In the past few years in the United States, Zhou Buqi followed Boss Ma and built relationships with his help, and he interacted with many technology companies.

It's different now. Zhou Buqi has come from behind and has more influence than him, so he naturally wants to reciprocate the favor.

Boss Ma’s business trip schedule this time is 7-8 days.

Zhou Buqi plans to accompany him throughout the whole process and show his pride and righteousness.

On August 22, we visited the Golden Gate Bridge, the Palace of Fine Arts, and the City Hall, and also visited the headquarters of Ziweixing International, the Intel Museum, and the Aotudesk Museum.

In the evening, take a flight to Las Vegas to watch a show.

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

On August 23, 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 Graduate School of Design in the afternoon.

On August 24th, free time in the morning and return to Los Angeles at noon.

Zhou Buqi's little daughter has just been born and hasn't been named yet. She can't just run away and disappear. He has to go home and hug the child. Boss Ma expresses his understanding.

However, in the afternoon, they still went to the Getty Art Center, Pantages Theater and the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art together. In the evening, they also had a small beach party at Santa Monica Beach under nightfall, and invited some

Hollywood practitioners.

On August 25, we went to visit Universal Studios together. Because of Zhou Buqi, a group of more than a dozen people visited the film production process in detail and reviewed many classic film clips from Universal Pictures.

However, Zhou Buqi did not participate much. He mainly asked Boss Ma to visit with the team. He mainly talked about some acquisitions with Smoke, the chairman of Universal Pictures.

The other party is looking forward to this transaction.

During the merger between Universal Pictures and NBC in the past few years, Universal suffered a lot of bullying. After all, from the perspective of making money, NBC Television Station is the core asset of NBC Universal Group.

For this reason, Zhou Buqi decisively made a 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. Both departments have responsible persons, and they must report to Ms. Bonnie Highmore, Vice President of NBC Universal.

report.

Bonnie is a ruthless character and an influential strong woman in the American business community, 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 have been premiered by NBC, and the hero behind them is Bonnie Highmore.

She has a very unique eye for choosing TV series!

After NBC Universal splits up such talent, both sides will compete for it. But she has always been working at NBC, and she wants to stay with NBC.

Zhou Buqi did not hesitate and said decisively: "It's so tough, I will personally choose the projects of Universal Television's production department in the future! Is my vision not as good as hers? Don't worry about these small things, the top priority is...

It is necessary to split it up as soon as possible! Except for the copyright, which cannot be surrendered, everything else can be surrendered!"

These words made these senior practitioners around the world stare blankly.

Zhou Buqi also knew that this was a bit exaggerated, so he went back and said with a smile: "The acquisition of MGM is almost over. It is estimated that it will be approved by the regulatory authorities at the beginning of next month or no later than the middle of the month."

After approval, MGM will officially become a subsidiary of Ziweixing Universal.

"Congratulations!"

Mr. Smoak and several senior executives expressed their congratulations, but they all felt a little flustered. Is this young boss reliable?

Zhou Buqi said: "I have stopped the cooperation between MGM and Warner."

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

Zhou Buqi nodded and said calmly: "In the past, MGM wanted to cooperate with Warner because the family was too weak and could not afford so much investment funds and could not bear such big risks. It won't happen anymore.

MGM must make decisions that are in its own best interest."

Smoak was surprised, "Aren't you going to 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 co-produce the "Hobbit" trilogy, they won't have to pay a penny. They will just rely on the dividend rights converted from the distribution rights... "The Hobbit" has a global value of nearly 3 billion US dollars.

Judging from the box office, MGM will earn at least 300 million US dollars.

According to traditional Hollywood thinking, why not do this kind of business without capital?

Zero investment, high returns, professional managers like it the most.

People from Universal Pictures said they couldn't understand.

Zhou Buqi said with deep eyes: "MGM only sold the film adaptation and production rights, retained the film distribution rights, and also retained the production and distribution rights of the TV series."

"A TV series!" Smoke immediately grasped the key point, looking shocked and incredulous, "Making... a TV series?"

Could this fantasy masterpiece be made into a TV series?

Not showing in theaters?

Can I get my money back?

Even if it can make money, can the rate of return be as high as making a movie?

Zhou Buqi waved his hand and said with a smile: "This is a temporary plan. Maybe Warner is very sincere and can restart cooperation? But Universal must also be prepared. The MGM film and television production department is too good.

