Chapter 1310

When receiving Qiu's smokeless call, Wu Tao was receiving Ivanka from afar at the president's office.

Through active contact with Netflix and research with blockbuster, its biggest competitor, Ivanka came to interview Wu Tao with his own views.

"Dear Wu, compared with the acquisition of Naifei in 2000, now may not be a good time. Although Naifei is still losing money this year, the founders reed Hastings and mark Randolph are very confident in Naifei's prospects, so they are not interested in our offer. "

The twists and turns of acquiring an Internet company with predictable growth value were expected by Wu Tao.

However, the information provided by Ivanka was unknown to him, "Wu, you know, there is a DVD rental company blockbuster similar to Naifei in the United States."

"... this company, which is mainly engaged in offline DVD rental chain, has 20 million registered users and an annual revenue of more than 400 million US dollars."

Wu Tao shook his head, "the main offline DVD rental business is not one of my optimistic contents. And Ivanka, you know, companies with such a large user base are much more difficult to acquire than Naifei, which has only 200000 subscribers. "

"I understand, Wu." Ivanka held his chest, gave himself more confidence and said, "but this is not what I want to say. I just found some interesting things about blockbuster when collecting the data of negotiations with Naifei."

"Oh?" This immediately aroused Wu Tao's interest, sipped his coffee and said with great interest, "go on, I'm all ears."

Ivanka's deep eyes showed a confident smile, "I found blockbuster carrying a huge debt, at least no less than $1 billion! This constrains the management of blockbuster. Many emerging decisions and attempts often end without success and cannot be carried out continuously. "

"... among them, I found that blockbuster withdrew from the attempt to play DVD video online through the network at the beginning of 2000. But because of imperfect technology and the spread of the Internet bubble, it finally ended.

Wu Tao's eyes lit up. This is exactly what he wants!

After receiving the information from Ivanka, Wu Tao turned it over and finally confirmed it. Yes, it's this technology.

I just turned my head and asked, "so, Ivanka, do you get anything from the research on Naifei?"

After all, Netflix will launch the business of playing DVD content online in 2007. According to the cycle of technology paving and preparation, it is entirely possible to enter the preparatory stage at this moment.

But Ivanka shook his head. "No, Wu. As far as I know, Netflix's current technology R & D layout should focus on the preference screening and statistics of online users renting DVDs, and then push relevant DVD movies to users accordingly. "

This is big data push.

Wu Tao nodded secretly. At present, it seems that the research on big data push is indeed more promising and adaptive than the technology of playing DVD movies online.

So it's reasonable for reed and mark to do so.

But this is not so friendly to his goal of acquiring Naifei.

If Netflix, after the acquisition at a cost, still follows the development route of its previous life and did not launch its online broadcasting business until 2007, it is somewhat inconsistent with its original intention.

After many thoughts lingered in his mind for a moment, Wu Tao threw the question to Ivanka and said, "what are you going to do, Ivanka?"

At least so far, Wu Tao is very satisfied with Ivanka's performance of "more investigation and more reporting".

After all, if Molly and panis were to do it, I'm afraid they would have smashed Naifei down with money without saying a word.

According to Naifei's current market value of more than $2 billion and still in the rising period, I'm afraid we can't get it without $3 billion.

Although Wu Tao is not short of this money, considering the ultimate goal of the acquisition of this trip: Streaming Media Technology for network broadcasting, it may not be worth it.

In this regard, Ivanka is obviously ready.

"If your goal is the online playback technology of video and audio content, we can contact blockbuster creditors to put pressure on blockbuster, and then take some circuitous strategies to buy the property rights of this part of the content at a low price."

"... or we can directly tap talents who have done this part of technology research and development. Some of them left their jobs one after another in 2001, and now they have almost passed the restriction period of non competition. What's more, whether blockbuster implemented the non competition regulations for these talents at the beginning may not be. "

I thought of both ideas.

Indeed, it deserves to be the daughter of the future president.

Wu Tao did not hesitate his appreciation and said, "I agree with your idea, Ivanka. However, I suggest a two pronged approach to ensure that everything is safe. On the premise of stabilizing these technicians, negotiate with blockbuster. "

"... in addition, since you want to follow the idea of establishing a technical team and a new company, I suggest you pay attention to the technical talents in user habits, data mining and directional push algorithms."

"... you can divide the work properly with Hu Ning. I look forward to your good news! "

"In that case," Ivanka immediately got up and said, "I'll sort out a record of today's meeting and send it to you later. I'm going to take a later flight back to the United States tonight."

Wu Tao timely expressed his concern and said, "will that be too tired, Ivanka? Don't try so hard, I'll be distressed. "

Ivanka's beautiful eyes were shining. "I'm glad to hear that, Wu. But in fact, such travel density is nothing to me who has been a supermodel. "

Sure enough, she is a hard-working American girl.

After seeing off Ivanka, Wu Tao returned to the president's office and began to ponder the phone call from Qiu smokeless.

He probably knows why Netease Ding shisan always turns around to find himself.

To be honest, Internet companies that really survive the Internet bubble have entered a delicate period.

The arrival of this period is not sudden and for no reason.

In fact, in the memory of some articles about the development of the network era, we can even find some clues about the innovation of network technology.

For example, Web2.0 technology, such as streaming media playing technology, as well as the user viewing habit research and DVD push technology that Naifei can turn losses into profits

Most of the Internet companies that survived this period and developed suddenly have made use of these technologies intentionally or unintentionally.

After thinking about it, Wu Tao dialed Xiao Zixia's phone and learned that Ding shisan had also looked for her more or less.

"... well, in your personal capacity, invite Lao Ding to Jinling for a chat. By the way, inform brother Yang. If it's convenient, we'll get together in a small circle. "

Xiao Zixia thought, "boss, if you're not in a hurry, take advantage of my opportunity to get married and inform them."

This is a good opportunity.

Wu Tao nodded, smiled and said, "I'm not in a hurry anyway. You can do it."