"Hotmail has completed financing, and they took the lead in launching a free policy to burn money to expand market share while leading the market share, which shows that we should have no chance."

Dr. Chen, president of A+ Ventures, said in an interview with Song Adam's immediate phone call: "I don't know how much Hotmail is valued now, but the legend of Silicon Valley that the two founders are worth more than 100 million yuan together. ”

“Shxt！”

It must have been too late, "They are the boss, who is the second one?" Song Ya asked.

"Microsoft has its own plain text mail client, Hotmail can only be said to be the boss of the web mail service provider, the second largest market share is called Rocket Mail, RocketMail, I heard that it is also ready to follow up Hotmail's free strategy."

Dr. Chen replied, "But this parent company with good strength doesn't need to take VC money at all." ”

“Shxt！ Fxxk！ ”

It's late, it's late, Song Ya pulled his hair, why didn't he think of playing with email, "It's equivalent to saying that there is no good opportunity in this industry?" ”

"Well, I guess, but not necessarily. If you think about it, providing 2M free space for each user, according to the current cost of storage and network hardware, the speed of burning money will be very amazing, the larger the number of users, the faster it will burn, maybe we can be patient and wait until they are bleeding ......"

Dr. Chen said: "I don't know much about this email address, but I heard that the technical threshold is actually not high, and it is not so easy for them to burn money to eliminate competitors and then turn to charging to make profits. ”

"Well, indeed, patience is important."

Song Ya comforted herself and put down the phone, and tried RocketMail's email service again, the interface is not as familiar as Hotmail, but the functions are indeed similar.

Now he can only exercise patience, he opened the email sent to him by the trio and read it carefully, except for the chip technical documents that were sprinkled with tricks, the rest basically said one thing: boss, don't worry, the money will be burned until November, and when the new chip Voodoo Rash compatible with 2D capabilities is listed, we will definitely kill everything, and the future is absolutely bright.

"Year after year, five million and five million, is this the semiconductor industry? These three liars! No wonder they don't dare to meet! ”

Song Ya did some mental calculations and almost smashed the computer, "No, no, no, don't get angry, don't get angry, calm down, be patient and patient." ”

With his left hand, he blocked the male martial artist's swinging fist, and with his right hand blocked the whip leg of the female martial artist.

"Drink! Ha! ”

The young Chinese male martial artist cherishes this rare opportunity to appear, and he is particularly energetic in front of the camera, shouting and cheering, using both fists and feet, and unconsciously not paying attention to the strength of the good tricks, and really hitting the male protagonist.

“WTF！？ Do you baa thunder? ”

Song Ya's arm hurt, and the scene was no longer filming, so he pushed the kid on the spot, and he was not in a good mood since last night and said, "Action guide!" Take care of your people. ”

didn't care about the crew's chicken feathers, and went back to the dressing room directly as a big name.

"Then ...... today" After a while, Zack Schneider followed, and Song Ya raised the ice pack that Old Mike had just helped tie at him, "Then forget it today, you can rest APLUS, I will find a way to shoot someone else's scene first......"

"Really!"

Seeing Zack Schneider disappear obediently, Mr. Song Ya sulked for a while, and then thought about finding something to do for himself, but he couldn't read the exam book, so he called Donovan and Hayden, "How are I talking to the next family of A+ Records?" ”

"We, William Morris, have been exposed to almost all the big record labels, and none of them don't like you."

Hayden smiled: "Even including Momoyo and Polygram, really, don't look at the conflicts between you, but they still welcome ......"

"I'm going to listen to the substantive offer, it's already July."

Song Ya interrupted him impatiently, who is not welcome to be a trend superstar, the key is how much he is willing to pay for it.

"You know the situation in Momoyo, there are two big record labels in North America, Viking North America and Congress Records. The most interested at the moment is Capitol Records......" The two agents began to detail in detail.

Capitol Records is headquartered in Los Angeles, and a long time ago they took a fancy to the 'hometown' Becky, and asked Kingsley to help dig it, but it didn't work out, this time they were very interested in winning the entire A+ record including themselves and Fergie in one fell swoop, but in principle, they would not allow them to have a sole proprietorship, so they would use the industry practice of acquiring 50% of the shares of A+ Records to be included in their own subsidiaries, and the specific price has not yet been discussed.

Polygram's situation is very interesting, although the feud is big, but there is a strong prince A and M record in Los Angeles with Capitol Records, not a bird headquarters, AM was once brilliant, with Carpenter, Sting and the Police Band, Sex Pistols and other super groups, and another DIVA, MJ's sister Jenny Jackson basically became famous all the way in his family.

