The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 861
"In this negotiation, you need to keep two key conditions!" When Jiangnan Group's acquisition of HBO is about to start, the chairman of Time Warner handed over the negotiator Ruhr this time and said, "First The first condition is that the price must not be lower than 350 billion U.S. dollars, and must be paid in cash, without other mortgages!"

"The second condition is that the HBO TV station must be successfully transferred, and it must not stay in our hands anymore!"

Hearing these two conditions from the chairman, Ruhr's expression was extremely weird. Is there such a bottom line for negotiation in the world?
The price of 350 billion US dollars can't be said to be outrageous, it can only be said that blind people will buy it. After all, HBO has been losing money for 4 consecutive years. At present, apart from a few American dramas, there are only a large number of local TV stations in HBO's hands. Equity, and a TV station network formed by these local TV stations.

But can this thing really sell for 350 billion?
According to Ruhr's own estimate, being able to sell 300 billion is already an eye-opener from God.

Therefore, the price of 350 billion US dollars is basically impossible to negotiate, and it’s fine if you can’t agree. Now you add an order that you can only succeed and not fail. How can you talk about it?

Seeing Ruhr's expression, the chairman actually had nothing to do. Why didn't he know that this request was outrageous, but this was the request of the big man behind him. What could he do?

At the same time, in the vehicle of the delegation of the Jiangnan Group, Boss Huang was also giving a final explanation to Little John, "You don't need to achieve any results, you just need to talk, and it will take a week , everything will be fine!"

Well, compared to Ruhr's difficult conditions, Little John's conditions are as relaxed as an angel.

"Boss, if we are going to negotiate, you need to give me a price so that I can negotiate!" Little John said.

"Oh, then 100 billion US dollars!" Huang He said with a grin.

"Boss, this price is too outrageous. There is no sincerity at all. This will arouse the suspicion of those people. A reasonable price must be quoted!" Little John said quickly.

"In this way, then you can quote as much price as you like, anyway, this is an impossible deal!" Huang He pondered for a while, then said with a smile, "You just bite the price to death and don't let go. Just talk slowly!"

"Yes!" Although Little John also felt that the price was too outrageous, but since the main purpose was to delay time, it was very simple.

Ever since, the first negotiation between Time Warner and Jiangnan Group began.

"To sum up, we believe that HBO TV's price of 450 billion U.S. dollars is a very reasonable thing! This is a good price!" After the negotiations began, Time Warner's representative Ruhr first said that HBO is he or not After blowing wildly, he finally offered a price of 450 billion U.S. dollars.

Although the low price is 350 billion U.S. dollars, in negotiations, there is always room for bargaining, so Ruhr directly added 100 billion U.S. dollars, leaving enough room for bargaining.

"We think 450 billion is too exaggerated, and 250 billion is a relatively reasonable price!" Little John said, and Ruhr was not surprised by the opponent's offer, after all, everyone wanted to leave space.

So in the next period of time, there will be a series of verbal and verbal swords, and the process will not be described too much, and it is not interesting. Anyway, after three days, whether the two sides have made much progress.

Although the quotation has been reduced from 450 billion US dollars to 370 billion US dollars, it has infinitely approached the bottom line set above.However, the price of Jiangnan Group has only increased by 10 billion US dollars, and Little John is unwilling to let go after killing 260 billion US dollars.

The only thing that makes Ruhr feel lucky is that Jiangnan Group still has a strong desire to negotiate. And don’t let your own TV station appear in front of all viewers! No other TV station will allow you to access Cable TV King’s network! We are your only chance!”

"You can't say that..." Little John was about to refute something when he heard Ruhr's words. Suddenly his phone rang, his whole expression changed slightly, and he said to Ruhr with a smile, "Sir, I would like to What you said is wrong, because even without your HBO TV station, the programs of our Los Gatos TV station can appear in front of all audiences in the United States, and connect to all wired network ports at the same time!" Hmm
"You are dreaming!" Ruhr mocked unceremoniously.

"If this is the case, then I suggest you take a look at Weibo, the official account of our Los Gato TV station!" After finishing speaking, Little John left the meeting room directly, leaving Ruhr alone at the negotiation site, and put this Guys are stunned.

