Chapter Thirty-Six: There's a story called Inspirational
The best hotel in Sunnyvale, California is the Four Seasons Hotel, the reason why this luxury chain is located here is because it is the center of Silicon Valley, which is the headquarters of a series of high-tech enterprises in 8*8. Now, there is another leader in the field of digital music in the city, HH, as the general manager of the hotel, Isado, who hopes that HH 2 will continue the glory of 1. Because only the more big companies in the city, the better the hotel business will be.
Of course, Isado will not be relentless in the slightest when it comes to the money it should collect, and renting a conference room in a hotel for a press conference is all at a fixed price: 18,000 US dollars an hour! If you make money, you have to make rich people's money, and if you don't make rich people's money, can you still make money from poor people? Of course, as a well-known chain enterprise, the service of the Four Seasons Hotel is also first-class, and it will serve customers very well and properly. You get what you pay for, the money of the rich is not blown by the wind, without that strength, who would be willing to spend this price?
However, this time, Isardo asked the waiters to prepare, and the new product launch of HH Company was not held in his place, but in the multimedia classroom of Stanford, but the reception after the conference was still held in his place.
Eccentric, also a Stanford graduate, Isado was curious, so he also went to this alternative product launch.
Actually, it's not weird, it's a suggestion given by advertising agencies. When it was released last year, the only way to make it an American brand and be accepted by discerning European and American users was to let it be released, and now that it has established its leading position in the field of digital music players, it is necessary to let Li Jiaming personally come out, which is conducive to creating a topic. Li Jiaming's isolation from the American media over the past year is also due to this consideration.
As a good businessman, Isado suddenly figured out these propaganda tricks as soon as he sat in the classroom he had sat in twenty years ago and saw the reporters in the front row. How can you promote a product have a good effect on promoting heroes? Don't you see that movies and comics are full of superheroes?
At nine o'clock, the classroom suddenly sounded high-pitched and beautiful music, thanks to "Shawshank" six years ago, everyone in the classroom knew that this was "The Marriage of Figaro". However, why did you choose this song for the launch of the new product?
The answer is in the story that Li Jiaming is going to tell today, and after the four-minute music is over, Li Jiaming, who is wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans, and black Converse board shoes, walks onto the podium amid warm applause.
The burly and tall Li Jiaming is not so much like Asian, but a bit like a black person, especially the one who looks different, has extremely dark skin, and has extremely white teeth, but there is a feeling of comfort when standing on the stage. Li Jiaming, who was standing on the stage, was excited, looking at so many reporters in the audience and was a little emotional, if the success is stained with the light of Lao Zhang, the success of Lifang is borrowed from the seniors, and the success of HH is truly his own.
Forcibly suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Jiaming let the deliberate speed of speech slow down, and his tone became calm and excited.
"Gentlemen, you must be curious, why do I put this tune?"
After a pause, Li Jiaming, who had already aroused everyone's curiosity, asked and replied to himself: "For me, because it is the soundtrack of a great movie, not because its author is the great Mozart." It can also be said that it was that great movie that changed my life.
Yes, it's the great "The Shawshank Redemption", and the first American movie I watched. It shook me up because of my failure at the time, because the movie was so great, the music was so direct, and it was then that I had an idea: I must come to the United States to see how great this great country can make such a great movie. ”
The United States is really arrogant, and it can make a Chinese genius praise the great motherland so much, and all the reporters can't help but applaud, interrupting Li Jiaming, who seems to be giving a speech instead of introducing products.
Life is like a play, it all depends on acting skills, but at this time, Li Jiaming really recalled the shock when he watched that movie, and from that movie, he knew a term - institutionalization. At that time, he was fighting, drinking, and girly, except for not stealing, not getting involved in drugs and gambling, he would do any, and he felt very majestic!
But life is so wonderful, a movie let him know what institutionalization, and knew that if he continues to be so mixed up and indulge in those illusory majesty, he will be targeted by the government sooner or later.
Well, this is Li Jiaming's fantasy of beautifying himself, and the truth of the facts is another.
