Chapter 2701 Maintain independence

Boss Ma is not the kind of workaholic who only focuses on his career. His way of managing the company is similar to Zhou Buqi... In other words, Zhou Buqi is learning from Boss Ma's style.

When he came to the capital this time, in addition to work matters, Boss Ma also asked Zhou Buqi for help with some personal matters. He said mysteriously: "By the way, the princess is coming back to hold a concert."

"who?"

Zhou Buqi was stunned for a moment.

Boss Ma said angrily: "Princess! Stop pretending! Singer Princess!"

"Oh." Zhou Buqi then realized that he was talking about someone in the entertainment industry, and he was a little funny, "What are you doing? Are you still chasing stars? I have no interest in the princess's music. If I like it, I still think he My ex-husband Dou Wei’s music is even more shocking.”

Boss Ma was in no mood to argue with him and said, "Please help me. My biggest regret in my life is that I have never been to the princess's concert."

Zhou Buqi was amused by him, "Young Master is online!"

Boss Ma said angrily: "Anyway, this matter will be taken care of by you! I heard that she is preparing recently. If you have a chance, call her out, let us all get to know each other, go have a meal and sing a song What."

Zhou Buqi looked at him suspiciously, "Old Ma, are you serious?"

Boss Ma looked serious, "I'm not kidding you!"

Zhou Buqi was a bit dumbfounded, "You... you are still an entrepreneur... OK, let me ask you! Jieyu Media's music business is relatively niche and may not be able to cover it."

Boss Ma said: "What business is not done are all people in the industry. It's just a matter of words. You don't even have this bit of face?"

Zhou Buqi was speechless, "I have face, but I use it to chase stars. I can't afford to lose that person."

Boss Ma smiled and said, "Just once."

Zhou Buqi sighed, "If you ask me, you should hurry up and Alibaba go public as soon as possible! When Alibaba goes public, your name will be famous at home and abroad. By then, I will be the richest man in the world, and you will be the richest man in Asia. Your face is enough, you don’t need me to help you arrange this little thing, just ask your secretary to make a call, and the singer will come to visit you."

"Don't say it so harshly!"

It seems that Boss Ma really likes the princess. It's not the kind of unspoken thoughts, but simply Aiwujiwu out of his love for music.

Alibaba is not yet listed on the market.

Without being listed, the outside world cannot accurately measure his wealth. His personal reputation is limited to the industry, and it is difficult to gain widespread recognition at the public level.

When Alibaba goes public and has a market value of hundreds of billions of dollars... the power of wealth will be reflected, and everyone will call him "Daddy Ma".

Boss Ma is still not well-known now.

He already spoke, so Zhou Buqi could only help.

Give Xu Baihui a call.

Similar to Zhou Buqi's guess, Jieyu Media was not directly involved in the preparations for the princess's concert. However, Jieyu Media has a deep indirect influence.

"Indirect influence?" Zhou Buqi asked, "What is it?"

Xu Baihui smiled and said, "It's still related to you!"

Zhou Buqi said amusedly: "What the hell, does it have anything to do with me?"

Xu Baihui said: "Your grand strategy is music copyright! Jieyu Media does not have a music publishing business, but in the past few years, we have bought a lot of music copyrights, and we entered the market early. Most of the Chinese music copyrights are in We have it in our hands. The copyrights for the princess’s songs are basically in our music library!”

Zhou Buqi vaguely understood what it meant and asked: "With copyright...does it mean that if the princess wants to sing any song, she has to contact Jieyu Media? If she sings without Jieyu Media's permission, it is infringement." ?”

Xu Baihui smiled contentedly and said: "Yes, that's what I mean! Although they are all the princess's songs, she is a singer, and the copyright does not belong to her. Without our authorization, she cannot sing her own songs. But this Don't take things too seriously. Breaking up would be of no benefit to anyone. Especially in the domestic music market, more often than not, they just turn a blind eye and cannot allow original singers to sing their songs. . At about the same time, the half-sold, half-given concert was approved for authorization. Such a big concert can earn hundreds of millions at the end, and Jieyu Media can always get a piece of the pie."

Zhou Buqi said: "That's right, see if you can get in touch with me and tell me to invite the princess to come out to have a meal, sing a song or something."

"Ah?" Xu Baihui was stunned, "Mr. Zhou, how old is the princess... how old is she? You... you..."

Zhou Buqi was sitting on the sofa, opposite Boss Ma who was looking forward to it. Hearing that Xu Baihui's tone was not right, he quickly interrupted her and said in a deep voice: "Boss Ma is her fan and wants to get to know her. Make a friend. I also want to go to her concert live. I don’t have time to participate in this, so I won’t participate.”

