The Airbus H155 helicopter parked smoothly on the helipad of the Red Hat Company on Fengsha Road. Wang Yaocheng gave Tom a thumbs up and shouted, "Good job, man."
Tom answered loudly; "This big toy is great! I love him so much."
"Is your Indy car ready?"
"Haha, yes, thank you boss, you have never seen such a fast Indy car."
"Don't give up on your dreams, I'm optimistic about you!"
Wang Yaocheng shook his head helplessly and stepped off the helicopter. The strong air flow brought by the rotor blew his hair flying in the air, and he left the tarmac with a trot.
Chairman's Office
Qi Yafei, Dr. Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan were already waiting here. Wang Yaocheng strode in from the outside, followed by Yu Chengde, the director of the secretarial department. He is now Wang Yaocheng's most satisfactory assistant and has a very strong working ability.
"Hi, good morning guys, you all look good."
Yang Zhiyuan replied: "That's true. After half a month of trial operation, the boss and Yahoo programs have solved dozens of bugs. The engine's algorithm has been verified and its performance is excellent. Now it can be officially launched."
"Great! Let's sit down and talk. We'll wait for Mr. Huo."
While they were talking, Atlantic Company President Huo Jiaguang, lawyer Montgomery Jr. and others walked into the office, said hello to everyone, and sat down one after another.
Wang Yaocheng; "Okay, everyone is here. Mr. Montgomery, please introduce the company's formation."
Attorney Montgomery Jr. took out the document, looked at it, and said;
"Yahoo company registration and patent applications in European and American countries and other legal procedures have all been completed. Legally speaking, it has no connection with Netscape and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Red Hat.
Due to Red Hat's subsequent second round investment of US$6 million, and Atlantic Company President Huo Jiaguang and Red Hat and Yahoo General Manager Qi Yafei successively taking shares, the equity changes are as follows;
Red Hat invested US$16 million in two rounds and held 88% of the original shares.
Technical leaders Dr. Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan hold a total of 10% of the original shares. After the second round of dilution, they hold a total of 6% of the shares.
Dr. Ferro serves as Yahoo's CTO technical director, and Yang Zhiyuan serves as Yahoo's COO chief operating officer.
Montgomery Investments Jr. holds 2.25% of the shares and serves as the company's chief legal counsel.
Huo Jiaquan Investment holds 1.5% of the shares.
Qi Yafei Investment holds 1.5% of the shares and is also the CEO of Yahoo.
Yu Chengde Investment holds 0.75% of the shares and concurrently serves as the CFO of Yahoo!
The Yahoo brand logo and search engine patent pool are owned by Red Hat. Yahoo will adopt a dual-class share structure design, that is, "same shares, different rights", and the founding shareholders have 100% voting rights.
In the third round of financing and beyond, Yahoo investors will not have voting rights and will only have the right to share dividends.
This new type of equity structure design will always ensure that the founding major shareholders have absolute control over the company, no matter how the equity is diluted. This is the equity design that is most beneficial to the original shareholders."
The introduction of lawyer Montgomery Jr. won unanimous applause from everyone. This was a great weapon for future generations, including the founding shareholders of Alibaba, Google, Amazon, Facebook and other Internet companies, to maintain control of the company.
Now, Yahoo has become the first to lead the trend, and it will be enthusiastically sought after by Internet companies and become fashionable.
Poor Dr. Ferro and Yang Zhiyuan were so ignorant that Wang Yaocheng deprived them of control of the company and put the curse of Qi Yafei, general manager of Yahoo, on their heads. They were still complacent.
Having never experienced the glory of Yahoo in their previous life, these two technology giants are very satisfied with their current situation and are very happy to have big legs and be able to share in the success of Yahoo.
To be honest, these two people have some talent, but they are too wasteful.
Yahoo, a giant company, bought more than 100 companies like crazy when they got rich. Basically, they paid nothing for what they bought. Instead, they didn't buy the most important Google search engine for only 1 million US dollars.
Yahoo was ruined by these two people. Wang Yaocheng changed his mind and was not ready to give up Yahoo. Instead, he was ready to let Yahoo develop and grow according to his own wishes.
After all, it was Yahoo that pioneered Internet interconnection and led the world into the network information age, which is of extraordinary historical significance.
It is a pity that such a historically pioneering company has withdrawn from history.
"Open the champagne and let's celebrate. Today is August 18th. It's better to choose a date than to hit it. Yahoo has arranged to officially go online today. It will serve as the second pillar of Red Hat and jointly support the brilliant success of Red Hat.
prospect."
Wang Yaocheng's passionate speech was unanimously echoed. Everyone raised their champagne glasses with smiles and celebrated the birth of Yahoo together.
