In order to prevent bureaucracy and maintain team cohesion, CAA adopts a unique average equity system, and each partner's stake is the same.

Shen Chong's strength, potential and influence allowed Ovitz to persuade the remaining four shareholders to accept him as the sixth partner at a very favorable price in only 2O minutes.

In the early 80s, professional agents only appeared in Hong Kong, but most of them were stragglers, tied by favors, and not institutionalized, and even in the 21st century, there was no standardized agent company that could handle it - Emperor was more like a hodgepodge of film, television and music agents.

The perfect agent system is an important part of the modern film industry, and CAA is the benchmark of the agent company.

At present, whether it is a Hong Kong film or a mainland film, the overall industrial level is not even as good as a finger of Hollywood, since the strength is not good, then study hard, there is a CAA matchmaking, what is lacking in the future, just dig what from Hollywood, there are not many others in China, that is, there are many people, and talents are dug up, and then ten or eight students are sent to follow, and if one can learn something, Chinese films will be stronger.

……

Shen Chong is very short of time, he only plans to stay in the United States for three or four days, and then rush back to Beijing about a week before the opening of the Cultural Congress, film is a very wide range of industries, and any form of literature and art, there are inextricable relationships, and in 1979, there are still many literary masters in the mainland, go back early, and have a long experience.

Ovitz was the king of future agents, and he only needed one night to arrange the interview, and the next morning he rushed to the Beverly Hills hotel where Shen Chong was staying, and personally led him to cBs's TV production base in Los Angeles.

"Why netbsp;" Alan, dear Alan, because under my mediation. Ovitz drove his Jaguar sports car, and said in Shen Chong's incomprehensible smug tone: "cBs agreed to put the content of your talk show into "Evening News" after editing, although it is only a few tens of seconds, but, Allen, it is "Evening News", Walter Cronkitter's Evening News!" ”

"Walter Cronkite famous?"

Ovitz grabbed the steering wheel, yelled exaggeratedly, and then said: "Allen, you really should watch more American TV shows, "Evening News" is the cash cow of cBs, the most watched news program, Walter Cronkite is the most trusted person of the American people, not an anchor, but a person!" ”

Shen Chong didn't feel much about the name, he lifted his sunglasses, enjoyed the oncoming wind on the convertible sports car, hummed insincerely, and then asked casually: "The Evening News is the cash cow of cBs?" Shouldn't it be a TV series? ”

Ovitz looked at his expression, wisely gave up the topic of Walter Cronkite, and said: "Not only cBs, as far as I know, hundreds of TV stations in the United States, even if it is a small town TV station, the most profitable columns, are all news, so aBnetBc, cBs, the three major TV networks, almost all programs are outsourced to Hollywood film and television companies, but the news is done by itself." ”

"Could it be that you in the United States also have a policy requirement to watch the news at night?"

"What did you say?" Ovitz didn't understand Shen Chong's words, he explained: "The cost of the news column system is low, the ratings are high, and it is naturally easy to make money, and an ace anchor like Walter Cronkite can bring hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising dollars to cBs a year." ”

As soon as Ovitz said this, Shen Chong suddenly remembered that the sky-high price kings in China in his previous life were not the advertisers a few seconds after the news.

It's just that because the administrative color of "News Network" is too strong and unpopular, and there is too much entertainment information, it always gives people the illusion that TV series are king......

By the way, the TV station net, which specializes in making news, doesn't seem to have been established at this time?

……

According to Bowis Jianyi, in the program, he talked about the sales model of software-driven hardware, throwing out the famous remark in computer history that "the tail of software shakes the dog of hardware", asserting that under the stimulation of Visica1c, Apple II will soon become the first machine in computer history to sell more than one million, thus adding weight to the negotiations.

After participating in the talk show, Shen Chong went to Activision Games in Silicon Valley non-stop.

After the reorganization in August, Activision began recruiting, and by this time the number of employees had passed 5o, of which 8 were Chinese, 3 were Hong Kongers, and 5 were Taiwanese, and these employees were divided into four groups.

A spin-off game that continues to play Tetris, such as Little Bee, Bouncing Ball, etc.

A "Tank War" arranged by Shen Chong.

One is that James and Wen Renjie are in charge of tinkering with "Pac-Man".

There is another one, with the largest number of team members, who are working on Activision's original games - with the exhibition of computer technology, the difficulty of the game has skyrocketed, and it is impossible to always let Shen Chong plagiarize the game, and it is necessary to take precautions.

Among these four groups, Shen Chong attaches the most importance to "Pac-Man", because this is what he specially left for Wen Renjie to practice.

Wen Renjie has an amazing talent for computers, Shen Chong sent him to Silicon Valley, he wanted him to practice the skills and experience of opening video games, and then return to Hong Kong to open a branch......

Programming techniques, like photography skills, are just a tool to express culture.

