"Boss, Jerry Bowde's offer to Starbucks is $1.8 million."

Inside a hot spring resort in Seattle.

Dante Kane of Hope Angel Investment is reporting to Hideki Hanyu.

He was working in Silicon Valley for something else.

But because he was the person in charge of investing in Howard Schultz's 'Daily Coffee' in Seattle before.

So this time, after Howard Schultz had a new investment plan, he was also temporarily called by Hideki Hanyu.

As for what Howard Schultz wants to do.

Quite simply, two of Starbucks' three founders have left.

The last owner, Jerry Balder, decided to move to California to run the coffee brand he had studied in after buying Pitt Coffee in Los Angeles, so he planned to sell all of Starbucks' stores in Seattle.

After receiving the news, Howard Schultz decided to buy Starbucks.

After all, when Daily Coffee was founded, it was really difficult to come up with the money to buy Starbucks.

Howard Schultz could only turn to Hideki Hanyu as an investor.

Hence Hideki Hanyu's trip to Seattle this time.

A business of more than one million yuan is nothing to Hideki Hanyu.

If it is called Starbucks, then he must pay attention to it.

Of course, I have been busy in three places in China for almost two months before.

Before returning to Neon in March, he used the Starbucks incident to come to Seattle for a few days to rest.

At this point, Dante Kane reports on the progress.

Hideki Hanyu was teasing with his baby daughter.

As for the child's mother, I went to Seattle with my cousin Zhou Wenqiong.

After all, because of production, the other party hasn't gone out for a long time.

"What does Howard Schultz mean?" Hideki Hanyu asked.

Dante Kane replied, "He thinks the price is too high, and says that less than 1.7 million is more reasonable." ”

Hideki Hanyu urged, "Let him hurry up, Silicon Valley is still waiting for you." ”

Dante Kane is busy with two main things in Silicon Valley.

First of all, Sequoia Capital invested in Cisco, mainly in terms of investment funds and share allocation, which has been difficult to negotiate.

Last time Don Valentine invested four million, Hideki Hanyu was willing to give 15 percent of the shares.

But after this period of development, after Cisco opened up the enterprise market, that price was obviously impossible.

Even if Hideki Hanyu doesn't plan to eat alone on Cisco, he still has a tacit understanding with Don Valentine in terms of operation.

But it doesn't mean that he is willing to make a loss-making deal.

In addition to Cisco, Hideki Hanyu also wants to find another investor for Divine Vision.

This investor was the only investor before the IPO of Shenling Vision.

It must be an investor who can help Shenling Vision in the IPO.

Therefore, the selection must be made carefully.

Judging from the current progress, the former may be able to negotiate results in a short time.

As for the latter, it is estimated that it will take some time.

Starbucks is of course important, but compared to these two things, the difference of $100,000 is a bit insignificant.

"Boss, in two days at most, I will definitely finish dealing with this side of the matter." Dante Kane assured.

"Go get busy."

"Goodbye, boss."

After Dante Kane left, Hideki Hanyu immediately picked up his daughter.

The doting said, "Baby, Daddy will take you to the hot springs!" ”

After saying that, he hugged his daughter and walked towards the hot spring pool exclusive to the room.

Hanyu Hideki accompanies his daughter to soak in the hot springs and pretend to be a big horse, so that her daughter is having fun.

It wasn't until five o'clock in the afternoon that my daughter was tired and put to sleep.

At this time, Tianxian's mother and cousin also came back.

The two not only visited Seattle, but also made a lot of purchases in the city.

So as soon as they got home, the sisters began to show off what they had done today.

Hideki Hanyu became a judge and constantly judged the tastings.

looked at it, when he saw Liu Xiaoli change into a black hip skirt, she perfectly showed off her ripe plump and attractive figure.

The scumbag's eyes immediately straightened.

immediately put on a straight face and said to Zhou Wenqiong, who was showing off the bag he bought.

"Xiao Qiong, I have something to talk about with your cousin, and that's all for today."

"What's the matter, you can't let me know yet."

"I'll tell you another day."

Hanyu Hideki pushed and threw Zhou Wenqiong and the things he bought out of the room.

Behind her, Liu Xiaoli asked with a strange face, "You can't say anything in front of Xiaoqiong." ”

After Hanyu Hideki closed the door, he came up and hugged the beauty's slender waist.

smiled and said, "It's not a big deal, I just think Sissi is too lonely and wants to give her a younger brother or sister or something." ”

Liu Xiaoli felt the dishonest hand of the scumbag, and instantly understood why.

