Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1476

A few years ago in the United States, Zhou Buqi always followed Boss Ma, and with his help, he established a network of contacts, and had intersections with many technology companies.

It's different now, Zhou Buqi has come from behind, and his influence has surpassed him, so naturally he has to reciprocate.

Boss Ma's business trip is scheduled for 7-8 days.

Zhou Buqi intends to accompany him all the way, showing his passion and righteousness.

On August 8, they visited the Golden Gate Bridge, the Palace of Fine Arts, the City Hall, and visited the headquarters of Ziwei International, the Intel Museum and the Aotudesk Museum.

In the evening, fly to Las Vegas to watch the show.

There are many second- and third-tier film and television stars working part-time here, serving the rich owners of shows or casinos.

On August 8, I returned to Silicon Valley in the morning, visited Google and Facebook in the morning, and participated in the Technology Experience Innovation Conference held at the Stanford Institute for Design and Research in the afternoon.

On August 8th, free at leisure in the morning and return to Los Angeles at noon.

Zhou Buqi's youngest daughter has just been born, and the name hasn't been named yet, so he can't run away without a trace. He has to go home and hug the baby. Boss Ma expresses his understanding.

However, in the afternoon, they went to the Getty Center, the Pantaijis Theater and the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art together. In the evening, they had a small seaside party on Santa Monica Beach under the night, and invited some Hollywood professionals.

On August 8th, go to Universal Studios together.Because of Zhou Buqi, a group of more than a dozen people visited the production process of the film in detail and reviewed many classic film clips of Universal Pictures.

However, Zhou Buqi didn't participate much. He mainly asked Boss Ma to visit with the team. He mainly talked with the chairman of Universal Pictures, Smoker, about some acquisitions.

The other party is looking forward to this transaction.

During the merger of Universal Pictures and NBC in the past few years, Universal has been bullied a lot.After all, from the perspective of making money, NBC TV station is the core asset of NBC Universal Group.

For this reason, Zhou Buqi decisively made another very important decision.

In the NBC Universal Group, NBC has a cable TV entertainment department, and Universal Pictures also has a cable TV production department. There are heads of both departments. report.

Bonnie is a ruthless character, an influential woman in the American business world, second only to Amy Pascal, the president of Sony Pictures, in Hollywood.

In the past ten years, several of the most popular TV series in the United States were first broadcast by NBC, and the hero behind it is this Bonnie Highmore.

She has a unique vision for choosing TV dramas!
Such talents, after the split of NBC Universal, both sides have to grab it.But she herself has always worked at NBC, and she wants to stay at NBC.

Zhou Buqi didn't hesitate, and said decisively: "Twisted melons are not sweet, at worst, I will personally choose the projects of the Universal TV production department in the future! My vision is not as good as hers? Don't care about these small things, the top priority, It is to be split as soon as possible! Except for the copyright that cannot be surrendered, everything else can be surrendered!"

These words made these senior practitioners in Universal stare wide-eyed.

Zhou Buqi also knew that this was a bit exaggerated, so he went back to make up for it, and said with a smile: "The MGM acquisition case is almost over, and it is estimated that it will be approved by the regulatory authorities at the beginning of next month, or at the latest in the middle of the month."

After the approval, MGM officially became a subsidiary of Ziwei Star Universal.

"Congratulations!"

Mr. Smoke brought a few executives to say congratulations, and they were a little flustered. Is this young boss reliable?
Zhou Buqi said: "I have already stopped the cooperation between MGM and Warner."

"Warner..." Smoke immediately realized what he was talking about. It was a big project that shocked Hollywood and even the world. "Is it the prequel of "Lord of the Rings"? The "Hobbit" trilogy?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, and said calmly: "MGM wanted to cooperate with Warner before, it was because the family background was too weak, so they couldn't afford so much investment funds, and couldn't take such big risks. It won't happen in the future. MGM must make a decision that is in its best interest."

Smoke was surprised, "Why don't you do it? Even if you cooperate with Warner, you can make a lot of money, right?"

The film distribution rights of the "Lord of the Rings" series are in the hands of MGM.

If MGM and Warner cooperate to make the "The Hobbit" trilogy, they will not pay a penny, just relying on the dividend rights converted from the distribution rights... The global value of "The Hobbit" is nearly 30 billion US dollars Judging from the box office, MGM can earn at least 3 million US dollars.

According to traditional Hollywood thinking, why not do this kind of no-cost business?
Zero investment, high return, professional managers are the favorite.

The people from Universal Pictures said they couldn't understand.

Zhou Buqi said with deep eyes: "MGM only sold the film adaptation and production rights back then, and retained the film distribution rights, as well as the TV series production and distribution rights."

"TV series!" Smoke immediately grasped the point, his expression was shocked and unbelievable, "Shooting... a TV series?"

This fantasy masterpiece, made into a TV series?

Not showing in theaters?

Can I get it back?

Even if you can make money, can the rate of return be as high as making movies?

