Chapter 2189 Relieved

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Feng Yiping looked up and happened to see the dusty Zuckerberg walking over, accompanied by Wu Qian. He put down the mouse and stood up happily, "Zucker,"

"Haha," Feng Yiping hugged this guy who looked much more mature and steady than when they first met, but was still a little shy in front of him.

"You can tell from the looks of it that India is developing well, um, not bad," Feng Yiping patted him twice on the back, "Did you come directly from the airport?"

"Yes," Zuckerberg nodded, unable to hide the joy in his eyes.

"Feng, I want to talk to you about speaking at the press conference on the 9th," he said immediately as soon as he sat down.

"What, are you nervous? No, it's just a few words on stage. It's not like you haven't participated in more challenging press conferences."

"No, Feng, first of all, thank you very much for providing me with such a good opportunity,"

Feng Yiping smiled and waved his hand, "Opportunities should be given to outstanding young people like you," he said as if he was already in his seventies.

"I think it's best for you to take the stage for this speech. Even if it's not you, it should be Mike or Sandberg. It really shouldn't be me."

"You are all more qualified than me and you will all perform better than me," Zuckerberg said sincerely.

"Mike and Sandberg and I have discussed this issue, and we agreed that having you represent Facebook on such an occasion is the best choice,"

"Not just this time, there will be many similar occasions in the future. Let's put it this way, we hope to make you the spokesperson of Facebook," Feng Yiping said.

"No," Zuckerberg stood up. "It's definitely more appropriate for Facebook to be tied to you."

For him to appear at Apple's press conference is an unusual act.

Take a look at this Apple conference and see who will be speaking on stage.

Jobs, Chief Yang of Yahoo, Schmidt of Google, and Sigman of Shingal.

The founder of Apple and Yahoo, the CEO of Google, plus the CEO of the largest wireless carrier in the United States.

Zuckerberg, on the other hand, is just the CTO of Facebook and the head of India.

Now that he is asked to represent the image of Facebook in the future, he feels that it is really unbearable.

At least, he felt that he was incomparable to Feng Yiping.

"Sit down, sit down," Feng Yiping raised his hand and pressed down, "We have made this decision, and of course we have our own reasons."

"Besides, I plan to retire when I'm 35 at the latest. I don't want to be tied up for the rest of my life,"

"Okay, this matter is settled. As for you, obey the decision, okay?" Feng Yiping stood up, "Go back and take a rest, get ready. On the 9th, we must show our best. ,any questions?"

Seeing Feng Yiping's firm words, Xiao Zha finally stopped being humble and said, "Then I will obey the company's arrangements, but Feng, I still have a problem I want to discuss with you,"

"Oh, tell me," Feng Yiping sat down.

"These days, I have been thinking about your investment in a well-known Hollywood special effects company," he said.

"Are there any results? Do you think it is feasible or not feasible?" Feng Yiping asked, "My starting point, you know, the nature of Marvel determines that every movie it produces in the future will be inseparable from special effects production, but At present, although our own special effects company can meet the requirements of Bollywood, there is still a certain gap compared with the top level of Hollywood,"

"We can't help but throw a lot of money at those special effects companies. If that's the case, why don't we acquire one ourselves?"

This is actually Feng Yiping’s consistent philosophy of not leaving the land to outsiders.

"In this way, the expenses incurred are actually included in our entire profit,"

"At the same time, this special effects company will also help improve the standards of our existing special effects companies so that we can receive more jobs around the world, which means creating more profits,"

"Fon, I totally understand what you're thinking," Zuckerberg said. "It's really a great idea to set up our own special effects company in India."

"But I have some concerns about the possibility of paying a high price to acquire a top special effects company in Hollywood,"

"Say," Feng Yiping said seriously, because he knew that Xiao Zha was a very calm person. Since he was opposed to his proposal, there must be a good reason.

"I have carefully analyzed that the special effects industry is a very special industry. Special effects companies have always operated in the form of taking orders, and each business requires a large number of engineers to produce each shot, instead of using computers. or any other high-tech fixed-cost one-time replacement,"

"In this sense, the special effects industry is actually a labor-intensive industry. Genetically, it is very similar to a manufacturing factory,"

"We all know that the United States is currently not competitive in labor-intensive manufacturing,"

"To be specific, excellent companies will continue to expand their scale because they continue to receive orders. But when the scale becomes larger, scheduling becomes the most important link. Like a factory, it can support people at full capacity, that is, as long as If you have a gap of one to two months, you have to pay a high cost,"

"Although I believe that our special effects company will not have such a long gap period, it is obvious that the cost of doing the same work in India is lower,"

"In India, even if there is a two-month gap, the costs we have paid, including wages, are still affordable,"

"Oh, I really didn't expect this," Feng Yiping said. He felt that what Zuckerberg said made sense.

He asked Feige to contact Digital Domain, the second-ranked special effects company in Hollywood, mainly to reduce costs. He also valued the other party's strength and the ability of his own special effects company.

But he really didn't know that Hollywood's special effects companies were also a labor-intensive industry.

