The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 875 The First Negotiation

Hastings' idea is not wrong, because after our boss Huang left, his expression was very ugly. Boss Huang lost this round.

After Huang He learned that Hastings was already preparing to steal the company's assets, he guessed that Hastings would definitely leave evidence. If he gave Hastings more time, he might destroy all the evidence .

So Huang He decided to make a surprise attack, and without giving Hastings any time to react, he copied his old nest directly, thinking that he would definitely be able to get the evidence.

Unexpectedly, Huang He miscalculated, this Hastings was really meticulous to the extreme, and his hands and feet were cleaned up very cleanly. Boss Huang didn't find any evidence. .

"But it's not completely nothing. At least I got all the company's data and the algorithm. Even if Hastings wants to leave in the future, he won't be able to destroy the company's data before leaving! "Boss Huang fell into deep thought. "Forget it, the integration of Netflix and Los Gatos is imminent, so it's important to get Hastings out!"

So the next day, Hastings received an invitation from Huang He, and the two came to the most luxurious hotel in the area to have dinner together.

"Boss, if you need guidance on your work, or want to copy some data, then just send a few bodyguards with live ammunition to come over, why spend money to treat me to dinner!" Hastings said in a mocking tone Said.

"You don't have to make a fuss about me here, let's talk straight away, you and I have lost all trust, if you stay at Netflix, you can only make a mess of the company. So I think the two of us are still at peace To solve the problem this time, you leave the company, and at the same time, I will not blame you for everything you did before!" Huang He said directly.

"Joke, what have I done that require you to let it go?" Hastings snorted coldly and said, "I run the company, and everything is legal and compliant. I am an excellent taxpayer who abides by laws and regulations. No For any legal issues, you don't need to let them go."

"If you insist on saying that I did something wrong, then show the evidence now. If I really committed a crime, you don't need to drive me away, the court will directly lock me up!"

Hastings spoke with confidence, because he was sure that Huang He must have no useful evidence in his hands, otherwise he would not have directly negotiated with himself and let him leave Netflix.

"I really don't have any evidence that can make you go to prison!" Huang He admitted very straightforwardly, "So I will negotiate a business with you. How about it, don't you just want the company's data? I will let you be above board How about taking it away?"

"We can sign an agreement that allows you to take away any data and people you want from the company except the algorithm. These are all legal operations with my permission!" Boss Huang took out his own Under these conditions, Hastings' expression changed rapidly.

I have to admit that Hastings was a little moved by this condition.

What Hastings fears the most is that if someone catches evidence while transferring company data, he will go to jail.Now that there are reasonable and legal means to take away all the data, that is naturally an excellent choice.

Huang He agreed to this condition, and it seemed that he had suffered a great loss, but in fact he had no loss at all.Because the company's most important customer account data has been taken away by Hastings through the lottery, the other data, Hastings has either already transferred it, or will recruit a group of programmers in the future, and it will not matter if you toss it casually. Can handle it.

So now Netflix has nothing that Hastings can't get except for the algorithm, so all the data except for the algorithm will be handed over to Hastings, which can't be considered a loss, but it's disgusting Bundle.

However, Hastings quickly figured this out. It seems that he won’t get anything extra by agreeing to this condition. He just guarantees that he has no legal risks. Nothing more, this is an empty glove white wolf!

So Hastings said, "If you want me to consider this condition, I will also take away the algorithm, and I will take it away unconditionally! In addition, any employee of the company, as long as I can fancy it, I will take it away ! You can't programmatically block them!"

"This is absolutely impossible!" Huang He said very bluntly, the algorithm is the most valuable thing of Netflix now, and it is also one of the keys to the real rise of Netflix in the future, and it must not be handed over to Hastings!
Some people may not understand how important an algorithm is to Netflix's operations, but the fact is that algorithms are the key to Netflix's rise in the streaming media era.

Netflix's own business is to rent discs, but it has little to do with online video. At that time, there were thousands of huge online video platforms like YouTube on the entire network.

