Whether it is dropping out of school and meeting a company full of innovation, or meeting the perfect entrepreneurial partner, catching up with the background of mature video communication technology. [txt full works download]【.. Doing the right thing at the right time is always a challenge.

For Chen Shijun, a Chinese kid who made up his mind to open the video site YouTube, he must not have thought that pie from the sky would fall on his head so quickly-

Chen Shijun was born in Taiwan, China in August 1978, and is a Chinese-American, three years younger than Chen Tiandu.

Since childhood, he has loved to tinker with computers, and he wrote down the first program of his life in the sixth grade of primary school. After entering the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ranked in the top 5 in the United States for computer science), he spent his days in the company of computer enthusiasts, leaving his normal studies behind. Unable to withstand the temptation of working in Silicon Valley, although he was only half a year away from graduation, he resolutely dropped out of school and joined PayPal, which had been in business for less than one year.

He dropped out of school in the last semester, and others dropped out of school to start a business, and he was in a situation where he dropped out of school and found a job because the job opportunities in Silicon Valley were too tempting.

If you don't rush to work at PayPal, you won't become a millionaire in 3 years, you won't meet future entrepreneurial partners, and you may not be on the cusp of technology. From this point of view, dropping out of school and finding employment is a necessary foundation for Chen Shijun to live a high-profile life in the future.

Of course, objectively speaking, Chen Shijun drops out of school and works in his environment, and the courage required is much less than ours.

Chen Shijun was undoubtedly lucky, in February 2002, the PayPal company he joined was listed on the NASDAQ and finally successfully listed, not only making them millionaires, but also allowing them to build their circle of friends and put down roots in Silicon Valley.

Because the interdependence of PayPal and eBay is too high, 5 months after PayPal went public, Bay's corporate culture makes it difficult for Chen Shijun and other old PayPal employees to adapt, and the most obvious difference from PayPal's initial period is that engineers have lost their "right to speak" and can only listen to the dispatch of upper-level bigwigs.

After a few years of holding back on eBay, Chen Shijun finally mustered up the courage to resign and go. "I really wanted to try my hand at decisiveness, and my head was full of entrepreneurial ideas. There's no way I can't help but write them all."

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This is an era when video recording equipment is popular, small video recorders and mobile phones with video recording functions are fashionable things in the hands of young people, many people like to bring video recorders to parties, and then watch the footage of friends joking and even pranking each other over and over again. Chen Shijun and Chad noticed a number of shocking videos and the craze they sparked in the crowd. But the situation at that time was that it was easy to share photos between friends, but it was difficult to share videos and movies. This sparked their entrepreneurial impulse.

At the end of a certain earth-shattering story, it is usually just a simple idea, some kind of impulse of small needs. Then it's tweaking, tweaking...... The same is true of the beginning of YouTube, no one knows (except Chen Tiandu) what it will become in the end, but they like it and feel that it will bring convenience to more and more people, so they continue to move forward.

The success of every business is inevitably the ingredient of luck, xt full works download/

Whether it is from dropping out of school to meet a creative company, or to meet the perfect entrepreneurial partner, or to catch up with the background of mature video communication technology. However, luck is something that everyone has, and the important thing is whether you can catch it.

"Do the right thing at the right time". It's always a challenge for everyone.

Of course, there is another very important reason why Chen Shijun decided to start a business, that is, the entrepreneurial partner has returned to its place. Chad who moved to Seattle after getting married a few years ago? Hurley, with his wife and newborn child, moved back to Silicon Valley. Together, they decided they wanted to create something, and the business began.

As with all start-ups, getting started is always hard. Their top 10 engineers were recruited from old PayPal colleagues, had no venture capital, no salary; Buying a server and bandwidth maxed out your credit card......

They also like to watch gossip news from the IT world every day. Browse the latest current events. The hottest news recently is that Chen Tiandu was forced to reduce his stake in Google. If it were them, they probably wouldn't be able to give up this courage. Although Chen Tiandu is buying DreamWorks and Apple again. But in Google's position, he undoubtedly loses.

This is the United States, and it is difficult for outsiders to know what kind of pressure he is under.

Before he insisted, Chen Shijun, Chade and other friends were like ordinary people, and it was not easy to envy. But there is no concern about Google user information. These are all disguises. But Chen Tiandu really reduced his holdings of Google stocks. This envy immediately turned into regret. Then there is empathy, lamenting what happened to a foreigner in the United States after taking control of information.

It's just that they didn't expect that within a few days, this person, who had never been seen only on the Internet and in the cinema, would appear in front of them so vividly.

Appeared in front of the "youtube" company that had just been registered not long ago, and proposed to buy or invest.

"I'm very optimistic about the future ......of video sharing sites," Chen Tiandu said eloquently, "This is an era of Internet explosion, and a series of new Internet lifestyles such as video communication, video socialization, and video marketing will be popularized in the future." Think about it, when everyone has a mobile phone that can shoot in high definition, then the video business will grow explosively. ”

"With my money and strength, with your technology and creativity, I can guarantee that this video site will become another Internet business miracle in the United States in a year's time. The premise is to accept my offer and then work together to make it happen. ”

What else can Chen Shijun and Cha De say, for a small company that is poor and white, and only lives on its own meager savings. Although the investment seemed too large to change ownership of the company, they had no other choice.

The friends discussed for a long time before finally responding, Chad coughed dryly, hesitated and put forward the condition: "We need independent research and development rights, you can't interfere too much with our ......"

Chen Tiandu rolled his eyes, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Man, believe me, I'm not interested in sitting in front of the computer and writing code." ”

"That'...... What is your positioning for YouTube? Chen Shijun asked tentatively.

