Chicago 1990

"I'm not going to sign the contract, you go."

Nobuyuki Idei called Howard Stringer that night, called Discuss. It was actually a notice. Howard Stringer was very angry. He resisted his anger and complained about his interests. Idei expressed his understanding and patiently explained the motive for doing so.

Then ask to execute the order.

Howard Stringer had no choice. He couldn't help the company's business and the backstage of the headquarters. Sony Dong Zuo turned his face and had to let the president of Sony Columbia Records come forward to be responsible for the contract with Beats.

"Hey!"

When the old man left the office, he sighed tiredly and raised his forehead.

It is very irritating that Idei failed to do what he promised in the previous transaction to help him succeed as CEO. As Ken Kutaragi’s game console faction takes control, his own booth spans the vision of the entertainment empire that spans film and record publishing and other businesses. It's in jeopardy...

Idei is still using Dong Zuo's power to suppress others, under the pretext that the music licensing business is just a trivial matter, he is very solemn to himself before, and those who require a unified caliber to reject aplus, please pretend to be foolish.

What's the point of being treated like this by the boss and backstage?

For a while, he had the idea of ​​simply quitting his job.

Do not! No no no...

At this precarious pass of Sony, I am Amelio's second, and I will be labelled as "the most incompetent" and "loser" by then, and his professional reputation in the future will be over.

And why am I leaving! ? Not only don't you leave, you have to continue to fight!

What a little frustration!

There is a natural competitive relationship with Ken Kutaragi’s game console faction, so the alliance with Idei must continue to be maintained!

Howard Stringer understood that Idei was also sure of this.

Idei's change of mind is understandable, after all, aplus paid 500 million dollars for the authorization.

No matter how disgusting that nger is, everyone has to respect his money right now.

That's five hundred million dollars...

cash!

There is no way out of the well, this choice is justified...

After the great turmoil, the sales situation of convertible bonds that Sony was forced to launch was not optimistic. Except for the corporate financial department, all heads and brains were required to low-key to pull people and institutions to subscribe, and do everything possible to find money to continue the company's life.

For example, I also found Citi and Chase...

Until now, there are only a little more than three months left before the issuance of convertible bonds, and the subscription intention is probably still far away from the target figure of 2.5 billion dollars.

Idei got 500 million of aplus, and he got one-fifth of it all at once. It is undoubtedly a boost to him who just lost his ceo throne and surrendered his seat as chairman.

And the price is only to sell the online license of the music copyright library?

For Idei, this is simply a profitless business! If you change to yourself and put yourself in the position, you will probably agree to aplus.

pity!

My original plan was that after taking office as CEO, I started from this convertible bond to introduce Citi and Chase to Sony, and then turned his face to allies through the backing of US capital and drove him down and replaced him...

What a pity!

"Then nger really pays a lot of money..."

Howard Stringer lay on the boss chair and muttered to himself.

Fortunately, aplus invested 500 million dollars in cash from yahoo that hadn't been warmed up to Sony, which is better than not being shot out.

He can only comfort himself so much.

Idei still trusts himself. In addition to the 500 million convertible debt, he also revealed to himself the mj cards that were suddenly thrown out during the aplus secret meeting and the chips related to Universal Music.

But from then on, I am afraid that Idei's personal relationship with aplus will be greatly improved.

Howard Stringer felt like a fire in his backyard.

That nger is so **** rich!

In today's recording industry, except Disney and Sony Columbia, they are all crazily winking at Ge, asking for support, especially the Universal Department of the US television network that Ge is determined to win.

And Tangtangge, in the current market sentiment, it is difficult to find a joint ally who is willing and able to share the cost of acquiring the Global Department.

Ge now also counts on aplus!

The global department is up and down, even including the Bronfman family with old grievances. Everyone is eagerly looking at the aplus, which is waving the checkbook and waiting for the price!

Selling out-of-name duo former ally Sony Columbia Records? There is no psychological burden at all!

