"'96 is key for A+ audio."

At the end of this year, Song Ya didn't gather all his executives into one conference room, he felt that it was better to meet separately, so as to save everyone from wasting time in meetings like last year, and there was no need for each executive to know about his other business.

'96 was the last year before Delay received the 15% equity incentive, and after Yeremov left, Song Ya 'summoned' him the next day.

DeLay, which has already received a 5% incentive stake, still intends to maintain the old routine, expand as much as possible, and keep all the profits within A+ Audio. Therefore, in addition to continuing to invest in the America music website in '96, he also plans to increase the market share of the A+ synthesized music copyright library again, and directly rush to more than 10% through an acquisition.

The profitability of the synthesized music library was stable but it could not support his ambitions, and the land and small office buildings he had hoarded in Silicon Valley through the Amerika Music Website project were his main sources of financing, and according to his '96 plan, he would basically mortgage the rest by then.

As for the shares of DTS that have been listed, which are worth less than 5 million, Song Ya will not let him move, and he has no idea, the 3.2% shares have 5% of the voting rights, and there is a director, after DTS was listed, he was very keen to participate in the board meetings there.

In this way, the real plan in his heart is obvious, taking advantage of the east wind of the Internet taking off, after getting the equity incentive in 97, he immediately used the Amerika music website to operate A+ audio to go public as a whole, so as to maximize his personal interests.

This is due to Song Ya himself and A+ Audio's co-accountant, Samur of Coopers Firm has long been aware of the clues and given an early warning, and O'Grady of Northern Trust has also privately reminded that Delai should have guessed that he knows his calculations very well.

Now the two have maintained this tacit understanding by relying on their friendship back then and their determination to keep their promises.

Of course, I can't help but be a little more greedy, A+ Audio's legal affairs are in charge of Alicia, hehe, wait for Peter's gubernatorial inauguration to end in a few days......

Well? Where did he go, Song Ya shook his head.

"Yes, very critical." Delay does not take the initiative to poke the window paper, but he will not deliberately hide it, he followed the hint between the words of his old friend and boss, "This year, as long as the stock price of Internet companies can be listed, it will double." ”

"Yes, Nine Sisters."

At the end of the year, two more Internet companies were successfully listed, and the market name was changed from the previous Seven Sisters in 95 to Nine Sisters.

"It's a pity, have you heard? YAHOO, WHICH IS NEXT DOOR TO US, WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE NEXT YEAR, IN MARCH. Delay said.

"So fast? I thought it would be at least until the end of next year. ”

YAHOO QUIETLY CLIMBED THE SEARCH ENGINE MARKET SHARE TO THE TOP THREE, AND NOW THIS TYPE OF WEBSITE IS MUCH MORE TOUTED BY THE MARKET THAN MUSIC WEBSITES, ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF YAHOO IS STILL OF CHINESE DESCENT, MISSING THE EARLY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY, SONG YA HAS A SENSE OF REGRET THAT HE DIDN'T PICK UP THE MONEY.

"I feel that the characteristics of the Internet industry are fast, everything is fast, and it changes rapidly."

DeLay also sighed for a while, "So next year I will also follow the trend and upgrade the Amerika music website every three months, I may not have time to tour abroad with you, how did you sign your new contract with Anschutz?" ”

"At present, there are six performances in Central and South America, one in Spain and one in Portugal, depending on the situation, as the first half of my 96 to 97 'perfect score' global tour." Song Ya replied.

"Wow, Latin Tour?" DeLay laughed.

"yes, ha."

Benefiting from the saliva love song Ai Se Eu Te Pego, South Americans gradually fell in love with the two mambo songs in the second album, Mambo No. 5 and Angelina, Song Ya knows it herself, the distributor Sony Columbia Records knows, and the Anschutz acting department certainly knows that he is becoming more and more well-known over there. Due to the rampant piracy in Latin America, the popularity of songs may not be converted into genuine record sales, so it is more practical to take advantage of the popularity of the past to hold concerts and receive advertisements to exchange the popularity for real money.

It's also good for him to fight for the 98 World Cup theme song through the South American gang with strong FIFA power.

"Next year we will try to sell T-shirts and vodka in South America."

After seeing off DeLay, he met Scott, president of A+ Apparel, and Risser, president of A+ Pedal Company, A+ Wine.

"Capacity."

Reese didn't catch a cold too much, "Now the gray goose vodka is not enough to sell in northern rice, a bottle of more than a dozen dollars, twice as expensive as ordinary vodka, is the consumption power of South Americans enough?" Our high-end route is very good. ”

"Anyway, let's build the skeleton of your South American branch first, and I'll be more popular over there next year."

In the general direction, Song Ya is indisputable: "Anyway, the sparkling wine project has been suspended, and the second phase of vodka expansion has been increased. ”

"Oh my gosh."

