Chapter 587: Jiang Zhiqiang's hesitation
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The starting point is low, even if the development potential is not small, the time required for development will not be too short. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 If it is an ordinary company, there is definitely enough time to give Jiang Zhiqiang development. But Li Mingbao's Dream Factory cannot be measured by common sense, and the development of DreamWorks can be regarded as a big miracle in the United States. This has caused Jiang Zhiqiang to make progress and the magnitude is not small, but in the management system of DreamWorks, he is becoming more and more outdated. This is also a considerable blow to an arrogant person like Jiang Zhiqiang.
In the United States, especially in Hollywood, the number of new film companies that open every day is not a small number, and the number of film companies that close every day is also not a small number. Especially the film companies opened by foreign people in Hollywood, it is difficult to survive for long.
But DreamWorks has broken this convention, not only has it developed rapidly, but also its profitability is quite good, and even many banks in the United States like to lend to DreamWorks, because they understand that such loans are purely profitable. Although DreamWorks' movies are not the mainstream of Hollywood, non-mainstream movies can also occupy a certain market in Hollywood, and film companies like DreamWorks that do so well in the non-mainstream are quite rare in Hollywood, and the subject matter is not limited to the development of DreamWorks at all, and this is only DreamWorks Films.
Later, after DreamWorks program production company came out, it was even more exaggerated, and two predators were introduced at the beginning, which directly led to the profitability of DreamWorks program production company recently, which can rank among the top in Hollywood. Even in just a few months, the valuation on Wall Street directly left behind DreamWorks Films, which had been established for more than a year. This is still the beginning, and there will be greater development in the future, not to mention Jiang Zhiqiang, even if it is an experienced person like Mary, in this company, the sense of presence is not so dazzling.
Coupled with the in-depth cooperation with Twentieth Century Fox, under the two major factors, the development of DreamWorks has directly gone to the highway, and compared with other film companies, it is completely two concepts.
Under such pressure, Jiang Zhiqiang's recent situation over there can be imagined. Fortunately, Li Mingbao is a nostalgic person, and he has not forgotten Jiang Zhiqiang's vigorous development in the early days of DreamWorks. If it weren't for Jiang Zhiqiang's role, even if Li Mingbao had all kinds of conveniences, it would be basically difficult to build DreamWorks into what it is now, and even if it did, it would take time, and I don't know how long it would take, and it would not be easy to become Li Mingbao's cash cow. That is, Jiang Zhiqiang laid a good foundation for DreamWorks at the beginning, and DreamWorks can have such a rapid development momentum, if there is no good foundation, even if DreamWorks wants to develop, it can only become lame.
Jiang Zhiqiang is quite clear about his initial role in DreamWorks, and he is also proud of his ability. But with the leapfrog development of DreamWorks now, Jiang Zhiqiang also understands his importance to DreamWorks, and he is directly diving. And Li Mingbao does not forget him, although Jiang Zhiqiang is grateful, he also understands his position. Now Li Mingbao intends to hand over the foundation of the mainland to him to manage, it is false to say that he is not excited, but after the excitement, Jiang Zhiqiang is also facing practical problems.
If Jiang Zhiqiang continues to be a small expert in infrastructure construction on the mainland, and after a certain extent, he can't keep up with the company's development, then won't he go down the old road again? If you simply take the old road, it doesn't matter to Jiang Zhiqiang, the old road does not mean that it will not work, especially in the commercial field, taking the old road, in fact, is a good thing for a new company, so as not to encounter a lot of trouble, reducing the initial operating costs. And after the old road is finished, and then open up a new road, the company can also have such a heritage.
But Li Mingbao's company has never simply taken the old road. Just like Li Mingbao's current career construction, it is a completely different concept from the vast majority of film industry bosses. Others are mainly films, but Li Mingbao is mainly in the film service industry, which is a completely different path, such a novel road is also very tempting for Jiang Zhiqiang. He was an adventurous man, and an alternative path attracted him more than the usual conventional path.
It is because of this attraction that he wants to make this career bigger and stronger, rather than not being able to keep up with the development of the industry, to continue to be like the United States, his ability to keep up with the development of the company, when the time comes, others will rob the position, Jiang Zhiqiang will really be depressed to death. What he is thinking about now is to understand whether Li Mingbao's positioning of these industries will develop by leaps and bounds like the United States. In that case, Jiang Zhiqiang would rather choose one of Li Mingbao's small industries to manage, so as not to hold Li Mingbao back, and at the same time let his ability play the greatest role. Instead of building infrastructure for Li Mingbao, it was large and complete, but in the end he lost the ability to manage.
