Bright Star Road [Entertainment]

"Mr. Li, you should understand that it will cost a lot for Wal-Mart to stand by your side this time, and we will be able to help you more in the future. However, from your cooperation agreement, I don't see any worthwhile We Wal-Mart paid for it." The president of Wal-Mart looked at the cooperation agreement drawn up by Li Wei, and his face turned dark.

Because according to this agreement, Li Wei will only give Wal-Mart about 20% of the shares in the Columbia International Chain Company to be established in the future, which is far beyond Wal-Mart's expectations.Because Wal-Mart recognizes that Li Wei's technology and ideas are indeed very valuable, but this idea can be copied, and this technology is not insurmountable.The reason why Wal-Mart does not want to do it by itself is because it wants to eat a ready-made one, but the price that this way of eating needs to pay makes Wal-Mart feel a heart-wrenching pain.

"If Mr. Li is not sincere, then we forget it."

"Isn't the agreement just for us to negotiate?" Li Wei responded to Wal-Mart's dissatisfaction with a smile, "Actually, if you really think this agreement is unacceptable, I have another plan to choose from. Our Bian can act as a technical support provider to provide you with store technical support and procurement big data support, but the related authorization fees and procurement fees need to be discussed separately. After all, we do not involve direct offline sales, so we do not need to sacrifice Our interests in exchange for other interests. In addition, I also hope that you understand that we do not do exclusive licensing."

In fact, Li Wei has already felt the pressure from the Ministry of Commerce of the federal government and the Congressional Fair Trade Commission, and according to the information disclosed by Li Wei's friends in the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Commerce has already sought the cooperation of the Ministry of Justice, and it is very likely to Li Wei's Columbia Entertainment Group launched an antitrust investigation.Citigroup's anti-monopoly laws are very strict and strict. Even if a settlement agreement can be reached in the end, the price I have to pay is not worth the candle.Therefore, what Li Wei is thinking now is whether to simply provide technical support for offline unattended retail stores, and then focus on online shopping malls, so as to avoid anti-monopoly investigations.

"You don't plan to be directly involved in the offline physical retail industry?" Wal-Mart was taken aback after hearing Li Wei's suggestion.

They were overjoyed at the news at first. After all, the retail industry is already a Red Sea industry, and the consequence of another giant crocodile would be a tragic fight; but then Wal-Mart felt pressured. It means that companies such as Carrefour and Metro also have the same opportunity to get involved in the next-generation chain retail industry, which is not good news.And now Wal-Mart is caught in a dilemma. If it cooperates with Li Wei, it does not have any exclusive advantages; but if it does not cooperate with Li Wei, it is bound to be quickly surpassed by other retail giants, and even forced to go bankrupt. "Mr. Li, I really have an idea."

Seeing the embarrassing expression on Wal-Mart's side, Li Wei suddenly threw out another bait, "If Wal-Mart Group is willing to become a strategic investor of Columbia Group, I can promise that we will give Wal-Mart an exclusive license in the next three years; exclusive license After the deadline, Wal-Mart Group can still enjoy our authorized preferential price. How about this exchange?"

Although the strategic investors in the company will occupy a relatively large shareholding, they often do not require voting rights, or will authorize all or most of their voting rights to the actual controller.Therefore, most of the time, they are actually uncles hired by the company with money.But these old men need to come forward when the company encounters some troubles.For example, when a company encounters difficulties or harassment in a certain country or region, the strategic investor from the country or region invited by the company will come forward to communicate, saying that this company is under my cover, and don’t come to the company in the future.In addition, when the company encounters a hostile takeover, they will also act as white knights to acquire the company before the malicious party, so as to avoid losing control of the company.

Li Wei introduced Citigroup and General Motors Group as strategic investors at Columbia Entertainment Group, but generally speaking, Citigroup's perception of large companies is that the more shareholders the better, the more shares that enter the circulation field, the better.Of course, Li Wei would not be so stupid as to lose the controlling stake in the company, but it is also necessary to introduce strategic investors, so Li Wei took a fancy to Wal-Mart again.

"Becoming a strategic investor of Columbia Entertainment Group?" The president of Wal-Mart fell into deep thought.

Wal-Mart and Columbia Entertainment Group do not have any conflicts of interest, so there is no problem in becoming a strategic partner of Columbia Entertainment Group.Moreover, Wal-Mart is actually one of the main channels for offline entertainment products, so the introduction of Wal-Mart to Columbia Entertainment Group is also helpful for Columbia Entertainment Group to lay down offline physical sales channels.Although the president of Wal-Mart felt that Columbia Entertainment Group had taken advantage of it, he was moved by the three-year exclusive license and future preferential rights.

"Five years of exclusive authorization, after the end of the exclusive authorization, Wal-Mart's authorization fee must be the lowest among all future authorized customers."