Scott unexpectedly blew up, "Again?" ”

"Now I'm in a different situation, Scott, you don't want to get last year's price." Reese smirked at him.

“Fxxkyou！” Scott gave him a middle finger, "You might as well go back and eat yourself." ”

"You eat yourself!"

"You eat yourself!"

"Okay, okay, don't argue in front of me, okay? You're not a three-year-old. Song Ya has also foreseen this scene, "Scott, next year you have to slow down the momentum of expansion, your plan to add a new official store I don't think it's time yet, it's difficult to differentiate T-shirts, this year the traditional cheap clothing giants have opened a benchmark product line, price, quality, design are about the same." You're also going to have to stop the big money you worked with Sears and spend the money you saved in South America......"

"Sears has only had a bit of a rough time this year, and we're going to have to get through it with our partners, who helped us in the early days of A+ Apparel, and they're still Chicago giants, my old employer......" Scott was reluctant, "We can't turn around and deny people so quickly." ”

"Business is business, OK?"

Song Ya persuaded: "I have read your report, the operating cost of our counter in Sears is several times that of other supermarkets, and their department store model is not suitable for this era." ”

Gray Goose Vodka was released in October with the 21 album, and it has only been more than two months today, and the A+ wine industry is still early from returning to its roots, but A+ clothing has gradually become the most stable cash cow in its industrial business.

As the business got bigger and bigger, he obviously felt that he was getting more and more tired to compete with his senior managers, and after wasting a lot of time and saliva, Scott finally reluctantly accepted the boss's advice, "Do nothing next year, and strategically shrink?" How to distribute the profits of A+ clothing this year? ”

"You keep some cash in the company's accounts, and you and other executives will also get a generous bonus, and then make shareholder dividends, and I arranged for Goodman to talk to you about the specific details, and he is in the study."

"Okay."

Song Ya coerced and lured, and finally unified his thinking with the executives of two traditional industrial companies.

Soon he met with A+CN's Gordon, along with A+CN's other two shareholders, Northern Trust's O'Grady and Comcast's people.

"Since the two parties agreed to decide the channel resources according to the ratings of A+CN, then I think that after the 20-hour news station officially operates independently, the channel will be relatively backward, uh, very backward......"

Comcast's strategic direction has been adjusted to the infrastructure construction of the Internet and telecommunications industry, A+CN itself is not very competitive, at present, A+CN produces about nine hours of programs a day, scattered in Comcast's three free channels, Comcast actually has greater expectations for this black news station than Song Ya, the boss Roberts Jr. personally made the decision, personally attended the signing ceremony, full of expectations that it can become a black CUU and the old black station BET board, but more than two months after the stage trial, Hardly anyone thinks that way anymore.

The person they sent over was of a lower level than before, and much younger, "If nothing else, you can probably only choose between seventy-five and ninety-nine, Mr. APLUS?" ”

"Is it okay to choose 88 units? Then choose this one, it will bring me good luck. For Song Ya, there is only one channel choice in this range, "Fortunately, it didn't fall to three digits." He teased Gordon bitterly.

Gordon squeezed out a smile in response to his boss, not even bothering to ask why 88 had good luck, and was depressed, which was in stark contrast to his high spirits when he had just jumped out of BET.

"Don't be like that, Gordon, you haven't brought out a full 24-hour news station yet, I'm sure you can do it, you also said that TV is a long-term career, right?" What else can you do as a boss? Song Ya smiled and cheered.

"This is the promotion plan after the official opening next year." Comcast people submitted a new document, in addition to the usual operation of mailing paper ads to potential subscribers through their channels, there are also things such as cutting out relevant newspaper ads and mailing them back to get a free one-year subscription, through linkage promotion with other stations, etc., for a total of 10 million.

A+CN's parent company, A+ Copyright and Asset Management Company, will contribute 7.1 million yuan on a pro-rata basis, and the remaining 2.9 million yuan will be borne by Northern Trust and Comcast, in addition to the new investment required to expand the program content, and the three companies will have to pay on a pro-rata basis.

The good news is that according to Gordon's ratings, he will definitely not be able to get the top five million annual salary, and the three can save a small amount of money.

Picking up the sesame seeds and throwing away the watermelon, no matter which one of them would like to see the number of subscribers skyrocket, Gordon's salary is nothing.

"We'll only follow up for another year, and if the number of subscribers is still not as good as we expected by then......"

It was inconvenient for Song Ya to give an ultimatum to Gordon, and O'Grady of the Northern Trust stepped forward to be the bad guy as the two had quietly negotiated before the meeting.

"I know, I'm not going to fail."

Alicia is not available yet, and the contract documents negotiated today will be signed at the beginning of next year together with the relevant documents of the inner city broadcasting company in charge of her law firm, Gordon stood up and smiled: "88 ah? I'm going to make it the best news station it can be, I swear. ”