"I heard you're interested in PayPal?"

While Sergey Brin and Larry Page were leaving under great pressure, Jeff Bezos also came to the door.

So, Roland received the third group of people in the same conference room.

Looking at the guy with his back against the sofa, his hands on his abdomen, and his serious but relaxed body, Roland nodded and gave an affirmative answer, "Yes, I'm interested in PayPal, and I'm also interested in eBay, by the way, who do you listen to about this?" ”

"David, of course. I had a brief chat with him after the birthday party last night, and he told me about it. Jeff Bezos waved his right hand, seemingly instinctively, but more like a hostile one, "David asked me if we Amazon need to connect to the PayPal port, and then I knew you wanted to attack them." ”

Because both sides know each other, or that Amazon's backers allow them to deal with problems calmly, even if they know that the company's shareholders will invest in competitors, Jeff Bezos will not panic like Sergey Brin and Larry Page, because he understands that Amazon is still the most valuable company in this market, regardless of how competitors expand.

Because—

Berkshire Hathaway is with them.

"You came to me today, probably to persuade me to give up this idea, right?" Looking at the composed-looking guy, Roland asked.

“No，No，No。” Jeff Bezos shook his head and denied with a smile: "I came to you today, mainly to get the product licensing of Blizzard and Marvel, online exclusive licensing, ten years is the best, five years is fine." ”

After the Internet bubble was punctured, the entire industry was a chicken feather.

Internet companies that have been cut off from the flow of funds have gone bankrupt directly, and the companies that have been bailed out have also changed their names and surnames.

At this time, the "Amazon, which the whole Wall Street felt outrageous" that people complained about in later generations, did not choose to shrink because of the collapse of the Internet, but instead borrowed a sum of money from Wells Fargo, which was owned by Warren Buffett, and carried out crazy expansion.

In the millennium, they signed a 50 million year with Toys "R"Us for a total of 10 years, a total of 500 million online exclusive contracts, according to the agreement, Toys "R" Us will establish an exclusive supply service on Amazon, selling toys and baby products under their own name, not only that, they will also provide the most intimate delivery service, as long as the buyer places an order on Amazon, then the nearest physical store of Toys "R"Us will contact the nearest delivery point for delivery, the same city time, no more than 48 hours.

In addition, the second largest bookstore in America, the Bordes Group, has also reached a similar service contract with Amazon, where buyers buy books online and sellers deliver them offline, providing users with a one-stop intimate service.

It is precisely because Amazon has carried out crazy expansion when all physical companies dare not set foot in the Internet field, so after the recovery of the Internet, the industrial capital that wants to enter the market can no longer find any space to gain a foothold, so Amazon, which survived to the end, has become the boss of the e-commerce field, and they have the energy to free up their hands to do other things.

Although compared with books and baby products, games and comics are not necessities of people's lives, but gamers and comic readers are consumers with strong subjective initiative.

As long as players and readers like a certain product, then they will take the initiative, in this case, if they can get the online sales rights of Blizzard and Marvel, then in this section, Amazon is not afraid that others can surpass.

Roland understands these things, and what he wants to do now is actually the entire upstream and downstream industrial chain, but while he is ready to agree, he feels that he has to figure out a problem first, "Exclusive authorization is okay, but the problem is that no one delivers goods to us." ”

"All Marvel comics are sold in major bookstores, there is no own channel, just by mail, the sales will be miserable, and Blizzard's games are the same, there are no offline video stores and supermarkets, purely rely on logistics, then players may be driven crazy by the slow speed to home, if we can't solve such a problem, our authorization is meaningless."

Hearing Roland say this, Jeff Bezoston laughed, took the initiative to get up and poured a glass of water for the other party, and then sighed: "It seems that Warren (Buffett) is right, you don't want to take care of the company, you are simply too lazy to take care of the company." ”

"You're right, in the absence of offline stores and basic logistics, Blizzard and Marvel's online authorization has no meaning, but isn't the meaning of meaninglessness the greatest significance?"

"I'm not going to hinder Blizzard and Marvel from making money, I just hope Amazon can create a dream world where everything is available."

