Chapter 118 Baidu uses money to clear the way
Ten minutes later, Li Mingyang came to a conference room in the hotel.
Lao Yu waved his hand, and the dozen or so people in the room stood up consciously and all left.
"Director Li, sit down." Lao Yu took out a box of cigars from what seemed to be his own bag, pulled one out and handed it to Li Mingyang.
“Cigars are for eating, and I have never been able to eat them.” Li Mingyang refused.
"People have to learn to get used to it. Don't we all worship foreign things now? I also learned from Lao Gu." Lao Yu said and cut off the top with a cigar cutter, then lit it and took a puff.
“Lao Gu is a man in finance. He is good at going public and has many methods. However, the video industry is faster and faster. Youku is slow and there are too many potatoes. Lao Gu can catch up with this. For my sake, it's already great. Maybe it can be sold at a good price in the future." Gong Yu laughed, a bit gloating.
Li Mingyang gave Lao Yu a strange look, not understanding what he wanted to say.
"Lao Gu is probably looking for you to talk about going public... Running Man's cake is too big and he can't get a solo broadcast. He probably wants to go public with Silk Man 3."
"Yeah."
"He should have promised to give you shares, how much?"
"2%."
"Ahem!" Lao Yu choked on the cigarette and couldn't stop crying. , waited for a while and then said: "It's either 0.5 or 1 point. He is so confused that he only gave you 2 points."
"If you know, why don't you ask me."
Lao Yu He took a few puffs of his cigar, adjusted his thinking, and said straight to the point: "He can't win. Only the first in the industry is valuable. The rest are just materials for cashing out and running away. There is no benefit to you hanging around with him. The so-called shares are just empty promises." .”
"The video website is a very large one. Even if Tudou succeeds in listing and becomes the number one in the industry, it will not be able to burn the money in the future."
"But we are different. We need money. We need money. There are people, there is no pressure to go public, only the pleasure of seizing the market."
Li Mingyang lowered his head and smiled. He thought Lao Yu was so cute and confident now.
Seeing that Li Mingyang was unmoved, Lao Yu couldn't help but wonder.
He has met countless people in the entertainment industry in the past six months. When they heard that he represented Baidu, many directors and producers wanted to sign a contract to work with him.
But when it came to Li Mingyang, he was stubborn and ignorant of current affairs.
Lest I avoid it.
"You can ask for any treatment you want, and I will definitely satisfy it." Lao Yu took a puff of his cigar, took out an agreement from his bag, and handed it to Li Mingyang.
Li Mingyang opened it and saw that it was the contract between Sugar Man and Qiyi.com about spy playing house.
The spy play house contract was signed between Sugar Man and Guangguang, with a total investment of 20 million.
Li Mingyang didn't ask, but he knew that Sugar Man had 8 million and took 40% of the share.
In this contract, Tang Ren sold 20's share to Huace for 8 million...
20's share was 4 million, and it was sold for 8 million as soon as it changed hands. .
As expected of Baidu, which is reaching its peak...it is throwing money at people.
“There’s another big portion here.”
Lao Yu picked up a thick contract from the table and handed it over.
Li Mingyang took it and took a look, okay, Running Man, Baidu also bought it.
Running Man's copyright is actually very complicated, involving more than a dozen video websites. Baidu didn't know how to negotiate, but in the end only five were left.
Flower Entertainment, Sohu, Huace, Guangguang... and Brothel Brothers.
“Do you really want to kick Huayi out?” Lao Yu patted Li Mingyang on the shoulder. "Young man, you are very motivated, but you can't see the overall situation clearly. In any industry, one step is fast and one step is fast."
"We have been meeting here and discussing for many days, and we have come to the conclusion that even if you are the second Feng Pants, Guang Guang cannot surpass Huayi. Guang Guang doesn't have any good artists, and the capital does not have the time to wait for you to develop slowly. Slowly cultivating, our boss got the news that Penguin will also take shares, Sohu will also participate, and there are many Shanghai circle capitals. "
"Guangguang followed Huayi and listed it as a movie. If you go to Huayi, you will only be pushed further and further away."
"As the saying goes, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests."
"I have already talked to Wang Changtian. No objection, what about you, do you have any objection?"
Li Mingyang took a deep look at Lao Yu, and then put the thick contract into Lao Yu's hand.
"What if I don't agree?"
"It's better to let go of enemies than to make them knot. Huayi can let it go. If you have anything you can't let go of, don't worry. With me protecting you, Huayi can't make waves. "
"I just want to do what I like to do. If there are too many obstacles, I don't mind destroying the road." Li Mingyang took out the cigarette case from his pocket and pulled out the last cigarette inside. .
"I admit that your ability to borrow power is very beautiful, but who else can you borrow power from now? Wanda? It's not that I look down on Wanda, nor do I look down on the people behind it."
Lao Yu said calmly: "In front of real Internet capital, everything is nothing, including the entertainment industry."
Snap! Li Mingyang lit his last cigarette and grinned at Lao Yu, "This time I am on my own, and I will open a video website by myself."
...
Once upon a time, Li Mingyang was just a little smart guy. , a little person who has been working as a sidekick for ten years and gained nothing.
