At least compared to other Hollywood companies, Ted Salando has the support of financial backers, Weta Special Effects Studio, the imdb website, and the support of a number of brother companies and allies.

To put it bluntly, when DreamWorks was first established, apart from the fame of Spielberg’s Big Three, they may not have the family fortune of Ted Salando.

The key is that except for Western Pictures, I am afraid that other major Hollywood companies may not choose Ted Salando, who is not very famous, to be the leader.

Of course, for Ted Salando, this is his opportunity and also his pressure. If he fails to achieve results, then I am afraid that even if Song Yang favors him again, Ted Salando will not be able to film in the Western Conference.

The CEO has been sitting in his position for too long!

In addition to performance, although Song Yang did not say it directly, Ted Salando still felt that Song Yang asked Western Pictures to launch an Internet video business because he probably wanted Western Pictures to take advantage of the Internet.

Then it will be launched within a few years, otherwise there is no need to bother for so long.

Western Pictures officially announced that Ted Sarando became the head of the company. For Vanity Fair Hollywood, it did not cause much of a sensation. After all, Ted Sarando is not well-known now.

As for why Song Yang chose Ted Salando to be the president of Western Pictures, many people also expressed their opinions. Just like when Song Yang chose Iger to be the president of America Telecom, many people believed that Song Yang chose Ted.

·It’s cheap enough for Salando to be the president of Western Pictures...

After all, compared to those Wall Street executives who have been dismissed, Ted Salando's current salary is not high, and it is indeed "cheap" enough.

No matter what Hollywood thinks, Ted Sarando has begun to take over the position of president of Western Pictures, and Western Pictures has officially entered the Ted Sarando era.

As soon as he took over Western Pictures, in addition to promoting "The Matrix", Ted Sarando began cooperating with TV station C and began co-producing TV series.

Ted Salando used his contacts in Hollywood to find a group of powerful screenwriters and producers, and began to formulate projects and plans for the Western Film Industry. The entire Western Film Industry started to operate like a sophisticated machine.

When Western Pictures started to get busy, 25-year-old Reed Hastings was depressed and paying a fine. The "Apollo 13" disc he rented at Blockbuster was overdue and he was paying the fine.

For Reed Hastings, who has now achieved financial freedom, a fine of forty dollars is nothing to him, but it still makes Reed Hastings, who likes mathematics and has studied numbers,

Feeling annoyed.

Reed Hastings was not an unknown person. His great-grandfather, Fred Loomis, was one of the earliest big names on Wall Street. The American stock market crash in 1929 not only did not make his great-grandfather bankrupt, but also made him bankrupt ahead of schedule.

Foreseeing the stock market crash made a fortune.

His great-grandfather was also the financial backer of a laboratory. The staff of this laboratory included figures such as Einstein, Fermi, and Lawrence. You can imagine what Reed Hastings' family background was like.

Reed Hastings's father is a barrister, and his mother worked for the federal commander during the Watergate incident. He belongs to a truly prestigious American family.

Reed Hastings came from a standard American upper-class background, grew up in a wealthy area of ​​Boston, graduated from Bowdoin College, trained in the Marine Corps, served as a mathematics instructor in Swaziland, and studied for a master's degree in computer science at Stanford University.

After completing his degree, Reed Hastings established his own software company.

Last year, when Song Yang first debuted, Reed Hastings also appeared on the cover of "America Today" as a "tech genius". Song Yang at the time was not able to get this kind of treatment.

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Reed Hastings made his debut very early. As early as five years ago, he established a company that measured software quality. He himself also has a technical background. This year, the craze of the Internet finally made Reed Hastings.

The company founded by Tings is also being targeted by big investors and is currently in the process of acquiring it. If nothing goes wrong, the size of the deal will be around US$700 million.

For Reed Hastings, who comes from an extraordinary family, this acquisition only allowed him to "realize" his own value, and he was not too excited. Therefore, compared with his peers in Silicon Valley, although he is also in Silicon Valley, California,

But Reed Hastings rarely appears in front of the camera like Anderson and Yang Zhiyuan. He is very low-key. Even the media reports on Song Yang are much more than Reed Hastings!

Back at his residence, Reed Hastings, who was still feeling aggrieved, turned on the TV and saw the news on the TV station, which was reporting news about Song Yang and Western Pictures.

Reed Hastings is no longer surprised by the news about Song Yang. In Silicon Valley and even California, as long as it involves technology and Internet news, the three people with the highest frequency are undoubtedly Anderson, Yang Zhiyuan and

Song Yang.

