Chapter 1146: Conflict Becomes Public

"You actually got angry at me? Why don't you understand?" Hastings patted the nearby chair casually, feeling the burning pain in his palms. "Is he trying to help us? No, he is It’s to annex us,”

"You know what he's going to do after he annexes us? You don't know," Hastings said, walking around the conference room, breaking his hands in pain. "He told me, in In his eyes, our model is also backward and outdated,”

"Do you think that after being annexed, he will still maintain this backward and outdated model? Of course not, how can he maintain such a business using an outdated model?"

"Do you know what that means? It means that our Netflix will no longer exist. How can you allow such a thing to happen?"

Hastings, who was nearly a head taller than Randolph, stood in front of Randolph with one hand on his waist and the other hand, the one he hurt, waving in the air, shouting hoarsely. cried to Randolph, "Tell me, may I allow it?"

Randolph, who had rarely gotten angry in front of Hastings, really calmed down at this time. He crossed his arms and watched calmly and quietly as Hastings roared at him, letting his saliva spray on him. On his face, "You are the only one who gets angry at me? Why are you so stubborn?"

“I don’t know everything about what he is going to do after the merger, but I am pretty sure that he wants to help Netflix achieve better development,” Randolph said calmly. “As for whether our model is outdated, maybe now No, but if he really sees the future of our industry clearly, then our model is relatively outdated, so what’s the problem?”

“Besides, I think that when measuring a model, we should not look at it from the perspective of whether it is outdated or not, but from the perspective of whether this model can create profits. Our model, at least in recent years, can still make considerable profits. From this point of view, at least in the short term, he will not abandon our company’s current core business,”

"Objectively speaking, Hastings, in this era of rapid development, is there any model that is not outdated?"

"As long as the new company still serves our existing customers, what does it matter if the business model has changed? You shouldn't be unclear about this,"

"Do you want us to be blind and touch the elephant here, or let Feng rebuild a website with exactly the same performance as Netflix? By then, do you still think that we can add Walmart and Blockbuster to his new website, at least triple the pressure? Will it develop smoothly?”

Randolph became angry again as he spoke. He looked at Hastings in a way he had never seen before. There was confusion, sadness, and deep disappointment in his eyes. He seemed to be a little depressed. "It seems they were right,"

He seemed a little unable to stand. He held a chair with both hands and lowered his head and said, "Netflix is ​​your glory and your pride. It is you who fight back and laugh at Blockbuster and John Antioco who once looked down on us." The best weapon,"

Randolph raised his head, and you could see that his hands were shaking, "That's why you tie yourself tightly to Netflix, thinking that Netflix is ​​your own Netflix, and only cares about satisfying your needs." Are you pursuing your own selfish desires regardless of Netflix’s future?”

It is sung in the song that the person I love most hurts me the most, which is not unreasonable.

As a partner and confidant for many years, Randolph, who knew Hastings very well, figured out a series of questions after he figured out one question.

As for Hastings, who was told his inner thoughts by his partner, he was filled with shame and anger, feeling that he could not accept what Randolph said at all.

His expression changed several times, his mouth opened again and again, but in the end he couldn't speak. He put away his laptop on the conference table and walked towards the door of the conference room with a frosty face.

However, between two people who know themselves and each other well, hurting others is hurting themselves, and Randolph will definitely not feel comfortable now.

"I misjudged you." Seeing Hastings's reaction, Randolph knew that this was definitely not the way he should behave after being attacked unprovoked by himself, which meant that he had spoken to his mind, "I also believe it. You were wrong,”

Hastings paused for a moment and glanced at Randolph, who seemed to be in a bad condition. However, the look was like looking at a stranger. No, worse than a stranger. It was like looking at an enemy. Just the same, his eyes were all cold.

What now appears between the two people who are not far apart is not a crack, but a gap that is difficult for ordinary people to cross.

"Can't you put aside other unimportant matters and think about our company personally, especially when you have no way to deal with this bad situation?"

"Irrelevant?" Hastings, who was almost reaching the door, stopped. "You think those things are insignificant?" He yelled again, "The scene when he was rejected by Blockbuster and Antioco in 2000. , and it often appears in front of me, and that is the main reason for me to work hard, but how can you say such a thing when you know the inside story?"

"Also," Hastings suddenly raised the object in his hand above his head, and then slammed it down hard, "Who said I don't know how to deal with the challenges I face?"

With a bang, the laptop fell to pieces on the ground, parts scattered everywhere.

Randolph had already sat on the chair. The flying glass shards and keyboard keys hit his body and face, but he was unmoved. Hastings' reaction was enough to explain everything.

With a "bang", Hastings threw open the door of the conference room without reservation and appeared in front of all the employees with an angry face for the first time.

It seemed that this time, no blind employee took the initiative to come over to say hello to him. Who would not know about the quarrel in the conference room? Everyone even consciously avoided Hastings.

