Cisco's growth after receiving the Sequoia Capital injection was, as in history, so Henry didn't worry too much about it.

On July 1, 1986, Henry heard the news that ILM was going to sell its computer animation division. When Henry heard this, he almost jumped with excitement! This computer animation department was the famous Pixar company in the future. Pixar's brilliance must be known to many people who pay attention to Hollywood, it is definitely a very powerful animation film company! Disney later spent $7.4 billion to buy it!

Of course, he also has a competitor - former Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs was kicked out of Apple in 1985)!

In order to find out the situation, Henry sent someone to Industrial Light & Magic to inquire about the matter. That night, he got an accurate answer.

Henry was thinking about how to win this computer animation department, he now has more than 20 million dollars, and the manuscript fee for "Harry Potter" gave Henry plenty of confidence. Moreover, in his previous life, Jobs only spent 10 million dollars to buy the computer animation department, and Henry didn't even mind paying 10 million more. The next day, Henry organized the staff, and he offered to buy George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic under the name of Nicholas Bookstore.

The Nicholas Bookstore has grown and become famous. George Lucas, as the head of a stunt company, may have heard of the name of Nicholas Bookstore! With the development of Cisco and the Internet, Nicholas Bookstore has also grown by leaps and bounds. Although Symbolics registered the first .com domain name as early as 1985, the world's first real website was the Nicholas Bookstore website, because it used the WWW protocol and the content of the website was also W3C compliant, which would later become the World Wide Web Consortium standard. Since the success of the Nicholas Bookstore website, many companies have followed suit and built their own websites.

But some of these companies didn't know how to build a website, so they contacted Nicholas Bookstore and asked it to help design a website. For this reason, Nicholas Bookstore has earned a lot of money! And Netscape Browser has become the carrier of the website, the function is simple and easy to use, smooth and fast, and it has won the love of all users! After the establishment of many company websites, Nicholas Bookstore took the lead in establishing the most authoritative and influential international neutral technical standards organization in the field of Web technology - Nicholas Web Alliance!

The main members of the alliance are: Nicholas Bookstore, Cisco.

Although the alliance has few members, low strength, and little reputation, many companies are willing to join in the world's leading Web technology! Nicholas Bookstore has been researching for a long time in order to make a Netscape browser, and has specially developed an XML extensible logo language and an XHTML hypertext markup language to facilitate the production of web pages. Of course, the developers at the time would not have thought of this, it was Henry who asked them to do it! After applying for patents, these relevant language standards were published in professional computer magazines, and were made available to all computer enthusiasts to learn and use for free.

The so-called, first-class enterprises do the standard!!

Netscape Browser is going to be developed, no standards, no patents, will you wait for Microsoft to counterattack in the future?

Henry's ambition was to create a strong patent barrier that would make it impossible for Microsoft and other companies to compete with him!!

Imagine that all websites use the Nicholas web standard, who will use Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser? There is no other website on IE, not only users will not use it, but other companies will not build websites on it, Microsoft wants to break this deadlock, it is too difficult!

George's ILM is also one of the users of Nicholas Bookstore, who also uses Netscape and has applied for a domain name to build their own website. Therefore, George also knows the name of Nicholas Bookstore. This time, after hearing that Nicholas Bookstore proposed to acquire its own computer animation department, he was also very happy to contact the two sides to discuss the acquisition.

However, when Henry arrived at ILM with the negotiation team, he saw Jobs. Henry shook his head speechlessly, and scolded George Lucas for being so shameful that he actually called his opponent for the competition!

When Jobs and George saw Henry, they both froze for a moment, and it wasn't until Henry introduced himself that they came to their senses. George stared at Henry in amazement, obviously very curious about Henry, and Jobs looked like a **** and didn't take Henry in his eyes at all. And when Henry saw Jobs, he was even more determined to take over the Pixar Animation Factory!

Jobs later became famous because of Pixar's success, and the Apple board of directors felt that Jobs was indeed very good, and he could bring Pixar to glory, so that Jobs could get the opportunity to return to Apple. And Henry is about to cut him off, and then Apple is likely to collapse, and Henry will have the opportunity to buy it!!