Even if you don't consider the possible gap period, just focus on this point, then obviously your proposal is worthy of discussion.

"Secondly, judging from the general trend, the threshold for this industry is getting lower and lower, and many hand-painted jobs are being replaced by increasingly upgraded CG production methods,"

"At the same time, governments around the world, including China, Canada, India, and South Korea, are increasing subsidies for the animation and special effects industries. India, which originally had a low labor force, obviously has a more competitive advantage in such an environment,"

"I understand, what you said makes sense. Instead of spending a lot of money to acquire special effects companies in Hollywood, we should continue to invest in our own special effects companies in Mumbai,"

"You're right," Feng Yiping said.

It just so happens that according to Fitch's feedback, Digital Domain is very bullish now and is quite indifferent to investment requirements.

"As for the improvement of the business level of our own special effects company," he thought for a moment, "it is not impossible. We can solve it by poaching a group of people from Hollywood with high salaries."

"It's very good. Our Zach has grown really fast," Feng Yiping praised.

Xiao Zha looked embarrassed again, "This is just because I know our Indian special effects company better,"

"Well, progress is progress, no need to be modest," Feng Yiping thought for a moment, "It just so happens that I have two other similar questions. You can think about it recently. If you have the result, send me an email."

"Is it also about acquisitions?" Xiao Zha asked.

"It is indeed about acquisitions," Feng Yiping said. "I am more interested in two companies now, one is LinkedIn and the other is Twitter. I hope to invest in them or simply acquire them."

"Although the current market influence of these two companies cannot be compared with Facebook. The markets they target are one is professional social networking and the other is microblog social networking. However, they are both social products and are likely to become our competitors."

"So in my opinion, if the acquisition is beneficial to our business, we can pursue the acquisition, or at least be able to invest,"

"No problem, I'll report it to you," Zuckerberg said.

"Don't be in a hurry. Let's go home and rest first."

"But I have to go to the company first,"

"Okay, okay," Feng Yiping waved his hand, "These days, you can freely arrange your time to and from get off work."

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"Hello, Feng is waiting for you in the conference room," Wu Qian said to the executives of Netflix and YouTube.

She immediately spotted Ma Ling in the crowd.

Ma Ling was dressed formally today, a sky blue silk shirt, a gray suit, and a dark blue pencil skirt.

Of course, that was not what Wu Qian paid attention to. What she paid attention to was that it was rare for Ma Ling to enter the boss's office through the front door.

As Feng Yiping's most trusted assistant, he couldn't hide anything about him from her.

Ma Ling noticed Wu Qian's gaze and nodded gently towards her. She was also a little embarrassed.

When they arrived at the conference room, Feng Yiping was already waiting there. "Everyone," he put his hands on the back of the chair and glanced across the faces of the people present, "you can be sure that we will have a strong competition soon." opponent,"

But he found that after hearing his words, the guys here seemed to feel nothing.

Is this because they are too confident, or do they think that they will lead them to defeat this competitor again?

"According to various sources, Fox and NBC have reached an agreement and are preparing a streaming media website,"

"The website they are planning to build has invited Jason Kilar, Amazon's senior vice president, to serve as CEO,"

This is one of the reasons why Feng Yiping knew about this from the beginning. He met Jason Vice President several times when he visited Amazon.

"That is a professional who is very passionate and hard-working about his work, understands how important user experience is, and knows how to give users the best experience,"

"Of course, their biggest advantage is that they can get support from NBC, Fox, and I think including Disney, the six major Hollywood companies in terms of copyright,"

"I'm not surprised. This is their way of saving themselves," Hastings said first. "This shows that we have made them feel seriously threatened."

"This means that they have admitted that the Internet will threaten the survival of the traditional film and television industry,"

"That's for sure. The question is, we can think about it, what impact will this website, which can obtain copyright exemptions from so many TV stations and film studios, have on us when it goes online?"

"At least its operating costs will be much lower than ours,"

Because no matter what, Netflix will always pay Hollywood copyright fees.

"We also have an advantage that they can't match," Hastings said immediately, "We not only have online streaming, we also have a DVD mailing business,"

"Even if Hollywood movie studios, including those TV stations, let that website upload their content for free, but in terms of time, it will definitely lag behind,"

"Not to mention movies, even for TV content, as far as I know, NBC currently receives advertising fees from cable TV networks, as high as tens of billions of dollars. The income of this website is definitely not even a fraction of those tens of billions, so related TV programs will definitely lag behind,"

"But because we can buy it, whether it is a movie or a TV series, it will definitely be online before it,"

This is indeed an advantage.

Especially for some popular programs, whichever platform broadcasts it earlier will be popular.

Randolph couldn't wait to speak, "Netflix currently has nearly 50 million users, which is another huge advantage,"

"I think that website doesn't have CoinStar, especially NEXTDOOR, which can quickly bring it a large number of users,"

"Those cable TV users can't buy the service twice,"

No wonder Hulu almost disappeared later. It turns out that it has so many shortcomings and deficiencies.

It seems that it is really not worth worrying about.

Huh, this is good.

"Feng," Ma Ling called out at this time.