Worse, if TV series like The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings are really going to be produced, Universal's TV production department will be the main one."

"hiss!"

Universal Pictures executives, including Smoak, were all shocked.

I can feel the great courage of the new boss.

Zhou Buqi has made a big deal, and he is not afraid of a traitor present to tip off the news. Even if the news is leaked, Warner will also feel some pressure.

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

Please show more sincerity!

On August 26, Zhou Buqi, accompanied by Xue Baoshan, Sun Wanran and Ning Lu, as well as two bodyguards, and Boss Ma's three assistants who always accompany him, went to the Los Angeles studio of Continuum Innovation Design Consulting Agency.

This is a design company.

Covering all aspects, including the design of clothes and shoes, the design of company icons, and website page UI design, etc. This is a partner of Ziweixing International, and the English version of Helo paid them US$1.8 million during the development process.

Design fees resulted in a total of 13 plans.

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

If AliExpress wants to focus on the US market, it is 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 acquired this company and holds 80% of the shares."

"Isn't this...isn't it the same as your micro-dot notes?"

Because it was a small company, Boss Ma quickly understood the company's business and was surprised. Ziweixing obviously already had Weidian Notes, so why did he come to the United States to acquire a company with similar business?

Zhou Buqi joked: "Nip your competitors in the cradle. If you can't kill them, buy them."

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

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Absolutely. This field is relatively new and there are relatively few competitors. Domestically, we use micro-notes. There is nothing to say about this. There are no competitors. In the overseas market, striving for the two legs is to walk together and take this

The market has also started to develop.”

"Is this a good deal for the additional cost?"

"Zhongtai!"

"Zhongtai?" Boss Ma was very interested in this topic and said with a smile, "I've heard for a long time that Ziweixing is working on a middle-stage strategy internally. Can you tell me what kind of idea this is?"

On this topic, Zhou Buqi can only speak everything he knows.

In the previous life, the concept of "big middle office, small front office" was proposed by Boss Ma. Once it was launched, it immediately caused a sensation in the Internet industry, and major companies followed suit. Then it broke the circle, and many non-Internet companies also imitated it.

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This enterprise system model can really greatly reduce operating expenses.

Later, geographical restrictions were broken, and Silicon Valley giants also began to try to introduce the "large middle office, small front office" enterprise system launched by Alibaba.

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

However, it won't happen in this life, and the halo will be snatched away by Zhou Buqi.

Zhou Buqi felt a little embarrassed and could only explain to him frankly, "The middle office is the buffer zone between the front office and the back office. For example, Micro Notes and Evernote have some common needs, such as login, authentication, payment, and storage.

Cloud services, risk control, etc., package these general requirements and turn them into middle-end capabilities, which are uniformly output to the front-end. The front-end product manager can obtain login components, risk control components, payment components, and storage components from the middle-end.

etc."

Boss Ma had known about it before and agreed very much, "Just like cooking, you need to buy vegetables, garnish with them, and stir-fry them. The general capability in the middle is the garnishing center, which uniformly supplies the food to the front-end chef, and

Instead of having the chef personally wash and prepare the dishes in the traditional model, the chef can only focus on cooking, which can greatly save efficiency and expenses."

Zhou Buqi laughed and said, "Yes! That's what it means! The middle office business can provide Ziweixing with the opportunity to create enough small front desks. For example, in this kind of network notebook business, the front desk may only have a few or a dozen people.

The expenditure is not too big. If you support a few front desks and produce a few different types of products, there will always be one that can take off in the market."

"Is it done yet?"

"Not yet. We will first experiment and explore in China, summarize the experience and rules, and create a complete salary and performance incentive system that is satisfactory to the front, middle and back offices, and then fully promote it. Currently, Evernote is still operated independently.

status, it will be integrated when the time is right.”

"Been taught a lesson."

Boss Ma hugged his fist sincerely, like a knight.

I was moved and admired in my heart.

I feel like boss Xiao Zhou is really generous. He doesn’t hide anything. He really answers everything and talks about everything. He treats people with such sincerity. It seems that Alibaba can really cooperate with Ziweixing in depth and use their cloud computing platform.

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Logically speaking, there are specialties in the art industry, so it is best not to cross-border command.
Chapter completed!