyes to recuperate. SSA next to him was silent, waiting for the boss to make up his mind.
Sohu's stock price is already so high, according to its development speed, maybe when the boss their stock lock-up period ends, even if they are optimistic about Sohu's development, it is unlikely that they will no longer have much interest in investing in Sohu, she is so anxious to invite Kyle to the party, it is estimated that she has taken a fancy to E.
e's success was expected, and it was the main reason why Kyle decided to join Li Jiaming's team in the first place. A lot of things are just a layer of window paper, and everyone ignores it before anyone pierces it, but once it is pierced, so that everyone can see what is behind that layer of paper, it will irritate everyone crazy!
It is difficult for those record companies to do the online sale of music works, first, the business habits of record companies; second, it will touch the vital interests of a large number of sales agents, and then the interests of major shareholders; third, it will build a suitable platform and carrier for consumers to buy online, and any record company will be boycotted by other companies, and there is a huge risk here. When Kyle preemptively built such a website, beyond everyone's business habits, promised to pay tens of millions of dollars in royalties in advance, and took the lead in obtaining the authorization of Columbia Records, E became a sales platform in everyone's eyes, but there was still a lack of an opportunity to turn this platform into a gold mountain.
Dimeng's RIOPM300 is troublesome to operate and has a small capacity, making it difficult to make a breakthrough in sales, making online music sales mainstream, and the upcoming iPod solves the problem of operation and capacity, and is very likely to accelerate online music sales. If possible, Kyle even wants to give the iPod away for free to consumers, as long as they go to the site to buy music, E has the opportunity to monopolize the online sales of music works.
But Li Jiaming next to him couldn't make up his mind, or he couldn't grasp the balance. Of course, it is a good thing to become friends with such a well-established family, and you can quickly gain a foothold in the United States, but how much bargaining chips do you have to pay, or how many benefits do you have to bring to others, in order to become a friend of others? If you only help yourself persuade Colombia to authorize, Li Jiaming really doesn't want to pay too many benefits in vain.
At the beginning, in order to squeeze into the big boat of Lenovo, Li Jiaming relied on Lao Gu for nine days, although the two sides had a little conflict halfway, but in the end they still cooperated with each other to engage in "Internet Café Overall Solution".
"Kyle, do you have any suggestions?"
Kyle, who had been silent, whispered, "Boss, I've always believed that friendship must be equal. When our strength has not been respected enough by the other party, we can only talk about cooperation rather than friendship. ”
This old boy has been mixed up in the Chinese circle and learned to go around in circles, Li Jiaming said dissatisfiedly: "Kyle, you are our partner and partner, and we are not familiar with the situation in the United States!"
“ok!”
Time has passed, no matter how good the plan is, the stock market is too frenetic to burst the bubble at any time, and the negotiations with the record company are not going well, Kyle can only regretfully give up the idea of listing the website to make quick money. However, as is the habit of professional managers, Kyle will not say what he thinks and what he is worried about, but will convince his boss with more convincing reasons.
"Our strategy is to industrialize, research and development, production and network connected electronic products, e must serve this strategic goal, not ES\/ Ms. is so anxious to see you, must want to cooperate with us, send e to NASDAQ. Yes, with their help, we will be able to raise a lot of money from the financial markets, but do we lack the funds?
Boss, if Steve had been as calm and sane as Bill, he wouldn't have been kicked out of Apple at all. ”
Yes, capital is profit-seeking, and the family may not interfere with the company's operations, but huge short-term interests are in front of them, and few people will resist that temptation. And Li Jiaming heard the subtext of the other party, the bubble is getting bigger and bigger, and the negotiations are not going well, so it is estimated that he will not be able to catch up with this wave of market.
"Kyle, I see the same as yours, we can accept their investment, but we won't go public easily. Where do you think the bottom line is set to benefit both sides?"
"Boss, you're wise! As long as you have this decision, the rest is simple. We wait for the iPod to go on the market and see its true value, and the other party will first offer a relatively fair condition, and then we can negotiate on top of that condition. ”
If Li Jiaming hadn't been very confident in this old boy's professional ethics, he would have thought that this guy had been bought by the other party.
Kyle also knows that Li Jiaming has business vision and perseverance, but he also knows that the other party does not know the United States, or does not know about these business families. For these families, the family reputation is their foundation, as long as the reputation is there and the heir is not too incompetent, even if it declines for a while, it can quickly rise again.
"Ms. Agnese has the social resources we need, and we have the products they need most, so she will take the initiative to give us a relatively fair condition to facilitate this cooperation. Boss, she has the resources we need, but others have them, even more than hers, so she will take the initiative to persuade Colombia to authorize our website. ”
It makes sense, the family is not comparable to the company, the company can do anything for profit, but the family can't do that, Li Jiaming nodded again and again.
"Ok, you are still in the silent period, it is inconvenient to contact her, the lady has a good relationship with several CEOs in Hollywood, do you want to ask her to help Wei with a few roles?"
Chinese superstar, Lao Tzu's genuine girlfriend, came to Hollywood to play soy sauce?
But Marissa next to her preemptively explained: "Ms. SE is a director of Columbia Pictures. China and the United States have reached an agreement to introduce 10 Hollywood movies every year, and your girlfriend is very influential in the Chinese world and Asia, and it is beneficial for their films to enter the Chinese market by placing a Chinese character in the film, and we can also use this opportunity to place ads in the film. ”
Product placement?
Li Jiaming, who has always been distressed by the high advertising cost of the iPod, immediately thought of how to promote the iPod and how to make fans pursue the iPod, but gave up the suggestion of helping Zhao Wei enter Hollywood. Except for one or two action stars, it is impossible for Chinese people to get out in Hollywood, and it is better to do it in China than to be a third-class citizen here. It's just that this woman is a little exaggerated, and it is not easy to implant advertisements in movies, Li Jiaming doesn't understand movies, but he knows that he must first pick out the blockbuster movies, otherwise the advertising fee will be in vain.
"Marissa, tell me about it. ”
“ok”
This woman is capable enough, and she actually thought of implanting it only in science fiction films, and after listening to Marisa's creativity for product placement, Li Jiaming nodded secretly. Even for this insight and the master's degree from Sloan College, it is worth $50,000 a year.
"Boss, Hollywood is the Hollywood of Wall Street! The Atson Fund wants to invest in us, and Ms. Agnese has to show enough sincerity, she is a shareholder of Columbia Pictures, and there is a film investment fund, and this influence is still there. ”
The butterfly's wings became more and more powerful, and he killed himself, and he didn't miss ruining the stranger of the 'International Chapter'.
Li Jiaming changed to Chinese and discussed a few words with Kyle, and decided to give Ms. Agnese a part of the preferential financing rights in exchange for her lobbying major record companies and arranging Zhao Wei's future by the way. Without the introduction of powerful people, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Kyle to meet those CEOs and directors. No one in the world can monopolize interests, and you have to win over all kinds of powerful friends in order to really eat the fat meat.
"Ming, the bottom line is set at 5%?"
"Okay, you go talk, we need strong friends. ”
At this moment, Li Jiaming's phone rang, it was his father calling, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, you go and do it, my father's phone is here." ”
"Okay, let's go first. ”