Chapter 1248

"It's hard to get a ticket for two Berlin concerts of aplus. This music genius has been involved in pop songs, movie soundtracks and Symphonies for eight years. In fact, only two official studio albums have been released. American fans have been waiting hard, but he seems to be completely immersed in the global popularity of the World Cup theme song, the cup of life..."

In late September, song Ya waved and blew kisses to his fans, saying goodbye to Germany and leaving for ER Mao. The American reporter said in the picture: "as for the Dongting scandal..."

"TA."

Barry Diller turned off the TV. "Please sit down."

"Yes, Mr. Diller."

Two a + wine executives, who are also former senior officials of sigram, just sat down respectfully, then slightly got up to catch the wine glasses handed by the tycoon himself.

"Make yourself at home. I've been friends with the Edgars for many years." Barry Diller said.

"We know."

"Of course."

The two of them should be in chorus.

"Did aplus inform you of the specific business of coming to see me?" Barry Diller sat down at the boss's table and asked.

"Yes, we want to try to solve the monopoly problem with sigram."

Balidile: "OK, what's going on? Aplus says your wine is being deliberately suppressed by sigram with channel energy? "

"It's not that serious. Sigram refuses to launch our new red and white wine here, but that's understandable. The United States itself is a grape producing area. Both relevant associations and local wine merchants are very resistant to new wine brands from China. We and sigram are under great pressure, and the product itself has no price advantage..."

The other party replied: "vodka product line has a good cooperation, and has been in normal distribution."

Barry Diller: "is that grey goose vodka? You've had a lawsuit with the French? It's very common in the market. "

"Yes."

Balidile: what about the production of red and white wine

"Because we can't open up the international market and the output is not high, it's all digested in China. In fact, it's sold fairly well."

Barry Diller took a pen and paused on the table. "Aplus told me that you had a long appointment with sigram while he was in a coma..."

"Er..." The two old men looked at each other and said, "Mr. Diller, you know, we have worked for the Bronfman family for decades, and cooperation with sigram has always been the first choice. This has been very clear since we accepted the employment of Mr. aplus Otherwise we won't work for a new winemaker. "

"It was a win-win thing, and the decision was made by Mr. Ritzer, President of a + wine."

"We just didn't expect that he would have a conflict with little Edgar later."

"We know that little Edgar later secretly issued a similar order to suppress sigram, which is very frustrating. We didn't expect We went to his father, sold out the old face and begged, but we can only keep the vodka product line that we have cooperated with for many years. "

"Little Edgar didn't like it and seldom talked about the operation of the wine business. We had quarreled with him when we were in sigram before Many times, perhaps because of this, he is not happy to see the a + liquor industry continue to develop at a high speed. "

"Of course, he is a very good child, and the transformation of the entertainment industry is also very successful. It's just a matter of interest."

"Yes, little Edgar, we grew up watching him."

"Compared with his brothers and sisters, it's not like he came out of a family."

"The boss is good at everything, but he's too indulgent with the children. Since childhood..."

"In short, it's perfectly right to put the property in little Edgar's hands."

Two old men, you and I can't stop nagging each other.

It's interesting that the boss in their words still doesn't mean aplus, but old Bronfman. When they think of that old fox Barry Diller grinned bitterly. "What about aplus? What do you think of aplus? "

"He's excellent, of course."

"Yes, there is a kind of Chicago old-fashioned businessman's temperament, sharp as a knife, and a bit like the boss when he was young..."

"He has a wild animal instinct for making money."

"And know what young people like now It's very important. "

The two old men praised again and again.

"According to your description, he could even catch up with Morgan and Rockefeller." Barry Diller said on purpose.

"No, no, that's impossible."

The two old men laughed, "there are still many shortcomings. He is not mature enough. He has the common faults of most young people, such as recklessness, often having unnecessary arguments with people, and lack of patience."