Aplus got the help of top veterans in shopping malls such as Amelio, and the method is indeed getting more and more sophisticated. This trick must be made by Amelio, who went to Tokyo with him!

There will be no one else!

Although Amelio was dirty by Jobs in public opinion and became the most incompetent ceo in history, how could he be the ceo of Apple that year without two brushes in his hands? !

Less than 30 years old, a team of ten billionaires who have gradually formed...

Don't compete with it!

Howard Stringer became dizzy and more discouraged, and hated MJ. If it wasn't for MJ to discredit himself at a critical moment, Sony's CEO would not be Ken Kutaragi, but himself...

The current situation will be completely different!

Damn it!

Thinking of this, he picked up the landline microphone, aplus is too hard, first pinch the soft persimmon of mj, and clean the door!

"Harvey, it's me."

Clean up the door first, and then slowly figure out aplus, because of the shooting that year, aplus is always a big trouble.

Aplus is not necessarily still unaware, at least it is suspicious to go to Tokyo to get out of the well in the background.

He is very alert and has a clear understanding of this.

"I'm back! Amy?"

After successfully completing the task, Song Ya, who was tired of traveling all the way from Tokyo, walked into Amy's house, "Amy!?"

This time he came back without notice, he wanted to surprise Amy.

"Ahhhhhhh!"

Amy screamed happily when he heard his voice, ran out like a fawn, jumped up, hung on her boyfriend like a koala, and sent a kiss warmly.

"Ha ha!"

With a smile, Song Ya’s fatigue was wiped out in an instant, and he hugged his girlfriend three hundred and sixty degrees, and then saw Shakira who was holding the threshold...

So laughed and walked straight over, in Shakira's body language with jealousy and half-pushing, one hand one by one, the two little hot moms are not heavy, affectionate left and right kisses, walked and walked, and went straight to the gentle town. .

‘The beats company revealed that their music store development has reached the final sprint stage, and next month’s second-generation beatsmp3 new product launch conference will also be held as scheduled. Prior to this, they have successively obtained all the online authorizations for the six major record copyright libraries, and will open about ten palm/beats directly-operated stores in major cities in North America. ’

‘Apple announced that it will release the windows version of itunes music store next month...’

In September 2003, with the signing of the licensing contract with Universal Music Sony Columbia Records, the last obstacle to the beats music store also disappeared. After Apple was scolded for six months that itunes did not support the windows operating system, it will also be at the same Time to make up for this mistake.

Jobs' arrogance gave beats exactly half a year to catch up.

Song Ya went to Jenny’s house in Boston. His main purpose of this trip was to visit the Ge headquarters in this city, to formally inform the other party of his decision not to participate in the acquisition of the Global Department and apologize to the chairman and CEO Immelt. By the way, I took my son Rams and Jenny and his ex-husband’s son Kay back to Chicago, because Jenny was going abroad for a period of time to shoot a Warner blockbuster Sahara location scene.

Although he suspended ge for a while, it was a normal business decision after all. Immelt also expressed his understanding generously, at least on the surface very friendly.

As for playing around the world again...

Anyway, the goal of getting music store song authorization has been achieved, just play it.

And Doug Morris, president of Universal Music, has a tacit understanding with him. In order to stay behind, he can't make trouble for no reason.

"Gordon and they are here."

Jenny walked into the study and reminded the man who was resting his cheeks in thought in front of the TV.

Song Ya looked at the time. Gordon would not bring Quincy Jones to Jenny's big mouth. The three old men went to the nearby Houghton Mifflin's house and waited for him, "Then let's go."

"You go first, and I'll go there before the dinner starts."

Jenny was busy packing the things of the two children. The assistant outside was instructing the servant to carry the boxes of luggage she was going to take abroad tomorrow to the car. The location was in the desert, so she had to bring a lot of things.

"I didn't bother to accompany them to dinner."

