Start with hooves

Chapter 244 Off Season
Another two weeks passed, and it was mid-February.

Although some mainstream media have deliberately blocked the promotion of "The Walking Dead" and Netflix.

However, this is no longer an era where they can cover the sky with one hand. The so-called "uncrowned king" has become a thing of the past.

Netizens take notice of it and spontaneously help promote it. Various related posts can be seen everywhere, and more people are talking about it offline.

This is the best advertisement. In the past half month, the total number of paying members of Netflix Entertainment has surged to 385 million.

This is before launching a cheap membership plan.

When the event begins, there will be opportunities to attract millions more paying members in South America, Asia, Central America and other places, and outsourcing companies are seizing the time to produce official subtitles.

News about "The Vampire Diaries" has also been released one after another to warm up in advance.

The crew has officially started filming, and it is expected to be broadcast on the second Friday of March. The main reason is that some special effects are involved in the early stage, which is quite time-consuming.

With the impact of "The Walking Dead", Suri is particularly satisfied with being able to achieve this kind of achievement in the early stage.

If it hadn't been for its own traffic, or if Netflix's parent company hadn't had a ready-made base of users, although it would have had a chance to stand out with good dramas in the end, it would have been difficult to develop so rapidly.

Among the 385 million paid members, about 160 million are old customers who rent discs on a monthly basis from the parent company of Netflix. Therefore, when using online TV, they subconsciously feel familiar with it and it is easy to accept it.

This has saved Netflix Entertainment a lot of publicity costs. Excessive traffic drainage costs have always been a big problem plaguing Internet companies. For Suri, there is no need to worry at all. With the advertisements hanging on the official website of Netflix's parent company, plus the occasional When a trending topic is posted on Facebook, users will naturally search for it.

With the support of this group of users, the company has brought a large amount of cash, which is not only enough to continue filming "The Walking Dead", but also to bear the expenses of "The Vampire Diaries".

The cost of filming a single episode of "The Vampire Diaries" is tentatively set at $150 million, and the budget for the entire first season is $3000 million.

The remuneration of the protagonists is cheap and should increase accordingly in the future. There is no need to consider this yet...

Nothing to do.

Suri took a flight back to Lanai on February 2th.

It's around 10 o'clock in the morning local time in Hawaii. During the peak tourist season in December, places such as the pier and Hulopu Beach are already crowded with people.

With the end of the peak season, his private island has quickly returned to its former tranquility. The beach is empty, and there are no dumpling-like tourists lying on the beach waiting for surfing.

This can only be said to be painful and happy. The island has once again become a quiet paradise, but the daily turnover has dropped sharply.

Been away for more than a month.

After returning to the island, Daju was even more excited than Suri and ran away on the pier.

Jiang Jiaya didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said with emotion: "It's rare to see it running so fast. Where is it going?"

Su Rui waved his hand and said calmly:
"I had someone install a satellite positioning device on its new collar so that it can be found with a mobile phone. There are no large carnivores on the island. There used to be an unlucky Hawaiian buzzard that was almost beaten to death by a big orange. Let's let it go first. Let it play by itself.”

Look down at your phone while talking.

You can see that Apple's latest stock price has rebounded to 7 US dollars and 60 cents per share. The purchase price was 6 US dollars and 66 cents per share. It has increased by 14.1% since he bought it.

This means that since the establishment of the position, the floating profit so far has been more than 2000 million US dollars.

The income seems amazing, but compared with the income brought by Netflix Entertainment, it seems far behind.Since the end of January this year, the Nasdaq market is rebounding, and the share price of Facebook, which he holds, has also surged by more than $1 million.

Since earning money from singing as a teenager, Suri has never worried about money. Life has been a success.

Less than two months after leaving home, his net worth has soared by more than one billion U.S. dollars. On average, every day he opens his eyes, he has 3000 to [-] million U.S. dollars in his account.

Even Jiang Jiaya started to shut up and no longer advised Su Rui to make progress.

After all, the life experience she understood was of no use to Suri. Some people did make money just by playing, and the amount was very scary.

I saw someone setting up a stall next to the pier, selling travel packages.

Suri, who had never cared about the performance of the island, walked up to his employees and asked curiously: "There have been fewer tourists recently, how many people do we receive every day?"

The white girl wearing short-sleeved shirts with a big orange cartoon pattern on her body replied:

"Visitors have been decreasing since February. Yesterday, only more than 300 packages were sold, including two tour groups from Canada and France."

Su Rui was not worried and just smiled and said:

"The difference between the peak season and the off-season is really big. During the Christmas period, there can be 7000 people a day. I don't know what will happen during the summer vacation. Send a message to Secretary Amanda. I will check the accounts later..."

As an assistant, Jiang Jiaya found it easy to accompany Su Rui.

Secretary Amanda, who stayed on the island, had more leisure time at work. She basked in the sun all day long. Her skin color completely turned into a wheat color, but the area around her eyes was a little white. She probably didn't get the sun's rays because she was wearing sunglasses.

After meeting.

She printed out the document and complained:
"I thought I would be back in a week or two, but it has been almost two months in the blink of an eye. Just because I need to deal with some things about receiving tourists, I can only stay here every day, and I can't even take a vacation. In the end, I had to break up with my boyfriend. You went to Japan to travel and you didn’t even ask me to come.”

Suri asked back:
"You fall in love with tourists? Isn't this asking for trouble? Love during travel is the most unreliable. They run away after having fun."

"Thank you for the reminder, it's too late to say anything now."

Secretary Amanda handed the document to him and said:

"I often meet your fans and ask you if you are back. I am disappointed to learn that you are not on the island. From December 12 last year to today, we have sold a total of more than 1 package tickets, including hotels and other services. The total revenue is about 14 million U.S. dollars. After deducting expenses, the net profit has not yet been calculated, and there should be 7000 million U.S. dollars left."

There is an accountant on the island who counts revenue and expenses in real time every working day.

The revenue and expenditure items of each business are clearly visible in the document. This profit seems to be okay. However, compared with the value of the entire Lanai Island, it is only a few points of income. The money has not been used to buy funds. Earn more.

Revenues from pastures, vegetable and fruit farms, and fishing are calculated separately. Since the cycle of raising beef cattle is too long, the results are not yet available.

The ranch only sells meat sheep.

1500 sheep were sold to Green Turtle Supermarket. Including slaughtering, packaging, transportation and other expenses, the selling price of each sheep was about US$200, and the total revenue was only US$30.

There are more than 1000 sheep, which looks like a lot, but they are only worth so much.

It's no wonder that Suri doesn't plan to continue raising meat sheep. It's a waste of time and is regarded as a model by extreme animal protection organizations. It's really not worth the gain...

(End of this chapter)