Chapter 5: Copyrights Again

"Now, you're a little rich woman now." After Chen Bo came back, he handed over the signed document to the owner.

"Oh, so what, I can't go back anyway." Lee Yun-hee looked indifferent, money is all outside the body, the perfect family is ruined, what's the use of asking for so much money?

"Don't you like racing? We can use the money to buy car companies. ”

"How can there be such a cheap car company, it is all sky-high."

"Don't keep an eye on Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Porsche. There's a company in the UK called McLaren, you wouldn't know it, would you? ”

"You're talking about the McLaren team in Formula 1?" Lee Yoon-hee was surprised, this is an old racing team. Its founder is a racing driver named Bruce McLaren, and the sports cars produced are all using formula racing technology, only production supercars, and it is also the highest-selling independent supercar brand.

"Of course, I've got in touch. The 75% stake is valued at £900 million. ”

Compared to other auto groups, this price is indeed cheap, but McLaren is only a sports car seller after all, and there are a lot of debt losses.

Which sports car alone is profitable? So they have married into big companies as concubines, Bugatti and Lamborghini cows, right? is not yet taken over by Volkswagen, and it is common to lose more than a billion a year. No matter how famous Ferrari is, it has to be committed to the Fiat Group.

A company like Koenigsegg, which can only produce a dozen cars a year, will certainly not make much money. The investment Jason led at the time almost went down the drain and has now changed hands.

"You're really fast, but is the money enough?" Of course, Lee Yun-hee is interested in McLaren, but $1.3 billion is too much, and after paying taxes, I am afraid it will not be as much as 900 million pounds.

"You give 25% of the £300 million, and give me the remaining £600 million. I'm going to have to leave you some pocket money. You're going to learn how to manage the team with Ron Dennis, and I'm very optimistic about you. ”

"Really! Thank you, Oba! Lee Yoon-hee was overjoyed and put a pair of red lips on his cheek and kissed him.

"It's good if you're happy." Chen Bo pinched her face and smiled. Thanks to her hobby of racing, if she is only interested in art, then why don't you have to give you the entire Louvre?

Buying McLaren is not just a plaything, Chen Bo values McLaren's influence in F1 races, and the second is its technical strength, which is the research and development of future smart cars in advance, which also involves the Internet of Things.

And investing in Tesla is a pure business, and Elon Musk's urine will never be handed over to others.

As for the remaining 25%, why not buy it? Chairman Ron Dennis does not sell, the old man has been in charge of the company for more than 20 years and is reluctant to make a move easily, and Chen Bo does not plan to seize power immediately, stability is the first priority.

These have been arranged by the team to discuss, and the intention has been basically reached.

In Los Angeles, she can take care of her children, chat with her girlfriends, and go shopping. This mood has gradually improved, and Chen Bo also helped her change her nationality from South Korea to the United States, although for ordinary people to get an American nationality is something that will wake up with a smile in their dreams, but for rich people, it can be done in minutes.

With an investment of Ant Search, there are countless places that can be addressed, not to mention that he also has a lawyer representing a senator.

Now that she has stepped out of the psychological shadow, Chen Bo will temporarily stay in Los Angeles, as long as she prepares for the thesis defense, she can get a master's degree from New York University in the summer, and after the matter in the UK is finalized, she can take over some management affairs of McLaren.

Once people are busy, they don't have time to think about some miscellaneous things, and many troubles in between things are actually idle.

Chen Bo has returned to his working state, and under the premise that the profits in the domestic market cannot support the entire company for the time being, the overseas market is the top priority, and it is also the focus of the battle between Ant Search and Google.

What was the hottest thing in '04? It's not Facebook, which is gradually conquering university socializing, but YouTube, an obscure video-sharing site. Google then launched Google video, and Yahoo Video followed suit, but none of them could match YouTube's popularity.

There is no traffic, but it can't do a small website, which makes several large companies quite unhappy.

At present, the only thing that has not taken action is probably Ant Search, which has tens of billions of dollars in cash flow, but is indifferent to emerging video websites? This is obviously not scientific.

The spacious and luxurious round table meeting room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills is surrounded by CEOs who can influence the world, because they are all heads of major film companies, and it is really impossible to find a comparison of the power of cultural export compared to Hollywood.

"It's a great honor for the Presidents to take time out of their busy schedules to be here." Chen Bo sat on the main seat and said politely in the opening remarks.