After a long time, Randolph also came out of the conference room with a cold face. Although he was in a bad mood, he still did not forget to order, "Clean up the conference room."

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Hastings in the office couldn't sit still at all. No one was watching him, and he finally showed fatigue.

He rubbed his hands on his face and felt that his face was still hot.

Indeed, when the person closest to you speaks very directly about the little thoughts in your heart, normal people will feel ashamed.

However, now is not the time to discuss these issues. What is certain is that even if Randolph will not stand on Feng Yiping's side, he will never stand behind him to support him as before.

So his most important task at the moment is to get the support of the company's board of directors and major shareholders.

Coincidentally, it is just right to verify whether anyone has encountered an example of someone interested in the stocks you hold in the recent period.

"Dudley," he first called the head of an institutional shareholder of the company, the contact person of the New Jersey Public Pension Fund, "I will be in New York tomorrow. Do you have time tomorrow at noon? I would like to invite you to have lunch together,"

Such a big thing is naturally not easy to say over the phone.

"Tomorrow at noon?" There was a sound of sliding the mouse, probably checking the schedule, "Sorry, tomorrow's schedule is very tight, and the day after tomorrow is not possible either. What's up? Do you have any good news to tell me?"

"Hastings, I tell you, you really need to have some exciting good news now. Many of my colleagues have different views on this investment now. Not only is the return low, but the customer growth rate has also been slow in recent years."

"If I remember correctly, you had more than 100,000 subscribers in 2000. How many now, it's only been more than 1 million not long ago, right?"

"Dude, this is the United States, more than 60% of households have at least one DVD player, how many potential users are there? More and more people choose not to go to the cinema. Last year, we watched DVDs at home for an average of 78 hours. How many DVDs do we have to watch?"

"So, do you have good news to tell me?"

Although this question was sharp, Hastings was very easy to deal with, well, mainly because he answered too many similar questions this year.

"Dudley, do I need to remind you how much your investment has increased since the company went public last year?"

The dividends of many listed companies' shareholders only account for a small part of their returns, and many of them come from the rise in stock prices.

For example, Tesla in the original time and space has never made money, but many people who invested in it have made a lot of money because Tesla's stock price has risen fiercely!

"We are confident that we can take the company's sales to a higher level next year. If you want to sell it, I guess there are many institutions willing to take it over," Hastings showed confidence on the phone, just like he did in front of employees before today.

"Okay, we can only make another appointment. See you next time,"

After hanging up Dudley's phone, Hastings breathed a sigh of relief. From Dudley's tone, it didn't seem like Feng Yiping had contacted him.

"Luke," he called the contact of another institutional shareholder, CIBC Asset Management, and said the same thing, "Can you arrange time to come out tomorrow at noon? I just happened to be there, and I was wondering if we could have lunch together,"

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In the office building of the New Jersey Public Pension Fund, Dudley, who was bald and looked as strong as Irving, put down the phone and said to Cummins and Emilia, who were sitting on the sofa next to him, with a smile, "It seems that he has heard the news,"

Cummins said with a smile, "We admire Mr. Hastings' professional sensitivity,"

"If this sensitivity can be used to expand the company's business, it would be great, don't you think, Mr. Dudley," Emilia said with a smile.

In this case, it is suitable for a beautiful girl like her.

"Objectively speaking, Hastings has done a good job," Dudley said, "The return on our investment is really considerable, and we also believe that Netflix will perform better in the future,"

"It seems that you didn't think so before?" Cummins said.

He used to work on Wall Street. Although he didn't have a close relationship with Dudley before, he had met him several times.

"That's because you were still on Wall Street at that time, wasn't it?" Dudley said frankly, "I said whatever I wanted to say to whomever I met." "At that time, I didn't dare to tell you some of the real situation."

"That means, what you say now may not be your true thoughts?" Cummins laughed.

Dudley also laughed.

Emilia laughed beside him, complaining in her heart, "Two old foxes!"

"We all know that Netflix's performance in the past few years has not been good enough. We also all know that the situation it is facing now is even more severe. Wal-Mart and Blockbuster, two powerful companies, have already launched and are about to launch The same business will inevitably compete directly with it,"

Cummins crossed his legs and said, "We also found that so far, Netflix has not taken any measures to deal with these challenges,"

"Of course, it's possible that they have a plan but haven't put it into practice yet, or that we haven't seen their plan clearly. In short, who knows,"

This is also an old routine. People who want to sell will praise it, and people who want to buy will naturally criticize it.

"We all know it," Dudley is a guy with a standard middle-aged macho image, but he always has a smile like that of a kindergarten teacher on his face, which is definitely very unique.

"That Mr. Feng has always been known for his precise vision. Many examples have confirmed this. For example, the series of measures to acquire Coin Star that everyone admired very much last time were praised by many as textbook level. of,"

"So, what I can't figure out is why Mr. Feng, a man with such a good vision, would be interested in a company that you are so unfavorable to, Cummins?"

As expected of an old fox, this question is absolutely sharp.

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