"There are indeed many offline stores where you can buy Blizzard's CDs and Marvel comics, but online, only Amazon sells them."

"There may be few people who choose to buy online this year, and maybe not many people will buy next year, so what about the year after next, the year after tomorrow?"

"Building a logistics company covering North America is our next plan, and we can market before the plan is implemented."

"If I could, I would even like to talk to you about online access to Apple products that only Amazon can buy, merchandise from Warcraft and DreamWorks, and everything from Marvel and Blizzard!"

"When Amazon is the only one in the world that has these things, no matter how fast the delivery is, the others will lose, right?"

"Because we have exclusivity, and exclusivity, that means traffic."

Roland understood that Jeff Bezos was trying to suck blood.

Suck the blood of the offline market, suck the blood of offline merchants, and suck the blood of offline customers.

It is true that they cannot provide customers with door-to-door delivery service within 48 hours without warehousing and logistics services all over the United States, but it doesn't matter, because warehousing and logistics are dead, and there will be after all!

In this case, the more exclusive brands there are, the stronger the brand effect!

When people all over the world know that Amazon can buy everything, other competitors have no room to survive, and then, as long as warehousing and logistics can keep up, the whole company can take off!

And after that, it is to monopolize the market and force merchants to choose one of the two.

As for what makes it easy to do business in the world?

Good for non-existent!

"Yes, but it must be offline." Roland thought about it for a while, and finally decided to help Amazon build a brand.

"Oh~Thank you~"

However, just as he wanted to express his gratitude to Roland, Roland said, "Don't worry, I'm not done yet. ”

"I now own 18.35 percent of Amazon, but I only have one seat on the board."

"You can nominate an outside director, and I'll propose a reshuffle." Jeff Bezos didn't think about it and said directly.

"Two."

Roland was not satisfied, "Now there are five people on the board of directors, and I will take three when it expands to seven, and you can take care of the remaining four." ”

“Okay。” Jeff Bezos smiled and stretched out his hand, "If you can make Yahoo, MSN, and Google advertise on Amazon all year round and don't expose eBay, then it's okay to give you four seats......"

Compared to Sergey Brin and Larry Page's hesitation, Jeff Bezos is a breeze.

Because he knows how much profit a monopoly can bring!

In the era when whoever controls the market has the right to speak, Roland, who maintains a good relationship with Microsoft, is Dad!

…………

And after Jeff Bezos left, Roland's ass still couldn't get up from the couch.

Because Steve Jobs is here again.

Unlike Steven Spielberg who talked about the restructuring of DreamWorks, Sergey Brin and Larry Page who talked about Google's expansion, and Jeff Bezos who talked about Amazon's brand effect, Steve Jobs talked about Roland, and it was a real product.

"SoundJam MP has accepted our offer and expects to close the merger this month."

"After the merger, we will change the name of SoundJam MP to iTunes, and we expect to announce it to the world early next year."

"Similarly, Toshiba's 18-inch small hard drive patent is quite suitable for our concept, so it still needs to cost some money."

"If nothing else, you'll be able to see our iPods at the end of next year, and the online music store stuff, we need to see the sales of the iPods before we set a date."

Although Steve Jobs sprayed Microsoft before it had no core industry, Apple itself is actually an assembly factory.

It's just that Microsoft only assembles software, while Apple does both hard and soft.

The core technology is indeed there, but more products are bought.

However, this is also easy to understand, after all, it costs money and effort to develop it yourself, and the acquisition is ready-made, and the benefits are the greatest.

…………

After sending off Steve Jobs, it was already noon.

When Roland came out of the conference room, he realized how tiring it really was to go to work all day.

Yes, they did sit down in the conference room, but ......

The topic of conversation is to determine the life and death of a company and the employment of tens of thousands of people!

At the same time, Roland finally understood why the people who were rich liked to flaunt themselves.

"We entered the XX field to benefit mankind, and according to the current market, we will create XX jobs."

As soon as this is said, the thief has a sense of accomplishment!

In this case, every decision of the capitalists is saving the world!

