Chapter 998: Acquiring Apple
In the past more than ten years, the wifi in Starbucks and McDonald's stores are free. This time, Tinkerbell wants to provide a mini Internet cafe function in the Starbucks chain. It is a problem whether to charge and which side will bear the cost. Moreover, The reason why she submitted the plan to Simon was that Girl C also hoped that Igret could participate and share the cost.
If it was a few years ago, in order to bring more people into the network, Igreit would be happy to do so.
Even now, the major new technology giants have actually hoped that more people can connect to the Internet like Facebook, Google and other companies in the past. Special promotion is not big, so it is not so keen.
Simon came directly to 66th Street on the Upper West Side to attend a meeting at 10 o'clock in the morning and entered a conference room in the East Coast headquarters building. There was still some time before the meeting, so he hurriedly wrote his opinion on the document.
Simon disapproved of the plan.
If it is just to provide users such as icam, irec, and iplayer with a convenient upload interface, Tincobel does not need to cooperate with Starbucks, but can provide similar vending machines or public phone booths in public places with high traffic. Tincobair product-specific equipment, and design a special closed system, only provide the application of related products, such as picture uploading, video uploading or audio downloading, which can greatly improve the application efficiency of the equipment.
In contrast, setting up a mini Internet cafe in Starbucks must provide complete PC Internet access functions, and Starbucks users may not necessarily use it to connect to Tincobel products. Or, if it is a targeted closed-system device, it must pay Starbucks an authorization fee.
Not necessary.
The plan was rejected, and the cooperation with Igreit was naturally interviewed.
In the end, Simon also suddenly remembered that he reminded C girl on the remarks that the acquisition of Apple could be started. This is Simon's plan that was determined very early. Now Apple is already in the lowest state of this company. , the Westeros system can obtain a large number of core patents on the operating system. While Tinkerbell expands its own hardware product line and global operation team, it can also take advantage of Apple's system technology heritage and develop a closed-loop system in the shortest time. The system's dedicated network upload device.
Do more than one thing.
After writing the remarks, hand it over to the girl next to me to pass it on to Silicon Valley, and the time also came to 10 o'clock.
Robert Iger and other West Coast cores are basically sitting. This meeting mainly discusses the broadcast cooperation between espn and the NFL involving 9 billion US dollars. After going around, things finally come to an end. This meeting finalized some details. The agreement will be formally signed and announced on Monday.
Involving a large contract of 9 billion US dollars, it is also related to the future of espn. Of course, Simon cannot be absent.
However, in the two-hour meeting, there was not much interjection. Simon has always been not very keen on sports, so he also avoided laying hands to guide experts as much as possible.
At the end of the morning meeting, I dined with Robert Iger, Steve Bernstein and others at noon, and did not leave afterwards. In the afternoon, I also participated in the review of the upcoming fall season. Daenerys Entertainment TV Department's major TV stations. The core program, so it was busy from one o'clock in the afternoon to seven in the afternoon.
Now the core platforms of Daenerys' entertainment TV business such as abc TV network, usa women's station, a&e TV network, fashion tv, etc., "Seinfeld", "Desperate Housewives", "Sex and the City", The Wife series reality show and other programs are popular Still, coupled with the super ace "American Idol" series launched by abc last year, and even "Friends", "Emergency Room Story" and other series that Simon deliberately transferred to other major TV networks, they are still very popular at the moment. Therefore, this year's TV business is generally quite stable, and Simon is not in a hurry to launch new flagship programs.
In the afternoon, I paid more attention to the second season of "American Idol".
This singing talent reality show that caused a full-name carnival last year, just the advertising revenue, title sponsorship and copyright sales of the first season brought in $860 million in revenue for Daenerys TV department, except for the original revenue. After $230 million in production and marketing costs, gross profit reached $630 million.
After the end of the first season, the subsequent national tour concerts, related album releases, etc., so far, the revenue has exceeded 300 million US dollars. And that's not counting the show's indirect boost to ABC's overall ratings, the growth of Daenerys Records, and even the Westeros system's Tinkerbell.
A perfect hen that lays golden eggs.
Because of the original perfect planning, the cost of the second season of "American Idol", which has already started production, will not increase too much. However, it is expected that the number of episodes will be extended again in the second season, and the project revenue and profit will continue to increase. New high.
Returning to Greenwich by helicopter, dinner invited B-girl Betsy Hope and her fiancé, Mark Shiner, who works at Long Term Capital Management.
Compared with a, c, and d, the number of meetings between Simon and girl b in the past two years is very small. However, the development speed of the Alia company founded by girl b has not slowed down at all. With the full-scale speculation of shareholders and the support of the Westeros system, relying on the low-price strategy, Alia has developed more than 260,000 subscribers worldwide so far.
Even if Aaliyah's software products are only one-tenth the price of the Bloomberg terminal and 260,000 subscribers can currently contribute more than 30 million US dollars in monthly revenue to Aaliyah, Aaliyah's annual revenue is already close to $400 million.
Compared with Bloomberg's $1 billion revenue, Ah
The gap between Liya and this direct competitor is already obvious. However, relying on the huge user base that has far surpassed Bloomberg, which has only more than 20,000 users, Liya has already started her own financial ecological construction. The former Bloomberg system, In fact, it is very difficult to use. The key to Wall Street is the ecology. Everyone is trapped in this system, and all data is in this system. If you want to get relevant information, you can only use the Bloomberg terminal.
Aaliyah burst into the air when Bloomberg was less than one-tenth of the scale at its peak, which has caused Bloomberg to be in chaos.
In the past two years, Bloomberg and Aaliyah have been engaged in all-round close combat in many aspects, from software technology to legal proceedings to talent competition. Even when Aaliyah was quietly raising the price of its own software, Bloomberg had to take an appropriate price reduction strategy to deal with it.
On the other hand, the backstage of this 'goblin', Aaliyah, is obviously too hard, and after Bloomberg developed, it deliberately bought back shares and got rid of its former partners. at a clear disadvantage.
Although there is no listing plan, according to the industry assessment, only according to the relatively conservative price-earnings ratio of 30 times, the net profit rate of Alia company can reach more than 20%, and the current valuation will reach about 2.5 billion US dollars. If it is actually listed, because of Aaliyah's obvious Internet attributes and its very rapid growth, it will not be a problem for the real market value to double again.
Even if it is calculated at 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, the 15% stake held by B Girl in Alia Company is worth 375 million U.S. dollars.
Another emerging billionaire who is close to the threshold of the Forbes 400 list of the richest people in the United States.
However, this dinner did not discuss too much about Aaliyah's company, but girl B and her fiancé, Mark Shinar, are about to get married in September, and they are privately matched with girl A, who has always been very close to girl B. , I have this dinner, which is a congratulations and blessings in advance.
As for the next wedding, although the two made an invitation at dinner, Simon declined.
Promise it would be a mess.
Speaking of which, the four girls a, b, c, and d, Simon happened to have nothing to do with b, but it was obvious that outsiders would definitely not believe it.
Even Simon himself didn't quite believe it.
Um.
Has there ever been, this, there are too many women, it's a bit... can't remember.
Scum boss!
This is a little resentment of a certain girl when Simon and A were talking small things after sending the two girls away. Then, finally got a lonely night, a girl made full use of it,
The next morning, Gemma came over to have breakfast together. Seeing someone who had grown strawberries in reverse, Gemma couldn't help turning it over even though she was accustomed to not putting too much beak on her mother, her lover. Rolled eyes several times.