"Who doesn't know that you Vincent is the hand of God, and I heard that there are good projects to increase revenue, how dare we not come? Who can't get along with money! It was Lachlan Murdoch, the helmsman of 21st Century Fox and the eldest son of a media mogul.

News Corp. and Ant Search are still in the honeymoon period, and there is a lot of cooperation and exchange between them, and it is not as simple as endorsing each other's platforms.

"Yes, the board of directors hired us to improve performance, and the current film market is not so easy to do." Robert Iger, the new president of Disney, echoed.

After Disney got rid of Eisner, he was replaced by Robert Iger, who successfully acquired Pixar Studios for $7.4 billion. Among them, $3.5 billion in cash, plus 7% of the company's shares, Jobs also became the largest individual shareholder, and Disney's total market capitalization at this time was only about $40 billion.

Although I don't usually deal directly with Hollywood companies, I have an inextricable relationship.

Who has the data on Rotten Tomatoes been sold to? Aren't these companies the same, and it's important to know where their movies are and what kind of movies they need to make in the future to win the box office and word of mouth.

What's more, the publicity and promotion of new films now pay more attention to Internet channels, and there are actually a lot of business implications in the coming and going.

If it were just relying on Chen Bo's role as a prophetic emperor, there would never be so many people selling this face, after all, those are all false.

A good cooperative relationship coupled with the means of making money from stones to gold cannot help but come to them.

Sony Columbia, Paramount, MGM, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. are impressively listed, most of these companies were founded in the twenties and thirties of the last century, and the accumulated film library is gone, plus the second-tier Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate, DreamWorks, Miramax, etc., basically wipe out the big Hollywood manufacturers.

As for those small companies that only produce a film in two or three years, they are not qualified to sit here.

"Since everyone is looking forward to it so much, I won't hide it." Chen Bo said and motioned to the staff to turn on the projection, and the words "Hulu Business Plan" were clearly projected on the white screen.

Hulu? What the heck? There is no such word in English.

"First of all, let me explain, this is our Ant Search upcoming video website." Chen Bo saw everyone's doubts, so he explained.

"What does that have to do with us?" Someone asked.

"Don't worry, listen to me slowly." Chen Bo smiled slightly and continued, "Netflix, do you know? ”

"Of course, that's one of our important DVD rentals!"

"What about YouTube?"

"Last year's hottest short video website, my children had to soak on it for hours every day."

"Have you noticed that some of these users have started uploading low-quality video resources?" Chen Bo asked rhetorically.

"What? This is a blatant infringement! ”

"Not only is it infringing, but the emergence of video sharing sites will greatly affect your performance, as well as the reputation of big productions!" Chen Bo looked around and saw that everyone was aroused by him, and after a pause, he said, "Just imagine, there are 120 million Internet users in the United States, if they don't go to the cinema to buy tickets, and watch free movies on the Internet, what will happen?" At the same time, will the appearance of those inferior movies affect the user's perception? ”

"Oh my God, it's going to be a devastating blow for us." It is not stupid for everyone to sit in the high position of president, and it is naturally much clearer.

"Instead of sitting and waiting, it is better to seek a breakthrough!" Chen Bo's powerful voice echoed in the conference room: "Hulu is the fist product of our Ant Search, not only the sharing of short videos, but also the interests of more traditional film companies, only by combining new technologies with traditional industries can it be more promising." Subversion is not our goal, but to cooperate for a win-win situation! ”

"So? How can we win together?! "Everyone is suspicious, they don't know much about the Internet, they don't know much about it, and they can't say why.

"Hulu will adopt the latest video decoding technology to provide more high-definition movie experiences to users across the network. As for the copyright issue, the first is that we will obtain relevant authorization from the companies to prevent users from uploading without permission from the source. The second is free licensing, you can get a share of advertising in the future, the more popular movies will be advertised, and a new revenue channel will be added in addition to the traditional box office and DVD rental business. ”

"It's just visible, and we're going to feed back user data to companies, and algorithmic recommendations for streaming media are a topic we're working on. What movies users like, how hot they watch, how often they watch and other key information will be presented in front of you, so will you save a lot of costs when you make movies in the future? ”

Chen Bo painted a beautiful blueprint for them in the future, and they can make money and have data to take, which is of course a good thing.

On top of that, YouTube allows users to upload videos privately, which stimulates their nerves. The young man in front of him is obviously inclined to cooperate with the old media, rather than directly and frantically attacking the market, and in terms of this attitude, he is undoubtedly trustworthy in the violent growth of the Internet industry.