All thoughts flowed through Lin Yan's head, and John Kishimoto beside him looked like Lin Yan was in a daze.

"Alright, let's go." Lin Yan said.

"That's leaving?" John Kishimoto asked. He thought that Lin Yan came to the computer to buy one. Is it because other brands are out of stock, and he hates the Apple brand?

Squeezed out along the crowd, the gifts Lin Yan bought were all candies that could also be bought in Japan, not local specialties. However, the important thing about the gift is not what the gift is, but the heart, and the heart is good.

The California lights are bright at midnight on Christmas Day, and the breeze blows with a little coolness. Lin Yan, who was wearing a windbreaker, looked at the neon signs, and then looked at the car in the parking lot in front of the mall.

It is indeed justified to think that the United States is the most developed country on the planet.

At least, you can't see so many cars together in Japan. It's not that the Japanese are poor, and it's difficult to buy a car. It's that cars can afford it, but they can't afford parking spaces.

There are so many people living in a much smaller country than the United States. Japan is so short of resources, and the only thing that can be vigorously developed is public transportation.

On this night, it is estimated that even the taxi driver has already gone to the shopping spree. There wasn't a single taxi on the street, as if all the taxis were gone.

Fortunately, John Kishimoto rented a car, didn't have to walk all the time, and went back to the California guest house.

When Lin Yan first stayed in this hotel, he really remembered the song "Hotel California". In fact, he doesn't know if "Hotel California" has anything to do with the hotel he lives in. It doesn't matter if he has anything to do with it, just be happy.

Each went back to his room. Lin Yan was lying on the bed. Looking at the ceiling. Thinking about what I've been doing these days, whether I really understand the American business model. What the hell is it like.

However, he feels himself these days. Still do not understand the United States. In less than ten days, it would be hellish to say that you have learned about the United States and the business model that is suitable for the United States. Anyone who can say this is either a bad brain or a liar.

Many people don't even know about the city where they grew up and stayed for decades. Go out for a trip, take it for two or three days, and say that you understand. It's no wonder there's no problem.

Of course. Most of the articles in travel magazines are like this. After all, if you really live in one place for more than ten years, it is not called tourism for decades.

Lin Yan has always had an inexplicable resistance to tourism. He didn't know why. Perhaps, it is because in his impression, the scenic spots are all places where people are pitted, and whether he can see the scenery is two words. Just seeing the overwhelming number of people is not a happy experience.

While Lin Yan was lying on the bed. In an apartment about 100 miles away, a man was on the phone.

"What? You don't have Space Flight? How could you not have such a fun game? You're disappointing me like this, okay, you said that you can find all the games. ”

Drop the phone. This man who looks like an uncle in his thirties has a smile on his face.

He crossed out the name of the store on the paper. It's been another phone call. There are still a dozen or so calls left. It's all over.

Perhaps someone has already guessed that he just asked for the "Space Flight" game. It's his company's product.

He is a top student who has worked as a pilot and attended an Ivy League business school. Except for the fact that the hair is a little bald. It still looks quite shrewd. Everything he did just now was to let the dealer know that he had the game in his hands.

Lay the groundwork like this first, and then call later, and it will be easier to get the order.

This is a small trick that others may not bother to use. But, at least in his own opinion, this method is quite effective.

Although, Atari almost ruined the entire video game industry in the United States. However, the destruction was not complete.

In other words, only Atari and the software vendors attached to Atari died. They're all dead, while others who make the game are still alive.

These living, in addition to video game arcades, are games that are marketed on the computer platform.

Modell's company sells computer games.

The collapse of Atari caused the Atari market to disappear, and it stands to reason that some Atari game players will convert into computer gamers.

Sadly, however, it didn't. Or rather, there are quite few parts of the transformation. Speaking of which, the price of a personal computer is still too expensive.

Although there are not many families who have purchased, those families have no need to work from home. It's more about adding a high-tech furniture or a platform for children to expand their knowledge. There are really not many people who can think of playing games with a computer. Even if the computer is essentially the same as the video game console, two dogs burst out of an egg.

The appearance is not much different, and the actual function is not much different.

Although none of the stores promised to find him a game called Space Flight right away, he was not in a hurry.

This kind of thing needs to be paved step by step, and it is not achieved overnight. Otherwise, others can obviously feel a trust, how can they be fooled.

In fact, after his "Space Flight" was put on the counter of a computer store, it was not slow to sell. In the two months since its listing, it has brought him nearly $200,000 in earnings. Of course, he spent more than $30,000 on plastic packaging and floppy disks.

This game feels good to play. The feel is already good in a game made by the Americans.

The reason why this game was able to be launched was because of a bet he made with Med.

One day three months ago, Moder and Dmitry attended the same meeting. The length of the meeting is very long, and how long is it, but how long is it. Like an old lady's footwrap.

These two people, who had known each other before, conspired to make such a decision in the midst of such boring and long memories. Escape the memories and go downstairs to the arcade to play.

The two of them play a flying game.

Moder thought he was a pilot. It must be awesome to play this kind of flying game.

By the end of the game, he had scored a total of 70,000 points.

Dmitry scored 140,000 points with ease.