This historic day in the history of the development of the Internet is forever fixed in this moment amid the uncertainty of the flashing lights.
Red Hat, a company located in Silicon Valley, has successfully hatched the dazzling Netscape and Yahoo. These two successful Internet companies will bring opportunities for Wang Yaocheng's business empire to take off.
Red Hat is still in the process of developing a computer integrated chip R&D company and a Linux operating system application company.
By building a nest to attract talents and attracting high-end scientific and technological talents from the United States to participate in scientific and technological research and development, computer integrated chip research and development companies have made rapid progress.
It now has a research and development team of more than 300 people, more than 30% of whom have PhD degrees from Harvard or the University of California, and more than half of whom are Chinese science and engineering elites. They have continuously achieved remarkable results in chip technology research and development.
In addition to registering R&D patents, Wang Yaocheng does not want to expose the true strength of the computer integrated chip R&D company for the time being.
Adhering to the concept of meat buried in a bowl, Wang Yaocheng hopes to wait until chip research and development is truly mature before making the existence of this company public. It may take three years, or it may take five years. He has plenty of patience to wait.
The Linux operating system has been continuously improved. From Red Hat Helsinki Research Institute, Jinling Research Institute, and Silicon Valley Research Institute, after a year and a half of continuous efforts and a lot of money and effort, the Linux operating system has now been improved to 1.7 million
Lines of code are uploaded for free to businesses and enthusiasts for use.
This free effort has achieved gratifying achievements. Many medium and large scientific research companies have successively adopted the open source Linux operating system, and a large number of app developers have developed various small-scenario applications based on the Linux operating system, enriching the entire scene of the operating system.
application.
Linux inherits the network-centric design philosophy of Unix and is a multi-user network operating system with stable performance.
With the development of the Internet, Linux has received support from software enthusiasts, organizations, and companies around the world.
In addition to maintaining a strong momentum of development in server operating systems, it has also made great progress in personal computers and embedded systems.
Users can not only intuitively obtain the implementation mechanism of the operating system, but also modify and improve the operating system according to their own needs to maximize it to meet the needs of users.
Linux not only has stable system performance, but is also an open source and free software.
Its core firewall components have high performance and simple configuration, ensuring the security of the system. In many enterprise networks, in order to pursue speed and security, the Linux operating system is not only used as a server by network operation and maintenance personnel, but Linux can also be used as a server.
, and can also be used as a network firewall, which is a highlight of Linux.
During long-term use, users have gradually discovered many advantages of the Linux operating system, become more dependent on it, and user stickiness has greatly increased.
This promotion method of boiling frogs in warm water has gradually penetrated into various application scenarios of enterprises and individuals, including small and medium-sized factories, power stations, private banks, chemical companies and individual users.
affecting more and more people.
This was Google's free and open source Android operating system promotion method in the previous life. This trick has now been learned by Wang Yaocheng. Its real explosion should be ten years later, not now when smartphone applications have not yet begun.
Wang Yaocheng will insist on continuous investment in research and development, investing tens of millions of funds every year to update and develop the Linux operating system from generation to generation, gradually accumulating a thicker and thicker patent pool, until it reaches an insurmountable level.
After a while
Everyone dispersed in the chairman's office. Wang Yaocheng could not suppress the ecstasy in his heart. The full sense of accomplishment made him passionate. After washing his face and waking up, his heart was still burning like a ball of magma.
He reached out to unbutton his collar, walked to his desk and pressed the transponder;
"Miss Guo..."
"Yes, Chairman, what are your orders?"
"Please come to my office, Vice President Cai Linlin, to report on recent work."
"Okay, I'll notify you right away."
After a while, with the sound of "thump, thump" of leather shoes, Cai Linlin walked over in high spirits wearing an expensive customized Chanel suit. Her flowing wavy hair made her beautiful.
Chanel's thin and tight suit outlines Cai Linlin's beautiful and concave figure, her beautiful face is full of beautiful eyes, and her fair skin on her neck has deep collarbones, exuding the charming charm of a mature woman.
Pushing open the door, the huge chairman's office was deserted. Stepping on the thick wool carpet and walking in, Cai Linlin looked around in surprise. There seemed to be some noise in the lounge behind.
"Brother Cheng, are you there?"
"Oh, Linlin is here! Come in."
"oh!"
Cai Linlin walked in without any precautions, and was suddenly thrown onto the bed by a black shadow. She was so frightened that she screamed, and then she was pressed down by a heavy body.
"Oh...ah..."
…
Yu Chengde accompanied Pan Shiyi, Vice President and Financial Director of DreamWorks, and Zhao Feng, Director of Distribution, walked in chatting and laughing. They held thick documents in their hands and were about to report to the chairman.
