March 20, Inavada, Mi.

When the plane landed at Las Vegas Airport, Xu Jing was dressed as a tourist with a casual denim shirt, and when he got off the plane, he felt a heat and couldn't help loosening his clothes. Las Vegas is located on the edge of the desert in the state of Minami Nevado, and the average daily temperature in Las Vegas at this time has exceeded 28°C.

After buying a navigation map at the airport and finding an ordinary hotel to live in, Xu Jing studied a plan to raise funds.

At this time, Las Vegas was far from being the world-famous entertainment capital of tourism, shopping, and vacation decades later. Las Vegas was founded in 1905, and for the first half of the 90s, the city was recognized as a fantasy world for adults.

The purpose of this place's existence is to block, and in addition to blocking, it is still blocking. It is the dark forces that control everything in this greedy city. It wasn't until the 80s that the pace industry was slowly formalized, and the forces that controlled the city were transformed into police officers who symbolized the white way. Since 1993, Las Vegas has only ushered in super-rapid development, transforming from a sin city to an entertainment capital and tourist resort.

If you want to talk about what Xu Jing came to Alaska for, this has to talk about "Rain Man" released in 1988. Speaking of which, "Rain Man" is also very related to Xu Jing, this movie tells the story of a father who left his inheritance to his brother who has autism, and the younger brother plans to defraud this wealth because he is dissatisfied with his father's behavior, and then a series of things happen, in the process, the blood family relationship breaks the original alienation, and the sincere and touching brotherhood replaces the younger brother's original selfishness of only seeking his own interests. The autism suffered from by the elder brother and the Asperger's disease suffered by Xu Jing in his previous life are of the same spectrum, but they are just different diseases.

There is such a passage in the film where the younger brother discovers the high talent of the imbecile brother: he has an amazing memory and the ability to "never forget". He can accurately report the flight schedule, time, place, and cause of all major air crashes in flight history, and he can quickly count the 246 toothpicks that have fallen on the restaurant floor. He can also remember any phone number he has read in his phone book. His mental arithmetic speed is not inferior to that of a calculator.

So the clever brother had an idea and thought about it: he did some training and "packaging" for his brother, and then took him to the city of Las Vegas, where he lived up to his expectations, and the brother won 86,000 dollars by blocking cards with his amazing memory.

That's what Xu Jing came to Alaska for: to pay tribute to next year's Oscar harvester "Rain Man" in advance.

Fifteen days later, Xu Jing dragged a suitcase to the airport again.

In the past fifteen days, Xu Jing seems to have changed a person, the original eighteen or nineteen-year-old looking young face has disappeared, replaced by a young and strong face in his twenties, and there is still a slight tiredness. In order to improve the age fit of the role of Leon in "This Killer is Not Too Cold", Xu Jing began to stay up late every night, only sleeping three hours in the early morning every day.

During these fifteen days in Las Vegas, it was basically an outdoor workout during the day, partly to improve the fit of the characters' body shapes, and partly to stimulate the skin to loosen and rough by receiving ultraviolet rays to improve age fit. In addition, Xu Jing picked up pen and paper, wrote and painted, and prepared the storyboard and storyboard of "Killer" and the storyboard script. At night, Xu Jing turned into a tourist and wandered between the various jams.

When Xu Jing was about to leave Las Vegas, Xu Jing carried a suitcase and a check totaling $8 million. In fact, the harvest of the trip to Las Vegas far exceeded Xu Jing's original expectations, in the original plan, Xu Jing thought that he could win at most two or three million US dollars, after all, the current Las Vegas is far from the super blockade city decades later.

In order not to cause trouble, in the first ten days, Xu Jing did only win two million dollars piecemeal, until the eleventh day, Xu Jing met a second-generation local tyrant from the Middle East who came to play, and after losing nearly one million to Xu Jing during the blockage, he refused to admit defeat and got into trouble with Xu Jing, and he had to pester Xu Jing every day. Fortunately, this is just the stupid son of the landlord's family, otherwise Xu Jing really didn't want to be in such a limelight, and changed the local power banker, Xu Jing would have hid far away. Even so, Xu Jing did not plan to continue to stay and entangle, and it was inevitable that there would be accidents after a long time.

Next stop, San Francisco, California.

The purpose of Xu Jing's trip was Pixar Animation Studios in San Francisco. Pixar Animation Studios is a company specializing in computer animation, formerly known as the computer animation department of "Star Wars" director George Lucas's film company, which was acquired by Steve Jobs, the "father of Apple" Joe, for $10 million in 1986 and established as Pixar Animation Studios.