"Test me?" Chen Tiandu raised his eyebrows, "Can you speak Chinese?" ”

"Yes, yes." Chen Shijun kept nodding his head very untempered.

"Good. I haven't forgotten yet. Chen Tiandu changed his words and said with a smile: "But I think it's better to speak English now, what do you think?" ”

"You feel free." Chen Shijun smiled, and suddenly felt a lot closer to the big stars and rich people. For the first time, I also gave birth to the feeling of "compatriots".

Chen Tiandu stretched out a fist and began to explain while counting his fingers, saying: "I already have a smart technology company that is about to launch the first smartphone product, and there will be smart computer products in the future, which is a hardware resource platform; A social networking site, Ace Wave OK, has been launched. And the development is very good, this is the user platform; A microblog-style social networking site is about to be launched, which is a complementary user platform; A car company that is about to go public, this ...... It's not a platform, it's purely a hobby. Now on the Internet plate, what is still missing is a video website. ”

"Share, not a dating platform. That's where I am, you know? ”

Chen Shijun, Chade and the others glanced at each other and had nothing to say. I and others are still working hard to create a website. Others are the same age, and now the entire investment network has been built, how can it be compared.

"I'm a fan of yours, can ...... Can you sign me. A four-eyed coder named William, whose eyes were full of adoring stars, suddenly opened his mouth to ask a question, and raised his hand like a schoolboy.

Chen Tiandu slapped his forehead, fell for it, shook his fingers and said: "Don't be such a guy, everyone will meet in the future, you are playing hooligan like this." The next meeting will be awkward. ”

"Hahaha......" The group finally laughed.

In this way, Chen Tiandu became the owner of this fledgling company, and also brought them a professional management team and an objective development fund. This management team is hired by former Coca-Cola CEO Chason Crowder. He will be responsible for the promotion, publicity and establishment of the content rights business on YouTube.

In the original time and space, YouTube was forced to sell a year later, largely because it was troubled by the copyrights of various music, television, and movie videos, and faced the situation of suing and repaying huge copyright fees. had to be sold to Google less than a year after it was launched.

Although it sold for $1.6 billion at the time, it was compared to YouTube a few years later. Who's to say it's a smarter deal.

Chen Tiandu, who has learned the lessons of the future, naturally has to start from scratch. Then a professional and mature management team is indispensable.

Although buying a large number of copyrights from the beginning will greatly increase the upfront expenditure of the website, Chen Tiandu now happens to be the stage when he is not short of money, in the words of pretending to be forced, "The poor are only left with money." ”

The YouTube video sharing site, just like that, has quietly undergone earth-shaking changes.

During Thanksgiving, negotiations over the acquisition of DreamWorks were temporarily suspended for a few days.

Thanksgiving is undoubtedly the most important holiday before Christmas, and even a significant number of people believe that Thanksgiving is more important than Christmas.

On Thanksgiving, the whole country in the United States is very lively. Costumed parades, theatrical performances and sports competitions are held in towns and villages, and schools and shops are also closed for rest according to regulations. The children also imitated the Indians of the past, dressed in bizarre costumes, painted faces or put on masks to sing and blow trumpets in the streets.

There were also a lot of people in the church that day, and it was customary for people to pray thanksgiving here. The United States has been accustomed to living independently since childhood, and Lao Yan has been flying separately. Going their separate ways. And on Thanksgiving. They always strive to return from all over the world, and the family sits together, munching on delicious turkey and talking about the past, which makes people feel extra cordial and warm.

At the same time, hospitable Americans can't forget the day to invite friends, bachelors, or people away from home to spend the holidays.

Since the 18th century, there has been a custom in the United States to give a basket of food to poor families. At that time, a group of young women wanted to choose one day of the year to do good deeds, and they thought it would be the best choice for Thanksgiving. So as soon as Thanksgiving arrived, they loaded a basket of Manchu food and delivered it to the poor in person. This was rumored far and wide, and soon many people followed their example.

On this day, Chen Tiandu received a thank you text message from Robert Downey Jr.: "Thank you for meeting such a good friend when I was at a low point in my life." Good luck, man. ”

Chen Tiandu replied to him, "I bet you must have drunk too much now." In order to confirm this, he also specifically asked Kate to call Susan to confirm, and it was true. Susan didn't know that Robert Downey Jr. had sent such a "funny text message", and she couldn't help but laugh when she heard Kate's report to understand the situation. It's hard to imagine that Robert Downey, who has always had a good face, would have such an emotional side.

Susan whispered to Kate, "I can assure you, he drank very little. But in order to save some face for him, he said that he drank a lot. ”

Chen Tiandu smiled, at least what he did, he also gained a few true friends, didn't he.

"Wife, who do you want to thank?"

Kate thought for a moment and said, "Well, I want to thank God for giving birth to such a lovely pair of children. My dear, let's go to church. ”

Chen Tiandu bared his teeth, instinctively wanted to escape, "Uh, I'm sorry wife, I asked Fan and them to go for a drink together......"

But looking into Kate's eyes, he couldn't say any more, "Okay, I'll go to church with you." ”

In the church, many people recognized them, but they only smiled kindly, and did not crowd them on such a solemn occasion. At this moment, they are just an ordinary young couple, no different from everyone else.

The church on Thanksgiving is also full of sacredness.

Although Chen Tiandu is a person who is full of faith, he will feel much refreshed when he receives spiritual baptism occasionally. I don't even think of the usual intrigues, as if I really gave my spirit a bath.

The Thanksgiving holiday is also a long-lost expectation for movie theater operators.

In the week of November 22~28, all the films of the same period were box office hits.

Before this week, the most watched movie was "Alexander the Great".

For Alexander the Great, the conquest of the world may have been an easy task, but conquering the North American box office charts was a different story entirely. To be continued.