Pan Shiyi and Zhao Feng, who work at Caribbean Holdings, are their own people stationed at DreamWorks. They control two important departments, the finance and distribution department, and safeguard the interests of Caribbean Holdings.
The three people walked up to Miss Guo Liyi, secretary to the chairman, and asked, "Miss Guo, Mr. Pan and Mr. Zhao from DreamWorks are here to report to the chairman. Can you come in now?"
"Oh! Vice President Cai has been in for a while. Please wait a moment and I will ask you questions."
The secretary, Ms. Guo Liyi, had just picked up the phone. Yu Chengde hurriedly pressed the phone down and said covertly, "Well... we are not in a hurry. Let's wait outside for a while. Please make them a cup of tea."
"Okay, I'll come right away."
Looking at Miss Guo Liyi's leaving figure, Pan Shiyi glanced at Zhao Feng vaguely. The two of them immediately knew that the old god was sitting down and waiting, not in any hurry.
It's nothing like the fussy and anxious look on his face when he first arrived.
These are all smart people. People who are old enough to deal with office politics should avoid some of the taboos of leaders.
After waiting for more than an hour, another hour passed.
She glanced at the three people waiting outside, with a forced smile on her face.
"Come here to report on work?"
"Yes, President Cai, is the chairman available?"
"Oh! Wait a moment, he is answering an important call."
"Okay, thank you, President Cai!"
The three of them stood up politely, watched Cai Linlin's tall figure go away, quickly looked away, looked at each other awkwardly, and remained silent.
In the chairman's office
Wang Yaocheng pretended to read the documents, nodded to Yu Chengde, Pan Shiyi and Zhao Feng who came in, and said casually, "Sit down, is your trip to Europe going well?"
"Chairman, despite some twists and turns, the film and television adaptation rights of the novel "The Lord of the Rings" have finally been won."
"Okay, well done."
Wang Yaocheng put down the documents, his wet hair had not yet completely dried. He called to Yu Chengde and said, "Chengde, sit down and listen together. The work of DreamWorks is very important. It is related to the adaptation of Marvel animated movies. The current distribution
The channel is under construction, you should keep track of the progress."
"I know Chairman, I will keep this in mind."
Yu Chengde responded, took out his notebook and sat down. He would record everything the chairman told him to prevent him from forgetting when he was busy. This was a very good work habit.
Pan Shiyi made a work report;
"Chairman, according to your work arrangements, our negotiation team of four people, including lawyers, went to the UK and, after many negotiations with the John Ronald Riel Tolkien Estate Management Fund Committee, finally reached a package buyout agreement.
.
According to the signed legal agreement, Caribbean Company invested US$2.2 million to buy out Tolkien's works "The Lord of the Rings", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Long Road", "The Hobbit" and "The Lost Legend" in one lump sum
Exclusive film and television adaptation rights for "The Ballad of Beleriand", "The Lost Road", "The Return of the Shadow", "Isengard's Betrayal", "Bilbo's Last Song" and other works.
This time, we received great help from Mr. Smedley, a senior partner in the London branch of Goldman Sachs, who did a lot of work and finally convinced the Tolkien Heritage Fund Management Committee to reach a win-win agreement with us.
At first, they were unwilling to sign a one-time buyout agreement for the adaptation of film and television works, but in the end Mr. Smedley convinced them and we gave them the best price, achieving a win-win result."
"Not bad, well done." Wang Yaocheng praised without hesitation,
"Through Mr. Smedley, we also met the female writer J.K. Rowling. Before this trip to Europe, I heard the chairman mention this British female writer. It seemed that her life was quite poor.
But we have seen the fantasy novel "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" that JK Rowling is currently writing. It is really well written and has been mostly completed.
We sponsored US$20,000 in the name of the Caribbean Foundation to support the female writer J.K. Rowling in continuing her creations as a gesture of goodwill. She was very grateful for this and left her contact number."
Pan Shiyi acted very steadily and handled matters appropriately.
Wang Yaocheng smiled with satisfaction, tapped the table with his slender fingers, and said, "You can continue to keep in touch. Fantasy novels are a novel category. It can be seen from "ET" directed by Mr. Spielberg that the audience
I really like this kind of novel-themed movies, so we have to keep a keen sense of smell and collect as many scripts as possible to enrich the script library."
"Chairman, privately I still feel that the price for purchasing Mr. Tolkien's works this time is too high."
Wang Yaocheng explained, "It's normal for you to have this kind of worry. Mr. Tolkien's works are well-known in the European and American world, have a very broad readership, and have opened the door to a magical world for us.
In particular, the masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings" pioneered fantasy novels, showing an unprecedented world that is completely separated from reality and even has its own language system.
