On the flight back to Los Angeles, Daniel closed his eyes.

The passengers who wanted to come over to take a group photo were stopped by the flight attendants who had greeted them in advance.

He didn't actually fall asleep, because the journey was really close.

The day before he left Silicon Valley, Daniel visited Apple, now called Apple Computer, where Jobs received him in person, and the two had lunch and dinner.

The common topic between Jobs and Daniel is not limited to technology.

Because Pixar Animation, the production company of "Finding Nemo", which was released a week later than "The Impostor", nearly half of it belongs to Jobs himself. He's actually half Hollywood, although he's the one who works on technology at both Pixar and Apple.

But that doesn't prevent them from having more topics to discuss.

Especially when Daniel mentions Weta Digital.

Jobs was very appreciative of the special effects of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and he believed that Weta Digital's achievements in this area surpassed Pixar's. However, his main focus is no longer on Pixar, and Apple, which he created single-handedly and then returned, is his favorite.

This year Apple and Motorola developed a new phone, which, of course, was not very successful.

But for mobile phone manufacturers, there is still a wolf crisis.

Apple's ability to make products is well known to the world, and Motorola's technical prowess in mobile phones is also beyond the reach of the dust.

The cooperation between the two is believed to be a disruption to the existing industry.

But now no one knows that Jobs wanted to develop his own mobile phone independently.

Daniel took a phone call and tentatively said, "It's not useful to get in the way for anything other than texting and calling, and I really don't think it's worth it." ”

Even if Steve Jobs is so legendary, it is not a problem for an Oscar-winning actor to give a performance in front of him that he is not aware of.

Daniel's angle didn't seem to focus on Jobs, but he could see his eyes and expressions clearly.

Jobs' eyes lit up amazingly.

Subsequently. He even started talking to him about it.

"What kind of phone do you want?" Jobs asked with interest, "You know, Apple is growing its mobile phone business, and we have partnered with Motorola this year to launch a test machine." However, it still has many shortcomings. ”

"Is Apple making a mobile phone?"

Daniel looked at Jobs in "surprise", and then asked Jobs excitedly, "I love using your computers and iPods, and I'm really looking forward to seeing Apple's own phone, it must be great." ”

"Yes." Jobs was praised in a very cool way, and his vigilance was lowered, mainly because he was in front of a Hollywood actor, a high school graduate whose SAT score was seriously out of line with the college score.

It is difficult for the conceited genius to give them attention.

"I know that IBM once launched a 'Simon' mobile phone, which can be loaded with some programs, just like a computer. I think mobile phones should go in this direction, small computers, being able to connect to the Internet, you know, I love the Internet. I think the whole world should be connected to the internet so that we can share with each other, and that's fun, isn't it? ”

"That's a really cool idea," Jobs seemed excited, "really, I think it's a genius idea, maybe you should come to Apple often, you know we have some creative positions." Oh, but the salary is certainly not as high as yours. It should not be as good as your salary for a play. ”

At this point, Daniel already knew very clearly that Jobs was already working on the iPhone, but he couldn't think of how to intervene. And whether there is a need to do so.

In contrast, it may be a better idea to invest in their stocks.

The last stop is PayPal, a payment company that is actually far inferior to the one in China, in which the Chinese people have achieved an incredible lead.

PayPal's visit was just scratching the surface, and he wanted to get a brief look at the current state of e-commerce. With MB's partnership, there was nothing difficult in arranging this visit.

Daniel's 6-day itinerary was quite full, and the reception level was also very high, almost all of them were the founders or CEOs of various companies.

"He's like one of those tech giants, and when they host him, they seem to have completely forgotten Silicon Valley's disdain for Hollywood, and the technocracy's disdain for actors."

The media followed and reported on it with such an abnormal mentality.

……

"Daniel, Daniel, Daniel......"

Evans, the website editor of USA Today, is doing a newsbook of Daniel and.

Half a year has passed since 2003, and Daniel has been in the limelight for a while.

Count from now on.

"The Pianist" and "Hotel Rwanda" both broke 100 million, "Fake God" was released for 7 days, and the North American box office was more than 120 million.