"Yes, he has to endure long-term boring work to run traditional industries, which he can't do at all. After the promotion of grey goose vodka, a key product, he basically forgot about the liquor business except for reading the report regularly. There is also the clothing business. I don't seem to have much to do with it. "

"Crossover genius can't concentrate because of its wide range of interests. Play this today and play that tomorrow.""Yes, half of studying abroad for a concert..."

"When I'm tired of pop music, I'm starting to do Gospel chorus again."

"And the women..."

"We know that he has made most of his fortune in the stock market in recent years. He has made hundreds of millions and billions of easy fast money. It's really unnecessary for him to continue to focus on clothes and wine. He is also hardworking and energetic. I heard that he often works for a long time. We just feel a little pity..."

"Of course, we are both old brains. Maybe we can't keep up with the times, ha ha..."

Barry Diller smiles, squints and listens silently. He outlines in his mind the character portrait of aplus that has not been studied in depth before and tries to figure it out.

Doug Morris was suddenly threatened by the other party in the conference call that day, but this made him and David Geffen acutely grasp his real psychology, that is, he was not very confident in the mutual injury with little brown man. He speculated that little brown man might have caught him behind his unreasonable request of merging a + records and defjam records If you don't, you won't say to Doug Morris, "I never accept blackmail.".

Because I know very well that little Bronfman actually says that 99% of the time.

But if you put yourself in the position and let anyone face the pressure of the Bronfman family, his heart will at least be empty. Even if he is not empty, he will certainly be empty old. Otherwise, he is a completely irrational lunatic and does not deserve to earn three billion dollars.

It's all the same. Why not?

Aplus, the youngest self-made billionaire, must have a pile of dirt under his bright appearance

As long as the conditions are right, aplus is willing to compromise. David Geffen and himself have found this point at the same time. The two three billion tycoons are unconnected with each other in their tangled business. There are plenty of opportunities to make money.

"Er, Mr. Diller, I just said this to you because the boss took care of us. I hope the words just now won't be spread out..." The two old men are finished complaining.

The boss is still referring to old Bronfman.

"Of course not. Edgar and I just talked, and he agreed with me that business is business, and it's not good for both sides that they have been deadlocked with aplus." Barry Diller replied.

"Little Edgar's there..."

"He agreed, too."

"Really?" The two old men looked happy, but they immediately showed a little disbelief.

"Yes, he was too busy. I advised him to take a good holiday when he came back from Washington, but he flew to Xiangjiang again and again. In a word, in terms of transaction details, you talk to me about a certain stage first, and I'll talk to him later. "

At the global music headquarters in Los Angeles, "has the boss been to Xiangjiang?" President Doug Morris asked his staff.

"Just arrived at the hotel, now should be resting, jet lag."

“OK。”

He put down his hand to the landline. At present, the company has entered the next stage of integration of polychrome records, which is to straighten out some of its brands with complicated equity structure, streamline management and save costs, as well as various internal mergers. In order to go on the market as scheduled, polychrome has blown up a lot of bubbles Don't break it in your own hands.

Naturally, he is very busy. His boss, little Bronfman, seems calm on the surface, but he should be very anxious. As soon as he promised to let aplus go, he hurried to Asia to put out the fire. Because he didn't use Norman Zheng, the former senior manager of baolijin, to continue to manage the region, he made a lot of mistakes recently.

However, Barry Diller, David Geffen and himself all know the character of the three rich generations very well. No one can be sure whether he will change his mind when he comes back from Asia. Therefore, at least they have the same interests in reaching an agreement with aplus as soon as possible.

Because of the angry threat of aplus to themselves, Barry Diller and David Geffen, two old foxes, discovered that aplus was actually willing to disconnect. They realized the "business opportunity" and saw it in their eyes, but they didn't mean to poke it out.

Of course, you can't let the transaction price go, otherwise if the rich three generations come back and regret it, you will have to carry the pot.