While Jiang Zhiqiang was still thinking, Li Mingbao withdrew his thoughts to reality and began to wake up Jiang Zhiqiang.
"Brother Qiang, I know that your current industry in the United States is not doing well. I apologize to you for this. Originally, the development of DreamWorks would not deviate from our previous plan, that is, to be a cash cow. Therefore, Brother Qiang, your ability is fully qualified for this work.
Unfortunately, with the development of the company and the enhancement of strength, the development trajectory of the entire company has become completely different from what we planned before. In its current state, DreamWorks can no longer be a simple cash cow, but will be used as a wedge into the U.S. market, and its meaning and goals need to be achieved are completely different concepts than before.
Under such circumstances, Brother Qiang, your existing capabilities do have a big conflict with such a development plan. Let Brother Qiang, your ability, there is no room to play at all. I'm actually quite sorry about that. The development of DreamWorks is much better than we expected, and I didn't expect his development potential to become so amazing. The film industry is really different from other industries, and in other industries, the company has a strong controllability over the development of the company. But in the film industry, the controllability has become the bottom, especially every year, or even every month, the audience's preferences will be different. In this way, it is quite difficult for us to do a design such as planning. I'm also strange, horror movies can only be regarded as niche movies in the United States, who knows their development potential, it is so amazing, it used to be on the videotape, there were some unexpected surprises, and now the performance on the screen has become quite good, and the idea of Americans is really difficult to figure out. Li Mingbao said a little depressed.
Although his prediction of horror films is very optimistic, because he has memories of the future, Li Mingbao knows that the market for horror films is not as unbearable as these people imagine now. As long as there is a good film, the benefits are actually quite good. But the problem is that Li Mingbao is now discovering this type of movie, only in the early eighties, his initial goal was only to use small-budget movies to make more profits, as for the development of this market, Li Mingbao never thought about it, otherwise, Li Mingbao would not define DreamWorks as a cow. What is a cow called? It is something that only looks at economic benefits, and the milk of the cow and the cow itself will not become the core, but something that can be sold at a good price at any time.
But who knew that Li Mingbao didn't have such an idea, but the American audience was so powerful, and directly let Li Mingbao's Dream Factory, to a certain extent, undertake the development of film companies in this region. And as we all know, the first person to eat crabs, the profit is always the greatest, although at some times, it also means a heavy loss, but DreamWorks' luck is still not good, and it really develops the benefits of this piece.
In this way, the company, which was originally a cow, has become a Hollywood film company star, which is more profitable and influential than expected. At this time, DreamWorks could consider selling it to make money, but because other companies had a very good appetite, they not only wanted to eat meat, but they didn't even want to let go of the bones, and the price given was completely inferior to the price of cabbage, so Li Mingbao naturally refused to sell it, but the more he didn't sell, the greater the profit of DreamWorks, and the smaller Li Mingbao's ability to resist risks. If it weren't for the relationship between DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox, they would have done it a long time ago. But it's this kind of relationship that makes Twentieth Century Fox unsafe.
And the last time he went to the United States, Li Mingbao unexpectedly reached a cooperation agreement with John and Murdoch because of the advantage of funds, which directly turned DreamWorks, which was originally fat, into a super macho man, not to mention that others attacked, DreamWorks did not take the initiative to attack, it was already preferential treatment for other companies.
After solving the problem of DreamWorks' defense, the charm of DreamWorks will directly and completely bloom, although it is not as dazzling as DreamWorks TV program production company, but it is also a rising tide, for the sake of interests, DreamWorks will naturally absorb more powerful people to control the industry, so Jiang Zhiqiang is unlucky, that is, an accident in an accident.
So after Li Mingbao's words came out, Jiang Zhiqiang was also full of bitterness: "It's not to blame Li Sheng, who knew that American audiences would like this kind of movie so much?" DreamWorks has directly developed the market for a film category, and it is only natural that it has achieved its current glory. On this issue, I only blame myself for my own ability, otherwise, I would have been able to improve with DreamWorks.
I don't complain about Li Sheng, but I am full of gratitude to you, Li Sheng. It was originally a matter of my own ability, but now Li Sheng can give me a new opportunity, and following Li Sheng to do things is actually my greatest happiness. But when I was asked to work on the mainland, I also had great concerns. After all, Hollywood has learned from the past, and I don't want to experience the pain of lack of ability again.
So before I agreed to Li Sheng's conditions, I wanted to ask Li Sheng. Will there be a problem in the industry on the mainland side as in the United States? It's not that I don't like Li Sheng's good industrial development, it's just that I'm afraid I can't afford that kind of responsibility. ”
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