San Francisco.

Faith is not a dog investment fund California branch.

A big, bright gold sign was wickedly hung in front of a door on the 22nd floor of a business building in the heart of San Francisco's financial CBD.

Many passers-by subconsciously stopped, stunned and looked at this very personalized angel investment fund.

Belief is not a dog angel investment fund headquarters is naturally placed in New York, but the object of this angel investment is mostly focused on those entrepreneurial emerging industries, the largest investment object is the Internet and other high-tech industries, so Stockton and Naya also opened the only branch in the United States in San Francisco.

The reason for placing San Francisco, as the name suggests, is, of course, for the sake of next to Silicon Valley.

Since the establishment of this investment company, it has successively invested in two projects: Rotten Tomatoes and Blog. Recently, however, Faith is not a dog, and the investment firm has set its sights on a recent project at Stanford.

"Duke, you just mentioned resources and market share in your analysis report, can you give a brief explanation to the people here?" Stockton was still skinny like a big horse monkey, and his black-rimmed glasses made him look a little funny. But with the establishment of the investment company, this former unlucky man has become more and more like a professional manager.

In the office area, Stockton sat in the main seat, holding a folder in his hand, and on his left sat an intellectually beautiful Latino beauty, this beauty is the chief financial analyst and venture capital advisor of Belief is a dog, and several well-dressed men and women sitting in turn are elites from all walks of life, they form an investment evaluation committee, affiliated with the venture capital department of Belief is not a dog, an investment company.

On the other side, the huge and big-bellied Duke leaned on the sofa on the other side with the computer, because of Naya, he became the chief technical analyst of the company that believes that it is not a dog, and the dual doctorate titles of Stanford and Harvard make Duke have a lot of say in the computer field, and the investment in the Internet and computers will let him give technology-related reports as an investment analysis.

Hearing Stockton's "little man" question, Duke pouted on his big fat face with his head down. However, the moment he raised his head, he returned to a very serious posture.

"With the advent of the Internet, market share will determine the landscape of the Internet in the field of search engines......" Duke gushes about computer problems as he talks. The surrounding venture capital department, investment appraisal consultants and other relevant personnel were all slowly impressed by Duke's professional and logical analysis.

"So, this engine search company is definitely promising. And I've been exposed to their engine core code before, and their engine definitely has a high degree of autonomy and transcendence, and I believe it will be a worthwhile investment. Duke was very optimistic about the engine development of the two guys in his dorm room, and he had helped them with the programming before. He had previously joined their team. Later, because he didn't want to be a coder, Duke resigned from the relevant position, but that didn't mean he wasn't optimistic about the other party's development.

Duke's two roommates, one named Larry Page and the other Sergey Brin, were two Jewish guys with a great sense of humor. When they were on campus, Duke, Page, and Brin were known as the Stanford Three Musketeers. The web Trojan program developed by the three people as a joke is now one of the required codes for freshmen at Stanford University.

Originally, Google was supposed to improve page ranking, but without Duke, a key link in the trio, Google is now facing both technical difficulties and development funding. At this time, Duke returned to Stanford, saw two partners facing difficulties, and resolutely decided to help them. Not only was he ready to solve the problems related to search engines together, but he also thought of his girlfriend and the investment company he worked for.

Although he was unhappy with Stockton, he had a good opinion of this investment fund, which is called Belief Is Not a Dog. In particular, after his girlfriend became a senior executive of the company, and he himself was hired as the chief technical analyst, he quickly provided a report of Google's situation to Stockton.

Coincidentally, Stockton also happened to be optimistic about this company before, so that under the palm of fate, the belief is not that a dog angel investment has set its sights on Google, and because of Duke. It has become a very competitive venture capital competitor.

The bubble of the Internet has made the Internet a quagmire, but there are still people with unique vision who see the business opportunities of the Internet.

Sean was lucky enough to be self-aware that he didn't manage the investment company himself. Instead, Stockton, Naya and Duke were chosen to run the business. If Sean were to deal with it, I'm afraid Sean wouldn't have such a sharp approach, and maybe he would even miss Google. After all, his memory is not flexible, and he is not a technological genius.

But as fate would have it, Duke was Larry Page and Sergey Brin's roommate, which made them so close to Google.

