Top of the Great Era

Chapter 1881 Playboy
Although Zhou Buqi met this old pervert several times, he didn't have any more exchanges, mainly because he couldn't understand his style of work.

However, people have specially passed notes to invite, and it is not good to refuse out of politeness.

Zhou Buqi turned his head, covered his mouth and whispered to the stadium staff around him that he wanted the general manager of the team to come over.

He is the big boss, and everyone has to listen to him.

After a while, General Manager Larry Riley arrived, and Zhou Buqi got up and asked him to lead the way to the higher box No. 6.

Oracle Arena is old and cramped.

The two walked side by side, and Zhou Buqi couldn't help saying: "The club should have a new plan to build a modern venue that fits the characteristics of the Bay Area. It needs to be located in downtown San Francisco. This venue is too old. It’s too big, the facilities are backward, and it doesn’t match the prosperity of Silicon Valley at all.”

"This……"

Larry Riley was stunned. This was the first time he had dealt with this mysterious behind-the-scenes boss.

I was dumbfounded on the spot.

Such a big matter is decided in just a few tens of seconds on the steps?Don't need to communicate with another boss?Don't need to go through the management?

Zhou Buqi said flatly: "This is what I mean, you can discuss it later."

Last year, he bought the Golden State Warriors for a very low price.

One of the most important reasons for the low price is that the Warriors do not have their own stadium. The current home stadium, Oracle Stadium, is rented from the Oakland Sports Authority.

This is related to a demand for tourism and local economic development.

Oakland is in the San Francisco ecosystem of the Bay Area, but strictly speaking, Oakland is not San Francisco, it is equivalent to a suburb of San Francisco.

Oakland is a bit biased, and the Golden State Warriors can use the team effect to bring viewers and attention to it, increase the vitality of the city, and promote local economic development.

Professional sports in the United States has formed a complete industrial chain system.

During this process, the Auckland Council will continue to grant money and entrust the Oakland Sports Authority to repair the Oracle venue to meet the needs of the Warriors.

Over the past 30 years, they have spent $1.5 million to renovate the Oracle Arena.

And for this money, the Warriors don't have to pay a penny.

Even the rent of the venue does not need to be paid, and the venue only needs to take 5% of the sales of tickets for the daily operation and maintenance of the venue.

That said, Oakland is losing money every year on its domination of Oracle venues.

The main purpose is to stimulate the local economy through professional sports.

The Warriors actually took a big advantage.

But for the ambitious Boss Zhou, this is not so good.Oakland can only be regarded as a suburb of San Francisco, which is a bit out of the way.If you want the football market to flourish, you must set up your home court in a real big city!

Just like the Knicks and the Nets.

In terms of strength, the Nets are stronger, and the Knicks can be called the worst team in the league.

But in terms of team value, the Knicks are the richest team in the entire NBA, but the Nets are poor.

They are also New York teams, so why is there such a big gap?

Because of the location!

The home court of the Knicks is in Manhattan, the commercial center of New York, but the home court of the Nets is in Brooklyn, a suburb of New York...

If the Warriors want to have greater development, they must find a place with good geomantic omen.

All the way to the box area on the MS floor, to box No. 6... This is the VIP box, with a few sofa seats outside, where you can watch the game from a high position.The inside is really different, like a small bar, with bartenders, waitresses, and even dancing girls.You should be more restrained outside the box, and you can do whatever you want when you enter the box. You can even watch the striptease while drinking wine, and at the same time watch the game through the screen in the box.

It may be because the person invited was a big person, and the atmosphere in the box at this time was relatively cold.

Even with the indifference, Zhou Buqi was really taken aback.

After meeting Hugh Hefner and shaking hands, he first introduced his fiancée, a tall and beautiful blonde model in black, who snuggled up to him.

About 60 years younger than him, looks very affectionate.

This is not a big deal, after introducing his fiancée, he introduced two younger girlfriends who probably just turned 18... Wearing the same white suspender dress, holding hands, they look exactly the same.

Turned out to be a pair of twins.

When we met last time, there were not only a few of them.

Zhou Buqi is well-informed, and Larry Riley has heard of it for a long time, and he is a little embarrassed at the moment, feeling that he is not a fellow with this kind of person at all.

What's the matter?

Talk about something!

I left when I had nothing to do, I am not used to seeing these smoky and messy old men in their 80s, and they are here to harm young girls every day.

Hugh Hefner also seemed to see that these two gentlemen didn't like his style, so he could only sigh inwardly, feeling that in this day and age, there are really fewer and fewer elegant people.

