December 24th, afternoon.

Los Angeles, Sherman-Oakes.

The sky is clear, cloudless, and the temperature is 57.2.

On this day of family celebration, there are Christmas trees with more symbolic meaning than actual meaning at the door of every house, and no one deliberately pursues the snowflakes on them, because the best decoration is not the gifts hanging on the treetops, the gift boxes piled up in the shade of the trees!

In this way, Roland stepped on a 'stilt' to hang a gift, just like the driver went out with a wrench, which is reasonable!

"Roland, can't you hang low?"

And at the same time as he hung it, Elizabeth also leaned against the door frame with her hands folded, and said speechlessly: "Is it necessary for you to hang all the gifts on the tree?" Anyway, it will be demolished tomorrow, wouldn't it be easier to put it under the tree? ”

"Ritual! Do you understand the sense of ceremony? Roland dragged out his voice, emphasizing deliberately.

"Hey!"

The little guy rolled his eyes and said, "Wasn't you quite casual before?" When did you start pursuing this kind of thing? ”

"People always have to grow!" Roland, who had hung up the present, turned and jumped off the stool.

After retreating to the courtyard of the house, looking at the Christmas tree, and seeing that all the gifts were evenly distributed and there was no baldness on any side, he clapped his hands with satisfaction, "Okay, it's all hanging, you can dismantle it directly when you get up tomorrow morning!" ”

Such words made the sister-in-law cool her head too much.

Glancing at the Christmas tree, the average distribution of obsessive-compulsive disorder made her shiver, and she complained: "Men in love are terrible. ”

“What？” Roland, who was walking towards the house, happened to hear her muttering, and his eyebrows immediately raised.

But before he could open his mouth to question, the frightened little creature shrank into the house like a rabbit.

Then he ran away.

The sound of thumping footsteps made Roland laugh dumbly.

Shaking his head, he followed, "This guy! ”

…………

In fact, after Fox showed his attitude, the publicity reports of "Spider-Man 2" in various media gradually decreased.

The headlines on the front page are not giving, the TV show is not in production, and there is basically no other exposure except for the daily fixed-point broadcast.

And this is actually the survival norm of Christmas movies.

Every year's Christmas movies, they can only win the attention of the public before Christmas, if it is made into a curve chart, that is, the publicity begins to fluctuate, climbs to the peak when it is released, and when Christmas Eve comes, the long sound of dripping - will explode.

Then the whole film can be pulled to the crematorium for cremation.

Of course, if the cremation is slower, maybe after the festival, you can hear the sound of dripping corpses.

But at that time, it was already the world of Olympic films.

There is no way, blocking people from celebrating the festival is equivalent to killing parents.

In the East, the movie was moved to Chinese New Year's Eve, and it was only boycotted, and here, people's unions would organize strikes!

Not to mention, according to the law, people enjoy a one-and-a-half-day public holiday that starts at 12 noon on the 24th and ends at 24 o'clock on the 25th.

This situation also made Roland happy.

It's rare to be quiet, isn't it?

…………

"Roland, are the gifts hanging? Just right, come over and do me a favor. ”

As soon as he entered the house, Roland was stopped by the shouting again, and turned his head to look, good fellow, David who called him, was beating sheep.

With a beard, he has the appearance of a swallow, and his bearded appearance is full of ruthlessness, and his eyes are glaring, as if he can kill.

But it's a pity that what he is holding in his hand at this moment is not a snake spear, but a palm-length kitchen knife, so that the momentum is a little weaker, and if you take a closer look, the sadness on his face makes his tall image pull his hips directly.

"What are you doing here?" Roland asked suspiciously, "Isn't the Christmas reservation turkey?" ”

"Our family has never been extravagant and wasteful, if you get so much, you will definitely not be able to eat it all."

"Oops! Didn't they get up this morning and shout that they wanted to eat lamb chops? ”

When David heard this, he immediately sighed, "If it was just Ashley and Mary, it would be fine, mainly Liqi was also noisy, so I had to ask someone to bring a sheep, and the turkey was also held by Garneti in tin foil and put in the refrigerator, and it will be roasted tomorrow." ”

"Ah~" Roland suddenly realized, "Then you can get it~"

"Hey!" David was annoyed, "If I can do it, then I still call you?" ”

"Oh, well, well~Give me the knife~"

Grilling lamb chops is actually not difficult.

Since David had already told his subordinates about the use of the ingredients when he asked for the sheep, the merchant had already done a simple treatment.

There is no need for Roland to do this kind of thing, between the hands and knives, how to ensure the integrity of the ribs and waist spine is the biggest technical problem in the whole work, and after the lamb chops are cut out, the seasoning that has been prepared can be used.