"Western Pictures, a Hollywood film and television company owned by Bruno Song, officially announced today that Ted Salando will serve as president. The outside world predicts that this is one of the signals that Bruno Song will make rectifications for Western Pictures. There are Internet professionals in Silicon Valley.

Sources claim that they do not rule out the possibility that Western Pictures will develop business in the Internet industry in the future..."

Watching the news on TV and seeing Song Yang's report, Reed Hastings suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment in his heart.

In Silicon Valley, the evaluation of Song Yang's character is that he is a typical style from West Texas. He treats the Board of Trade, Wall Street and all previous opponents, and he must retaliate and complain. He never complains.

Will show mercy.

Thinking of the $40 late fee charged by Blockbuster, Reed Hastings always felt that he was owed something. He couldn't help but think about how Song Yang would treat Blockbuster if it were Song Yang.

Reed Hastings feels that the most likely possibility is that Song Yang is going to overthrow Blockbuster and cancel the late fee!

Thinking of this, Reed Hastings, who had been preparing to sell the company he had been running for five years, suddenly had an idea: What would happen if a company was established to replace Blockbuster?

As soon as this idea appeared, it appeared in his mind like crazy weed, and he immediately called his good friends Mark Randolph, McLaod and others.

On the second day after Ted Salando took over as the head of Western Pictures, a company called Netflix was established, mainly engaged in online disc rentals.

Song Yang didn't pay much attention to the feud between Blockbuster and Netflix. Blockbuster now is not a decaying entity that will fall when the wind blows. It is a company with a market value of more than 6 billion US dollars.

, has strong cash flow.

Two years ago, Viacom's Redstone also used Blockbuster's cash flow to kill his competitor, Hollywood godfather-level figure, former Paramount President Barry Diller, and spent more than 10 billion US dollars.

The knife took down Paramount.

Even if Netflix is ​​established, even if Netflix and Reed Hastings continue to hype it up, it will still be beaten by Blockbuster.

As long as Netflix does not transform into Internet video, then Western Pictures does not need to pay attention to Netflix. As for Blockbuster, unless it commits suicide, no one can kill it in the video rental industry now, not even Netflix.

, when Internet videos took off and videos and videos could be downloaded at will, Blockbuster was done with it.

Of course, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Blockbuster still has a lot of good stuff. Over the years, Blockbuster has picked up Hollywood and held a huge library of film and television copyrights. Although it is not a well-known film and television copyright, it is better than

With large quantities and full control, if there is a chance, Western Pictures can take over Blockbuster's copyright library, and show old movies on the C TV channel's video channel, adding some inventory to imdb...

In Los Angeles, after selecting a director for Western Pictures and hanging out with Jenny for a few days, Song Yang returned to San Jose. There was already a person who had arrived in San Jose, waiting for Song Yang to meet him.

In a hotel built by Japanese Americans in San Jose, Satomi was sitting in the imitation Japanese-style room of the hotel, looking out the window at the street.

In the 1980s, Nippon-Benz bought part of America. Although most of them have now dissipated, Nippon-Benz still retains a lot of its investment in America, especially hotels, real estate and the like, which are still in operation.

, just moved from being blatantly in front of the stage to behind the scenes.

As the president of Samei Company, the second largest pachinko machine manufacturer in Japan, Satomi Osamu came to America quietly this time without alerting anyone. In order not to leak any news, he even came to America.

I stayed at this Japanese-style hotel on purpose.

Thinking of the quotation he suddenly received a few days ago, Satomi still feels a little unbelievable. There was no news, and even Satomi had never heard the name of the Snow Mountain Nippon Benzene Company, suddenly asked the Samei Company.

The offer, which wanted to buy the entire Samei properties in Japan, Japan and Southeast Asia, shocked both Satomi and Sammy's board of directors.

After being stunned, Satomi Haru and Samei Company got to know Xuele Mountain, but they were a little moved. In the past, Xuele Mountain was something that my uncle did not care about and my grandma did not love. Several financial backers all considered Xuele Mountain.

Searching as a cash cow.

But the current situation in Xueleshan is different from the past. The new owner values ​​​​Xueleshan very much, just like a beautiful knife is not money, and constantly provides blood transfusions to Xueleshan, allowing Xueleshan to stand up again in a short period of time.

Making things happen in the gaming industry.

But this time, Xueleshan established a company in Japan and suddenly took action against Samei Company, which inevitably made Samei speculate on what Xueleshan was going to do.
Chapter completed!