"You guys are really greedy." Li Wei teased, "Three years of exclusive authorization, and another two years of priority experience. You can decide whether to use our latest product within the next two years after the exclusive authorization expires. Trial version. As for the price, I can't promise the lowest price, I can only guarantee you the best price under the same circumstances."

The president thought for a while, and finally said: "I will arrange legal personnel to contact you as soon as possible, I wish us a happy cooperation!"

After negotiating with the people from Wal-Mart, Li Wei's mood immediately improved a lot.However, his chief secretary, Caroline, said that the next group of visitors was already waiting for Li Wei in the meeting room.Li Wei thought for a while, and it should be the entrepreneurial team introduced by Zhou Xiao.So after Li Wei asked clearly, he immediately left for the meeting room.The conference rooms in the Emerald Palace are actually used as living rooms, and each living room has its own characteristics.For example, the meeting room where the e-sports media team met this time was called the "Porcelain Hall", because Zhou Xiao collected a lot of famous Chinese porcelain or imitation porcelain here.Although less than one-third of the real antique porcelain in the Porcelain Hall, the rest of the imitation porcelain is also well-made vintage famous porcelain, and the price is very expensive if it is really put on the market.But now this group of e-sports media people are being shocked by Li Wei and Zhou Xiao's generous writing, sitting quietly in their chairs, not daring to move.

Just after they waited for a while, Li Wei finally appeared in the Porcelain Hall.He first apologized and said: "Sorry, the last meeting just took a long time, and I was late unexpectedly. I am very glad that you can come to Emerald Island for vacation, and hope that the service of the sailing club can satisfy you. I heard that your entrepreneurial team I just completed the A round of financing, and you must have expectations for the future. Let me first introduce my advantages. The most popular MOBA, FPS, and fighting games in the world are all produced by my company. At the same time, our company is also involved in racing. , racing and real-time strategy games. Therefore, I have enough game product lines to support your development of e-sports events. At the same time, I also have program production and packaging promotion resources. Finally, and most importantly, I have the current online The largest video website and live broadcast platform on the Internet, and I also own cable TV and satellite TV service providers. And, you should also know that I have begun to deploy traditional terrestrial wireless TV, although they have no strength to compete for the top three positions for the time being, But what does it mean to be a full-fledged TV network. What I want to know is, are you willing to join?"

After Li Wei revealed a series of advantages of his own, all he heard was that the entrepreneurial team was stunned.Games suitable for e-sports events are generally fighting and shooting games, after all, they are inherently competitive with these two games.Secondly, with the changes in gameplay and the interest of players, real-time strategy games (such as StarCraft 2, Warcraft 3) and MOBA (such as DOTA and LOL) have also become popular e-sports projects.Finally, there are e-sports games that ordinary people like racing and racing.And just in this plane, Li Wei's game company has such a product line.If you can get the full support of Li Wei Game Company, even if you do international competitions, there will be no problem.More importantly, Li Wei has his own production company and broadcasting platform. It can be said that Li Wei can do events by himself, but he chooses to cooperate with this entrepreneurial team.However, Brother Sun, who is in charge of the team, heard the implication. He asked, "Why did we join your company? Instead of you injecting capital into our team?"

"First, you are not a complete team yet. Strictly speaking, you are just equivalent to the planning department of a company, and your planning department does not have the execution ability that I am particularly satisfied with. Second, if I need to do e-sports If so, all I need is a core planning team. If you don’t want to join me, I can spend money to go to other companies or even your team to poach people.” Moderate your tone, "Your only advantage is that you have already matured, and I just need to put you into my team."

"Mr. Li's words are really impolite." Brother Sun said with a wry smile.However, he also knew that Li Wei's words were correct. If Li Wei wanted to set up an e-sports planning company, what he needed was only a core team.Although this team is said to be rare, as long as Li Wei is willing to spend money, it will be a waste of time to recruit and run the team.But once this team matures and exerts its strength, it will be enough to beat all the current e-sports teams to the ground.It can be said that my team will die early or die late.Thinking of this, Brother Sun asked, "Mr. Li, we have already completed the A round of financing. If our team is suddenly acquired as a whole, how should we deal with liquidated damages? Also, what kind of future will the new company leave us?" Position?"

When Li Wei heard that he didn't raise his salary, he gave them a high look in his heart.After all, the treatment of Li Wei's company is one of the best. As long as the position is up, is it still afraid that there will be no money?So Li Wei explained: "Of course I will pay the liquidated damages for you. Don't worry, if they pester you, my lawyer team is not a vegetarian. In the future e-sports management company, I will give you a senior vice president and One chief operating officer, two senior management positions; in addition, your team will form the operation department, and I will leave the senior manager position of the department to you. If someone in your team is not suitable for the operation position, I will arrange him to try in other departments But if he still doesn’t meet our assessment standards, I can only dismiss him according to the standard procedure.”

Brother Sun thought for a while, two senior management positions and one mid-level management position were already very cost-effective, so he nodded.