In 1985, the first company established after Jobs was kicked out of Apple was not Pixar, but NeXT Computer Company, relatively speaking, NeXT Computer Company is Jobs's own son, Pixar can only be regarded as an adopted son, but this adopted son has developed much better than his own son in the future. As an adopted son, Jobs's investment in Pixar was far less than that of NeXT Computer Company, and Jobs did not have much to spare at this time.

Of course, Xu Jing's purpose in coming to Pixar was not to buy Pixar with millions of dollars in his hand, although Pixar was in a difficult situation at this time, but with Jobs's arrogant personality, let alone eight million dollars, I am afraid that a few times more will not fool Jobs.

"Hello, Mr. Kamel, I'm Xu Jing from Xiangjiang, a film director and the owner of a film production company, and it's a pleasure to meet you. Xu Jing met Ed Kamel, one of the founders of Pixar and the chairman of Pixar Animation Studios, Cammel was full of scum, round glasses, and a little bookish, and there were only a few dozen people in Pixar at this time, so it was not difficult to see him.

"Hello, Mr. Xu, it's a pleasure to meet you, please take a seat, is there anything you are looking for me?" Kamuel shook hands with Xu Jing and sat down because of him.

"Well, I've seen your studio's "Pippi Jumping Light" and I like it so much that I wanted you to make a logo for my studio. Xu Jing is not good at dealing with people, and directly stated the purpose.

"Wait a minute, Mr. Xu. Kamuel seemed a little excited, and then shouted out of the office, "John, John, come here, hurry." ”

"This is our studio's Chief Creative Officer, John Lasseter, you can talk to him about your idea and we can accommodate any request you have, I promise. A slightly chubby middle-aged man came in, Kamuel said.

"Hello, Mr. Lasseter, it's a pleasure to meet you, I love your work. Xu Jing shook hands with John Lasseter and said.

"Hello, Mr. Xu, can you tell me more about your requirements?" said John Lasseter.

"Well, I want to do not only computer graphics logos, but also 3D, please see, this is my design draft. Xu Jing took out the designed drawings and handed them to the two.

"What?3D logo?" Camel and Lasseter said in amazement. Although 3D animation appeared as early as 84, it was far from popular, and even computer graphics technology was not popular at this time, let alone 3D animation.

"Yes, I'm very interested in 3D animation and I'm very optimistic about his prospects. This is a preliminary attempt, and maybe we can cooperate more deeply in the future. Xu Jing said.

Camel and Lasseter looked intently at the pile of drawing paper in their hands, very detailed, if they are connected in series, the first is a medium scene, the scenery is a number of stone mountains floating in the air, there are trees on the mountains, there is a waterfall, there is a mist between the floating mountains, and there are looming birds, layer by layer, very layered. If you are in a previous life, it is easy to see that this scene is very familiar with the scene in "Avatar", and it is very immortal in the classical fairy world of China.

The reason why it is a medium shot instead of a close view is mainly due to the fact that the current technology is not yet able to make the picture very clear. In fact, as early as 1982, Industrial Light & Magic used computer-generated scenes in "Star Trek: Khan's Wrath", that is, CG special effects scenes, although the effect was so clear and realistic in less than a few decades, but it was still very shocking, and in 1985, a computer generated a character "stained glass man".

It was only in 1991 that "Terminator 2" carried forward CG technology. The earliest 3D logo was Pixar's 94-year-old logo for Paramount's starry orbiting the snow-capped mountains, when the first 3D animation had not yet been released. And now, these scenes designed by Xu Jing are not impossible to achieve with the current technology.

Then the middle scene of the logo slowly zooms out, and at the same time, it seems to open a landscape painting full of fairy spirit with a sense of hierarchy. Immediately after that, the center of the picture seems to have rolled up a tornado, from small to large, it is clear that this is a pile of gravel rotating, and then the gravel is nailed to the picture scroll one by one, forming a stone carving-like world map that is both simple and clear, and then two quaint pale stone sculpture-like words "Jiuzhou" are suddenly nailed to the map.

This logo is designed for 15 seconds, but Xu Jing's design draft is full of forty or fifty copies.

"Xu, your design is very bold, and we are very interested, but it is not cheap to make. Lasseter was fascinated by the stack of design drafts.

"There is no problem with this, but I need to do it in three months. Xu Jing replied.

"No problem, I promise. "Lasseter and Camel are complete workaholics, and in order to make the first animated short film since Pixar's establishment, the two used to eat and live in the office, and slept on the floor of the office with sleeping bags.

