Chapter 1310 (1/2)

When receiving Qiu's smokeless call, Wu Tao was receiving Ivanka from afar at the president's office.

Through active contact with Netflix and research with blockbuster, its biggest competitor, Ivanka came to interview Wu Tao with his own views.

”Dear Wu, compared with the acquisition of Naifei in 2000, now may not be a good time. Although Naifei is still losing money this year, the founders reed Hastings and mark Randolph are very confident in Naifei's prospects, so they are not interested in our offer. ”

The twists and turns of acquiring an Internet company with predictable growth value were expected by Wu Tao.

However, the information provided by Ivanka was unknown to him, ”Wu, you know, there is a DVD rental company blockbuster similar to Naifei in the United States.”

”... this company, which is mainly engaged in offline DVD rental chain, has 20 million registered users and an annual revenue of more than 400 million US dollars.”

Wu Tao shook his head, ”the main offline DVD rental business is not one of my optimistic contents. And Ivanka, you know, companies with such a large user base are much more difficult to acquire than Naifei, which has only 200000 subscribers. ”

”I understand, Wu.” Ivanka held his chest, gave himself more confidence and said, ”but this is not what I want to say. I just found some interesting things about blockbuster when collecting the data of negotiations with Naifei.”

”Oh?” This immediately aroused Wu Tao's interest, sipped his coffee and said with great interest, ”go on, I'm all ears.”

Ivanka's deep eyes showed a confident smile, ”I found blockbuster carrying a huge debt, at least no less than $1 billion! This constrains the management of blockbuster. Many emerging decisions and attempts often end without success and cannot be carried out continuously. ”

”... among them, I found that blockbuster withdrew from the attempt to play DVD video online through the network at the beginning of 2000. But because of imperfect technology and the spread of the Internet bubble, it finally ended.

Wu Tao's eyes lit up. This is exactly what he wants!

After receiving the information from Ivanka, Wu Tao turned it over and finally confirmed it. Yes, it's this technology.

I just turned my head and asked, ”so, Ivanka, do you get anything from the research on Naifei?”

After all, Netflix will launch the business of playing DVD content online in 2007. According to the cycle of technology paving and preparation, it is entirely possible to enter the preparatory stage at this moment.

But Ivanka shook his head. ”No, Wu. As far as I know, Netflix's current technology R & D layout should focus on the preference screening and statistics of online users renting DVDs, and then push relevant DVD movies to users accordingly. ”

This is big data push.

Wu Tao nodded secretly. At present, it seems that the research on big data push is indeed more promising and adaptive than the technology of playing DVD movies online.

So it's reasonable for reed and mark to do so.

But this is not so friendly to his goal of acquiring Naifei.

If Netflix, after the acquisition at a cost, still follows the development route of its previous life and did not launch its online broadcasting business until 2007, it is somewhat inconsistent with its original intention.

After many thoughts lingered in his mind for a moment, Wu Tao threw the question to Ivanka and said, ”what are you going to do, Ivanka?”

At least so far, Wu Tao is very satisfied with Ivanka's performance of ”more investigation and more reporting”.

After all, if Molly and panis were to do it, I'm afraid they would have smashed Naifei down with money without saying a word.

According to Naifei's current market value of more than $2 billion and still in the rising period, I'm afraid we can't get it without $3 billion.