This movie is Zeng Qiang's favorite, in his previous life, Mao Tong smashed Zeng Bo's game hall, Zeng Bo broke Mao Tang's right hand, and Li Jiaming raised money everywhere to redeem his brother. Out of the game hall, in front of the big dog and the thin dog, he broke Mao Tang's left hand again, and then broke his left hand, as if he was paying for Mao Tang.
It's not a skill to be ruthless to others, but it's a real skill to be ruthless enough to yourself. Li Jiaming, who was ruthless enough, fell into Zeng Qiang's eyes, did not embarrass them anymore, and acquiesced to their brothers to make a fortune. However, in his previous life, Li Jiaming was bound to repay him, because even his father never let him kneel, and Zeng Qiang forced him to kneel in the game hall, so he regarded it as a great shame.
Before he had the strength, the ruthless Li Jiaming forbearably retreated and even stammered with the Zeng brothers, but the hatred became deeper and deeper. In the end, in the end, the Zeng Qiang brothers were successfully attacked by the four brothers, thrown into the sea, and given to the shark for supper. A few years later, Li Jiaming bought the mansion where Zeng Qiang was auctioned off and dug out the pirated videotape from his study.
No, this is not the truth of the facts either, the former is not, the latter is not.
The real truth is that not long after the Zeng Qiang brothers fed the sharks, and then the little sister drank the pesticide and ran out, and Li Jiaming, who went home to mourn, sent Mao Yan and them to beat his brother-in-law into a lifelong cripple. Then, Li Jiaming returned to Shencheng to continue to do black and white business, and after a few years, he started the bleaching business before he watched this film.
After reading it, Li Jiaming remembered what Zeng Qiang used to say: The strong save themselves, and the sage crosses people. It's a pity that Li Jiaming felt that he had saved himself, but Zeng Qiang was not a saint, and he couldn't do to others what he didn't want, so he was fed a shark by himself.
Yes, that's the real truth.
Standing on the podium, Li Jiaming secretly lamented the impermanence of the world, and recited the lines in the movie in skillful English: To this day, I don't know what those two Italian girls are singing, in fact, I don't want to know. It's better to keep some things unsaid. I'm singing some very beautiful and moving stories like them, so beautiful that it's hard to put into words, and so beautiful that your heart aches. Tell you, these voices go straight into the sky, flying farther than anyone dares to dream. It's like some beautiful bird flapping its wings to our brown cage and making those walls disappear without a trace. At that moment, everyone in Fort Shark felt free.
"Music, my life was lit up by the music in that pirated videotape, and it was then that I realized that life is not only about going to college and making money, but also about freedom, ideals, and beliefs. So, I fell in love with music, and whenever I had a setback, I would listen to The Marriage of Figaro. Andy is still able to redeem himself in prison, why am I still so depressed?"
The speech was interrupted again, and when the applause stopped again, the speech was still excited.
"When I was in college, there were tape recorders and solo players in the dormitory, but they all needed to be touched and powered, and our university would have a power outage at 10 p.m. One day, it occurred to me that it would be great if there was something that could put all the music I love in my pocket.
Later, when my friends and I were exposed to the Internet and started a business with my friends, I realized that I might be able to create something that I could put in my pocket the music I loved. Unfortunately, I found my friend, the former president of the (Huaguo) branch, and he told me that this kind of thing was called MP3, and the first inventor was Korean, and the person who proposed to put a thousand songs in his pocket was called Jobs.
I was lucky because I was paranoid and decided that I had the idea and that I should have created it, and I became very, very rich because of my success. So, I bought a web company, recruited a whole bunch of engineers to work for me, and finally created 1 last year.
However, because the idea is detached from objective technology, 1 is not perfect, but today, I finally achieved what I dreamed of, and I really managed to put a thousand pieces of music in my pocket. ”
It's like making a movie, as if it's a dream come true, Li Jiaming took out a delicate white 2 from his jeans pocket and displayed it under the cameras of reporters. Under the flash, the ivory 2 exudes a soft sheen, as beautiful as a work of art.
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