After a long journey of more than two hours, the train finally arrived in Los Angeles, Lin Mu followed the woman all the way off the train, and on the platform, Lin Mu finally stopped her. The first thing he said was www.biquge.info "You look a lot like Audrey Hepburn!" ”

"You think this excuse for picking up is interesting?" The woman was a little angry that the forest had recklessly blocked her way.

"I think you misunderstood me!" Lin Mu took off his sunglasses, "In fact, I am a Hollywood producer, I think your image and temperament are very suitable for making movies, as long as you are willing, you will achieve no less than Audrey Hepburn!" ”

"Does this have anything to do with me?" The woman was unmoved by Lin Mu's remarks, "I like music and dance very much, but I'm not interested in movies!" ”

Lin Mu didn't expect that he would be rejected so directly, he even suspected that this woman didn't recognize him at all, "I see, but I think it's a waste for you not to act in a movie, this is my business card, please seriously consider my request just now, I am not stupid enough to use this boring excuse to deliberately approach you!" Lin Mu thought that she was suspicious of her identity, so she rejected him.

The woman hesitated for a moment, but finally got Lin Mu's business card, "You are the person she knew about Lin Mu before, but she obviously didn't come first to stand in front of this famous Hollywood screenwriter and producer."

"If I hadn't usurped myself!" Lin Mu was very helpless, in fact, he would be quickly recognized when he walked on the street now, but this woman could ignore his existence so calmly, which made his self-confidence a little hit.

"I've seen the movie you wrote!" To Lin Mu's surprise, the woman just said lightly, without the slightest nervousness and excitement of seeing well-known Hollywood figures. "It's true that I'm not very interested in Hollywood movies, and I feel really good that a few of your movies are forced by my friends to watch them, but I just came to the United States to finish my studies!"

"Don't you have the slightest interest in being a movie star?" Lin Mu is very puzzled, in every woman's heart, there is actually a star dream, like her so calmly refusing Hollywood's invitation, Lin Mu is the first time to encounter it.

"A glamorous life is naturally envied by everyone, but I think that kind of life will also be very tiring, I would rather be an ordinary person!" She remained unmoved.

Lin Mu suddenly felt that he was a failure, and after talking for so long, he was rejected so thoroughly that he didn't even know what the woman's name was, which made him feel a wave of frustration that he had never felt before. "But you have to know that you are really extraordinary, which determines that you can't be an ordinary person at all!" How could the dignified Vice Chairman Paramount be such a painstaking person to persuade him, but how could he be an ordinary character.

"Is it because I look like Audrey Hepburn that I have to make movies and become a star?" The woman's rhetorical question made Lin Mu dumbfounded, but he was speechless. This time, he realized what it was like to put a hot face on a cold **.

"Maybe I'm presumptuous!" Lin Mu smiled rather awkwardly, he decided to first get to know who this woman who could refuse him without hesitation. "I don't know your name yet, maybe you don't want to go to Hollywood to make a movie, but I can always know your name!"

"Helen Shua, from Vienna." Her introduction was brief.

Lin Mu felt that it seemed as if it was difficult to get more information from her mouth, and he had already attracted the attention of many people by openly stopping Helen Shuya on the platform. "I still hope that you will consider my suggestion, and that my contact information is on the business card. I still say that today's Hollywood can make you go further than Audrey Hepburn! ”

"Maybe I'll think about it!" Helen Shuya's reply seemed to Lin Mu to be more of a courtesy reply, but there was no doubt that the woman who looked like Audrey Hepburn left such a deep impression on him that he still remembered it years later.

The encounter with Helen Shua was just a small episode in Lin Mu's visit to Francis Ford Coppola, and when he returned to Los Angeles, he received a call from Alan Adhan, who learned that the first generation of Warcraft had been fully produced. At Blizzard's headquarters in Silicon Valley, Lin Mu finally saw the original appearance of this popular game. I have to admit that at this time, "Warcraft" could not be compared with the game that Lin Mu was familiar with in terms of graphics and operability, but some of the core elements of this classic game can already be found in the first generation.

Lin Mu couldn't help but sit down in front of the computer and play a few games, after being defeated by the computer twice, Lin Mu finally gave up the idea of continuing to try, but he had no doubt about the sales prospects of the game. In this era, Blizzard has actually been ahead of many game developers, plus it has invested a lot of money in publicity before, and even Lin Mu has used Viacom's sales channels to promote the game on a small scale, so after the game was launched, the sales volume also exceeded the expectations of Alan Adhan and others. In just two weeks, the original plan of 1 million games was sold out, and Blizzard had to re-launch another 50 games, barely enough to meet the demand of American gaming hobbies.

The game we opened was selling like crazy, I didn't expect people to love it so much! Alan Adhan excitedly told Lin Mu on the phone.

"Adhan, I believe this is just the beginning, Blizzard's glory is still to come!" Lin Mu congratulated them on the phone, but at the same time, Lin Mu also reminded Alan Adhan not to blindly think that Blizzard has taken over the market because of the success of a certain game, and Blizzard still has a long way to go. At the same time, Lin Mu did not forget to remind Alan Adhan to keep an eye on the rapidly expanding Internet, and he felt that it was time to instill the concept of online games in Blizzard.

"Do you think the games of the future will be built on the web?" On the other end of the line, Alan Adhan's voice was surprised.

"Now that small-scale online gaming is possible, online gaming is just a bit of an expansion of the local area network." Lin Mu thinks that since Alan Adhan has opened a platform for multiplayer online games, there should be no problem in understanding online games.

