Chapter 605: Cooperate with Ali
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Among them, "800 Warriors" will be a major priority, and the film is currently expected to show in August 2011.
This is an epic masterpiece created by the entire Tianyu Media with a lot of money.
In order to achieve the effect, Zhang Bin invited many top production teams to work together, including Cameron's team.
Originally, the estimated investment of this film was 800 million RMB, but by now, due to the continuous application of special effects and some new technologies, the budget of this film has increased to 1.2 billion RMB.
For domestic film investment, this is definitely a super blockbuster.
As far as the current domestic film investment is concerned, one or two hundred million is already a blockbuster.
"Red Cliff" only spent five or six hundred million, this is still propaganda, who knows how much it spent.
Fortunately, at this time, the influence of Tianyu Media is already big enough, and many companies are willing to maintain payment, and Zhang Bin can also save a little bit.
On November 17, about half a month after coming to Yanjing, Zhang Bin returned to Longyang City.
The little guy has been around for almost two months, and Zhao Min is training the little guy to climb.
However, it is generally three months before a child can turn over, so the little one can only crawl on the bed, humming and not knowing what to express.
Zhang Bin hugged the little guy and played for a while, and he felt a lot better.
The little guy now sees that Zhang Bin will reach out to grab him, occasionally giggling, filling the whole house with laughter.
Qin Dan and Wang Zhaotong's wedding was scheduled for December 26.
WeChat Pay will be launched on December 20.
After WeChat Pay is launched, Cheap Network will continue to be launched.
On December 12, Dai Zhikang sent the WeChat Pay and Cheap Net, which had completed the merger, to Zhang Bin.
At present, there are not too many cheap network functions, and the coverage is not perfect enough.
Mainly ordering food, shopping, booking movie tickets.
Zhang Bin's idea is that the cheap network will be the most convenient and most used app for people in the future.
At present, the cheap network only covers first- and second-tier cities, mainly provincial capitals and some municipalities directly under the central government.
Because the personnel are not very sufficient, the service area will be increased in the future.
Probably the most extensive is cinema tickets and shopping.
Movie tickets can be booked as long as there are White Horse Alliance cinemas in cities, and shopping is currently mainly on Tesco.com, which has some limitations.
If he wants to expand the popularity of cheap Internet, Zhang Bin needs to be able to provide everything people want.
For example, Taobao, for example, you can order takeout, you can book taxis, and so on.
These are the goals to be worked on in the future.
On the 16th, Zhang Bin went to the headquarters of Alibaba and met Ma Dayun.
This meeting, Zhang Bin is to establish a cooperative relationship with Taobao.
Taobao currently has a strong development potential in the field of e-commerce, and if Tesco wants to catch up with Taobao, it still can't work behind closed doors, and cooperation is the last word.
In addition, Taobao will have a big move in the next year, and Zhang Bin also wants to see if he can find a way to get some benefits from it.
For Zhang Bin's visit, Ma Dayun showed enough attention and personally led people to greet him in the company building.
"Mr. Zhang, meet again", Ma Dayun came up and shook hands with Zhang Bin.
"Mr. Zhang is working hard, but he is a busy man, I don't dare to bother you if I have nothing to do", Zhang Bin said with a smile.
"Mr. Zhang is polite, please come inside", Ma Dayun wanted to invite Zhang Bin in.
After a simple greeting, Zhang Bin entered the theme and talked about his intention this time.
Regarding the matter of letting Taobao join the cheap network, Ma Dayun of course has a positive attitude and put forward a request.
"Ali uses 200 million yuan of funds and Taobao cooperation as an investment, and occupies 40% of the shares of Cheap Network, what does Mr. Zhang think?" Ma Dayun said.
"In the future, Ali hopes to participate in the in-depth development of the cheap network, so that we can expand more industries and provide more convenient services for everyone," Ma said.
Zhang Bin actually thought that Ma Dayun would put forward such a condition, because the emergence of cheap network is more in line with Ali's future investment direction.
"Mr. Ma, our company has also invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this app, and we will also invest a lot of money in the next period of time, just in the offline subsidy, we will invest 400 million yuan in the next step, so we can't agree to your conditions," Zhang Bin said.
Ma Dayun smiled and said: "Since Mr. Zhang thinks we can talk, then we can have in-depth negotiations on this amount, I'm afraid that Mr. Zhang won't give him a chance."
