Chapter 521: Arena

Let Linda rush to Silicon Valley with the authorization documents, and let Goodman go from Chicago to help his brother review the contract. It is almost March, and this is Song Ya's first venture capital investment in 1994, and he is patronizing consumption.

Although he was a bit humble during the process, Song Ya liked Mark Anderson and Jim Clark. They are both founders of technology companies. Mark Anderson is much smarter than Terry Beard of DTS and Jeffrey Hawkins of Palm. I know exactly what I want. Not to mention Jim Clark, his judgment on the status quo of DTS as a "gangster's arena" and his statement that Mark has Mosaic royal blood hit his heart. The founder of SGI really didn't give it for nothing.

It may not be too pleasant to cooperate and play games with smart people, but it should be closer to success.

Jim Clark has learned a lot of experience and lessons from the struggle of SGI from its establishment to listing and capital, so the equity in this new company named after Mosaic Communications Company, which clearly shows the inheritance relationship with the Mosaic browser, is very simple and clear. He occupies the majority, Mark Anderson made a small investment in technology, 20% to the well-known venture capital KPCB, and the remaining 5% to himself who is willing to pay the highest premium.

Only these four parties participate, and only you have no voting rights.

"OK, Jimmy, next you go on a business trip to Huaguo to find out how I spent the three million dollars in Wanyan, and what is the specific business situation there."

Jimmy's mission was completed so-so, but right now there is no one he can trust and use, "Song Asheng is over there, you go to him to lead the way."

Song Ya is going to give Jimmy a higher level of difficulty in handling things. If his performance on Wanyan's side can still satisfy him, let him stare at Mosaic Communications, Wanyan and Palm in the future. venture capital booth.

Next he has to deal with the problem of 'the gangster's arena'.

Taking advantage of some free time, he went to David Geffen's home in Beverly Hills.

"Bot?"

At the door of the office, I happened to meet David Geffen and MJ's joint lawyer Bot Fields, "Long time no see."

"Hello APLUS." Botfields seemed in a bad mood, shook hands and continued to walk out.

"How is MJ's case? Is the situation okay?" Song Ya asked him.

"It's none of my business, I'm out!" Bottfields said.

"What's wrong with Bot?" Song Ya walked into the office and asked David Geffen.

"MJ blamed him for his mishandling of the whole case."

David Geffen shrugged, "There is indeed someone who should take responsibility, and he is the only one. MJ gave him a face and resigned voluntarily."

He also doesn't want to talk about MJ. Song Ya only knows that the prosecution work of the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara County prosecutors is not going well. In the end, the evidence should be submitted to the grand jury for the grand jury to decide whether to sue MJ. initiate criminal proceedings.

Bott Fields was in charge of the initial legal negotiations with the plaintiff’s dentist. Although later MJ recruited the strongest black defense lawyer Cochrane and others to form an all-star team of lawyers to take over, the mistakes in the early response were very serious. Big, Bottfields really can't get rid of it.

Of course, it is difficult for outsiders to know the specific inside information. Bottfields is limited by the lawyer-client agreement, so he probably won't say it, at least not to himself.

The two chatted about the topic, "I have very few shares in DTS, and I don't want to involve too much energy in APLUS for this matter." David Geffen said.

In the current DTS, David Geffen and Katzenberg, who own relatively few shares, are the ones who support the acceleration of listing. The founder Terry Beard did not express his opinion, but he should be inclined to them. After all, the company’s valuation cannot be eaten. Drink, the company's listing is the real worth. Even if it is not listed, it would be good to have a C round and introduce Wall Street investors to sell some stocks.

And myself and Spielberg, who own more shares, plan to wait for more Universal movies using DTS technology to be released.

The company's valuation reaches a satisfactory level before introducing latecomers to ensure the maximum benefit.

However, the parties involved did not show a clear attitude due to various considerations. David Geffen and Katzenberg were secretly promoting, but they refused to tear themselves apart with Spielberg because of this trivial matter. De is also undecided between the two options.

"I heard an interesting statement."

Song Ya relayed Jim Clark's evaluation of DTS to David Geffen, "Perhaps this state is the worst for us. Other bystanders have already seen through all this clearly. Only we are trapped in it and not Self-knowledge becomes a joke in the eyes of others.”

