Cao Weiran, the CEO of Tomato Sauce Records, is not a fruit fan, and he is a little disgusted with Apple. He always said to the young people in the company, hey, Apple only knows how to make money now, and no longer really makes products with heart. What is product orientation? Demanding, extreme, paranoid. The product is his values.

Lao Cao, 47 years old, is one of the top figures in the Chinese pop music industry, humble and domineering.

He had two judgments. First, China's music industry, which has been stagnant for more than 10 years, is about to fully recover, and the same is true on a global scale. Second, music quality is the only way to win, and the current landscape will no longer exist. So, he took the lead in founding ketchup and served as CEO.

When he saw the video of "I Miss You Every Day", he was sitting in a café at Yanjing's international airport. Cao Weiran sighed that the shooting of the iPhone is really powerful. The picture quality and sound of the video are very good, and the live effect is successfully restored.

Cao Weiran immediately called back Ji Shanshan, the vice president of the company, and asked her to arrange for someone to go to Jiangdong City to try to sign the singer. After explaining, Cao Weiran emphasized again: "Shanshan, if you are free next week, you can also go to Jiangdong in person." ”

"I'll go on Monday. ”

"Okay, thank you. And ......" Cao Weiran hesitated, but still said more. "Even if we can't get it, we must not let him fall into the hands of Huawen. ”

Huawen is the largest record giant in China, and Tomato Sauce is catching up with the goal. Ji Shanshan smiled: "Hehe, it is estimated that the boss of the Chinese language is also saying the same thing." ”

After hanging up the phone, Cao Weiran asked the young man next to him: "Ruiwen, what do you think of this singer?"

Zhang Ruiwen took off the headphones, thought about it, and replied: "It's okay, Ye Luzi." ”

Cao Weiran was a little disappointed.

Zhang Ruiwen is 24 years old and is a musical genius who Cao Weiran single-handedly excavated and personally trained. He studied music from an early age and was extremely talented, and when he was in college, he formed a band and quickly became famous. After graduating from college, Zhang Ruiwen suddenly disappeared. For 2 years, Cao Weiran has been training him in secret.

Zhang Ruiwen will be a superstar in the music scene.

Products. He is Cao Weiran's most successful product and the biggest hole card of the ketchup company.

In July 2017, Huaxia Kingdom will hold a super-large-scale singer competition, which is also the time when Zhang Ruiwen made a strong comeback and became a blockbuster. He endured for 2 years, and everything was ready.

He added, "I don't like this man. ”

Zhang Ruiwen is very conceited, his eyes are above the top, he can't hide his arrogance, and sometimes he is very annoying. But Cao Weiran never criticized him. He has character flaws, so Lao Cao can control him.

Cao Weiran has the sharpest judgment. After listening to "Thinking of You Every Day" only once, a corner of his heart is quietly melting. He saw a rare quality. But he half-jokingly said: "In this song, it is all the sound of money." ”

Although they are all voices of money, Fang Yan is rich.

At half past three in the afternoon, he and Shen Boyuan went to buy a bunch of furniture, tables, chairs, cabinets, and a double bed.

"Why buy a double bed, it's up to me. ”

"You're stupid, a double bed is only 100 yuan more expensive than a single bed, listen to me, it's the best deal to buy a double bed. Shen Boyuan looked at Fang Yan with a look of disdain.

"You're stupid, the mattress is 500 more expensive, okay. ”

"Oh......" Shen Boyuan was stunned, petrified for 5 seconds, and then moved his body cheaply, and said: "You are stupid, don't you look for a girlfriend, if you find a girlfriend, the double bed will be useful." ”

"Big brother," Fang Yan asked. "This house doesn't even have a toilet, who wants to be my girlfriend?"

Shen Boyuan was furious: "You asked for it." So stingy, what do you do to know the use of bargaining, saving money, saving money?"

"As the old saying goes, half-starved and half-fed are long, you know?"

"That's the old society!"

The furniture is the cheapest, cut half a sky-high price, and cost nearly 2,000 yuan. Delivered, loaded, the two went to the supermarket again and bought bedding and sheets. Shen Boyuan's physical strength dropped to 0, and he fell headlong, and he couldn't get up after being killed. He muttered: "I knew that I wouldn't be meowing, this is my life." ”

"Isn't your school going to run 3,000 meters, why are you so useless? Fang Yan was curious.

"I haven't slept all night......!

Shen Boyuan fell asleep, didn't take off his shoes, curled up on the mattress, snoring. Fang Yan watched him for 5 minutes, went out alone, took a bus, and came to the bar street by the river. He wanted to find a job singing. Since you want to take root in Jiangdong, you have to survive.

"Boss, do you want a singer?"

The boss didn't raise his head and said, "Don't." ”

In the afternoon, the bar street is deserted, mostly open, but there is no business. At night, it will be one of the liveliest places in the city.

Fang Yan's idea was simple. Music can't be eaten, first find a normal job, don't be afraid of less money, learn to integrate into society first, and keep up with the rhythm. Also, sing in the bar at night and earn some extra money. He asked three companies in a row, but they all said that they would not recruit singers, which he thought was strange. Luckily, the owner told him that there was no show at the bar on this side, and he wanted to sing and go to the other end.

He walked slowly and walked more than 100 meters when he heard the sound of a tinkling drum kit. It's a big, stylish bar with a bulletin board filled with posters of all kinds of performances. The name of the bar is Magic Rock. It's an interesting name. Magic Rock was once the name of a record company that had a significant impact on the history of Chinese rock music.

The boss of the Magic Rock is not there. The manager in charge was a manager with dyed red hair, he looked Fang Yan up and down for a long time, and said a little embarrassedly: "We have been in a full line for a long time, in addition to singers, there are also bands, hey, I'm afraid I won't have time in the past few months." ”

Fang Yan didn't give up and asked, "Can you try it?"

On stage, a band is tuning equipment. The manager smiled and said, "You're new here, aren't you?"

The manager is good, and he explained to Fang Yan. Magic Rock is the most famous theme bar in Koto City, and it is also a live house (small performance venue), which is an important base for band performances. The people who can sing in Magic Rock are all well-known singers and bands, at least they must have their own fans. Newcomers who are not famous do not get a chance at all. There are several active stars who have sung all the way from Magic Rock.

He suggested that Fang Yan go to the "cave man" not far away to ask, but it was estimated that it was about the same.

The owner of the caveman bar on the top of the mountain is a woman, smoking a cigarette, and asks more directly: "How many customers can you call in a day? ”

Fang Yan smiled, saying that he wanted to sing, and he was not selling alcohol.

The female boss also laughed, saying that the cave man on the top of the mountain and the magic rock are the two most popular bars, and she suggested that Fang Yan go to a smaller bar and try to sing first, maybe there is a chance.

I can only blame Fang Yan for coming a day early. If you had come the next day, it would have been very different. Fang Yan thought for a while and asked, "You said that these two are the hottest, so which bar has the worst business on this street?"

"The worst ......" said the female boss without thinking about it. "The first one on the street, an unnamed tavern. The shop was running out of business, and the boss had a problem with his head. ”

"Thank you. ”

Fang Yan decided to go to the bar where the boss had a problem with his head.