Vol 6 Chapter 32: Gratified

Hearing footsteps, Feng Yiping raised his head and took a look. He just saw Zuckerberg walking along with Wu Qian. He put down the mouse and stood up happily, "Zuck,"

"Haha," Feng Yiping hugged this look. He was much more mature and stable than when he first met, but in front of him, he was still a little shy.

"It seems that India is developing well, um, not bad," Feng Yiping patted him twice on the back, "Is it straight from the airport?"

"Yes," Zuckerberg nodded, his eyes could not hide his joy.

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

"Why, is it nervous? No, it's just a few words on stage. It's not that you haven't participated in the more challenging press conference."

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

Feng Yiping smiled and waved his hand, "Opportunity, I should have given you more of an excellent young man 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 play better than me," Zuckerberg said sincerely.

"I have discussed this issue with Mike and Sandberg. We agreed that it is the best choice for you to represent us on Facebook in such an occasion."

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

"No," Zuckerberg stood up, "Facebook is definitely more appropriate to bind with you."

Letting him appear at this Apple conference was originally a very unusual behavior.

Take a look at this Apple conference, who will be speaking on stage, and who are there.

Jobs, Chief Yang of Yahoo, Schmidt of Google, Sigman of New Gele.

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

Zuckerberg is just the CTO of Facebook, plus the head of India.

Now that he is supposed to represent the image of Facebook in the future, he feels that he really cannot afford it.

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

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

"Besides, I'm planning to retire at 35 at the latest. I don't want to be **** for the rest of my life."

"Okay, this matter, it's so decided, how about you, obey the decision, okay?" Feng Yiping stood up, "Go back and rest, get ready to prepare. When it comes to the 9th, we must show our best ,any questions?"

Seeing Feng Yiping's resoluteness, Xiao Zha finally did not give any more humility, "Then I will obey the company's arrangements, but Feng, I have another question I want to talk to you,"

"Oh, you said," Feng Yiping sat down.

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

"Is there a result? I think it is feasible or not?" Feng Yiping asked, "My starting point, you know, the nature of Marvel determines that every movie it produces in the future cannot be separated from special effects production, but Although our own special effects company can meet Bollywood’s requirements, it still has a certain gap compared with Hollywood’s top level."

"We will inevitably throw a lot of money to those special effects companies. In that case, why don't we buy one ourselves?"

In fact, this is Feng Yiping's consistent philosophy that the fertilizer does not flow to outsiders.

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

"At the same time, this special effects company also helps to improve the level of our existing special effects company so that we can receive more jobs globally, that is, create more profits,"

"Feng, I fully understand what you think," Zuckerberg said. "Establishing our own special effects company in India is indeed a great idea."

"But I have some doubts about the possibility of spending a high price to acquire the top special effects companies in Hollywood,"

"Say," Feng Yiping stood up solemnly, because he knew that Xiao Zha was a very calm person. Since he opposed his proposal, he must have a good reason.

"I have carefully analyzed that the special effects industry is a very special industry. Special effects companies have always been operating in the form of receiving orders, and every single business requires a large number of engineers to produce every lens, not a computer. Or any other high-tech fixed cost one-time replacement,"

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

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

"Specifically, an excellent company will continue to expand its scale because it keeps taking orders, but when the scale becomes larger, the scheduling becomes the most important link. Like a factory, it is full of support, that is, as long as With a gap of one to two months, high costs must be paid."

"Although I believe that our special effects company will not have such a long gap, it is clear that the same job, done in India, costs less,"

"In India, even with a two-month gap, the costs we paid, including wages, are still affordable,"

"Oh, I really didn't expect this," Feng Yiping felt, Zuckerberg made a lot of sense.

He asked Fitch to contact Digital Realm, the second-ranked special effects company in Hollywood, mainly to reduce costs, but also to value the strength of the other party and to drive his own special effects company.

But he really didn't know that Hollywood's special effects company turned out to be a labor-intensive industry.

Even if you don't consider the possible gap period, you just hit this point. Obviously, your own proposal is questionable.

