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Unlike religious organizations, the PTA is founded by all parents and teachers to protect the children in the school.

Therefore, a movie about the early pregnancy of underage girls does have this risk.

Sid smiled and shook his fingers, he propped up the table, and looked at everyone with his eyes blazing: "If Spielberg or Martin Scorsese were to shoot this subject, would anyone gossip?"

"That's ......," Henry was speechless.

If a master like Spielberg were to shoot such a sensitive subject, it would be regarded as a courageous act of daring to challenge oneself and expose society.

"Then why can't I challenge myself?" said Sid, looking at the crowd with a playful smile.

"So the script is all done?" Shirley (Sandberg) looks at the script in front of Sid and asks a seemingly nonsense question.

"Of course. Sid said with a smile.

The topic shifted to this, and Sid continued: "You can go back to the script and talk about the preparation first. ”

"Yes, okay. Henry nodded, and at the same time he couldn't help but secretly pinch his sweat, and the smile and kindness of Lixi on weekdays made it easy to forget that he still had a strong side of the thunder. Although Sid's side is not often revealed, when it is necessary to forcefully advance his plan, Sid is also the standard type who will not give up until he reaches his goal.

"Because I wanted to take on the challenge, I don't need to be too exaggerated in terms of cost, and I've set a budget of between $6.5 million and $7 million. So this time the shooting was in Toronto, Canada, and then this time in terms of production, because Henry is still in London to host the overall situation of "Harry Potter", so I need a new producer, Henry, do you have any recommendations?" asked Sid with a smile.

Although what Sid said was also true, being excluded from Sid's own work for the first time still made Henry's heart feel a little frightened, "Well, I have a few deputies on hand who are not bad." ”

"Okay, then let them take the lead in forming the crew. Sid said with a smile, "And then the preparations, costumes, and other photography and other aspects of the preparation, there are only two months to prepare, so the time is still a little tight." Our initial start time is set to start in March, and the whole shooting time is only a little over a month, so the quality of the people behind the scenes must not be sloppy. ”

"Also, I don't want people to know that I'm making a new film, so when recruiting people, don't reveal it. Sid added at the end.

"No problem, Boss. After adjusting his mentality, Henry nodded quickly.

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"Congratulations on the success of the three-month launch. Sid raised his champagne glass and smiled at Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

"Hehe, that's just the basics, Sid. Despite that, Larry Page raised his glass in delight.

"Sergey (Brin), why are you so silent today?" Sid looked at the other partner.

"Haha, he, he dated his sister yesterday, and now he is still in the aftertaste! Larry (Paige) said with a grin.

"Oh, what kind of girl, don't you tell me about it. Sid also gossiped all at once, and asked with a glint in his eyes.

"It's useless, I've been asking him for a day, and he won't say anything. Larry (Paige) shrugged.

"I don't have it that easy. Sid smiled and stretched out his hands, fingers flexing.

"Boss, they're coming. Just then, Larry's (Paige's) assistant suddenly walked in.

Sid's face immediately changed, and he stood up in a serious way, and the speed of the change of face surprised Larry (Paige) and Sergey (Brin).

But they also quickly stood up, and the three of them walked out of the booths, where they were sitting in the lounge area of Google's new office building, a group of suit-wearers, Sid and Larry Page, looked at each other and nodded.

Then Larry Page walked up and said, "Welcome to Google, folks, I'm Larry Page, and this is my partner, Sergey Brin. ”

The other party was obviously prepared, and a young man with short blond brown hair smiled and said, "Hello, I'm David Ferro, and this is my partner ......." ”

"Yang Zhiyuan, who in Silicon Valley would not know the two Yahoo chiefs?" said a hearty voice next to him with a smile.

As soon as David Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan turned their heads, they were surprised to see an unexpected figure, "Wow, I didn't expect to meet Hollywood's darlings here." ”

Sid smiled and waved his hand, "In front of the two darlings of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, we Google don't dare to say anything darling." ”

Since the beginning of this year, if there is anyone who is the largest and hottest Internet company in Silicon Valley, it is definitely Yahoo. Since the beginning of the year, the fiscal year statement became net income for the first time.

