Chapter 551 You Are a Very Interesting Person
Located in Los Angeles International Airport, only about five kilometers away from Firefly Studios, Eric sent his luggage back to Malibu and came to Firefly Studios with Jeffrey.
August is usually the busiest period for Hollywood film companies. Although the summer season has come to an end, most of the small and medium-sized production films for the end of the year and the large-scale production films for the second summer season begin to enter the official website during this time. The production process of the Autumn TV series also started at this time. Eric passed through the park in a business car, and saw a busy scene in the studio, outside the studios on both sides of the main road in the studio park. All kinds of vehicles are parked, and the wide parking lot is also full of cars.
After getting out of the car, Jeffrey and Eric walked out of the parking lot together and said, "Judging from the current situation, the ten studios in the park can no longer meet the needs. We discussed this issue at the regular meeting last week. We think it is enough to expand the park westward to build at least five more studios, and the final plan will be made in the next few days, just when you come back to make up your mind.”
"Well, let's talk about it later," Eric nodded. He remembered that Warner Burbank's studio had more than 20 studios. Although they were of different sizes, only in terms of number, Firefly's studios did have some. not enough.
However, Eric did not immediately express his position. It is best to wait until the final expansion plan is released. After all, his personal idea can never be better than the plan formulated by Firefly's professional strategic development department. For the management of Firefly, Eric usually only gives negative opinions when the company's plans and the development trend of the film and television industry in memory are left. For the details that he is not clear about and does not worry about affecting the overall situation, Eric usually does not intervene. In the process of company development, it is impossible not to make mistakes at all.
Going through the concrete corridor outside the parking lot, to the studio to the small square bordering the Digital Domain office area, Jeffrey said, "Recently, "Interview with the Vampire" has been filmed here, do you want to go and see it? "
Eric glanced at the crowded studio area. He shook his head and said, "I don't need it for the time being. I will take the time recently to check the samples that have been shot."
According to the plan, Firefly will release three films, "Interview with the Vampire", "Detective Plane 2" and "Pulp Fiction" by the end of the year. Unless he is particularly interested in successful commercial films in his previous life, Eric will generally follow his memory. The original version of the film to shoot, and for the film he did not personally direct. Eric mainly controls the script and post-editing, and at the same time looks for the main creator with a similar style to the original film. During the filming process, unless the producer and the director at the same time join forces to act recklessly, Eric generally does not particularly intervene, and Eric has never encountered such a thing until now.
Judging by the box-office success of a series of films, from "The Island" a few years ago to "Mrs. and Mrs. Smith" with Sony, Eric's approach has worked well. Moreover, in Hollywood, where the industrialization process is very complete, because the division of labor at each stage is very clear, there is not much resistance to the implementation of this plan.
Few directors in Hollywood are strong enough to take all control of a film. And such as James Cameron who has the strength to get control, Eric will also be very confident to hand over the entire project to the other party.
Compared with the noise in the studio area, the digital field seems to be in good order. Eric and Jeffrey chatted and walked to the administration building. Eric's exclusive office in the studio, because there is no one for a long time. Although it is still clean and tidy, the empty office is obviously less popular.
Eric's assistant team office is located in Burbank's headquarters, so there is no permanent secretary here, but the general manager in charge of park management quickly sent his own secretary to help Eric and Jeffrey make some coffee. Scattered trivia.
Sitting down in the office, Eric's mobile phone began to ring from time to time, most of which were calls from the top of Firefly. A small number of them learned from various sources that Eric had returned to Los Angeles to greet him. However, everyone also knew that Eric had just passed a long flight, so he did not intend to disturb him.
Jeffrey watched Eric sit down on the leather chair, skillfully turned on the computer on the desk and started to operate it. After drinking a cup of coffee, he chatted casually. Jeffrey got up and said to Eric: "Since there is nothing to do, I will leave first. You just came back, don't be too busy, go back early to rest."
"I'll take you off," Eric also got up and took Jeffrey into the elevator before returning to the office.
Although the Internet is developing very rapidly, the online mailbox service is still limited to the United States, which also causes Eric to use email to communicate with all parties in a timely manner after he leaves the United States. A very confusing thing.
After sending Jeffrey away, Eric connected to the Internet, opened the IE browser, and the Yahoo homepage quickly jumped out.
After the Yahoo Portal was launched at the end of last year, Eric put forward a lot of his own ideas to Yahoo's technical team based on the memory of his previous life. According to Eric's suggestion and the support of the current software and hardware conditions, the Yahoo team once again carried out the homepage. Revised.
At this time, Eric saw the brand-new homepage of Yahoo. The theme box on the left is from top to bottom, followed by the mailbox entrance, the Yahoo news section and the Yahoo forum section, and the right side is the address navigation interface including the search function.
In my memory, Eric saw the Yahoo homepage in the computer room of the university in 1995 in his previous life. What Eric remembers most is the four red 'two cakes' on both sides of the Yahoo homepage logo at that time. It feels like there are four mahjongs on the homepage, plus the overall very exaggerated design, it feels very funny now when I think about it.
Now that he has the opportunity to control everything, Eric's advice to the team is to be concise, concise, and concise. In order to look more pleasing to the eye, Eric also removed the exclamation mark at the back.
Both Yahoo News and Yahoo Forum were launched under Eric's suggestion. In Eric's vision, the section of Yahoo News will become larger and larger, and eventually Yahoo will be transformed into a news portal.