The short play only made him developed, but his thinking is still entertainment industry thinking.
It wasn’t until he became a senior executive of Penguin Video that he became what he is now.
Penguin Video came on the scene much later.
WeChat has Zhang Xiaolong, King of Glory has Yao Xiaoguang, but Tencent Video has never had such a soul figure. At first, Liu Chunning was doing it, and later Sun Huaizhong took over.
Two years later, Liu Chunning, who had switched jobs at Alibaba, was sent to prison by Penguin due to audit problems.
Aiyouteng lost a total of more than 100 billion in those ten years. In fact, it was far more than that, because the money for acquiring shares was not included. What can be calculated is that Penguin lost more than 50 billion... which is the sum of the other two companies.
Lao Ma has always wanted to change people, but has never found the right one.
It was really a huge loss. No one in the top management wanted to take over this hot potato, so in the end they started to raise the poison from below.
And Li Mingyang is one of the competitors.
Youku has long fallen behind, and Penguin Video’s biggest rival is iQiyi...
And iQiyi’s Lao Yu has really become a genius.
From the moment he entered Penguin Video, he was wooed and targeted by Lao Yu, and he was tortured so much.
It was also at that time that he met Lao Yu, who combined capital thinking and internal entertainment thinking.
Then he began to study Lao Yu, his life, capital thinking, and by the way learned about the development history of long videos.
Maybe it’s talent! He learned quite quickly, and in the later stage he was able to fight Lao Yu repeatedly.
Then because I came from the entertainment industry, I was ostracized and reported by my colleagues who were from accountants, lawyers, finance, and famous foreign universities.
Conspiracies and conspiracies are on his mind every day.
Later, Lao Ma asked him to do his job well, make short videos and specialize in overseas markets.
Li Mingyang felt bored, so he resigned, and by the way, he also pulled down Zhang Wei, who had been cooperating with others to exclude him.
The limit is exchanged for one.
However, it wasn’t long before Zhang Wei joined iQiyi. It was then that Li Mingyang realized that Lao Yu was responsible for all this.
Lao Yu is very powerful. It can be said that he is one of the people who knows the entertainment industry and capital best in the traffic era.
But now he has not experienced severe beatings, he is too incompetent...
It is impossible to open a video website, it is too late.
And I can’t afford the money.
Video websites will enter an era of copyright disputes by the end of the year, and the price of TV series broadcast rights will also be raised from a bargain price to a sky-high price.
The demand for video websites is too large, and hundreds or thousands of TV series are just a small effort...
The further you go, the more terrifying it becomes.
Lao Jia, the middleman, couldn't hold it anymore... The plate got bigger and bigger, and finally he couldn't hold it back and ran away.
Although I am not a video website, I still have to do what I need to do.
The next day, I just sent Jingtian back to the company.
Li Mingyang immediately called Zhong Xiaoyu and asked her to register a company to build a video website.
Then he went to contact Liu Yan.
This guy has been making a lot of money recently. When he heard that Li Mingyang wanted to buy shares, he refused without even thinking.
“Hey, I want to make a fortune with you, but if you don’t do it, then I will leave you with nowhere to go.”
Li Mingyang stepped on the accelerator and went straight to Youku headquarters. go.
"Oh! Isn't this Director Li? Long time no see!" When Manager Qiao saw Li Mingyang, he was even happier than meeting his own father.
Since his discerning eye, his contact with Li Mingyang, and his efforts to promote the production of diaosi men, Manager Qiao has been promoted to vice president in almost a year.
“Long time no see, I heard you got promoted again.”
“What a promotion, it’s just that the department has been refined and a vice president has been appointed.” Manager Qiao said modestly explain.
“What is your main responsibility?”
"Video content."
"This is the most important department...I recently had an idea to build a video website like Six Rooms, where I can find a bunch of girls to dance and make money."< br>
“Haha, Director Li, are you kidding me? You still have a little money left. That thing looks like a high turnover rate, but after deducting the operating costs, you only make hundreds of thousands a month.”
"Who can complain about too much money? When Lao Gu wakes up, call him and tell him that I am going to open a company to specialize in live broadcast shows. Then I will strategically cooperate with Youku and hold a press conference."< br>
Manager Qiao rolled his eyes, this is good, he can take advantage of the situation.
The two chatted about the details for a while, and when they were almost done, Li Mingyang asked: "Manager Qiao, why did Lao Gu give up Running Man?"
Manager Qiao sighed: "We are having a hard time right now. Ah! The higher-ups have made a big decision, and piracy will no longer be possible. Sohu’s Mr. Zhang’s anti-piracy alliance is actually just trying to get Mr. Gu... Baidu is willing to help, so we exchanged resources. "< br>
Li Mingyang nodded, and it was pretty much what he thought. Baidu at this time is even more powerful than Penguin and Alibaba in the future.
After all, there are no competitors...
"Just wait until it goes public. By the way, my variety show will start filming in a while. I want to borrow a few people from Youku."
"No problem. Our company has just established a production team, and there is nothing to do now. If you want to use it, just take it."
Li Mingyang smiled and said: "I want to borrow Zhang Wei, producer Zhang .”
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(End of this chapter)