Henry's eyes were determined, and led by George Lucas, he and Jobs arrived in the conference room.

Obviously, this negotiation is a tripartite meeting!

George smiled and asked everyone to sit down before saying, "Mr. Jobs and Henry both want to buy ILM's computer animation department, and I welcome it on behalf of ILM!

Before Henry could speak, Jobs had already grabbed the front and said, "I'm interested in ILM's computer animation department, and I hope George can sell it to me." Because only I can bring it to success!!" Jobs looked unruly and confident, "George, the computer animation department is also part of your industrial light and magic, you don't want it to end up in the hands of some people?!!

Henry's face turned red when he heard this, showing a hint of anger, and retorted: "What Mr. Jobs said is very right, if it is not a person, the computer animation department of ILM will be abolished, I am afraid it will damage the reputation of ILM." So you have to find a capable company to take over, although Mr. Jobs founded Apple, but ......"

Henry smiled, he didn't need to point it out at all, everyone knew what he meant anyway.

Jobs' face was blue at the moment, his eyes were on fire, he was the founder of Apple, but in the end he was swept away by Apple, this is simply a great shame! Henry blatantly exposed his scars in front of him, how can he not be angry? Henry thinks that if his eyes can kill, he will be killed by Jobs 10,000 times!!

When George Lucas saw that the atmosphere was so wrong, he immediately came out to play a round: "Harmony makes money, harmony makes money." Everybody is a friend, so why bother! Come on, come on, let's keep talking, keep talking......"

Jobs's face was still cold, his temper was like eating gunpowder, he slapped the table, and said loudly: "George, I bought the computer animation department, I see who dares to compete with me !!"

Henry sneered on his face, followed the example of Jobs, slapped the table, and shouted: "Mr. Lucas, I have also bought the computer animation department!!"

George Lucas was secretly happy that the more the two sides competed, the higher the price they would eventually sell.

"Hehe, I am optimistic about the abilities of both of you, and I believe that the computer animation department can go to glory under your leadership. So, now it's up to who pays more. Whoever pays more, I will sell it to whomever I want!"

As soon as George Lucas finished speaking, Jobs calmed down, and Henry could not let Lucas, the "fisherman", succeed easily. In terms of bidding, both sides are very conservative and test each other's bottom line. Jobs shouted first: "Eight million dollars!"

But even George Lucas disagreed with this price, and as soon as Jobs finished speaking, he refused again and again: "The price is 10 million US dollars, and if it is less, it will not be sold !!"

Well, a negotiation turned into an auction.

Henry smiled, then raised his hand, and said lightly: "Eleven million ......"

"12,500,000 ......"

As soon as Jobs finished speaking, Henry immediately shouted: "Eighteen million !!"

Upon hearing this offer, Jobs couldn't help but frown, this price is actually far beyond the real value of ILM's computer animation department. Jobs felt that Henry was not buying something, but was angry, and he was simply dizzy and stupid! In addition, Henry was young and self-willed, and it was possible to ask for a price indiscriminately. After thinking calmly, Jobs decided to withdraw from this competition. Therefore, he did not continue to bid.

George Lucas was already happy, and he originally planned to sell the entire computer animation department for 10 million dollars. Now he has encountered a big wrongdoer, and he is willing to pay an extra eight million dollars, which is really a big surprise!

"Henry's little friend is really bold, and the computer animation department under ILM will be yours in the future!" said George Lucas as he looked at Henry with a smile.

"Huh. Henry chuckled.

Jobs' face was a little gloomy, and he immediately snorted coldly, said goodbye to George, and left ILM. And Henry had to negotiate some details with George. Henry wants to ensure the integrity of the entire computer animation department, including the entire technical and management team, as well as various equipment, computer animation production software and patents, since Henry has made so much money, he doesn't want to be cheated by George in the end!

George Lucas acceded to Henry's requests. Of course, if you want to sell, you can sell it simply, and since the buyer has paid a lot of money, if you cheat others, your reputation will not be very good. Besides, George was also worried that if Henry didn't buy it, wouldn't the extra eight million dollars be gone? Where would he go to find a second wronged man!!