However, with the current scale of Internet users, Yahoo News is still in the exploratory stage. At this stage, Yahoo's main focus is on the development of the forum. In order to rapidly expand the user base of the forum, Yahoo has directly accessed the user base. There was no separate user database, although this was criticized by the Yahoo team, but at the insistence of Eric, the boss, this measure was quickly implemented, and Yahoo and the two companies developed independently for several years. , Eric intends to integrate the two companies, after all. With it, Eric can no longer let Yahoo develop the mailbox service alone.
Although Yahoo Information is just developing. However, through cooperation with some media, the information in the Yahoo News section is much more than that of several newspapers that ordinary people see every day. Although a lot of information is somewhat lagging, it is just right for Eric, who has not paid attention to current affairs in the United States for a long time. .
Open the information section, and through the search function, Eric quickly found some information about Hollywood that he was most interested in.
In addition to a lot of "Jurassic Park" box office news, the biggest thing that has happened in Hollywood in the past year is, of course, the bidding for Paramount by Viacom and two companies.
After the two sides raised their prices to no avail at the beginning of the year, there were also several small-scale confrontations during the period. But then, in order to accumulate more power, Viacom's Redstone turned the spearhead of mergers and acquisitions to Blockbuster, the largest video rental and sales company in the United States, and Viacom spearheaded, and Paramount will also temporarily negotiate with Shelved.
From some recent news, Redstone has basically completed the negotiation with Blockbuster, and it is expected to be in September at the latest. The merger between the two parties will be completed. Once Viacom wins Blockbuster, with the huge cash flow of the video tape rental and sales company and the debt financing brought by this asset mortgage, Viacom has a chance to win Paramount. will greatly increase.
On the other hand, although Barry Diller has not relaxed its efforts to acquire Paramount, one of the two shareholders, Telecom, has already begun merger negotiations with at&t, another American communications industry giant. The main body of this merger is AT&T. Once AT&T completes the acquisition of telecommunications companies, the support for the acquisition of Paramount will be reduced by half. Therefore, most of the American media are not optimistic about Barry Diller's acquisition of Paramount.
After reading the news, Eric was thinking about other things. In his memory, Viacom completed the acquisition of Paramount with a huge sum of tens of billions of dollars. Within a few years, because of the rise of an online rental chain called Netflix ( ), Blockbuster, which Viacom had invested heavily in, shrunk sharply in terms of business and market value.
Thinking of Netflix, Eric's habitual evil smile reappeared on his face, but this matter is not in a hurry. To establish Netflix, we must first realize convenient online payment channels. To achieve convenient online payment, E-commerce must be developed.
Everything has to come step by step.
Eric sighed, but closed the Yahoo information page and opened the Yahoo forum again. Due to the limitation of network conditions, the Yahoo forum currently only provides targeted topic sections. If users want to create a topic forum that they are interested in, they can only Build your own forum site, but anyway, the Yahoo forum with its user base is definitely the largest communication community on the Internet.
Internet exchange forums are very new to many Internet users. Eric randomly selected a few forums to browse and found that users in each section are very active. However, he also found some small problems. 's users have no identification at all other than their personal nicknames.
In my memory, the simplest user identification is, of course, the level division. Moreover, the introduction of the user level system can also greatly improve the user stickiness of the site. Just like in online games, low-level trumpets are often thrown away. But the higher the level, the more reluctant players are to give up.
After a brief period of Cisco, Eric opened his mailbox and planned to send this suggestion to Yahoo and the team, because the forum uses a user group, and the introduction of new features will definitely require negotiation between both parties.
Although Eric was not in the United States during this period, dozens of unread emails from various parties still accumulated in the mailbox. Now the number of mailboxes for ordinary users is of course limited, but this problem cannot exist in Eric on the body.
After writing out the thoughts just now, Eric started to process the accumulated emails in the mailbox.
When he was about to finish the email, he suddenly heard a new email notification sound.
Taking a look, it was sent by the current person in charge of the company, the man named Steve Mitnick that Chris said.
Eric opened it curiously and found that there was only one sentence in it: What is user stickiness?
Because English is written in Pinyin, if there is no special explanation, you will suddenly see a new word. Although most people can read it according to the commonly used grammar, it is impossible to know what it means. This is also a common problem for Westerners. Causes of dyslexia.
When Eric just sent the email, it was impossible to create a new word. He just pieced together the two words adhesion and degree to form a new phrase, and he didn't know if it was suitable.
Seeing the other party's question, Eric thought for a moment, and then quickly typed out an explanatory sentence and replied.
A reply email quickly appeared on the computer again, still Steve Mitnick: Interesting theory, you are also a very interesting person.
Eric replied: If you are complimenting me, then thank you.
After dozens of seconds, the reply came again: Of course I am complimenting you, for us, you are Jesus.
Eric is surprised: Why do you say that?
Steve Mitnick: Because you've put more than $50 million into three companies without any prospect of profitability. That's a lot of money, and we didn't have enough money for a lot of ideas before. , but now you can make these things, so of course you are like Jesus to us.
Eric couldn't help but smile: I'm just investing in the future.
Steve Mitnick: Can you see the future?
Eric: I can't answer you this question, but I see a future now.
Steve Mitnick: Oh, what?
Eric: Instant messaging software, if we can develop an instant messaging software, then we can chat without using emails. Do you think this idea has any prospects?
The other side was silent for a while before replying again: It's a good idea, and the technical requirements are not high, give me 5 million, and I will make it within three months.
Eric replied decisively: No problem, in addition, you are also a very interesting person, see you when you have time.
Steve Mitnick: Good. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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