Chapter 1309: Mixed Joys and Sadness

Ron Meyer on the other end of the phone was very humble and sincere. Even Randolph, who heard or guessed the general content of their conversation, was excited at this time.

Feng Yiping was right. Although the company has achieved gratifying results in the years since its establishment, and has not been able to profoundly change the status of the DVD rental industry as Hastings said, it is undoubtedly a successful company.

Looking deeper, it has really been working for Hollywood and the United States Postal Service.

However, it rarely gets the respect it deserves from these two parties, at least, it has not been treated as a partner.

He never forgot that at the beginning of the company, in order to reduce the damage of DVDs sent by mail and improve customer satisfaction, they finally had to participate in the entire mailing process and find the reasons themselves.

In several large regional postal centers alone, they spent a total of hundreds of hours on observation, and finally found that if it was not sorted together with standard mail through high-speed rotating drums, but sorted by conveyor belts specially used for sorting magazines and other large flat mail, the damage rate would be greatly reduced.

After failing to reach an agreement with the postal company, in order to enter the conveyor belt sorting system, the company had to design its own envelopes from scratch and make other changes - you know, at that time, the company was already a major customer of the postal company.

As for these large film and television companies in Hollywood, well, that's even more bitter.

Although they created huge profits for them every year outside of the cinema, they not only had no say in bargaining, but the executives of those large companies also compared them with several other DVD sales and rental agencies, saying that Netflix always purchased some unpopular and low-priced films, and that the purchase volume was not as large as Blockbuster's...

Although they were extremely unhappy, they could only bear it.

There was no way, because for Netflix, these Hollywood film companies were the source of their company's income. They would not have a fatal impact on their business if they left Netflix, but Netflix was completely inseparable from them.

When will you see a person of the vice president's level call to apologize so sincerely?

Netflix's new life is really a new life.

Now he really wants to take the phone from Ma Ling and talk to the other side.

But Ma Ling's state seems a little wrong?

Indeed, listening to Ron Mayer's apology and looking at the bright sunshine outside the window, Ma Ling is now a little dazed.

She somewhat understands why her father was so keen on work when she was a child and gave up many opportunities to reunite with his family.

Because at work, you can get a sense of accomplishment that you can't get at home, just like she is now.

Randolph couldn't help but cough to remind him.

Ma Ling then reacted, "Mr. Mayer, I can understand that there are too many videos uploaded by enthusiastic users now, and we have been reviewing them intensively. However, we will put your company's trailer in a prominent position as soon as possible."

Since the other side has bowed their heads, she also made a promise very readily.

Because she has been talking to Feng Yiping about work issues recently, she knows better than many people that the company will continue to be a partner with these film and television companies for a long time in the future, and it is still a very important thing to handle the relationship with them well.

At least it is not okay to be aggressive.

Of course, with the introduction of the company's subsequent measures, the relationship between Netflix and these film and television companies will no longer be a unilateral need of Netflix, but a mutual need.

Therefore, in future cooperation, the relevant right to speak will be gradually improved.

I made a phone call, and it was a good thing to get such a result, "Thank you, Miss Ma Ling,"

"You're welcome, but Mr. Mayer, how many people pay attention to it, how high the click volume can be, these things we can't help,"

"I understand, but I believe this will not be a problem," he is still quite confident about his own movie.

"Then, I will visit you in Hollywood as soon as possible," I made a concession on my side, and the next step is naturally Hollywood's turn to take action.

"Very welcome! In addition, I have sent Anthony, who is responsible for marketing, to Silicon Valley. He will discuss specific matters with you,"

"Okay, goodbye,"

"Did they send someone here too?" Randolph asked immediately.

"Yes,"

"Great," Randolph couldn't help but clapped his hands heavily.

This kind of executives of several major Hollywood film companies spontaneously came to the company, which is the first time in the company's history.

This can definitely be called a milestone event in the company's history.

From now on, although Netflix and Hollywood cannot be called the host and guest, it is definitely not the state of being manipulated by others in the past.

If the development goes smoothly as planned by Feng, the words that Hastings always said before, "changing the state of this industry," will no longer be a boast or an expectation, but a real reality.

