The day after the reception, Cang Yaozu set off for the city of Manchester, where he came to complete his last assignment in England, which you said was to negotiate with Manchester United to buy Beckham?

No, of course Beckham wants to buy it, but this doesn't have to be Cang Yaozu to negotiate with Ferguson. Cang Yaozu came to Manchester because of Mr. Cole Needham, founder and CEO of IMDB, an internet movie database.

After all, football is only a part of Cang Yaozu's career, and it is almost meaningless to say that the career is a bit dispensable.

Football can only be said to be Cang Yaozu's personal hobby, everyone has a hobby, if Cang Yaozu's hobby is football, then Cole Needham's hobby is movies, he is a geek who loves movies very much, and he watches more than 400 movies every year.

Cole Needham was born in 1967 with a major in computer science, and when his major and hobbies sparked, IMDB was born.

Although IMDB was only founded on March 25, 1996, the same day as the 68th Academy Awards, IMDB has actually been operating quietly for more than 7 years, but only recently set up a dedicated company to run it.

With the development of the Internet, there are more and more network users who like IMDB, and the operation and maintenance costs of IMDB are getting bigger and bigger.

Now, Cang Yaozu is sending money to IMDB on behalf of Netflix, and he wants to buy IMDB and move it to Silicon Valley to develop IMDB by injecting capital and expanding the size of the R&D engineer and editorial team.

Cole Needham and Cang Yaozu are more than ten years apart, but the two have a lot of topics in common, and they can talk about movies and the Internet.

When Cole Needham heard that Cang Yaozu founded Netflix and planned to serve the majority of fans through the Internet and DVD mail order service model, Cole Needham was very excited, he deeply experienced the inconvenience of watching movies, this is a good idea, and it is also a good project.

When Cang Yaozu proposed to buy IMDB and provide IMDB with development funds, so that IMDB could become a guiding light for fans around the world to rent or buy film discs, Cole Needham immediately agreed, IMDB's current lack of funds is one thing, and staying away from Hollywood is also a big problem.

Cang Yaozu proposed to acquire 85% of the shares of IMDB at a purchase price of $30 million, and promised that IMDB would operate independently and continue to provide more professional services to fans for free, and Cole Needham would continue to serve as the CEO of IMDB.

At the same time, Cang Yaozu promised to introduce two search engine experts from Stanford University and the Google team to IMDB to improve the search function of the website.

Cole Needham and his team and family will be moving to Silicon Valley to live and work, and Cang Yaozu will provide all the relocation costs.

After getting Cole Needham and IMDB, Cang Yaozu was relieved, in his previous life, IMDB was acquired by the bald Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, in 1998, but a film industry portal was held in the palm of Amazon's hand. Not anymore, IMDB plus Netflix can stir up the movie disc market.

There are still more than 4 months before Amazon will go public, and Amazon will have plenty of funds by then. Cang Yaozu's industry and the competition between Amazon and Apple are inevitable, Jobs will not be under others, Bezos is not a worry-free master, and these giants will inevitably expand horizontally once they grow.

Amazon from books to DVDs to readers to film and television production to streaming media, Apple from computers to MP3 to music platforms, and then smartphones, tablets, streaming media platforms, the giants are at the same pace, and it is much easier to dig up the pit if they determine the opponent.

Cang Yaozu encouraged little Edgar to take over more music companies, just for the sake of music copyright, and he must stifle Apple's MP3 business from the source. Netflix can also be a music store first. Online plus physical, online plus offline.

ICQ is going to step up its listing, England is basically done, Cang Yaozu has to return to China first, and then he has to continue to fly to Citigroup, the Asian financial crisis is about to begin, and the funds are ready to be prepared.

Back in London, Cang Yaozu issued an order to Robert Iger, asking him to immediately hold a press conference to announce the new construction plan of Universal Studios, and then organize a team to fly to Asia.

On the morning of January 15, 1997, Universal Pictures held a press conference to announce the start of the new Universal Studios construction plan, which would build three large-scale Universal Studios in London, Yandu and Magic City, and at the same time would send a team to build a large-scale Universal Studios in each of the two places in Southeast Asia.

Funds for the construction of the five Universal Studios will be raised through loans and global private equity funds, and the Universal Studios project will be built first and profitable in the country where the financial support is strong.

The first phase of the Universal Studios construction plan is expected to cost more than US$18 billion, and the site selection and fundraising teams will soon set off for Southeast Asia and England.

As soon as this press conference ended, the media exploded, Universal is going to break the kettle to challenge Disneyland, and now the second Universal Studios has just been built, and the new construction plan is five as soon as it is built, which is going to heaven.

Disney also held an emergency meeting to discuss plans for Disneyland in Asia. Disney now has one Disney park in California and one Disney park in Florida, and one Disney park each in Tokyo and Paris, for a total of four. It was decided to build two Disney parks in Asia at the same time.

Many countries in Asia are also very excited, to know that this kind of large-scale film and television park, not only a paradise, but also a leisure resort, a large number of domestic and foreign tourists come to visit every year, especially families with children, can greatly promote the local economic development.

Although Universal Studios is not as famous as Disneyland, they have been making recent moves, and have continuously invested in a number of special effects blockbusters, this time Universal Studios plans to have Dinosaur Park, the Lord of the Rings, and it is said that there is a Wizarding World of Harry Potter, as well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe jointly operated with Marvel, the attraction is definitely great.

Government officials in many countries and cities have begun to rely on connections and are very eager to intervene, such as Tokyo, Osaka, Xiangjiang, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and other cities have taken action.

For a time, the whole of Southeast Asia was mobilized by the construction plan of these Universal Studios.