Super Tycoon

Many of those who worked on video sharing websites in previous lives achieved success, and many failed. Zhang Yang is very clear about the successful model, as long as he replicates the successful cases in his previous life, he can even add some models of other mobile video apps.

But he must also remember some failure modes to avoid falling into the pit.

In fact, it is not that there are no video sharing websites at this time, such as MSN VIDEO, etc., are also video sharing websites, but in Zhang Yang's view, the business model is too retro.

And in fact, many videos are infringing, but no one has reported them for the time being.

In fact, when many people make a claim, they also look at the dishes. For the same thing, claims against the rich or big companies can often create sky-high prices, especially in the United States.

Once the video sharing website invested by Zhang Yang grows, and it is known that Zhang Yang, a rich man, is behind the scenes, the amount of compensation will definitely make people's jaws drop.

This mode of allowing others to upload videos has two main problems, one is infringement of other people's copyrights. Many people bought CDs or videotapes, and then uploaded and shared the contents, which violated the interests of video distribution companies.

In fact, you will find that when you first start watching many videotapes and CDs, there will be a reminder. For personal or family viewing only, private dissemination of such words is prohibited.

This is to protect the interests of video distribution companies, but in fact many people do not abide by this law.

There are also some people who feel that they have read it, and it is useless. Sharing it with others is also a kind of adult beauty, and they don't feel that they are wrong. When the time comes, would you say that those film and television companies will hold individuals accountable, or the platform?

This is actually easy to solve. What Zhang Yang hopes to create is a short video sharing platform, so setting some restrictions on the length of the video can greatly avoid the appearance of some movie resources.

For example, the uploaded video cannot exceed ten minutes, and no one is willing to watch a movie for ten minutes, which can largely avoid infringement of film and television copyright.

However, many people will still share some clips of film and television dramas, variety shows, or some MVs, usually about five minutes long.

This requires lawyers to formulate detailed protection clauses, so that those who want to claim can go to those individuals who uploaded.

Of course, the platform also needs to set up a review mechanism to review the content of the film. First of all, some videos that are clearly illegal, such as those that promote violence and murder, are absolutely not allowed.

The second is age-restricted videos. This is legal in many regions, and it cannot be said to be completely prohibited. It is still very attractive.

Then there are some things that involve politics, so don't have them now. Although this country in North America claims to be a country of freedom of speech, in fact it is just a different way of restricting it.

Of course, in the future, we need to optimize the video resolution, video format and other aspects, and the page needs to be optimized so that users can find the videos they are interested in faster.

So it is best to add another algorithm to push it accurately. At the same time, it can also accurately push advertisements to increase revenue for the company in the future.

Zhang Yang arranged for Edson to build the platform first, and then went to find some investment partners by himself.

In fact, the amount of money to build this platform is not much, 10 million US dollars is enough, mainly some servers and network architecture, the cost is not much.

It may cost some money to promote it, but it can be tens of millions of dollars, if not, one or two hundred million dollars, which Zhang Yang can definitely afford by himself.

But for many businesses, it is difficult to do it by yourself and encounter a lot of resistance. With a partner, it is much easier.

Just like Kurishenko's own PC brand, it is because he has the support of Chaowei Yingweida and other companies that he can easily assemble a computer and guarantee the cost performance.

Being a video website is naturally inseparable from the support of those music and film and television companies. After all, the most watched short videos at this time are MVs. Many of the 18-year-old videos are actually long videos.

Fortunately, Zhiduoxing has cooperated with music copyright companies in North America before, including websites that provide MP3 downloads, purchasing music copyrights, etc., including the copyright of many MVs.

When promoting VCDs and DVDs with Wan Yan, I also bought a lot of film copyrights and distributed them on CDs.

Now Zhang Yang is going to pull these companies together to invest in shares, so that if there is a problem in the future, everyone can communicate internally, and there is no need to make a big fuss, go to court or something.

Time Warner was the first company Zhang Yang contacted, and the CEO of the other company received Zhang Yang in the office.

Half an hour later, Zhang Yang left with the other party's promise. The other party is willing to invest five million US dollars, and at the same time will upload some MVs in AVI format for free on the video sharing website called YOU SHARE founded by Zhang Yang.

Of course, these are some old MVs that can't be sold, and they are used to recharge. Time Warner has to consider whether to upload some new MVs in the future.

Time Warner itself is a media giant with rich experience in the media field. They have also seen the potential of this company and are willing to invest a sum of money, which is also convenient for the company's products to be promoted in the future.

If this can really have tens of millions of users, or even hundreds of millions of users, as Zhang Yang said, then a popular video is equivalent to an advertisement in a golden program without spending money.

Whether it is a singer promoting a new song or a movie's pre-promotion, this is a supplementary channel.

Time Warner agreed, and it would be much easier for Zhang Yang to negotiate with other companies. Giants like Time Warner have agreed. If they don't agree, they will miss many opportunities if it really develops in the future.

In this way, in just one week, Zhang Yang contacted ten major music and film companies, and at the same time got their investment.

Those companies jointly invested 40 million US dollars and held 40% of the shares. Zhang Yang himself has subscribed capital of 60 million US dollars and is the major shareholder.

Next year, we will definitely continue to invest more. At that time, everyone's shareholding ratio may change.

When the subscribed capital form and the investment agreement were placed in front of Edson, Edson couldn't help but sigh that the president's connections were too strong.

He was still thinking about how to recruit some investors with strength and resources, but he didn't expect that the president would get it all done in just one week.

He only needs to take the legal counsel to sign a formal contract, which is very simple. From this point of view, it is not too difficult for him to be in charge of this company, and he can get an extra salary.

It's just how to make this website bigger, surpassing the video websites owned by Microsoft and Google, which makes Edson a little worried.