Immediately threw Hanyu Hideki a bad health ball, "I'm thinking about it again." ”

"It's not that I'm thinking, it's that you seduced me in this dress first."

"I didn't ...... Hmmm......"

The scumbag no longer gives women a chance to refute.

After a kiss, he directly picked up the beauty and walked towards the bedroom.

……

The Starbucks of the future is the leader of the coffee chain.

But now, he is a child who is about to be abandoned by his parents.

Fortunately, there is also Howard Schultz, the "stepfather", who is willing to take over.

Eventually, with the help of Dant Kane, 'Daily Coffee' acquired the Starbucks brand for $1.7 million.

There is nothing to manage about this casual investment, it all depends on Howard Schultz's management.

In the original history, Howard Schultz made Starbucks grow and grow, and it was not as easy as imagined.

The reason for this is that investors do not trust Howard Schultz's way of operating.

But in this plane, Howard Schultz doesn't have to worry about it.

Hideki Hanyu, the hand-off shopkeeper, basically handed over all the power of the company to the other party.

After Howard Schultz bought Starbucks, he changed the logo and trained the store staff to prepare for a complete transformation of the Starbucks store.

Hideki Hanyu didn't care at all.

He accompanied Liu Xiaoli and her daughter, and took her sister-in-law to Seattle for a tour.

It wasn't until March that the group returned to Los Angeles.

Hideki Hanyu didn't return to Neon in the first place.

Instead, I took a helicopter ride to San Jose.

Regarding Sequoia Capital's investment in Cisco, after a long period of negotiations, there is finally a result.

But before he could meet Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital, he had to meet another person.

March 5th, Moon Lake Manor.

Inside the living room of the mansion.

Hideki Hanyu sat back on the couch, holding a document in his hands and reading it carefully.

Monica Bellucci stood behind him, gently kneading his shoulders.

There was also a man sitting in front of him.

Hirokichi Ichihara.

Former senior management of Ito-Yokado, after joining Genie Entertainment, he became the head of Genie Show, and made outstanding contributions to the development of Genie Show around the world.

After Genie Entertainment took control of Blockbuster, the other party led the team into Blockbuster and helped David Cook, CEO of Blockbuster, to begin chain expansion.

Today, Hirokichi Ichihara came to report to Hideki Hanyu.

Report on BesTV's expansion over the past eight months.

Hanyu Hideki looked at the documents, and the number of Blockbuster stores has expanded from less than five fingers in Texas to three hundred.

Of those, more than 90 are in Texas.

The remaining 200 are scattered in other state capitals.

Whether it is the number of stores or the business territory of Blockbuster, this is just the beginning, and it is still expanding rapidly.

This time, Hirokichi Ichihara came to California, in addition to reporting to him on his work.

It was also tasked with setting up a warehouse in California and massively expanding the chain.

Of course, with such a large-scale expansion of Blockbuster, the investment of Genie Entertainment is not a small number.

In eight months, more than $12 million was burned in warehouses and stores.

But in order to seize the market, it is all worth it.

Hideki Hanyu knows that in half a year, Pepsi will join forces with "Top Gun" to launch an advertising version of the videotape.

In just its first week, the tape generated $40 million in rental sales.

It is also this number that officially ignited the Hollywood video peripheral market.

In order to catch up with this rise, Blockbuster must be fully prepared.

At the peak of Blockbuster, a store opened every seventeen hours.

At its peak, Blockbuster had more than 9,000 stores and more than 60,000 employees in North America.

Therefore, in Hanyu Hideki's view, more than 300 chain stores have been opened in eight months, and neither the speed nor the scale of the store is far from enough.

At least the next 10 years will be a golden period for videotape/CD rental and sales, and investment will be profitable.

Therefore, you can develop with confidence and do not have any worries.

And nowadays, there is another benefit that has not been noticed in the development of video tape rental business, that is, film library licensing is very easy to discuss.

The videotape market has just started, and major Hollywood companies regard it as an important peripheral profit channel, as long as they apply, they can basically get licensing.

This is completely different from when Netflix developed in later generations.

At that time, the offline rental and sales market had long been saturated, and large companies were also engaged in their own channels, and it was extremely difficult to obtain authorization.

