After staying in the United States for nearly three weeks, Lu Fei was busy and finally found a peaceful environment for Logic to earn a small amount of money.
Finalized the licensing deal with Sony Music Europe and America with Andy Lack, and released the first batch of 100,000 songs, a mix of new and old songs.
As a result, the world's five major record giants have joined Spotify, and the total number of songs in the music library exceeds 1.6 million, which is eight times that of iTunes.
With the interactive blessing of the SNS community, the number of singers and users has also increased sharply, and new servers have been continuously added.
Spotify has been reported in many newspapers and three major TV stations in turn, and has been dubbed the "savior of the recording industry", "subverter of traditional records", and "terminator of pirated music", from the entertainment industry to the financial industry.
Winter has passed, and the biggest lesson from the Nasdaq stock crash is that Wall Street never learns its lessons. Sequoia, Morgan Stanley, etc. are interested in Spotify, which has the backing of Microsoft's capital injection. It is like a new tree sprout growing out, clearly indicating the future of the Internet.
Spring is back.
Lu Fei's phone was bombarded with calls from numerous investment banks for several days, and Lu Fei was annoyed. Ballmer couldn't hold back his impatience and called.
"Lu, Goldman Sachs is willing to invest in Microsoft. We can put up 50 million US dollars, 11%. No, we only need 10%."
"Calm down, Steve, calm down, Spotify has just upgraded to version 3.1, and I don't expect to raise funds again until version 4.0."
While he was talking, Guo Xing pushed open the door and walked to the table with low steps, waiting patiently for the conversation to end.
"Have you booked your flight tickets?" Lu Fei deliberately put the handset of his landline phone aside to keep the phone busy.
"It has been handed over to Wang Ben." Guo Xing asked curiously: "Mr. Lu, is Spotify really worth 500 million US dollars?"
"Oh, it's far more than 1 billion!"
Lu Fei let out a breath, finally he could go back to his country for some peace and quiet.
In the previous life, iTunes was Apple's cash cow, with a net profit of several hundred million dollars. It supported Apple's aggressive integration of software and hardware, the launch of the iPhone, and the establishment of a closed ecological loop. However, as soon as the app store appeared, iTunes' status fell into embarrassment.
But he had already figured out a way for Spotify. Before leaving, he made the following arrangements:
"Lao Guo, remember this!"
Guo Xing immediately picked up a pen and paper, pricked up his ears, and heard that he would use the power of the Record Industry Alliance to cooperate with Billboard to have the rankings implanted into Spotify, and in addition to the best-selling and recommended lists, there would be a few more authorities.
List.
Lu Fei has always said that he would extend his idea to e-books.
Guo Xing was stunned, "Mr. Lu, Spotify still sells books?"
"Precisely, a readable audio e-book."
Lu Fei's conversation suddenly changed to Newark's acquisition.
"It's done! White is indeed one of our own. The 26 million US dollars, including the patents, including tables, chairs and computers, all belong to Logic."
Although Guo Xing feels that single-touch is more than enough for MP3 and multi-touch is just superfluous, he believes in Mr. Lu!
"Wayne and Elias, what's their attitude?"
Lu Fei always asked questions that had nothing to do with selling books. Guo Xing was confused for a while, but answered truthfully:
"Very satisfied! When signing the contract, I told Wayne that they could stay in Delaware and build an innovation center named after them. I was very excited and signed all the contracts including the non-competition agreement without hesitation."
"This is 'building a nest for the phoenix'!"
Lu Fei picked up "Time" magazine and said about the new product line, the logical version of Kindle, "Touch technology can not only be used in MP3, but also in e-readers, without a keyboard or a mouse, just by sliding your fingers."
hit……"
"Wait a minute, Mr. Lu, are we still going to make a touch screen in the future?"
Guo Xing's eyes widened. Even if it was Mr. Lu who said this, he subconsciously thought it was just a dream. Did he forget to take his medicine when he went out?
Lu Fei nodded, "Multi-touch is just software. The software and hardware must be integrated, and the logic must have its own screen."
Guo Xing suddenly realized, "No wonder Mr. Lu must obtain the patent authorization from the resistive screen manufacturer that cooperates with Nokia."
"The resistive screen is just a stepping stone."
The corner of Lu Fei's mouth curled up slightly, and he vaguely remembered that Apple's capacitive screen technology was developed in cooperation with Wanwan, but he couldn't remember the specific company.
He could only ask Zu Wencui to help, cast a wider net, catch more fish, and make touch technology the first core patent of Logic.
"Lao Guo, I want to set a rule. Logic must increase investment in R&D and spend more than 10% of the annual income on R&D!"
…………
We discussed the prospect of Kindle in depth with Guo Xing, and didn’t stop until Wang Ben reminded us to leave for the airport.
At this moment, through the plane window, the blue-white clouds and orange light in the distance overlap and cross, making it look like an overwhelming force.
Lu Fei was sitting in the business class seat, scribbling on the paper, his thoughts couldn't get around the wireless network and Amazon. After all, Amazon is the largest online bookstore in the United States.
A Ocean Horse flight attendant came into view and said with a smile: "Sir, what would you like to drink?"
"Coke, thank you."
Lu Fei was bored while waiting, so he took out a stack of newspapers from his newspaper bag. They were all in English and focused on finance and technology.