Soak the best Iranian saffron in warm water, take a bowl and pour the appropriate amount of cream, cumin powder, and barbecue sauce into it.

And then mix everything up! Combine! At! One! Rise!

Next, rub some salt and black pepper on the lamb chops, then smooth out the ingredients on top as you would for your idol's face, pour them into a food bag, drain the air, and soak in cold water for three hours.

The clean and neat movements made David feel a little emotional, "When did you learn this?" ”

"People always have to grow!"

Roland, who had done all this, wiped his hands, "Okay, it's almost half past four and you can take it out and bake it." ”

Such an act made David pat him on the shoulder, "A man in love is terrible." ”

“What？” Puzzled, Roland turned his head strangely and said, "David, what do you mean?" ”

"It's not interesting, I feel sorry for others." David shook his head with a smile, grabbed Roland, and pushed him out of the kitchen, "Your growth rate is too fast, and others can't catch up with you!" Mike didn't wait for you last year, and Mike didn't wait for you this year! ”

…………

Until Roland was pushed into the study by David and saw the mountain of blizzard reports.

Only then did he realize that this guy was actually complaining for himself!

Since Roland's acquisition of Blizzard, at the end of each year, he has had the habit of going back and forth.

At first, I really thought life was boring, so I used to play games with them to strengthen friendships.

After that, it was time to go over and see how many teams the nascent Blizzard had controlled with his own intervention.

Now......

He hadn't been there for two years.

Last year, it was because I was filming, and this year, it's because there was a movie released.

But who doesn't know that this is his excuse for not being too lazy to move?

The once-loved game, like the movie, has gradually become a money-making tool.

The decline in interest in sensory stimulation made him quite helpless.

But that's normal.

In his previous life, the reason why he was excited to see a good movie and play a good game was because he belonged to the spiritual acquirer, but now, when he changed from an acquirer to a seller, the only thing that could make him feel happy was the soaring numbers on the financial report, so ......

The previous feelings have all become tools for creating profits.

In the past, he paid for these feelings, but now, he uses these feelings to let the world pay for himself.

Although this idea seems cold-blooded, who can live up to the original intention?

Brother Xun, who is known as the acting school, has transformed into variety shows, and in an interview, he also publicly said, 'I participate in variety shows because the audience always thinks I'm in the clouds', so she took over four variety shows in one go, hoping that the audience can recognize a more authentic self, this statement is true, but-

After "Red Sorghum", she has not produced any good works for five consecutive years.

The last film award was "Li Mi's Conjecture" twelve years ago.

Although he has been making movies, after "The Wind", he is no longer in the clouds.

Oh no!

If you talk about living up to your original intention, the girl who called on fans to consume rationally during the live broadcast on her birthday is the real original intention!

Of course, some people say that the live broadcast performance really has nothing to do with her, because what the brand wants is the distressing gimmick of the public.

Because on April 24, Mr. Luo had already stabbed the sales of e-commerce live broadcasts to the bottom, and all the e-commerce algorithms on the market are the order price, and this number is much higher than the actual turnover.

In this way, which is cost-effective to hang a distressed hot search on Weibo or sell thousands of products in a live broadcast, you can calculate it with the bottom of your feet.

Of course, what this kind of thing is, the team and the brand side of the rehearsal will know.

…………

"So Mike asked you about me?"

After glancing at the documents, when he learned that Blizzard Entertainment had released six games in 99, "GTA: Guilty London 1969", "GTA2", "Siphon Warrior", "Medal of Honor", and "Rocket", pushing the annual operating income to 500 million, a year-on-year increase of 45 percent, Roland closed the report with satisfaction, acted as a fan, and continued to fan the wind.

"But I remember, didn't I meet them this year?"

"After successfully investing in Google, I even treated them to a meal!"

The righteous doubt made David sneer and shook his head, as if he was unhappy with Roland's natural sense of distance, but it was more like an agreement with the kind of money in his hands, "He didn't bother to listen to your whereabouts, and he was busy enough to vote for Google." Now they'd rather write games in the company than answer your calls. ”

"Submitting the financial report at this time of year is just a procedure, and what they really want to ask is, when will the company's incentive plan be implemented? If so, when will the company go public? ”

"They don't want the company to go public as soon as possible, but if the incentive plan is implemented, the company has to go public."

When Roland bought Blizzard for 500,000 yuan, he actually asked David to give himself an incentive plan.

It's just that the incentive plan at that time was only for the Blizzard Big Three.

But after the crazy expansion, the policy of giving money to other developers has to be introduced.

As a result, the incentive plan for equity and sales margins other than the three of them was formulated by David.