"But that requires a high network transmission efficiency, which is very difficult to achieve on the current Internet!" Alan Adhan told Lin Mu a very real problem, the United States only began to propose the construction of the information superhighway in the mid-90s, this is the network popularization plan promoted by the US government is still only beginning to take shape, such a large scale of network laying in the United States has not been fully realized, especially individual users, currently do not have the conditions for high-speed Internet access.

For the question raised by Alan Adhan, Lin Mu has also considered it before, and the reason why he proposed the concept of online games now is just to provide an idea for Blizzard's future exhibition, which is the inevitable trend of game exhibitions, and Lin Mu wants Alan Adhan and others to see the huge business opportunities contained in this in advance. He told Alan Adhan to consciously guide gamers to accept the concept of online games in the future, and their main task now is to continue to build the early single-player RPG games. Lin Mu knows that the later "World of Warcraft" has more than 10 million users around the world, and the main reason why it is so popular around the world is because Warcraft has accumulated a large number of gamers in the early stage, and even has formed a game culture. In Lin Mu's opinion, the pace of Warcraft entering online games is still a little more cautious, otherwise the impact will be greater.

In fact, Lin Mu's active proposal of the concept of online games is mainly based on the consideration of piracy, and in countries with mature markets such as Europe and the United States, this issue does not need to be considered too much. However, in some exhibitions/countries, piracy can even seriously threaten the survival of a game, which makes Lin Mu have to be cautious.

At this time, the investment that also came with good news from Yahoo undoubtedly injected more ** and encouragement into Yang Zhiyuan and the two, and they began to commercialize the Internet search engine. After the company was set up, Yang Zhiyuan rented relevant equipment, including telephone lines, four workstations, four computers and a T3 special line. Yahoo makes indexing software available to users for free, and the company relies heavily on advertising revenue for its bottom line.

Since there were only a few companies that could provide free information retrieval services at this time, it was quickly recognized by the market. Every day, Yahoo adds more than 200 new directories to the software. Because of the convenience of Yahoo's search system, people are generally optimistic about the prospects, and advertising alone is a lot of income.

Yang Zhiyuan told Lin Mu that Yahoo has recently received more than 5 million hits per day, but Yang Zhiyuan is not satisfied, and after months of thinking, he believes that Yahoo is not just a website that provides a catalog, but a new media. Thousands of people pass through the information superhighway, which is a must-pass gateway. Lin Mu didn't expect Yang Zhiyuan to come up with the concept of a portal so quickly. And Yang Zhiyuan told him that the purpose of these words is also very clear: we must increase investment in Yahoo to ensure that Yahoo can develop rapidly.

A few days after Yang Zhiyuan called Lin Mu, an uninvited guest hurriedly came to the door.

"Mr. Sun came to the door in person this time, not just because he admired my thin name!" When Lin Mu learned that Masayoshi Son, the president of SoftBank of Japan, had come to Dream to find him, his first impression was that Yahoo, which was the first to discover Yahoo in history, and invested heavily in it, and promoted Yahoo's expansion in Asia. And now due to the emergence of Lin Mu, Dream has replaced SoftBank's position, but in terms of overseas expansion, Lin Mu knows that Dream cannot completely replace Japan's SoftBank. So when he learned that Masayoshi Son had arrived in the United States, Lin Mu's first feeling was that this person was so fast, and this business sense and business judgment alone were very human.

"Mr. Lin is modest, if you can only say that you are famous, then don't the other so-called celebrities in Hollywood become clowns?" Son replied in a standard American pronunciation.

"As far as I know, Mr. Sun graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and I graduated from the University of Los Angeles, from the school's origins, the two of us have to be alumni, so Mr. Sun doesn't have to be polite to me, there is an old saying in China/China called opening the skylight to speak brightly, Mr. Sun must also have something important to discuss here!" Lin Mu lightly pointed out the relationship between the two, in fact, he told Sun Zhengyi that if you have anything, just say it directly, don't beat around the bush.

"Mr. Lin is a happy person!" Masayoshi Son is no longer polite, "I actually came here on behalf of Japan's SoftBank Company this time, and I want to cooperate with Dream!" ”

"Dream doesn't have any international investment projects at the moment, especially in Japan, and our market is almost blank, so I don't know what Mr. Sun is referring to by cooperation." Lin Mu asked knowingly. He had actually guessed that Son was coming for Yahoo this time.

"I know that your company is the largest investor in Yahoo, and SoftBank has been watching Yahoo for some time, and our representative has been in contact with Mr. Yang Zhiyuan of Yahoo before, but he told us that Dream is the majority shareholder of Yahoo. Since Lin Mu has invested in Yahoo, he must have planned to make it bigger and stronger, and Yahoo's potential is not only in the United States, and international expansion must be the next step. Asia is a vast market, and Japan has the most mature market mechanism in Asia, but it is undoubtedly the best choice to break through in Japan. Therefore, Japan's SoftBank is willing to cooperate with Mr. Lin to create Yahoo Japan as a touchstone for Yahoo to enter Asia. ”

"I do have plans to invest in Asia, but Japan's SoftBank is not the only choice for dream!" Hayashi knew that working with Japan's SoftBank was a good option, but he still wanted to hear what kind of conditions Son used to convince him.

"In fact, I hope that American venture capital like Dream can directly inject capital into SoftBank, which is actually an opportunity for Dream to go international!" Son Masayoshi suddenly came up with such a sentence.

His idea also frightened Lin Mu, he thought that Son Masayoshi was coming for Yahoo, but he didn't expect to make such a big detour, Son Masayoshi actually took the opportunity of Yahoo's overseas expansion to persuade himself to invest in Japan's SoftBank, it seems that he still underestimated Son Masayoshi at first. "Mr. Sun is trying to pull me into the gang!" He no longer dared to underestimate this shrewd Japanese. (To be continued.) )