In the end, Xu Jing agreed on the specific details with Lasseter and Kammer and reached a cooperation for $400,000. In fact, the two of them are very happy to receive this business, the first business that Pixar received was the first commercial for pure Connor juice in 8.9: "Wake Up", and before that, Pixar could only rely on a little money squeezed out by Jobs to make animated short films, for people with ambitions and ideas, the days without money are not easy.

Back at the hotel, Xu Jing thought about what to do next. Due to the harvest of Las Vegas far beyond the plan, there is now a lot of idle funds in addition to the funds needed by the company to make films, and it is always a very stupid act to put it like this, maybe a very crazy plan can be implemented, if it is still in time, Xu Jing thought.

There is only one goal for this program, Cisco.

Cisco, this is because of a legendary company created by a couple of Stanford University engineers to facilitate the delivery of love letters. Its product is an epoch-making "multi-protocol router" that people will use every day for decades to come, whether at work or at home.

Cisco was a miracle in the 80s and 90s, and it is a legend that will always be talked about in the Internet industry, from its listing in 1990 to 2000, when it surpassed Microsoft in market value to become the world's most valuable company. In 2001, during the Internet bubble, 80% of the market value evaporated. Cisco's history has always been a classic case study in the Internet world.

At this time, the founders of Cisco, Mr. and Mrs. Bosak, are estimated to be still investing in Silicon Valley.

Xu Jing's next plan was not to find the Posacks immediately, and the United States could not tolerate a Chinese like him holding too much wealth, let alone the absolute core technical wealth of Cisco.

Xu Jing's operation method is somewhat complicated, first in the form of an agent in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, the Seychelles, Bermuda five offshore economic regions registered five offshore investment companies, and in the form of custody to the agency company, and then entrusted the agency company to set up a "legendary" investment fund in Silicon Valley, the name is a bit cheesy, but after all, it is just a shell. After that, five offshore investment companies are allowed to settle in the investment fund, which is equivalent to this "legendary" investment fund on the surface, which is composed of five offshore investment companies for venture capital.

The purpose of registering an offshore investment company in the form of an agent and escrow operation is naturally to hide your identity, if you don't know where to appear in the West, you may be eaten to the scum, even so, Xu Jing still registered five to reduce the target.

Although Cisco was founded as early as '86, before '88, the Bosses had to work part-time at other companies in exchange for cash income. So at this time, the Bossaks were in dire need of funds, which is why they appeared in Silicon Valley.

It's just that the reality is far more cruel than they think, they have approached 66 venture capital firms before, although their Cisco company has a turnover of $1.5 million and a profit of $83,000 in '87, but none of them are willing to invest in them, because they are not a qualified operator at all, and all investors have a very bad sense of them.

When Xu Jing approached the Bossaks through the Legend Investment Fund, they were in despair, so when the Legend Investment Fund suggested that the Bossaks must give up their business leadership in exchange for $3 million in exchange for a 70% stake in Cisco, the Bossaks accepted without surprise.

What is interesting is that when the contract was signed, Xu Jing did not sign it in the name of the legendary investment fund, but in the name of five offshore investment companies, which means that the legendary fund only played a role in the whole process. Xu Jing's purpose in doing this is naturally not to be too woody and show off in the forest, in fact, Xu Jing's plan is far more than that, in addition to reducing the attention of the whole country, Xu Jing also plans to pull the local capital of the United States to charge into battle, and it is also convenient not to be entangled in Cisco in the future, of course, this is all a later story.

In the original time and space, the Bossaks were in contact with the 77th venture capital, the investor was Donna Van Lunding of Sequoia Capital, and Donna Van Lunding exchanged $2.5 million for 65% of Cisco's equity and the management rights of the Bossaks, and then hired John Mowgli, who was the president of Grid System, as the CEO of Cisco, Bossak as the chief technology officer, and Lerna led the customer service department.

Xu Jing naturally will not put down the movie and run to manage the company, in his heart, Cisco is far inferior to his film company, and becoming the owner of Cisco is just a matter of picking up the gold discarded by others, after all, if he doesn't pick it up, someone else will pick it up. Even if there is a butterfly effect and Cisco deviates from its original trajectory, Xu Jing will not have much regret.

Xu Jing appointed the agent of the agency as the acting chairman, who was only responsible for communicating his strategic decisions, and the person who really managed the operation was handed over to the CEO John Mowglich as the original time and space, and gave him a 3% stake.

It's not that Xu Jing is stingy, but John Mowgli has only been at the helm of Cisco for more than a year, which is much more generous than the original time and space Donald Van Lendin only let him subscribe for shares when he went public.

As a result, Cisco is basically on the right track as it was in the same time and space, just waiting for John Mowglich to lead Cisco to go public.