Otherwise, how could Netflix be forced to make a self-made drama.

Thinking of this, Hideki Hanyu pointed to the document in his hand and said, "The speed of store expansion is still not fast enough, the above few acquisition ideas are very good, don't get entangled in a little price, and implement it as soon as possible." ”

"President, I will speed up the acquisition plan, but the biggest problem we are facing in our own expansion right now is that there is a large shortage of store staff.

Although the process of renting and selling videotapes is not complicated, and ordinary store employees can work with a simple familiarity, each store must also have at least one store manager who knows how to count and replenish stocks. ”

Hirokichi Ichihara named the biggest problem Blockbuster is facing today.

Hideki Hanyu frowned when he heard this, thinking that this was indeed a problem.

He asked Hirokichi Ichihara, "What do you think about this?" ”

"I have an idea, that is, to set up training institutions in various places, and recruit store managers for training in advance before the store opens, and the number of people should be a certain amount in advance, such as twice the number of planned stores, so that we will not delay the expansion of the store due to the lack of skilled employees."

Hirokichi Ichihara spoke his mind.

Hideki Hanyu nodded, "It's a good idea, why not implement it?" ”

Hirokichi Ichihara hesitated, as if he didn't know what to say.

Seeing this, Hideki Hanyu understood that there must be an inside story.

Put down the documents in your hand and ask directly, "Say, what's wrong?" ”

"It's David Cook, the current CEO of Blockbuster, who thinks that our expansion speed is too fast, and he disagrees with my suggestion to train store managers in advance, thinking that we only think about success, and don't consider that if the market is cold and the store's profit does not meet expectations, it will be a waste of money."

Hirokichi Ichihara said why.

After hearing this, Hideki Hanyu said in a nonchalant tone.

"Leave him alone, didn't I say it when you came to America, if David Cook is willing to cooperate with us, then he is the CEO, if he doesn't, then put him in the air!"

Speaking of this, Hanyu Hideki sneered, "The previous investment should have been almost spent, you can discuss with Michael Katz of Elf Entertainment, and then introduce new investments to continue to dilute David Cook's shares." ”

"I see." Hirokichi Ichihara nodded.

He could already see that Hideki Hanyu had made up his mind to completely drive David Cook, the founder, out of Blockbuster.

In this regard, Ichihara Hirokichi has no opinion, but thinks it is a good thing.

When we first started working together last year, David Cook and his team still worked together quite well.

But as Blockbuster continues to expand, so does his team's influence at Blockbuster.

David Cook not only no longer cooperates, but even to some extent, is still pulling them back.

Just like this store manager advance training program, if David Cook hadn't been against it, it would have been implemented half a month ago.

"Is there anything else I need to deal with?" Hideki Hanyu asked.

"No, President." Hirokichi Ichihara shook his head.

Hanyu said, "But there's something on my side that Ichihara-san needs to pay attention to. ”

"President, please command."

Hanyu Hideki didn't say it immediately, but took out a pen and wrote a name on the document in front of him.

He handed the document to Hirokichi Ichihara and asked with a smile, "Ishihara-san should be familiar with the name of this company, right?" ”

"Of course it's not strange."

Hirokichi Ichihara glanced at the name, his expression was a little strange, and he didn't know why Hideki Hanyu suddenly wrote the name of this company.

"Very good, then I have something to ask Ichihara-san, is that ......"

Hideki Hanyu whispered instructions to Hirokichi Ichihara.

After a while, when Hanyu Hideki's words fell, Hirokichi Ichihara's face was only shocked.

Hideki Hanyu said, "Ichihara-san, don't be too surprised, once BesTV is on the right track, this is what I really want you to do." ”

"I see, President."

Hirokichi Ichihara's eyes became inexplicably deep.

Moments later, Hirokichi Ichihara took his leave and left.

Hideki Hanyu looked at the back of Hirokichi Ichihara leaving, thinking that if his plan went well, it would definitely shock some people.

Thinking of this, his mood was inexplicably a little excited.

This kind of excitement must be released.

So he took Monica Bellucci behind him into his arms and said in a low voice.

"Don't rub your shoulders all the time, change the place for the boss to rub me."

When Monica Bellucci heard this, she immediately understood what Hanyu Hideki wanted, and slowly leaned down.

It's too late to come back from overtime, that's all, sorry!

(End of chapter)