"Why not meet them now?"

"No, the key issues we want to discuss cannot be decided by the people who come now. They are here just to express the attitudes of their respective companies,"

"In addition, don't you think it's a good thing to let these colleagues have time to get together?" Ma Ling said with a smile.

"This is a good arrangement," Randolph smiled slyly, "We need to give those guys in Hollywood enough time to communicate more in Silicon Valley,"

People in the same industry are enemies, and those companies in Hollywood are no exception.

Randolph is now looking forward to how these guys will fight for scarce resources like YouTube when they get together.

In any case, it's good for him and the company.

"Yiping has arrived there, and he has to wait at least until tonight,"

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Soon after Ron Mayer and Ma Ling talked, Anthony from Universal hurried to Silicon Valley.

This is not his first time to Netflix, but it is his first time to take a taxi from the airport to Netflix.

Even so, the YouTube staff replied to him, "Sorry, the director is not available today,"

"Can you confirm when you have time?" Anthony had never thought that he would be so humble to a company related to Netflix.

But when he thought of Ron Mayer's explanation, his attitude improved a bit.

"I should be able to find time tomorrow," the answer was a bit ambiguous, but what else can he do? Who told me that it was my turn to beg for help now?

"This is the hotel where your colleagues from other companies are staying," the receptionist kindly gave him a business card.

"Thank you,"

This is very timely, at least he doesn't have to make phone calls himself.

After putting down his luggage, he hurried to the hotel bar. Sure enough, Universal Brothers, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Sony/Columbia..., all the people he knew were there.

"Ha, Anthony is here, I said he would definitely come," Clark from Warner Brothers shouted with a bottle of beer, "I won, give me money, give me money,"

These guys actually bet on themselves?

"Hi, Clark, hello, hi Blake..." Anthony smiled and greeted these guys, "You all came early, how is it, did you meet?"

"Don't you know?" Clark said, "They plan to meet us together tomorrow,"

Anthony inevitably felt a little uncomfortable again. Meeting executives from several major companies at once is probably something that even the CEO of the American Film Association would not do well.

"Did they agree to your company's request?" Anthony asked nonchalantly.

"Yes, they agreed," Clark said, "but I don't know if you noticed that they only said this time,"

"Could they disagree next time?"

"It's not impossible, if we don't have a good discussion with Netflix on revenue sharing," Clark said.

"It's also possible that we won't be allowed to upload for free in the future," said Blake of Paramount.

Anthony was reluctant to accept it, but when he thought about it, it made sense.

"In short, this mission will be very successful, right?" Anthony said.

How could they decide on revenue sharing?

"I'm not that optimistic," Clark said.

"Why?" Anthony felt that he was being mysterious.

"Do you remember Sean Parker?" Clark asked suddenly.

"Of course I remember," Napster, the free music download website founded by Sean Parker, can be said to have completely changed the status quo of American music. Since then, fewer and fewer people have chosen to buy music albums.

They all have their own music departments, and Sean Parker's affairs have left a deep impression on them.

But what does this have to do with what happened today?

"You also know about Apple's music store?"

"Of course I know," the emergence of Apple's music store actually means taking advantage of the situation.

"Then do you know that this Feng is a senior advisor to Jobs?"

Some people really don't care about this, but when Clark said this, everyone immediately associated the connection, "You mean, it has something to do with Feng?"

"Yes, I heard Paul say that they went to Apple for negotiations, and the host in the later stage was this Feng,"

Warner Music's Paul Vidic still remembers that negotiation vividly.

"Oh," the people present became more serious.

"There is another thing," Clark took a big sip of wine, "Paul said that according to Jobs, the Apple music store project was first proposed by Mr. Feng,"

"How is it possible?" Some people shouted on the spot.

"It's very simple, you can find someone from your record company who participated in the negotiation that year to verify," Clark said.

"Since his previous move was equivalent to shaping the main market model for music products, do you think his purpose this time is so simple?"

Everyone fell silent after hearing this, yes, can it be so simple? Netflix is ​​his own company that he bought for billions of dollars.

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