George was cheerful, Henry was also cheerful, and the contract was signed in the afternoon. However, in terms of the payment method, Henry only promised to pay half of the bill upfront, and the second half after three months. Henry did not have the money to pay it all in one lump sum, but he had to leave a sum of money for emergency purposes. The success of "Harry Potter" brought him more than $20 million in income, and in addition to inheriting his grandfather's inheritance, Henry was still very rich, adding up to nearly $40 million! Although he spent a lot of money on investing in Nicholas Bookstore and Cisco (of which, Cisco only invested 3 million, while Nicholas Bookstore invested more than 10 million), he still had more than $20 million left in his bank card. And at the end of the year, Penguin Press will pay Henry for the manuscript, and there may be tens of millions of dollars in income!

George thought about it for a moment and finally agreed to Henry's terms. After completing the acquisition, Henry, led by George, went to inspect the computer animation department. For the arrival of Henry and others, the people in the computer animation department seem to have known about it for a long time, and they did not seem very surprised. But when they learned that the new boss was a twelve-year-old boy, everyone was a little confused! Originally, they felt that they had been abandoned by the company, like an outcast, so they were not in a good mood and were very depressed. But in the end, there is still a glimmer of hope, maybe the next new boss will be a Bole, able to recognize and appreciate himself! Unexpectedly, the new boss is actually a twelve-year-old boy!!

"Is a twelve-year-old boy buying and playing?" Thinking of this, all the people in the studio were already desperate, and their morale was so low that it was almost at the bottom!

Henry had to step up at this point, he knew that if they were allowed to continue to be low, the investment might be wasted. Henry coughed deliberately to attract everyone's attention, and then said loudly, "Are you disappointed to see me? You should not be disappointed, but you should be happy, you should be very happy! Don't look at my young age, but I am not ambitious at an advanced age, I did not decide to buy a computer moving part by patting my head, but made this decision after careful thinking in advance!"

Henry paused, then said, "I wanted to make a computer animation, a classic feature-length animated film that could be shown on a movie screen. I'm very optimistic about you, and I think you're the best team in the industry. For this reason, I even paid a high price for this computer animation department. I hope that this computer animation department can be a great success in the future, I hope that this computer animation department can become synonymous with classic animation around the world, and I hope that when people think of animation, the first thing that comes to mind must be our computer animation department!!"

Bang Bang Bang ......

As soon as Henry finished speaking, applause suddenly poured in.

After the applause stopped, Henry glanced at everyone and asked, "Who are you Edwin Cartum and John Lasseter?" Henry knew these two people, Edwin Cartum was the creator of Pixar and the inventor of purely computer-made films. And John Lasseter is the driver of Pixar's creativity, and he is a creative cow.

Edwin Cartem, a mature man in his forties, is now the head of ILM's computer animation department.

And John Lasseter is young, only 29 years old.

Seeing Henry ask, Edwin and John both stepped forward and introduced themselves. After they finished their introduction, Henry nodded, and then announced to the crowd: "Starting today, the computer animation department will be renamed Pixar Animation Studios and become an independent company, with Edwin as CEO and John as chief creative consultant!!!

Speaking of which, Henry deliberately paused and looked at them. Seeing them looking at him one by one with curiosity, Henry smiled, no longer hung people's appetites, and announced to them: "The good news is that after the establishment of Pixar Animation Studio, I will continue to inject 10 million US dollars!! and ......"

Henry stopped in the middle of speaking, and everyone was happy and anxious, and what, hurry up?!!

"Moreover, I will take out 12.5% of the shares to start the equity incentive plan, which will be used to reward employees who have made outstanding contributions to the company!"

When the crowd heard this, they immediately cheered, their morale was high, and they were full of motivation!

The equity incentive plan allows everyone to enjoy the economic benefits and rights brought by equity, participate in corporate decision-making as a shareholder, share profits and bear risks. This is an excellent way to attract talent! Henry intends to implement an equity incentive plan not only in Pixar, but also in all his holding companies!

It's just that, in order to boost morale, Pixar Animation Studios took the lead in launching the program!

Looking at the excited faces in front of him, Henry believes that in the near future, Pixar Animation Studios will shock Hollywood and the world!!