Perhaps it was to seek support from Congressman Gordon of the same ethnic group in the r Kelly case. Quincy Jones and Jesse Jackson also came to Boston. Their Boeing 757 target was too big, and they happened to be caught by Quincy Jones, who also had a private jet at the airport. Bumped into it.

The big mouth really encouraged Gordon and Jesse Jackson to come over.

Song Ya was rather unhappy about their unplanned visit, "Let's go, sit down for half an hour and we'll be back."

"All right."

When he and Jenny arrived there, President Holden Mifflin was leading the guests to visit the house, "It's so beautiful, this house must be a hundred years old?" Quincy Jones praised in a protracted black voice.

"Gordon."

Song Ya deliberately treated Quincy Jones coldly, "Welcome back to your own electorate, Mr. Representative." He smiled, strode to Gordon, and shook hands warmly with everyone.

"Hello……"

When it was Quincy Jones' turn, his face changed indifferently, and his hand was touched.

"Aplus, I know you are busy, but r Kelly's trial next month may be in big trouble, so we got it."

After the greeting, Jesse Jackson confessed to the owner and Jenny, dragged Song Ya to the lawn outside, and then straight to the point.

"How can I help?" Of course, Song Ya didn't want to help. He just said that, and it was a face to Gordon.

"Is such that……"

Gordon’s old problems are ill, and he will be mad when he encounters ethnic problems. He also knows that he will be unhappy to bring Jesse Jackson and Quincy Jones here, and he starts to make a statement with a regretful expression.

"Jenny, I heard you are back to Hollywood?"

Quincy Jones was very angry at being deliberately underestimated, but had long since dared not to stab the black pharaoh, and stayed in the room in a serene manner.

"Yes, Sahara, I will go abroad tomorrow for location shooting." Jenny replied.

"Is the play directed by Eisner's eldest son? I heard it was a bit ill-fated."

"Well, because of the September 11th incident, the location scene in the Middle East was cancelled, and then the team was disbanded. This is a restart project."

The Sahara had started the boot once long ago, and the director and heroine at the time have been changed.

"Who is the hero?"

"Matthew McConaughey."

"Wow, I thought it was James Caviezel. He fits you well in Cold Mountain. Where has he been recently? It seems that the world has disappeared."

"He was filming Mel Gibson's Passion. He has been in the group for almost a year."

The baby girl was in a difficult position, Quincy Jones had nothing to find a word to chat with Jenny, Song Ya also probably understood Gordon and Jesse Jackson, mainly Jesse Jackson’s intentions.

"In other words, you are worried that the Cook County State Prosecutor has obtained other important evidence of Kelly?" He asked strangely: "There is nothing to worry about, right? Shouldn't the evidence have been submitted in advance?"

"Yes, the lawyers said that the Cook County State Prosecutor did not submit the evidence we are most worried about. We believe this is Alicia's release of goodwill."

Jesse Jackson replied: "Because this matter needs to be kept secret, we hope to get a tacit understanding with the Alicia State prosecutor through a person who can be 100% trusted. It is best for everyone to end this matter in the next month's trial."

"The timing is good. Mj's case happened right after that. Public opinion will not focus on the r Kelly case for too long."

Gordon added, “We don’t want you to speak publicly, but to help the intermediary through personal relationships.”

He is Alicia's big money master and the relationship with her governor's ex-husband. People in political circles such as Gordon and Jesse Jackson are well-known, so Song Ya tried not to return to his hometown during this time.

"You have been in Chicago for so many years, and you know Alicia very well, don't you?"

Song Ya frowned, "Remember? I told you before that coming to me for this kind of thing is the last option."

"Alicia is very wary of our African-American community, and we can't trust others." Gordon said embarrassedly: "Ms. Sloan hates r Kelly, maybe you don't know, Diane Lockhard is learning about the new After the evidence existed, he withdrew from the lawyers group in anger."

r Kelly's crime can get a good impression of women, hell, "what the **** is the evidence?" Song Ya asked strangely.