Sean didn't have much thought about San Francisco's investment. To be honest, Sean just made it his side hustle, and despite the $300 million he put there, it was clear that Sean was more interested in movies.

It's just that when Sean learned that Stockton Bob really named the company "Faith is not a dog", there was a sense of shame in his dry mouth. The phone almost fell to the floor. It took several deep breaths before Sean accepted the "alternative" name.

Since it was called this name, Sean didn't say anything more. At the same time, he really left the company alone. Just ask, no matter how bad the company is, will it have this name?

Sean didn't pay much attention to Google's investment project, but he was interested in Rotten Tomatoes.

Of course, he was listening to Michelle and Emma Thomas discussing the film company. Watching the two girls pop out of their mouths one by one very professional words, Sean and the Nolan brothers sat on the sofa next to each other, drinking coffee and chatting about movies and interesting things. Completely in a state of shaking off the shopkeeper, the three guys unscrupulously handed over everything to the two ladies to deal with.

"Jonathan and I have been in the editing room all this time, can you imagine how bad it tastes when you drink coffee is instant coffee? I have to say that it is really a pleasure to be able to drink authentic English black tea...... "Nolan took a sip of English black tea, quite enjoyed, from the red blood in his eyes, you can see how tired and tired he is during this time, and Jonathan on the side is also the same.

"Having trouble with the editing? Before, I remember you saying that you could complete the sample in May or June? Sean assured the coffee, handed the two of them the "American Spirit" cigarette, and after a while, the three of them spit out the smoke ring, "If you need to make up the shot, I can cooperate at any time, you should understand Nolan." ”

"Of course, I understand. However, this has nothing to do with reshooting, but the timeline of the film is difficult to arrange reasonably, and the two timelines of the main narrative and reverse order now need to be clearly distinguished, so that the audience can feel each other's existence. Nolan smiled at Sean with a cigarette in his hand, "I don't want my editing to mess up your genius performance." ”

Sean shrugged noncommittally and took a sip of his coffee.

"Have you ever tried to distinguish two timelines with different image qualities, such as incongruity in frame rates or ......" Sean paused, pointing to Nolan's brown suit and white shirt, "There are some tricks on the colors." ”

That's right.

Sean suddenly remembered the pattern of the color of the picture in his mind, and he remembered a serious movie that was very creative in terms of color.

The main color of that movie is black and white, and when the little girl appears, a touch of red shines on the entire screen. That's right, this is the scene of the great director Spielberg's classic "Schindler's List". In the creation of picture colors, whether it is the boldness of "Schindler's List" or the novelty of "ET", it proves the artistic skills of this great director.

When Nolan mentioned the timeline just now, Sean didn't think about what editing method to choose for the two lines to illustrate the film language as Nolan and their occupational illness. He said it in the eyes of a bystander.

The color of the picture is the most direct and suggestive. This is fully in line with Nolan's requirements.

For a moment, the two brothers, Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, were stunned, and then the next moment they all showed surprised expressions. Qi brushed and looked at Sean, which startled Sean.

"Why are you looking at me with such an expression? Shet, I don't like men to ...... with this kind of gaze," Sean jokingly teased Nolan and Jonathan, "What's more, I can't accept two men with such disgusting eyes." ”

“FUCK！ Sean, you're a genius, I think you can learn how to direct, and I'm sure you're going to be a very good director. Nolan looked at Sean excitedly, "You guys have such keen insight and imagination, these are all essential traits for directors, and I believe you have the potential in this area." Don't believe you ask Jonathan. ”

Jonathan nodded earnestly and cooperatively.

"Oh, don't, I didn't think about directing movies myself, you know, there's still a lot of things I need to learn on the road of being an actor......" Sean waved his hand helplessly and wryly, this is not modesty, but self-knowledge. Sean doesn't think he has a talent for directing.

However, Sean forgot that before, he didn't think that he had any talent for actors, but time and facts have proved that Sean is indeed really talented as an actor again, and his understanding is very high.

There are some things that no one can say.

"Don't be modest, Sean, come over and be an assistant director for me in my next movie. After entering the director team, your horizons will be broadened a lot, and maybe your acting skills will also be improved. ”

"You can't be serious, can you?" Sean opened his mouth wide and looked at Nolan with a solemn face, his brain was a little short-circuited for a while, and he didn't know how to evaluate it. (To be continued.) )

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