"It is also our honor to be able to cooperate with your company, if we can jointly develop this app, then I am very optimistic about the future development of this app, but in terms of funds, your company has to invest more," Zhang Bin said.
"How much does that one think is appropriate?" Ma Dayun asked.
"600 million, Alipay's cooperation is not counted in it, if Mr. Ma agrees, we can continue to talk," Zhang Bin said.
Ma Dayun groaned: "In this way, this is not a small investment after all, how about Mr. Zhang wait for my news?" ”
"Of course," Zhang said.
As the host, Ma Dayun and a group of high-level executives invited Zhang Bin to dinner that night.
After dinner, Ma Dayun and Zhang Bin walked outside the hotel together.
"Will there be time for tomorrow? I have a personal question here that I would like to ask Mr. Ma," Zhang Bin said.
"Tomorrow?" Ma Dayun asked.
"That's right, if Mr. Ma has time tomorrow, he might as well come to my room, I think Mr. Ma should be interested in this matter", Zhang Bin said with a smile.
Ma Dayun laughed and said: "Since Mr. Zhang said so, I will definitely come here."
Ma Dayun came to Zhang Bin at almost nine o'clock the next day, and it seemed that the company was delayed.
Ma Dayun's work is not as idle as Zhang Bin, Zhang Bin is almost a sole proprietorship, although Ma Dayun has shares, but he also works for others, so many things need to be handled by him personally.
As for Zhang Bin's purpose of looking for Ma Dayun this time, it is nothing else, it is Alipay.
Alipay, as the No. 1 payment brand in China, has many places that are worth learning from WeChat.
However, if Alipay wants to make great progress, it cannot avoid one thing, that is, who is the person behind it.
You know, the government will not allow a payment system with a lot of money in and out to be controlled by foreigners, and Alipay is 70% owned by Yahoo and SoftBank.
Ma Dayun is aware of this, and in order to get a payment license, he will take a crucial step for the future development of Alipay.
Under Mr. Ma's leadership, Alipay's shares were transferred to another independent domestic company under Alibaba's name in two installments.
This decision caused strong dissatisfaction between Yahoo and SoftBank at the time, because Alipay already occupied a sizable proportion of the country at the time, and it was very profitable, and it would be a huge loss if they were separated.
In order to achieve this goal, Ma Dayun agreed to give Alipay 37% of its market value after listing in return, so that Yahoo and SoftBank agreed.
What Zhang Bin has to do this time is to discuss with Ma Dayun and get the shares transferred by Alipay for the second time, even if Yahoo and SoftBank do not agree, it will not be too strong, and only need to pay a certain amount of money as compensation at that time, and it will not be too difficult to think about it.
This time it was a private conversation between the two, and this time the cooperation was not between two companies, but between two people.
So Ma Dayun stayed in Zhang Bin's room for a long time and didn't leave until noon.
As for what agreement the two reached, only outsiders know.
After Ma Dayun left, Zhang Bin called Wei Tingjin and began a series of deployments.
Then I called Dai Zhikang, and this cooperation with Alipay will mean that WeChat and Alipay will usher in a historical moment.
After several hours of detailed discussions, Zhang Bin and Ma Dayun probably reached a preliminary agreement.
Alipay has completed the transfer of 30% of its shares in July this year, and the remaining 30% will be transferred in August next year.
Zhang Bin's plan is to buy the remaining 40% of the shares at the highest price of 3 billion US dollars, but this money will be negotiated with Yahoo SoftBank in person, and Alibaba Group cannot interfere with how much money he will pay in the end.
For Zhang Bin's idea, Ma Dayun added two conditions.
First, Zhang Bin cannot specifically interfere with the development of Alipay, but the new company can reserve a director's position for Zhang Bin, and at the same time retain an office that is not lower than the chairman's specifications.
Second, once an internal deal is reached, Zhang Bin must inject a sum of money into the new company for the expansion of Alipay's subsequent business, and the exact amount of funds will be decided by the board of directors.
Because Ma Dayun is responsible for Alipay, he has a lot of right to speak, but this is only a preliminary decision, and the specific needs to be studied by the board of directors before it is said.
After all, this is not a trivial matter, but if Zhang Bin is willing to contribute such a sum of money, then things will be much easier to say.
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