America's Road to Fame

Chapter 331 Meta Cloud

The so-called "Gentle Township is a Tomb of Heroes", William Chen also somewhat felt this meaning.

After he met Nozomi Sasaki, even in this kind of thing now, the two of them can't really... He still felt extremely tender in his heart, and almost wanted to spend one more day with her, and put aside the Netflix matter first .

Of course, although it is impossible, it is not impossible, and I don’t know that Nozomi Sasaki’s mother taught her something, she still let William Chen learn the knowledge in other ways, but in the end, Nozomi Sasaki had some rare pregnancy reactions ...

It seems that Hastings is really concerned about Netflix's acquisition of [-]th Century MGM. After knowing that William Chen has arrived in Los Angeles, he came here from Silicon Valley overnight. In this villa, William Chen saw him.

Hastings seeks to acquire [-]th Century MGM through Netflix, the purpose is to have a certain amount of control over [-]th Century MGM, so that he can use this company to customize Netflix's self-produced dramas , and make [-]th Century MGM content available to them.

However, for Chen William, the most important thing is that Netflix must be included in the system of Meta Entertainment Media Company, which is the prerequisite for Netflix to acquire [-]th Century MGM.

William Chen discussed these issues with Hastings all afternoon, except that Hastings agreed to include Netflix in the system of Meta Entertainment and Media Company under the condition of guaranteeing his relatively independent management rights to Netflix. In addition, he also told William Chen a lot of thoughts on the future management of Netflix. In the end, these words moved William Chen and agreed to let Hastings try to use Netflix to acquire [-]th Century MGM.

But before that, Hastings still needs to do one thing, and that is to convince the current CEO of MGM Pictures in the [-]th Century-Jim Gianlopoulos.

This is not easy. After all, the current size of [-]th Century MGM is far larger than that of Netflix, which is more than ten times that of the latter. Moreover, during this period of time, Jim has made great contributions to [-]th Century MGM. The management of the film industry is also very effective. Under his leadership, [-]th Century MGM is gradually shortening the distance with Disney.

Therefore, under such circumstances, it will definitely not be easy for Jim Gianlopoulos to agree to the behemoth of MGM Pictures in the [-]th century to be acquired by such a small rising star as Netflix.

In fact, if possible, William Chen would prefer Netflix to develop independently, just like Spotify, another streaming media company he acquired. Some EMI Music merged, but still maintained independent operations.

In this way, on Spotify, there will not only be the content of EMI Music - although EMI Music has become the world's largest record company through acquisitions, there will also be music from other companies, including Universal Music, Sony Music and other labels .

This makes Spotify the music streaming company with the most complete content, and its share in the entire music market is also increasing steadily.

However, each company has its own unique situation. Netflix is ​​still different from Spotify. In Spotify, even after William Chen completed the holding, he still did not take back the shares that were half-sold and half-given to other music companies. Music companies can benefit from Spotify and will continue to license music copyrights to it.

Netflix, on the other hand, is facing fierce competition from the hulu video playback platform, and the actions of this company are somewhat similar to Spotify. It is also a large Hollywood company that holds hulu shares. Now the largest shareholder is Disney .

They later acquired 30% of Hulu's shares owned by News Corp., allowing them to hold more than 60% of Hulu's shares and becoming the largest shareholder of Hulu. Some Hollywood companies, including the company, will authorize more film and television copyrights to the Hulu platform.

This is very detrimental to Netflix, and this is also the main reason why they are determined to start their own dramas. Therefore, the significance of their acquisition of [-]th Century MGM now is that since other companies’ copyrights are difficult to obtain, at least they have their own copyrights. There should be a stable copyright, and there should be a company that produces the most film and television dramas.

William Chen also saw this situation, so he analyzed specific issues and finally agreed to Hastings' attempt to acquire [-]th Century MGM.

But on the side of [-]th Century MGM Pictures, he will not personally persuade CEO Jim Gianlopoulos, after all, the other party is also very capable, and he is a hero of [-]th Century MGM. He will only be in a detached position , to balance the relationship between the companies under his umbrella, he will not personally end up helping Hastings do the work, everything depends on his own persuasion.

On Hastings' side, getting William Chen to nod was considered a success. After bidding farewell to him, he embarked on the journey to [-]th Century MGM with great enthusiasm.

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Next, William Chen temporarily bid farewell to Nozomi Sasaki and went to Silicon Valley.

Meta Technology, the most important work now is not Twitter, not HOLA, nor PayPal, which has just acquired the pair, but the ongoing cloud computing-Meta Cloud.

Cloud computing is being done by Ali in China, and in Silicon Valley, whether it is Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon, they are all doing research in this area.

As for Meta Technology, with the increasing popularity of mobile smartphones, the entire mobile Internet industry is ushering in an explosion for its many software, the number of users is growing rapidly, and more and more data needs to be processed.

Therefore, cloud computing is a strategic requirement for Meta Technology and must be developed.

In order to develop cloud computing projects, Meta Technology is not only maintaining contact with Alibaba Cloud's team at this time, but also poaching a lot of cloud computing technical talents from other companies, including Google and Facebook.

The importance of cloud computing, to give an example, is Siri, which William Chen attaches great importance to in Meta Technology. In the future, Siri will communicate with users in terminals such as smart speakers, mobile smart phones, TVs, and cars, especially smart speakers. Can a small speaker complete such a complex process as password input, recognition, search, and inductive output?
Of course not, the so-called smart speaker will only be a voice input and output carrier in the future. A series of tasks such as search, calculation, and induction in the middle are all connected to the network through the smart speaker and completed on the "cloud".

Therefore, once Meta Technology's cloud computing research is successful and its own Meta cloud is established, Siri's smart speakers can be realized, and it can start to seize the living room of ordinary families by selling smart speakers.

For a long time, compared with other companies of Meta Technology, such as Twitter, HOLA, etc., Siri has received a lot of support, but it seems that both the number of users and the development of business have lagged behind other projects.

Although Chen William understands that Siri's potential is in the future, because there is not much to say about it.But the Siri company itself, in comparison, secretly hopes that it will be able to exert its strength as soon as possible.

Siri's research direction originally includes artificial intelligence, and cloud computing is also related to it. Therefore, Siri is the party that pays the most attention to the cloud computing project established by the Meta Research Center.

The current CEO of Meta Technology is Sundar Pichai. In fact, he was the CEO of Meta Technology at that time. It was not too long since he took office from Twitter. Therefore, he was chosen as the CEO of Meta Technology. William Chen made this decision at the time. Decisions are not easy.

After all, other companies, whether they are founders or executives, have older qualifications than Sundar in Meta Technology, so this Sundar with newer qualifications can secure the position of CEO of Meta Technology and get other people Is it approved?

In this regard, William Chen was also uncertain about things at the beginning, but now it seems that he has done a good job, many things have been implemented smoothly, and Meta Technology's various businesses have grown very satisfactorily. , leaving many competitors behind.

In particular, HOLA has performed very well. Compared with the Asian market, which needs to be promoted through local joint ventures, HOLA in Europe and the United States is simply meeting gods and killing gods and Buddhas. There is no rival at all, even if it is Those who wanted to imitate it were quickly thrown away and disappeared under HOLA's fast running.

(End of this chapter)