Chapter 13 IMDB Website

Henry waited a few days and didn't see a letter from Ford Brooke, presumably Sequoia Capital did not agree to the share exchange. They believe that owning a stake in Apple is more valuable than owning Netscape. When Henry saw that Ford Brooke didn't contact him, he didn't care, anyway, he went to the back to see who begged whom! Don't cry and shout for a share exchange, Henry has to take it and extort Sequoia Capital once.

Noah's Ark settled in Silicon Valley silently and without alarming any media.

Henry believes that speaking with products, doing less and doing less, and being pragmatic and innovative is the foundation of a company's development. In addition to the company's employees, the attendees included Nicholas Bookstore CEO Geely Hurt, Cisco CEO Bossak, Sequoia Capital Ford Brooke, and the chairman of the three companies, Mr. Henry Williams!!

And the new CEO of Noah's Ark is called Bob Gallaher, who is also a remarkable person, a postdoctoral fellow in computer science at Harvard University in the United States, and an MBA, and served as an assistant manager of General Electric in Asia. He resigned in February 1986 and joined Cisco shortly thereafter. In view of this person's outstanding ability and professionalism, Henry decided to entrust him with the important task of making him the CEO of Noah's Ark.

Bob Gallaher is in his forties, slightly chubby, very tall, and does not like to wear suits, usually wearing a gray casual suit. But fortunately, Henry was wise and did not force what the company's employees should wear.

Henry met Ford Brooke at the reception, and he didn't ask about the stock exchange, everyone was happy, eating, chatting and farting.

After the reception, Henry summoned Bob Gallaher and talked with him about the future of Noah's Ark. Henry is kind of a teacher, although he doesn't know much about servers, but he still knows a little bit about tower servers and blade servers. When it comes to servers, the processor is the top priority.

As for the processor, which one is stronger?

Intel should be the best company, but Intel's processors, most of which are based on the Windows operating system, are developed by the two of them, forming a wintel alliance to manipulate the market, so this processor is also sold expensive!!

Noah's Ark does the server, of course, it is better to have its own processor!

However, the difficulty is too high, and the R&D expenses are hundreds of millions, and Henry has no money to burn them! Naturally, buying processors from Intel or other IBM companies has become an expedient measure. The top priority is for Noah's Ark to design a web server that can meet the needs of today's users!!

Nicholas Bookstore and Cisco technicians were assigned a total of 25 people to Noah's Ark, and Bob later recruited 20 people at Stanford University and Silicon Valley, almost moving a R&D team of 45 people. Everyone discussed what should be done with this web server, what kind of processor to choose is the best, and the work is in full swing!

Henry, however, returned home. These days, he can be considered busy. After a two-day break, the plagiarism business began. The nine novels in the Harry Potter series have been written, and now they are all published in the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Henry plans to write a science fiction novel, called Jurassic Park. This novel is a science fiction novel published by Michael Clayton in 1990, and when it was published, it immediately caused a national sensation and topped the best-selling list of American novels.

Henry bought Pixar, which is already a member of Hollywood, so he naturally has to make more preparations.

Besides, film entertainment is indispensable in the Internet industry, and as an ambitious and ambitious youth, it is impossible not to lay out the film industry!

Pixar is one of them, and the copyright of various excellent movie novels is also one of them.

In addition to Henry's own writings, he may also acquire many famous novel scripts.

Henry is doing the work of "copyist" at home, and from time to time he will also pay attention to national affairs and the development of the company. The CEOs of Nicholas Books, Cisco, Noah's Ark, and Pixar report to Henry every week, so Henry can understand the operation of the company even if he doesn't go out.

Due to the advanced development of Cisco, the development speed of the Internet is at least more than two years faster than in the previous life, especially the development of the American Science Foundation Network, which has become stronger and stronger under the management of several large companies such as IBM, but it is also more commercialized, which has deviated from the original purpose of the establishment of the American Science and Technology Fund Network. The original purpose of the US Science Foundation Network was to exchange information on scientific research, but in the hands of the capitalists, it would certainly deteriorate! The US authorities immediately took back the management rights of IBM and other companies and turned to their own operations. But despite this, many large enterprises in the United States have seen profits from this, so many companies have joined forces to jointly develop several professional commercial backbone networks.

The rise of the commercial backbone network means that the Internet is about to enter a prosperous period, and it is no longer just the Internet of schools, governments, scientific research institutions, and companies, but the Internet of the people of the United States! Ordinary people can also connect to the network!! of course, the investment in the commercial backbone network is huge, and it is not a flourishing branch that can be developed in a short time and a half. However, in some developed regions, the backbone network has been built, and many local Americans have joined the network.

In January 1987, 13 major cities including New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago joined the backbone!

The development of the network has become a trend, Cisco made significant achievements last year, and after the annual report comes out, it can be seen that Cisco's sales in 1986 have reached 50 million US dollars, and a router is 1,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to selling 50,000 routers. A five-fold increase from 1985!! Charles Capital, president of Sequoia Capital, said: "Sequoia Capital should have invested a little more money in the first place!!

Ford Brooke, executive director of Sequoia Capital, sighed: "Henry is a tougher guy than Bill Gates!!"

Sequoia Capital's resentful eyes and tone were invisible to Henry. He adheres to the principle that keeping a low profile is king, and making a fortune in a muffled voice is the most important thing. Despite Cisco's fame, not many people know Cisco's chairman, Mr. Henry Williams!

Except for a book signing event in England, Henry rarely appeared in front of the media. He is mysterious, and outsiders know nothing about him.

On January 5, 1987, Nicholas Bookstore CEO Geille Hurt suddenly called Henry, informing him that the "Internet Movie Database" website had been set up and asked him to come and check it out.

