NovelEnglishChapter 356 Who! All! bar! No! live!
"I heard you are interested in PayPal?"
While Sergey Brin and Larry Page left with great pressure, Jeff Bezos also came to the door.
So, Roland received the third group of people in the same meeting room.
Looking at the guy who was leaning on the sofa with his hands on his stomach, with a serious expression but a relaxed body, Roland nodded and gave an affirmative answer, "Yes, I'm interested in PayPal and eBay, by the way, Who did you hear about this?"
"Of course David. I had a brief chat with him after the birthday party last night, and he told me about it." Jeff Bezos swung his right hand, which seemed to be an instinctive reaction, but more As if to avoid hostility, "David asked me if we Amazon needed to plug into PayPal, and then I knew you wanted to attack them."
Because the two parties know the bottom line, or that Amazon's backing allows them to deal with various problems calmly, even if they know that the company's shareholders will invest in competitors, Jeff Bezos will not be like Sergey Brin and Larry. - Page panicked just as much, because he understood that Amazon was still the most valuable company in this market, regardless of how competitors expanded.
because-
Berkshire Hathaway is with them.
"You came to me today, don't you think you want to persuade me to give up this idea?" Roland asked looking at the calm guy.
"No, No, No." Jeff Bezos shook his head and denied with a smile: "I came to you today mainly to get the product authorization of Blizzard and Marvel, the exclusive online authorization, Ten years is best, five years is also fine."
After the dot-com bubble burst, the entire industry was in turmoil.
The Internet companies whose capital flow was cut off went bankrupt directly, and the companies that were rescued also changed their names.
At this time, the "Amazon, which the whole Wall Street thinks is outrageous" that people later complained about, did not choose to shrink back because of the collapse of the Internet. Instead, it borrowed a sum of money from Wells Fargo, which Warren Buffett has a stake in, and carried out crazy expansion.
In the millennium, they signed a 50 million online exclusive contract with Toys R Us for a total of 500 million a year, a total of 500 million. According to the agreement, Toys R Us will establish an exclusive supply service on Amazon, Selling toys and baby products under their own name, not only that, but they also provide the most considerate delivery service, as long as the buyer places an order on Amazon, the nearest physical store of Toys R Us will contact the nearest delivery point for delivery. time, no more than forty-eight hours.
In addition, Borders Group, the second largest bookstore in America, also reached a similar service contract with Amazon. Buyers buy books online, and sellers deliver them offline. The one-stop considerate service makes users feel the benefits.
It is precisely because of Amazon's crazy expansion when all physical companies dare not set foot in the Internet field, so after the Internet recovery, the industrial capital that wants to enter the market can no longer find any room to gain a foothold. In the end, Amazon became the leader in the e-commerce field, and they had the energy to free up their hands to do other things.
In this way, while successively signing online exclusive supply agreements with major physical suppliers, they also want to get a share of the entertainment, although compared with books and baby products, games and comics are not the same. It is not a necessity of people's life, but game players and comic readers are consumers with strong subjective initiative.
As long as players and readers like a certain product, they will take the initiative to attack. In this case, if they can get the online sales rights of Blizzard and Marvel, then in this section, Amazon is not afraid that others can surpass it.
Roland understands these things, and what he wants to do now is actually the entire upstream and downstream industry chain, but when he is about to agree, he feels that he has to figure out a problem first, "Exclusive authorization is fine, but the problem is that no one will give it to you." We deliver."
"All of Marvel's comics are sold in major bookstores. Without their own channels, the sales will be terrible if they are only sold by mail. The same is true for Blizzard's games. There are no offline audio-visual stores and supermarkets. Purely relying on logistics, then players may be driven crazy by the slow speed, if this problem cannot be solved, our authorization is meaningless."
Hearing what Roland said, Jeff Bezos immediately laughed, stood up and poured him a glass of water, and then said with emotion: "It seems that Warren (Buffett) is right, you don't want to take care of the company. It’s just that I’m too lazy to manage the company.”
"You're right. In the absence of offline stores and basic logistics, Blizzard and Marvel's online licensing is meaningless, but isn't meaningless meaning the greatest meaning?"
"I will not hinder Blizzard and Marvel from making money, I just hope that Amazon can create a dream of everything to the world."
“There are indeed many offline stores where you can buy Blizzard CDs and Marvel comics, but online, only Amazon sells them.”
"Maybe few people will choose to buy online this year, and maybe not many people will buy next year. What about the year after and the year after?"
“Establishing a logistics company covering North America is our next plan, and before the plan is implemented, we can market first.”