Zhou Buqi waved his hands and said with a smile: "This is a temporary plan. Maybe Warner can restart the cooperation with full sincerity? But Universal needs to be prepared. MGM's film and television production department is too good. It’s bad, if you really want to shoot TV series of “The Silmarillion”, “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”, then Universal’s TV production department must be the main one.”

"hiss!"

Universal Pictures executives, including Smoke, were all shocked.

It can be regarded as feeling the courage of the new boss.

Zhou Buqi made a big picture, and he was not afraid that there would be a traitor present to tip off the news.It doesn't matter if the news is leaked, Warner will also feel some pressure.

Want to cooperate with MGM to develop the "Hobbit" series of movies?

Please show more sincerity!

On August 8, Zhou Buqi took Xue Baoshan, Sun Guanran, Ning Lu, and two bodyguards with him, and Boss Ma's three long-term assistants, went to the studio of continuum innovative design consulting agency in Los Angeles.

This is a design company.

Covers all aspects, including the design of clothes and shoes, the design of company icons, and the UI design of website pages, etc.This is a partner of Ziweixing International. During the development process of the English version of Helo, they paid them a design fee of 180 million US dollars and made a total of 13 plans.

As a foreign company, it is best to cooperate with a local design company to complete cultural integration.

If AliExpress wants to make efforts in the US market, it is also necessary to come and investigate.

Boss Ma was very happy.

In the afternoon, I went to Silicon Valley again and visited a new small company - Evernote.

"Ziweixing has already acquired this company and holds 80% of the shares."

"This...isn't this the same as your little note?"

Because it is a small company, Boss Ma was very surprised when he quickly understood the company's business.Ziwei Xing obviously has micro-notebooks, so why did he go to the United States to acquire a company with a similar business.

Zhou Buqi joked: "Nipulate competitors in their infancy. If you can't kill them, buy them."

Boss Ma didn't quite believe it, and asked, "Is it an internal competition system?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Basically, this field is relatively new, and there are relatively few competitors. In China, it is Weidian Notes, which is nothing to say, and there are no competitors. In the overseas market, the struggle is to walk on two legs together. The market does too."

"Is it worth the extra cost?"

"Zhongtai!"

"Middle Taiwan?" Boss Ma was very interested in this topic, and said with a smile, "I've heard about it for a long time. Ziwei Star is working on a middle-Taiwan strategy. Tell me, what kind of thinking is this?"

On this topic, Zhou Buqi can only know everything.

In the previous life, Boss Ma proposed the concept of "big, medium and small front desks". Once launched, it immediately caused a sensation in the Internet world, and major companies followed suit.Then the circle was broken, and many non-Internet companies also learned in style.

This set of enterprise system model can really greatly reduce operating expenses.

Later, the geographical restrictions were broken, and the Silicon Valley giants also began to try to introduce the enterprise system of "large, medium and small front desks" introduced by Ali.

This kind of innovation in the company's system, system and structure has further improved Boss Ma's status in the world business community.

However, it won't happen in this life, the halo has been snatched by Zhou Buqi.

Zhou Buqi was a little bit sorry, so he could only explain to him frankly, "The middle platform is the buffer zone between the front and back, such as Weidian Note and Evernote, which have some general requirements, such as login, identity verification, payment, storage, Cloud services, risk control, etc., package these general requirements and become the middle platform capabilities, which are uniformly output to the front desk. The product manager at the front desk can obtain login components, risk control components, payment components, and storage components from the middle platform. and many more."

Boss Ma also knew something about it before, and he recognized it very much, "Just like cooking, you need to buy vegetables, side dishes, and stir-fry vegetables. The general-purpose ability in the middle is the middle stage of side dishes, which uniformly supplies the chefs at the front desk. Instead of the traditional mode of cooking by the chef himself, the chef can only focus on cooking, which can greatly save efficiency and save money."

Zhou Buqi laughed, "Yes! That's what it means! The middle office business can provide Ziwei Star with the opportunity to create enough small front desks. For example, for this kind of network notebook business, the front desk may only have a few people or a dozen people. The expenses are not too big. Keep a few more front desks, make more different types of products, and there will always be one that can run out in the market.”

"Have you done it yet?"

"Not yet, first experiment and explore in China, summarize the experience and rules, and make a complete set of salary performance incentive system that is satisfactory to the front, middle and back office, and then fully promote it. The current Evernote is still operated independently. The state will be integrated when the time is right.”

"Been taught a lesson."

Boss Ma clasped his fists sincerely, like a knight.

The heart is both moved and admired.

I feel that Boss Xiao Zhou is really generous, he doesn't hide anything, he really knows everything and answers everything.He treats people with such sincerity, it seems that Ali can really cooperate with Ziweixing in depth to use their cloud computing platform.

It stands to reason that there are specialties in the art industry, so it's best not to command across borders.

This kid is different, he does everything he can, he is really a business genius!
(End of this chapter)