Gordon and Jesse Jackson exchanged glances, "Some other videotapes." Gordon secretly revealed.

"Wow, that kind of thing will be taken by the prosecutor?"

So careless, Song Ya rolled her eyes, "In other words, do you think that the Cook County prosecutor got the tape but was held by Alicia? This shows that Alicia is suggesting to you that she doesn't want to Another extraneous matter, hope that the case will be closed in the next month's trial?"

"Yes, this is good for Alicia's political future."

Jesse Jackson nodded: "Her recent support for African Americans has dropped sharply, and she must stop the loss in time, otherwise she cannot be re-elected."

Wasn't it tossed by you? Alicia is now in a very embarrassing situation. On the one hand, she personally stood on the prosecution bench and beat Kelly to obtain many female supporters across the country. However, because the court trial coincided with the ongoing war in Iraq, the exposure rate was far less than expected. Did not gain enough prestige to run for more important positions.

On the other hand, because the victim and relatives of the victim were bought to give up testimony before the last trial, Alicia was subsequently beaten back by Kelly who failed to beat her to death. The fierce protests from the black community under Cook County made her stand in this constituency. The basic set suffered a heavy setback, and the more entangled, the further away her next re-election victory would be.

Don't forget that there is also a Daly dynasty who is eyeing her state attorney's position in Chicago. It is understandable that Alicia chose to stop the loss in time.

"Well, I will have a chat with Alicia when I return to Chicago."

Although Alicia was a little ‘disobedient’ after her election, Song Ya did not want to see her fail to be re-elected, and the post of Cook County State Prosecutor was replaced by a Daly dynasty.

"Okay, by the way, help us apologize to her. As long as Kelly's matter is resolved, we will help her mend the relationship with the voters. The re-election campaign is still early and there is enough time."

Black Pharaoh nodded, and Gordon and Jesse Jackson were overjoyed, "By the way, don't tell her about the videotape."

"Relax...seriously, r Kelly is a scumbag."

Song Ya waved his hand in disgust, and didn't want to talk about it anymore, "Let's do it, I have something else...Jenny!"

Watching the black pharaoh gentleman who flashed around for a while to help Jenilla open the door, Quincy Jones felt distressed when he thought of his precious children, "This ruthless little nger..."

She knew that Jenny lived nearby. Judging from the community ranks she passed by when she came to observe, Jenny's house was probably similar to President Holden Mifflin's, and it was worth several million at least.

Jenny now holds the title of senior advisor and director of the president of a branch of Holden Mifflin. Not long ago, she also participated in the best-selling memoirs of the former talk show king Johnny Carson. She returned to Hollywood and took over Warner’s hundreds of millions of giants. Heroine...

After returning from Tokyo, Rashida resumed his job as the host of the hip-hop contest, which was less and less influential. The hard-earned income basically came from the long-term contract renewed before the start of the second season of the hip-hop contest, and the black Pharaoh's blog site gives signing money to big bloggers.

He remembered that Rashida complained that the website spent digging Paris Hilton and other popular celebrities to settle in, far more than the small amount of money paid to accompany all the way to the current original big blogger.

Even if you don't plan to marry her, it would be nice to give more money and opportunities!

Really!

Hundreds of millions are not a small amount of money to the black pharaoh!

Quincy Jones complained indignantly.

"He is not ruthless, right?"

Gordon and Jesse Jackson are in a good mood after the r Kelly case is settled. For the current black pharaoh, if he personally agrees, it is equal to the deal. There can be no more changes. The two can still be pinched from the fate of r Kelly in the future. Continue to get generous donations.

"Money has helped him solve too many problems. If there is no money and no power, he is essentially no different from the crumbs of those ruthless scumbags." Quincy Jones said.

"Ha ha……"

Gordon and Jesse Jackson smiled at each other and gave up arguing. They knew Quincy's early feast with the Black Pharaoh, they also knew the affair between Quincy's little daughter and the Black Pharaoh, and they could understand the old man's gloom.