The high-level reception visits of the four Silicon Valley giants have produced a series of reports. Page, Steve. Jobs, or even any of Javier's formal talks, was a big deal. In particular, Jobs had a lonely personality, but he had a good conversation with Daniel, and even when facing reporters, he was quite excited to say that Daniel gave him a lot of inspiration.

Further back, the international humanitarian conference and the unexpected attack that attracted the attention of many parties, including the White House and Congress, were also quite eye-catching news.

Moving back in time, there is the former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Dagmar. Dunleavy's scandal of discrimination and award manipulation, the accident that brought Dagmar into disrepute, apparently started with Daniel, and the appearance of that audio clip would be hell if it had nothing to do with Daniel.

Then there was Daniel, who became the youngest Oscar winner in history, and the record mentioned that he was 23 years old, which made this honor more and more difficult to challenge.

The Oscars were clearly preceded by a Golden Globe scandal.

Further on, the studio of Pirates of the Caribbean caught fire.

In just half a year, other big stars, as long as they encounter one of them, it is enough to maintain exposure, but he has never broken the big news.

Evans was sorting and writing, his mind still spinning around about Daniel's storied experience.

Originated on the Internet, all the way to the operation of "Greek Wedding".

"Larry. How could Peggy and Steve Jobs, as well as MB and ebay, jointly invite him to visit Silicon Valley just because of that? If it was to take advantage of his popularity, there should have been a further plan for it, but so far, there is no information. As one of the earliest online media, Evans' ability to find information on the Internet is very strong, and the more he thinks about it, the more he finds this invitation unusual.

Evans opened Office Paint and dragged a few circles on the page.

Write it down one at a time above.

Apple, blogger, MB, Google, DD, and then connect Google and blogger, then connect MB and blogger, and then lead a line out of MB, all the way to DD Pictures.

After thinking about it, I dragged it in a circle, wrote PayPal, and connected it with MB, and MB and PayPal cooperated to pay online, which is not uncommon news.

In the end, there was an apple left alone.

There is nothing to do with them, of course, if you insist on contacting, of course, Google and Apple can also be connected, after all, they are both top companies in Silicon Valley, and it is normal to have cooperation, such as music websites that are tied to iPods, and Google Search has some cooperation. But this is a normal business practice, and there is no obvious direction, and it is too far-fetched to connect them.

Evans added another big circle outside the circle of MB.

In terms of connection, MB and DD Pictures have a direct cooperation, that is, Daniel's "seven days" planning, at the same time, MB and blogger have a shareholding relationship, and indirectly by Google, and then MB and PayPal have a close relationship, and after "Greek Wedding" set off a boom in MB users, this cooperation has become very close and deepened.

So, in Evans' eyes, MB is the center of everything.

If all this is really related, the core character must be in MB.

Evans has the curiosity and execution skills that a journalism practitioner must have. He began to search for information about Javier, the CEO of MB, on the Internet, but found nothing unusual, and the company he worked for was not a well-known company like the Fortune 500. Evans even spotted some of Javier's remarks that he had some thoughts on the internet virtual community, which may have been the reason why he ended up with MB's CEO position.

No meaningful clues were found in Javier.

Evans set his sights on MB's mysterious majority shareholder, a Cayman Islands-registered investment firm, Plutos Investments. Many people have studied it, but due to the place where it is registered, no one can figure out this company - MB's majority shareholder, blogger's minority shareholder.

However, Evans was not discouraged, his goal was not to find Plutos' followers, but to see if Plutos could connect these related parties and solve the doubts in his mind.

After hours of efficient online searches, he even used USA Today to search for the company in systems that are not open to the general public.

He jumped at the sight of Plutos' name in a non-public document submitted to the Producers Guild by DD Pictures, a document more than two years ago, and Evans didn't even know who had photocopied it on the Internet.

In this document, in the introduction of the production company, David, Daniel, and Plutos are mentioned. But when Evans clicked on the current DD Pictures website.

But only David and Daniel, Plutos were gone.

Evans felt his heart beat faster, and he seemed to have made an exciting discovery. (To be continued.) )

PS: Chapter 4