Chapter 348

In addition to Hollywood, the world-famous film industry empire, the frontier symbol of US imperialism is Wall Street, the mecca of the world's commercial and financial industry, and Silicon Valley, the most advanced technology valley of this era. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

People jokingly claim that Jews own 70 percent of the world's wealth, and that Wall Street and Silicon Valley have 90 percent of the world's future wealth gold mines.

And countless young people have listened to these jokes and rushed to Silicon Valley and Wall Street one after another, but only a few people can become Bill Gates, and only a few people can become Murdoch.

When it comes to the richest person in the world today, there is no doubt that it is Bill Gates.

And Jobs, who was bigger than Bill Gates in Silicon Valley and Wall Street in terms of both his starting and fame, is still famous, but he can't keep up with Bill Gates.

The two men born in the same year with a difference of eight months, Jobs launched his own Apple in 1980, and his worth soared to $10 million, making him the youngest richest man on Wall Street.

And Bill Gates just used his intelligence and his mother's help to get his first pot of gold, 50,000 US dollars.

In the decade that followed, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs became neighbors and rivals.

In 1983, when Bill Gates quit the first generation of Windows, Jobs was furious and reprimanded him for stealing his stuff.

And Bill Gates calmly retorted.

"We both had a wealthy neighbor named Xerox, and when his house was on fire, I broke in to steal the TV and found that you had stolen him. ”

Before Apple and Microsoft were founded, there was Xerox, an immigrant inventor who launched the XeroxStar computer in 1981 and ran a graphical user interface.

Because the price was as high as 16,595 US dollars, only 3W units were sold, which led to the loss of funds and the company fell into crisis.

Both Windows and Apple copied the property of Xerox Star in terms of ideas and data, but they went two ways.

Later, Jobs improved the mouse and keyboard, of which the standalone mouse was also an invention of Xerox.

In 1985, Steve Jobs became the first founder in the history of American imperialism to be fired by his own company, and Bill Gates released Windows 1.0 in childhood, and ten years later, Microsoft became a giant enterprise with a market value of $250 billion, while Apple fell into a revenue deficit, with an annual loss of $1 billion and an infinite expansion.

At the same time, Microsoft occupied almost 90 percent of the market share of the entire computer software industry, while Apple's share initially dropped from 16 percent to 3 percent, and it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Having gone from being a company that could compete with Microsoft to a company on the verge of bankruptcy, Apple finally decided to recall its founder, Steve Jobs, who had been preparing for it for the past decade, using Pixar to accumulate funds.

Taking over the already tattered Apple again, Jobs found that he hadn't saved enough money over the years, so he had a bold idea.

So he knocked on Bill Gates' door and handed over a contract, asking to cooperate with Bill Gates to help Apple make a comeback in the form of capital injection.

Bill Gates may have been in a very delicate mood at that time, and he had never seen such a shameless person.

But after Jobs said a question, Bill Gates signed and invested $150 million in Apple.

Because Jobs said that without Apple, Microsoft would occupy 100 percent of the market, but it would face the 'monopoly bill' specially launched for it by the US imperialists, and Microsoft is likely to be unlucky.

Bill Gates, who realized this, agreed to Jobs without hesitation, after all, it is very lonely to have no enemies in life, not to mention, he really likes Apple.

In the early days of Apple, Bill Gates worked with Steve Jobs, and in some ways, Bill Gates also contributed to Apple.

And Bill Gates knows very well what will happen if the market is monopolized by a large company like IBM, and the entire industry will fall into a long period of dark development, because IBM will control the speed of market research and development to slowly squeeze and consume consumers.

And Bill Gates's purpose is to make consumers more satisfied, rather than treating consumers as captive pigs.

So with the 150 million dollars of the opponent, Apple gradually came back to life in the hands of Jobs, and now, the Apple computer iMac launched in 1998 has been successful, and the iPod and iTunes music platforms that will be launched this year will allow Apple to win back the market again.

And at this time, Spielberg's proposal brought him good news like a spring breeze, so in a villa in Silicon Valley, he reached a cooperation intention with Harvey and Spielberg, no longer serving Hollywood giants to become a squeezed production factory, and regaining his original intention of using technology to change movies and become a creative factory.

Of course, it also depends on the other two people present, Huo Deya, the executive officer of Twentieth Century Fox, and the mysterious young man from the East, Wang Yao.

The famous art editor-in-chief of Time magazine, Louis Dimon, personally came to help them take pictures of these business people, all in the face of this young oriental man.

