Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

Hearing Xu Yiyang's question, Wu Zongxian shook his head.

Xu Yiyang smiled slightly and said: "The most taboo is to invest in a company whose founder works part-time. You are a star yourself and a well-known host. Your career center is entirely on your personal development, and only a small part of your energy is on the record company. , There is no guarantee for me to invest in you in this situation, if your own career develops well and you gradually give up on the record company, wouldn't my money be in vain?"

Wu Zong thought about it now, and what Xu Yiyang said was indeed reasonable.

However, it is really impossible for me to devote myself to a record company now. After all, what I really care about now is my development in the entertainment industry, and I also want to become the top variety show brother in Taiwan.

Just when he didn't know how to explain to Xu Yiyang, Xu Yiyang waved his hand and said directly: "How about this, brother now, I will give you three million dollars to buy your company wholly."

Wu Zongxian was so excited that he asked, "Three million dollars? Cash?"

"Yes." Xu Yiyang nodded: "Three million in cash, but I will pay you in two. First, I will give you 1.5 million for the acquisition, and you will continue to help me run the company for two years. After two years, I will give you Your remaining one and a half million."

As he said that, Xu Yiyang said again: "Of course, I won't let you do it for nothing. In the past two years, you have spared a small amount of energy to manage the record company as you did before. I will give you a salary of 500,000 U.S. dollars per year, that is to say, In two years, you can get four million dollars."

The entertainment industry in 2000 was far less exaggerated than later generations.

This is not the era when a big coffee can earn millions of dollars just by participating in an event.

Today's artists have to be exploited by their managers and brokerage companies, just like Nicholas Tse. Although it is very popular now, a brand's endorsement fee is 2 million a year, but not necessarily a tenth of it actually goes to his own pocket.

Although Wu Zongxian's current coffee status is not low, this buddy is not an idol, so his main income is still from variety shows, which is not as good as he imagined.

As for record companies, they haven't really made a profit yet.

Four million dollars in two years is already a huge sum of money for him.

Moreover, it far exceeded his inner expectations.

If Xu Yiyang gave him two million dollars, he would sell Alpha Music by gritting his teeth.

So, after thinking for a while, he said to Xu Yiyang: "Mr. Xu, if this is the case, then follow what you said!"

Xu Yiyang said: "Well, let's sign a framework agreement first. You come to Zhonghai to find me in April, and I will sign a formal contract with you. But when the time comes, I hope you will bring the singers signed by your company with you. I want Meet them."

Hearing that it will be until April, Wu Zong is somewhat disappointed.

He thought he could get $1.5 million now.

However, he didn't know that Xu Yiyang's current money is all in the stock market. Giving him 1.5 million now would be equivalent to missing the benefits brought by the 1.5 million, and he would lose at least another 1.5 million. One hundred thousand to two million dollars.

Therefore, it is natural to wait for Nvidia's market to pass, or most of the market to pass, and then cash it out to him.

Wu Zongxian is mainly worried about whether there will be any twists and turns in this matter in a month's time.

But he really couldn't say anything, it was nothing more than waiting an extra month, which was not a big deal to him.

After thinking about it carefully, he was no longer worried that Xu Yiyang was playing tricks on him. After all, he heard that he was Li Zekai's guest, and the second young master of the Li family's face is here.

Xu Yiyang said to him: "The reason why I have to wait until April is because I plan to go back to the mainland to register a music company first, and then use that company as the main body to acquire your Alpha Music. into a company."

Wu Zongxian suddenly realized, and immediately said: "No problem, no problem, contact me anytime when you are done, and I will take Alpha's artists to Zhonghai to meet you.

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Xu Yiyang nodded, Fang Junhui said: "Junhui, go through the content of the agreement with brother Xian, if there is no problem, then sign the framework agreement first.

A framework agreement is to sign a document on the intention first. After the agreement is signed, everyone will discuss the more specific details, and then complete the formal agreement.

Wu Zongxian was also straightforward and directly signed his name on the agreement.

After signing, he has already started planning how to spend the four million dollars.

Prices are very low now, and the purchasing power of 4 million US dollars is quite astonishing. You can buy a luxury villa in Hong Kong, and you can buy two in Taipei!

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In Xu Yiyang's eyes, CRBT is a big business that makes money lying around.