"Have you changed your mind?" David Geffen asked.

"Actually, I don't have any ideas. I expressed my position according to Dilai's suggestion. I don't have much energy to pay attention to specific businesses." Song Ya didn't hide anything.

"I heard that you gave your companion some long-term commitments. Be careful of conflicts between his interests and yours." David Geffen pointed out.

"I know, I just woke up when I heard Jim Clark say that."

This is the reason why Song Ya made this trip. De Lai has a three-year and five-year equity incentive. The later DTS goes public, the better it is for him, and this is indeed not necessarily consistent with his own interests.

He came to express his attitude to David Geffen this time and did not inform Delay, but only greeted him afterwards.

"The gangster's arena ah?"

David Geffen shook his head with a smile, "We in Hollywood always let our emotions dominate our will, and we fight each other unconsciously when we do something together. Maybe this is the so-called artist temperament." He laughed at himself, "This We are indeed inferior to those people in technology and Wall Street, they are calmer and more sophisticated."

"What are you going to do with APLUS now?" he asked.

"Maybe we should introduce some professional companies and trust professional people, it's better than our own people getting dizzy first like now." Song Ya replied.

"So your attitude has changed?"

"Yes, maybe it's a good choice to start the C round of financing as soon as possible, and let the people on Wall Street take over the design of the specific listing plan." Song Ya replied.

"Good boy."

David Geffen was very happy, put his arms around his shoulders and sent him out of the villa himself. "I've been a little disappointed with MJ recently, he's too childish, maybe our cooperation should be more in-depth." At the door, he stopped to hint.

"I have a lot of respect for MJ, Mr. Geffen."

I can’t say it if I have the idea of ​​replacing it, especially facing David Geffen who has a close cooperation with MJ, “Of course I like working with you very much, and you also take good care of me. Whether it is the record industry or Hollywood, I am very grateful. "

David Geffen seemed to appreciate his compliment very much, he added a few more words, "To make good music, you must not lose your basic disk, even though you made a lot of money in that chemical plant business, but you must I know, you have led the trend of fluorescent night by relying on your influence in the music business, including DTS, your confidence comes from your records, and maybe your movies will be added in the future. Don’t Forget about that."

"Yes, I understand."

Song Ya knows that this advice is indeed very pertinent. Now the outside world is more and more questioning about her musical talent. Many people swear that APLUS will pass away, and the popularity of the first album is not very popular. Goods, really do not necessarily have the effect of 'right red'.

But when the original soundtrack of Dancing Out of My Life comes out, I believe it will surprise a lot of people.

It's just that the salty pig's hand that David Geffen kept gently kneading on his shoulder is a bit annoying...

On March 1, he accompanied Mariah Carey to the 36th Annual Grammy Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

The invincible Whitney Houston sang in the opening performance in a white dress, and the live effect was very shocking, worthy of her name as the Voice of America.

"There was a sentence where the bass broke, and it was dropped by half a tune."

Mariah Carey's Best Female Pop Singer award was lost to her again. Like Song Ya, she had no harvest, and she whispered something wrong with jealousy in the middle.

"You are the best, Mimi." Song Ya hurriedly flattered his girlfriend.

In the awards season of 1994, the biggest winner definitely belonged to Whitney Houston. She won almost all the awards she could get.

The remaining small winners are Donnie Braston, who is a frequent guest of various best new artist awards, although her age is not young among female singers.

And Dre, the mainstream awards in hip-hop music finally "saw" the gangster rapper, Dre won two AMA hip-hop music awards, and this year's Grammy for best rapper.

This is also related to the increasingly unpopular music styles of award-winning regulars such as Will Smith and Will Smith, who are highly praised by Quincy Jones and Russell Simmons. relationship, and Russell Simmons disappearing from the awards show audience for the first time, their time seems to be passing...

"APLUS, Ms. Kingsley asked me to give it to you."

At the end of the awards ceremony, when everyone left, a strange white man handed a note to Song Ya.

Open it up and look at it, only the words 'Capitol' and a number of 'eight million'.

Song Ya crumpled the note expressionlessly, and threw it on the side of the road in front of the other party.

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