Chapter 483 Unfathomable

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Dilai was called over, and Song Ya asked him to read magazine reports.

"I don't know, maybe you should ask Mr. Sun from C-CUBE? He invested more money than you, didn't he?" Delay suggested.

Song Ya glanced at him and nodded silently.

Based on Apocalypse's investment, he did not conduct many of them through A+ Audio Company. After all, according to the three-year and five-year profit equity incentive plan, DeLay will take up to 15% of this company. A+ Audio began to make a profit on the books through DTS’s B round of financing in 1992. Then in 1995, when the first phase of rewards was cashed out, De Lay would be rewarded with 5% of the shares, and the profit would be 15% in 1997.

So for example, A+ Pedal Company, Bahn Company, A+ Apparel, Palm, Wanyan, A+ Movie Studio, American Music Magazine, Louise Report and stocks, etc., he invested through his wholly owned A+ record and A+ copyright. with asset management companies.

Although DeLay went to run errands for the previous investment, as the president of A+ Audio, he has to manage the synthetic sound copyright library and the three major stalls of DTS and American music website. He has limited energy and is not interested in business that has nothing to do with his own interests. normal.

Song Ya himself pays more attention to industries with clear managers responsible for A+ Pedal Company, Bath Company, A+ Apparel, etc. Palm and Wanyan, two pure venture capital investments, are just in the blind spot of his and De Lay's perspective.

It is precisely these two companies that are now at risk of losing money.

He felt that at least like MJ, he should find another lawyer to be responsible for watching these two companies and his follow-up venture capital.

Of course, Sun Yansheng still had to contact him. He invested 3 million knives and only took up 15% of the shares. The majority were him and Huaguo's Wanyan Electronics.

"I'm busy with the listing of C-CUBE on Nasdaq next year..."

Sun Yansheng explained the problem of patents. Basically, it is difficult to apply for a patent for this VCD player. The key point is that it does not have its own technology. The format of VCD discs is in the hands of companies such as Sony and Philips, and so is the optical drive. Various decoding chips are divided up by companies such as C-CUBE and Texas Instruments, and even the appearance patents cannot bypass Sony's LD player many years ago.

"Lao Wan has no awareness of this." He said: "At most, the integrated solution is used to apply for patents, but it is too late now. All prototypes have been bought and researched by various companies, and related patents have already been registered..."

Sun Yansheng is also very helpless. At this moment, he cannot offend Miguo and Benzi Capital behind C-CUBE, and he himself is also facing the risk of being marginalized in C-CUBE. He is not the president of the company. As the founder, after several rounds of financing The right to speak has also been greatly weakened, and it will only become less present after it goes public next year.

"Then what should we do?" Song Ya asked.

"It's no problem to produce and sell in China. We have great first-mover and capital advantages. We shouldn't lose money. Now a machine can sell for 4,000 to 5,000 soft sister coins, and mass production will start next year. But... ...APLUS, I suggest that you also stay away from that company, the source of the movies played by this thing cannot all come from legal channels, we should try to keep a low profile, so that others can't feel our presence in that company." He said .

"All right."

Doesn't that mean nothing can be done? Feeling cheated again, Song Ya can only hope for his judgment of 'the investment will not lose money'. Fortunately, he only invested three million dollars.

After thinking about it, he wrote a memo at school the next day and asked Old Mike to drive the car to Bahn Company after school.

"Where is Huaguo?" The general manager of Bain Company read the memo. "Chemical equipment and electronic products are under the management of their Mechanical and Electronic Industry Department, but I heard that this year they are being split into the Mechanical Industry Department and the Electronic Industry Department."

"Are you going?" Song Ya asked.

"Okay, no problem, let them take care of Wanyan Electronics, right?"

Of course, the general manager of Bahn Company will not simply understand the boss's question as asking for his own opinion.

"Their Ministry of Machinery Industry has a longer history and a higher status, and they have a good impression of you. After all, our technology transfer cooperation last time was very pleasant." He said: "Just in time, I will also visit the engineers working there us."

Song Ya nodded.

After adding insurance to this matter, he threw it away. Except for Goodman and Hamlin, there are very few lawyers he can trust. He will slowly look for someone who can help him manage venture capital in the future.

Hamlin has already gone to New York to find Daniel with a power of attorney and a mission. In order to repay his help in the position of president of Sony Columbia Records, and to drive away the thorny Russell Simmons, plus the benefit of future generations holding shares, Daniel's actions Very quickly, within 24 hours, under the needle-threading of President Lyle Cohen, a total of 7.8% of the minority shareholders of DefJam Records fell into the hands of Song Ya's A+ investment and copyright management company.

The transaction price was slightly higher than what Daniel had promised, 3.25 million.

Subsequently, Lyle Cohen convened a board meeting, and Hamlin participated for the first time on behalf of Song Ya, and began a showdown with Russell Simmons.

According to Hamlin's description afterwards, Russell Simmons quickly counterattacked after a short period of confusion. On the one hand, he refused to sell about 20% of the shares in his hand, made a scene at the board meeting, and called Lyle Cohen a traitor. On the one hand, people with Polygram began to win the support of other small and medium shareholders.

Daniel was relentless. He secretly ordered the removal of all the records of DefJam's singers, stopped all announcements, and interrupted the transfer negotiations with PolyGram.

Russell Simmons sued Motura for this kind of behavior that was detrimental to the interests of Sony Columbia Records. However, Motura is now at his wits end, and his Sony Entertainment has not yet officially started operation, and the MJ case has also dragged him for a long time. Great energy.