"Alas

He can't help sighing. He probably wants to carry the pot. That's the character of three generations of rich bosses. Once aplus is successfully decoupled from globegroup, it will be a fierce tiger. The diamond money printing machine of the new special film project will start again. At that time, the media will stir up a little fire and say some strange things about the boss

We shouldn't sign him, we shouldn't buy a + records, we shouldn't let him go, we didn't finish the task of continuing to suppress him

Then it must be me who was pointed at by the nose by the boss of the third generation of rich

But he can't help it. It's better to take out the money printing machine and replace it with a pen of cash when it's left at home. In addition, after it's released, the five major record companies will join hands to block it

In fact, Barry Diller has no plan to enter the record industry, and his so-called friends are also very suspicious. Only he and himself know this. The old liar should not be disclosed to David Geffen.I hope that aplus can't afford any trouble after leaving. At least in the record industry, we can't afford any trouble. As for the film project, it doesn't belong to us.

"I've heard rumors that the FTC will get a new grant next year to deal with our old cases."

His subordinates observe what he says and what he looks like, and report when his facial expression turns soft.

"What old case?" He asked.

"It was the monopoly case of that year, the resale price of CD was maintained, and six defendants were involved."

The man replied.

"Ha ha..."

After so many years of procrastination, relevant rumors come out at the end of every year. At the beginning, Doug Morris didn't pay much attention to it, but after thinking about it, he frowned and said, "I see. Go and find out who is behind."

If you send them away, he will take a long test alone. Aplus and motura are both dead. In addition, he can control Daniel to some extent now. Maybe he will go crazy after the conference call that day and sell Daniel to speed up the monopoly directly?

That's not good. Daniel was the president of Sony Columbia Records at that time, the initiator of colluding with the CD price alliance, and the first response was the president of Warner records at that time

No, aplus should really be willing to decouple. Today, we all sent the wine business to see Bary Diller.

Is it all just a smoke bomb for his revenge?

Once the monopoly is established, universal music will have to bear at least one-third of the fine after the acquisition of Polaroid

"Tut!"

He hit his mouth, reached for the plane, and stopped in mid air for a long time before dialing.

"Doug!" Daniel's high spirited voice came from the receiver, "my friend."

"You're not my friend, Daniel."

He said coldly, "you're a little noisy..."

Daniel's head was very noisy. He heard men and women laughing, talking loudly, and the sound of wine glasses touching each other. "Can you find a quiet place to talk?"

"Sorry, ha ha, I'm having a party."

Daniel seems a little drunk. "Do you want to talk to the Mars Band for 30 seconds? Leto! Shannon

"No, no, I need to see you."

He knows that Daniel is touting the cross-border rock star Jared Leto recently. Shannon seems to be Jared's brother, Shannon Leto, the band drummer.

"OK, just a moment Go ahead. "

Daniel moved to a quiet place.

"Next year, the Federal Trade Commission will have money for our case again." Although Daniel betrayed himself as chairman of RIAA copyright dispute committee, in this case, both of them are grasshoppers on the same rope.

"I know." Daniel said very relaxed.

"You know? What channel? " Faster than me? Where do you get the resources? He was very strange.

"I just know."

"Aren't you afraid of aplus betraying you in revenge on us?" He didn't expect Daniel to sell the secret and stir up trouble.

"On the contrary, he talked to me about this problem. Doug, that boy has a bottom line in this respect. I was the benefactor who took him out of the Chicago slums at least..."

"Ha ha, put the rest of your life on the bottom line of three billion people? You know a lot of that money is with blood. "

"Don't stir it up, it's no use, Doug. I can be safer because of his protection in this matter. Don't mention that you also enjoy the benefits of my friendship with him." Daniel laughs, "you're welcome."

"When did you talk about it?"

"For a while, before he set out on a global tour?"

"You knew then that the FTC was going to..."

"It's not convenient to disclose."

"Fool! What qualification does aplus have to know so early and protect you in a case that may involve billions of fine? You're really in the candy can of his cold mountain project now! Shelter? This word is really humble. You've been one of the six presidents! Don't let down your guard

Doug Morris angrily scolded a few words, put down the phone, face uncertain continue to test, until the office door was knocked, "come in!"

"Mr. President, I heard a rumor that the FTC It seems that several big companies in the Internet industry are behind it. "

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