Under the dual pursuit of Wall Street and the NASDAQ bubble, Yahoo's market value has exceeded $39 billion, and this year is only five years after Yahoo was founded.

Therefore, Yahoo executives, led by founder Yang Zhiyuan, became the first batch of Silicon Valley Internet companies to collectively create dozens of multimillionaires and countless millionaires in Silicon Valley.

As for Yang Zhiyuan's paper fortune, it has reached $7.5 billion! This achievement overshadows even the Apple Jobs.

In just one year, the young portal has officially increased from an average of 167 million daily views in December '98 to 235 million in December '99, an increase of 41%!

At the same time, the number of registered users of the Yahoo portal has also increased from 35 million in the previous year to 47 million, and the user growth rate is not only the No. 1 website in the United States, but also twice the average growth rate of the overall network!

Such a dazzling result naturally made Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro the hottest darlings in Silicon Valley.

"In fact, one of the most important foundations of Yahoo is not to collect and classify Internet websites, so that the cumbersome and complex Internet world can be used by all users simply and easily?" Sid's concise words surprised Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro, who did not expect that a young man who worked hard in Hollywood would know so much about Silicon Valley.

"So, you're the mysterious investor who defeated Sequoia and took a stake in Google?" Yang Zhiyuan's eyes sparkled through his glasses and stared at Sid Dao.

Sequoia Capital initially invested in Google to provide flank cover for Yahoo's development, and it is impossible for Yang Zhiyuan, as the leader of Yahoo, not to know about this strategic matter.

"I just had the right time. Sid said with a smile in Chinese.

At this moment, not only Yang Zhiyuan and David Ferro were surprised, but even Larry Page and Sergey Brin were secretly surprised.

"Can you speak Chinese?" Yang Zhiyuan, as a Chinese from TW, of course, can easily converse in Chinese, and when he saw Sid playing Chinese in front of him, he couldn't help but shoot back in Chinese.

"Not only that, but I did tests in the biology lab, I have a quarter of Chinese ancestry, and my grandfather was an early Chinese immigrant. Sid said with a smile, "So I studied Chinese because I wanted to know more about my roots." ”

"Then you should go to the other side of the ocean, and maybe find your roots. Yang Zhiyuan said kindly.

"Well, Guys, can you say something we can understand?" said David Ferro in English, spreading his hands.

Sid and Yang Zhiyuan looked at each other and smiled, and the two couldn't help laughing: "Hahaha-"

This back-and-forth confrontation made Yang Zhiyuan feel a little good for Sid, and his tone was a little relaxed: "Then you just want to cooperate with Yahoo on the search engine?"

Sid smiled slightly: "I think this, Google's help to portals like Yahoo, Sequoia Capital's analysis is more authoritative than my statement." ”

Sid smiled and pointed at the other party's weakness seemingly inadvertently, which made Yang Zhiyuan suddenly feel a little like he was about to meet a good talent, and he couldn't help but face Sid: "We Yahoo have a large number of registered customers and a surge in views, what can you Google provide?"

"A unique web search technology!" says Sergey Brin confidently.

"And yes, we at Google exclusively own the patented search technology PageRank. Larry Page added.

Although Google's PageRank was invented by Sergei (Brin's) team as early as 1998, due to the technical completion and complexity of the application, it was not until September 2001 that Google obtained the national patent right from the federal government.

But this time, in order to avoid long nights, Sid mobilized the connections and lobbying teams of Wells Fargo, Ali (Emmanuel) and Oracle boss Larry Ellison to quickly pass Google's application process for the patent.

Patents for Internet technology, even in North America, are now in their dawn. Because the federal government's patent office is not familiar with the patented technology of Internet companies, it often takes a lot of time to determine a technology patent.

Sid not only helped Google quickly pass the patent application, but also because the current PageRank technology is still incomplete, so this patent from Google and Stanford University is still a general-purpose technology patent that can be supplemented. In other words, Google's subsequent development of this technology can automatically become its own technology protected by law, without having to report to the patent office.

Of course, it is still necessary to report technical data after the fact, but for the PageRank technology itself, it is already protected by law when it is developed and subsequent, which is also a manifestation of the strong protection of intellectual property rights in North America.