"Secondly, from the perspective of the general trend, the threshold of this industry is getting lower and lower. Many hand-painted jobs are being replaced by increasingly upgraded CG production methods."

"At the same time, governments in various countries 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, clearly has a competitive advantage in such an environment."

"I see, you make a lot of sense. Instead of spending a lot of money to acquire a Hollywood special effects company, we might as well continue to invest in our own special effects company in Mumbai."

"You are right," Feng Yiping said.

It just so happens that, according to Fitch's feedback, the Digital Kingdom is very bullish now, and its requirements for investment are quite cold.

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

"Very good, our Zach really grows very fast," Feng Yiping praised.

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

"Well, progress means progress. Don't be humble," Feng Yiping thought for a while, "It just so happens that I have two similar questions. You can think about it recently. If there are results, send me an email."

"Is it also about the acquisition?" Xiao Zha asked.

"It's really about acquisitions," Feng Yiping said. "I am now more interested in two companies. One is LinkedIn and the other is Twitter. I hope that I can invest in them, or simply acquire them."

"Although the current market influence of these two companies is not comparable to that of Facebook, the markets they target are professional social networking and micro-blog social networking, but they are both social products and are likely to become our competitors."

"So my opinion, if the acquisition is beneficial to our business, we can seek acquisitions, at least, we must also invest,"

"No problem, I will report to you," Zuckerberg said.

"Not in a hurry, go home and rest first,"

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

"Okay, okay," Feng Yiping waved his hand, "In these few days, you can freely arrange your commute time,"

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

She immediately saw Ma Ling in the crowd.

Today, Ma Ling is dressed very formally, with a sky blue silk shirt, a gray suit and a dark blue pencil skirt.

Of course, Wu Qian didn't pay attention to this. What she noticed was that this was something that Ma Ling rarely used to enter the boss's office through the front door.

As Feng Yiping's most trusted assistant, he couldn't hide those things from her.

Ma Ling noticed Wu Qian's gaze and nodded softly at her, making her a little embarrassed.

When they arrived in the meeting room, Feng Yiping was already waiting there, "Everyone," he put his hands on the back of the chair, his eyes flicked across the faces of the people present, "It is certain that we will soon have a strong competition. opponent,"

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

Is this that they are too confident, or do they think that they will take them again and defeat this competitor?

"In a comprehensive multi-party news, Fox and NBC have reached an agreement and are preparing a streaming media site,"

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

This is also one of the reasons why Feng Yiping knew about this from the very beginning. This vice president of Jason, he met several times when he visited Amazon.

"That is a professional who is very enthusiastic and hardworking at work, knows 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 the Big Six in Hollywood, including Disney, in terms of copyright."

"I don't feel surprised, this is their means of self-help," Hastings said first, "This shows that we make them feel a serious threat."

"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 ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ We can think about this. After so many TV stations and film production factories, the website that can get copyright exemption goes online, what impact will it have on us?"

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

Because in any case, Netflix always pays Hollywood copyright fees.

"We also have an advantage that they can't compare," Hastings said immediately. "We not only stream media on cable, but we also have DVD mailing business."

"Even if Hollywood movie studios, including those TV stations, let that website launch their content for free, there will be a delay in time."

"Movies need not be mentioned, they are TV content. As far as I know, NBC currently receives tens of billions of dollars in advertising costs from cable networks. The revenue of this website is definitely not as much as a fraction of the tens of billions. , So related TV shows will definitely lag behind,"

"But because we can spend money to buy it, whether it is a movie or a TV series, it will definitely go online before it."

This is indeed an advantage.

Especially for some popular programs, which platform is broadcasted early and which platform is popular.

Randolph could not wait to speak, "Netflix currently has nearly 50 million users, which is another huge advantage."

"I think that website, there is no coin star, especially NEXTDOOR, which can quickly bring a large number of users to it."

"Those cable TV users cannot buy the service twice if they want to,"

No wonder Hulu was close to disappearing. Once analyzed, it had so many shortcomings and shortcomings.

It seems that it is really not a concern.

Phew, this is good.

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