"If possible, I even want to talk to you about the fact that only Amazon can buy Apple products online, buy peripherals produced by Warcraft Film and Television and DreamWorks, and buy everything from Marvel and Blizzard!"
"When only Amazon has these things in the world, no matter how fast the delivery is, they lose out, don't they?"
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"Because we have exclusive rights, and exclusive rights mean traffic."
Roland understood that Jeff Bezos wanted to **** blood.
Suck the blood of the offline market, **** the blood of offline merchants, and **** the blood of offline customers.
It is true that without warehousing and logistics services all over the United States, they simply cannot provide customers with door-to-door delivery within 48 hours, but it doesn’t matter, because warehousing and logistics are dead, and there will be one after all!
In this case, the more exclusive brands online, the stronger the brand effect!
When people all over the world know that Amazon can buy everything, other competitors will have no room to survive. Next, as long as the warehousing and logistics can keep up, the entire company can take off!
After that, under the monopoly market, merchants are forced to choose between the two.
As for what makes the world easy to do business?
Doesn’t exist, okay!
"Yes, but it must be offline first." Roland thought for a while, and finally decided to help Amazon build the brand.
"Oh~Thank you~"
However, just when he wanted to express his gratitude to Roland, Roland said again: "Don't worry, I haven't finished yet."
"I now hold 18.35% of Amazon's shares, but I only took one board seat."
"You can nominate an outside director, and I will ask for a reorganization." Jeff Bezos said without thinking.
"two."
Roland was not satisfied, "Now there are five members on the board of directors, if it expands to seven, I will take three, and you can figure out the remaining four."
"Okay." Jeff Bezos smiled and stretched out his hand, "If you can let Yahoo, MSN, and Google advertise on Amazon all the year round, and keep eBay from being exposed, then you can have four seats..."
Compared with the hesitation of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Jeff Bezos is extremely refreshing.
Because he knows how much benefit a monopoly can bring!
In the era when whoever controls the market has the right to speak, Roland, who has maintained a good relationship with Microsoft, is the father!
...
And after Jeff Bezos left, Roland's **** still couldn't get up from the sofa.
Because Steve Jobs is at it again.
Unlike Steven Spielberg who talked about the reorganization of DreamWorks, Sergey Brin and Larry Page who talked about Google's expansion, and Jeff Bezos who talked about Amazon's brand effect, Steve Jobs Talking to Roland, it is a real product.
“SoundJamMP has accepted our offer and expects to complete the merger this month.”
"After the merger, we will change the name of SoundJamMP to iTunes, which is expected to be announced to the world early next year."
"Similarly, Toshiba's 1.8-inch small hard drive patent is also quite suitable for our idea, so we need to spend a lot of money."
"If there are no accidents, you will be able to see our iPod at the end of next year. For things like online music stores, we need to see the sales of iPods before setting a date."
Although Steve Jobs criticized Microsoft for not having a core industry before, Apple itself is actually an assembly plant.
It's just that Microsoft only assembles software, while Apple is both hard and soft.
The core technology does exist, but more products are bought.
But this is easy to understand. After all, self-developed, costly and labor-intensive, the acquisition of ready-made, the greatest benefit.
...
After sending off Steve Jobs, it was already noon.
When Roland came out of the meeting room, he felt how tiring it was to go to work for a day.
Yes, they did sit in the conference room and finish their work, but...
The topic of conversation is to determine the life and death of a company, and the employment of tens of thousands of people!
At the same time, Roland finally understood why the rich people like to flaunt themselves.
"We entered the XX field to benefit mankind. According to the current market, we will create XX jobs."
After saying this, the thief has a sense of accomplishment!
In this case, every decision of the capitalists is to save the world!
Well, he himself thinks this is false...
Just when Roland thought that after experiencing DreamWorks, Google, Amazon and Apple, he could finally take a break, at noon, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the current chairman of Gilead suddenly jumped out and wanted to talk to Roland eat a meal.
Such a situation made Roland, who had just embraced his wife, a little helpless.
Though he wanted to say no, Kate kissed him on the cheek and pushed him out the door.
"Go, go, it's okay, just eat with my mother and the others."
"You're only busy for one day a year, don't try to be lazy!"
The thoughtful words made Roland sigh, because Kate knew how difficult it was to get these guys together.
Now, the guys who are still on the island have their own selfish motives.
Roland is discussing business with his own people, while other capitals are also having private chats elsewhere.
To put it bluntly, they came to attend the wedding, but to put it bluntly, they came to attend the private meeting after the wedding.
