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Zhou Buqi's business scope is huge, and what he values ​​most is of course Ziweixing, the Internet base camp. Among Ziweixing's projects, what he values ​​most is not WeChat, Helo, Weibo, and Netflix, but Ziweiyun.

The world is disordered, and he is now going to make some plans that go beyond foresight.

Before the rebirth, WeChat and Netflix were at their peak.

However, who can guarantee that this product will maintain long-term vitality in 20 or 30 years and will not be replaced by other products? Netflix is ​​actually okay, it has copyright support behind it, which is a hard condition. Products like WeChat, Weibo, Twitter, and Friends.com are really not very reliable.

Maybe one day times will change and it will be replaced by a new product.

This C-end product is too unstable.

Just like Internet giants like Yahoo and AOL, they can watch their market value drop from a peak of US$100 billion to obsolete assets sold for less than US$10 billion in just a few years.

In comparison, companies like Oracle are more stable and mainly engage in B-side business.

The B-side products have high loyalty and strong vitality.

Ziweixing’s B-side business mainly revolves around Ziweiyun. It is estimated that by 2035, 90% of servers around the world will be cloud-based and will abandon offline servers and subscribe to online cloud storage services.

This is a trillion-dollar super industry.

While foresight can still play a role, Zhou Buqi must use this advantage as much as possible, not only to create products such as WeChat, Netflix, Twitter, and Spotify that are bound to be successful in the short term, but also We must also focus on the future to ensure that Ziweixing can still have strong vitality and competitiveness in the global market even after it loses its advantage of foresight.

If you want to do this, there are two main directions.

One is artificial intelligence and the other is cloud computing.

Artificial intelligence... This thing is purely technological research and development. There are no rules at all. Whoever has a strong technical level will be better. There is no way to adulterate tens of thousands of pounds per mu, and there is no room for operation.

All Zhou Buqi can do is to keep giving money. What kind of scientific and technological achievements can be developed and to what extent can it be achieved can only be left to fate.

The more scientific the research, the less controllable it becomes.

There is nothing anyone can do about it. In addition to having huge financial support and a strong technical team, you also need luck.

In contrast, the cloud computing industry is much more controllable.

Cloud computing is also a high-tech industry, but commercialization prospects can be seen in the short term, and the layout can be completed through some means of strategy, marketing, ecological collaboration, and market coordination.

In the field of cloud computing research and development, Zhou Buqi cannot interfere too much, just like artificial intelligence.

But there is room for maneuver in the commercial layout.

In this industry of information explosion, the scale of data will become larger and larger. The larger the amount of data, the more difficult it is to migrate and the higher the "loyalty" of users.

This provided Zhou Buqi with a core idea for developing Ziweiyun - start in advance and make arrangements as soon as possible!

Try your best to attract users.

Once you get on the ship, it’s not easy to get off the ship.

This is especially true in the video streaming industry.

In the future, Amazon Cloud is undoubtedly the world's largest cloud computing service provider. One-third of Amazon Cloud's revenue comes from the video streaming industry, including well-known streaming media platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and HBO+, almost all of which are Amazon Cloud customers.

This is consistent with Zhou Buqi's strategic design for Ziweiyun.

That is the cost barrier to data migration.

For example, Disney’s streaming media platform “Disney+”.

At the beginning, Disney’s film and television rights were basically licensed to Netflix. And Netflix uses Amazon Cloud, so Disney’s digital content of film and television copyrights is stored in the Amazon Cloud data center.

Later, Disney saw the rise of the streaming media industry and became jealous. Not wanting to license its own assets to Netflix in vain, it terminated its cooperation with Netflix and launched its own streaming media platform "Disney+".

At this time, Disney has no choice.

Because data content is stored in Amazon Cloud, if you want to migrate to Google Cloud or Microsoft Cloud, the costs and risks will be high, and there will be many uncontrollable changes in the future.

I can only honestly choose to cooperate with Amazon Cloud.

It can be seen that cloud computing is the bottom layer of the streaming media industry!

Zhou Buqi is committed to the "glue transfer" project this time, mainly to achieve such a long-term strategic layout around data content.

Attract world-class film and television copyright giants such as Warner, Disney, 20th Century Fox, and Sony Pictures to help them convert past film content into digital content efficiently and at low cost.

After the conversion was successful, it was naturally stored in Ziweiyun's data center.

In the long run, it will firmly lock in the entire long-form video streaming industry.

So Zhou Buqi paid more attention to this matter.

The largest film warehouses in the country are all state-owned units and have to deal with the authorities. Feeling that Sister Bao was being silly, Zhou Buqi decided to personally take the lead in making this matter happen.

The next day, he organized a bureau and made an appointment with Mr. Han from China Film and Television, and called the Wang brothers from Huayi to accompany him.

China Film and Television has specialized agencies working on this project of "film transfer", and the technology is very mature.