Modell said in surprise. I'm a pilot, a professional pilot, a veteran pilot with more than 10 years of flying experience and 5,000 flight hours, how can you score higher than me.

Med smiled and replied, "When I watched you play it just now, I could already see what code it used and what it looked like. In other words, I was able to "foresee" the future of the game. This game is okay though. However, there are still a lot of problems. If I had to do it, I would have been able to do it more fun.

Moder actually had some anger in his heart, and he said, if you have the ability to do it, if you can do it, I can sell it.

Dmitry glanced at Moder, the programmer's mind, so that he didn't realize that it was Model's dissatisfaction with him. He said it honestly. That's what you said, remember.

A week later, Med approached Moder and handed him a 2.5-inch floppy disk. Say I've done the game. The sale will be yours.

Moder's expression at that time can be described as dumbfounded. Because, he's almost forgotten about it. I thought it was just a moment of anger.

It's like a husband and wife quarreling, or a child breaking up. It's not very reliable. Husbands and wives who quarrel will still be together even if they quarrel again, and the child will break up today. We'll just play together tomorrow.

Moder played the game for a few days and wrote down a few pages of inappropriate content. Not to say that it contains prohibited content. Rather, he said something that was unreasonable in the eyes of a professional pilot.

Dmitry took the floppy disk that Moder handed back, along with a few pages of accompanying submissions. It took another week to change the entire game according to these pages. He gave it to Moder again, and said to him, "It's all changed according to what you said, and now you can sell it."

Moder got the improved game and replayed it. It was a lot more comfortable to play, and it was really much more fun than the flying game in the arcade room downstairs in the conference room.

With only a floppy disk of a game sample, Moder decides to really make good on his bet and sell the game that seems to be fun.

With no sales experience, he went straight to a computer store. Straight introduction to his own game.

Years of military career, as well as the study of business school, have given him a reliable taste.

The owner of the computer store gave in, and he finally agreed to see the game that Moder had said. It doesn't matter if you look at it, the store manager is directly hooked on this game.

It's not about how good this game is, but because of its insistence on some details, which make this game look like it's really flying a plane. This is a rare thing in the shoddy video game market of the United States.

If American video game producers are really serious about making games. Insisting on the quality of the game will not lead to the collapse of the entire home video game console market.

It's like the companies that Lin Yan has been in contact with in Silicon Valley. There are many, many people in the United States who are starting businesses. They are more impatient, and basically daydream that if they start a company on their own, there will be big companies to buy it.

More precisely, the American Dream, what the American Dream propagandizes, is a "fortuitous" success. It is a daydream that does not require much effort to achieve success.

This is the mainstream society in the United States in this era, the values that circulate.

Looking at the fact that there are so many companies, you know that there are really many people who believe in this American dream. Perhaps, there are many people who have crossed the ocean and run to the United States for the American dream.

If it is said above the platform, this is an ideological struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. If the United States is not packaged perfectly, then it is very easy to gain a relatively big disadvantage in the competition with the Soviet Union.

To put it bluntly, the American Dream is a dream similar to the San Francisco Gold Rush. You don't need to make a lot of effort, and you don't need any special skills, as long as you are willing to endure hardships and persevere, you will definitely be able to gain something.

Modell is one of those people who have been affected in this way. The company he works for is a consulting firm. It is mainly for some large companies, to provide some statistics, or for the future development trend report, and other consulting work.

Of course, Moder himself knows that the one he submits is rarely used. There is a great possibility that it is just a reference for these really large companies.

After getting to know the big companies on a daily basis, he felt that he could actually take charge of such a big company himself. Instead of being a think tank for them.

However, he has never been able to find the answer to what project he wants to do. It's not that there are too few projects to find, it's that there are too many projects, and he doesn't know what he should do.

As the saying goes, Xiucai can't rebel for three years. Modell, a top student at the Ivy League University's business school, has been thinking about entrepreneurship for several years.

In the end, finding an opportunity to fight was not what he had been planning for a long time. And it's just his bet with Dmitry.

At first, he was trying to try it out. However, he didn't expect the reaction to be so good. The dealer got his game and thought it would cost fifteen dollars per game, and he bought a hundred copies of the first batch.

This gave him a lot of confidence, and he felt that since the dealer recognized the game so much, the game must be very promising. So, he decided to start a company.

However, when he asked Dmitry to start the company together. Dmitry only agreed to invest half of the money, 1,500 dollars, but he did not agree to resign and start a company together in any case.

In his opinion, opening such a computer game company. It doesn't seem like a good choice.

Every day there are so many new companies in the city, so many old companies die. There are really not many companies that can grasp an idea and run it. And there are not many companies that can get investment.

Otherwise, Lin Yan would not have used $70,000. It's like getting 95 percent of the shares of seven companies. Nowadays, there are so many people who start businesses and so many companies, but compared to the investment companies, there are too few.

The reason why investing in companies is to make money, how can any company invest in projects that are destined to lose money.

All of Modell's calls were gone. He flipped through the first page of the phone book, dialed it, and said in a different voice, "Hello, are you the Lü Meng computer store?" I'm a distributor of Space Flight, do you need a Space Flight game? ”

"Space Flight? >> You're finally calling, and you're all looking for this game! ”

When Moder heard this, a smile spread across his face.

It worked. (To be continued......)