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Elizabeth got out of the parking lot with an assistant and walked straight into the Firefly Group's headquarters building. Compared with the past, today's Firefly Group headquarters is obviously much more lively, the hall on the first floor is crowded, and men and women in suits and leather shoes gather together in twos and threes to chat about something.

Elizabeth knew that these people were just the entourage of Firefly executives who had rushed to the meeting, and left her assistant here, and she herself walked straight to the VIP elevator in the building.

Arriving at Eric's office on the top floor, she said hello to the secretary outside the room, and she pushed the door open and walked in.

Elizabeth was slightly stunned by the situation in the office, Eric standing in front of the window with his chin raised, and Kelly Haynes carefully arranging the man's tie.

Seeing Elizabeth come in, Kelly was also stunned, and then greeted with a smile: "Morning, Liz, you're just in time, I still have work to do, you can help Eric tie it." ”

With that, Kelly let go of her tie, picked up a few papers on Eric's desk, nodded to Elizabeth, and left the office.

After Kelly left, Eric grabbed the half-tied tie on his chest, looked at Elizabeth, and smiled, "Look, come and help me tie my tie." ”

Elizabeth pouted and walked closer, raised her hand to take the tie from Eric's hand, couldn't help but pull, and said, "You're not afraid that I will strangle you to death, so many people are waiting outside, and they are still messing around at this time." ”

"Well, you won't believe me anyway. ”

Elizabeth ignored Eric, leaned over and sniffed at him a few times, and then showed a look that counted you as if you had passed the test, and said, "What are you going to do with such a big commotion?"

Eric shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I just suddenly want everyone to get together, of course, by the way, do some small things." ”

Elizabeth was very dissatisfied: "Hmph, you are hiding it from me like this, be careful that Fawkes does not cooperate with you." ”

"It's okay, if Fox dares not cooperate, I'll go clean up its boss's daughter tonight. ”

Elizabeth's mind turned, and her hand suddenly became hard again: "You bastard." ”

"Lightly, it's really going to strangle," Eric smiled and grabbed Elizabeth's small hand, "help me tie my tie, I have something good for you." ”

Elizabeth's hand moved a little faster, and she asked curiously, "What?"

Eric smiled and didn't answer, and waited until Elizabeth tied her tie before he took out a script from the filing cabinet under his desk and said, "Now, for you." ”

"The script you wrote?" Elizabeth said, picking it up and looking at it, before saying, "Gladiator, Ridley Scott's project, didn't it say that it has been confirmed to cooperate with Amberlin Pictures?"

The projects of Hollywood's A-list directors are basically on the attention list of studio executives, and it is not surprising that Elizabeth directly stated the information about "Gladiator".

Eric explains: "There was a funding problem with Amberlin, and of course, it could have been a lack of confidence in the project, so they cut the project, and last Saturday I ran into something that Tony Scott happened to know, so I took the script and read it, and I thought it was good. However, the big production project on Firefly's side has been scheduled for three years, so I'll leave it to your side to take care of it. ”

Elizabeth flipped a few pages casually and said with some hesitation: "Epic, now everyone knows that epic films are very risky, even if it was "Braveheart" a few years ago, it was not too successful at the box office. ”

Eric said: "The script for 'Gladiator' has a wider audience than 'Braveheart,' and Ridley Scott's directing skills are still guaranteed. ”

"Alright, then I'll go back and discuss it with you," Elizabeth nodded, naturally trusting Eric's judgment very much.

As he spoke, the office door was pushed open again, and the girl was rarely wearing a small shirt and white casual pants in a serious manner today, but she still smiled like a little girl and pounced on her, wrapping directly around Eric, and her legs were still wrapped around his waist with funny force, but there was no Natasha's 'lethality' at all.

Eric hugged the girl's little body, reached out and patted her little buttocks, and said helplessly: "Don't make trouble, Liz is here." ”

The girl grinned and kissed Eric on the cheek, stood up, and suddenly reached out to snatch the script from Elizabeth's hand.

Elizabeth, who had been on guard for a long time, skillfully dodged, and hit her backhand again: "Little Bichi." ”

The girl withdrew her hand, hugged Eric's arm and complained with an aggrieved face: "Eric, she scolded me." ”

Eric separated the two women who were at the wrong point, and said, "Okay, don't quarrel, let's go to the conference room, the people are almost there." ”

……

The largest conference room in the Firefly Group headquarters was already full at this time, and Eric walked out with Elizabeth and the girl, and Kelly just pushed the door out.

Eric paused and asked, "Are you all ready?"

Kelly said, "There's something wrong with the connection at Nokia, but it's fine." ”

Eric nodded, pushed the door open and walked in.

Seeing Eric come in, everyone who was chatting with each other quieted down, got up one after another, and looked at Eric who had just walked in the door.

At this time, the Firefly system, in addition to the executives of the Firefly Group, Fox Group and MGM Group in Los Angeles, the three giants of Firefly Electronics headquartered in San Francisco on the West Coast, and several core executives of Qualcomm headquartered in San Diego also rushed over at the same time, and other departments and companies appeared on ten 32-inch wall-mounted screens lined up on both sides of the large conference room through video connection.

Eric walked to the top, took a folder from Caroline's hand, and nodded to the group, "Sit down, everyone." ”

The crowd sat down, but Eric was still standing in place, and he didn't have a seat in his place today.

In the conference room, Katzenberg, Frank Wells, Girl, Elizabeth, Amy Pascal, John Carly, Joe Ross, Victor McNelly of Firefly Electronics, and Irving Jacob, CEO of Qualcomm, sat on either side of the large conference table. On the walls of the conference room, ten 32-inch wall-mounted screens connect executives such as Robert Iger of ABC in New York, Chris and Emily of Firefly Investment, John Chambers and other executives of Cisco headquarters, Ian Gnier of Yahoo, and ten other offices such as Apple, Sprint, and Amazon.

