The richest man starts with a blind box

Chapter 882 Little John is working hard
There is one thing to say, now HBO TV station is actually very upset with Little John, after all, they have been played by Little John as a monkey for half a month.

In the past half a month, the people from Time Warner really wanted to sell the HBO TV station to Boss Huang, so the price was lowered all the way, and finally it was sold for only 200 billion U.S. dollars.

To be honest, this is really a good price, but Huang He has no interest in HBO TV station at all, and Little John can only play tricks, until the strategy of Jiangnan Group is completely exposed, HBO and Time Warner know that they have been tricked, and they are suddenly furious , directly cut off contact with Little John.

Unexpectedly, in order to maintain his position in the company, Little John still made his mind on HBO TV station.

So on the second day, Little John still appeared at the gate of the HBO TV headquarters, and he was about to meet Tom, the president of HBO TV.

When they heard the news, they immediately went crazy. They didn't bother with Little John, yet this guy dared to come to their door.

But Tom didn't drive Little John away, but asked someone to invite Little John in.Just kidding, the enemy came to the door, so don't torture it well, vent your hatred, but let the other party run away directly, isn't this putting the cart before the horse!
So Tom asked Little John to come in, but only ordered him to hang out for a day, and he was not allowed to give tea or drink, and he was thirsty to death.

As a result, within a few minutes after the order was issued, the secretary hurried in and said, "Mr. President, Little John is talking nonsense there. He said he only gave you 3 minutes. If you don't go to see him, he will leave immediately. , but we would lose a fortune and an opportunity to help the TV station out of the woods!"

"What?" Tom hesitated for a while, thinking that there was a high probability that Little John was telling lies, but what if this guy was telling the truth?
So Tom sneaked to the door of the living room, and after 3 minutes, Little John really walked away, and Tom lazily walked in from the door and said, "What are you doing here? Tell me something, let me fart, I Your time is precious, I don’t have time to work hard with you here!”

"Of course it's a good thing, it's a good thing for you and me!" Little John said with a chuckle, "Brother Tom, I came to you as soon as I had a good thing, you must remember my kindness today! "

"You still have the face to talk to me about your kindness, haven't you played me enough in the past half a month?" Tom glared, and Little John quickly patted Tom on the back, and at the same time said very angrily, "Brother, I really am I didn't cheat you. You know who I am, that Yellow Crane doesn't trust me at all, and I was played by him like a monkey!"

"He deliberately used me to negotiate with you, and kept me in the dark. The purpose was to make my talk realistic, but in the end he used me to cover up behind the scenes. I am a victim just like you!" Little John said aggrieved .

"Nonsense, I heard that you're going to be the vice president of Los Gatto Media soon, and your position is higher than mine. It's amazing!" Tom said in a strange tone, but his tone was a little more comfortable.

"This nonsense, I'm just a deputy director without any real power. Besides, the entire Los Gato Media is less than 1/5 of the size of HBO TV station. I can't compare with you at all, and I'm not even as good as me It was better to be the director of the program department at CNN before, and I still have some real power in my hands!" Little John said painfully.

"Come on, don't talk about it with me. What's the matter with you coming to me, and what's the big benefit you said?" Tom asked impatiently, but his attitude was obviously much better.

"Of course there are benefits. You know, Huang He gave Los Gait Media 10 billion US dollars in one go, buying various film and television resources around the world, and enriching their own online film and television library!" Little John said.

"Of course I know that. Some of you have discussed these things with me, but the price has not been negotiated. Why, can you ask Los Gato Media to relax the price?" Tom asked curiously.

"Not bad!" Little John nodded, and Tom suddenly became interested.Now HBO's biggest problem is that it cannot make ends meet, although all companies that are about to go bankrupt actually have such a problem.

The most important thing is that now HBO is increasingly at a disadvantage when competing with the other 4 TV stations. In the past, HBO TV station was able to rely on some high-quality American dramas to gain an advantage.

However, after 97, the American dramas of HBO TV station also collapsed, and the entire TV station did not have a project that could be sold, and finally fell further and further behind in the competition of the five major TV networks.

What's more terrible is that Time Warner, the parent company behind them, has also suffered bad luck during this period.Before 2002, Time Warner invested heavily in Internet technology, and then encountered the Internet bubble, and Time Warner lost tens of billions of dollars.

As a result, HBO TV station, which was still able to transfuse blood, has become a veritable burden, making Time Warner eager to sell it quickly and get blood back.