However, this kind of incentive policy that major companies are using does not seem to have any problems, but in practice, it has great limitations, because the American "Company Law" stipulates that if a company has more than 500 shareholders and a large operating income, it must apply for listing, if it is unwilling to go public, they do not force it, but because of the large number of shareholders, in order to ensure the interests of shareholders, the company must disclose its financial reports on time and accept the supervision of the SEC.

To put it bluntly, this kind of regulation that bears the responsibilities of listed companies but cannot enjoy the rights of listed companies is to force you to go public.

As a result, the problem arises, Blizzard headquarters employees, currently there are one hundred and thirty people, Blizzard North, Rock Star, Naughty Dog, Sucker Punch, Bend Studios, CD Projekt combined, there are also close to two hundred.

On the surface, three hundred and three are far from five hundred, and there is still a gap of one hundred and seventeen.

But one hundred and seven spread to seven companies, that is, each company recruited more than 20 people.

When the number of recruits is full, as soon as the project starts, as long as it is on fire, you can get incentive shares.

When the time comes, it is impossible for the company to go public or not.

But for companies other than those with financing needs, going public can actually do more harm than good.

Unless they really want to make money, few are willing to go public.

"So they don't want to go public?" Roland tapped on the table.

"Yes." David nodded.

"Why?"

"Because they want to keep the whole company motivated before the online game is finished.

If the company had gone public before the birth of the "Warcraft" online game, there would have been countless voices in the production team.

Some people may look at the stock price and want to sell it and leave, while other companies can also poach our production team based on our share of equity incentives, and at that time, game development will suffer a lot of external influences. ”

Roland understood.

Isn't this the usual routine of capital!

How to ruin a company?

Let the headhunter poach all the core team of the target company.

It's like Game Science released the actual demo of "Black Myth: Wukong" just to recruit people, but before the people were recruited, the HR of the other family had already turned around to poach their people after seeing the demo.

Is this to contribute to your own industry?

No kidding, it's just that you die without anyone to work.

For listed companies with transparent financial reports, this kind of malicious poaching method is seen every day, and the team of the listed company is also very easy to dig, because others can estimate the price for the team by looking at your stock price and financial report.

It doesn't need to be too high, just write a number that you can't keep up with, and the vast majority of employees will flow away.

Don't say that people go to high places, water flows to low places, the old club deserves to be embarrassed, who let it not raise the treatment of employees.

This kind of guy who can be poached casually will not be reused by the new owner.

But for non-listed companies, this kind of operation is not very easy to use.

Because you never know how much they can give, and for private companies, a lot of transactions, don't have to be made public.

"So there's a solution?" Roland tossed the papers on the table.

Because of this he would, "Tear down the whole Blizzard Entertainment, right?"

Blizzard Entertainment is split into seven separate entities, so that the equity incentive that each developer gets is the equity of the company to which it belongs, and will not burden Blizzard headquarters, and the ownership of these seven companies is held in the name of a new company, in this case, the seven companies can be listed separately by virtue of their performance, and when the development of each company comes to an end, we can merge these companies through acquisitions, and the market value of Blizzard will also skyrocket. ”

Such words made David nod again and again, "That's right, that's pretty much what it means, but in the incentive plan we are preparing, there is also a merger incentive, that is, when a studio like Rock Star makes a blockbuster game, the internal shareholders have the right to decide whether to be reacquired by Blizzard, and they decide the price of the shares in their hands." Of course, whether to merge or not, it doesn't really interfere with you much, anyway, ......"

"You're the chairman anyway." Roland waved his hand.

"Hahaha~" David slapped the table and laughed.

…………

Almost all companies are acquired and split in order to evade regulation by legal means.

For Roland itself, it didn't make much sense.

However, since the Blizzard triumvirate wants to calm down and make games, then Roland will let them do it.

Of course, if you want to dismantle it completely, Warcraft Film and Television, Overwatch Venture Capital, and Interstellar Records are all spun off from Blizzard Capital and become a separate entity, while the original parent company, Blizzard Capital, actually controls the seven game companies that were spun off from Blizzard Entertainment, as for Marvel? It is still hung under the name of Warcraft Film and Television.

After dealing with these projects that no longer need Roland to work on, the knock on the door also took advantage of the trend.

When I opened it, the little girl who ran away before was lying on the door frame, looking in depressedly.

"What are you doing?" Roland pinched her face.

"Mom, sister, and Kate are back." Little Loli said crisply.

"Oh~ It's five o'clock?" Roland glanced at his watch, full of surprise.

Then the next second, he smiled and bent down to pick up the little guy, and splashed the dirty water on David without care, "Hungry, right?" It's all your dad's fault! Have a good Christmas Eve, you have to pull me up to be lazy! ”

Such words made David, who had already gotten up, roll his eyes.

But before he could explain more, Roland had already carried Xiao Loli downstairs, "Let's go, let's roast lamb chops for you!" ”