Chapter 149 Proposal for Investment
"Ken seems really busy!" Skyview said.
"Of course, he's always busy. My parents don't spend much time with me either," Oliver laughed. "That's probably the only trouble we rich kids have. Your parents are the same, right?"
"I don't have parents," Skyview replied honestly, "I'm an orphan."
"I'm sorry," Oliver felt he might have hurt Skyview and felt a bit guilty.
Skyview smiled and said, "It's okay; I got over it a long time ago!"
Oliver remarked, "You truly have a strong inner spirit!"
"Not really strong," Skyview said, "As I always say, we have to enjoy life."
"Yeah, we should enjoy it," Oliver said, "Now that we're true friends. Could you tell me the real reason you asked me here, right?"
Oliver said this while looking intently at Skyview.
"Oliver, you're a smart guy!" Skyview laughed. "The real reason I asked you here is actually related to your LiveWave!"
Oliver was surprised, saying, "What? You're interested in LiveWave?"
Skyview uttered, "To be precise, I'm interested in Shark Live!"
Oliver felt puzzled and said, "Please explain in detail; I don't quite understand."
Skyview stated, "Do you know who the biggest shareholder of Shark Live is?"
"Hilda!" Oliver sneered. ""Hilda used to mock me in the past, and I get annoyed whenever I see him! He's not even as rich as I am."
Oliver was full of disdain when he mentioned Hilda.
Skyview smiled, "But Hilda's Shark Live is indeed very successful, unlike your LiveWave. The only pity is that Shark Live's content is vulgar and unbearable, which I can't stand!"
Oliver expressed, "You don't have to spare my feelings. My LiveWave can't compare to Shark Live in any aspect. Although I really dislike Hilda, I can't deny his talent.
He is far more skilled than me in cultivating streamers. Although I can recruit people, I am unable to make my own live streaming platform better. That's why I hired other members from Hilda's platform, but ultimately, I was defeated by Hilda.
Of course, Hilda also uses some unscrupulous methods. As far as I know, many of his streamers have vulgar and violent content! Some even stream hunting wild animals. If this trend continues, the live streaming industry as a whole is becoming increasingly worrisome!"
Oliver finished speaking with a worried look. He was a young man with a sense of social responsibility and naturally didn't want vulgar content to ruin the streaming industry.
When it came to business, back in the day, Oliver's recruitment on the Shark platform was a big deal, with LiveWave's traffic even surpassing that of Shark Live at one point.
Because Oliver himself was a public figure and a focal point of discussion, he recruited many popular streamers, bringing in a considerable amount of traffic.
But as time went on, LiveWave's content was more normal, healthy, and positive, strictly prohibiting violence and pornography. Therefore, Shark Live quickly regained the top spot in the streaming industry with its vulgar content, and LiveWave fell to third place.
This was partly because LiveWave refused to bow to vulgar and materialistic content, and partly because of the platform's capabilities.
Shark Live could lose a big streamer and quickly nurture a new one. If one streamer fell, another would rise, like a healthy person with the ability to regenerate blood; losing a little blood was no big deal.
As long as it wasn't a fatal wound, it wouldn't die.
But LiveWave couldn't create its own big streamers and lacked stronger capabilities. When those big streamers found they couldn't develop well on LiveWave, Oliver's reputation was of no use, and they would still leave. They wouldn't sacrifice their interests just to stay with Oliver.
People in this world were very realistic.
If nothing unexpected happened, LiveWave would never have the strength to compete with Shark Live.
"You see things very clearly!" Skyview laughed. "But do you know that Hilda and I have some history?"
"Hilda and you have history?" Oliver looked at Skyview, pondering. "Friends or enemies? I think you two are probably enemies, right?"
"You're right; Hilda and I are enemies. It's a personal feud, I won't deny it," Skyview said, "The Davis family is my biggest opposition within the Twin Group. Hilda even conspired to attack Lakeview Express, which I manage.
However, under my strategic maneuvers, all of his conspiracies and tricks have been successfully neutralized. I actually wanted to coexist peacefully with the Davis family, but they couldn't tolerate me. Moreover, the materialistic and vulgar content promoted by Shark Live must be combated!
We can make money, but not dirty money! Those streamers fawning over the rich, with their vulgar and nasty content, even hunting wild animals, rapping, and driving recklessly, can easily corrupt young people!
The reason I'm willing to be friends with you is that your LiveWave is still a legitimate streaming platform! That's something worthy of I respect!"
Oliver said, "So you came to me?"
Skyview said, "As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. We have a lot of room for cooperation. I want to see Shark Live fail miserably, and you probably want that even more than I do, right?"
Oliver said, "Our interests align, but to make our interests even more aligned, I have a suggestion."
"Go ahead," Skyview said.
Oliver said, "You invest ten million dollars, and I'll give you 8% of LiveWave's shares. How about that? That way, our interests will be even more aligned!"
Skyview thought for a moment and realized that 8% of LiveWave's shares would be worth at least 20 million dollars.
Oliver selling it to Skyview for ten million dollars was not only a favor but also a way to better cooperate with Skyview because Oliver had high hopes for Skyview's future.
Oliver aspired to be a business leader.
In Oliver's view, forming an alliance with Skyview was very necessary.
The future belonged to young people like Oliver and Skyview; Oliver firmly believed this!
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