My Hong Kong Island Filmmaker

Chapter 1560 Archosaur Capital
California, south of San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Clara Valley.

Su Liyao, who was wearing a black long-sleeved sweater and dark jeans from Issey Miyake, smiled and said goodbye to several partners in Silicon Valley.

Familiar with him, he should be in suits and ties clinking wine glasses with those financial capitals on Wall Street, and then chatting and laughing about the next hot money plan.

but…

As "Zulong Capital" took advantage of several opportunities to distribute coins, acquire, and support in Silicon Valley, its subsidiary Archosaur Capital, a technology venture capital fund established in Silicon Valley, also gained a firm foothold.

This VC agency has also selected many entrepreneurial partners and senior partners in North America, among whom there are many members of the famous 'PayPal Mafia', as well as people from Sequoia Capital.

In order to expand their influence and avoid future problems, both Su Liyao and Wu Xiaozu chose to cut the model structure, which to a certain extent learned from the later practices of Sequoia Capital in China, the United States and India.

Do as the Romans do.

Therefore, when Su Liyao came here, he chose a dress that was more suitable for the characteristics of Silicon Valley. Obviously, this was conducive to his integration into this circle of science and engineering.

"Neil, I brought you to Silicon Valley this time. You should understand our ambitions for emerging information industries, computers, medical care and other high-tech industries. I hope you can lead 'AC China' to become bigger and stronger." Su Liyao smiled Talking to the gentle man wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses beside him.

"I gave up the opportunity of Lehman in Asia, and what I saw was the success of Zulong Capital over the years and the development it would bring to me. I believe that I will bring a different change to AC China." Shen Nanpeng is confident and firm .

That's right, the senior partner representative of the later Sequoia China successfully joined Zulong Capital by chance and coincidence.

Su Liyao also attached great importance to this young genius in his early twenties personally recommended by his grandfather.

Yes, the other party was born in 1967 and is only 27 years old this year.But age is not enough to explain the problem. It is worth mentioning that even at the same time in the previous life, at the age of 29, he was already the head of the China Department of Deutsche Bank, and he became the youngest director three years later.

It can be seen.

Shen Nanpeng is more or less Su Liyao's fanboy, just like Xiao Ma is his fanboy.

The stock market crash in Hong Kong Island, the global economic crisis, the Japanese stock market, and the Great Britain Sniper can all be seen in Su Liyao's ability in the capital market, especially the other party's tricky style, which fascinates him very much.Then the other party pulled out and started to invest in VC, which proved that the vision and means are not trivial.

At least now, many technology companies in Silicon Valley and Japan can see the operation of AC Capital, especially the optimization and support of the company, which has taught him a lot...

"Do you want to watch the Warriors' playoff game together tonight? It just so happens that Sir Wu is in San Francisco." Su Liyao smiled and extended an invitation to his right-hand assistant.

He himself is not too interested in basketball games, but the big brother Wu Xiaozu is very fond of various types of spherical sports.

I like football, basketball, golf, billiards, and tennis. This time I happened to watch a ball game while I was in San Francisco for location scouting.

hmm~~
Or is it true that you joked about buying an NBA team before?

God knows...

Anyway, in the eyes of Su Liyao, a sports layman, the current NBA teams are indeed a good time to buy bottoms.God left his kingdom of God, and the market value of the entire NBA plummeted...

Of course, Wu Xiaozu probably really likes the city of San Francisco.

"Source Code" chose to shoot the Golden Gate Bridge again, which shows how keen Wu Xiaozu was on bombing the Golden Gate Bridge.

Both "Chinatown" and "Brave to Kill the Island" are filmed here.

"Sorry, I'm going to fly to Dallas tonight to sign an investment agreement with the boss of a computer company. This company has developed quite well in Texas. His boss, Cuban, intends to enter sports broadcasting. I think I can give it a try." Shen Nanpeng Rejected Su Liyao's invitation.

"It's a pity, but it's okay, Wu Sheng is a very easy person to get along with." Su Liyao smiled and didn't take it seriously.

In the past few years, they have invested in many such computer companies, and they have made some profits and some losses, but the overall development trend is very good.Especially the companies whose names Zu Ge ticked off have great potential for development.

……

In the Bay Area, the staff of the special effects technical team of "Source Code" are measuring and shooting the picture in front of them.

They want to 'cross' a train on the bridge in front of them, and the workload involved in this will increase exponentially.

Since you want to advertise the company.

Wu Xiaozu naturally would not be stingy about the use of special effects.

The whole "Source Code" is destined to be full of technology and hard work!
It’s been nearly half a month since he came back from Peiping, and it’s the end of April. During this time, he’s been dealing with filming-related matters in Los Angeles. And as his first work of "testing the waters of science fiction", Wu Xiaozu still put a lot of effort into it.

During this period of time, he had in-depth discussions with technicians in the Weta studio in Los Angeles, and put forward many ideas. On the one hand, these technicians were enlightened, and on the other hand, they also posed a lot of work problems.

“Man, this movie already cost 25% more upfront, and after it’s done, it’s conservatively estimated to be 45-50% over budget, which is not a small amount.”

Jerry Bruckheimer handed Wu Xiaozu a cigarette, and seeing him pick it up and put it on the tip of his nose to sniff, he couldn't help but smile, "Xie Te, I forgot your preference.

It's really hard for me to understand... You know, tobacco is more harmful than it..."

"You know, I've always been like this." Wu Xiaozu declined the other party's leaf cigarettes, took out a convenient cigar box, took out one, put it in front of the cigar blowtorch lighter and lit it evenly, and brutally bit off the cap of the cigar, and put it in his mouth on, "This movie is a sci-fi movie, man.

And its cost is not high, less than one-third of the cost of "Into the Deadly Island".I have earned you tens of millions of dollars...you should know that I have always been cautious about investing..."

"Of course I know, that's why I came here to meet with you in person. I just hope that the efficiency of the company's financial department has not misunderstood you." Jerry Bruckheimer smiled and blew a smoke ring.

A piece of fame?
It should be a piece of commercial director that directly promoted Wu Xiaozu to the first-line level. At least "Brave to the Deadly Island" sold well at the box office, with a super high profit ratio and offline popularity. money tree.

His new project has also become a favorite.

Although the theme of "Source Code" this time seems a little "niche" to Jerry Bruckheimer, but from the perspective of cost and benefits, at least it will not lose money.

In particular, although the subject matter of this movie is somewhat niche and has a taste of "soft sci-fi", after all, sci-fi is definitely the hottest genre in Hollywood. There are many successful sci-fi movies in recent years...

This naturally made these conservative guys in Hollywood notice the importance of special effects.

Especially with the siege of "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator", the entire Hollywood has once again fallen into the "following trend" of big cast special effects movies.

Such as "Cut Throat Island" and "Future Water World" are big Hollywood projects that are now attracting attention, and several companies are also full of expectations.

The latter is hailed as the next "Jurassic Park".

Jerry Bruckheimer chose to support Wu Xiaozu's approach of 'picking' the script.

Although he prefers that the other party continue to shoot action movies.

At least he believes that Wu Xiaozu's ability in the field of commercial action films is second to none...

It's a pity that obviously, the other party didn't always have the idea of ​​being a popcorn director.

As for Wu Xiaozu?

Of course he will take this opportunity to shoot the work he wants to shoot!
At least now he has such confidence.

(End of this chapter)