However, in Pixar, Qiao Gang has an absolute controlling stake, and his words are true, but since he became the president of Pingguo Company, the actual control of the company has fallen into the hands of Lasseter, Kamel and others, and he is only responsible for macro control.

MM's acquisition of Pixar is to fancy his technology and talent accumulation, talent is Pixar's greatest wealth, in order to create one classic cartoon after another, without these talents, Pixar is only afraid that it will be killed by DreamWorks, as for Blue Sky Studio, it is just a temporary scenery, just look at it before the release of "Ice Age 2", fire a large number of animators, you know that their pattern has always been limited, it is difficult to achieve great things.

Blue Sky Studios was founded in 1987, only a year later than Pixar, and its founder Chris Witch had a close relationship with Pixar's head Lasseter, and some media called Chris Witch "John Lasseter of the East Coast". When it was founded, the company was only responsible for the intro production and CGI special effects for a few film and television entertainment programs. It wasn't until the 1990s that it began to provide technical support for special effects for many live-action films. The monsters in "Alien 4", some virtual scenes in "Titanic", and the talking penguin that Edward Norton's character in "Fight Club" met during meditation, etc., are all the work of Blue Sky Studios.

If a mouse made Disney, then it can be said that a squirrel made Blue Sky Studios. To paraphrase Walt Disney's phrase "everything starts with a mouse", for Blue Sky Studios, everything started with squirrels chasing acorns, and in 2002, "Ice Age" was released and was a great success, Blue Sky Studios became famous, and successfully signed a five-year contract with Twentieth Century Fox.

"Slow work and meticulous work" is the outstanding strength of Blue Sky Studios, and it is also their established marketing strategy, because in terms of scale, Blue Sky, which has only more than 200 people, can only be regarded as a workshop-style operation compared to the huge production groups of Pixar or DreamWorks. However, everyone under the Blue Sky banner is an elite, and talent and hard work always drive their pace of exploration. Although their production speed seems to be a little slow, this has not stopped Blue Sky Studios and the animated characters they have created to win the crazy love of animation fans around the world. It can be said that Blue Sky Studios is currently the closest to Pixar and DreamWorks, the two major animation temples.

And they do the best job of controlling the success, opening up sources and reducing expenditure.

In contrast, in terms of computer animation, Disney started late, and now it is a fatal wound, Michael's own computer animation department, just a joke, can not be compared with the others, in order to maintain the status of the animation kingdom boss, let its peripheral gift shop have something to sell, in order to inject fresh blood into the resort, they decided to buy Pixar.

At present, the most likely acquisition is Pixar, and the intention of Joe's gang leader to stop has also spread to Michael, and it is true that there is a feud between them, but there is a bond between the banknotes that everyone likes, and I believe that the differences can be eliminated and a consensus can be reached.

And DreamWorks' Katzenberg hated Michael to the core, claiming that Disney would not have any cooperation if he had Michael for a day.

Michael is a veteran of acquisitions, he knows the way of acquisition, he knows the relationship between Joe Gang Leader and the Ellison family, although Joe Gang Leader has absolute control, but Michael still takes another path, sending a large number of lobbyists, lobbying Pixar management, and successfully obtaining the support of Pixar management, his wishful thinking is that even if Joe Gang Leader vetoes his offer, he can pull away a large number of managers and animators, and override Pixar.

Now Disney has resources, technology and equipment to buy, but what they lack is talent and creativity, even if they can't take Pixar, they have to poach a group of people from them as the basis for reconstructing computer animation.

Now Joe's gang leader also has a headache, he has stayed in Pingguo for a long time, neglected Pixar's management, and his control over Pixar's management has decreased significantly, of course, it is also related to his great trust in the two generals, and they also reciprocate their trust with practical actions, but in this major decision that is related to vital interests, the two sides have differences.

Joe's gang leader has obvious tendencies, and because of his friendship with the Ellison family, he can't sell it to Disney, but the collective opposition of the management is very stressful, and if Lasseter and others leave, Pixar is not worth the price. It's a lose-lose outcome.

Qiao Gang Leader hurriedly convened a shareholder meeting, and said to several old friends, moving with reason, he said: "No matter where it goes, Pixar must be consistent, a united, complete Pixar is only worth six billion, and it is not worth three billion to divide into two pieces, everyone must face up to this, everyone here today can speak freely and say what they think." ”

Qiao's pragmatic words made all shareholders unanimously agree, and the head was caught by the door before it would be against money, so the shareholders expressed their opinions, those who were born in Disney are inclined to Disney, they were driven away at the beginning, and now the Jedi Knight has returned, which is very cool.

