Hollywood Starts with Animation

Los Gato, California, USA.

When: January 31st at 9 a.m.

The private plane "Lola" slowly landed at the airport, and Zucker and his party got off the plane and boarded a convoy of ten luxury cars.

In fact, the accompanying staff who really accompanied Zhu Ke were only 8 people, and they could not use ten cars at all. However, the vast majority of car expenses are for accompanying security personnel.

Under the influence of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, in recent months, there have been more than hundreds of gun attacks in various states of the United States.

In Free America, gunfights take place every day.

This is definitely not empty talk!

Classmate Zhu Ke cherishes his own life!

"Alexander, do you know what this celebration is for Netflix?"

Zucker asked in the car.

Alexander nodded and replied: "I arrived in Los Gato a day early, not to have a meal. Netflix is ​​holding this large-scale celebration, nominally, to celebrate the number of Netflix subscribers exceeding 500,000. ', however, after my various investigations, I found that there was another purpose."

"Uh?"

Hearing this, Zu Ke was immediately interested.

Zhu Ke smiled: "You talk about it?"

Alexander said solemnly: "Toshiba!"

"According to my findings, Japan's electronics giant Toshiba is about to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Netflix."

As soon as the words fell, Zu Ke suddenly realized: "It turns out that, I said how can Netflix's action this time be so big!"

Toshiba Group, one of the largest electronics giants in Japan, is also well-known globally. But...it didn't achieve the point of Dugu seeking defeat!

Toshiba's nemesis, that is - Sony Group!

Sony is also a giant in the TV industry, even slightly better than Toshiba Group.

A few days ago, the Sony Group was stirring up trouble in Hollywood, winning over many small and medium-sized Hollywood film companies in a row, and with high cheques, it won the copyright of more than a thousand movies in one fell swoop; and,

It also led the establishment of the "Blu-ray Disc Founders" alliance, an interest group whose main purpose is to develop the next-generation new DVD format, so as to achieve the purpose of monopolizing the sales of DVD players.

Sony Group's wolf ambitions are obvious...

How can Toshiba Group sit still?

As a result, Blockbuster, an offline DVD sales and rental giant with more than 9,000 stores in the global market, more than 60,000 employees and a market value of more than $35 billion, has become the most important target of Toshiba Group.

However, Blockbuster's parent company is Viacom Group.

And the boss of Viacom Group is Redstone again.

What a cunning fellow Redstone is, he wouldn't be involved in the Sony-Toshiba war right now without a huge enough stake.

It's not surprising that Toshiba Group has taken aim at Netflix in the same industry!

"I see."

Zu Ke couldn't help laughing and said: "Speaking of which, Toshiba Group is quite insightful. The choice of Netflix can indeed bring them more market share."

Alexander echoed: "Boss is right. As an emerging online DVD rental company, Netflix currently has more than 500,000 subscribers, although it is far lower than Blockbuster's 25 million subscribers, but Netflix is ​​also A veritable first person to rent online."

"Netflix needs more allies, and Toshiba Group also needs more dumpers. The combination of the two is definitely more pros than cons."

The voice fell.

Classmate Zhu Ke nodded frequently and said angrily: "In this way, it will be more difficult for me to invest in Netflix."

Alexander: "..."

Classmate Zhu Ke is eyeing Netflix, the future streaming media empire.

......

Netflix Inc.

"Has the contract been signed?"

This is a topic of concern to many Netflix shareholders.

"Of course!"

Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, said loudly: "Just this morning, we have officially signed a cooperation agreement with Toshiba Group. Toshiba Group will authorize us more than 2,000 movie rights, so that Our number of movies on Netflix has surpassed 20,000 movies in one fell swoop.”

"And, this is only now!"

"It's the first step!"

"As the Toshiba Group continues to negotiate with major Hollywood film companies, I believe that it will not be long before the Toshiba Group will provide us with 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 films again, or even a steady stream. At that time, we will be able to lease to customers. The number of movies will definitely expand again!"

The voice just fell.

All the shareholders and shareholder representatives present were instantly boiling.

"awesome!"

"With more types of movies, we can attract more users. Not to mention surpassing Blockbuster, we can definitely narrow the gap."

Danon West said.

He is one of Netflix's shareholder representatives, representing Barclays in the UK.

ok~

The gap between Barclays and Zucker is not small.

Before the Internet bubble in early 2000, Zucker aggressively shorted many Internet companies in which Barclays Bank participated, causing Barclays Bank to suffer huge losses;

Then there was the digging incident in 2001!

Zucker's starship technology company in Europe was maliciously poached by Barclays Bank, poaching a large number of key personnel, and even the CEO was poached.

Zucker was angry and sued the international court in one fell swoop.

Today, the international lawsuit involving the "competition agreement" has lasted for 10 months and still has not ended, and depending on the situation, it is estimated that it will not end in another year.

"I have confirmed that this guy, Zucker Wald, has arrived in Los Gato, and apparently accepted our invitation. Tsk tsk tsk, this time I will kill his majesty."

Danon West said jokingly.

"Humph!"

CEO Reed Hastings let out a cold snort and said rather dissatisfiedly: "The visitor is a guest, and West's doing this is a bit too much."

Reed Hastings, as the founder of Netflix, although he opposes Zucker's investment in Netflix, he does not want to be evil with Zucker. Even, he hopes to befriend Zucker and win more development opportunities for Netflix.

The invitation letter to Zucker was proposed by Reed Hastings.

He hopes to have a good relationship with Zucker.

However... the development of things often does not develop as he expected.

"Reed, you are exaggerating, and you are a little timid!"

Danon West said.

"That's right!"

Shareholder representative George Smith echoed: "Don't make that guy too mythical, he is very rich, but to put it bluntly, he is still just a 20-year-old boy, what are we afraid of him? With Toshiba With the cooperation of the group, we don't need any help from Zucker Wald!"

The voice fell.

Danon West and George Smith smiled at each other.

Denon West representing Barclays Bank of England;

George Smith representing BlackRock America;

BlackRock Group, also known as "Black Rock Group," sounds similar to another company, Black Rock Group, but in fact both companies are large companies. BlackRock is one of the largest publicly traded investment management groups in the United States, serving clients worldwide through its offices in the United States, Europe and Asia.

In 2009, BlackRock also successfully acquired Merrill Lynch, known as one of the "Five Wall Street Investment Banks".

Barclays Bank accounts for more than 20% of Netflix;

BlackRock Group owns more than 8% of Netflix;

With shareholder representatives from both companies taking the lead, even Reed Hastings, the founder and CEO of Netflix, was sometimes overwhelmed by them and silenced his voice in many ways.

"I repeat, it's me who invited Mr. Zucker Wald, and it's in the name of the company, and I don't want to see anyone harboring ill will towards Mr. Wald. Remember, I'm Netflix CEO!"

Reed Hastings looked coldly at both Danon West and George Smith.

" "The first more is sent.