It is rooted in the soil of Western Christian culture and draws nutrients from Nordic mythology. It has both Christian color and obvious mythological characteristics.
It explores issues that humans have been exploring, such as life and death, light and darkness, good and evil.
The characters in the work reflect their connections with Christian culture and Nordic literature in their actions, thoughts and choices. "The Lord of the Rings" embodies extraordinary imagination and interprets the real world with mythical thinking. These
Thinking and exploration make the content of "Lord of the Rings" have obvious modern mythological meaning.
All this lays the foundation for success.
The same investment philosophy can be seen in Marvel. Whether it is Spider-Man, Captain America, Batman, or Iron Man, these various comic characters are loved by people around the world and are an inexhaustible treasure trove.
This is also the real purpose of my holding of Marvel. Its value is far more than what the current market shows. It can be discovered for many years. The wine will always get better with age. We don’t need to only see the immediate benefits.
When computer special effects technology develops rapidly and can show incredibly shocking scenes, that will be the moment of harvest for us."
"The chairman has great insights and we have learned from them."
"Hearing what the chairman said, it suddenly dawned on us that we really have a far-reaching plan and our success is definitely not a fluke."
"Thank you, Chairman, for your guidance."
Yu Chengde, Pan Shiyi and Zhao Feng were now convinced. If they were born with knowledge, they were talking about business geniuses like the chairman. Such knowledge could never be seen in books.
After pretending for a while, Wang Yaocheng was very interested; "What's going on with Xie Yi, the boss of New Line Cinema, recently?"
"Oh, we recently negotiated with Marvel to obtain the film adaptation authorization of "Blade Runner". Because the chairman has specifically stated that negotiations on the film adaptation authorization of anime characters will never be allowed, so of course we rejected him and switched to
Filmed and financed by Marvel."
"Shea is having a hard time because Time Warner boss Turner canceled his merger intention because of his previous insulting remarks."
"Last year, all the movies released were blocked. New Line Cinema was heavily in debt. Now it is looking for prostitution financing everywhere, and it is hit by obstacles everywhere and is not welcomed."
"I heard from internal sources that New Line Cinema's planned A-level production of "Blade" has been shelved. The company currently has no reliable script, film production has come to a standstill, and the company's operations are becoming increasingly difficult."
Wang Yaocheng was delighted; "Haha, the Jews have indeed taken action. Let's just watch the show."
"Chairman Mark Wahlberg, who built the film distribution channel industry chain of New Line Cinema, fell out with Shea due to financial disputes. Can we invite him to join the film distribution department of DreamWorks Pictures? With this
The joining of a senior person will definitely greatly improve the construction of distribution channels."
"Well, yes, let the company lawyer see if there is any competition trouble among peers, and you can discuss the details yourself."
Regarding Zhao Feng's suggestion, Wang Yaocheng pondered for a moment and nodded in agreement.
The reason why New Line Cinema is what it is today is in a more difficult situation than it was in its history, and this is all due to Wang Yaocheng's secret planning.
I'm afraid that even if Shay broke his head, he wouldn't have thought that he would be missed and his way forward would be cut off.
Follow your own path and leave others with no path to follow.
if history has not changed
In 1993, New Line Cinema obtained the authorization from Marvel and produced the hit film "Blade", which grossed US$135 million at the box office and rescued the company from a mired financial situation.
Immediately afterwards, New Line Cinema produced the blockbuster film "Austin Powers" in 1996, which earned US$55 million at the box office and once again gained both fame and fortune.
New Line Cinema continued its efforts and hired the famous director Spielberg to shoot the film "Saving Private Ryan", which grossed US$216 million at the North American box office and made a lot of money, bringing the company's development to a climax.
It's not over yet. Jackie Chan's blockbuster movies "Rush Hour" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy in 2001 really pushed New Line Cinema to the pinnacle of glory. The box office revenue was so high that it quickly surpassed the seven Hollywood movies.
Big movie company.
Now, nothing is possible.
The crew of the A-level production "Blade", which is invested by Marvel and filmed by DreamWorks, is in full swing and will be officially filmed at the end of August. It was completed a year ago and is ready to enter the Christmas season movie market.
At the same time, Marvel has invested and invited the famous director Jay Roach to direct, the famous comedian Mike Myers, and the actress Elizabeth Hurley to star in "Austin Powers". The crew will be prepared in September, and related acting contracts
All have been signed.
This was 1993. Marvel's two A-level productions were the beginning of a successful series and were about to become an instant hit.
On this side, Wang Yaocheng sent people to obtain the film and television adaptation rights of Tolkien's works. The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy can only be invested by Marvel and produced by DreamWorks. In the next ten years, New Line Cinema has no hope of turning around.
This is called beating a drowned dog without mercy.