As long as the technical problems are solved and the copyright of the song is solved, the rest is just lying down and waiting for the money.

In two years, there will be 100-200 million mobile phone users in China, at least tens of millions of people will use CRBT, and the monthly CRBT information fee will be at least 100-200 million.

A year is two or three billion yuan.

Two or three billion, how much can I divide?

With the current sharing mechanism of China Telecom, that is, China Mobile, which has not yet changed its name, to service providers, at least half of it will be divided by itself, with a scale of more than one billion.

How much does it cost per year?

The first big head is copyright.

Hong Kong record companies add up to several million Hong Kong dollars a year;

Domestic record companies estimate that five million yuan will be enough to get it.

If you add it up, it will be more than 10 million yuan a year, less than 15 million yuan.

The second cost is development and operation.

It doesn't take much money to develop it. It's not a technically difficult thing. It's nothing more than developing a website so that users can choose songs and set ringtones on their own. Counting all of this, it's a lot of millions.

The operating cost is not too high. This thing does not need to go out for business, and does not need any additional promotion. It only needs technical personnel to maintain stable operation.

So, add up, the cost of more than 20 million yuan a year.

However, the cost of more than 20 million yuan can leverage more than one billion yuan in profits, which is almost like stealing money.

The carrier business itself is so powerful.

Wait another ten years, when everyone starts to listen to music online with their smartphones, then I will be even happier.

Almost all the copyrights of Chinese songs are in their own hands, which is really making money lying down.

The point is, the people from the record company have no idea how much profit they have given themselves.

It is estimated that on the day when my CRBT went online, these record company bosses who now think they are fools will jump around in the office and scold their mothers.

If the era of smartphones comes and the copyright of music on mobile phones is protected, these record company bosses will probably bang their heads against the wall with regret.

Because, they not only gave themselves the copyright of all the current music phones, but also gave themselves the copyright of all new songs in the next thirty years.

Thinking of the CRBT system, Xu Yiyang immediately thought of Zhang Xiaolong, Liu Mingchao's fellow schoolmate and the future founder of WeChat.

Xu Yiyang wanted to dig Zhang Xiaolong before, but he was not strong enough to do it.

But now you don't have to worry about money. Soon you will have hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. This is really scary.

Now there may be billionaires worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and there may be some in the mainland. However, the worth of these people is calculated based on market value and valuation, and there is a lot of water.

The hundreds of millions of dollars I own will actually lie on the Citibank account at that time, without showing any mountains or revealing anything.

Even rankings like Forbes don't know that there is a young Chinese man who opened an account in Hong Kong with hundreds of millions of dollars in it.

At that time, I will take out some money and buy Zhang Xiaolong's Foxmail, and let him come to work in my company.

If I remember correctly, he will sell Foxmail to Boda in April this year. The announced selling price is 12 million RMB, but it is estimated that there must be some moisture. These days, both the acquirer and the acquiree like to brag. .

For a sale of one million, one would like to blow it up to five million, so as to put gold on everyone's face.

Therefore, Xu Yiyang estimated that the money Zhang Xiaolong would actually get would be seven or eight million at most, and there might even be a part of the shares given by Boda to top up.

What Xu Yiyang thinks is very simple, I will not bargain with you, Zhang Xiaolong, I will pay you 15 million in cash, if you come and work for me for five years, I will give you another 3 million as a basic salary every year.

In other words, if you take your line, you can get 30 million.

He believed that Zhang Xiaolong would not refuse.

So, he called Liu Mingchao and asked him, "Mingchao, what is your fellow school brother Zhang Xiaolong doing now?"

Liu Mingchao said: "I just talked to him on the phone a few days ago. He is now negotiating with two companies that are interested in acquiring Foxmail, and it is said that it is almost finalized."

"Okay." Xu Yiyang said: "You call him and tell him that I am willing to spend 15 million to buy his Foxmail. The cash transaction will be paid in one lump sum, but he must come to Jiayang Technology for five years. If he is interested, let He called me."

Liu Mingchao said in surprise: "Mr. Xu, are you kidding me? 15 million to receive Brother Zhang's Foxmail and let him come to Jiayang Technology?"

"Yes." Xu Yiyang asked, "What do you think?"

Liu Mingchao said excitedly: "It would be great if Senior Brother Zhang could come! Then we will follow you together!"