Well, he thinks it's fake himself......

Just when Roland thought that he would finally be able to take a break after going through DreamWorks, Google, Amazon and Apple, at noon, the current chairman of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gilead suddenly jumped out and wanted to have a meal with Roland.

In such a situation, Roland, who had just hugged his daughter-in-law, was a little helpless.

As much as he wanted to refuse, Kate kissed him on the cheek and pushed him out the door.

"Go, go, it's okay, I'll just eat with my mom."

"You're busy all year year, don't be lazy!"

The thoughtful words made Roland sigh, because Kate knew how difficult it was to get these guys together.

Now, the guys who still stay on the island have their own selfish intentions.

Roland is talking about business with his own people, and other capitals are also chatting privately elsewhere.

To put it mildly, they're here for the wedding, and to put it mildly, they're here for an intimate meeting after the wedding.

And after Roland met with them, the old man who once waved his face at Roland also showed a kind smile, and said unabashedly: "The recent series of turmoil has surprised us deeply, I knew that you were my own person, so I wouldn't have guarded against you last time." ”

"I'm really sorry!"

With a smile like a cunning fox, Roland waved his hand, "It's okay, and it's no wonder I didn't make it clear." ”

Before the words fell, Arnold Schwarzenegger had already taken the pot, "No, I didn't explain it clearly." ”

If outsiders were allowed to see this humble scene, they would definitely wonder if the Pentagon warlord had taken the wrong medicine, but, for the three people on the scene, this was normal, after all, Henry Rumsfeld was just a card in the hands of General Motors.

And Roland......

It's a player!

After a brief conversation, the old man went straight to the point.

He came back this time, first, to thank Roland for his investment in Gilead last year, second, to thank him for his contribution to the smooth filming of "Black Hawk Down", and third, to help his new owner pull sponsorship.

The first two are actually bullshit, and the most important thing is the third, and after learning that the current governor of Texas has officially announced his candidacy, Roland slapped the table and said directly: "Okay, I'll donate 10 million first." ”

"If there's a problem, you call me directly."

"Thank you so much!" Henry Rumsfeld smiled like a flower.

Although campaign donations are basically capped at 2 million, the rest of the money can not be donated to the designated account!

In order to ensure the openness and transparency of these money, the law has strict requirements for these money, and the funds are earmarked for reference at any time.

But the problem is that the money on the surface is enough to refuel the candidate's plane, and if you really use that money to campaign, then you have to do it!

You can't even pull up a banner!

So, the void came.

There are so many items to spend on the election campaign, can't we just donate them one by one?

I see that your plane is out of fuel, so I will donate a fuel money to you.

Although this money will be used for the campaign, it can be used to eliminate the campaign account at all!

I'm just worried that your plane will fall from the sky if you don't have enough fuel, so sponsor a gas money!

As for the law?

And what law says I can't send fuel to a campaigner?

Can't control me at all!

In this way, I can donate everything from the security insurance when traveling to the daily meal allowance!

And after the list is extensive, no one can find out whether the money has been used to the point.

Or rather, no one is clean!

What's more, donate money directly in the form of royalties!

Like the Zipper Tons, they don't accept donations on the surface, but aren't all the books written by the woman being chartered?

Like Ao Guanhai and his wife, they don't accept sponsorship on the surface, but after retirement, Hollywood, which was strongly supported by him, invited him to make a movie!

So, as long as you are willing to donate, people will definitely receive it.

Not only that, but the more you donate, the more you will be inclined in the future.

For example, Oracle, as a second-tier company in Silicon Valley, how did he participate in TikTok's bidding?

That's not because Larry Ellison not only donated the most to the founding comrades, but also raised the team of the founding comrades!

In this way, let alone donating 10 million to the governor of Texas, it is 100 million, and Roland will not blink an eyelid.

When the other party opens his mouth, he will give money!

Because as long as the bearded man takes his medicine on time, next year, he will be able to double it! Ten times more! Hundredfold! Thousands of times more recovered!

This was said by him Roland!

Who! All! Bar! No! Live!