And one-third of the people are only the leader of the Qiao gang, which makes the Qiao gang leader feel relieved, and he wants to confess his true feelings to them: "I love you too." ”

In fact, this is Qiao Gang Leader's wrong expression, they don't really love Qiao Gang Leader, but trust his vision, and pound 10 million Pixar into 6 billion, when he took over Pingguo, the market value was only 3 billion, and now it is nearly 50 billion, you can question Qiao Gang Leader's stinky temper and bitter mouth, but never question his vision, follow the winner, you will never be wrong.

Gang Leader Qiao is about to give his reasons, he hopes to persuade a few old friends without hurting his feelings, let them support him, more than 20 years of friends and work partners, has been like relatives.

At this time, a senior creative named Richard stood up and said, "John and Ed, did you come up with such a bad idea because your brains were caught in the door?"

Lasseter was displeased and said, "Karl watch your words!"

Carl Richard said: "I Richard joined this big family when I was in ILM, I was an ordinary computer engineer at that time, and my net worth was only 100,000 US dollars, and now although I am only a creative, I can tell you that my wealth will not be less than that of John and Eddard, do you mind if I share the investment experience?" he said, taking out a stack of papers, distributing them to the people around him, and said: "My financial officer told me that my Richard is worth about 500 million US dollars now." ”

The whole office was in an uproar!

Carl Richard, who is usually quiet, is not outstanding among the top cadres, and he is actually so rich, more than several bosses.

Richard said proudly: " Steve is the most talented, the most leader-like genius I have ever met, the board of directors of Pingguo has unlimited trust in him, his reward is to change Pingguo from a market value of three billion to five billion, and I, a creative without any investment vision, trust him infinitely, my money only buys Pixar and Pingguo shares, when Steve took over Pingguo, I mortgaged all my property including my house and car, bought Pingguo shares, and now I want to buy an island in Hawaii, what I want to tell you is, a very simple truth, what to quarrel aboutJust leave this decision to Steve, and he will bring everyone to make more money. After speaking, he sat down and drank coffee leisurely.

Joe's assistant said, "I never knew Richard was your fan. ”

Joe helped, "Me too. He said to Richard: "Even if you slap me for a long time and make me feel good, I won't raise your salary." ”

Richard made an OK gesture.

Richard's words shocked other people greatly, many people were silent, everything was false, only money was the most convincing, in the eyes of everyone, the honest Richard, there were 500 million, I really envied the dead, and the reason he said was so simple, in front of this simple truth, Lasseter and Camel's reason seemed so childish and ridiculous.

Gang Master Joe said: " My reason is so simple, MM was just a studio in a garage in Bedwoolen four years ago, four years, just four years, into a 40 billion super enterprise, I Jobs is above the top, very rarely convinced, but for these young people, I am convinced, among the younger generation, there is no comparison, and what they have achieved now is only the beginning, not the end, Carl has one thing very clear, the easiest way to invest is to follow the winner, I am willing to join the MM legion, and they go to victory together。 He said to Lasseter and Kamir: "What do you think, my old friend?"

"At least so far, you haven't made a mistake. ”

"We're in charge of the operations, and Steve is in charge of the strategic stuff. ”

In order to compete for Pixar, both MM and Disney are doing their best, Disney bids high, MM is cash plus equity, after the swap, Pixar will get 10% of the shares while taking 3 billion cash, and produce a board of directors co-directors, which is a position at the same level as Columbia Pictures, MGM Pictures, Marvel Studios, Netflix, and MM TV Network, and the current MM board of directors is only a dozen or so people, who are in charge of more than 30,000 large enterprises.

Whether it is Disney or MM, the heart of marrying Pixar is full of sincerity, and the conditions are the same, whether it is to join Disney or Pixar, it is a good choice.

Now it depends on who is more promising, Disney is bigger in terms of asset size and market value, but MM's development momentum is extremely strong, it has only been four years, and it is almost the same as these century-old stores, this speed is daunting.

After listening to everyone's opinions, Qiao Gang Leader is rare for a fair and democratic time, everyone votes to decide where to go, employees with shares are counted as one vote, and this Qiao Gang Leader has absolute control, and it is only counted as one vote.

It was the only way he could think of that would hurt either Lasseter and their feelings or the Ellison family.