It's just that Wen Renjie's social skills are too weak, and he can only be a general, not a commander, so his master James is the person in charge of this group.

After the reorganization in August, Activision expanded its size, increased its staff, and the former villa was short of space and has been converted into dormitories, and the new office is a small three-story building.

"Brother Jie, Xiao Nan was just born, why don't you stay in Hong Kong for a few more days?" In the office, as soon as they met, Shen Chong complained to Wen Renjie in Cantonese: "I gave you a month off, and if you run away, my sister-in-law will definitely hate me to death." ”

"No, it won't." Wen Renjie said with a smile, as before: "Xiaoqing asked me to come back, she said that you gave me such a high salary, you have to work more." ”

"You, you, sister-in-law doesn't complain, and my daughter will complain in the future, you, the father, only accompanied her for a few days and ran away."

Wen Renjie's wife gave birth to a daughter in early October, and he returned to Hong Kong for a few days before running back to Silicon Valley......

Shen Chong knew that he had low emotional intelligence, so he didn't say anything anymore, and began to ask the right thing: "How is the progress of "Pac-Man"? ”

"It's very smooth." James sat diagonally in front of the computer, chewing gum, and said, "8o% of the work is done." ”

"Before Christmas, can you do it?"

"No problem." James agreed, and he praised: "Jet is writing fast and good programs now, if you have a little more math knowledge, you can play the game alone." ”

"Very good." Shen Chong was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said: "Brother Jie, after the "Pac-Man" line, I am going to open a branch in Hong Kong, and then you can reunite with your family, and you will see Xiao Nan every day." ”

"Okay." Wen Renjie smiled and replied.

James raised his hand exaggeratedly and shouted, "I'm going back to Hong Kong too." ”

Shen Chong was strange and said, "Isn't it good that you are an American and work in Silicon Valley?" ”

"I love Hong Kong." James licked his tongue and said, "I love Hong Kong's food." ”

……

Shen Chong came to Activision this time to arrange a new task - to develop a handheld computer.

Atari spent $100 million on VCSs, which was $100 million in 1976......

Although it costs money, if the research is successful, the profits are also amazing, and the sales of Atari VCS reached $2.2 billion in 1982 alone, contributing to Warner's average revenue.

So after getting rich, Shen Chong immediately wanted to tinker with the game console with ambition.

According to the practice of later generations, the life of a game console is about seven or eight years, Atari VCS was listed in 1977, and it is at its peak at the moment, Shen Chong does not want to plunder its edge, so he plans to focus on "Tetris", open a handheld similar to game-boy, relatively speaking, the research cost of the handheld is much lower than that of the home console, first easy and then difficult, now this small body, can not afford to play the home game console, and so on in the future, the net worth will exceed 1o billion, and then go to tinker......

It's just that Game-Boy was only interviewed in 1989, and I don't know if it can be produced with the hardware conditions of 1979?

"There are two problems." After listening to Shen Chong's narration, Activision's technical officer David Crainn said: "One is the replaceable game function, and the other is the display. ”

"How?"

"With such a small game console, there is no suitable storage medium as a game carrier." David Crain explains: "The cassette can't be that small. ”

"Then I don't want this feature." Shen Chong immediately castrated the game-boy's "replaceable game" function - anyway, those copycats that were popular in the mainland back then didn't seem to have this ability, and they sold very well, and then asked: "When it leaves the factory, it should be okay to solidify Tetris directly in memory, right?" ”

"If only Tetris is built-in, the CPU and memory on the market today are completely sufficient." David Crain nodded, then moved on to the next question: "But I'm not sure the current LCD screen is available, the responsiveness is too slow, and when the block drops to a certain degree, I suspect that there will be a very strict afterimage." ”

"The Japanese seem to be very interested in liquid crystals." Shen Chong thought for a while and said, "You can consult Sharp and Sony to see if they have a new LCD screen." ”

David Crain was disdainful and said: "The LCD screen was researched by Rca's real yàn room, and the Japanese will only plagiarize, what innovation will they be able to have?" ”

“Rca？” Shen Chong remembered the equipment logo he saw in the cBs studio in the morning, and asked, "Is it the American radio company that Ming TV sets?" (Note 1)

"Yes."

"Then go and ask Rca to see what new results are coming out of their liquid crystal research."

"No need to go." James interjected on the side: "When I was in school at Princeton, I worked part-time in Rca's real room, and I heard that Rca's senior management was unwilling to invest in LCD research in order to ensure the profits of current televisions, and George Heilmeyer had already resigned.

"Who is Georges Heilmeyer?"

"It's the Akito of the LCD screen." James spat out the gum and said, "I heard that he is now working at Texas Instruments." ”

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Note 1: Ranet-of-america, known as black-and-white and color televisions, was once the world's largest manufacturer of televisions and video recorders, and was acquired by General Electric in the 8o's.

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