And after Netflix entered streaming media, there are more than 10 platforms that are larger than Netflix.

How did Netflix rise in the streaming media field?
The first is naturally the 1200 million (2012 data) core paying users that come with Netflix, and the second is Netflix’s exclusive video content.

At this time, on the Internet, including YouTube, all video network platforms do not produce any video content by themselves, and all rely on cooperation means to obtain the copyright of film and television works from other film and television production companies, and then get Playing on your own platform is such a model.

Netflix had just started to transform at that time, and all the funds were basically used to purchase servers and build a new network service platform. When they wanted to purchase various video content, they were a little bit shy.

It is said that Netflix used no more than 5000 million U.S. dollars to purchase copyrights at the time, and the online copyrights of the 10 most popular movies at that time alone exceeded 5 million U.S. dollars.

Compared with the content library of other film and television platforms, which spend hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase various copyright content libraries, Netflix's content library is very inferior.

At the same time, Hastings also realized that even if he squeezed out more funds to buy copyrights, it would be nothing more than copying the content libraries of other online video platforms.What's more deadly is that many online video platforms will sign exclusive agreements with film and television producers, and those excellent film and television works have been monopolized by each online platform. Even if Netflix has money, it can't buy these high-quality resources.

Hastings really showed his courage as a qualified entrepreneur at this time. He decided not to buy copyrights from these film and television production companies, but to produce film and television content by himself, so that these things will only belong to his own platform. , Netflix will be able to have something unique that can attract viewers.

But the problem is that at that time, the funds for Internet fees were insufficient, and the content library was not large. In the end, 5 million US dollars was used to purchase hundreds of different works to expand Netflix's own content library and provide enough videos first. In addition to resources, in the end, I could only find a way to borrow another 000 million US dollars of funds to produce my own works.

Moreover, it was not enough to produce one. Hastings decided in one breath that he would use 3000 million US dollars to produce ten Netflix's own works, and the average cost of each work was only 300 million US dollars.

In 2012, with such a pitiful budget, it was undoubtedly impossible to produce any high-quality works. After all, the production cost of any TV station or any TV series at that time exceeded tens of millions of dollars.

Moreover, even if it is a work of tens of millions of dollars, there is a high probability that it will hit the street, cannot cause any discussion heat, and will not attract the company's attention.

As for the ten works of Netflix, according to the requirements of Hastings, not all of them are classics, but each of them is required to be loved by the audience, even if it is rubbish, it must be the rubbish that the audience likes to watch .

This is undoubtedly an almost impossible task. After all, even if it is a big director like Spielberg, more than half of his works cannot be recognized by the market, but Netflix's ten films require all of them to attract audiences. how is this possible?

This seems impossible to outsiders, but under the operation of Netflix's algorithm, it becomes possible.

At this time, Netflix has been collecting user data for 15 years one after another, and then they put all the data of user preferences into it, and then the most precious big data algorithm of Netflix appeared.

This big data algorithm can calculate by itself which film and television themes, actors, stories, IPs, and even the filters that users like the most in the current situation.

It is said that this big data algorithm can label more than 280 different film and television works, and shape a film and television work from 280 angles... This basically directly tosses out the outline of a film and television work.

And the most amazing thing is that he can also customize the outline of audience preferences according to your needs.

For example, it is said that when choosing ten works, Hastings’ first nine works respectively gave specific requirements: investment within 200 million, and then different types of film and television labels such as comedy, science fiction, western, politics, etc. .

Finally, this big data algorithm directly generates different film and television outlines. From the requirements of the script, various film and television elements, and the choice of actors, and even which IPs to buy directly, all are directly displayed. Just follow this outline to fill in the content without thinking.

As for the last work, Hastings only gave the standard of an investment of 1 million US dollars, and there are no other restrictions. In the end, this big data algorithm gave the answer: a remake of House of Cards
(End of this chapter)