And after Roland met them, the old man who once posed to Roland also showed a kind smile, and said without any concealment: "The recent series of turmoil has surprised us deeply. If we had known that you were one of us, then I didn't guard against you last time."
"I'm really sorry!"
Smiling like a cunning fox, Roland waved his hand, "It's okay, it's my fault that I didn't make it clear."
Before the words fell, Arnold Schwarzenegger had already taken over, "No, I didn't explain clearly."
If outsiders see this humble scene, they will definitely suspect that the warlords in the Pentagon have taken the wrong medicine, but for the three people present, this is normal. After all, Henry Rumsfeld is just a card in the hands of GM. .
And Roland...
It's a player!
After a brief chat, the old man went straight to the topic.
He came back this time to thank Roland for his investment in Gilead last year, to thank him for his contribution to the smooth filming of "Black Hawk Down", and to help his new master sponsor him.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThe first two are actually bullshit, the most important one is the third, and after learning that the current governor of Texas has officially announced his election, Roland slapped the table and said directly: "Okay, I'll donate 10 million first. "
"If there is any problem, you can call me directly."
"Thank you so much!" Henry Rumsfeld smiled brightly.
Although campaign donations are basically capped at 2 million, the remaining money can be donated to the designated account!
Donations are honest donations. In order to ensure the openness and transparency of these funds, the law has strict requirements on these funds. They are earmarked for special purposes and are available for inspection at any time. If you want to embezzle them, you will be dragged by your competitors. Don't let it go!
But the problem is that the apparent money is enough to refuel the candidate’s plane. If you really use that money to run for office, then it’s okay!
You can't even pull up the banner!
Ever since, the loophole came.
There are so many expenses during the campaign, shouldn’t we just donate one by one?
I see that your plane is out of fuel, so I will donate some fuel money to you.
Although the money will be used for the campaign, it does not need to go to the campaign account!
I'm just worried that your plane will fall from the sky when it's full of fuel, so I sponsor a gas money!
As for the law?
And what law says I can't send oil to campaigners?
Can't control me at all!
In this way, I can donate as much as the security fee when traveling, as small as the daily meal allowance!
With so many lists, no one can check whether the money was actually used.
Or in other words, no one is clean!
What's more, donate money directly in the form of royalties!
Like the Zipperton couple, they don’t accept donations on the surface, but aren’t all the books written by the woman booked out?
Like Ao Guanhai and his wife, they don’t accept sponsorship on the surface, but after retirement, Hollywood, which he strongly supported, invited him to make a movie!
So, as long as you are willing to donate, people will definitely receive it.
Not only that, the more you donate, the more you will be tilted in the future.
For example, Oracle, as a second-tier company in Silicon Valley, how did he participate in the TikTok bidding?
Isn’t that because Larry Ellison not only donates the most to Comrade Jianguo, but also supports Comrade Jianguo’s team!
In this way, let alone donate 10 million to the governor of Texas, even if it is 100 million, Roland will not blink.
When the other party asks, he will give money!
Because as long as the bearded man takes his medicine on time, next year, he will be able to double! Tenfold! Hundred times! Take it back a thousandfold!
This is what Roland said!
who! All! bar! No! live!
Note: ①Amazon grows by absorbing industrial blood. In 2004, the online sales of Toys R Us had surpassed that of stores, but Toys R Us did not have so many goods online. After investigation, they found out that although Amazon had signed an exclusive agreement with them, the It still agrees with third-party sellers to sell their goods on Amazon, so a very magical situation arises. After buyers enjoy the delivery convenience of an exclusive agreement, even if the franchised store is out of stock, they will buy third-party sellers on Amazon. , instead of going to the store, and would rather wait forty-eight hours longer, so Toys R Us experienced a situation where offline costs remained unchanged and revenue dropped sharply. bankruptcy. ②The same is true for Borders Group. Those with physical stores were sucked to death by Amazon. In 2007, they had to cancel the contract even with liquidated damages, but it was too late to rebuild online sales. ③A lot of reports said that in January 2001, Apple lost 195 million, which was the first loss after Jobs returned, and then Jobs showed his power to save the world, but Apple’s loss was caused by the acquisition of the company and patents that made the iPod yes! It was clearly written in the financial report, but it turned out to be the motivation for the marketing account to know the shame and be brave? ④The lines of Zipperton and Aoguanhai have been exposed countless times, and Jianguo and Oracle are the news of Xinhua News Agency this month, or in other words, Oracle spent a lot of money on the two comrades Guanhai and Jianguo, The specific reason involves the 9.3 billion century lawsuit with Google.
(end of this chapter)
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