"Mr. Wang's dress is cool, with a mysterious quaintness. Huo Deya smiled and said to Wang Yao, "What type of clothes is this?"

"This is called Hanfu, which is our traditional Chinese costume. Wang Yao smiled and said, "Thank you very much for your support." ”

"I'm an old friend of Harvey, and I'm very happy to hear that he started a second business, and "Zodiac Turn" is really good, and I've called on all of our employees to learn it. Hodya laughed.

"At the risk of being checked by the boss, Hodya helped me share the amount of more than 2,000 screens. Harvey came over with a champagne glass and smiled, "You have to toast him." ”

"Thank you very much. Wang Yao said with a smile.

"The money is still collected. Huo Deya clinked glasses with Wang Yao and quipped, and drank the champagne in the glass, "I still have some things to do later, so I won't accompany you much, I will book Vivian's place when I have time another day, let's go get together and welcome our future director." ”

Wang Yao smiled humbly, "Then you go slowly, and you have time to visit another day." ”

Hodya took his leave, and Jobs and Spielberg were still squatting in front of the computer to study the production software that Wang Yao had brought.

"I'll just say it's time to upgrade your screen resolution, the color difference is too big. Spielberg complained.

"Please, will you give me the upgrade cost?" Jobs gave him a blank look, looked at Wang Yao and smiled, "Wang Yao, you developed this thing independently?"

"Sort of. Wang Yao nodded.

"I always thought that there weren't too many artistic cells engaged in scientific research, but I didn't expect an outlier to come out. Jobs laughed, "Are you interested in doing some research on the technology industry?"

"Not yet. Wang Yao smiled: "My energy is limited. ”

"You boring science and engineering men, don't affect Wang Yao. Dumont frowned and said, "He belongs to art." ”

"Speaking of which, I know that Wang Yao is the 'vanilla beauty' that you have been praised by you some time ago, and it really deserves its reputation. Spielberg smiled, "I haven't seen the art of Oriental opera, this time I learned a lot about your Oriental culture about the zodiac and the inheritance of the five elements from "Zodiac Turn", I feel too mysterious, can I ask for advice if I have time?"

"Absolutely, I also have a lot of things I want to ask you about movies. Wang Yao said: "I think there is something about your work that I can't say I like." ”

"I think it's average, I like Cameron more. Jobs smiled.

Harvey pursed his lips and snickered.

Spielberg looked at the two men with a puzzled expression, "Why are you two so obscene?"

"Titanic is very good, but I prefer Schindler's List. Wang Yao smiled, "Mr. Spielberg, has you heard about our Jinling Massacre?"

After Wang Yao finished speaking, the atmosphere froze, Jobs glanced at Spielberg, and Harvey looked a little nervous.

"You want to shoot?" Spielberg asked.

"If there is a chance. Wang Yao had an indifferent smile on the corner of his mouth, but his tone was unquestionable.

"It's hard," Spielberg pondered for a moment, shaking his head, "it's not about art or film anymore, there's nothing I can do about politics and international relations." ”

Wang Yao smiled, "I just want to ask, shooting experience." ”

"That's fine. Spielberg laughed, "But you have to pay for your labor." ”

"Huh?" Wang Yao was stunned.

"I have a film and need an art director. Spielberg laughed.

"Hi, boss, your position as a Hollywood first-line director is stable. Harvey patted Wang Yao on the shoulder and laughed.

..........

Capital must be checked and balanced by capital, and monopoly must also use technology to make breakthroughs.

Ink animation is fatal to Disney, the rest is the distribution problem, the seven giants control the entire North American theater distribution, if they sanction Harvey, Harvey is really a little powerless, even if he has hands and eyes, there is still no way to operate a movie into a god without a release theater.

But fortunately, the giants are not united, and they can tacitly agree on some things that they have agreed upon, such as the punishment of Xavi, but in fact, they are the biggest opponents.

Disney has been in the limelight too much over the years, so that the big brother MGM and the second brother Paramount already have a sense of crisis, and Universal has always played the role of a good old man and does not stand in line easily.

Warner and Sony are also in the mentality of watching the show, and the remaining one is the giant that almost went bankrupt and disappeared that year, Twentieth Century Fox, a company that almost went bankrupt due to poor management, and was finally acquired by the media king Murdoch, and has become a laughing stock in the industry since the acquisition.

Because Murdoch uses the media to play movies, marketing seems a little out of the flow, but it turns out that it can really make Fox listen to difficulties.