Jesse Jackson knows a little bit more. For example, Quincy’s ex-girlfriend Natasha Kinski should have climbed into the bed of the black pharaoh, so she can still get another Warner blockbuster Catwoman in Hollywood in her early forties. The kind of good role for the second female.

Maybe the whole Hollywood is hiding Quincy alone.

"But he has more money."

President Holden Mifflin held a hot fax paper and handed it to the three of them.

‘Fujiby Magazine’s 2003 World Rich List was released, and aplus quickly jumped to the sixteenth place with a net worth of 11.5 billion, surpassing Microsoft’s CEO Ballmer’s 11.1 billion in one fell swoop...’

Quincy Jones stared at this number and his pupils were dilated, and a puff of acid water hit his throat directly.

‘The first person under 30 in the world! Alexander’s ‘aplus’ Song, who has oriental descent, has reached 11.5 billion! The unquestionable **** of investment! ’

At the same time, the acid water is naturally also Howard Stringer. What he has in his hand is a book of media reports, full of countless exclamation points, crazy toasts, and...

He turned to the cover of the magazine, which is still a Sony related media, and the picture is the photo of shaking hands with Nobuyuki Idei when aplus visited before.

Nobuyuki Idei is obviously turning around because of the 500 million convertible bonds. In the text, what is in the text is the ambassador of the Mi-Japanese Friendship and the Black Dragon of the Mi Empire, which is also an enemy and a friend, a respectable opponent and partner'' from the entertainment industry to the Internet industry. , The cross-border wealth and life of the **** of investment, "he changed the world" and other nasty words can be picked up.

"vomit!"

Howard Stringer had physical discomfort directly after reading it, so he tore the magazine in half.

"The increase in his net worth mainly comes from the merger of goto by yahoo, the merger of handspring and palm, the income of traditional businesses such as movies and records, and the rebound of 3dfx Littman and China's listed companies following the recovery of the Internet technology sector..."

Wall Street, New Jersey's first investment bank headquarters, Anderson Eisner is sitting in the boss chair of his deputy general manager's office and talking to his father. He has turned into a Wall Street elite shortly after graduating from Harvard Business School and has achieved remarkable results.

"Aplus is only a few years older than you..."

The Disney emperor who came to see his youngest son didn't see his madness, so he poured cold water on his mouth.

Other people’s children cannot be exempt from vulgarity. Anderson can’t listen to his father’s scoldings the most, and his face instantly collapsed. "I’m not doing a bad job. If I had the first pot of gold made by aplus from the record industry when I was a teenager. That level of start-up capital..."

The three brothers also have a competitive mentality inside. Instead, his father provided a lot of start-up funding to the rebellious brother who entered the Internet industry to build a website. This is a thorn in Anderson, who has been forced to study **** campus.

Knowing the son Mo Ruo father, Eisner also knew what the younger son was actually complaining about, and fell silent with a bit of reason.

"Anderson, Mr. Eisner."

At this time, the two top managers of the bank, Amelio and Dr. Chen knocked on the door and came in, "Sorry, we are late, shall we go?"

"Amelioja, thank you for taking care of Anders."

Eisner happily embraced Amelio, an old acquaintance, and shook hands with Dr. Chen, his younger son's direct supervisor, "I am very busy today?"

"Yes, there is a lot of work." Dr. Chen replied respectfully.

"Thank you, Mr. Amelio, Dr. Chen."

Today Anders held a housewarming dinner at his new home in Manhattan. He took the small gifts from the two bosses, put on his suit jacket, and walked in the first one vigorously, "Let's go, let's go, let's go!"

When passing by the trading room outside, Eisner saw that almost all the workstations were sitting, all working overtime to answer the phone and make calls, a scene full of enthusiasm.

"Because of Fujibee Magazine?" he asked casually.

"Yes." Neither Amelio nor Dr. Chen denied them, and kept smiling in a good mood all the way.