And the HBO TV station itself is definitely not reconciled to being sold like this. The whole TV station is working hard, and the most effective way is of course to turn the TV station into a profit.

So HBO is laying off staff, streamlining its establishment, and producing short and exquisite riddle dramas, trying to reduce costs.Ultimately, HBO is about $[-] million or so away from being profitable.

So when Los Gatos TV proposed to purchase the 20-year copyright authorization of all TV series in HBO TV's inventory, HBO TV was really tempted.

However, Huang He has played tricks on HBO once, making HBO ashamed to continue negotiating with Los Gaitu Media, and the price is a bit inappropriate.

The packaged license price for all TV series is only 2 million US dollars... Although this price has already turned HBO into a profit, but the TV series rights accumulated by their TV station for decades are only sold for 2 million US dollars, which feels a bit unreasonable to the board of directors.

So Tom was very uncomfortable with this invitation to negotiate. He wanted to sell but was not willing to sell. He always thought in his heart that it would be great if the price could be higher!

And now, Sleepy sends pillows, and Little John is here.

"How much can you raise the price?" Tom asked.

"3 million dollars!" Little John said very simply.

"3 million U.S. dollars!" Tom's eyes lit up. This price is very suitable. You can consider it, and the board of directors should be more satisfied with this price.

After all, what Los Gaitu wants is the authorization to broadcast on the network platform, and at the same time, all the purchases are authorizations of old TV dramas that have already been broadcast on TV stations. This is a very cost-effective deal no matter how you look at it.

Just when Tom was about to agree, Little John went on to say, "But I have two additional conditions."

"On what terms?" asked Tom, frowning.

"First of all, I want $100 million!" Little John said bluntly, which is directly asking Tom for a kickback.

"Yes!" Tom agreed without thinking for a second.To be able to sell an extra 1 million US dollars and only need to pay 100 million US dollars in rebates, this is an extremely cost-effective thing anyway, and there is no reason not to agree.

And when Little John brought this up, Tom believed him even more.This little John must have seen that he was unprofitable on the Los Gato TV station, and planned to escape early, and then make a profit for himself by the way.

And only if Little John has benefited, he will try his best to facilitate this transaction. This is a good thing for mutual benefit, and there is no reason to refuse it at all.

"Very good, then the second condition, in addition to breaking the original TV series, you also need to add all the rights to your TV series that was originally expected to be released next month!" Little John continued.

"What!" Tom was taken aback. "Don't you just want the copyright of those TV series that have already aired? Why do you want an unaired TV series now!"

"It's very simple, I need this TV series as a reason to increase the price!" Little John explained, "The reason why Los Gato TV is willing to spend 2 million to buy all your TVs is to enrich its own video library."

"But it is impossible for these old TV series to help our TV station attract more users. Only brand new TV series like Misty Journey can attract a large number of users to sign up for membership!"

"Look, now Misty Journey has helped Los Gato TV sell 300 million TV boxes, of which a full 200 ​​million paying members have been converted! But now that Misty Journey has ended, it has been half a month Oh, this caused the sales of the fourth batch of TV boxes to drop a bit, and it took two days to sell them out, and they were all emptied within a day before!"

Little John's words made Tom want to hit someone. What does it mean to sell 100 million TV boxes in two days? Is this the sales speed that human beings can sell?

And you guys use the word selling a little bit?
This is clearly a good gift!Nice sender?
It is better now. It is said that some scalpers have hoarded a large number of boxes, and some people dismantled the boxes to get electronic equipment from them. Therefore, in the fourth batch of 4 million boxes, Jiangnan Group changed the policy, and you need to pay 100 US dollars to receive the boxes. The deposit is fully refundable when the box is returned.

This is the root cause of the delivery in two days, otherwise most of them would be delivered within one day according to the previous speed!
Tom complained in his heart, but naturally he didn't say it out of his mouth.

"So I suggested to the boss that this is because Los Gato TV has been broadcasting those old TVs, and there are no new exclusive TV series, which leads to the slow growth of TV station users! We have to buy some newest ones. , TV dramas that audiences haven’t watched, can continue to expand the market and increase new members.”

"The boss is very appreciative of my suggestion, but Los Gaitu Media has just been established, so there are no new TV dramas that can be invested, so we need to go outside to purchase!"

"This is the latest news from the company's high-level meeting yesterday, so I came to you immediately. As long as you are willing to additionally sell the full rights to this latest TV series, then I am confident that the total quotation will increase by another 1 million US dollars, so that So, do you agree or not?"

(End of this chapter)