To some extent, it is estimated that he does not want to confront Song Yajia Daniel head-on now. As the president who manages specific business affairs, Daniel is purging his team within the company. It is not easy to keep those people's positions. He is now completely On the defensive.

Russell Simmons and PolyGram did not give up. They had the same thoughts as Song Ya back then, and went to the capital of the capital to file a complaint.

After Gao Shu summoned several times but was evaded by Song Ya with the excuse of recuperating his voice, he and PolyGram's negotiator came directly to Highland Park a few days later.

"APLUS, so now Sony Columbia Records is your private playground with Daniel Glass?"

PolyGram's negotiator was an Englishman, and he provoked Gao Shu maliciously.

"BullShxt!"

Song Ya continued to immerse herself in the spiritual world of the male protagonist of Dancing Out of My Life, half lying on the sofa, and responded with short swear words.

The other party was not angry, just shrugged and turned his gaze to Gao Shu.

"APLUS, you and Daniel are infringing on the interests of Sony Electronics." Since the success of the last rebellion, the relationship between Gao Shu and him has also been broken, and the two sides have no politeness.

"Let's talk alone?" Song Ya replied.

He nodded, and the people from Polygram had to go out first.

Song Ya took out the note written in advance and asked Linda to hand it to the other party.

It’s nothing, I just briefly explained the rationality of replacing Russell Simmons’ share of DefJam’s huge losses for years by myself. As for lowering the specific price, it’s just a normal business method, as long as it doesn’t hurt Sony Columbia Records and Baobao. Li Jin's 50% transaction price would be fine.

On this point, Daniel has already given a guarantee, and he has also given himself a guarantee.

"I agree with you, but you can't be so eager to sell your important labels as soon as you take power, and you have a personal grievance with Russell Simmons." Gao Shu said.

Just in time, Song Ya got up and angrily threw Wanyan's VCD player and the indictment he was going to file for a patent lawsuit for the integration scheme in the United States in front of Gao Shu. Of course, it was only preliminary.

"Well……"

Gao Shu was also confused, "What does this Huaguo company have to do with you?"

"Fifteen percent." Song Ya replied.

"Are you going to sue Sony? In America?" Gao Shu laughed.

Song Ya arranged DefJam's acquisition documents and the indictment side by side, lay down again, and gave him a look of her choice.

"You can't win the lawsuit. This is...it's just... a fantasy." Gao Shu said a Japanese idiom.

"What?"

"Whimsical."

Song Ya pointed to her throat again and stopped talking.

Gao Shu was silent for about ten seconds, still picked out the purchase document, went out and handed it to the person from Polygram, shook his head, and signaled that he didn't care about it.

"APLUS, you are still young, who knows where your next singer contract will be? For a singer of your level, besides Sony Columbia Records, there are only five major record companies left as potential places for you. Is it necessary to freeze our relationship?" The other party persuaded.

Song Ya nuzzled at Linda and asked her to answer.

"You don't have to run errands for Russell Simmons."

Linda said: "DefJam is better for you in APLUS or Russell Simmons, it's not hard to choose, isn't it?"

"So you promised to write songs for the singers of DefJam?" PolyGram asked, "Instead of short-term reselling to make a difference? You and Daniel are working together to drive down the value of the shares held by Russell Simmons. Ask a high price! Maybe we should buy the shares held by Russell Simmons first, which is better than your bid."

"Then you won't get DefJam, Mr. Daniel Glass would rather sell it to other companies." Linda issued an ultimatum on behalf of Song Ya, "It doesn't make sense for you to buy that ten or twenty percent of the shares , if you do buy those shares from Russell Simmons, the records of DefJam's artists will not be released on Polygram."

The shopping mall is like a battlefield, and the bloodless game is played in all dimensions. In order to establish prestige, Daniel and Song Ya treated Russell Simmons very brutally and unreasonably in order to retaliate, but they could not do this to Polygram.

As one of the six major record companies, Polygram pays more attention to distribution and copyright management than to investment. If you want to buy DefJam, you must buy 50% of it, otherwise it is meaningless. But they can't do nothing stupidly. When Daniel introduces Song Ya and unites the remaining 50% of DefJam, they will definitely open up to the Polygram Lion, and after buying it, they will face the monolithic management. There is no way.

"You might as well cooperate with Mr. APLUS. Russell Simmons is outdated, he is old, and his personal interests are in the fashion industry and the media. He is responsible for DefJam's huge losses over the years. Mr. Lyle Cohen, the president of DefJam, should I have shown my attitude to you. And Mr. APLUS's A+ record has won Fergie, and he sold more records than DefJam last year." Linda said.

"We are Polygram," said the other party.

Indeed, Polygram has its own confidence in saying this. They bought DefJam only to expand the American hip-hop music industry. This level of loss is completely affordable. With their resources in, DefJam's situation will also improve.

Linda didn't know what to say, and looked at Song Ya.

"That's it!"

Song Ya is too lazy to talk to the other party. Daniel and Lyle Cohen should take care of this kind of thing. They paid for it themselves. Just now, they played another hole card to deal with Gaoshu. There is no reason to be as stupid as the time when Motura was driven away. One of the men jumped out to attract all the firepower.

He stood up and held out his hand to the other party.

"Goodbye, young man, I have to say, you left a deep impression on me." The other party shook hands with him helplessly, and left.

"What do you mean?" Song Ya asked Linda looking at the back of the other party.

"I don't know, but I feel that the less you talk, the more domineering and unpredictable you become in the eyes of others." Linda replied.