When he was shot into a coma in 1997, Song Ya had just been promoted to a billionaire. In six years, his net worth increased by eleven times, while Buffett’s personal wealth only increased from 15 billion to 30 billion in six years. In comparison... …

Who is the **** of investment?

This question is not difficult to answer, is it?

Therefore, as soon as the ranking of Fujibee magazine came out, all the phone calls of the No. 1 investment bank were blown up. Numerous investors and institutions called frantically to consult fund products. It is too late to get on the bus.

"Seriously, I rely on myself. I didn't get any light on aplus here. He and Dr. Chen don't care about or understand the real estate industry, and the fund I am responsible only invests in real estate."

The group soon arrived at Anders' new home. The father and son were talking privately while overlooking the view of Manhattan's Central Park from the floor-to-ceiling windows.

"Don't be too complacent."

After graduating and working for three full months, the youngest son has been able to buy a high-rise apartment in the Central Park section. He has never asked for a penny from himself. Wall Street has flourished so quickly.

Eisner said that it must be fake to be unhappy, and the smile can't be suppressed. Of course, he still doesn't forget to teach him, "I noticed that your attitude towards Dr. Chen is not very good, which is very bad."

"Occupy the advantage of aplus cronies, his ability is not very good, and the fund in charge has to lose his pants." Anders glanced at Dr. Chen who was communicating with people in the distance, lowered his voice, "I have eaten a lot of Apple stocks, now Okay, are you having fun?"

"Ha ha ha..."

Eisner knew that because Jobs was reported to have pancreatic cancer by Fortune magazine a few days ago, Apple stocks fell sharply. Although he could guess that Aplus asked investment banks to collect Apple stocks out of strategic considerations, it was a bit unfortunate. , No one could predict that Jobs had a big problem with his body.

In addition, he hated Jobs, who had cooperated with Ovitz to rebel against him, and he finally laughed out loud.

"We have a hurdle to pass in November. You have to keep a low profile." He ordered again.

"I see. I will introduce you, Mark, Mark, this is my father."

Anders began to drag his father to socialize with the friends he met in New York.

"Mark Epstein." The other party introduced himself. "I admire you very much, Mr. Eisner."

They are all in Jewish circles, "Your brother is..." Eisner was deeply impressed by a well-known businessman and broker of this surname.

"Yes, Jeffrey." Mark nodded, sure enough.

"Mark's company manages more than 500 units in Manhattan." Anders boasted to his friends.

"I am definitely not suffering from cancer. I am only suffering from endocrine tumors. Although this disease is relatively rare, it is actually not difficult to cure with the medical technology at the time."

At the same time, Jobs was very upset about Fortune Magazine’s revelations. He quickly approached Roseto from Wired Magazine and asked this close friend of the technology media industry to help put out the fire, “Don’t make any changes to this sentence.”

"OK."

Roseto bowed his head with joy and recorded, "This news is simply great. You don't know how worried you were before, Steve."

The car they were riding in just left the Apple flagship store site on the first floor of the General Building~www.NovelMTL.com~ Jobs just saw the same on Fifth Avenue, outside the door faces of the two palm/beats logo baffles, logo The opening date below is next month.

This is simply adding confusion to his heart. Jobs frowned. Fortunately, the small face on the door was only about half the area of ​​the normal business on Fifth Avenue, and according to the information, there are plans to join in the future. It seems that he should be smashed with those mobile phone manufacturers. The specialty store routes are similar, which poses little threat to Apple's style.

"Oh, by the way, congratulations on returning to the list of the world's richest people." It is true that Roseto doesn't open which pot to mention which pot.

Because Pixar Animation did not go on the market, Fujibi only calculated a net worth of 1.7 billion dollars for himself this year. If he changed to the previous one, Jobs would not look at this kind of rankings, but when he thought of aplus 115 The figure of 100 million dollars is false to say that the mentality is completely unaffected.

but……

He suddenly sneered slightly, some plans were already being implemented quietly, and he believed that he would give aplus a big surprise by then.