Scanning left and right, feeling the gaze of dozens of people passing through the scene and the camera lens, Eric suddenly had a sense of complacency.

That's your own business empire.

Firefly Empire.

Eric's feeling was like this, and everyone who attended the meeting on the spot and via video link also had an inexplicable shock in their hearts.

Before they knew it, they found themselves in such a huge business empire.

At this time, in the Firefly system, in addition to the Firefly Group, Cisco's market value has also exceeded $100 billion, although it has been excluded by the Firefly system, the number of shares is still more than 15% of AOL, and the market value has also exceeded $50 billion. Compared with the core Yahoo, Nokia, Firefly Electronics, LTD and other companies, the market value of the market value has also reached tens of billions or even tens of billions of dollars.

After years of accumulation, the scale of assets controlled by the entire firefly system has exceeded 400 billion US dollars at this time.

What is this concept, according to recent statistics, in the latest data on GDP of countries around the world, India, which ranks 13th, has a GDP figure of 429 billion US dollars, and Australia, which ranks 14th, has a GDP figure of only 380 billion.

In this way, just the firefly system is equivalent to controlling a huge 'economy' ranked 14th in the world, which can be described as a veritable rich country.

There was silence in the conference room for a moment, and Eric finally clapped his hands, attracting everyone's attention, before he smiled and said, "Yahoo annual meeting last year, Chris's wedding last year, everyone got together. I had hoped that such a meeting would be held once a year. However, eight months have passed this year, and all of us, including myself, are very busy, and there may not be time for the real gathering this year, so I have to choose to meet this way once. Starting next year, I hope to be able to finalize this kind of gathering once and for all, and to plan the date and itinerary in advance. ”

In the nodding and agreement of the crowd, Eric paced slightly in place for two steps before continuing: "Of course, everyone must have found that this time we have a partner who withdrew from this meeting, which has to be said to be a pity, because in my vision, all the companies of the Firefly system are an indispensable link, and the departure of AOL also made me realize that there are too many things in this world that are always unsatisfactory, but I hope that the next few years can refill the vacancy left by AOL." ”

After saying this, he paused for a moment, and glanced at the people inside and outside the arena, Eric suddenly smiled and said: "Okay, everyone must have heard about what happened recently, it was very lively, I suddenly felt that I would be able to live well in the future even if I relied on the appraisal of the script or something, after all, just my affirmation, I can increase the price of a script worth $100,000 to $7.5 million." ”

Amid a slightly teasing laugh, Eric clapped his hands again and continued, "Now, let's talk about this one thing at the end, looking at everyone sitting in front of me and attending this meeting via video, I still can't believe that this is all true. ”

Eric said, casually rolling up the sleeves of his shirt, bringing these memories, and said slowly: " I think of ten years ago, heh, it's really exactly ten years, 1988, probably at this time, I was still working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant, and, because of some changes, I suddenly found that I was the only one left in my own world, and I was basically in a daze every day between serving dishes to guests, thinking about my own things, thinking about the future, thinking about it, I felt that I couldn't live in such a mess, at least, I should do something to prove that I really exist. Then, I wrote my first novel, my first screenplay, acted in my first film, and directed my first film. Looking back now, I realize how lucky I was that along the way, I always met people who could help me. ”

"I got a foothold in Hollywood, founded the Firefly Group, and slowly, I started to want to do more. I'll admit that in the beginning, I did these things with a very blind and completely speculative mentality, like investing in AOL, and Cisco, and even Nokia, and my idea was to wait for these companies to develop, and then take off the stocks that I invested in at that time, so that I could make a lot of money. ”

Listening to the laughter that sounded again inside and outside the arena, Eric also smiled and said: "However, now, I don't have any speculative thoughts, even if it is AOL, which is about to leave the big family of fireflies, I think everyone must be very clear that there is not much money in this, but everyone has a conflict with foreign development concepts, and the two sides have to separate." In fact, if possible, I even hope that everyone can go on hand in hand forever, because, as I just said, in my heart, every team of the Firefly system is indispensable. ”

Saying this, Eric made a gesture to Caroline, who was sitting quietly next to him, took a tablet computer from the other party's hand and showed it to everyone, and said, "Perhaps, everyone will think that what I just said was out of politeness, but definitely not. To put it simply, the future of the firefly system can be completely condensed in this small machine. As you all know, this is the tablet that Firefly Electronics and Yahoo are co-developing. Perhaps, at this time, you will have doubts in your hearts, what does this have to do with me, of course it has to do with it. ”

"In my vision, this machine can link the entire firefly system......

For most of the next half hour, Eric explained that the planned tablet and even further smartphones will connect the Internet equipment, content, service providers, mobile communication equipment manufacturers, underlying technology research and development companies, and even the content services of the Hollywood Media Group in the entire Firefly system to form a complete and grand information age industry blueprint.

Since Monday, Eric has been preparing for today's speech, combined with the future development of the information industry in memory and the accumulation of experience over the years, Eric's description of the future prospects of the firefly system made everyone at the scene listen to it with fascination.

It can be said unceremoniously that if Eric's vision can be realized, the entire 21st century may be the era of the firefly system, just like the 20th century Morgan and Rockefeller families relied on energy, automobiles, and finance to control the whole world.

The workplace elites who were originally contemptuous of him because of Eric's age were all happy and convinced at this time.

This young man may not have a high degree such as an Ivy League school, or he may not have the workplace experience they have accumulated over the years, but the foresight shown at this time may be the reason why he has been able to lead the Firefly system to where it is now in just ten years.

After all, there is no shortage of talents in this world, not even geniuses, but only people with keen and forward-looking vision who can always walk on the right path.