"Warning! lMusic sweeps Europe and the United States, China's manufacturing rushes to land", "Spotify: Save or destroy the record industry?", "China Land, help China win the 21st century", "(Times) ranks among the 25 Asian heroes, the only technological hero
Huaxia Continent"...
Words such as "Huaxia Lu", "lmusic", "Spotify", and "Logic" appeared frequently. Suddenly, I turned to a report, and the eye-catching title read——
"Hanxin No. 1, the real enemy of American semiconductors".
"...The internationally advanced 0.18 micron semiconductor process design has 2.5 million devices on an integrated block that is only half the size of a fingernail. It has a 32-bit computing processing core and can perform 200 million operations per second...
China’s semiconductor industry, led by Chen Jin, known as the ‘Father of China’s Chips’, seems to be heading on the right path.”
After reading this sentence, Lu Fei squinted his eyes, crossed out the word "correct" with his pen, and changed it to "wrong". He felt that it was not appropriate, so he considered the vocabulary.
Next to my ears, the voice of the Ocean Horse stewardess suddenly came:
"Sir, your Coke."
"Thanks."
When Lu Fei saw the reddish-brown Coke, he suddenly had an idea. With a stroke of his pen, he poured two sips into his mouth, letting the cold sweetness dilute the heat in his brain.
Wang Ben saw him put on a blindfold and fall asleep. He seemed to be holding back his anger. He couldn't help but be surprised. While packing up the newspaper, he curiously poked around and saw two big words written on the whole page -
"hell"!
From day to night, during the more than ten hours of flight, there were countless opportunities to ask Lu Fei about the meaning behind it, but he, who adhered to his duty as a bodyguard, remained silent.
Ask when you need to, and don't ask when you shouldn't.
Just like this flight, the destination is not Yanjing, but Qindao in eastern Shandong, so you have to ask.
Lu Fei answered without hesitation: "Oh, the crew of "Parental Love" is filming location scenes here, and I came to visit the crew."
"Clear!"
Wang Ben immediately understood and waved for a car.
The two came to a hotel, and the precautionary measures were in place. Because the whistle was blown in time and the nationwide mobilization was launched in advance, SARS was able to be controlled in early April, with occasional ups and downs.
Lu Fei came to the room, and the smell of disinfectant filled the room. He sent a text message on his mobile phone and went into the bathroom.
Not long after taking a shower, there was a knock on the door.
I saw a graceful female ghost floating in the corridor, standing tall and graceful, with a smile like a flower, and eyebrows as crescent-shaped as crescent moons.
catch!
Bold evildoer, eat my mighty dragon!
Qianying let out an "ah" sound and was pulled into the room by Lu Fei, where they staged a love story between a human and a ghost.
Late at night on Qindao, the evening wind howled and the waves were turbulent, the front waves caused the back waves, the back waves pushed the front waves, the waves beat the clouds, the clouds swallowed the waves, and twisted into a ball.
The seawater under the moonlight was ravaged by waves and strong winds, and it looked like broken silver all over the ground. The sound of the waves lapping on the shore was like the music of the blue ocean tide, and each wave was stronger than the other.
"Dong dong, dong dong~"
"Senior Sister!"
"Sister Mimi!"
Liu Shishi and Yang Mi were in the same room and were sleeping soundly when they were completely awakened by a sudden knock on the door.
"Who!"
Yang Mi got out of bed angrily and got out of bed angrily. When she opened the door, she saw it was Jing Tian and Guan Xiaotong. They hugged each other and shivered, and the anger they exuded disappeared instantly.
Master Liu stepped on his slippers and came after him, "Hey, Xiao Tiantian, Xiaotong, what's wrong with you?"
"Sister, I'm afraid!" Jing Tian hugged her waist.
Yang Mi pouted, "Afraid? What are you afraid of? Is it haunted?"
Guan Xiaotong's face turned pale and she trembled: "Ah, yes, yes! It's haunted. There are ghosts knocking on the wall!"
Yang Mi rolled her eyes, yawned and said, "Why are you hitting the wall? There are no ghosts in this world. Children are not allowed to lie."
"Really, really, no, if you don't believe me, come with us."
Jing Tian stamped his feet, grabbed Liu Shishi's hand and walked towards his room. Seeing this, Yang Mi could only follow reluctantly.
"Shh!"
Four people came to the room and stood at the bedside in silence.
With one ear pressed against a wall, I heard the wall making irregular noises, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, sometimes heavy and sometimes light, sometimes urgent and sometimes slow, mixed with the sound of wind and waves.
The atmosphere was very strange, and the temperature seemed to have dropped to freezing point.
Jing Tian's legs were trembling and he said in a trembling voice: "Sister Mimi, Senior Sister, listen, listen, are you trying to beat the wall?"
"Bah, what the hell!" Yang Mi clamped her legs, her face turned red, and she spat, "It's just a pervert."
"Pervert!" Jing Tian was so frightened that he covered his mouth and whispered, "Isn't a pervert a ghost? Can he be pervert, can he be pervert to us?"
Master Liu's cheeks turned red, from his cheeks to his earlobes.
This ghost is still a hungry ghost! A fierce ghost! A fierce ghost!