The next day, Henry rushed over.

Led by Geely Hurt and Tom Wilson, the company's chief technology officer, he went into an office and turned on a computer. Under Henry's gaze, Tom Wilson typed in the URL of www., and immediately a familiar website appeared in front of Henry. Henry looked at the interface and then tested the functionality himself.

The various functions are similar to IMDB in the previous life.

After the test, Henry nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, this website is doing well." By the way, has it been officially released?"

"Not yet. Geely Hurt said.

"Then let's publish it right away. Well...... Does Netscape have a pop-up feature?" asked Henry.

"Pop-up features?" said Geely Hurt and Tom Wilson.

Damn, I don't know about pop-ups, a powerful "weapon", didn't I say you won't do it?

Henry was speechless.

So, he explained to them: "The so-called pop-up window is a small window that pops up through the browser or website to advertise. Pop-ups are available on our Netscape browser and Nicholas Bookstore website to help promote our new website, the Internet Movie Library!!"

Now, the two of them understood in seconds. Geely Hurt and Tom Wilson were full of admiration and amazement! It is foreseeable that once the pop-up function is realized, it will have an incomparable effect on the propaganda work!

"Chairman, this feature is easy to implement, I'll !!develop it later," Tom Wilson excitedly said.

"Hmm. Henry nodded, but he still had to remind them, don't keep popping up windows, like a certain Chinese Internet tycoon, and finally become a hooligan, "It's okay to develop it, but don't pop up at will, don't be too frequent." The first time a user opens Netscape, the window pops up, and the same goes for the Nicholas Bookstore website. If the pop-ups are too frequent, the user will be irritated, which will affect the user experience, and will have a very bad impact on our future development!

"Got it!!"

Henry smiled, even if the company's development is not only leaky, but also has its own, which can turn the tide and set things right!

It took more than four months for the IMDB website to be officially established in September last year and January this year. The preparation of the work is very detailed, collecting information, entering information, developing the website, etc., and it is a blockbuster. The IMDB website is to make a sensation in Hollywood and to arouse the love of the national network name.

Ten days later, Netscape was in action.

As the only graphical browser in the United States, as the monopoly window of the Internet in the United States, basically the netizens who use the Internet have seen a "powerful" pop-up window! This window is the first time they have seen it, it is novel, interesting, and they can't help but click into it. After entering, I saw a new website, this website has pictures, there is information introduction, it is actually a movie website.

After using it, I found that this website is so powerful, from the beginning of American movies to the current movies have been recorded, worthy of being a movie database. What's even more rare is that this movie database actually has a rating system, not only to rate movies, but also to comment and communicate below, which is really humane and deeply loved by people. Some movie lovers have signed up for accounts, rated their favorite movies, and left comments!

Although Nicholas Bookstore is not as influential as the Netscape Browser, it also has a lot of users, and it can also play a role more or less.

It didn't take long for the IMDB website to catch fire. However, due to the small number of netizens, the degree of this fire is also very average. However, all universities in the United States are the main targets of Cisco, and college students are the main consumers of movies and even potential consumers in the future, so the influence is still quite large! And the major Hollywood studios have different reactions to this website, some are not impressed, and some are very serious.

It will take time for IMDB to grow!

But history will prove that this is going to be a very influential web outlet for Hollywood. With this website, Henry has a certain say in Hollywood!

Of Henry's four companies, his favorite place to go is Pixar, because it is the most fun and uninhibited. Pixar's free creation, divergent atmosphere and their sense of innocence make Henry feel much younger, of course, Henry is now a teenager of twelve or thirteen years old, but his heart is an uncle. When I came to Pixar, I felt very interesting to look at the cute anime characters in the computer, watch everyone make noise like a child, and even imitate the forms and expressions of the animated characters!

Pixar is now working on a short film called "LuxoJr.," in which the main character is the jumping lamp that would become Pixar's symbol. Henry volunteered to voice the Jumping Light. Everyone laughed at Henry's request, saying that they would "interview" first, and if they didn't work, they would "get out", and they didn't see Henry as a boss at all!

Everyone is familiar with each other, jokes are often made, and Henry doesn't mind, just interview for an interview. Of course, this process is much more lively, and a large group of people in the studio come to see the excitement, and Henry is not timid at all, and he seriously dubbs the voice. Not to mention, the final dubbing is not bad. Pixar's CEO Edwin Cartum immediately made a decision and asked Henry to dub the main character's jumping lights!

Henry is honored to be a voice actor!

But how long can an animated short film last, and in one day Kung Fu Henry's dubbing work is done!

This short film "LuxoJr." is Pixar's first work, and everyone is united to make this film a classic, and it is even more rushing to win the award. In fact, Pixar's short film "LuxoJr." was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and won the Golden Gate Award for the first jury award in the computer imaging category at the San Francisco International Film Festival!

Once LuxoJr. was made, Henry consulted with them to make the Jumping Light the symbol of the company. So, a day later, the Pixar classic factory logo appeared, and this logo was painted by Henry himself, and everyone agreed!

Then there was the issue of the release of "LuxoJr."

This problem is really a big problem, a ten-minute animated short film, and the cinema will not show it. What should we do? Movie theaters are mercenary, have no value, and will not show movies that cannot make money, and they are afraid that they will not even watch animated short films that are only 10 minutes long.

Henry thought about it, the key is that there is no fame, "LuxoJr." is popular, maybe the cinema will be willing to show this film.

As a first step, Henry advertised it on the IMDB website.

The second step is to send the short film to the competition.

Henry did what he thought of, and while instructing the IMDB website to start promotional work, he sent "LuxoJr." to the Oscars. (Vote...... )