A few days ago.

Los Angeles, inside a luxury villa in Beverly Hills.

Reed?? Haritins was sitting on the couch, staring at the TV.

Originally, as a perennial tech elite who has been in Silicon Valley all year round, his goal has always been Bill?? Gates.

When it aims at the market vacancy and spends a lot of manpower and material resources to design an office software, it is about to make its dream come true.

It's so good that this software has attracted the attention of the blue giant IBM.

The other party first proposed a wholly-owned acquisition, and after being rejected, it retreated and asked for partial participation.

But Reed, who has completed the most difficult stage of research and development, naively chose to ignore it.

As a result, he felt a deep malice from large enterprises.

IBM first reverse-analyzed the software and began to promote it using its powerful channels.

As a result, of course, the original creator collapsed completely, and Reed's dream was knocked out of the clouds into the dirt.

Reluctantly, he filed a patent lawsuit with the court.

However, IBM's legal department skillfully applied various techniques to appeal to the court for an adjournment of the trial.

And the huge legal fees are about to crush Reed.

At this time, IBM shed crocodile tears again and applied for the acquisition at a high price.

This time, Reed, who was defeated by reality, could only choose to accept it helplessly.

The moment he signed the contract to abandon the patent lawsuit and agree to the full acquisition, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Sure enough, in the face of capital, dreams are as fragile as soap bubbles.

Reed, who has lost his dreams, is like a real nerd, constantly renting out various Hollywood blockbusters where good will eventually triumph over evil, and going home to watch it.

It's like, this way you can fill the void in your heart.

But everything didn't go well, everything didn't go well, and many videotapes were either not available or rented out.

He couldn't even get self-anesthesia, so he could only choose to face reality helplessly.

Born in 1960, I have just turned 35 years old.

Is it like a parasite that eats and waits to die?

He forcibly pulled himself together and began to look for a new start in his career.

Immediately afterward, Reed thought of the huge vacancy in the videotape market.

Influenced by the mature film and television technology industry, a large number of movies and TV series are produced in the United States every year.

And only a small part of them can be on the big screen of movie theaters and the small screen of TV stations.

Most of these works went to the videotape market in the hope of recovering their costs.

And Hollywood giants also use videotapes to squeeze the last trace of profit from some popular films.

However, these profits obviously cannot make the media giants spend too much effort.

Therefore, the video tape market in the United States is very disorganized.

After consulting a lot of information, Reed finally made up his mind to test the waters of the video tape market.

On the one hand, he contacted as many film and television companies as possible, hoping to obtain the right to sell the videotapes.

On the one hand, they are thinking about how to stand out in the videotape market.

That is, to have something unique in your own!

But if you want to cooperate with big media giants and get the exclusive right to sell, you have to be prepared to be eaten alive by IBM.

Just like now Jobs's Pixar animation is becoming more and more inseparable from Disney.

And small film and television companies can't come up with attractive works.

That's a bit tricky.

In this way, during this time, Reed appeared absent-minded, and his wife did not notice it at all.

"Reed, do you watch TV?" his wife patted him on the shoulder, waking Reed from his musings.

"If you don't watch it, remember to record CBS's "Prison Break" for me. The wife put on her coat and prepared to go out, "I need to go to the parents' party." ”

Reid looked at the time, it was just ten o'clock in the morning.

"At this time, what is there to watch the show?"

"Of course, that 'Prison Break' is really good. ”

"I record every episode and watch the reruns when I'm fine. The wife walked up to the VCR and began to set it up, "I just don't know what the film and television company thinks, and I don't follow up on the first few episodes of the videotape." ”

"No tapes?" Reed heard this, also a little confused.

"Hmm. The wife turned and walked towards the gate, "You remember to have some lunch by yourself, I may not be able to come back at noon." ”

After his wife left, Reed watched "Prison Break" with some curiosity.

Belch...

It's hard to put into words!

However, his wife seemed to like it very much.

This has to make Reed sigh that this film and television company is very accurate in its positioning of the audience.

But there is no follow-up release, the tape of the episodes that have been aired...

What's going on?

Reid curiously turned on the computer and logged in to the official website of CBS.

The production unit of "Prison Break" is Goldman Sachs Investment and ?

Goldman Sachs, which has always wanted to enter the media field, has finally improved a little?

So, how will the media giants welcome the Raptors on Wall Street?

Reed feared that the world would not be chaotic, and retrieved relevant news.

But after a while, he realized that it was not what he thought.

Could it be that the unexpected factor is this called the website?

He picked up the phone and asked a friend in the financial world to help him ask.

Then, I typed in the URL and logged in to this website with a strange domain name.

Well?

Is this a literary site?

Reed, who is a veteran of the IT world, clicks on the page at will.

Immediately afterward, he felt a little interesting.

In an environment where Internet companies use free services to increase the number of users in order to go public as soon as possible to make money.

This website is actually charged?

He thought about it, picked up the phone again, and called the brokers in the IT world.

"Have you heard of it?"

"Nonsense, how many orders have Lao Tzu taken over their business. The hacker on the other side replied.

"Can you help with a website profile?" Reed was stunned for a moment, then asked, "At the current market price." ”

"It's all said, we're partners!" the hacker shouted angrily.

"Double the price!"

"Oh, within half an hour. The other side hung up the phone.

At this time, a friend in the financial world called and told him about Goldman Sachs and the website.

Reed listened carefully as he compared the difference between the website and his own software company.

Alas, it would have been nice to accept IBM's request for capital injection in the first place.

He hung up, thinking and sighing.

Immediately after, the phone made a "beep" sound.

The hacker boss faxed over the information he wanted.

Reed picked up the fax and looked at it carefully.

Well?

There are surprisingly many paying users!

Moreover, the website also has some peripheral copyrights of the work?

He clicked on the pages of the website and looked at the large number of works and fell into deep thought.

This...

It's like a huge and diverse IP pool!

It is also the most popular IP with novel ideas and curious stories in the videotape market!

Reed looked down at the fax again, and read softly, "At present, the website is looking for partners to co-produce the prequel to Prison Break. ”

He put down the fax and walked to the kitchen to make a large pot of coffee.

After finishing his coffee, Reed picked up the phone and called his friend who had quit the software company at the same time.

"Hey, are you interested in becoming a producer and entering the entertainment industry from the video tape market?"

"Okay, we'll see you in New York. ”