"Bring me the computer and show me!" Ruhr ordered immediately, and soon a notebook was delivered to Ruhr, and Ruhr quickly opened Weibo... He originally wanted to find Los Gato TV official account to see what the other party posted.

But it turned out that there was a big trending search on the homepage of Weibo that said: "The Misty Journey" TV series version will be launched on May 5th, and users all over the country can watch it for free at the same time.

The flesh on Ruhr's face twitched slightly, and then he clicked on the details to check, and found that Los Gatos TV Station had launched an online TV station, and all Internet users can directly log in to the official website of Los Gatos TV Station to watch the live broadcast of Los Gatos TV Station directly .

"Hahaha, what means did they have today? It turned out to be just an Internet TV station!" Seeing the details of the news, Ruhr couldn't help laughing.

The expression on his face was extremely disdainful.

At this time, Little John, who was sitting in the car, was also talking to the person behind him through a confidential mobile phone, "Yes, sir, Huang He has never trusted me. I didn't even know that he had an Internet TV station." Opportunity! These are all behind my back... You know, I have been communicating with various TV stations these days, and then leading the negotiation work. I rarely go to the headquarters of Los Gatos TV station to report, not at all Know that they are still hiding such a plan in private!"

"However, I think this move is actually just to scare HBO TV station. Internet TV stations have been born seven or eight years ago, and the longest operating network TV station has been in operation for more than five years."

"But it turns out that Internet TV stations do not have the potential for development at all. The videos of these Internet TV stations are very stuck, and there are no programs. Most of them are opportunities to directly broadcast the TV stations on the TV. But if this is the case, it is better to directly broadcast the It’s on TV. So I think it’s just a way to tell HBO that Los Gatos isn’t just relying on cable networks, it’s a way to keep prices down!”

"Yes, this is just a trick of the Jiangnan Group!" After Little John finished speaking, the whole person heaved a long sigh of relief. Then his tasks and work are basically over, and the next step is to see the company's efforts Whether the promotion of Internet TV stations can break the confinement of traditional TV stations and open up a brand new TV market has come out!
To be honest, after learning about the Jiangnan Group’s plan for the first time, Little John’s attitude was actually pessimistic, because he didn’t think that Jiangnan Group could make a comeback with this plan, but this plan was better than spending tens of billions of dollars to buy a loss-making HBO TV must be stronger!

And Little John has no choice but to go all the way to the dark, and at the same time eliminate as much as possible the obstacles that Goldman Sachs caused to Jiangnan Group... These days, under the illusion created by Little John, Goldman Sachs has not responded to this Any obstacles caused by the plan made it all go on smoothly, and now it's finally time to blossom and bear fruit.

On the other hand, the Goldman Sachs Group also immediately convened a think tank, and began to analyze whether the network TV station plan launched by Los Gato TV could break through the current blockade of the cable TV network. After analyzing various data, all the think tanks agreed. I think that Jiangnan Group is just throwing money at it, creating an online TV station and broadcasting it directly on the Internet is the most stupid thing in the world. No one will watch large-scale TV dramas on the Internet. There are network problems and data in it. Dealing with the problem is enough to kill the interest of all viewers!

In addition, Huang He really thinks that all families in the United States have computers?
In this way, under the analysis of the think tank, Goldman Sachs Group also felt that it could wait and see the changes for the time being. When the network TV station plan of Los Gatos TV Station failed completely, the acquisition of HBO TV station would become more imminent.

At that time, Huang He will have to invest a huge amount of money to acquire HBO, but Jiangnan Group may not have such a large amount of funds in its hands. The only way is to let the company under it go public. As long as Goldman Sachs takes over the listing of Jiangnan Group, Then you can smoothly extend your hand into the interior of the Jiangnan Group, and finally control this company full of various possibilities.

Everything was perfect, until the day of May 5th was approaching, many users suddenly found that there was an extra package in their mailbox. This package was sent by the Netflix disc rental company, saying that this is to thank them Member users of Netflix have supported Netflix over the years, and an unusual little gift specially given to them!
These member users immediately opened the email and found that it contained an electronic device about half the size of a VCD, and according to the manual of this electronic device, it was the most advanced "digital network TV box in the world!"

(End of this chapter)