Then, it got down to business.

related to his business.

The main business of his company, Huahua Company Group, is the distribution of "Playboy" magazine. However, due to the severe impact of the Internet in recent years, sales have dropped significantly.

People now go to the Internet to search for those low-quality garbage pictures, and give up buying "Playboy" to enjoy the high-quality pictures and the elegance of exquisite women.

This is not only a tragedy of an era, but also caused the Playboy company to be severely impacted by the market, and its stock price fell again and again.The current market value has only 1.4 million US dollars left.

The times are ditching Playboy.

But Hugh Hefner was unwilling. He was struggling and planned to delist the company and privatize it.Then practice behind closed doors, redesign the company's strategy and business direction, and set off again.

He's here to collaborate.

Mainly two points.

First, Zhou Buqi invested 5000 million US dollars to help him complete the privatization and delisting of the company. At that time, he will own 25% of the company's shares.

Second, "Playboy" has to cater to the times and develop some Internet businesses.If the print media cannot be sold, it is better to sell the electronic subscription version.

However, the Internet is not something that established companies can understand. Hugh Hefner hopes to ask him to help and let him be the sole agent of the Internet business of "Playboy".

As soon as Zhou Buqi heard it, the bored mentality disappeared immediately.

It feels like a good suggestion.

Streaming!

This is a direction that Zhou Buqi attaches great importance to in the layout of the Internet industry.

Subscribe to Netflix, you can watch a lot of video content online, this is video streaming;
Subscribe to Spotify, you can listen to a lot of music content online, this is music streaming;
Subscribe to "Playboy", and you can watch a lot of exquisite and beautiful beauties online, this is picture streaming...

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Buqi even thought about the product positioning of the electronic version of "Playboy".

There are indeed many pictures of this kind on the Internet, but many of them are fake and have been repeatedly corrected by PS. Even the face, breasts, and buttocks may have been retouched. They are all "artificial + technological" beauties.

"Playboy" has a complete team and a strong brand, and can focus on the concept of "natural beauties". Just by giving some big photos of real natural beauties, it can attract the recognition of a group of white-collar workers who have higher requirements for women. , will spend money to subscribe.

However, this kind of outsider's matter cannot be hastily decided. Who knows if there is a pitfall in it.

Put it aside.

Go back and investigate.

……

Zhou Buqi entrusted the investigation of the "Playboy" matter to the administrator of Ziwei Star Global, while he himself took the plane and took off to New York.

This time, the officials in New York were very powerful and efficient, and quickly gave out the first version of the cooperation plan.

However, Zhou Buqi seemed to be stimulated on the plane, and he let out a long sigh.

Ning Yaxian noticed this, brought him a glass of juice, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter? Did you encounter something unpleasant?"

"Yes!"

Zhou Buqi sighed.

Ning Yaxian leaned gently in his arms, as gentle as water, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Buqi said: "While watching a basketball game, I met an old bastard."

"Huh?" Ning Yaxian smiled, "Hugh Hefner? Didn't you say that he wants to talk to you about the potential cooperation with Playboy magazine."

Zhou Buqi said weakly: "It's all trivial. The Playboy Group's total value is only over 1 million US dollars, so it's not worth paying attention to. The main reason is... oh!"

"how?"

"That Hefner is so annoying!"

"Did he annoy you?"

Ning Yaxian's beautiful eyes widened, she couldn't believe it, talking about business made people angry?How could this be?
Zhou Buqi gritted his teeth and said, "That old pervert is really disgusting!"

Ning Yaxian was somewhat puzzled, "What happened?"

Zhou Buqi said in a deep voice: "Didn't you see that he has a fiancee, a British model, who is 60 years younger than him! He was studying psychology in college, and after dating him once, he dropped out of school and lived with him .”

Ning Yaxian said very flatly: "It's not surprising, there is no shortage of such gold diggers in any country."

"That's all, the key... The key is that he has two little girlfriends by his side, who are not yet 19 years old."

"Oh, he's a playboy, it's normal."

"twin!"

"what?"

Ning Yaxian was slightly taken aback, a little surprised.

Zhou Buqi said: "Those two young girlfriends are a pair of twin sisters! What a bastard, this old hooligan has no lower limit and no bottom line in his private life! Shameless! Damn it!"

Ning Yaxian couldn't bear it anymore, she bent down on the table and laughed loudly.

I thought something serious happened!
That's what happened.

This boss Zhou is not angry at all, he is clearly jealous, after all... He has been so successful, and he has not yet touched the twins, this is an imbalance in his heart.

(End of this chapter)