But not now, after being acquired by Polygram for 500 million dollars in the late 80s, the singers went out of style, and the founder also ran away in 93, and now there is almost only an empty shell left, "I guess they will not insist that A+ Records become a subsidiary." Donovan said.

"Polygram is a mess, the management is a mess, all the good cards are broken, and its Motown Records has just made Boyz II man angry."

Song Ya remembered a series of ridiculous operations by his family executives on Def Jam records, although he and Daniel made a lot of money, but it was still free to continue working together, "His family doesn't think about it." ”

"Chaos within the parent company may be more beneficial to you." Donovan laughed.

"Forget it, I don't want to have another similar fight with Sony Columbia Records, it's not interesting."

Song Ya waved his hand and said. In fact, Sony Columbia Records is really good, but it's a pity that the relationship has been like this for a few years......

Then there is BMG, BMG's big princes in the United States are RCA (米国 Broadcasting Records), a big vassal of RCA is Alista Records in Atlanta, and BABYFACE's LAFACE Records, and the bad boy records of braggart daddy are all under the banner of Alista Records.

Another big vassal of RCA is JIVE Records, and the popular R. Kelly, Arya and other rhythm and blues singers are signed to his Chicago branch, and Quincy Jones, who is also in Chicago, has a lot of influence on the company.

"BMG is having a lot of momentum right now, and they are actually the least active, and my negotiations with them are still in their infancy, which is in stark contrast to their full support for LAFACE Records to chase the Boyz II man group." Donovan said.

"I understand, I don't want me to be a little too many people who have harmed the past."

Song Ya laughed at herself, this may even include BABYFACE, and changing from friends to colleagues is not necessarily a good thing for friendship, "By the way, how are Boyz II man talking to various record companies?" ”

Hayden laughed, "The most popular one insists on learning from MC Hammer and you have your own wholly-owned record company, and only signs record distribution contracts with distribution companies. The least popular one is against sole proprietorship and wants to take advantage of this wave of opportunities to earn a high signing fee and settle in his pocket. There is only one condition for the homesick one, and the location of the new company must be in his hometown of Philadelphia. The one who has no desire has already taken advantage of this gap to go back to Philadelphia to invest in a barber shop and beauty salon...... One idea for each of the four. ”

It's all talent, Song Ya rolled her eyes and continued to ask.

Warner's Atlantic Records has always had a good relationship with itself, including Steven, a black executive he had come into contact with when he first arrived in New York, and A+ Records has long rented his family's recording studio for its New York singers, who have traditionally been the friendliest to black singers. Even Warner doesn't allow the trouble of having a wholly-owned label, but it seems to be negotiable.

Not to mention Universal, the big boss Bronfman Jr., David Geffen, who still retains some influence after Geffen Records was acquired by Universal's MCA Records, Doug Morris, president of Universal Records, and Ron Meyer, president of Universal Pictures, have all dealt with each other, and the relationship is inconsistent, but overall they are all good, and there has never been a conflict.

"Bronfman Jr. is also the most loose-handed and best-talking entertainment tycoon, after filming Blade, you take the opportunity of this project to communicate with him more, he likes talented people to pat him on the back." Hayden said.

"No problem, I'm good at this." Song Ya nodded.

Speaking of which, Sugnett's death row records were also released through Universal, but there was an Interscope record in between.

But it doesn't matter, no one likes the unruly Sugnette, he is very marginal in the entire global system, that is, everyone pinched their noses and endured it for the sake of seeing that 2PAC and Snoop Dogg could make money.

"Actually, David Geffen hinted to me that you could merge A+ records with DreamWorks records, half and half." Donovan said.

"Am I not at a loss? The Big Three's DreamWorks Records can now only be played by the outdated George Michael, and there are not even a few new albums in total, and the platinum record is still zero. ”

David Geffen wants to be beautiful.

Finally, at Ovitz's suggestion last time, Disney consolidated its record labels into the seventh largest distributor and signed it on its own.

"That's more complicated, Disney Emperor Eisner is now against it as long as Owitz supports it, and it's enough to fight internally if they want to do it, and Mr. Roy Disney told me that it won't be until the end of the year at least."

"And the new seventh-largest record distributor is bound to be strangled by the Big Six, and you're going to be affected, APLUS," Donovan said. ”

"Well, don't rush for the time being, just like the chronic son of DTS, Terry Beard, slow and leisurely, until the end, others will be in a hurry, I still have time, I can continue to wait."

Song Ya probably figured out the situation, "Patience, patience is very important. He muttered to himself.