Xu Baihui breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Okay, it's a small matter! Now that the big boss has spoken, who still doesn't give face? I'll contact you! By the way, my sister is at my house now. When will you come over?"

"Let's talk about it, we won't need it for the time being." Zhou Buqi coughed, "I'm busy right now, I have to go to South Korea soon!"

…

Zhou Buqi felt that he and Boss Ma were not from the same group.

Even though he is old, he is still chasing stars.

It's so out of place.

In contrast, Zhou Buqi's career ambition is too strong. He is a pure and good man who is very close to the entertainment industry. He doesn't care about being a singer or actress.

Men should still focus on work.

Career is a reflection of a man's charm, talent, ability, connections, and social power.

Obviously, with Zhou Buqi's current status, his power has subtly affected all aspects, even some foreign companies.

Zhou Shaoning went to South Korea.

We need to talk to Hynix about strategic cooperation.

This is naturally a good thing.

However, one clause was not reached.

Zhou Shaoning called back and sighed: "Everything else is easy to say. The cooperation negotiations between the two parties were very pleasant. But there are some differences in the strategic cooperation on equity."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's the difference? Is it the price?"

Now Hynix's stock price has plummeted, and its current market value is only more than 6 billion US dollars. Aisda's 10% stake...that is, the price is only US$600-700 million. For Aisda's financial resources, it is not worth mentioning at all.

Even if there are some price differences, it’s just a matter of paying more.

Asda can afford it.

Zhou Shaoning said: "It's not the price factor, it should be the strategic requirements of Hynix... They have great ambitions and don't want to be tied to Asda in terms of shares for a long time."

"Huh?" Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Do they still have doubts about cooperation? No? The pattern of the smartphone industry is already very clear. In the global market, it is dominated by Apple, Samsung and Asda. They What else do you want to do?”

Hynix's main product is flash memory.

Apple is an American company, and of course it prefers American brands when it comes to the choice of flash memory, such as Micron flash memory. There is no choice for Samsung mobile phones. You will definitely choose its own Samsung flash memory.

For Hynix, the largest order partner is Asda.

If Hynix wants to develop in this field and become a world-class company, it must firmly seize the opportunity to cooperate with Asda.

Zhou Shaoning said: "The attitude of the other party is very good, and the intention of cooperation is also very clear, but they don't want to leave the outside world with the feeling that Hynix is ​​a subsidiary of ASDA. Especially they don't want to cause some misunderstandings to more other mobile phone manufacturers. This is different from ASDA. It has nothing to do with it. This is Hynix’s core strategy to compete with Samsung.”

"That's it..."

Zhou Buqi understood better now.

Hynix was formed by a number of Korean semiconductor companies over the years to compete with Samsung Electronics. Samsung Semiconductor has a disadvantage, that is, its priority is too obvious.

Everyone knows that the semiconductor chips produced by Samsung will be supplied to Samsung mobile phones first.

Samsung picks up the rest of the mobile phones and those with excess production capacity will have their turn to other mobile phone manufacturers in the market. The most typical example is the Samsung screen, which Samsung is the best in the world.

This is very overbearing. The best batches of Samsung screens are definitely supplied to its own Samsung mobile phones. It’s Apple’s turn to be slightly worse, and it’s the domestic mobile phone manufacturers’ turn to be even worse.

Fortunately, the vast majority of mobile phone users are ordinary people. They lack professionalism, are not sensitive enough to colors, and do not have deep tactile sensitivity. They cannot detect the difference between good and bad screens at all.

In this case, many mobile phone manufacturers are unwilling to purchase from Samsung Electronics.

Unless it's absolutely necessary.

Hynix will take the completely opposite route from Samsung Electronics and treat every customer in the market fairly... at least on the surface.

If Asda takes a stake in Hynix, how can it remain fair?

Doesn't this clearly tell the world that Asda's mobile phones can get priority from Hynix? The best products produced by Hynix will be supplied to Asda, and other mobile phone manufacturers can only get some scraps?

That's the same as Samsung Electronics.

There is no way to compete through differentiation.

Without differentiation, and Hynix's products are not as top-notch as Samsung's, there will be no room for survival in front of Samsung.

Zhou Buqi understands this very well, "Hynix's choice makes sense. Maintaining its independence can help them compete with Samsung in the long term."

Zhou Shaoning said with a smile: "But there is good news."

"Um?"

"They asked me to pass on a message to you, saying that it is not very convenient for Asda to invest in Hynix. If you invest in Hynix in your own name, they will be very welcome."

"I come?"

Zhou Buqi felt the influence of his current personal fame.

Zhou Shaoning said: "Yes, they seem to be looking forward to your investment."

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Well, someone has already passed the message to me... I will go to South Korea again in the next few days and meet them then."