Chapter 14 CAA

Time is still leisurely carrying out her travels, and it will not stop because of anyone's joys and sorrows.

Wang Jie continued his daily routine: practicing, writing books, and supervising the girls' practice. The boy set the beginning of the development design and planning, and handed everything over to the old housekeeper, fortunately, the old housekeeper became more and more healthy after practicing the ancient method of five poultry plays, otherwise he would have died before he got out of school, like Zhuge Kongming.

In his spare time, Wang Jie carefully recalled the layout of the past year or so, and found that an important piece of the puzzle was missing in the United States - the brokerage company.

The boy asked the old housekeeper to put down his work for a while, arranged the itinerary, and came to Los Angeles together.

In a dilapidated office, Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer, William Haber, Michael Rosenfeld, and Rowland Perkins of Innovative Elite Culture Agency Inc. warmly met with Wang Jie and Jim Sr., who were impressed by the boy who was able to develop Star Wars.

At this time, the most powerful entertainment agency in the United States was William Morris Agency (WMA), and these five people were "ruthlessly" fired by William Morris a year ago.

It's also hilarious to say that the establishment of this innovative elite cultural agency limited (CAA) is quite dramatic. One night in 1975, Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer, William Haber, Michael Rosenfeld, and Rowland Perkins, who were still working for William Morris at the time, had dinner and found that they all had the same idea: to open their own agency. However, while they are gleefully talking about their future visions, the plan is discovered by the boss and the five are ruthlessly fired. With only $35,000 in hand, CAA hastily opened in 1975. In the early days of the company's operation, there were only a few folding desks and chairs and two cars in the office, and it owed $21,000 in loans to the bank. In order to save money, the five did not hire assistants, and let their wives take turns as receptionists at the front desk to answer the phone and work as assistants. However, Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer, William Haber, Michael Rosenfeld, and Rowland Perkins are indeed very capable, and in less than a week after opening, they negotiated three cooperation projects in the form of talent resource integration. In the past year, the company has also achieved a small success.

At this time, CAA is not the leader of the brokerage company 40 years later, and everything about the company is still being explored.

After the greetings, Wang Jie took a sip of the instant coffee that had just been served, and said, "I came today to negotiate the matter of investing in Innovation Elite Culture Brokerage Co., Ltd." ”

Michael Owitz and the other five people looked at each other, they didn't understand how the boy, who was already one of the Hollywood predators, could take a fancy to their small company that had only been established for a year, but the five did not exclude Wang Jie's shares, regardless of the boy's strong capital and strong background, it was a huge benefit to the development of the company.

Michael Ovitz asked cautiously, "I wonder how Mr. William is going to buy shares?" He didn't dare to think of the boy in front of him as a "boy".

"I'll pay $1.5 million to occupy 70% of the company's shares, and you can do the rest yourself!" Wang Jie said casually.

Michael Ovitz gasped, $1.5 million in the seventies was definitely a huge amount of money in the United States, and it could buy five or six small companies like CAA at this time.

Wang Jie's "kindness" made Michael Ovitz five very satisfied, the boy was in a hurry, this moment is a more difficult period for CAA, in a few years, Wang Jie wants to so easily invest in the innovative elite cultural brokerage company and obtain a controlling stake It is absolutely impossible.

Michael Ovitz asked worriedly, "What about the day-to-day management of the company?"

Wang Jie replied: "I will only send someone to supervise the company's finances, everything else is as usual, I don't have time to manage the company, you can contact my housekeeper for anything, I made a company management of the company's future management of the opinion, you take a look, you think it is feasible can be used as a reference." ”

The elder Jim took out five written materials and placed them in front of Michael Ovitz, and Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer, William Haber, Michael Rosenfeld, and Rowland Perkins opened the materials and looked through them.

After about half an hour, the five people raised their heads and looked at the boy with admiration, this was simply a demon, and the five people sighed secretly in their hearts.

The material given by Wang Jie is an analysis of the business model of the original space-time CAA after maturity copied from a supercomputer, and it has basically not changed except for the inappropriate places.

There are four main points in the material: 1. Bundled sales. 2. "Uniformity as a whole". 3. Set up the "cost of betrayal" mode. 4. "Wall Street + Madison Avenue" model.

In short, the corporate culture given by Wang Jie is positioned as teamwork. The company's organizational structure is also flat, and the cooperation of brokers is based on complete equality, Wang Jie suggested that everyone in the company should not have a formal job title, and there should be no special signs in the office, and even the customer list should be shared by the whole company. The company operates in two good traditions: first, every artist who signs a contract with an innovative elite agency will have a team at their service, and second, each agent communicates and exchanges information with their colleagues in a timely manner.

Wang Jie and Michael Ovitz signed the equity contract and left, leaving the old Jim to take care of the rest, and he rushed back to William's Farm overnight to start his retreat.

Recently, although Wang Jie's cultivation of the "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Practice" has improved, after entering the second layer of the Flesh Refining Realm, he obviously found that the speed has slowed down. The reason for Wang Jie's retreat is that he did not deliberately cultivate the "Washing the Pulp Sutra", which is about to be completed. When he first taught ten girls the "Washing the Pulp Sutra", he deliberately told them that they were learning Indian yoga, that is, to let the girls not have the intention of practicing martial arts, but only to exercise. Fortunately, the girls are not very old, their thoughts are relatively simple, and they don't think much about it, and the cultivation of the "Washing the Marrow Sutra" has almost become small in the past year. Most of the Buddhist exercises are not focused on deeds, and the four major exercises are empty. When Wang Jie taught the girls, he didn't have any idea of cultivating the "Washing the Pulp Sutra" in his heart, he put all his energy on the "Thirteen Taibao Horizontal Exercises", but he insisted on practicing the "Washing the Pulp Sutra" every day, which just conformed to the essence of the connotation of the "Washing the Pulp Sutra".