The technical principle is actually very simple, that is, there is a conversion device, with film placed on one end and tape on the other end. As soon as the machine is started, the film and tape start rotating, and the contents on the film are copied to the tape.

This process is called "telecine transfer".

Next, the tape is connected to the computer through another device and rotated again. The content on the tape is converted into digital content and stored on the server's hard drive.

This process is called "magnetic rotation".

Domestic private film and television companies have only been around for more than ten years. The old films in the past were all owned by state-owned units, so the "film transfer" project team is also state-owned and is China Film Jindian, a subsidiary of China Film.

Because private film and television companies basically don’t need telefilm, they have no foundation, and they basically use digital cameras to shoot things.

For cost reasons, there is no need to start from scratch.

Jieyu Media can directly cooperate with China Film Jindian to set up a joint venture subsidiary, use existing equipment and manpower, and carry out certain expansion and upgrades, and this can be done.

Zhou Buqi didn't let Bao Shan go to the entertainment industry to avoid infecting her, and he didn't even bring a secretary with him. Xu Baihui will go anyway, so it will be fine if he is the female companion.

Unexpectedly, after meeting Xu Baihui, he found that there was a girl beside her.

"What are you..."

Zhou Buqi was stunned for a moment, feeling that this girl looked familiar.

Xu Baihui chuckled and said: "I just signed her, and the filming of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" has been completed. Her performance is very good, and I feel it is okay. Bring her out to see the world. Xiao Tang, this is Mr. Zhou, I know you." Bar?"

"Hello, Mr. Zhou, I...I am Tang Yixin, an actor from Jieyu Media."

He was obviously too nervous, his face was red, and he bowed, not daring to look at him.

"Oh, Tang Yixin..."

Zhou Buqi looked at it a few more times, no wonder it looked so familiar. This looked just right, she was dressed quite formally, a red tube top off-shoulder dress, and her fair and round shoulders were like beautiful jade.

The normal standing posture was okay, but when she bowed...oh, a patch of white flowers came into view.

Zhou Buqi was well-informed and was not surprised at all, but frowned slightly.

We have to talk about serious business at the dinner party tonight. Why bring an actress with us?

For those who didn’t know, I thought Jieyu Media was sending actresses there so that they could satisfy the leaders before they could reach a cooperation. As boss Zhou, there is no need for this.

Xu Baihui noticed his displeasure, rolled her eyes at him, and snorted: "I will be the only woman then. How embarrassing is it? I can't find someone to accompany me?"

Everyone was brought over, and Zhou Buqi couldn't say anything, "Get in the car."

Xu Baihui let Tang Yixin sit in the passenger seat, then she got into the back row and sat next to Boss Zhou. She said without any secret, "This is a dinner party in the entertainment industry, and female stars are always there to accompany you. This is the rule."

"Yeah?"

How could Zhou Buqi pay attention to this?

Xu Baihui said: "Really, didn't you say you called Wang Xiaojun?"

Zhou Buqi analyzed from a business perspective, "Yes, Huayi and Warner cooperate very closely. If Huayi is brought in, we can directly connect with Warner."

Xu Baihui waved her little hand, "That's not what I'm talking about. What I mean is... just watch this kind of dinner. Mr. Wang will definitely bring one or two female stars from Huayi to accompany you."

"That's it..." Zhou Buqi nodded, feeling that this was not good. Tang Yixin, a newbie in the entertainment industry, was sitting in the front row. Xu Baihui revealed the ugly things in the entertainment industry without any concealment. How sad it would be, so I can only look for a frame of reference, "It's okay in China. So many dinner parties I have attended, that is, dinner parties in the entertainment industry, will have female celebrities as companions. Other dinner parties generally do not. This is not the case in Korea. No matter what kind of dinner it is, as long as it’s a bit classy, ​​there will always be female entertainers in the entertainment industry to accompany you.”

Xu Baihui said softly: "They are not necessarily all women. The few times I went to South Korea, they always asked male artists to accompany me. The little boys all painted their eyebrows, put on eye shadow and lipstick. At first glance, At first glance, it looks like it was popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. I think this trend is also fast in China, and several young boys who came back from Korea are very popular."

Zhou Buqi shook his head, somewhat helpless.

The influence of Korean Wave is too great.

This impact affects all aspects, not just the entertainment industry.

For example, Aunt Xue's beauty salon wants to enter the medical beauty industry and do some plastic surgery business. The templates for plastic surgery are basically passed down from Korea.

Including the "one-click photo editing" function of Ziweixing's Meitu Xiuxiu, it is also developing in the direction of Korean aesthetics, with various big eyes, small mouths, pointed chins... This is actually quite beautiful, but too many It's vulgar, and it becomes vulgar if it becomes widespread.

Xu Baihui stretched out and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter if you have such a sissy little boy, you can bring more of them with you when you attend dinner parties with female leaders in the future."